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Laurence Tratt: Comparing the Glove80 and Maltron keyboards

tratt.net 3,000 words

Rated 2:25am - sethherr

How Jane Jacobs got Americans stuck

Yoni Appelbaum on the real villians behind our housing and mobility problems

Jul 9th Riskgaming by Lux Capital Danny Crichton 5,000 words

Rated Yesterday 12:13am - sethherr

The special hell of Bolt, Europe's Uber clone

I don’t like this app.

brandur.org 1,000 words

Rated Jul 21st - sethherr

The Great Flood of Adequate Software

Somewhere someone is still evaluating WinRAR

Jul 12th Works on My Machine Scott Werner 2,000 words

Rated Jul 20th - sethherr

Reflections on OpenAI

calv.info 4,000 words

Rated Jul 16th - sethherr

Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity

We conduct a randomized controlled trial to understand how early-2025 AI tools affect the productivity of experienced open-source developers working on their own repositories. Surprisingly, we find that when developers use AI tools, they take 19% longer than without—AI makes them slower.

Jul 10th metr.org METR 2,000 words

Rated Jul 12th - sethherr

Toxic US Landfills: Overheating Trash Sites Pose Health Risks

archive.is

Rated Jul 2nd - sethherr

Your Review: Alpha School

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Jun 27th astralcodexten.com Scott Alexander 60,000 words

Rated Jun 30th - 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 ...

Jun 17th GitHub mcclure 3,000 words

Rated Jun 19th - 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

Jun 16th Maximum New York Daniel Golliher 5,000 words

Rated Jun 17th - sethherr

Opinion | The Problem With Everything-Bagel Liberalism

The New York Times

Rated Jun 17th - sethherr

Call it Blue Tape

Down with anti-government sentiment in blue states // Interstate praise of the federal system

Mar 30th Maximum New York Daniel Golliher 2,000 words

Rated Jun 17th - sethherr

Air-dried vs. Kiln-dried Wood

Are they different to saw, chisel and plane? Does it matter?

Jun 8th The American Peasant Christopher Schwarz, Kara Gebhart Uhl ($) 6,000 words

Rated Jun 12th - 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

Jun 7th My Blameless Life Kris St.Gabriel 3,000 words

Rated Jun 11th - sethherr

My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts

My smartest friends have bananas arguments about LLM coding.

Fly 3,000 words

Rated Jun 2nd - sethherr

Melatonin: Much More Than You Wanted To Know

Slate Star Codex

Rated Jun 1st - sethherr

Good Writing

paulgraham.com

Rated May 24th - sethherr

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

May 9th Scientific American Cody Cottier ($) 1,000 words

Rated May 20th - 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...

May 14th stillgreenmoss 1,000 words

Rated May 14th - 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

May 10th The New York Times Nicholas Kristof ($) 3,000 words

Rated May 10th - sethherr

Past, Present, and Future of Sorbet Type Syntax – Jake Zimmerman

A 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

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

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

Apr 24th The American Prospect Maureen Tkacik 9,000 words

Rated Apr 30th - sethherr

An end to all this prostate trouble?

yarchive.net 9,000 words

Rated Apr 27th - sethherr

Bikes in the Age of Tariffs

Today'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

The art of DJing: Avalon Emerson · Articoli ⟋ RA

One 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

The Ghosts in the Machine, by Liz Pelly

Spotify’s plot against musicians #Artificial Intelligence #Jazz #Music #Musician #Sweden #Youtube

2024-11-19 Harper's Magazine 200 words

Rated Mar 25th - &e

Understanding Solar Energy

The biggest energy story of the last fifteen years is the rise of solar photovoltaics, also known as solar PV or simply solar panels.

Mar 20th Construction Physics Brian Potter 4,000 words

Rated Mar 20th - sethherr

Discworld Rules

And LOTR is brain-rot for technologists

Mar 8th Contraptions Venkatesh Rao 7,000 words

Rated Mar 15th - 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

Feb 27th The New York Times Michael Idov ($) 2,000 words

Rated Mar 10th - sethherr

SFF community reeling after Marion Zimmer Bradley's daughter accuses her of abuse

Moira Greyland's claims that she was molested by the late fantasy author have horrified readers and writers who had been inspired by her work

2014-06-27 The Guardian Alison Flood 1,000 words

Rated Mar 9th - sethherr

Microsoft is reportedly plotting a future without OpenAI - Tech Startups

Microsoft’s AI head is plotting a future without OpenAI. According to a report from The Information, Mustafa Suleyman, the head of Microsoft’s AI division, has set his sights on a bold objective: reducing the company’s dependence on OpenAI. In a report titled 'Microsoft’s AI Guru Plots a Future Without OpenAI,' The Information reported: "After setbacks,

Mar 7th Tech Startups | Tech Companies | Startups News Nickie Louise 1,000 words

Rated Mar 8th - sethherr

Age and cognitive skills: Use it or lose it

Cognitive skills do not decline with age for those who use math and reading throughout their life.

Mar 7th Science Advances Eric A. Hanushek, Lavinia Kinne, Frauke Witthöft, Ludger Woessmann ... 10,000 words

Rated Mar 6th - sethherr

The secret to perfectly calculate Rails database connection pool size

island94.org 1,000 words

Rated Feb 27th - sethherr

1DaySooner's Trump II Health Policy Proposals

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Feb 7th astralcodexten.com Scott Alexander 15,000 words

Rated Feb 8th - 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

2024-08-20 Harper's Magazine 200 words

Rated Jan 31st - 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…

2024-12-17 charity.wtf 9,000 words

Rated Jan 29th - sethherr

Paul Graham and the Cult of the Founder

"Founder Mode" is such garbage.

2024-09-13 The Future, Now and Then Dave Karpf 2,000 words

Rated Jan 29th - sethherr

What o3 Becomes by 2028 — LessWrong

Funding for $150bn training systems just turned less speculative, with OpenAI o3 reaching 25% on FrontierMath, 70% on SWE-Verified, 2700 on Codeforce…

2024-12-22 lesswrong.com Vladimir_Nesov 4,000 words

Rated Jan 10th - sethherr

They squandered the holy grail

Why Apple Intelligence failed even though everything it's built upon is nearly perfect

xeiaso.net 5,000 words

Rated Jan 6th - sethherr

The torture of an unphilosophical life

#Culture

2024-12-26 UnHerd Agnes Callard 5,000 words

Rated 2024-12-28 - sethherr

Start Page

minjunes.ai

Rated 2024-12-04 - sethherr

Why Americans Are Obsessed With Poor Posture

A recent history of the 20th-century movement to fix slouching questions the moral and political dimensions of addressing bad backs over wider public health concerns.

2024-11-20 The Nation Zoe Adams ($) 3,000 words

Rated 2024-11-25 - sethherr

Opinion | Prop. K was a battle between urban and suburban SF. The right side won

Proposition K wasn’t just about the future of a road: It was a clash between two ideologies battling to shape the city.

2024-11-19 The San Francisco Standard Jane Natoli 1,000 words

Rated 2024-11-20 - sethherr

Opinion | School closures suck. But they’re necessary, and opposing them is wrong

Should San Francisco families really be asked to give up on their small community schools for the sake of the public good? Yes, they should. #Education and schools

2024-10-16 The San Francisco Standard Catharine Burhenne 1,000 words

Rated 2024-10-21 - sethherr

Reflections on Palantir

A retrospective of an eight-year stint.

2024-10-15 Nabeel S. Qureshi 6,000 words

Rated 2024-10-17 - sethherr

Silicon Valley, the New Lobbying Monster

From Coinbase to OpenAI, the tech sector is pouring millions into super PACS that intimidate politicians into supporting its agenda. Charles Duhigg reports.

2024-10-07 The New Yorker Charles Duhigg 8,000 words

Rated 2024-10-14 - sethherr

Inside the TikTok documents: Stripping teens and boosting 'attractive' people

A trove of secret documents show teens’ increasing reliance on TikTok and how executives were acutely aware of the potential harm the app can cause young people, but appeared unconcerned.

2024-10-13 NPR Bobby Allyn 1,000 words

Rated 2024-10-14 - sethherr

SB 1047: Our Side Of The Story

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2024-10-10 astralcodexten.com Scott Alexander 40,000 words

Rated 2024-10-13 - sethherr

This Chatbot Pulls People Away From Conspiracy Theories

In a new study, many people doubted or abandoned false beliefs after a short conversation with the DebunkBot. #Artificial Intelligence #Conspiracy Theory #Psychology

2024-09-12 The New York Times Teddy Rosenbluth ($) 1,000 words

Rated 2024-10-11 - sethherr