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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

U.S. DOT Orders Review of All Grants Related to Green Infrastructure, Bikes — Streetsblog USA

Now U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is coming for our bike lanes!

2025-03-11T21:00:00-0700 usa.streetsblog.org 1,000 words

Rated 2025-03-13T10:32:33-0700 - sethherr

The Pitchfork Story

A bit more than two years ago, as part of my work in Shopify’s Ruby and Rails Infrastructure team, I released a new Ruby HTTP server called Pitchfork.

2025-03-04T02:03:51-0800 byroot’s blog 10,000 words

Rated 2025-03-11T10:07:07-0700 - sethherr

MDMA may have protected Nova attack survivors from trauma, study suggests

Neuroscientists in Israel find signs that the drug helped festival survivors in the attack and the aftermath.

2025-03-07T14:00:09-0800 BBC News Lucy Williamson 2,000 words

Rated 2025-03-10T17:58:09-0700 - &e

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

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

2014-06-27T01:08:26-0700 The Guardian Alison Flood 1,000 words

Rated 2025-03-08T19:04:25-0800 - 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.

2025-03-07T00:00:00-0800 Science Advances Eric A. Hanushek, Lavinia Kinne, Frauke Witthöft, Ludger Woessmann ... 10,000 words

Rated 2025-03-06T11:37:08-0800 - sethherr

The Return of Digg, a Star of Web 2.0

The New York Times

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

The Smith v. Substack saga

A tale of lawsuits, impersonation and alter egos.

2025-01-12T17:30:17-0800 Ghost of Lomax 10,000 words

Rated 2025-03-03T13:06:20-0800 - sethherr

The secret to perfectly calculate Rails database connection pool size

island94.org 1,000 words

Rated 2025-02-27T13:21:05-0800 - sethherr

Meet the journalists training AI models for Meta and OpenAI

The gig work platform Outlier is one of several companies courting journalists to train large language models (LLMs).

Nieman Lab 2,000 words

Rated 2025-02-26T17:25:32-0800 - sethherr

I Went To SQL Injection Court — Quarrelsome

sockpuppet.org Quarrelsome 3,000 words

Rated 2025-02-25T19:19:24-0800 - sethherr

Texas’s Barbecue Schism

The New Yorker

Rated 2025-02-25T14:47:37-0800 - sethherr

Notes from Carrierwave to Active Storage

island94.org 1,000 words

Rated 2025-02-24T19:20:42-0800 - sethherr

Why does target=”_blank” have an underscore in front?

Ever wondered why you need the underscore in target="_blank" to open a link in a new tab?

2024-10-25T03:00:00-0700 Kyrylo Silin 200 words

Rated 2025-02-24T08:33:39-0800 - sethherr

The True Costs of Being on YouTube

what I spent, what I earned, and why I'm walking away

2025-02-13T07:29:54-0800 Food Processing carla lalli music 4,000 words

Rated 2025-02-22T21:37:43-0800 - sethherr

The first RCT for GLP-1 drugs and alcoholism isn't what we hoped

or what people seem to think

2025-02-20T09:02:32-0800 Dynomight Internet Newsletter dynomight 2,000 words

Rated 2025-02-22T19:57:07-0800 - sethherr

When Imperfect Systems are Good, Actually: Bluesky’s Lossy Timelines

By examining the limits of reasonable user behavior and embracing imperfection for users who go beyond it, we can continue to provide service that meets the expectations of users without sacrificing scalability of the system.

2025-02-18T16:00:00-0800 Jaz’s Blog Jaz 2,000 words

Rated 2025-02-20T07:50:18-0800 - sethherr

Maximizing resume SNR

This is a brief note about resumes and hiring. At Terraform Industries, I've been doing a lot of recruiting recently and it's helped me crystallize a few ideas I've had in this area. This blog will change over time. Terraform Industries is hiring! Join us as we decarbonize our industrial economy by getting carbon from…

2022-03-22T01:09:33-0700 Casey Handmer's blog 3,000 words

Rated 2025-02-17T14:57:24-0800 - sethherr

Energy Cheat Sheet

Building an intuition about energy

2024-12-20T05:01:09-0800 Construction Physics Brian Potter 4,000 words

Rated 2025-02-17T14:27:31-0800 - sethherr

calculator-app

calculator-app - Chad Nauseam Home

Chad Nauseam Home 2,000 words

Rated 2025-02-16T17:36:11-0800 - sethherr

We Were Wrong About GPUs

Do my tears surprise you? Strong CEOs also cry.

Fly 2,000 words

Rated 2025-02-14T20:37:14-0800 - sethherr

Do you need permission from the government to do independent research?

IRB you kidding me?

2025-02-13T09:00:15-0800 Dynomight Internet Newsletter dynomight 6,000 words

Rated 2025-02-13T19:08:48-0800 - 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

Ruby Outperforms C: Breaking the Catch-22

YJIT’s ability to improve performance by adapting to run-time behavior can increase the speed of our code in a way that dropping down to C can’t. As such, I think we should reconsider the common wisdom that “rewriting our Ruby in C” is the ideal path to performance optimization and take a serious look at “rewriting our C in Ruby” instead.

2023-08-28T17:00:00-0700 Rails at Scale Aaron Patterson 3,000 words

Rated 2025-02-12T21:06:10-0800 - sethherr

Leaking the email of any YouTube user for $10,000

What could've been the largest data breach in the world - an attack chain on Google services to leak the email address of any YouTube channel

brutecat.com 1,000 words

Rated 2025-02-12T15:31:59-0800 - sethherr

Tiny JITs for a Faster FFI

Can we have a faster FFI for CRuby? Yes.

2025-02-11T16:00:00-0800 Rails at Scale Aaron Patterson 2,000 words

Rated 2025-02-12T15:26:07-0800 - 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

I Tasted Honda's Spicy Rodent-Repelling Tape

And I will do it again unless someone stops me.

2021-07-30T04:06:12-0700 Haterade Liz Cook 1,000 words

Rated 2025-02-11T18:22:27-0800 - sethherr

VSCode’s SSH Agent Is Bananas

Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.

Fly 500 words

Rated 2025-02-08T00:24:45-0800 - sethherr

1DaySooner's Trump II Health Policy Proposals

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2025-02-07T03:40:50-0800 astralcodexten.com Scott Alexander 15,000 words

Rated 2025-02-07T20:39:55-0800 - sethherr

How to avoid problems with Turbo morphing

A beautiful UI Morphed into existence Suddenly broken

2025-02-04T15:00:00-0800 Radan Skorić’s personal site 1,000 words

Rated 2025-02-06T22:03:38-0800 - sethherr

From Cold DM to Owning a Soccer Club

zachholman.com

Rated 2025-02-06T21:00:43-0800 - sethherr

The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Government Takeover

Engineers between 19 and 24, most linked to Musk’s companies, are playing a key role as he seizes control of federal infrastructure. #Donald Trump #Elon Musk #Government #Politics

2025-02-02T11:02:37-0800 WIRED Vittoria Elliott 1,000 words

Rated 2025-02-03T19:19:07-0800 - sethherr

Ruby "Thread Contention" is simply GVL Queuing

island94.org 1,000 words

Rated 2025-02-03T10:17:51-0800 - sethherr

Dario Amodei — Machines of Loving Grace

How AI Could Transform the World for the Better

darioamodei.com Dario Amodei 15,000 words

Rated 2025-02-03T08:16:12-0800 - sethherr

Everyone knows your location

Recently I read about a massive geolocation data leak from Gravy Analytics, which exposed more than 2000 apps, both in AppStore and Google Play, that secretly collect geolocation data without user consent. Oftentimes, even without developers` knowledge. I looked into the list (link here) and found at least 3 apps I have installed on my iPhone. Take a look for yourself! This made me come up with an idea to track myself down externally, e.g. to buy my geolocation data leaked by some...

2025-01-31T15:30:18-0800 tim.sh tim 3,000 words

Rated 2025-02-02T18:58:15-0800 - 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

Senator Ron Wyden (@wyden.senate.gov)

NEW: Sources tell my office that Treasury Secretary Bessent has granted DOGE *full* access to this system. Social Security and Medicare benefits, grants, payments to government contractors, including those that compete directly with Musk's own companies. All of it. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

2025-02-01T12:37:06-0800 Bluesky Social 2,000 words

Rated 2025-02-01T17:08:25-0800 - 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

“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

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

The Mythical IO-Bound Rails App

When the topic of Rails performance comes up, it is commonplace to hear that the database is the bottleneck, so Rails applications are IO-bound anyway, hence Ruby performance doesn’t matter that much, and all you need is a healthy dose of concurrency to make your service scale. But how true is this in general?

2025-01-23T02:17:51-0800 byroot’s blog 2,000 words

Rated 2025-01-26T06:42:15-0800 - sethherr

rubycdp/ferrum: Headless Chrome Ruby API

Headless Chrome Ruby API. Contribute to rubycdp/ferrum development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub 4,000 words

Rated 2025-01-23T20:13:49-0800 - sethherr

How shutdown Bay Area tech companies ditch their fancy gear fast

Silicon Valley Disposition, an auction site specializing in Bay Area tech companies, helps shutdown and surviving firms offload rare, pricey, high-tech gear. #Arizona #Google #Montana #San Francisco

2025-01-21T04:00:00-0800 SFGATE Stephen Council 1,000 words

Rated 2025-01-23T06:46:35-0800 - sethherr

Creation | anyon_e

Creating a highly-integrated open-source laptop from scratch. Power in your hands.

byran.ee 2,000 words

Rated 2025-01-23T06:40:39-0800 - sethherr

Gem::SafeMarshal escape

nastystereo.com 1,000 words

Rated 2025-01-22T07:11:01-0800 - sethherr

I am (not) a Failure: Lessons Learned From Six (and a half) Failed Startup Attempts

A while back I wrote : I've had many, many failures in my life. (Hm, maybe I should write a blog post about that.) This is that post. I'm ...

blog.rongarret.info 5,000 words

Rated 2025-01-20T19:06:16-0800 - sethherr