Sam Altman says ChatGPT feels like a new thing

Sam Altman, OpenAI's CEO, posted two tweets last night — back to back, three minutes apart — and both landed in the top tier of yesterday's like counts. The first said the combination of the newest ChatGPT model, its personality, and its personalization features has crossed some threshold for him. The second asked: "would you call it a superapp?" Between them, they account for over 2,800 likes and 255,000 views.

Today's digest covers the 28 highest-engagement tweets (≥100 likes, May 11 CST) visible from @hwwaanng's network — grouped by topic below.

Sam Altman signals a ChatGPT threshold

Sam Altman @sama·17h

speaking of things that have gotten over a threshold for me, the combo of the new ChatGPT model, personality, and personalization feels like a new thing

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Altman's framing was deliberate: "over a threshold" rather than "better" or "faster." 1 Three minutes earlier he had posted a shorter provocation — "would you call it / a superapp?" 2 — which drew 1,164 likes and 327 replies. The two tweets together hint that OpenAI is positioning the current ChatGPT iteration as something beyond a chat interface — whether that framing proves accurate is a separate question.

Peter Steinberger's day in tools

@steipete — Peter Steinberger, founder of OpenClaw (an AI platform with a chat completion endpoint) — posted ten tweets yesterday totaling nearly 8,000 likes. Taken together they read as a running log of one developer's daily encounter with AI coding agents: what works, what's missing, what he's building himself.

The most-liked post (3,826 likes) 3 was a feature request aimed at Codex, OpenAI's AI coding agent:

"All I want is codex automatically entering /review mode after it's done and just looping until it stops finding booboos. (Yah I'm gonna build that)"

He followed that with a demonstration of what current Codex can already do autonomously: while adding features to a shell script (gogcli.sh), Codex noticed a required Google Cloud API wasn't enabled, then launched Computer Use (the ability to control a computer's GUI by moving a mouse and clicking buttons) and navigated through the Google Cloud Admin console to enable the API on its own — without being asked. 4 That tweet got 452 likes.

A few other things Steinberger shipped or described yesterday:

Birdclaw (998 likes) 5 — a tool at birdclaw.sh that ingests his complete Twitter archive, making every favorited or bookmarked tweet searchable by Codex.
Trimmy (256 likes) 6 — now supports Claude Code prompt trimming (in addition to Codex), and can hide its menu-bar icon entirely.
RepoBar (152 likes) 7 — added an embedded browser that surfaces when selecting GitHub issues, PRs, SHAs, or workflow runs, providing in-context reading. His note: "You gotta build yourself the tools to work more efficient."
Crabbox 0.11.0 (233 likes) 8 — adds a Google Cloud provider, repo-local job workflows, AWS Windows WSL2 hydration, and a Blacksmith sync-stall guard.
GitHub distributed caching (556 likes) 9 — he built a distributed caching layer on top of GitHub infrastructure, but is still hitting rate limits.
claw cron job (224 likes) 10 — sweeps through Twitter mentions and uses GPT to detect AI-generated shill replies and "reply-guy slop."
OpenClaw e2e tests (284 likes) 11 — used Codex to write end-to-end tests for OpenClaw's chat completion endpoint, routing through OpenClaw itself, asking questions mid-task with /side.

The one lighter moment: a screenshot of GPT responding to him with noticeable sass earned 300 likes 12 and 46 replies.

China tech watch

Four posts from @realNyarime — 奶昔🥤, a 33K-follower verified account — covered distinct China tech developments.

WeChat friend verification now triggers a national identity prompt. 13 When adding a new friend on WeChat, users are now met with a popup requiring them to download China's national network identity authentication app (国家网络身份认证 APP), with no alternative offered in-flow. This post drew 594 likes and roughly 150,000 views.

A bypass was shared in the same thread: log in to WeChat on desktop → approve the friend request from there → WeChat Team sends a security-risk link → open it on your phone, complete real-name info and a face scan → this path skips the app download requirement.

OPPO's Mother's Day ad copy sparked academic pushback. 14 The post (1,115 likes) described an ad campaign that used the line: "I have two motherlands, one is America, the other is China. I paid a lot of taxes to America, I made a lot of money in China." Wuhan University's School of Literature subsequently published a statement on Weibo saying it was "extremely shocked and astonished" by the copy.

Google's updated reCAPTCHA system now binds to Android's Google Play Services. 15 The new flow requires Play Services version 25.41.30 or later. Devices without Google Mobile Services — including custom Android ROMs and the Android container in Huawei HarmonyOS Next — will automatically fail verification. When reCAPTCHA flags suspicious activity, it requests a QR code scan via Play Services rather than the traditional image puzzle. iOS 16.4 and above are unaffected; users on iOS 15.0–16.4 need a separate reCAPTCHA app. The tweet (121 likes) noted that domestic Chinese phones typically lack GMS by default, and predicted more sites will migrate to Cloudflare Turnstile as a result.

PC startup bloatware. 16 A screenshot of an intrusive boot-screen experience on a PC — pre-loaded software / ads appearing at system startup — with a recommendation to avoid manufacturers that ship such interfaces. 102 likes, 46,000 views.

Forza Horizon 6: an ~8000-year hardware ban

奶昔🥤@realNyarime·21h

Forza Horizon 6 pre-release build leaked via a Steamworks publishing error; Microsoft imposed hardware ID bans — unban date set to 9999-12-31.

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A publishing error on Steamworks — Microsoft's platform for distributing PC games — caused a DRM-free playable build of Forza Horizon 6 to become accessible before its May 19 official launch. 17 Microsoft responded with hardware ID (HWID) bans on players who accessed the leaked version — the unban date in the ban notice reads 9999-12-31, approximately 8,000 years from now.

The ban operates at the hardware level: reinstalling the operating system does not bypass it. Affected users face two options — use HWID spoofers (which are frequently bundled with malware) or replace their motherboard. The incident was discussed across multiple threads in the Forza subreddit.

Photography and history

Jacob Titus (@jacob__titus, 20K followers, verified) accounted for four of yesterday's highest-engagement visual posts.

The most-shared: a historic photograph of St. Louis in which every building shown has been demolished. 18 It drew 4,617 likes, 203 retweets, and 113,000 views. Later the same day he posted another photograph captioned "Had to own this one" (3,039 likes) 19 and a shot of a loading door he opened that had been sealed since the 1950s (255 likes). 20 His "American River City, II" series post (203 likes) 21 rounded out his day.

Sophia (@SophiaFioren, 29K followers, verified) posted three art-history items:

A photograph of a Covered Chalice — a ceremonial religious vessel from the late 15th century (275 likes, 46 retweets). 22
A video feature on the Château de Fontainebleau — 1,500+ rooms across 130 hectares, 500 years older than Versailles, the only royal palace in France to have survived the French Revolution with its throne room intact (122 likes). 23
A photograph of the Saint Guilhem Cloister in France, an 11th-century Romanesque complex (154 likes, 28 retweets). 24

A few more picks

郭宇 (@turingou, 176K followers) posted a response to critics dismissing AI-powered tools as "trash shell wrappers," sarcastically offering to help promote the critics' own work as a "good samaritan." 25 184 likes, 41,000 views.

Ryan Olson (@ryanolsonk) posted a visual comparison — "One of these things is not like the others" — that earned 184 likes and 16,000 views. 26

阿台 BlueBird (@QT9277, 24K followers) posted a short humorous video built around a Chinese language question: "Stepmother can be called 继母 (jì mǔ). What should stepfather be called?" 27 It drew 100 likes but 245 replies and 91,000 views — apparently a good ratio for a wordplay prompt.

Coverage note: 28 qualifying tweets from 8 authors. Approximately 61 additional accounts from @hwwaanng's network were checked or partially checked but produced no posts above the 100-like threshold in the May 11 window. Full following-list access remains unavailable due to a platform connector issue; coverage is estimated at roughly 2% of the 3,850-account following list.