Ratings by sethherr

Google Broke Its Promise to Me. Now ICE Has My Data.

In 2025, Google gave Amandla Thomas-Johnson's data to ICE without giving him the chance to challenge the subpoena, breaking a nearly decade-long promise to notify users before handing their data to law enforcement.

2026-4-14 9:01am Electronic Frontier Foundation Guest Author 1,000 words

Rated 2026-4-16 6:16am

The Future of Everything is Lies, I Guess: Where Do We Go From Here?

aphyr.com

Rated 2026-4-16 7:13pm

The Story of Art + Water

For fifteen years or so, I’d been kicking around the idea of resurrecting the artist-apprentice model that reigned in the art world for hundreds of years. Ag...

2026-4-11 4:16am McSweeney's Internet Tendency Dave Eggers 4,000 words

Rated 2026-4-21 4:18pm

I don't want your PRs anymore

Notes by `dpc`

dpc.pw 1,000 words

Rated 2026-4-21 4:32pm

My Phone Replaced a Brass Plug

I wanted to cook venison from scratch, which meant learning to shoot, which meant keeping track of my progress, which meant porting a 2012 OpenCV paper and training a state-of-the-art computer vision model, which meant the dinner took a bit longer than expected.

2026-4-23 12:00am Drobinin Limited Vadim Drobinin 2,000 words

Rated 2026-4-23 7:24pm

Expecting driverless taxis to respect bike lanes “too high a bar” – because customers want to be dropped off in them, autonomous vehicle firm Waymo tells cyclists

Waymo, the autonomous driving tech firm whose so-called ‘robo-taxis’ are now roaming the streets of London, has told cycling campaigners that expecting their driverless cars to respect cycle lanes is “too high a bar” – because their customers want to be dropped off in them.According to the Highway Code, motorists “must not drive or park ... Read more

2026-4-24 3:02am road.cc Ryan Mallon 4,000 words

Rated 2026-4-26 1:36pm

Redis array type: short story of a long development - <antirez>

antirez.com

Rated 2026-5-4 2:09pm

I'm Scared About Biological Computing

I’ve been in the AI space since ChatGPT first dropped. I’ve toyed around with a lot of Language Models, built random side projects, built a couple from scratch and I’ve spent hours looking at the math behind it all.

ᨒ MindDump 500 words

Rated 2026-5-5 1:33pm

Appearing Productive in The Workplace

AI can produce work that looks expert without being expert. The failure arrives in two shapes, and both are reshaping the workplace.

2026-5-6 11:00am No One's Happy 2,000 words

Rated 2026-5-6 4:21pm

The smelly baby problem

Benjamin Spock told mothers in the mid-twentieth century to buy six dozen cloth diapers and a covered pail. Within a decade, both were obsolete.

2026-4-29 6:03am The Works in Progress Newsletter Virginia Postrel 3,000 words

Rated 2026-5-6 9:15pm

The map that keeps Burning Man honest

The event's Leave No Trace principle isn't just a promise — it's measured, mapped, and made public.

2026-5-6 11:00pm Not-Ship Amanda Shendruk 1,000 words

Rated 2026-5-7 7:29am

Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I’d like

I recently talked with Joseph Ruscio about AI coding tools for Heavybit’s High Leverage podcast: Ep. #9, The AI Coding Paradigm Shift with Simon Willison. Here are some of my …

Simon Willison’s Weblog Simon Willison 2,000 words

Rated 2026-5-7 7:34am

taken.

A web page that tells you what your browser gave away the moment you arrived. No login, no form, no permission. Most pages do this. None of them tell you.

Since You Arrived Matt Wheeler 1,000 words

Rated 2026-5-8 7:52am

San Francisco teen cyclist beats champion's record by 4 seconds

The steepest street in San Francisco is shorter than a football field and recently turned into a battleground for competitive cyclists around the world. #Europe #San Francisco

2026-5-8 7:00am SFGATE Silas Valentino 1,000 words

I Want to Live Like Costco People

An online magazine for today's home cook, reporting from the front lines of dinner.

2026-5-5 10:10am TASTE Jordan Michelman 2,000 words

Rated 2026-5-8 4:04pm

OpenAI's WebRTC Problem

Media over QUIC: There are ways to do voice AI without being traumatized by WebRTC.

Media over QUIC 3,000 words

Rated 2026-5-8 9:44pm

Why consistency beats intensity | JOIN

Build fitness faster with Frequency First: prioritize riding more often before adding volume or intensity. Learn why consistent 3x/week training beats “big days,” improves recovery, and delivers steady progress.

2026-1-9 12:00am JOIN Cycling Jim van den Berg 1,000 words

Rated 2026-5-9 9:44am

The Missing Bundler Features

Over the last few months, there has been a lot of talk about making Bundler faster, both by improving it directly, or by reimplementing it in another language, and while it may surprise some, that didn’t excite me much.

2026-4-19 5:03pm byroot’s blog 2,000 words

Rated 2026-5-13 5:21pm

Adopting Herb at GitHub - Joel Hawksley

We've spent the past few months integrating Herb into the GitHub.com monolith. It caught numerous bugs missed by our existing tooling and allowed us to migrate off the effectively-archived erb_lint, but a key performance blocker remains. In this talk, I'll share how you can see similar benefits in your codebase today and help improve the project ahead of its 1.0 release.

hawksley.org Joel Hawksley 2,000 words

Rated 2026-5-14 8:59pm

Cut Off

Soon, access to frontier AI will be scarce and selective

2026-5-13 6:10am Threading the Needle Anton Leicht 3,000 words

Rated 2026-5-14 9:16pm

The American epoch of oil is collapsing. What comes next could be ugly | Jonathan Watts

China is dominating the energy transition with astonishing result, while fossil fuel fascists in the US try to turn back the clock

2026-5-17 6:00am The Guardian Jonathan Watts 5,000 words

Rated 2026-5-18 1:23pm

Truth, power, and honest journalism

Garry Tan, the CEO of venture capital firm Y Combinator, accused me of unethical reporting. This is my response.

2026-5-15 5:23am The Watch Radley Balko 3,000 words

Rated 2026-5-18 7:50pm

Max Heyer - founder of enum, a European sovereign cloud

Max Heyer writes on digital sovereignty, infrastructure, datacenters, Europe, and open source - the boring details of running systems that don't break.

max heyer 1,000 words

Rated 2026-5-19 7:49am

Disney erased FiveThirtyEight

Nothing on the internet lasts forever. But Disney’s 10-year mismanagement of FiveThirtyEight is its own story.

2026-5-19 11:37am Silver Bulletin Nate Silver 6,000 words

Rated 2026-5-19 10:46pm

The invention of buses

Wheeled vehicles existed for 5,000 years before someone thought of running a bus service.

2026-4-23 1:32pm Works in Progress wip-admin 2,000 words

Rated 2026-5-20 1:52pm

Flipper One — we need your help

We're finally ready to talk about Flipper One — a project we've been grinding on for years and have rebuilt from scratch several times. It's an incredibly hard project, both financially and technically. So today we're going public not with a big shiny announcement, but to tell the whole story straight. Honestly? We're genuinely terrified, and we need your help. TL;DR With Flipper One, we're reimagining what a Linux cyberdeck can be — it's a huge...

2026-5-21 3:46am Flipper Blog Pavel Zhovner 4,000 words

Rated 2026-5-21 8:02pm

AI-assisted engineers are burning out, is this fine?—Martian Chronicles, Evil Martians’ team blog

AI-assisted code generation is not free. It comes with a hidden cost: burnout. Are we dangerously ignorant to this problem? And how can we cope with it? In this post, we discuss this question.

2026-5-19 12:00am Evil Martians 4,000 words

Rated 2026-5-24 8:14am

Protestware for coding agents

printMessageForCodingAgents()

2026-5-28 8:00am Andrew Nesbitt 1,000 words

Rated 2026-6-5 9:29pm

New Urbanist Memes for Transit-Oriented Teens

It started as a joke. Then it became a thing.

The University of Chicago Magazine 1,000 words

Can This Guy Get People to Live in America’s Emptiest Downtown? - WSJ

The Wall Street Journal

Rated 2026-6-5 9:31pm