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“Founder Mode” and the Art of MythmakingI’ve never been good at “hot takes”. Anyone who knows anything about marketing can tell you that the best time to share your opinion about something is when everyone is all worked up about it. Hot topics drive clicks and eyeballs and attention en masse. Unfortunately, my internal combustion engine doesn’t run that way. If… 2024-12-17 9:53am charity.wtf 9,000 words Rated 2025-1-29 12:39pm
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Your Review: Alpha School... 2025-6-27 4:49am astralcodexten.com Scott Alexander 60,000 words Rated 2025-6-29 8:55pm
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Wikipedia’s Moment of TruthCan the online encyclopedia help teach A.I. chatbots to get their facts right — without destroying itself in the process? #Artificial Intelligence #Google #Reddit 2023-7-18 2:00am The New York Times Jon Gertner ($) 7,000 words Rated 2023-7-20 6:40pm
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Why “Alone” Is the Best Reality Show Ever MadeJay Caspian Kang writes about the appeal of the reality-TV show “Alone” and other shows about survival in the wilderness. #Nature #Survival #Television 2023-9-6 8:39am The New Yorker Jay Caspian Kang 1,000 words Rated 2023-9-6 9:18pm
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Why Match School And Student Rank?... 2023-7-10 10:39pm Astral Codex Ten Scott Alexander 45,000 words Rated 2023-7-12 5:04pm
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Why Is Everyone on Steroids Now?Across the internet and in gyms everywhere, body-modifying drug use has become ubiquitous, effective and... normal. Can this really be a good thing? 2024-6-5 5:00am GQ Rosecrans Baldwin 5,000 words Rated 2024-6-14 5:23pm
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Why I'm not rushing to take sides in the RubyGems fiascoWe are in the midst of a Ruby drama for the ages. I'm sure a bunch of people figured we were all too old for this shit, but apparently we are not. This debate… justin․searls․co https://justin.searls.co/about 3,000 words Rated 2025-10-9 10:03pm
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Why has nuclear power been a flop?Nuclear is expensive, but it should be cheap #Nuclear power 2021-4-16 2:18am The Roots of Progress 5,000 words Rated 2023-5-5 2:06pm
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Why GitHub Actually WonRated 2024-9-11 3:21pm
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Why Everyone Loves JapanPart III of my book on the Japanese economy. 2025-12-26 1:09am Noahpinion Noah Smith 5,000 words Rated 2025-12-31 1:03pm
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Why consistency beats intensity | JOINBuild 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
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Why Banks Are Suddenly Closing Down Customer AccountsSurprised individuals and small-business owners can’t pay rent or make payroll, and no one ever explains what they did wrong. #Fraud #Money Laundering 2023-11-5 2:00am The New York Times Ron Lieber and Tara Siegel Bernard ($) 3,000 words Rated 2023-11-5 5:57pm
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Why ATMs didn’t kill bank teller jobs, but the iPhone didThere's a lot more to replacing labor than just automating tasks 2026-3-10 3:29pm David Oks 5,000 words Rated 2026-3-12 5:01pm
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Why Anonymous Sperm Donation Is Over, and Why That MattersActivists are trying to end secrecy for sperm and egg donors — a campaign that troubles some L.G.B.T.Q. families. 2023-12-3 2:03am The New York Times Emily Bazelon ($) 2,000 words Rated 2023-12-3 5:48pm
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Why Americans Are Obsessed With Poor PostureA recent history of the 20th-century movement to fix slouching questions the moral and political dimensions of addressing bad backs over wider public health concerns. 2024-11-20 2:00am The Nation Zoe Adams ($) 3,000 words Rated 2024-11-24 5:58pm
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Where's the Shovelware? Why AI Coding Claims Don't Add Up78% of developers claim AI makes them more productive. 14% say it's a 10x improvement. So where's the flood of new software? Turns out those productivity claims are bullshit. 2025-9-3 8:01am Mike Judge 2,000 words Rated 2025-9-3 4:28pm
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Where does my computer get the time from? – Tony FinchRated 2023-10-5 10:25pm
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When half a million Americans died and nobody noticedWas the US drug Vioxx responsible for far more deaths than has been acknowledged so far? 2012-4-27 2:04am The Week Alexander Cockburn 1,000 words Rated 2023-9-22 3:37pm
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What o3 Becomes by 2028 — LessWrongFunding for $150bn training systems just turned less speculative, with OpenAI o3 reaching 25% on FrontierMath, 70% on SWE-Verified, 2700 on Codeforce… 2024-12-22 4:37am lesswrong.com Vladimir_Nesov 4,000 words Rated 2025-1-9 8:45pm
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What it was like working for GitLabyorickpeterse.com 6,000 words Rated 2024-2-11 11:43am
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What Is a City When Its Wealthiest Leave? - WSJRated 2026-3-1 7:25pm
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What Have Fourteen Years of Conservative Rule Done to Britain?Sam Knight on the Tory U.K. Prime Ministers David Cameron, Theresa May, Boris Johnson, Liz Truss, and Rishi Sunak, and issues including Brexit, the N.H.S., inflation, housing, and the economy. 2024-3-25 3:00am The New Yorker Sam Knight 8,000 words Rated 2024-4-6 7:06am
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What Happens to All the Stuff We Return?Online merchants changed the way we shop—and made “reverse logistics” into a booming new industry, David Owen writes. 2023-8-14 3:00am The New Yorker David Owen 5,000 words Rated 2023-8-27 7:39am
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What Happened When Oregon Decriminalized Hard DrugsA bold reform effort hasn’t gone as planned. #Criminal Justice System #Law Enforcement #Oregon 2023-7-19 7:30am The Atlantic Jim Hinch ($) 3,000 words Rated 2023-8-1 7:06pm
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What Happened When I Tried to Replace Myself with ChatGPT in My English ClassroomMy students call it “Chat,” a cute nickname they all seem to have agreed on at some point. They use it to make study guides, interpret essay prompts, and register for classes, turning it loose on t… 2025-7-28 4:59am Literary Hub 6,000 words Rated 2025-8-7 9:49pm
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We’ve Had a Cheaper, More Potent Ozempic Alternative for DecadesNew weight-loss drugs are getting all the hype, but bariatric surgery is still the “gold standard” for treating obesity. #Individual People #Obesity #Surgery 2023-4-25 2:21pm The Atlantic Yasmin Tayag ($) 2,000 words Rated 2023-5-9 7:29am
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Vulnerability Research Is Cooked — Quarrelsomesockpuppet.org Quarrelsome 2,000 words Rated 2026-3-31 6:01pm
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Understanding Solar EnergyThe biggest energy story of the last fifteen years is the rise of solar photovoltaics, also known as solar PV or simply solar panels. 2025-3-20 5:03am Construction Physics Brian Potter 4,000 words Rated 2025-3-20 4:01pm
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Twitter, Elon and the Indigo BlobThe line between expertise and politics has become increasingly blurry. The demise of "Old Twitter" could help to reverse that. 2023-7-31 7:51am Silver Bulletin Nate Silver 3,000 words Rated 2023-10-20 2:58pm
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Toxic US Landfills: Overheating Trash Sites Pose Health RisksRated 2025-7-1 8:56pm
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Together: The Merb StoryI'll never forget the day that I became a member of the Rails core team. For all of 2008 (and the better part of 2007), I was working on a competitor to Ruby on Rails called Merb. I loved Merb, and was excited to share it with anyone who'd listen, so when I attended RailsConf in 2008, I signed up to give a nighttime Birds of a Feather session about Merb. To be honest, I expected only a handful of people to show up, but I was too excited to let that stop me. When the time for the... 2020-2-19 11:29am Katz Got Your Tongue Yehuda Katz 2,000 words Rated 2025-9-23 8:15pm
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TM SGNL, the obscure unofficial Signal app Mike Waltz uses to text with Trump officials💡Update May 3, 2025: I have posted a follow-up, Here's the source code for the unofficial Signal app used by Trump officials. Update May 4, 2025: Another followup, and a big one: The Signal Clone the Trump Admin Uses Was Hacked Yesterday, a Reuters photographer captured a photo of the freshly-ousted former National Security Advisor Mike Waltz checking his Signal messages during a Trump cabinet meeting. If you're not familiar with Waltz, he's most well known for inviting The... 2025-5-2 2:34pm micahflee Micah Lee 3,000 words Rated 2025-5-6 6:59am
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This Chatbot Pulls People Away From Conspiracy TheoriesIn a new study, many people doubted or abandoned false beliefs after a short conversation with the DebunkBot. #Artificial Intelligence #Conspiracy Theory #Psychology 2024-9-12 11:30am The New York Times Teddy Rosenbluth ($) 1,000 words Rated 2024-10-11 3:22pm
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Third Time: a better way to work — LessWrongHOW CAN you be more productive? Instead of half-working all day, it’s better to work in focused stints, with breaks in between to recover. … 2022-1-7 1:15pm lesswrong.com bfinn 7,000 words Rated 2024-5-20 10:25am
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They squandered the holy grailWhy Apple Intelligence failed even though everything it's built upon is nearly perfect xeiaso.net 5,000 words Rated 2025-1-6 1:57pm
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The Unbelievable Zombie Comeback of Analog ComputingRated 2023-4-26 7:28am
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The Ugly Truth Behind “We Buy Ugly Houses”Rated 2023-5-11 10:16pm
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The torture of an unphilosophical life2024-12-25 4:03pm UnHerd Agnes Callard 5,000 words Rated 2024-12-28 8:14am
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The secret to perfectly calculate Rails database connection pool sizeisland94.org 1,000 words Rated 2025-2-27 1:21pm
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The Secret Gay History of Indie RockIs it truly possible to queer one of the straightest genres of music? From the closeted to the overexposed, this is a lineage of queer indie rock icons. #LGBTQ+ 2023-7-5 8:58am Pitchfork Emma Madden 4,000 words Rated 2023-7-6 5:59pm
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The Reckoning of Morris Dees and the Southern Poverty Law CenterBob Moser writes on the Southern Poverty Law Center firing its co-founder and longtime mastermind Morris Dees, after years of allegations of sexual harassment and racial discrimination against him. #Marketing #Sexual Harassment 2019-3-21 8:05am The New Yorker Bob Moser 2,000 words Rated 2026-6-18 5:02pm
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The Philosophical And Moral Incoherence of “How Dare You Walk Out Of My Speech”“Cancel Culture” Has Victims, But You’re Probably Not One Of Them 2022-8-14 12:47pm The Popehat Report Ken White 2,000 words Rated 2023-11-20 8:40pm
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The national masculinity conversation continues to devolveRead to the end for a very annoying way to play "Dark Souls" #Politics #Technology 2025-10-24 11:10am Garbage Day Ryan Broderick ($) 2,000 words Rated 2025-12-13 4:59pm
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The Missing Bundler FeaturesOver 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
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The Los Angeles Aqueduct is Wild[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] On the northern edge of Los Angeles, fresh water spills down two stark concrete chutes perched on the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains, a place simply called The Cascades. It’s a deceptively simple-looking finish line: the Practical Engineering 3,000 words Rated 2026-3-23 10:03am
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The invention of busesWheeled 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
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The group chats that changed AmericaA loose private network on Signal and WhatsApp helped usher in the new alliance between Silicon Valley and Donald Trump’s new right. 2025-4-27 3:23pm semafor.com Ben Smith 8,000 words Rated 2026-1-5 2:47pm
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The Great Cash-for-Carbon HustleOffsetting is hailed as a fix for climate catastrophe—but the world’s biggest carbon firm, South Pole, sold millions of worthless credits to Gucci, Porsche, Nestlé, and many others. Heidi Blake reports. 2023-10-16 3:00am The New Yorker Heidi Blake 10,000 words Rated 2023-10-25 6:33am
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The Gimli GliderWhen a botched imperial-to-metric conversion left a commercial jet with insufficient fuel, pilots had to improvise. 2007-11-12 12:00am Damn Interesting Alan Bellows 25,000 words Rated 2023-7-24 10:10pm
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The Endless Battle to Remove Girls Do Porn Videos From PornhubRated 2023-4-26 11:07pm
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