Articles by surprisetalk
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Heritability of human life span is ~50% when heritability is redefined (dynomight.net)

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Why Not Objective-C (inessential.com)

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Effects of Algorithmic Flagging on Fairness: Evidence from Wikipedia (mako.cc)

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Harnessing Bio-Intelligence to Build Living Machines with Nervous Systems [video] (youtube.com)

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What could Functional Architecture mean? [video] (youtube.com)

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The Internet Is a UGC Reaction Video Now (joanwestenberg.com)

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The Less-Visible Cost of Being Transgender (akpain.net)

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The Age of the Amplifier (construction-physics.com)

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The Elusive Cost Savings of the Prefabricated Home (construction-physics.com)

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Is the Future "AWS for Everything"? (construction-physics.com)

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Trends in US Construction Productivity (construction-physics.com)

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Learning Software Architecture (matklad.github.io)

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Foucault's Order of Things Explained with Trading Cards [video] (youtube.com)

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590k buyers paid $59M for Trump's gold phone, but not one has shipped (yahoo.com)

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Technologies vs. Commodities (construction-physics.com)

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The Surprisingly Long Life of the Vacuum Tube (construction-physics.com)

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How Accurate Are Learning Curves? (construction-physics.com)

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Exploring 8 Shaft Weaving (algorithmicpattern.org)

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The Biochemical Beauty of Retatrutide: How GLP-1s Work (acesounderglass.com)

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Can we get an AI to write better? (strangeloopcanon.com)

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Jobs Are Good (collisteru.substack.com)

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Abstract Machines for Logic Programs (chrisistyping.bearblog.dev)

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Artemis II Photo Timeline (artemistimeline.com)

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I listened to the 1001 (?) albums I should listen to before I die (jameswpm.github.io)

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Words Fail (2020) (carcinisation.com)

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Holding Community Space (supernuclear.substack.com)

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The Boring Part of Bell Labs (2025) (acesounderglass.com)

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The human cost of unsafe abortions (ourworldindata.org)

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Poland is now among the 20 largest economies (apnews.com)

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Papers That Inspire Wonder (nicholasdecker.substack.com)

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PostgreSQL's Aggregate Filter Will Spoil You (stokerpostgresql.blogspot.com)

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The future of work is world models (strangeloopcanon.com)

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Steering Zig Fmt (matklad.github.io)

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The slop cannons in your engineering org (handyai.substack.com)

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Use the Hyper Key (brianlovin.com)

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Do Developing Countries Still Need to Industrialize? (nicholasdecker.substack.com)

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Favorite Chinalt (2020) (omnifoo.info)

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I take antidepressants. You're welcome (acesounderglass.com)

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Xbox and N64 Zelda Ocarina of Time Online Co-Op (Real Hardware) [video] (youtube.com)

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The Second Wave of the API-First Economy (brandur.org)

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The Self-Cancelling Subscription (predr.ag)

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The river otter's remarkable comeback (rewildingmag.com)

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The Buses Should Be Free (nicholasdecker.substack.com)

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Child marriages plunged when girls stayed in school in Nigeria (nature.com)

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A Snapshot of the Performance of WASM Back Ends for Managed Languages [video] (youtube.com)

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The Hardest Part of a Raytracer Is Fitting It in Your Head (scottlawsonbc.com)

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Grok Imagine Quality Mode API (x.ai)

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Connectors Now on Grok Web (x.ai)

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New Compute Partnership with Anthropic (x.ai)

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A Eulogy for Nolan Ryan Williams, M.D (thefrontierpsychiatrists.substack.com)

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A Fast Immutable Map in Go (lemire.me)

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The future of work is playing a videogame (strangeloopcanon.com)

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We see something that works, and then we understand it (lemire.me)

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Corn Holes (slimemoldtimemold.com)

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AlphaFold database hits 'next level': the AI system now includes protein pairing (nature.com)

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The beauty of postmodern classical music (itsiweinstock.substack.com)

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Other People's Music (pgadey.ca)

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Random tie knots (2014) (tieknots.how)

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As Slow as Possible (pippinbarr.com)

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Katalog (katalog-barbaraiweins.com)

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Australia will run an overt command economy by 2040 (caseyhandmer.wordpress.com)

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Moon (ciechanow.ski)

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List of Largest Cities (wikipedia.org)

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The physics slop that YouTube wants me to make [video] (youtube.com)

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Does threatening an AI agent's existence make it a better gambler? (handyai.substack.com)

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XOXO Festival Archive (xoxofest.com)

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Potoooooooo (wikipedia.org)

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Trump orders more access to psychedelics like LSD, psilocybin and ibogaine (washingtonpost.com)

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Tell HN: Happy Bicycle Day

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Bicycle Day (Psychedelic Holiday) (wikipedia.org)

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Battery costs declined 99% in 3 decades, making electric transport a reality (ourworldindata.org)

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To ace exams, get better at the easy questions (2022) (predr.ag)

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Loving the Community Center (pgadey.ca)

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Through the Blind Hole (2022) (apocalypse-confidential.com)

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Open Funk Re:Mix: The Open-Source Blender Big Brands Don't Want [video] (youtube.com)

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How Culture Is Made (metalabel.com)

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Hong Kong Disneyland Speedrun Guide (geohot.github.io)

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Consider sending a list of everything you did to your coworkers everyday (aelerinya.substack.com)

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Scientists Develop "Molecular Scissors" Alternative to Cas9 (humanprogress.org)

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Rejoice: A concatenative multiset language built on Fractran-like primitives (xxiivv.com)

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How should you change your life if we are being watched by alien drone probes? (marginalrevolution.com)

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White House Works to Give US Agencies Anthropic Mythos AI (bloomberg.com)

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Love Affairs and Differential Equations (1988) [pdf] (stanford.edu)

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Graupel (wikipedia.org)

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Wordle as a Two-Player Game (emi-h.com)

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3D-Printing a Trombone (unnamed.website)

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Let's Take Esoteric Programming Languages Seriously [video] (youtube.com)

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The Quest for Oral GLP-1s (asimov.press)

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Saving Us from Ourselves? (leancrew.com)

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Epicycles All the Way Down (2025) (strangeloopcanon.com)

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Synchronous Programming for Kids: A Manifesto [video] (youtube.com)

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The Unix executable as a Smalltalk method (2025) [video] (youtube.com)

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Use Humor (reinvent.science)

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Cuttle (2005) (pagat.com)

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The Most Dangerous Intersection in Massachusetts [video] (youtube.com)

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Knitout and Kniterate 3 (agnescameron.info)

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AI cybersecurity is not proof of work (antirez.com)

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Accelerating the cyber defense ecosystem that protects us all (openai.com)

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Borrow a Drill, Save the World (shareable.net)