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How I influence tech company politics as a staff software engineer-- seangoedecke.com 1,000 words Rated 2025-10-04T14:08:35-0700
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How Israeli actions caused famine in Gaza, visualizedIsrael’s war in Gaza led to more than half a million Palestinians being stuck in a cycle of ‘starvation, destitution and death,’ a UN-backed initiative said. Five charts explain how. 2025-10-01T23:11:26-0700 CNN Sana Noor Haq, Rachel Wilson, Soph Warnes, Lou Robinson, Henrik Pettersson ... ($) 2,000 words Rated 2025-10-02T19:05:03-0700
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China Is Run by Engineers. America Is Run by Lawyers.China Is Run by Engineers. America Is Run by Lawyers. - Freakonomics 2025-09-19T06:14:09-0700 Freakonomics 200 words Rated 2025-10-02T08:57:04-0700
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Vertical Solar Panels Are Out StandingIf you’re mounting solar panels, everybody knows the drill, right? Point them south, angled according to latitude. It’s easy. In a video which demonstrates that [Everyday Dave] is truly… 2025-09-25T19:00:58-0700 Hackaday 5,000 words Rated 2025-09-29T18:14:34-0700
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matduggan.comIt's JSON all the way down 2025-09-27T01:56:13-0700 matduggan.com 3,000 words Rated 2025-09-28T08:42:42-0700
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The strange death of east London’s most radical bookshopClogged toilets, trade unions and Google researchers: this is the saga of the Scarlett Letters #Culture 2025-07-25T23:00:59-0700 The Londoner Andrew Kersley 3,000 words Rated 2025-09-27T18:39:33-0700
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The Story of DOGE, as Told by Federal WorkersWIRED spoke with more than 200 federal workers in dozens of agencies to learn what happened as the Department of Government Efficiency tore through their offices. #Donald Trump #Elon Musk #Politics 2025-09-25T03:00:00-0700 WIRED Zoë Schiffer, Leah Feiger, Vittoria Elliott, Makena Kelly, ... 2,000 words Rated 2025-09-25T19:11:19-0700
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Bundler belongs to the Ruby communityI’ve spent 15 years of my life working on Bundler. When I introduce myself, people say “oh, the Bundler guy?”, and I am forced to agree. I didn’t come up with the original idea for Bundler (that was Yehuda). I also didn’t work on the first six months worth of prototypes. That was all Carl and Yehuda together, back when “Carlhuda” was a super-prolific author of Ruby libraries, including most of the work to modularize Rails for version 3. 2025-09-24T22:16:51-0700 André.Arko.net André Arko 1,000 words Rated 2025-09-25T07:32:38-0700
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Together: The Merb StoryI'll never forget the day that I became a member of the Rails core team. For all of 2008 (and the better part of 2007), I was working on a competitor to Ruby on Rails called Merb. I loved Merb, and was excited to share it with anyone who'd listen, so when I attended RailsConf in 2008, I signed up to give a nighttime Birds of a Feather session about Merb. To be honest, I expected only a handful of people to show up, but I was too excited to let that stop me. When the time for the... 2020-02-19T11:29:04-0800 Katz Got Your Tongue Yehuda Katz 2,000 words Rated 2025-09-23T20:15:26-0700
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Shopify, pulling strings at Ruby Central, forces Bundler and RubyGems takeoverRuby Central recently took over a collection of open source projects from their maintainers without their consent. joel.drapper.me 3,000 words Rated 2025-09-23T17:13:38-0700
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Global politics happens on Discord nowRead to the end for some good footage of the DC occupation #Politics #Technology 2025-09-17T12:11:12-0700 Garbage Day Ryan Broderick 2,000 words Rated 2025-09-22T19:23:45-0700
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Charlie Kirk was killed by a memeMaking sense of our dark new era of extremely online political violence #Politics #Technology 2025-09-12T11:31:56-0700 Garbage Day Ryan Broderick 2,000 words Rated 2025-09-22T19:13:59-0700
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In Maine, prisoners are thriving in remote jobs and other states are taking noticeForty-five Maine prisoners are currently working remote jobs for outside companies. A few are working full-time, earning more than corrections officers. One is making well into the six figures. Here's why Maine's approach to education and work in prison is making waves in the world of corrections. 2025-08-29T10:12:00-0700 WMEH Susan Sharon 1,000 words Rated 2025-09-22T18:02:49-0700
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Opinion | Can Jay Bhattacharya Save Science?Can Jay Bhattacharya save science? #Science #US Politics 2025-09-22T02:00:16-0700 The New York Times Ari Schulman ($) 3,000 words Rated 2025-09-22T17:55:10-0700
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Meta exposé author faces bankruptcy after ban on criticising companyExclusive: Sarah Wynn-Williams faces $50,000 fine every time she breaches order banning her from criticising Meta 2025-09-21T03:09:43-0700 The Guardian Michael Savage 1,000 words Rated 2025-09-21T08:12:37-0700
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Davis, The American Amsterdam: A Pioneering Cycling Town In Northern CaliforniaHistory | Cycling Cities | Davis, California 2025-01-29T03:08:23-0800 Urban Cycling Institute Urban Cycling Institute, Louise Raclet 3,000 words Rated 2025-09-17T11:33:00-0700
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Apple Photos App Corrupts ImagesThe Apple Photos app sometimes corrupts images when importing from my camera. I just wanted to make a blog post about it in case anyone else runs into the problem. I’ve seen other references to this online, but most of the people gave up trying to fix it, and none of them went as far as I did to debug the issue. I’ll try to describe the problem, and the things I’ve tried to do to fix it. But also note that I’ve (sort of) given up on the Photos app too. Since I can’t trust it to import photos... 2025-09-16T16:59:23-0700 Tenderlove Making 1,000 words Rated 2025-09-17T06:41:51-0700
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Robert Redford, Screen Idol Turned Director and Activist, Dies at 89He made serious topics like grief and political corruption resonate with the masses, in no small part because of his own star power. #Actor #Movies 2025-09-16T05:07:12-0700 The New York Times Brooks Barnes ($) 3,000 words Rated 2025-09-16T06:40:59-0700
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Rails on SQLite: exciting new ways to cause outagesThis post was originally given as a talk for Friendly.rb. The slides are also available. Between Litestack and the Rails 8 trifecta of Solid Cable, Solid Cache, and Solid Queue, it’s easier than ever to spin up a Rails app that doesn’t need a database service, or a redis service, or a file storage service. It’s great to simplify things, but even after 20 years of deploying Rails apps I was still caught out by some of the ways things are different. 2025-09-11T08:29:51-0700 André.Arko.net André Arko 3,000 words Rated 2025-09-11T21:12:12-0700
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Hotwire components that refresh themselves | Boring Rails: Skip the bullshit and ship fastRated 2025-09-09T08:43:46-0700
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This power source is 15,000 ft below the ground | Bill GatesA company called Fervo Energy is hoping to supercharge geothermal power with an innovative new approach to turning the earth’s heat into power. #Climate Change gatesnotes.com Bill Gates 1,000 words Rated 2025-09-06T14:43:17-0700
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The Making of an American House of Lords: The U.S. Senate in the Constitutional Convention of 1787* | Studies in American Political DevelopmentThe Making of an American House of Lords: The U.S. Senate in the Constitutional Convention of 1787* - Volume 7 Issue 2 Cambridge Core 5,000 words Rated 2025-09-05T18:41:21-0700
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Giving people money helped less than I thought it wouldEnding the war on poverty will take more than cash transfers 2025-08-19T03:00:58-0700 The Argument Kelsey Piper 3,000 words Rated 2025-09-05T14:32:51-0700
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Wikipedia is under attack — and how it can surviveHow the world’s largest encyclopedia became the factual foundation of the web, but now it’s under attack from the right wing, tech billionaires, and AI. #Politics 2025-09-04T05:30:04-0700 The Verge Josh Dzieza ($) 10,000 words Rated 2025-09-05T13:22:15-0700
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A ton of AI images I've made that I've likedI think people with my aesthetic taste have been underrepresented in presentations of AI art. Here I try to change that. 2025-08-13T18:59:10-0700 The Weird Turn Pro Andy Masley 1,000 words Rated 2025-09-04T16:07:09-0700
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Where's the Shovelware? Why AI Coding Claims Don't Add Up78% of developers claim AI makes them more productive. 14% say it's a 10x improvement. So where's the flood of new software? Turns out those productivity claims are bullshit. 2025-09-03T08:01:15-0700 Mike Judge 2,000 words Rated 2025-09-03T16:28:09-0700
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Chicago’s lead pipe crisis, mappedChicago has the nation's highest concentration of lead pipes. We mapped them all. 2025-08-28T03:30:00-0700 Grist Keerti Gopal, Juanpablo Ramirez-Franco, Peter Aldhous, Clayton Aldern, ... 3,000 words Rated 2025-09-02T20:47:52-0700
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Detecting and countering misuse of AI: August 2025Anthropic's threat intelligence report on AI cybercrime and other abuses anthropic.com 2,000 words Rated 2025-09-01T21:03:14-0700
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In Search Of AI PsychosisFolie a deux ex machina 2025-08-26T04:37:49-0700 astralcodexten.com Scott Alexander 25,000 words Rated 2025-08-26T16:53:27-0700
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Google's Liquid Cooling at Hot Chips 2025Datacenter-Scale Heat Management 2025-08-24T11:47:51-0700 Chips and Cheese Chester Lam 1,000 words Rated 2025-08-25T21:01:57-0700
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What are OKLCH colors?Article about the OKLCH color model. jakub.kr 1,000 words Rated 2025-08-25T07:31:52-0700
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What makes Claude Code so damn good (and how to recreate that magic in your agent)!?An open source Chrome extension that adds AI data agents to your Metabase. Get reliable answers to all your business questions with our AI-powered data analyst. 2025-08-21T00:00:00-0700 MinusX vivek 3,000 words Rated 2025-08-23T13:36:45-0700
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Why you can’t grow cool-climate plants in hot climatesSince moving to Deep South Texas 4 years ago I've come to realize that many plants I used to love growing in the cool mild maritime climate of the SF bay area are impossible to grow where I live. This is not just because of the high daytime heat. It's not as simple as that. Specifically, it is the h Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't 1,000 words Rated 2025-08-23T07:41:35-0700
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What happened to Egghead Software - The Silicon UndergroundRated 2025-08-23T06:39:25-0700
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Executive Excess 2025Executive Excess 2025 - CEO pay and stock buybacks have soared at the 100 largest low-wage corporations. 2025-08-21T04:00:00-0700 Institute for Policy Studies averyr 2,000 words Rated 2025-08-21T22:44:25-0700
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Gouach wants you to insert and pluck the cells from its Infinite e-bike batteryTiny French firm wants to keep a few bad cells from spoiling a lot of e-bikes. 2025-05-22T13:12:13-0700 Ars Technica Kevin Purdy 1,000 words Rated 2025-08-21T14:44:17-0700
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Is Rotten Tomatoes Still Reliable? A Statistical AnalysisCan Hollywood's stamp of artistic excellence still be trusted? 2025-08-20T06:16:00-0700 Stat Significant Daniel Parris 2,000 words Rated 2025-08-20T20:10:12-0700
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Once Again, Oil States Thwart Agreement on PlasticsYale E360 2,000 words Rated 2025-08-16T08:36:43-0700
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The future of large files in Git is Git - Tyler Ciprianitylercipriani.com Tyler Cipriani 1,000 words Rated 2025-08-15T19:07:58-0700
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How I accidentally became PureGym's unofficial Apple Wallet developerTired of fumbling with the PureGym app for 47 seconds every morning, I reverse-engineered their API to build an Apple Wallet pass that gets me in with a quick wrist scan. Along the way, I discovered their bizarre security theatre: QR codes that expire every minute while my ancient 8-digit PIN lives forever. 2025-08-14T00:00:00-0700 Drobinin Limited Vadim Drobinin 2,000 words Rated 2025-08-15T19:01:08-0700
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Opinion | Abolish the Senate. End the Electoral College. Pack the Court.Why the left can’t win without a new Constitution. #Congress #Donald Trump #Elections 2025-08-14T02:02:17-0700 The New York Times Ross Douthat, Sophia Alvarez Boyd, Raina Raskin ($) 20,000 words Rated 2025-08-14T19:51:54-0700
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What Happened When I Tried to Replace Myself with ChatGPT in My English ClassroomMy students call it “Chat,” a cute nickname they all seem to have agreed on at some point. They use it to make study guides, interpret essay prompts, and register for classes, turning it loose on t… 2025-07-28T04:59:18-0700 Literary Hub 6,000 words Rated 2025-08-07T21:49:48-0700
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What’s wrong with the JSON gem API?As I mentioned at the start of my Optimizing Ruby’s JSON series of posts, performance isn’t why I candidated to be the new gem’s maintainer. 2025-08-02T02:03:51-0700 byroot’s blog 3,000 words Rated 2025-08-05T16:30:08-0700
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I spent 6 years building a ridiculous wooden pixel displayThe world's most impractical 1000-pixel display and anyone in the world can draw on it Ben Holmen 2,000 words Rated 2025-08-04T19:16:30-0700
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The Manmade Clouds That Could Help Save the Great Barrier ReefInside a bold — and controversial — effort to cool the water around this beloved ecosystem. #Environment #Geoengineering 2025-07-25T02:01:32-0700 The New York Times Ferris Jabr ($) 5,000 words Rated 2025-07-29T20:06:02-0700
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Tour de France confronts a new threat: Are cyclists using tiny motors? - The Washington PostRated 2025-07-29T05:53:20-0700
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Revisiting MoneyballThe book was published in 2003, and the movie was released in 2011. It feels silly to rehash, except the whole thing fascinates fans two decades later. Why? On the one hand, it is loved because it… 2025-07-24T01:24:34-0700 djpardis.medium.com Pardis Noorzad 3,000 words Rated 2025-07-24T20:54:02-0700
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Scarcity, Inventory, and Inequity: A Deep Dive into Airline Fare BucketsAirline pricing may seem mystifying, but behind every airfare is a complex system of fare buckets and inventory controls. Airlines don't just sell seats - they manage a dynamic inventory of fares, divided into booking classes (fare buckets) with different prices and rules. For the technically curious, understanding how fare buckets work reveals the "source code" of airline revenue management. This report delves into the hierarchy of booking classes, how airlines update seat... 2025-07-21T12:31:07-0700 JetBack 5,000 words Rated 2025-07-24T17:43:47-0700
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Surprising Science: How Electric Cars Quietly Transform Urban Air"It’s not just the tailpipe y’all," joked one Electrek commenter, alluding to the black discolorations on alloy wheels visible proof of a less infamous city pollutant: brake dust. For decades, exhaust emissions have been the focus of city-air cleaning initiatives, but a new wave of research indicates that the real story goes far beyond the… 2025-07-22T03:58:36-0700 Modern Engineering Marvels 1,000 words Rated 2025-07-23T20:28:50-0700
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So You Think You've Awoken ChatGPT — LessWrongWritten in an attempt to fulfill @Raemon's request. … 2025-07-10T18:01:26-0700 lesswrong.com JustisMills 10,000 words Rated 2025-07-23T20:24:59-0700
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