Articles by bko
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Buses should not be "free" (mleverything.substack.com)

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The AI Mexican Standoff (mleverything.substack.com)

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Palantir CEO Alex Karp bought a $120M 3,700-acre monastery (disclose.tv)

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My GPT-5.2 Review: Impressive, but Too Slow (shumer.dev)

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SpaceX in Talks for Share Sale That Would Boost Valuation to $800B (wsj.com)

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[flagged] Norway's Wealth Tax Unchains a Capital Exodus (citizenx.com)

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Gifted children are special needs children (mleverything.substack.com)

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Why a reachable chess position can have at most 218 playable moves (lichess.org)

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H-1B, medical residencies and artificial scarcity (mleverything.substack.com)

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Woodcoin: The First Physical Crypto Currency (woodcoincrypto.com)

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Programmable Web Apps (mleverything.substack.com)

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New app lets people buy tickets for strangers wedding (perthnow.com.au)

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Google spends more on capital like datacentres than the entire UK defense budget (twitter.com/robertwiblin)

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Warp 2.0: The Agentic Development Environment [video] (youtube.com)

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Who are these new AI tech founders anyway? (mleverything.substack.com)

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England now has a blasphemy law (spectator.co.uk)

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A conversation with Jonny Ive [video] (youtube.com)

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Antarctica gains ice for first time in decades, reversing trend of mass loss (climatedepot.com)

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U.S. Economy Contracts at 0.3% Rate in First Quarter (wsj.com)

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O3 beats a master-level GeoGuessr player, even with fake EXIF data (sampatt.com)

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News Is Blocked on Meta's Feeds in Canada. Here's What Fills the Void (nytimes.com)

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Profile of Paragon's Co-Founder and Managing Partner Matt Huang (joincolossus.com)

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Clojure: Realtime collaborative web apps without ClojureScript (andersmurphy.com)

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Don't try to take care of the world (mleverything.substack.com)

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What Happened to Food Delivery? (mleverything.substack.com)

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What Happened to James Damore, author of the ‘misogynist’ Google memo? (thefp.com)

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A modest proposal for destigmatizing America's favorite bad decisions (mleverything.substack.com)

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In Defense of Gemini (strangeloopcanon.com)

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Do we have to optimize everything? (mleverything.substack.com)

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Gmail UX Is a Mess (mleverything.substack.com)

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The Unicorns Are Zombies (bloomberg.com)

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Tech journalists that hate tech (mleverything.substack.com)

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Ask HN: Have you seen an impact of AI on speeding up development of products?

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Mark Andreessen on H1B debate and other topics (mleverything.substack.com)

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Congestion Pricing Results Are Mixed but Some Commutes Improve (nytimes.com)

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So Long, Net Neutrality, and Good Riddance (bloomberg.com)

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Marc Andreessen on Atlas Shrugged (marginalrevolution.com)

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Pfizer Stopped Us from Getting Ozempic Decades Ago (nytimes.com)

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Unidentified Drones Light Up New Jersey's Skies, Baffling Residents (nytimes.com)

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Hawke – the first AI street hawker (edwardbenson.com)

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Anatomy of a Fact Check (mleverything.substack.com)

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'Do not pet': Why are robot dogs patrolling Mar-A-Lago? (bbc.com)

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Elon Musk's XAI in Talks to Raise Funding Valuing It at $40B (wsj.com)

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Goldfish Crackers Temporarily Changes Its Name to Chilean Sea Bass (allrecipes.com)

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In Defense of Legacy Admissions (mleverything.substack.com)

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Acceptance of crime is a policy choice (part 2) (mleverything.substack.com)

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A tax on unrealized capital gains makes no sense (mleverything.substack.com)

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NYC's rules one year later: Higher prices for travelers, no housing impact (airbnb.com)

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Why Don't We Have Flying Cars? (marginalrevolution.com)

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Eleven Minute AI Film (twitter.com/javilopen)

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Acceptance of crime is a policy choice (mleverything.substack.com)

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US federal tax receipts have been remarkably consistent (mleverything.substack.com)

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Thoughts on Joe Rogan's Interview with Peter Thiel (mleverything.substack.com)

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What if explanatory and response vars are sorted independently before regression (stats.stackexchange.com)

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[flagged] Sam Altman on opeanai non disparagement exit clause (x.com)

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Using Sora (fxguide.com)

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Recording of Pikesville HS principal was not authentic, contained AI content (wbaltv.com)

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Don't play status games: why you shouldn't apply to Y Combinator (mleverything.substack.com)

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Connecticut Kia Boyz [video] (youtube.com)

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How Much Would You Pay to Make Sure You Never Sawed Off a Finger? (nytimes.com)

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What do AI doomers want? (mleverything.substack.com)

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Why is no one talking about the danger of sentient text-to-image models? (mleverything.substack.com)

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Journalism as Activism (mleverything.substack.com)

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Ask HN: How has Reddit changed since the removal of APIs and 3rd party apps?

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What do we know about non profit boards? (marginalrevolution.com)

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New Zealand family goes to Walmart for the first time [video] (youtube.com)

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The case against effective altruism (mleverything.substack.com)

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GPT is pretty good at explaining memes (mleverything.substack.com)

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On a Lack of Ambition or "Why We Don't Try to Do Nice Things" (heirtothethought.substack.com)

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Confronting GPTs Against Chess Engines to Estimate Elo and Legal Move Abilities (mathieuacher.com)

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Michael Lewis, FTX and Effective Altruism as a MacGuffin (mleverything.substack.com)

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Out of 271 Thiel Fellows, 8 (3%) are billionaires and 30 started bn$ companies (twitter.com/nexuist)

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Show HN: A CLI tool to have LLMs edit and add code to an existing code base (github.com/breeko)

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Paul Graham on Conversations with Tyler (mleverything.substack.com)

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Neil deGrasse Tyson is a terrible spokesperson for scientists (mleverything.substack.com)

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We should just let GPT write Black Mirror from now on (mleverything.substack.com)

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Richard Dawkins on God, vaccines and his poetic spirit (unherd.com)

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The one-person behind Antarctica's longest-running newspaper, Antarctic Sun (esquire.com)

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AI Doomerism as a Secular Religion (mleverything.substack.com)

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Uber Diversity Chief Suspended After Events on Race Spark Uproar (bloomberg.com)

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Thoughts on A.I. Dilemma: Language as the ultimate medium (mleverything.substack.com)

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Ask HN: What is the apocolyptic scenario for AI “breaking loose”?

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Thoughts on Lex Fridman's Interview with Sam Altman (mleverything.substack.com)

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What 4 sentences that I could send to Ancient Rome which could prevent collapse? (marginalrevolution.com)

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Tour of large American high school goes viral (twitter.com/barstoolindy)

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The term AI safety is overloaded (mleverything.substack.com)

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The case against effective altruism (mleverything.substack.com)

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Using ChatGPT to Explain Jokes (mleverything.substack.com)

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My huches about what GPT-4 will be capable of (twitter.com/paraschopra)

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What are upcycled strawberries anyway? (mleverything.substack.com)

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Potential Poker Cheating Scandal Following an All-Time Horrendous Call (thebiglead.com)

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An update on New Jersey's paper bag ban

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Cancelling student debt is essentially printing money

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Elon Musk, John Carmack and Gatekeeping Engineering