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How do you find the positive integer solutions to \frac{x}{y+z}+ \frac{y}{z+x}+\frac{z}{x+y} = 4?

Answer by ‎Alon Amit (אלון עמית)‎, PhD in Mathematics; Mathcircler.

Quora 4,000 words

Rated May 20th - sethherr

Biking Is Therapy

Derek Bolz made a video about what biking does for his mental health. A partial transcript (boldface mine): Life has been rough lately. I don’t want to air my dirty laundry on the internet, so I won’t go into detail. But for a number of rea

kottke.org 1,000 words

Rated May 20th - sethherr

By Default, Signal Doesn't Recall

Signal Desktop now includes support for a new “Screen security” setting that is designed to help prevent your own computer from capturing screenshots of your Signal chats on Windows. This setting is automatically enabled by default in Signal Desktop on Windows 11. If you’re wondering why we’re on...

Signal Messenger 1,000 words

Rated May 21st - sethherr

how to cheat at settlers by loading the dice

izbicki.me 3,000 words

Rated May 22nd - sethherr

Good Writing

paulgraham.com

Rated May 24th - sethherr

After 20 Years, the Globally Optimal Boggle Board

danvk.org Dan Vanderkam 2,000 words

Rated May 26th - sethherr

Cloudflare CEO: Football Piracy Blocks Will Claim Lives; "I Pray No One Dies" * TorrentFreak

Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince says he "Pray no one dies" after revealing that piracy blocking denies access to critical resources in Spain.

May 26th TF Publishing Andy Maxwell 1,000 words

Rated May 26th - sethherr

My review of Power Failure: the downfall of America's greatest company

Power Failure by William Cohan chronicles the spectacular collapse of General Electric, once America's most valuable company. From a $600 billion giant to near-bankruptcy, GE's downfall reveals how financialization and imperial CEOs destroyed a 130-year industrial icon.

May 26th Gordon Wintrob 1,000 words

Rated May 27th - sethherr

Salsa Cutthroat Build - Brakes - 180mm flat-mount - Hike Bike Cake

During the Salsa Cutthroat build we discover its unique design for the front brake mount - a flat-mount caliper that is able to take a 180mm rotor.

2020-04-23 HikeBikeCake kaitatari.com 1,000 words

Rated May 28th - sethherr

The Who Cares Era

dansinker.com 1,000 words

Rated May 28th - sethherr

Why Good Ideas Die Quietly and Bad Ideas Go Viral

A new book, “Antimemetics: Why Some Ideas Resist Spreading,” argues that notions get taken up not because of their virtue but because of their catchiness. #Sociology #Technology

May 28th The New Yorker Gideon Lewis-Kraus 4,000 words

Rated May 29th - sethherr

Why I Broke Up with New York

Most people accept the city’s chaos as a toll for an expansive life. It took Lena Dunham several decades to realize that she could go her own way.

May 5th The New Yorker Lena Dunham 3,000 words

Rated May 31st - sethherr

Probe lenses and focus stacking: the secrets to incredible photos taken inside instruments

Photographer Charles Brooks embarked upon a quest to photograph the inside of musical instruments, creating images that look like monumental buildings.

May 23rd DPReview Abby Ferguson 2,000 words

Rated May 31st - sethherr

Figma Slides is a Beautiful Disaster

Some highlights and lowlights.

Allen Pike 1,000 words

Rated Jun 1st - sethherr

Melatonin: Much More Than You Wanted To Know

Slate Star Codex

Rated Jun 1st - sethherr

Opinion | Christo Grozev Is the Man Putin Couldn’t Kill

Putin had Christo Grozev in his sights. Grozev was way ahead of him. #Assassination #Austria #Crime #New York City #Plane Crash

Jun 2nd The New York Times M. Gessen ($) 6,000 words

Rated Jun 2nd - sethherr

My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts

My smartest friends have bananas arguments about LLM coding.

Fly 3,000 words

Rated Jun 2nd - sethherr

No One Knows How to Deal With 'Student-on-Student' AI CSAM

A new report from Stanford finds that schools, parents, police, and our legal system are not prepared to deal with the growing problem of minors using AI to generate CSAM of other minors.

May 29th 404 Media Emanuel Maiberg 1,000 words

Rated Jun 3rd - sethherr

Problems in Precious Plastic

News update: Precious Plastic is in problems. You can decide the future of the project. Die or grow

preciousplastic.com 2,000 words

Rated Jun 4th - sethherr

Direct File on GitHub

Personal blog of Chris Given, government technologist. These words are always written by a human; I have no one to blame but myself.

chrisgiven.com 500 words

Rated Jun 4th - sethherr

Claude’s System Prompt Changes Reveal Anthropic’s Priorities

Reviewing the few changes in the Claude 4.0 system prompts, we get a sense for how system prompts program chatbot applications.

Jun 3rd Drew Breunig 1,000 words

Rated Jun 5th - sethherr

Oprah Shamed James Frey. He’s Back Anyway.

Twenty years after “A Million Little Pieces” became a national scandal, James Frey is ready for a new audience. #Books #Writer

Jun 8th The New York Times Sam Dolnick ($) 3,000 words

Rated Jun 8th - sethherr

The Men Who Fix Manhattan's Symbolic Shabbat Boundaries

Every Thursday and Friday morning, Rabbi Moshe Tauber leaves his home in Rockland County, New York, at about 3:30 a.m. He arrives in Manhattan an hour later... #Border #Law #Religion

2017-10-16 Atlas Obscura Michael Inscoe 2,000 words

Rated Jun 9th - sethherr

Opinion | The Problems Democrats Don’t Like to See

The Democratic future isn’t going to look like the Democratic past. #Books #California #Chicago #Housing #Real Estate #Texas #US Politics

Jun 8th The New York Times Ezra Klein ($) 3,000 words

Rated Jun 11th - sethherr

Don't Panic, but Douglas Adams Predicted All of This

How the author of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy foresaw AI chatbots, voice assistants, and irritating kitchen appliances decades before anyone else

Jun 7th My Blameless Life Kris St.Gabriel 3,000 words

Rated Jun 11th - sethherr

Air-dried vs. Kiln-dried Wood

Are they different to saw, chisel and plane? Does it matter?

Jun 8th The American Peasant Christopher Schwarz, Kara Gebhart Uhl ($) 6,000 words

Rated Jun 12th - sethherr

Call it Blue Tape

Down with anti-government sentiment in blue states // Interstate praise of the federal system

Mar 30th Maximum New York Daniel Golliher 2,000 words

Rated Jun 17th - sethherr

Opinion | The Problem With Everything-Bagel Liberalism

The New York Times

Rated Jun 17th - sethherr

How I'm Voting for Mayor in NYC's Democratic Primary

1. Tilson // 2. Myrie // 3. Adams // 4. Lander* // 5. Cuomo // (X) Not Mamdani

Jun 16th Maximum New York Daniel Golliher 5,000 words

Rated Jun 17th - sethherr

New Terms of Service IP clause cannot be terminated or revoked, not even by deleting content · Issue #35086 · mastodon/mastodon

Summary Since it first opened, mastodon.social has operated without any sort of explicit IP grant from the users to the service, which is unusual for a social networking service. Today Mastodon announced effective July 1 there will be a ...

Jun 17th GitHub mcclure 3,000 words

Rated Jun 19th - sethherr

Guess I’m A Rationalist Now

A week ago I attended LessOnline, a rationalist blogging conference featuring many people I've known for years---Scott Alexander, Eliezer Yudkowsky, Zvi Mowshowitz, Sarah Constantin, Carl Feynman---as well as people I've known only online and was delighted to meet in person, like Joe Carlsmith and Jacob Falkovich and Daniel Reeves. The conference was at Lighthaven, a…

Jun 10th Shtetl-Optimized 10,000 words

Rated Jun 20th - sethherr

The NO FAKES Act Has Changed – and It’s So Much Worse

A bill purporting to target the issue of misinformation and defamation caused by generative AI has mutated into something that could change the internet forever, harming speech and innovation from here on out.The Nurture Originals, Foster Art and Keep Entertainment Safe (NO FAKES) Act aims to...

Jun 23rd Electronic Frontier Foundation Katharine Trendacosta and Corynne McSherry 1,000 words

Rated Jun 25th - sethherr

What Problems to Solve - By Richard Feynman

genius.cat-v.org 1,000 words

Rated Jun 26th - sethherr

Lovable makes $75m in 7 months—but is it nailing pricing?

The current (and future) monetization strategies of "Shopify for SaaS"

Jun 25th The Bill, Please Finn 3,000 words

Rated Jun 26th - sethherr

The effect of noise on sleep

Using Apple Watch

Empirical Health 500 words

Rated Jun 27th - sethherr

The Claude Bliss Attractor

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Jun 13th astralcodexten.com Scott Alexander 25,000 words

Rated Jun 29th - sethherr

Woman in custody after car hits bicyclist on closed OpenStreetsPGH course in North Point Breeze

Police took a woman into custody after witnesses said a car drove through a barricade and onto streets that had been closed for OpenStreetsPGH, striking at least one person on a bicycle.

Jun 29th WESA Rachel McDevitt, Julia Maruca 1,000 words

Rated Jun 29th - sethherr

Sudden loss of key US satellite data could send hurricane forecasting back ‘decades’

Scientists left scrambling amid hurricane season after irreplaceable program is slotted to be shuttered

Jun 28th The Guardian Eric Holthaus 2,000 words

Rated Jun 30th - sethherr

Defense Department will stop providing crucial satellite weather data

text.npr.org 2,000 words

Rated Jun 30th - sethherr

Your Review: Alpha School

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Jun 27th astralcodexten.com Scott Alexander 60,000 words

Rated Jun 30th - sethherr

The cheapest cars aren't cheap anymore

media.hubspot.com 1,000 words

Rated Jun 30th - sethherr

Toxic US Landfills: Overheating Trash Sites Pose Health Risks

archive.is

Rated Jul 2nd - sethherr

Cloudflare Introduces Blocking of A.I. Scrapers By Default

The New York Times

Rated Jul 2nd - sethherr

COROS Confirms Substantial Watch Security Vulnerablity: Says Fixes Are Coming

A German IT security firm has published a list of 8 different security bugs found in all COROS watches that give essentially full access to not only the user's watch, but also their COROS account. This includes everything from

Jun 30th DC Rainmaker 5,000 words

Rated Yesterday 8:40pm - sethherr

Tools: Code Is All You Need

The solution to agentic flows was code all along.

Yesterday 7:00am Armin Ronacher 2,000 words

Rated Yesterday 11:56pm - sethherr

hydrogen jukeboxes: on the crammed poetics of "creative writing" LLMs

hydrogen jukeboxes: on the crammed poetics of “creative writing” LLMsThis is a follow-up to my earlier brief rant about the new, unreleased OpenAI model that’s supposed “good at creative writing.” It...

Mar 15th nostalgebraist.tumblr.com nostalgebraist 200 words

Rated 3:58am - sethherr