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Tiny JITs for a Faster FFICan we have a faster FFI for CRuby? Yes. 2025-02-11T16:00:00-0800 Rails at Scale Aaron Patterson 2,000 words Rated 2025-02-12T15:26:07-0800 - sethherr
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Introducing: Barbecue Running GelIt's time to smoke the competition. 2024-02-29T04:02:09-0800 Haterade Liz Cook 1,000 words Rated 2025-02-11T18:26:07-0800 - sethherr
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I Tasted Honda's Spicy Rodent-Repelling TapeAnd I will do it again unless someone stops me. 2021-07-30T04:06:12-0700 Haterade Liz Cook 1,000 words Rated 2025-02-11T18:22:27-0800 - sethherr
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VSCode’s SSH Agent Is BananasDocumentation and guides from the team at Fly.io. Fly 500 words Rated 2025-02-08T00:24:45-0800 - sethherr
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1DaySooner's Trump II Health Policy Proposals... 2025-02-07T03:40:50-0800 astralcodexten.com Scott Alexander 15,000 words Rated 2025-02-07T20:39:55-0800 - sethherr
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How to avoid problems with Turbo morphingA beautiful UI Morphed into existence Suddenly broken 2025-02-04T15:00:00-0800 Radan Skorić’s personal site 1,000 words Rated 2025-02-06T22:03:38-0800 - sethherr
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From Cold DM to Owning a Soccer ClubRated 2025-02-06T21:00:43-0800 - sethherr
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Ruby "Thread Contention" is simply GVL Queuingisland94.org 1,000 words Rated 2025-02-03T10:17:51-0800 - sethherr
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Dario Amodei — Machines of Loving GraceHow AI Could Transform the World for the Better darioamodei.com Dario Amodei 15,000 words Rated 2025-02-03T08:16:12-0800 - sethherr
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Everyone knows your locationRecently I read about a massive geolocation data leak from Gravy Analytics, which exposed more than 2000 apps, both in AppStore and Google Play, that secretly collect geolocation data without user consent. Oftentimes, even without developers` knowledge. I looked into the list (link here) and found at least 3 apps I have installed on my iPhone. Take a look for yourself! This made me come up with an idea to track myself down externally, e.g. to buy my geolocation data leaked by some... 2025-01-31T15:30:18-0800 tim.sh tim 3,000 words Rated 2025-02-02T18:58:15-0800 - sethherr
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Archivists Work to Identify and Save the Thousands of Datasets Disappearing From Data.govMore than 2,000 datasets have disappeared from data.gov since Trump was inaugurated. But analyzing exactly what happened and where it went is going to take some time. 2025-01-30T11:36:15-0800 404 Media Jason Koebler 2,000 words Rated 2025-02-01T17:08:56-0800 - sethherr
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Patrick Mahomes and the secrets of the Dad Bod: What we get wrong about athleticismPatrick Mahomes and Nikola Jokić aren't just superstars. They challenge us to better understand the hidden secrets of athleticism. #NBA #NFL 2025-01-30T02:00:43-0800 The New York Times Rustin Dodd ($) 2,000 words Rated 2025-02-01T07:47:15-0800 - sethherr
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The Antitrust Revolution, by Barry C. LynnLiberal democracy’s last stand against Big Tech #Amazon #Apple #Donald Trump #Facebook #Google #Microsoft #Supreme Court 2024-08-20T14:23:10-0700 Harper's Magazine 200 words Rated 2025-01-30T21:50:20-0800 - sethherr
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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… 2024-12-17T09:53:35-0800 charity.wtf 9,000 words Rated 2025-01-29T12:39:41-0800 - sethherr
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The Mythical IO-Bound Rails AppWhen the topic of Rails performance comes up, it is commonplace to hear that the database is the bottleneck, so Rails applications are IO-bound anyway, hence Ruby performance doesn’t matter that much, and all you need is a healthy dose of concurrency to make your service scale. But how true is this in general? 2025-01-23T02:17:51-0800 byroot’s blog 2,000 words Rated 2025-01-26T06:42:15-0800 - sethherr
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Creation | anyon_eCreating a highly-integrated open-source laptop from scratch. Power in your hands. byran.ee 2,000 words Rated 2025-01-23T06:40:39-0800 - sethherr
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Gem::SafeMarshal escapenastystereo.com 1,000 words Rated 2025-01-22T07:11:01-0800 - sethherr
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I am (not) a Failure: Lessons Learned From Six (and a half) Failed Startup AttemptsA while back I wrote : I've had many, many failures in my life. (Hm, maybe I should write a blog post about that.) This is that post. I'm ... blog.rongarret.info 5,000 words Rated 2025-01-20T19:06:16-0800 - sethherr
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Why is Git Autocorrect too fast for Formula One drivers?Why does Git's autocorrect wait 0.1s before executing a mistyped command? Let's dig in. 2025-01-13T05:09:15-0800 GitButler Scott Chacon 1,000 words Rated 2025-01-20T06:21:26-0800 - sethherr
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NYC Congestion Pricing: Early DaysPeople have to pay $9 to enter Manhattan below 60th Street. 2025-01-14T05:53:11-0800 thezvi.substack.com Zvi Mowshowitz 5,000 words Rated 2025-01-19T14:13:47-0800 - sethherr
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Reverse Engineering a VanMoof e-shifter – Part 2 – Decoding the SignalsNow we've tapped in to the wiring of a VanMoof e-shifter, let's work out the baud rate and format of the data being transmitted and which format of messages are being exchanged between it and the bike. mikecoats.com 1,000 words Rated 2025-01-19T08:04:52-0800 - sethherr
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I Ditched the Algorithm for RSS—and You Should Too - Joey's Hoard of StuffJoey Einerhand's Portfolio and tech blog. joeyehand.com 200 words Rated 2025-01-16T15:54:30-0800 - sethherr
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What's involved in getting a "modern" terminal setup?What's involved in getting a "modern" terminal setup? Julia Evans 2,000 words Rated 2025-01-16T13:48:46-0800 - sethherr
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What Is It (in Ruby 3.4)?An explanation of the it block parameter introduced in Ruby 3.4 2025-01-10T12:40:50-0800 Kevin Murphy 1,000 words Rated 2025-01-16T13:15:06-0800 - sethherr
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How Honeybadger migrated from Sidekiq to KarafkaHoneybadger recently migrated our background job processing from Sidekiq to Karafka. Dig in to see what we learned. 2025-01-07T16:00:00-0800 Honeybadger Roel Bondoc 2,000 words Rated 2025-01-11T07:48:57-0800 - sethherr
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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… 2024-12-22T04:37:20-0800 lesswrong.com Vladimir_Nesov 4,000 words Rated 2025-01-09T20:45:16-0800 - sethherr
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Edwin Cohn and the Harvard Blood FactoryHow a chemistry “purist” built one of World War II’s greatest applied R&D laboratories. 2025-01-05T10:01:47-0800 Asimov Press Eric Gilliam 9,000 words Rated 2025-01-08T16:10:07-0800 - sethherr
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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 2025-01-06T13:57:30-0800 - sethherr
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A Mole Infiltrated the Highest Ranks of American Militias. This Is What He Found.Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends. The one person he told was a ProPublica reporter. 2025-01-04T02:00:00-0800 ProPublica Joshua Kaplan 10,000 words Rated 2025-01-05T08:08:32-0800 - sethherr
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Lake Tahoe’s Bear BoomRated 2025-01-03T16:04:53-0800 - sethherr
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Optimizing Ruby’s JSON, Part 4In the previous post, we established that as long as ruby/json wasn’t competitive on micro-benchmarks, public perception wouldn’t change. Since what made ruby/json appear so bad on micro-benchmarks was its setup cost, we had to find ways to reduce it further. 2024-12-29T10:21:51-0800 byroot’s blog 4,000 words Rated 2025-01-03T09:11:08-0800 - sethherr
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PlasticListData on plastic chemicals in Bay Area foods PlasticList 10,000 words Rated 2024-12-28T21:18:11-0800 - sethherr
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The torture of an unphilosophical life2024-12-25T16:03:27-0800 UnHerd Agnes Callard 5,000 words Rated 2024-12-28T08:14:51-0800 - sethherr
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Hospitals Gave Them Meds During Childbirth. Why Did Patients Get In Trouble?Mothers were reported after they were given medications used routinely for pain or in epidurals, to reduce anxiety or to manage blood pressure during cesarean sections. #Doctors #Health Care #Indiana #Pennsylvania #Texas 2024-12-11T03:00:00-0800 The Marshall Project Shoshana Walter 3,000 words Rated 2024-12-28T07:37:30-0800 - sethherr
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BatteriesI am a simple enthusiast attempting to convey my love and enjoyment of radio, electronics, and computing and perhaps to inspire YOU to build something too. hanssummers.com Hans Summers 4,000 words Rated 2024-12-27T19:22:51-0800 - sethherr
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Seconds Since the EpochRated 2024-12-26T12:52:52-0800 - sethherr
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When to Start Sleep TrainingI’m answering all of your questions about sleep training: what is sleep training, when to start sleep training, how long does sleep training take, and more! Taking Cara Babies 3,000 words Rated 2024-12-26T07:32:54-0800 - l_wals773
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Berkeley's Evolution On HousingTo understand and appreciate Adena Ishii's victory, it's important to understand how Berkeley got to this point and what the election really means vs. the bombastic headlines. 2024-12-23T13:56:36-0800 The Discourse Lounge Darrell Owens 3,000 words Rated 2024-12-25T11:23:27-0800 - sethherr
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Alignment faking in large language modelsA paper from Anthropic's Alignment Science team on Alignment Faking in AI large language models anthropic.com 2,000 words Rated 2024-12-19T19:01:38-0800 - sethherr
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Optimizing Ruby’s JSON, Part 2In the previous post, I covered my motivations for improving ruby/json’s performance, and detailed the first 4 notable optimizations applied to speed up JSON generation. 2024-12-18T08:05:51-0800 byroot’s blog 3,000 words Rated 2024-12-18T19:12:01-0800 - sethherr
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Optimizing Ruby’s JSON, Part 1I was recently made maintainer of the json gem, and aside from fixing some old bugs, I focused quite a bit on its performance, so that it is now the fastest JSON parser and generator for Ruby on most benchmarks. 2024-12-15T11:19:51-0800 byroot’s blog 3,000 words Rated 2024-12-18T19:04:49-0800 - sethherr
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On blankfacesFor years, I've had a private term I've used with my family. To give a few examples of its use: No, I never applied for that grant. I spent two hours struggling to log in to a web portal designed by the world's top blankfaces until I finally gave up in despair. No, I paid… 2021-08-02T13:30:48-0700 Shtetl-Optimized 20,000 words Rated 2024-12-17T20:52:01-0800 - sethherr
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Chip Cities Rise in Japan’s Fields of DreamsThe scale of Tokyo’s ambition creates the risk of spectacular failure, but so too does succumbing to decline in a sector the nation once dominated. #City #Government #Infrastructure #Japan 2024-12-11T12:00:02-0800 Bloomberg Gearoid Reidy 3,000 words Rated 2024-12-17T19:40:14-0800 - sethherr
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Scores for Adults Are Dropping on Tests of Basic SkillsAs with kids' test scores, a crucial question is the role of knowledge 2024-12-15T15:42:57-0800 Minding the Gap Natalie Wexler 2,000 words Rated 2024-12-15T20:40:46-0800 - sethherr
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Opinion | My 500-Mile Journey Across Alaska’s Thawing ArcticI had read about how the rapid warming of the Arctic was upending the landscape and its people. Now I’ve seen it. #Climate Change #Global Warming #Weather #Wildfire 2024-12-15T06:00:13-0800 The New York Times Jon Waterman ($) 2,000 words Rated 2024-12-15T07:06:43-0800 - sethherr
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Maximizing the Expected Value of a Lottery Ticket: How to Sell and When to Buy | CHANCEAllen Kim and Steven Skiena With players attracted by the potential winnings from enormous lottery pools, multistate lotteries like Mega Millions and Powerball sell tens to hundreds of millions of tickets each week across the United States. Larger lottery pools attract more sales, but the expected value of a particular lottery ticket is a function ... chance.amstat.org 4,000 words Rated 2024-12-15T00:46:49-0800 - sethherr
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Opinion | What One Russian Satellite Tells Us About the Future of Nuclear WarfareNo shockwave. No mushroom cloud. But a space nuke would change life on Earth forever. 2024-12-04T22:00:01-0800 The New York Times W.J. Hennigan 4,000 words Rated 2024-12-06T06:31:51-0800 - sethherr
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How Murderbot Saved Martha Wells' LifeMartha Wells created one of the most iconic characters in 21st-century science fiction: Murderbot, reluctant savior of humanity. Then she faced an existential threat of her own. #Books #Culture #Robots #Texas 2024-11-26T03:00:00-0800 WIRED Meghan Herbst 3,000 words Rated 2024-12-02T22:06:48-0800 - sethherr
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In the Rockets’ Red Glare, by Rachel KushnerThe past and future of hot-rodding in America #California #Donald Trump #Religion 2024-10-23T10:05:45-0700 Harper's Magazine 200 words Rated 2024-11-30T15:00:30-0800 - sethherr
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