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My Phone Replaced a Brass PlugI 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 - sethherr
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The Story of Art + WaterFor 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 - sethherr
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More Americans Are Breaking Into the Upper Middle Class - WSJRated 2026-4-10 1:26pm - sethherr
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Fake Fansinto the digital marketing agency that creates your music taste 2026-3-31 7:01pm words from eliza eliza mclamb 3,000 words Rated 2026-4-3 8:21pm - sethherr
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Everyone Speaks Incel NowAfter migrating from misogynist forums to social media feeds, terms like “looksmaxxing” and “mogged” are now impossible to avoid. #Culture #Donald Trump #Sex #Social Media 2026-2-25 12:59pm WIRED Miles Klee 1,000 words Rated 2026-4-2 6:43pm - sethherr
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It’s About to Be Hot Peptide SummerOver a dozen peptides may soon be unbanned. A doctor, med-spa physician, and healthcare executive explain what that means for you. #Food & drink 2026-3-9 4:00am GQ Dean Stattmann 2,000 words Rated 2026-4-2 6:39pm - sethherr
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The AI water issue is fakeOn the national, local, and personal level 2025-10-11 12:29pm Andy Masley 15,000 words Rated 2026-4-1 7:38pm - sethherr
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Vulnerability Research Is Cooked — Quarrelsomesockpuppet.org Quarrelsome 2,000 words Rated 2026-3-31 6:01pm - sethherr
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False claims in a widely-cited paper. No corrections. No consequences. Welcome to the Business School. | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Sciencestatmodeling.stat.columbia.edu Rated 2026-3-25 7:58pm - sethherr
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How the Turner Twins Are Mythbusting Modern GearModern adventure apparel should outperform heritage gear, right? Well, the genetically identical Turner twins put this theory to the test... 2026-3-16 8:01pm Carryology Mike Knispel | Carryology Editor-in-Chief 2,000 words Rated 2026-3-23 10:04am - sethherr
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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 - sethherr
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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 - sethherr
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A GitHub Issue Title Compromised 4,000 Developer MachinesA prompt injection in a GitHub issue triggered a chain reaction that ended with 4,000 developers getting OpenClaw installed without consent. The attack composes well-understood vulnerabilities into something new: one AI tool bootstrapping another. 2026-3-5 12:00am grith grith team 1,000 words Rated 2026-3-5 6:17pm - sethherr
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ClawedOn Anthropic and the Department of War 2026-3-2 4:21am Hyperdimensional Dean W. Ball 4,000 words Rated 2026-3-5 6:09pm - sethherr
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What Is a City When Its Wealthiest Leave? - WSJRated 2026-3-1 7:25pm - sethherr
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Israeli Soldiers Killed Gaza Aid Workers at Point Blank Range in 2025 Massacre: ReportA minute-by-minute reconstruction of the massacre by Earshot and Forensic Architecture found Israeli soldiers fired over 900 bullets at the aid workers, killing 15. 2026-2-23 4:02am Drop Site News Sharif Abdel Kouddous 4,000 words Rated 2026-2-24 8:02pm - sethherr
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How we rebuilt Next.js with AI in one weekOne engineer used AI to rebuild Next.js on Vite in a week. vinext builds up to 4x faster, produces 57% smaller bundles, and deploys to Cloudflare Workers with a single command. 2026-2-24 12:00pm The Cloudflare Blog 3,000 words Rated 2026-2-24 4:51pm - sethherr
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My journey to the microwave alternate timeline — LessWrongRecommended soundtrack for this post • As we all know, the march of technological progress is best summarized by this meme from Linkedin: … 2026-2-10 9:59am lesswrong.com Malmesbury 7,000 words Rated 2026-2-23 1:16pm - sethherr
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The sad, stupid rise of the sigma male: how toxic masculinity took over social mediaHis heroes are Patrick Bateman, John Wick, Tommy Shelby and Walter White. He follows Andrew Tate and idolises wolves. And he has quickly become a laughing stock. Welcome to the world of the sigma male 2024-6-12 2:00am The Guardian Steve Rose 3,000 words Rated 2026-2-23 1:07pm - sethherr
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TOP REPORT: Mark Zuckerberg Lied to Congress. We Can’t Trust His Testimony.WASHINGTON, DC – Today, The Tech Oversight Project issued the following report on the eve of Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s testimony in the social media addiction trials. The report analyzes Zuckerberg’s testimony in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee in 2024 against newly unsealed documents that show Zuckerberg lied and deceived the Committee. The Tech Oversight Project has compiled some of the most damning evidence against Meta on our Big Tech on Trial microsite, which will be updated throug 2026-2-17 8:44pm The Dispatch The Tech Oversight Project 2,000 words Rated 2026-2-18 7:25am - sethherr
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HatchetDeploy More Resilient Apps. Hatchet is a platform for building distributed web apps that solves scaling problems like concurrency, fairness, and rate limiting. Instead of managing your own task queue or pub/sub system, you can use Hatchet to distribute your functions between a set of workers with minimal configuration or infrastructure. hatchet.run 1,000 words Rated 2026-2-13 4:14pm - sethherr
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I Started Programming When I Was 7. I'm 50 Now, and the Thing I Loved Has ChangedI still love developing but the shifts that AI have brought are tectonic and are forcing me to re-evaluate my own relationship to building things 2026-2-9 11:30pm James Randall 2,000 words Rated 2026-2-10 4:13pm - sethherr
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The Singularity will Occur on a Tuesdaysrc={alwaysHasBeen.src} alt="Always has been astronaut meme" / "Wait, the singularity is just humans freaking out?" "Always has been." Everyone in campedersen.com 3,000 words Rated 2026-2-10 3:57pm - sethherr
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Fraud Investigation is Believing Your Lying EyesThe financial industry has paid tens of billions of dollars in tuition on fraud detection. Here are some observations for investigators with badges, press cards, or GoPros. 2026-2-6 9:13am Bits about Money Patrick McKenzie (patio11) 7,000 words Rated 2026-2-7 2:05pm - sethherr
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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 2026-1-31 3:45pm Daily Mail Glen Owen, Dan Hodges, Mark Hookham, Daisy Graham-Brown 6,000 words Rated 2026-2-2 8:43pm - sethherr
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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 2026-2-2 7:34pm - sethherr
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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 2026-1-28 12:52am Rafael's Journal Rafael Costa 2,000 words Rated 2026-2-2 7:58am - sethherr
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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. 2026-1-20 11:17am World Economic Forum 3,000 words Rated 2026-1-21 8:33pm - sethherr
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How I created the Phlex on Rails video course outsideAn off-the-grid dev setup & recording studio that fits in a backpack beautifulruby.com 1,000 words Rated 2026-1-19 8:59pm - sethherr
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Notes on Apple's Nano Texture2024 Nano Texture Macbook Pro on the left; 2021 Glossy Macbook Pro on the right TLDR: the Nano Texture performs wonderfully anywhere where light used to be a factor and used to force me to shade my screen or avoid the place entirely. I’m less concerned with where I sit indoors. Coffee shops / offices with skylights or intense lighting are much more comfortable Coding and working outside is now feasible: browsing the internet, writing in Obsidian; all delightful The screen needs more... 2025-5-10 5:00pm jon.bo 1,000 words Rated 2026-1-19 8:47pm - sethherr
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End of The Line: how Saudi Arabia’s Neom dream unravelledMohammed bin Salman’s utopian city was undone by the laws of physics and finance 2025-11-5 9:00pm ig.ft.com 5,000 words Rated 2026-1-18 8:06pm - sethherr
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Postal Arbitragewalzr.com 500 words Rated 2026-1-16 7:24am - sethherr
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How Airbus took offAirbus is an example of successful industrial policy and the rare European company that is better than its American rival. Could its success be copied elsewhere? #Technology 2025-10-29 8:13am Works in Progress wip-admin 3,000 words Rated 2026-1-5 6:48pm - sethherr
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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 - sethherr
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21 Lessons From 14 Years at GoogleLessons learned from 14 years of engineering at Google, focusing on what truly matters beyond just writing great code. addyosmani.com Addy Osmani 2,000 words Rated 2026-1-4 7:57pm - sethherr
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A Beginner’s Two-Component Crystal-Style Wi-Fi DetectorCrystal radios are famous for doing something almost magical: picking up broadcast signals with nothing more than a diode, an antenna, and a pair of headphones. They’re the simplest RF receivers you can build — and a brilliant way to learn how radio waves become electrical signals. In this post, I’m taking that idea into… 2025-12-11 9:16pm Silicon Junction 1,000 words Rated 2026-1-3 12:43pm - sethherr
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Was Daft Punk Having a Laugh When They Chose the Tempo of Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger?Was Daft Punk Having a Laugh When They Chose the Tempo of Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger? madebywindmill.com 1,000 words Rated 2026-1-2 5:26pm - sethherr
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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 - sethherr
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What an unprocessed photo looks like: (Maurycy's blog)maurycyz.com 1,000 words Rated 2025-12-28 4:26pm - sethherr
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Experts Explore New Mushroom Which Causes Fairytale-Like HallucinationsBetween traditional folklore and modern biology, the wild forest floor and the sterile scientific laboratory, lies the story of the lilliputian mushroom. Natural History Museum of Utah 2,000 words Rated 2025-12-27 4:04pm - sethherr
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Dear Rubyists: Shopify Isn’t Your EnemyI’ve been meaning to write a post about my perspective on Open Source and corporate entities. I already got the rough outline of it; however, I’m suffering from writer’s block, but more importantly, the whole post is a praise of how Shopify engages with Open Source communities. Hence, given the current climate, I don’t think I could publish it without addressing the elephant in the room first anyway. 2025-10-8 10:03pm byroot’s blog 4,000 words Rated 2025-12-25 6:15am - sethherr
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Deciding To Win – Toward A Common Sense Renewal of the Democratic PartyDeciding to Win aims to provide the most comprehensive account to date of why Democrats lost and what our party needs to do to win again. Deciding To Win – Toward A Common Sense Renewal of the Democratic Party 10,000 words Rated 2025-12-22 6:28pm - sethherr
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Developing a food-safe finish for my wooden spoons and cupsYou know what they say in the world of products: fast, cheap, good; pick two. That's exactly my experience when trying to find the most suitable wood finish for my hand carved wooden spoons and cups. I got tired of trying to find something food-safe, without chemical smells and that doesn't take ages to cure. So I made my own. 2025-12-8 8:16am alinpanaitiu.com 4,000 words Rated 2025-12-14 8:45pm - sethherr
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Why the Time Has Finally Come for Geothermal EnergyIt used to be that drawing heat from deep in the Earth was practical only in geyser-filled places such as Iceland, Rivka Galchen writes. But new approaches may have us on the cusp of an energy revolution. 2025-11-17 3:00am The New Yorker Rivka Galchen 4,000 words Rated 2025-12-13 5:00pm - sethherr
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Part 2: The Door Has OpenedA discussion on the real word has begun. It's about time 2025-11-30 10:13am Yes, I give a fig... thoughts on markets from Michael Green Michael W. Green ($) 6,000 words Rated 2025-12-13 5:00pm - sethherr
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Roblox is a problem — but it’s a symptom of something worseWhat is the role of tech journalism in a world where CEOs no longer feel shame? #Social Media 2025-11-24 6:47pm Platformer Casey Newton 3,000 words Rated 2025-12-13 4:59pm - sethherr
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The national masculinity conversation continues to devolveRead to the end for a very annoying way to play "Dark Souls" #Politics #Technology 2025-10-24 11:10am Garbage Day Ryan Broderick ($) 2,000 words Rated 2025-12-13 4:59pm - sethherr
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Pluralistic: Google steers Americans looking for health care into “junk insurance” (25 Nov 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorowpluralistic.net 2,000 words Rated 2025-12-13 4:58pm - sethherr
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What OpenAI Did When ChatGPT Users Lost Touch With RealityRated 2025-12-13 4:58pm - sethherr
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Pluralistic: Disney lost Roger Rabbit (18 Nov 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorowpluralistic.net 3,000 words Rated 2025-12-13 4:58pm - sethherr
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