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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

Opinion | Have Christians Finally Had It With Trump?

The irreconcilable difference between Trumpian politics and Christianity. #Christianity #Donald Trump #Poverty #US Politics

2025-07-11T02:01:26-0700 The New York Times Esau McCaulley ($) 2,000 words

Rated 2025-07-11T16:29:49-0700

You should repaste your MacBook (but don't)

My favorite memory of my M1 Pro MacBook Pro was the whole sensation of “holy crap, you never hear the fans in this thing”, which was very novel in 2021. Four years later, this MacBook Pro is still a delight. It’s the longest I’ve ever owned a laptop, and while I’d love to pick up the new M4 goodness, this dang thing still seems to just shrug at basically anything I throw at it. Video editing, code compiling, CAD models, the works. (My desire to update is helped though by the fact I got the...

2025-07-10T15:06:19-0700 christianselig.com Christian Selig 1,000 words

Rated 2025-07-11T14:57:27-0700

Home | Substack

I think we may have hit Scott Alexander's <1% scenario.

substack.com Substack 1,000 words

Rated 2025-07-10T21:57:59-0700

The ChompSaw: A Benchtop Power Tool That's Safe for Kids to Use

Of all freestanding power tools, perhaps the jigsaw or scrollsaw would be the most fun for kids to use, as they allow freeform cuts. They're also pretty darn dangerous, with the jigsaw being powerful enough to remove fingers. A much safer way to introduce kids to power tools is this

Core77 1,000 words

Rated 2025-07-10T21:44:39-0700

DCHP-3

dchp.arts.ubc.ca

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

Steve Blank Blind to Disruption – The CEOs Who Missed the Future

How did you go bankrupt?" Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.” Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises Every disruptive technology since the fire and the wheel have forced leaders to adapt or die. This post tells the story of what happened when 4,000 companies faced a disruptive technology and why only one survived. In the early 20th…

2025-07-08T06:00:00-0700 Steve Blank 3,000 words

Rated 2025-07-08T19:33:14-0700

‘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

The hardest part about fundraising for GiveWell

Using a metaphor about shopping for a dinner party, Philanthropy Advisor Maggie Lloydhauser explains how fundraising for GiveWell is different from fundraising for most other nonprofits.

2024-06-10T09:36:19-0700 The GiveWell Blog Maggie Lloydhauser 2,000 words

Rated 2025-07-04T15:52:10-0700

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

I built something that changed my friend group's social fabric

This is a story that started back in 2022, but I think its a perfect time to reflect on the impact that it has had on my friend group still to this day. A year or so before COVID, our friend group dispersed across the world - I moved to Vancouver, one friend moved to the UK and another one moved to the United States. The rest of them still lived in Melbourne. Once COVID hit, like many others, we looked to find a way to keep in contact and still hang out. We have always been a big gaming group

2025-06-27T22:16:52-0700 Dan Petrolito 1,000 words

Rated 2025-07-01T19:07:27-0700

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

I Love(d) L.A.

"I'd be safe and warm if I was in L.A.," The Mamas and the Papas sang 60 years ago. "California... #Homelessness #Los Angeles

2025-06-09T11:14:00-0700 PJ Media Stephen Green 1,000 words

Rated 2025-06-27T22:43:28-0700

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

What Problems to Solve - By Richard Feynman

genius.cat-v.org 1,000 words

Rated 2025-06-25T20:18:02-0700

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

Honda Conducts Successful Launch and Landing Test of Experimental Reusable Rocket | Honda Global Corporate Website

Honda Global | Honda R26 D Co., Ltd., a research and development subsidiary of Honda Motor Co., Ltd., today conducted a launch and landing test of an experimental reusable rocket*1 (6.3 m in length, 85 cm in diameter, 900 kg dry weight2f 1,312 kg wet weight) developed independently by Honda. The test was completed successfully, the first time Honda landed a rocket after reaching an altitude of nearly 300 meters.

2025-06-17T03:30:00-0700 Honda Motor Co.,Ltd. 1,000 words

Rated 2025-06-18T07:31:03-0700

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

The unions are (finally) coming for big tech

After decades of taking a back seat, the rise of AI, layoffs, and industry-wide burnout has led to a call for more prominent tech unions.

2025-06-05T02:16:39-0700 LeadDev Kelli Korducki 1,000 words

Rated 2025-06-15T18:36:07-0700

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

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

2025-06-07T04:55:12-0700 My Blameless Life Kris St.Gabriel 3,000 words

Rated 2025-06-10T20:57:05-0700

Opinion | The Problems Democrats Don’t Like to See

The Democratic future isn’t going to look like the Democratic past. #Books #California #Chicago #Housing #Real Estate #Texas #US Politics

2025-06-08T03:00:12-0700 The New York Times Ezra Klein ($) 3,000 words

Rated 2025-06-10T20:18:44-0700

The Men Who Fix Manhattan's Symbolic Shabbat Boundaries

Every Thursday and Friday morning, Rabbi Moshe Tauber leaves his home in Rockland County, New York, at about 3:30 a.m. He arrives in Manhattan an hour later... #Border #Law #Religion

2017-10-16T15:07:00-0700 Atlas Obscura Michael Inscoe 2,000 words

Rated 2025-06-08T19:55:13-0700

Oprah Shamed James Frey. He’s Back Anyway.

Twenty years after “A Million Little Pieces” became a national scandal, James Frey is ready for a new audience. #Books #Writer

2025-06-08T02:01:53-0700 The New York Times Sam Dolnick ($) 3,000 words

Rated 2025-06-08T14:32:07-0700

I Read All Of Cloudflare's Claude-Generated Commits

Max Mitchell's personal portfolio website showcasing his photography, YouTube videos, coding projects, and work history.

2020-05-20T00:00:00-0700 Max Mitchell 1,000 words

Rated 2025-06-07T14:44:36-0700

~fpereiro

federicopereiro.com 1,000 words

Rated 2025-06-06T06:25:02-0700

Claude’s System Prompt Changes Reveal Anthropic’s Priorities

Reviewing the few changes in the Claude 4.0 system prompts, we get a sense for how system prompts program chatbot applications.

2025-06-03T13:04:00-0700 Drew Breunig 1,000 words

Rated 2025-06-04T20:28:54-0700

Direct File on GitHub

Personal blog of Chris Given, government technologist. These words are always written by a human; I have no one to blame but myself.

chrisgiven.com 500 words

Rated 2025-06-04T16:51:18-0700

Problems in Precious Plastic

News update: Precious Plastic is in problems. You can decide the future of the project. Die or grow

preciousplastic.com 2,000 words

Rated 2025-06-04T07:05:53-0700

No One Knows How to Deal With 'Student-on-Student' AI CSAM

A new report from Stanford finds that schools, parents, police, and our legal system are not prepared to deal with the growing problem of minors using AI to generate CSAM of other minors.

2025-05-29T06:00:06-0700 404 Media Emanuel Maiberg 1,000 words

Rated 2025-06-02T18:52:38-0700

My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts

My smartest friends have bananas arguments about LLM coding.

Fly 3,000 words

Rated 2025-06-02T16:13:47-0700

Opinion | Christo Grozev Is the Man Putin Couldn’t Kill

Putin had Christo Grozev in his sights. Grozev was way ahead of him. #Assassination #Austria #Crime #New York City #Plane Crash

2025-06-02T02:01:30-0700 The New York Times M. Gessen ($) 6,000 words

Rated 2025-06-02T16:02:01-0700