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Once Again, Oil States Thwart Agreement on Plastics

Yale E360 2,000 words

Rated 2025-08-16T08:36:43-0700

The future of large files in Git is Git - Tyler Cipriani

tylercipriani.com Tyler Cipriani 1,000 words

Rated 2025-08-15T19:07:58-0700

How I accidentally became PureGym's unofficial Apple Wallet developer

Tired 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

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

What Happened When I Tried to Replace Myself with ChatGPT in My English Classroom

My 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

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

I spent 6 years building a ridiculous wooden pixel display

The 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

The Manmade Clouds That Could Help Save the Great Barrier Reef

Inside 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

Tour de France confronts a new threat: Are cyclists using tiny motors? - The Washington Post

archive.ph

Rated 2025-07-29T05:53:20-0700

Revisiting Moneyball

The 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

Scarcity, Inventory, and Inequity: A Deep Dive into Airline Fare Buckets

Airline 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

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

So You Think You've Awoken ChatGPT — LessWrong

Written 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

Laurence Tratt: Comparing the Glove80 and Maltron keyboards

tratt.net 3,000 words

Rated 2025-07-22T19:25:49-0700

How Jane Jacobs got Americans stuck

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

2025-07-09T09:30:24-0700 Riskgaming by Lux Capital Danny Crichton 5,000 words

Rated 2025-07-21T17:13:51-0700

He Claims He’s the ‘Sports Betting King.’ What Are the Odds?

Mazi VS has become a major influencer by flaunting his expensive lifestyle and his big-winning wagers. Other gamblers say he can’t be what he seems. #College Basketball #Fraud #Gambling #Social Media

2025-07-13T02:00:59-0700 The New York Times Devin Gordon ($) 5,000 words

Rated 2025-07-20T22:49:32-0700

New colors without shooting lasers into your eyes

Can optical illusions take you outside the human color gamut?

2025-07-16T17:00:00-0700 DYNOMIGHT dynomight 2,000 words

Rated 2025-07-20T15:25:27-0700

Local LLMs versus offline Wikipedia

How do the sizes of local LLMs compare to the size of offline Wikipedia downloads?

2025-07-18T17:00:00-0700 evanhahn.com 500 words

Rated 2025-07-19T18:40:50-0700

My 9-week unprocessed food self-experiment

What I really want to know is: What benefit would I get from making my diet better?

2025-07-10T09:03:03-0700 Dynomight Internet Newsletter dynomight 2,000 words

Rated 2025-07-19T12:14:34-0700

The beauty entrepreneur who made the Jheri curl a sensation

The hairstyle originally involved an expensive trip to a salon. Then Comer Cottrell introduced the Curly Kit during the 1980s recession.

2025-07-11T07:51:42-0700 The Hustle Kelli María Korducki 2,000 words

Rated 2025-07-16T12:10:55-0700

Reflections on OpenAI

calv.info 4,000 words

Rated 2025-07-15T20:03:17-0700

no days off

A celebration of consistency, discipline, and the pursuit of movement #Running

no days off 1,000 words

Rated 2025-07-14T08:04:27-0700

Inside SON: Schmidt’s Original Dynamo Hubs from Germany

Josh Meissner recently rode down to visit the engineers at Schmidt Maschinenbau in Tübingen, Germany, who created the legendary SON dynamo hub... #Travel

2022-11-15T04:22:05-0800 BIKEPACKING.com Josh Meissner 3,000 words

Rated 2025-07-13T07:32:03-0700

Upgrading an M4 Pro Mac mini's storage for half the price | Jeff Geerling

jeffgeerling.com 1,000 words

Rated 2025-07-12T08:03:19-0700

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.

2025-07-10T05:00:00-0700 metr.org METR 2,000 words

Rated 2025-07-11T21:30:43-0700

DCHP-3

dchp.arts.ubc.ca

Rated 2025-07-09T23:02:04-0700

‘Dilbert’ cartoon creator once questioned the number of Jews killed in the Holocaust

Dilbert cartoon creator Scott Adams once questioned the number of Jews killed in the Holocaust in a now-deleted blog post.

2023-03-03T13:20:22-0800 The Forward 1,000 words

Rated 2025-07-08T18:45:53-0700

Adding a feature because ChatGPT incorrectly thinks it exists

holovaty.com

Rated 2025-07-07T14:34:47-0700

College English majors can't read

They have one job and they can't do it

2025-05-20T06:15:40-0700 Kitten 3,000 words

Rated 2025-07-04T16:03:18-0700

Your Review: School

Finalist #2 in the Review Contest

2025-07-04T06:01:37-0700 astralcodexten.com Astral Codex Ten 8,000 words

Rated 2025-07-04T15:49:39-0700

hydrogen jukeboxes: on the crammed poetics of "creative writing" LLMs

hydrogen jukeboxes: on the crammed poetics of “creative writing” LLMsThis is a follow-up to my earlier brief rant about the new, unreleased OpenAI model that’s supposed “good at creative writing.” It...

2025-03-14T17:18:08-0700 nostalgebraist.tumblr.com nostalgebraist 200 words

Rated 2025-07-03T20:58:47-0700

Tools: Code Is All You Need

The solution to agentic flows was code all along.

2025-07-03T00:00:00-0700 Armin Ronacher 2,000 words

Rated 2025-07-03T16:56:26-0700

COROS Confirms Substantial Watch Security Vulnerablity: Says Fixes Are Coming

A German IT security firm has published a list of 8 different security bugs found in all COROS watches that give essentially full access to not only the user's watch, but also their COROS account. This includes everything from

2025-06-30T03:20:40-0700 DC Rainmaker 5,000 words

Rated 2025-07-03T13:40:27-0700

Cloudflare Introduces Blocking of A.I. Scrapers By Default

The New York Times

Rated 2025-07-02T07:22:17-0700

Toxic US Landfills: Overheating Trash Sites Pose Health Risks

archive.is

Rated 2025-07-01T20:56:50-0700

The cheapest cars aren't cheap anymore

media.hubspot.com 1,000 words

Rated 2025-06-30T07:55:51-0700

Your Review: Alpha School

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2025-06-27T04:49:52-0700 astralcodexten.com Scott Alexander 60,000 words

Rated 2025-06-29T20:55:47-0700

Defense Department will stop providing crucial satellite weather data

text.npr.org 2,000 words

Rated 2025-06-29T20:19:29-0700

Sudden loss of key US satellite data could send hurricane forecasting back ‘decades’

Scientists left scrambling amid hurricane season after irreplaceable program is slotted to be shuttered

2025-06-28T07:27:10-0700 The Guardian Eric Holthaus 2,000 words

Rated 2025-06-29T20:00:33-0700

Woman in custody after car hits bicyclist on closed OpenStreetsPGH course in North Point Breeze

Police took a woman into custody after witnesses said a car drove through a barricade and onto streets that had been closed for OpenStreetsPGH, striking at least one person on a bicycle.

2025-06-29T05:51:30-0700 WESA Rachel McDevitt, Julia Maruca 1,000 words

Rated 2025-06-29T16:13:35-0700

The Claude Bliss Attractor

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2025-06-12T18:33:35-0700 astralcodexten.com Scott Alexander 25,000 words

Rated 2025-06-29T07:18:53-0700

The effect of noise on sleep

Using Apple Watch

Empirical Health 500 words

Rated 2025-06-27T07:24:30-0700

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

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

Guess I’m A Rationalist Now

A week ago I attended LessOnline, a rationalist blogging conference featuring many people I've known for years---Scott Alexander, Eliezer Yudkowsky, Zvi Mowshowitz, Sarah Constantin, Carl Feynman---as well as people I've known only online and was delighted to meet in person, like Joe Carlsmith and Jacob Falkovich and Daniel Reeves. The conference was at Lighthaven, a…

2025-06-09T18:02:03-0700 Shtetl-Optimized 10,000 words

Rated 2025-06-20T07:12:21-0700

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

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

Opinion | The Problem With Everything-Bagel Liberalism

The New York Times

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

Call it Blue Tape

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

2025-03-30T15:16:23-0700 Maximum New York Daniel Golliher 2,000 words

Rated 2025-06-16T19:26:03-0700

Air-dried vs. Kiln-dried Wood

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

2025-06-08T03:00:53-0700 The American Peasant Christopher Schwarz, Kara Gebhart Uhl ($) 6,000 words

Rated 2025-06-12T07:47:50-0700