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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. May 12th New Atlas https://newatlas.com/author/ben-coxworth/ 1,000 words Rated 2:29am - 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... May 15th The Radavist Travis Engel 2,000 words Rated Yesterday 1:54am - 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 May 15th The New York Times Gina Kolata ($) 2,000 words Rated May 16th - sethherr
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Sending Threaded Emails Using Rails ActionMailerAt Flexport, we communicate with our customers — and their software — in many ways. API and EDI integrations are ideal because they allow structured data to flow seamlessly with no humans involved… 2020-07-28 Flexport Engineering Kyle Kinsey 1,000 words Rated May 15th - sethherr
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SMS 2FA is not just insecure, it's also hostile to mountain peoplei have a friend -- she's an old lady born and raised here in the western north carolina mountains. she hates computers, yes, but she's be... May 14th stillgreenmoss 1,000 words Rated May 14th - sethherr
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How The Economics of Multitenancy WorkWith millions of jobs running monthly on our bare-metal fleet, we've seen the economics of multitenancy hold up — here's a peek behind the curtain of how the math works. blacksmith.sh 2,000 words Rated May 14th - sethherr
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The Great Displacement Is Already Well UnderwayIt's Not a Hypothetical, I've Already Lost My Job to AI For The Last Year May 4th Shawn K's substack Shawn K 3,000 words Rated May 13th - sethherr
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Opinion | George Saunders on the Firing of Dr. Carla HaydenWhen a ship is sinking, there’s value in knowing how fast, and calling it out. When a country is self-sabotaging, ditto. #Books #Donald Trump #US Politics May 13th The New York Times George Saunders ($) 1,000 words Rated May 13th - sethherr
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Meet San Francisco’s ‘anti-profit’ bike shop, Scenic RoutesA bike shop at 521 Balboa St. in the Inner Richmond was born out of a pandemic-era, quarantine-addled Twitter joke. May 4th Mission Local Nicholas David 1,000 words Rated May 13th - sethherr
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DNS Piracy Blocking Orders: Google, Cloudflare, and OpenDNS Respond Differently * TorrentFreakFacing escalating DNS piracy blocking orders, major providers like OpenDNS, Cloudflare, and Google are adopting notably different responses. #Belgium #Google May 8th TF Publishing Ernesto Van der Sar 1,000 words Rated May 11th - 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 May 10th The New York Times Nicholas Kristof ($) 3,000 words Rated May 10th - 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 May 9th - 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 May 7th SFGATE Madilynne Medina 2,000 words Rated May 8th - sethherr
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So much bloodbut how much exactly? May 5th DYNOMIGHT dynomight 2,000 words Rated May 7th - sethherr
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The Curse of Knowing How, or; Fixing Everything | BlogA reflection on control, burnout, and the strange weight of technical fluency. Apr 24th NotAShelf 2,000 words Rated May 6th - 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... May 2nd micahflee Micah Lee 3,000 words Rated May 6th - sethherr
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I'd rather read the promptI have literally never seen LLM writing that actually improved my life. claytonwramsey.com Clayton Ramsey 2,000 words Rated May 5th - 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? Apr 24th TF Publishing Ernesto Van der Sar 1,000 words Rated May 4th - sethherr
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The life-or-death case for self-driving carsNew 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 May 4th Vox Bryan Walsh ($) 1,000 words Rated May 4th - 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. May 1st CNN Alexandra Skores ($) 500 words Rated May 3rd - 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. May 1st BIG by Matt Stoller Matt Stoller 2,000 words Rated May 3rd - sethherr
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Vatican City2021-02-01 Vatican Observatory 500 words Rated May 2nd - sethherr
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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 Apr 1st Diff 1,000 words Rated May 2nd - 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 Apr 30th The Verge Jay Peters 500 words Rated May 1st - 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 Apr 24th The American Prospect Maureen Tkacik 9,000 words Rated Apr 30th - 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. Mar 10th Washingtonian https://www.washingtonian.com/author/chonker/#author ... 500 words Rated Apr 29th - sethherr
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Another Periodic Suggestion to Try, Just Try, Switching to Kagi for SearchPaying for Kagi today feels a *lot* like paying for HBO back in the cable TV heyday. Daring Fireball 1,000 words Rated Apr 29th - sethherr
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The One-Person Framework in practiceHow I built a seven-figure business with Rails bramjetten.dev 2,000 words Rated Apr 29th - sethherr
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Flagellomania and Fatherhood: Roald Dahl, My Father, and MeI smacked my daughter once. The guilt still haunts me. #Culture #Literature #Memoir #Parenting #Psychology Mar 17th The MIT Press Reader 3,000 words Rated Apr 28th - sethherr
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An end to all this prostate trouble?yarchive.net 9,000 words Rated Apr 27th - 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. 2018-03-19 HISTORY Erin Blakemore 2,000 words Rated Apr 23rd - 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 Apr 23rd - 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 Apr 21st - sethherr
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Opinion | An Age of Extinction Is Coming. Here’s How to Survive.Rated Apr 20th - 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 2020-08-20 The New York Times William Brennan ($) 7,000 words Rated Apr 16th - sethherr
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How to win an argument with a toddlerYou 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… Apr 14th Seth's Blog 500 words Rated Apr 15th - sethherr
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But what if I really want a faster horse? | exotextBut what if I really want a faster horse? | exotext rakhim.exotext.com 500 words Rated Apr 11th - 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 Mar 31st Al Jazeera Tyler Hicks 2,000 words Rated Apr 8th - 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? Apr 7th GitButler Scott Chacon 3,000 words Rated Apr 7th - 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… Mar 24th lesswrong.com lc 9,000 words Rated Apr 6th - sethherr
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Buying Sunglasses in Brazil (or how to restore commitment in bargaining)The last time our family went to Brazil, our little ones arrived poorly prepared. We did not bring any sunglasses. Why would we? London’s winter sky rarely requires them. Brazil? That’s a different story. Upon our first five-minute walk between the luxurious apartment blocks, we were struck by the brightest of sunlight. Instead of buying… 2024-09-10 The hold-up problem 2,000 words Rated Apr 6th - sethherr
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fi-le.netfi-le.net, the Fiefdom of Files Rated Apr 5th - 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 Apr 3rd The AI Underwriter Otakar G. Hubschmann 1,000 words Rated Apr 4th - 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 Apr 3rd - sethherr
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The April Fools joke that might have got me firedEveryone should pull one great practical joke in their lifetimes. This one was mine, and I think it's past the statute of limitations. The s... oldvcr.blogspot.com 2,000 words Rated Apr 2nd - sethherr
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Gemini 2.5 Pro vs. Claude 3.7 Sonnet: Coding ComparisonThis blog-post compares the coding capabilites of new Gemini 2.5 Pro experimental and Claude 3.7 Sonnet (thinking) Mar 30th Composio Shrijal 2,000 words Rated Mar 31st - sethherr |
Gemini 2.5 is the New SoTAGemini 2.5 Pro Experimental is America’s next top large language model. Mar 28th thezvi.substack.com Zvi Mowshowitz 4,000 words Rated Mar 31st - sethherr
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What to DoRated Mar 30th - 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. 2019-02-06 Resident Advisor Elissa Stolman 7,000 words Rated Mar 29th - sethherr
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Yale professor who studies fascism fleeing US to work in CanadaJason Stanley, who says grandmother fled Berlin with his father in 1939, says US may become ‘fascist dictatorship’ Mar 26th The Guardian Rachel Leingang 1,000 words Rated Mar 28th - sethherr
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