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Lovable makes $75m in 7 months—but is it nailing pricing?

The current (and future) monetization strategies of "Shopify for SaaS"

2025-06-25T06:57:24-0700 The Bill, Please Finn 3,000 words

Rated 2025-06-25T21:14:13-0700 - sethherr

The NO FAKES Act Has Changed – and It’s So Much Worse

A bill purporting to target the issue of misinformation and defamation caused by generative AI has mutated into something that could change the internet forever, harming speech and innovation from here on out.The Nurture Originals, Foster Art and Keep Entertainment Safe (NO FAKES) Act aims to...

2025-06-23T12:39:42-0700 Electronic Frontier Foundation Katharine Trendacosta and Corynne McSherry 1,000 words

Rated 2025-06-24T17:56:28-0700 - sethherr

New Terms of Service IP clause cannot be terminated or revoked, not even by deleting content · Issue #35086 · mastodon/mastodon

Summary Since it first opened, mastodon.social has operated without any sort of explicit IP grant from the users to the service, which is unusual for a social networking service. Today Mastodon announced effective July 1 there will be a ...

2025-06-17T15:40:04-0700 GitHub mcclure 3,000 words

Rated 2025-06-18T21:39:09-0700 - sethherr

How I'm Voting for Mayor in NYC's Democratic Primary

1. Tilson // 2. Myrie // 3. Adams // 4. Lander* // 5. Cuomo // (X) Not Mamdani

2025-06-16T10:19:50-0700 Maximum New York Daniel Golliher 5,000 words

Rated 2025-06-16T19:42:36-0700 - sethherr

Opinion | The Problem With Everything-Bagel Liberalism

The New York Times

Rated 2025-06-16T19:39:41-0700 - sethherr

Don't Panic, but Douglas Adams Predicted All of This

How the author of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy foresaw AI chatbots, voice assistants, and irritating kitchen appliances decades before anyone else

2025-06-07T04:55:12-0700 My Blameless Life Kris St.Gabriel 3,000 words

Rated 2025-06-10T20:57:05-0700 - sethherr

Opinion | The Problems Democrats Don’t Like to See

The Democratic future isn’t going to look like the Democratic past. #Books #California #Chicago #Housing #Real Estate #Texas #US Politics

2025-06-08T03:00:12-0700 The New York Times Ezra Klein ($) 3,000 words

Rated 2025-06-10T20:18:44-0700 - sethherr

My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts

My smartest friends have bananas arguments about LLM coding.

Fly 3,000 words

Rated 2025-06-02T16:13:47-0700 - sethherr

Opinion | Christo Grozev Is the Man Putin Couldn’t Kill

Putin had Christo Grozev in his sights. Grozev was way ahead of him. #Assassination #Austria #Crime #New York City #Plane Crash

2025-06-02T02:01:30-0700 The New York Times M. Gessen ($) 6,000 words

Rated 2025-06-02T16:02:01-0700 - sethherr

Figma Slides is a Beautiful Disaster

Some highlights and lowlights.

Allen Pike 1,000 words

Rated 2025-06-01T07:10:32-0700 - sethherr

Why I Broke Up with New York

Most people accept the city’s chaos as a toll for an expansive life. It took Lena Dunham several decades to realize that she could go her own way.

2025-05-05T03:00:00-0700 The New Yorker Lena Dunham 3,000 words

Rated 2025-05-30T21:44:30-0700 - sethherr

Why Good Ideas Die Quietly and Bad Ideas Go Viral

A new book, “Antimemetics: Why Some Ideas Resist Spreading,” argues that notions get taken up not because of their virtue but because of their catchiness. #Sociology #Technology

2025-05-28T03:00:00-0700 The New Yorker Gideon Lewis-Kraus 4,000 words

Rated 2025-05-29T08:05:51-0700 - sethherr

The Who Cares Era

dansinker.com 1,000 words

Rated 2025-05-28T06:40:22-0700 - sethherr

My review of Power Failure: the downfall of America's greatest company

Power Failure by William Cohan chronicles the spectacular collapse of General Electric, once America's most valuable company. From a $600 billion giant to near-bankruptcy, GE's downfall reveals how financialization and imperial CEOs destroyed a 130-year industrial icon.

2025-05-26T13:30:21-0700 Gordon Wintrob 1,000 words

Rated 2025-05-26T20:39:01-0700 - sethherr

Cloudflare CEO: Football Piracy Blocks Will Claim Lives; "I Pray No One Dies" * TorrentFreak

Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince says he "Pray no one dies" after revealing that piracy blocking denies access to critical resources in Spain.

2025-05-25T23:27:27-0700 TF Publishing Andy Maxwell 1,000 words

Rated 2025-05-26T08:27:41-0700 - sethherr

Good Writing

paulgraham.com

Rated 2025-05-24T09:40:00-0700 - sethherr

By Default, Signal Doesn't Recall

Signal Desktop now includes support for a new “Screen security” setting that is designed to help prevent your own computer from capturing screenshots of your Signal chats on Windows. This setting is automatically enabled by default in Signal Desktop on Windows 11. If you’re wondering why we’re on...

Signal Messenger 1,000 words

Rated 2025-05-21T15:17:43-0700 - sethherr

Biking Is Therapy

Derek Bolz made a video about what biking does for his mental health. A partial transcript (boldface mine): Life has been rough lately. I don’t want to air my dirty laundry on the internet, so I won’t go into detail. But for a number of rea

kottke.org 1,000 words

Rated 2025-05-20T10:21:15-0700 - sethherr

Public Bike Parks Saved My Soul – Travis Engel

Does 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

SMS 2FA is not just insecure, it's also hostile to mountain people

i have a friend -- she's an old lady born and raised here in the western north carolina mountains. she hates computers, yes, but she's be...

2025-05-14T05:51:04-0700 stillgreenmoss 1,000 words

Rated 2025-05-14T07:12:28-0700 - sethherr

Opinion | George Saunders on the Firing of Dr. Carla Hayden

When a ship is sinking, there’s value in knowing how fast, and calling it out. When a country is self-sabotaging, ditto. #Books #Donald Trump #US Politics

2025-05-13T02:02:07-0700 The New York Times George Saunders ($) 1,000 words

Rated 2025-05-13T07:18:14-0700 - sethherr

Meet San Francisco’s ‘anti-profit’ bike shop, Scenic Routes

A bike shop at 521 Balboa St. in the Inner Richmond was born out of a pandemic-era, quarantine-addled Twitter joke.

2025-05-04T11:02:00-0700 Mission Local Nicholas David 1,000 words

Rated 2025-05-12T19:55:37-0700 - sethherr

DNS Piracy Blocking Orders: Google, Cloudflare, and OpenDNS Respond Differently * TorrentFreak

Facing escalating DNS piracy blocking orders, major providers like OpenDNS, Cloudflare, and Google are adopting notably different responses. #Belgium #Google

2025-05-08T06:23:53-0700 TF Publishing Ernesto Van der Sar 1,000 words

Rated 2025-05-11T15:47:37-0700 - sethherr

Opinion | What People at Pornhub Were Thinking When It Shared Videos of Child Rape

Five 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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