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GLP-1 Second-Order Effects

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Passive investing and Big Tech: an ill-fated match (risk.net)

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From Energy Use to Air Quality, the Many Ways Data Centers Affect US Communities (wri.org)

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How Standards Proliferate (xkcd.com)

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Charts of the Week: Open Weight Models Are (Very) Close (a16z.news)

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The Prisoner's Dilemma of Super Bowl Ad Economics (philippdubach.com)

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Hierarchies of Storage from Electrons to Bits (syncretica.substack.com)

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Jack Altman's 5 Lessons on Finding Product-Market Fit [video] (youtube.com)

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A Primer on Factory Economics for Startups (a16z.news)

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The Impossible Backhand (philippdubach.com)

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Dwarkesh Patel's 2026 Podcast with Dario Amodei (thezvi.substack.com)

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Which AI coding tools are you using? (Monthly Agentic Coding Index Survey) (actiindex.org)

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Tinder Hasn't Worked, So I'm Putting Myself on Zillow (mcsweeneys.net)

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Why Managers Sabotage Top Talent: Harvard Study on Incentive Design and Status (philippdubach.com)

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February 2026 Software Sell-Off: The SaaSpocalypse Is a Pricing Error (philippdubach.com)

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Fed on Reams of Cell Data, AI Maps New Neighborhoods in the Brain (quantamagazine.org)

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Substack CEO Chris Best: 'You can't define success as 'no one is ever mad at us' (speedrun.substack.com)

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Show HN: I built a Chrome extension for instant back-of-envelope DCF models (chromewebstore.google.com)

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Claude Opus 4.6 Escalates Things Quickly (thezvi.substack.com)

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Drupal's AI Roadmap for 2026 (dri.es)

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Don't Go Monolithic; the Enterprise Agent Stack Is Stratifying (philippdubach.com)

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The Case for Scaling Venture (a16z.news)

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Notes to myself: 65 principles distilled from 10k posts (seths.blog)

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State of Mobile 2026: Apps Beat Games for First Time (philippdubach.com)

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Of course they're putting ads in AI (a16z.news)

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Ask HN: My 2nd ever Quant Finance and ML Newsletter. Help me improve (philippdubach.com)

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Agentic Vision in Gemini 3 Flash (blog.google)

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PaperBanana: Automating Academic Illustration for AI Scientists (huggingface.co)

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Death of Software. Nah (a16z.news)

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Here we go Claude Opus 4.6 with 1M token context window and 128K output (twitter.com/philippdubach)

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Show HN: CloudCounter – Serverless GoatCounter on Cloudflare Pages and D1 (github.com/philippdubach)

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Who's in Charge? Disempowerment Patterns in Real-World LLM Usage (arxiv.org)

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What makes an engineer when everyone can vibe code (twitter.com/rohit4verse)

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Against All Odds: The Mathematics of 'Provably Fair' Casino Games (philippdubach.com)

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Self-Improving AI Skills (dri.es)

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Is Particle Physics Dead, Dying, or Just Hard? (quantamagazine.org)

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AI creates asymmetric pressure on Open Source (dri.es)

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In Defence of Bad Weather (thinkingrock.substack.com)

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Britain's Strategic Limbo (philippdubach.com)

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Online Gambling Paradox: Cryptographic Verification and Behavioral Harm (ssrn.com)

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Help us benchmark Agentic AI adoption patterns (Last day for Jan survey) (actiindex.org)

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Technology in 1776 (a16z.news)

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LLM Ad Blockers are coming (idiallo.com)

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Hidden Preference to Auto-Resize Columns in the Finder on macOS (realmacsoftware.com)

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Claude's Constitutional Structure (thezvi.substack.com)

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Claude skill that researches any topic across Reddit and X from the last 30 days (github.com/mvanhorn)

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Securely run operating systems on your Mac (getutm.app)

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Survey: Building a "TIOBE Index" for AI Coding Agents (160 more answers needed) (agentic-coding-survey.pages.dev)

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Proving You Know a Product (johndcook.com)

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Show HN: RSS Swipr - Find Blogs Like You Find Your Dates (philippdubach.com)

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Most enterprise AI strategy is backwards (philippdubach.com)

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How to Meditate (Without an Om in Sight) (wired.com)

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TJ Maxx Could Be a Dependable AI Bubble Hedge (finimize.substack.com)

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Negotiating Relationships with ChatGPT (arxiv.org)

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Why Submit to AI in Production: Speaking as a Tool for Better Work (r-bloggers.com)

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Ozempic Is Reshaping the Fast Food Industry (philippdubach.com)

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Ask HN: Are you “addicted” to coding with AI?

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You Only Have 47 Seconds (thinkingrock.substack.com)

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Gary Marcus on the Problems Facing AI and LLM Scaling [video] (youtube.com)

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The Copyrightability of Fonts Revisited (matthewbutterick.com)

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If you want to understand any society, look at what it creates (philippdubach.com)

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Morally judging famous and semi-famous people (marginalrevolution.com)

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Prediction Markets and Lotteries (qoppac.blogspot.com)

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A good first word for Wordle (explainextended.com)

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Package Manager Glossary (nesbitt.io)

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Generating Distinct AI Voice Performances by Prompt Engineering GPT-4o (minimaxir.com)

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Endless AI-Generated Wikipedia (endlesswiki.com)

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Nobody knows how large software products work (seangoedecke.com)

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Looking Back at the Best Inventions of 2001 (shkspr.mobi)

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How the AI Bubble Bursts in 2026 (wheresyoured.at)

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RSS Tinder (philippdubach.com)

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Predicting Best Picture at the 2026 Academy Awards (r-bloggers.com)

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Why to Start a Startup in a Bad Economy? (paulgraham.com)

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A retail dark pattern worked on me (rubenerd.com)

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Alarm is sacred, must not fail, but iOS 26 is wicked (exotext.com)

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You have three minutes to escape the perpetual underclass (geohot.github.io)

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Adaptive Privacy Budgeting (arxiv.org)

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Do You Trust Me? Cognitive-Affective Signatures of Trustworthiness in LLMs (arxiv.org)

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Too Helpful to Be Safe: User-Mediated Attacks on Planning and Web-Use Agents (arxiv.org)

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Finding Prime Clusters (johndcook.com)

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Don't Lie (philippdubach.com)

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Childhood Neighbors Influence Occupation Choice [pdf] (queensu.ca)

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How to Debug Your Life (joanwestenberg.com)

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Avoiding the Resource Trap in Post-Maduro Venezuela (econlib.org)

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Lockfile Format Design and Tradeoffs (nesbitt.io)

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How to write your own website (maurycyz.com)

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Why is flu so bad this year? (nature.com)

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The Discourse Is a Distributed Denial-of-Service Attack (joanwestenberg.com)

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Worse Than the Dot Com Bubble (wheresyoured.at)

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Nuclear Weapons Are Now ESG Compliant (slashdot.org)

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String Theory Can Now Describe a Universe That Has Dark Energy (quantamagazine.org)

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Execution Eats Strategy for Breakfast (philippdubach.com)

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How much TV is too much TV? (ft.com)

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There's no single best way to store information (quantamagazine.org)

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Does AI mean the demand on labor goes up? (philippdubach.com)

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Why moderate voters choose extreme candidates (oup.com)

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AI tools expand scientists' impact but contract science's focus (nature.com)

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How Does the Hive Mind Work in "Pluribus"? (wired.com)

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I'm Being Prosecuted for the Opposite of Insider Trading (wsj.com)

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Italy investigates Activision Blizzard for pushing in-game purchases (techcrunch.com)