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VR Changes Things (spacedino.net)

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Molly guard in reverse (aresluna.org)

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What Owning a Gun in Japan Is Like [video] (youtube.com)

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Launch Now (allenpike.com)

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Creative Musing (mynamelowercase.com)

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Reverse Engineering Reality (floatingpragma.io)

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Teaching Children to Bicycle (entropicthoughts.com)

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Gravity Basins [video] (youtube.com)

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How Well Can You Remember Colors? (dialed.gg)

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1960: The Year of Africa (signoregalilei.com)

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Exploring 8 Shaft Weaving (slab.org)

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My favorite way to write code in 2026 (on becoming a TDD addict) (gomakethings.com)

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You Can Run a DNS Server (simonsafar.com)

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Overcoming the Friendship Recession (joeprevite.com)

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A Novelist's Guide to Poisoning, Pt. 1 (antipope.org)

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The 12" chef knife, a humble plea (kellykozakandjoshdonald.substack.com)

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How to defer US taxes (taylor.town)

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We monitor internal coding agents for misalignment (openai.com)

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Show HN: Dear Aliens (Writing Contest) (dearaliens.net)

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Consensus Board Game (matklad.github.io)

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A Journey Through Infertility (pudding.cool)

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Switch Your Phone to an MVNO (practicalbetterments.com)

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Twitter and the Spread of Academic Knowledge (2024) (newthingsunderthesun.com)

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Conway's Game of Life, in real life (lcamtuf.substack.com)

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Rep. Goldman Unveils File About Trump/Epstein Relationship [video] (youtube.com)

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Building Liberal Compute (simongrimm.substack.com)

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OpenAI Japan announces Japan Teen Safety Blueprint to put teen safety first (openai.com)

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Switch on "Tap to Click" (practicalbetterments.com)

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Boolean Types (2024) (xoria.org)

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Side-Effectful Expressions in C (2023) (xoria.org)

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LLMs Predict My Coffee (dynomight.net)

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TV's TV (1987) & TV Games Encyclopedia (1988) (gingerbeardman.com)

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Lent and Lisp (leancrew.com)

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Are GLP-1s the Cure for Drunken Rape Culture? (thefrontierpsychiatrists.substack.com)

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Speaking is quick, listening is slow (interconnected.org)

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Why Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, and Thyme? (signoregalilei.com)

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Prisim Optical Connectomics [video] (youtube.com)

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Invariance, Equivariance, and Factorization (dissonances.blog)

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I'll probably never use Windows (waspdev.com)

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Measuring progress toward AGI: A cognitive framework (blog.google)

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Equipping workers with insights about compensation (openai.com)

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The paddle wheel aircraft carriers of Lake Michigan (signoregalilei.com)

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How to Kill a Commune in 8 Easy Steps (supernuclear.substack.com)

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Review: Starship Troopers (1959) by Robert Heinlein (collisteru.substack.com)

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A Fuzzer for the Toy Optimizer (bernsteinbear.com)

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When the Robots Take Your Job (2024) (newthingsunderthesun.com)

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AI Minus Vagina (taylor.town)

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Ordered Dithering with Arbitrary or Irregular Colour Palettes (2023) (matejlou.blog)

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Worse than kids stomping that pig's bladder (2023) (taylor.town)

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Features of Fully-Fledged card systems (2017) (thewrongtools.wordpress.com)

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Stop Complying (gomakethings.com)

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Reasoning about performance (in the context of search) [video] (youtube.com)

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Changing Minds: How Academic Fields Shape Political Attitudes (ssrn.com)

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Methods in Languages for Systems Programming (2023) (xoria.org)

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Steinar H. Gunderson (sesse.net)

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It's Not About Modality, It's About Scale (brysonkjones.substack.com)

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Bodycount Impacts Relationships (graph dump) (aella.substack.com)

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The Pain and the Glory of Nonmonogamy (aella.substack.com)

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The Costs of Reliability (2019) (srconstantin.wordpress.com)

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Textile-Based Electrochemical Sensors (medhir.com)

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Show HN: Dear Aliens (dearaliens.net)

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Badreads (funnest.world)

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Three Modes of Cognition (kevinkelly.substack.com)

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A Zeckendorf Table (leancrew.com)

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Just Put It on a Map (progressandpoverty.substack.com)

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Adjustments to the China Storefront of the App Store on iOS and iPadOS (developer.apple.com)

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Optimize your boiler's tap water temperature (practicalbetterments.com)

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Moving to Sweden as an American (departure.blog)

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Engineering Liveness (venkateshrao.com)

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An Atlas of the Universe (2009) (atlasoftheuniverse.com)

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Adjustments to the China Storefront of the App Store on iOS and iPadOS (developer.apple.com)

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Anthropic invests $100M into the Claude Partner Network (anthropic.com)

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Zoloft, Revisited (thefrontierpsychiatrists.substack.com)

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Vertical Integrators (2024) (notboring.co)

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Place Capability Graphs [video] (youtube.com)

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Oh, Ambien (thefrontierpsychiatrists.substack.com)

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Firefly128/sparccord: Discord client for Solaris 7 SPARC (github.com/firefly128)

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OverTheWire: Wargames (overthewire.org)

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Teleprinter (zoeblade.com)

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Did Indigenous People Live in Harmony with the Land? (jenn.site)

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Bandit: A 32bit baremetal computer that runs Color Forth [video] (youtube.com)

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Jlevy/on-books: Readings and notes on the past, present, and future of books (github.com/jlevy)

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What Are the Deadliest Animals? (ourworldindata.org)

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Why Are Viral Capsids Icosahedral? (asimov.press)

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The modern formatting addiction in writing (dynomight.net)

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How much of HN is AI? (lcamtuf.substack.com)

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Pairing data with APIs to unlock customer value (openai.com)

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Designing AI agents to resist prompt injection (openai.com)

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Wayfair boosts catalog accuracy and support speed with OpenAI (openai.com)

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New Nature (venkateshrao.com)

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First-Class Types, Syntactically (2024) (xoria.org)

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The Tech Tree of Milk Is Insane [video] (youtube.com)

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The NIMBY Problem (worksinprogress.co)

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Meta's Race to Scale AI Chips for Billions: Four Chips in Two Years (meta.com)

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Go in 9×9 is Awesome (entropicthoughts.com)

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A Recursive Algorithm to Render Signed Distance Fields (pointersgonewild.com)

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Work hard vs. play hard (2024) (taylor.town)

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Improving instruction hierarchy in frontier LLMs (openai.com)

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The truth behind the 2026 J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference (lesswrong.com)

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Kniterate Notes (agnescameron.info)