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Welcome to Gas TownHappy New Year, and Welcome to Gas Town! 2026-01-01T13:07:32-0800 steve-yegge.medium.com Steve Yegge 9,000 words Rated 2026-01-19T21:24:45-0800 - sethherr |
Inside Bari Weiss’s Hostile Takeover of CBS NewsA Profile of the new editor-in-chief, covering her previous work at the Times and The Free Press and her work and relationships with Larry and David Ellison, Donald Trump, Sharyn Alfonsi, and Tony Dokoupil. #Profile 2026-01-19T03:00:00-0800 The New Yorker Clare Malone 8,000 words Rated 2026-01-19T23:12:42-0800 - sethherr |
I'm addicted to being usefulseangoedecke.com 1,000 words Rated 2026-01-20T19:18:16-0800 - sethherr |
Davos 2026: Special address by Mark Carney, PM of CanadaCanadian PM Mark Carney stressed the end of the rules-based international order and urged middle powers to act together to counter the great power rivalry. 2026-01-20T11:17:13-0800 World Economic Forum 3,000 words Rated 2026-01-21T20:33:01-0800 - sethherr |
Gas Town’s Agent Patterns, Design Bottlenecks, and Vibecoding at ScaleOn agent orchestration patterns, why design and critical thinking are the new bottlenecks, and whether we should let go of looking at code maggieappleton.com 5,000 words Rated 2026-01-23T21:02:48-0800 - sethherr |
Opinion | A Plan to Restore Trust in Science From a ‘Fringe Epidemiologist’Jay Bhattacharya, the N.I.H. director, says authorities broke the public’s trust in the Covid era. Now it’s up to outsiders to restore it. #Donald Trump #US Politics 2026-01-29T02:05:06-0800 The New York Times Ross Douthat, Sophia Alvarez Boyd ($) 10,000 words Rated 2026-01-29T08:31:15-0800 - sethherr |
How I Taught My Neighbor to Keep the Volume DownWhen I moved to a new apartment with my family, the cable company we were used to wasn't available. We had to settle for Dish Network. I wasn't too happy about making that switch, but something on the Ibrahim Diallo Blog 1,000 words Rated 2026-02-02T07:53:13-0800 - sethherr |
My thousand dollar iPhone can't do mathTL;DR: My iPhone 16 Pro Max produces garbage output when running MLX LLMs. An iPhone 15 Pro runs the same code perfectly. A MacBook Pro also runs the same code perfectly. The tensor outputs on the 16 show numerical values an order of magnitude wrong. I suspect it points to a hardware defect in the Neural Engine or some other ML-needed system. It was a PITA to debug, but at least I got a blog post out of it. How did I get there? This was supposed to be a simple, unwinding-time project. For 2026-01-28T00:52:11-0800 Rafael's Journal Rafael Costa 2,000 words Rated 2026-02-02T07:58:32-0800 - sethherr |
Banning lead in gas worked. The proof is in our hair - @theUResearchers analyzed samples of Utahns' hair going back a century to document a 100-fold decrease in lead concentrations. attheu.utah.edu 1,000 words Rated 2026-02-02T19:34:10-0800 - sethherr |
Epstein's sex empire was 'KGB honeytrap'The release of more than three million new documents relating to the late sex offender gives credence to claims made by senior security officials: that Epstein was working on behalf of Moscow. #Israel 2026-01-31T15:45:56-0800 Daily Mail Glen Owen, Dan Hodges, Mark Hookham, Daisy Graham-Brown 6,000 words Rated 2026-02-02T20:43:15-0800 - sethherr |
Q&A: Cannabis usage in middle-aged, older adults linked to larger brain volume, better cognitive functionResearch studying the effects of cannabis on the brain has often focused on adolescents, but a new study from CU Anschutz researchers looks at population-level impacts of cannabis usage on the brain in older adults. The work is published in the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs. 2026-02-03T13:38:31-0800 Medical Xpress Matthew Hastings 2,000 words Rated 2026-02-04T06:42:50-0800 - sethherr |
AI is Killing B2B SaaSSaaS is the most profitable business model on Earth.1 It’s easy to understand why: build once, sell the same thing again ad infinitum, and don’t suffer any marginal costs on more sales. I have been writing software for more than half my life. In the last year itself, I’ve talked to hundreds of founders and operators in SF, from preseed to Series E companies. AI is bringing an existential threat to a lot of B2B SaaS executives: How to keep asking customers for renewal, when every customer... 2026-02-03T16:00:00-0800 namanyayg 2,000 words Rated 2026-02-04T15:07:02-0800 - sethherr |
Sorry, the "Heated Rivalry" gay Marvel fanfic origin story isn't trueAuthor Rachel Reid sets the record straight about one couple in her queer hockey romance novels. #LGBTQ+ 2025-12-06T11:00:11-0800 Salon.com Angelina Mazza 1,000 words Rated 2026-02-04T21:20:24-0800 - sethherr |