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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

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

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

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

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

Two Americas, one bank branch, and $50,000 cash

Ever wondered what happens if you try to take $50,000 in cash out of a bank? Answer: a year of investigative journalism.

2025-03-05T09:36:15-0800 Bits about Money Patrick McKenzie (patio11) 7,000 words

Rated 2025-03-07T19:58:18-0800

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,

2025-03-07T07:04:23-0800 Tech Startups | Tech Companies | Startups News Nickie Louise 1,000 words

Rated 2025-03-07T18:41:23-0800

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

The Man Who Spent Forty-two Years at the Beverly Hills Hotel Pool

From 1993: Nearly every day for decades, Irving V. Link tanned by the luxury pool, Adam Gopnik writes. Then his idyllic life style came under threat from the hotel’s owner, the Sultan of Brunei.

1993-02-14T16:00:00-0800 The New Yorker Adam Gopnik 8,000 words

Rated 2025-03-06T07:09:58-0800

The Return of Digg, a Star of Web 2.0

The New York Times

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

How I'm thinking about AI (LLMs)

island94.org 2,000 words

Rated 2025-03-04T13:09:40-0800

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

The world's most unhinged video wall (made out of Chromebooks)

Web developer and cybersecurity researcher

varun.ch 3,000 words

Rated 2025-03-02T06:41:12-0800

The secret to perfectly calculate Rails database connection pool size

island94.org 1,000 words

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

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

I Went To SQL Injection Court — Quarrelsome

sockpuppet.org Quarrelsome 3,000 words

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

Texas’s Barbecue Schism

The New Yorker

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

Notes from Carrierwave to Active Storage

island94.org 1,000 words

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

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

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

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

Democrats Control U! (and the weather)

Before you kill yourself, consider reading this fun and informative snippet from America's finest unknown work of nonfiction.

2024-10-09T17:19:58-0700 Dumpster Fires Barret Baumgart 9,000 words

Rated 2025-02-20T15:30:39-0800

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

Moving on from 18F.

I had a wonderful job, until I didn’t. This is about what happened—and what is happening.

ethanmarcotte.com 2,000 words

Rated 2025-02-18T14:37:50-0800

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

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

My Time at MIT

Twenty years ago, in 2004-2005, I spent a year at MIT’s Computer Science department as a postdoc working with Professor Nancy Lynch. It was ...

2025-02-16T19:47:00-0800 Blogger Murat 2,000 words

Rated 2025-02-17T07:46:08-0800

Mike White’s Mischievous Vision for “The White Lotus”

Behind the scenes before the Season 3 première with the creator of the HBO series, streaming on Max, who has filmed with casts in Hawaii, Italy, and, most recently, Thailand. Kelefa Sanneh reports. #Profile

2025-02-10T03:00:00-0800 The New Yorker Kelefa Sanneh 6,000 words

Rated 2025-02-16T20:56:55-0800

calculator-app

calculator-app - Chad Nauseam Home

Chad Nauseam Home 2,000 words

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

My Life in Weeks by Gina Trapani

weeks.ginatrapani.org 1,000 words

Rated 2025-02-15T15:43:58-0800

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Anthropic Economic Index

Announcement of the new Anthropic Economic Index and description of the new data on AI use in occupations

anthropic.com 2,000 words

Rated 2025-02-10T12:59:35-0800

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

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

Against Kathleen Stock On Neil Gaiman

Anti-kink feminism is surprisingly blase about rape

2025-02-07T08:01:56-0800 Thing of Things Ozy Brennan ($) 1,000 words

Rated 2025-02-07T20:30:20-0800

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

From Cold DM to Owning a Soccer Club

zachholman.com

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

My stupid noise journey

A tale of bad choices

2023-06-26T17:00:00-0700 DYNOMIGHT dynomight 2,000 words

Rated 2025-02-06T15:49:53-0800

Car trouble

And how not to fix it

2025-02-06T09:02:19-0800 Dynomight Internet Newsletter dynomight 2,000 words

Rated 2025-02-06T15:45:42-0800

minimum effective dose

I am still recovering from my failed root canal (and still have one visit to complete the procedure), so I have been hesitant in taking up my regular exercise again because I don't want to distract my immune system from my tooth's healing. So when I went to the gym today for the first time...

2025-02-01T03:50:23-0800 Winnie Lim 1,000 words

Rated 2025-02-05T23:19:29-0800

n0rdy - What Okta Bcrypt incident can teach us about designing better APIs

n0rdy personal blog 3,000 words

Rated 2025-02-05T13:57:15-0800

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