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Melatonin: Much More Than You Wanted To KnowRated 2025-06-01T11:03:14-0700 - sethherr
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Probe lenses and focus stacking: the secrets to incredible photos taken inside instrumentsPhotographer Charles Brooks embarked upon a quest to photograph the inside of musical instruments, creating images that look like monumental buildings. 2025-05-22T17:00:00-0700 DPReview Abby Ferguson 2,000 words Rated 2025-05-31T06:07:23-0700 - sethherr
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Salsa Cutthroat Build - Brakes - 180mm flat-mount - Hike Bike CakeDuring the Salsa Cutthroat build we discover its unique design for the front brake mount - a flat-mount caliper that is able to take a 180mm rotor. 2020-04-23T16:18:29-0700 HikeBikeCake kaitatari.com 1,000 words Rated 2025-05-27T17:23:39-0700 - sethherr
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After 20 Years, the Globally Optimal Boggle Boarddanvk.org Dan Vanderkam 2,000 words Rated 2025-05-26T07:28:41-0700 - sethherr
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how to cheat at settlers by loading the diceizbicki.me 3,000 words Rated 2025-05-22T12:21:54-0700 - sethherr
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How do you find the positive integer solutions to \frac{x}{y+z}+ \frac{y}{z+x}+\frac{z}{x+y} = 4?Answer by Alon Amit (אלון עמית), PhD in Mathematics; Mathcircler. Quora 4,000 words Rated 2025-05-20T10:11:21-0700 - sethherr
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Linguists Find Proof of Sweeping Language Pattern Once Deemed a ‘Hoax’Inuit languages really do have many words for snow, linguists found—and other languages have conceptual specialties, too, potentially revealing what a culture values 2025-05-09T06:00:00-0700 Scientific American Cody Cottier ($) 1,000 words Rated 2025-05-20T08:42:44-0700 - sethherr
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The Fall of RoamI don’t use Roam anymore. Why? 2022-02-12T00:00:00-0800 every.to Dan Shipper 3,000 words Rated 2025-05-18T18:06:35-0700 - sethherr
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Bike-mounted sensor could boost the mapping of safe cycling routesStudies have shown that many people don't commute by bike due mainly to a fear of being hit by cars. A new bike-mounted proximity sensor has been designed to help such folks, by objectively telling them which streets are the safest for cyclists. 2025-05-12T10:23:03-0700 New Atlas https://newatlas.com/author/ben-coxworth/ 1,000 words Rated 2025-05-17T19:29:23-0700 - sethherr
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Public Bike Parks Saved My Soul – Travis EngelDoes seeing a nice, tall curb-cut ever remind you of the first time you got both wheels off the ground? Travis had been chasing that dragon for decades until a leg injury brought him swiftly down to earth. But then he found an unlikely path back to dirt jumping when it finally became possible to find a really good public bike park. I don’t skate, but I understand how a skateboard works. That’s why I’m so confused when I see bad skateparks. It should be obvious that a 3-foot quarter... 2025-05-15T02:00:56-0700 The Radavist Travis Engel 2,000 words Rated 2025-05-16T18:54:42-0700 - sethherr
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Baby Is Healed With World’s First Personalized Gene-Editing TreatmentThe technique used on a 9½-month-old boy with a rare condition has the potential to help people with thousands of other uncommon genetic diseases. #Babies 2025-05-15T10:00:14-0700 The New York Times Gina Kolata ($) 2,000 words Rated 2025-05-16T07:14:49-0700 - sethherr
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Sending Threaded Emails Using Rails ActionMailerAt Flexport, we communicate with our customers — and their software — in many ways. API and EDI integrations are ideal because they allow structured data to flow seamlessly with no humans involved… 2020-07-28T07:21:11-0700 Flexport Engineering Kyle Kinsey 1,000 words Rated 2025-05-15T13:50:48-0700 - sethherr
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How The Economics of Multitenancy WorkWith millions of jobs running monthly on our bare-metal fleet, we've seen the economics of multitenancy hold up — here's a peek behind the curtain of how the math works. blacksmith.sh 2,000 words Rated 2025-05-14T07:07:56-0700 - sethherr
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Opinion | What People at Pornhub Were Thinking When It Shared Videos of Child RapeFive years ago at Pornhub, executives were removing the most obvious videos of children. But one employee said ‘obvious’ meant a ‘3-year-old.’ #Alabama #Child Abuse #Pornography #Rape #Social Media 2025-05-10T04:00:09-0700 The New York Times Nicholas Kristof ($) 3,000 words Rated 2025-05-10T16:59:56-0700 - sethherr
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Past, Present, and Future of Sorbet Type Syntax – Jake ZimmermanA discussion of how Sorbet's type syntax came to be, the problems it solves, and how it could improve. blog.jez.io Jake Zimmerman 4,000 words Rated 2025-05-09T14:15:56-0700 - sethherr
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Ghost students are creating an 'agonizing' problem for Calif. collegesCalifornia community colleges are facing a unique and "agonizing" problem with this technology. #Covid 19 #San Francisco 2025-05-07T04:00:00-0700 SFGATE Madilynne Medina 2,000 words Rated 2025-05-07T22:28:11-0700 - sethherr
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So much bloodbut how much exactly? 2025-05-04T17:00:00-0700 DYNOMIGHT dynomight 2,000 words Rated 2025-05-07T06:48:01-0700 - sethherr
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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... 2025-05-02T14:34:09-0700 micahflee Micah Lee 3,000 words Rated 2025-05-06T06:59:55-0700 - sethherr
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"You Wouldn’t Steal a Car”... But Would You Pirate a Font? * TorrentFreakThe statement "You Wouldn't Steal a Car" launched one of the most iconic anti-piracy campaigns. But did the campaign use a pirated font? 2025-04-24T06:28:46-0700 TF Publishing Ernesto Van der Sar 1,000 words Rated 2025-05-04T13:15:31-0700 - sethherr
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The first driverless semis have started running regular longhaul routes | CNN BusinessDriverless trucks are officially running their first regular long-haul routes, making roundtrips between Dallas and Houston. 2025-05-01T14:31:39-0700 CNN Alexandra Skores ($) 500 words Rated 2025-05-02T18:24:31-0700 - sethherr
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Judge Rules Apple Executive Lied Under Oath, Makes Criminal Contempt ReferralJudge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers rebuked the phone giant, opened the app store, and made a criminal contempt referral to an Apple executive for lying under oath. Plus, a bad antitrust bill goes down. 2025-04-30T20:11:22-0700 BIG by Matt Stoller Matt Stoller 2,000 words Rated 2025-05-02T18:21:07-0700 - sethherr
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Vatican City2021-02-01T13:57:15-0800 Vatican Observatory 500 words Rated 2025-05-02T06:05:20-0700 - sethherr
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A judge just blew up Apple’s control of the App StoreThe Epic Games v. Apple judge banned Apple from collecting commissions on purchases made outside its App Store, finding the company in contempt of a 2021 ruling over its anticompetitive behavior. #Apple 2025-04-30T15:58:56-0700 The Verge Jay Peters 500 words Rated 2025-05-01T09:41:50-0700 - sethherr
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Runaway TrenHow a Colorado slumlord’s psyop turned into a brand-new ‘forever war’ on Venezuela #Colorado #Donald Trump #Housing #Immigration #Real Estate #Venezuela 2025-04-24T05:30:00-0700 The American Prospect Maureen Tkacik 9,000 words Rated 2025-04-29T22:19:56-0700 - sethherr
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Demolition Begins at DC’s Black Lives Matter PlazaThe bright yellow letters became a landmark in 2020, and now are being removed. 2025-03-10T16:51:55-0700 Washingtonian https://www.washingtonian.com/author/chonker/#author ... 500 words Rated 2025-04-29T15:07:15-0700 - sethherr
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An end to all this prostate trouble?yarchive.net 9,000 words Rated 2025-04-26T20:05:25-0700 - sethherr
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Inside the Rise and Fall of Toys ‘R’ UsThe retailer turned everyone into a “Toys ‘R’ Us kid”… by driving its competition out of existence. 2018-03-19T14:57:36-0700 HISTORY Erin Blakemore 2,000 words Rated 2025-04-23T07:40:53-0700 - sethherr
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How Private Equity Was BornPrivate equity, now a major presence in the US economic landscape, has been booming since the 2008 financial crisis. Its roots lie in the rise of the corporation at the turn of the century and the shareholder revolution of the 1980s. jacobin.com 2,000 words Rated 2025-04-22T21:06:23-0700 - sethherr
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The Movie Mistake Mystery from "Revenge of the Sith"Movies are handmade, and just like any other art form, sometimes the seams that hold movies together become visible to the audience. For mov... fxrant.blogspot.com 2,000 words Rated 2025-04-21T16:34:51-0700 - sethherr
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How Two British Orthodontists Became Celebrities to Incels (Published 2020)The Mews, a father-son team of orthodontists, have an unusual theory about the source of crooked teeth — one that has earned them a following in some of the darker corners of the internet. #Children 2020-08-20T02:00:07-0700 The New York Times William Brennan ($) 7,000 words Rated 2025-04-16T10:35:43-0700 - sethherr
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Faced with measles, Texas healthcare workers confront ‘information warfare’For the first time in a decade, a US child has died of measles. What can doctors and nurses do to encourage vaccination? #Donald Trump #Politics #United States 2025-03-31T09:37:11-0700 Al Jazeera Tyler Hicks 2,000 words Rated 2025-04-07T17:33:18-0700 - sethherr
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20 years of Git. Still weird, still wonderful.Twenty years ago, Git was born. How did this unlikely "information manager" take over the world? 2025-04-07T09:21:57-0700 GitButler Scott Chacon 3,000 words Rated 2025-04-07T16:49:23-0700 - sethherr
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Recent AI model progress feels mostly like bullshit — LessWrongAbout nine months ago, I and three friends decided that AI had gotten good enough to monitor large codebases autonomously for security problems. We s… 2025-03-24T12:28:43-0700 lesswrong.com lc 9,000 words Rated 2025-04-06T14:27:06-0700 - sethherr
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fi-le.netfi-le.net, the Fiefdom of Files Rated 2025-04-04T20:08:14-0700 - sethherr
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An image of an archeologist adventurer who wears a hat and uses a bullwhipThere is only one thing worse than being imitated 2025-04-03T10:50:14-0700 The AI Underwriter Otakar G. Hubschmann 1,000 words Rated 2025-04-03T19:03:44-0700 - sethherr
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Bikes in the Age of TariffsToday's post was going to be about a new product we're introducing—but we need to hold off while we recalculate our prices. You've probably seen the news: Virtually all imports into the United States will be subjected to additional, steep import taxes, also called tariffs. The… Rene Herse Cycles 4,000 words Rated 2025-04-03T14:52:12-0700 - sethherr
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Gemini 2.5 is the New SoTAGemini 2.5 Pro Experimental is America’s next top large language model. 2025-03-28T07:16:23-0700 thezvi.substack.com Zvi Mowshowitz 4,000 words Rated 2025-03-31T07:27:30-0700 - sethherr
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The art of DJing: Avalon Emerson · Articoli ⟋ RAOne of the most creative DJs in the game unpacks her methods for Elissa Stolman. 2019-02-06T03:30:24-0800 Resident Advisor Elissa Stolman 7,000 words Rated 2025-03-29T14:57:07-0700 - sethherr
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The long-awaited Friend Compound laws in California[X-posted from the Live Near Friends blog] 2025-01-10T10:48:38-0800 Supernuclear Phil Levin 1,000 words Rated 2025-03-26T18:53:43-0700 - sethherr
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Cyanview: Coordinating Super Bowl’s visual fidelity with ElixirWelcome to Elixir, a dynamic, functional language designed for building scalable and maintainable applications 2025-03-24T17:00:00-0700 The Elixir programming language Lars Wikman 2,000 words Rated 2025-03-26T07:44:24-0700 - sethherr
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The Ghosts in the Machine, by Liz PellySpotify’s plot against musicians #Artificial Intelligence #Jazz #Music #Musician #Sweden #Youtube 2024-11-19T11:47:52-0800 Harper's Magazine 200 words Rated 2025-03-24T17:18:40-0700 - &e
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Stimulus Autocomplete with Combobox NavigationHYBRD 1,000 words Rated 2025-03-24T15:01:08-0700 - sethherr
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A Brief History of The Super 73 ProblemWith the rising popularity of the Super 73 model, we’re focused on educating riders and regulatory bodies about the distinctions between throttle-powered and pedal-assist e-bikes. E-BIKE ACCESS 3,000 words Rated 2025-03-23T19:27:57-0700 - sethherr
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Meet the Guy Who Invented the Belay Test—and the Modern American Climbing GymWhen Peter Mayfield set out to create the first gym designed to welcome new climbers to the sport, he made climbing gym history. 2025-03-17T10:34:38-0700 Climbing Bruce Hildenbrand 3,000 words Rated 2025-03-23T09:28:26-0700 - sethherr
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Memo 3: So, you want to be a SupervisorThe Burton machine when choosing which ambitious neophyte candidate to back, would usually decide on a single factor: “Which one will knock doors in the rain?”. 2024-12-01T10:03:02-0800 Governing San Francisco Zack Rosen 4,000 words Rated 2025-03-22T18:06:09-0700 - sethherr
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Apparently Magpies and Crows Are Using "Anti-Bird Spikes" to Make Their NestsBirds often incorporate human-made materials while nest building, but a new study shows European corvids are taking the idea to the extreme. 2023-07-12T07:49:44-0700 Audubon Lauren Leffer 200 words Rated 2025-03-20T21:23:02-0700 - sethherr
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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. 2025-03-20T05:03:41-0700 Construction Physics Brian Potter 4,000 words Rated 2025-03-20T16:01:47-0700 - sethherr
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Letter from the Levant - On the Origin of the Pork Taboo - Archaeology Magazine - March/April 2025Exploring ancient people’s shifting beliefs about rearing and eating pigs 2025-02-10T07:08:06-0800 Archaeology Magazine 4,000 words Rated 2025-03-19T07:43:03-0700 - sethherr
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For Delivery Workers in Latin America, Affordable E-Bikes Are a SuperpowerIn the long run, e-bikes are cheaper than motorbikes. With financing help from start-ups like Guajira, many immigrant workers are making the switch. #Sustainability #Transportation #Work 2025-03-07T00:00:16-0800 Reasons to be Cheerful Mariel Lozada 2,000 words Rated 2025-03-19T06:29:11-0700 - sethherr
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What Bikini Atoll Looks Like TodaySixty years after the nuclear tests, the groundwater is contaminated and the coconuts are radioactive. But are the coral reefs thriving? 2017-11-20T14:56:06-0800 Medium Stanford Magazine 3,000 words Rated 2025-03-15T19:34:47-0700 - sethherr
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