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The Curse of Knowing How, or; Fixing Everything | Blog

A reflection on control, burnout, and the strange weight of technical fluency.

2025-04-23T17:00:00-0700 NotAShelf 2,000 words

Rated 2025-05-06T16:36:46-0700 - sethherr

I'd rather read the prompt

I have literally never seen LLM writing that actually improved my life.

claytonwramsey.com Clayton Ramsey 2,000 words

Rated 2025-05-04T21:48:19-0700 - sethherr

The life-or-death case for self-driving cars

New research from Waymo shows self-driving cars hugely reduce crashes and injuries compared to human drivers. Robot vehicles may be the future of safer roads. #Artificial Intelligence #Google #Technology

2025-05-04T05:00:00-0700 Vox Bryan Walsh ($) 1,000 words

Rated 2025-05-04T10:16:35-0700 - sethherr

How crawlers impact the operations of the Wikimedia projects

<p>The Wikimedia Hackathon is an annual event that brings the global technical community together to connect and have technical discussions, hack on existing projects and ...</p>\n

2025-04-01T12:20:19-0700 Diff 1,000 words

Rated 2025-05-02T06:02:05-0700 - sethherr

A judge just blew up Apple’s control of the App Store

The 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

Runaway Tren

How 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

The One-Person Framework in practice

How I built a seven-figure business with Rails

bramjetten.dev 2,000 words

Rated 2025-04-28T19:17:40-0700 - sethherr

Flagellomania and Fatherhood: Roald Dahl, My Father, and Me

I smacked my daughter once. The guilt still haunts me. #Culture #Literature #Memoir #Parenting #Psychology

2025-03-17T03:00:00-0700 The MIT Press Reader 3,000 words

Rated 2025-04-27T21:06:18-0700 - sethherr

How Private Equity Was Born

Private 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

How to win an argument with a toddler

You can’t. That’s because toddlers don’t understand what an argument is and aren’t interesting in having one. Toddlers (which includes defensive bureaucrats, bullies, flat e…

2025-04-14T02:03:00-0700 Seth's Blog 500 words

Rated 2025-04-15T12:33:22-0700 - sethherr

But what if I really want a faster horse? | exotext

But what if I really want a faster horse? | exotext

rakhim.exotext.com 500 words

Rated 2025-04-11T06:43:57-0700 - sethherr

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

Recent AI model progress feels mostly like bullshit — LessWrong

About 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

What to Do

paulgraham.com

Rated 2025-03-30T13:33:27-0700 - sethherr

Cottagecore Programmers: The Idealization of Farming by Tech

tjmorley.com

Rated 2025-03-24T19:28:31-0700 - sethherr

America’s “First Car-Free Neighborhood” Is Going Pretty Good, Actually?

Since breaking ground in 2021, Culdesac Tempe has had its share of detractors and skeptics. But none of them live there.

2025-02-04T11:02:09-0800 Dwell Ben Ikenson 2,000 words

Rated 2025-03-21T14:38:46-0700 - sethherr

For Delivery Workers in Latin America, Affordable E-Bikes Are a Superpower

In 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

Discworld Rules

And LOTR is brain-rot for technologists

2025-03-07T18:34:39-0800 Contraptions Venkatesh Rao 7,000 words

Rated 2025-03-15T09:06:54-0700 - sethherr

Y Combinator urges the White House to support Europe's Digital Markets Act

YC sent a letter on Wednesday urging the Trump Administration to support Europe's Digital Markets Act (DMA).

2025-03-13T13:49:21-0700 TechCrunch Maxwell Zeff 1,000 words

Rated 2025-03-14T08:01:43-0700 - sethherr

Opinion | I Loved ‘Anora,’ but I Still Hope It Loses at the Oscars

“Anora” is neither pro-Russian nor anti-Russian. But its Oscar nominations have been portrayed as a national victory in Russia. #Donald Trump #Movies

2025-02-27T02:03:45-0800 The New York Times Michael Idov ($) 2,000 words

Rated 2025-03-09T21:13:13-0700 - sethherr

The Return of Digg, a Star of Web 2.0

The New York Times

Rated 2025-03-05T07:50:11-0800 - sethherr

How I'm thinking about AI (LLMs)

island94.org 2,000 words

Rated 2025-03-04T13:09:40-0800 - sethherr

Moving on from 18F.

I had a wonderful job, until I didn’t. This is about what happened—and what is happening.

ethanmarcotte.com 2,000 words

Rated 2025-02-18T14:37:50-0800 - sethherr

Asdf Has Been Re-Written in Golang - Stratus3D

Over the last year I’ve rewritten asdf in Go. I’m excited to announce that the rewrite was released last Wednesday as asdf version 0.16. …

stratus3d.com Trevor Brown 1,000 words

Rated 2025-02-13T07:37:20-0800 - sethherr

Jia Tolentino on Joan Didion’s “everywoman.com”

Didion’s appraisal of Martha Stewart, in which most glosses of the subject could also apply to the author, is an ur-text on contemporary feminine ambition.

2025-02-10T03:00:00-0800 The New Yorker Jia Tolentino 500 words

Rated 2025-02-13T06:56:59-0800 - sethherr

Introducing: Barbecue Running Gel

It'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

Against Kathleen Stock On Neil Gaiman

Anti-kink feminism is surprisingly blase about rape

2025-02-07T08:01:56-0800 Thing of Things Ozy Brennan ($) 1,000 words

Rated 2025-02-07T20:30:20-0800 - sethherr

My stupid noise journey

A tale of bad choices

2023-06-26T17:00:00-0700 DYNOMIGHT dynomight 2,000 words

Rated 2025-02-06T15:49:53-0800 - sethherr

Car trouble

And how not to fix it

2025-02-06T09:02:19-0800 Dynomight Internet Newsletter dynomight 2,000 words

Rated 2025-02-06T15:45:42-0800 - sethherr

minimum effective dose

I am still recovering from my failed root canal (and still have one visit to complete the procedure), so I have been hesitant in taking up my regular exercise again because I don't want to distract my immune system from my tooth's healing. So when I went to the gym today for the first time...

2025-02-01T03:50:23-0800 Winnie Lim 1,000 words

Rated 2025-02-05T23:19:29-0800 - sethherr

n0rdy - What Okta Bcrypt incident can teach us about designing better APIs

n0rdy personal blog 3,000 words

Rated 2025-02-05T13:57:15-0800 - sethherr

A Coup Is In Progress In America

A coup is underway in the United States, and we must stop pretending otherwise. The signs are unmistakable and accelerating: in just the past 48 hours, Elon Musk's DOGE commission has seized control of Treasury payment systems and gained unauthorized access to classified USAID materials, while security officials who followed protocols were removed. Career civil servants…

2025-02-03T12:07:41-0800 Techdirt 7,000 words

Rated 2025-02-03T17:41:23-0800 - sethherr

Archivists Work to Identify and Save the Thousands of Datasets Disappearing From Data.gov

More 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

Patrick Mahomes and the secrets of the Dad Bod: What we get wrong about athleticism

Patrick 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

The Antitrust Revolution, by Barry C. Lynn

Liberal 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

The Gravitational Force of Tech Money

The main story of the post-techlash years has been too few people with too much capital

2024-03-13T13:12:55-0700 The Future, Now and Then Dave Karpf 3,000 words

Rated 2025-01-30T06:33:26-0800 - sethherr

Why I still like Sublime Text in 2025

I still use Sublime Text in 2025 even after trying a lot of other editors

OhDoyleRules james2doyle@gmail.com James Doyle 4,000 words

Rated 2025-01-29T18:13:52-0800 - sethherr

“Founder Mode” and the Art of Mythmaking

I’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

Paul Graham and the Cult of the Founder

"Founder Mode" is such garbage.

2024-09-13T11:10:00-0700 The Future, Now and Then Dave Karpf 2,000 words

Rated 2025-01-28T21:47:12-0800 - sethherr

The Alpha Myth: How Captive Wolves Led Us Astray

A wolf paces in captivity, teaching us all the wrong lessons about power

2025-01-27T09:47:31-0800 The Impossible Path Anthony David Adams 1,000 words

Rated 2025-01-28T07:25:14-0800 - sethherr

Algorithmic ranking is unfairly maligned

Only some kinds are bad

2025-01-23T09:01:59-0800 Dynomight Internet Newsletter dynomight 2,000 words

Rated 2025-01-23T21:03:51-0800 - sethherr

Bike Link Lockers

About using the Bike Link Lockers with a clipper card

2025-01-19T21:01:58-0800 blog.carfree.city 1,000 words

Rated 2025-01-20T15:55:56-0800 - sethherr

NYC Congestion Pricing: Early Days

People 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

No calls

Enterprise sales don't have to be crazy.

Keygen 2,000 words

Rated 2025-01-17T09:19:31-0800 - sethherr

I Ditched the Algorithm for RSS—and You Should Too - Joey's Hoard of Stuff

Joey Einerhand's Portfolio and tech blog.

joeyehand.com 200 words

Rated 2025-01-16T15:54:30-0800 - sethherr

How To Stop Worrying And Learn To Love Lynn's National IQ Estimates

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2025-01-15T05:11:02-0800 astralcodexten.com Scott Alexander 65,000 words

Rated 2025-01-16T13:59:04-0800 - sethherr

Nobody Cares

A rant about caring

grantslatton.com 2,000 words

Rated 2025-01-16T07:39:42-0800 - sethherr

It's Charisma, Stupid

paulgraham.com

Rated 2025-01-14T22:35:46-0800 - sethherr

Take the pedals off the bike

Apparently if you want to teach kids how to ride a bike you're supposed to take the pedals off first, and now my mind will never be the same again.

2025-01-06T08:39:13-0800 Fortress of Doors Lars Doucet 1,000 words

Rated 2025-01-14T19:22:08-0800 - sethherr

Why is every Bay Area event imposing Chatham House Rules?

An archaic English gag rule is enforcing silence everywhere in the Bay Area, from health conferences to AI salons to dinner parties. #Startups

2025-01-11T06:00:00-0800 The San Francisco Standard Zara Stone ($) 1,000 words

Rated 2025-01-11T17:18:32-0800 - sethherr