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Activation Energy is a good model for a lot of things (homosabiens.substack.com)

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How fast is C++26's std:hive? (lemire.me)

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Seven books I keep close because I love them (plover.com)

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Printing Lists (matklad.github.io)

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The TEMU-Fication of Software, Digital Goods and Services (xn--gckvb8fzb.com)

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A digestion of the proof of Sendov's conjecture (terrytao.wordpress.com)

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The End of the Endangered Species Act? (maximum-progress.com)

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I Outsmarted Pro Car Thieves [video] (youtube.com)

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Video Editing with P5.js (davepagurek.com)

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My Rules for Using Spreadsheets (leancrew.com)

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Off-Grid Aesthetics (rightclicksave.com)

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The First Chatbot's Multiple Personalities (ieee.org)

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Everything Has Unintended Consequences (zacharykai.net)

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Let's Play "Htmx 4: the game" (sethmlarson.dev)

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Thoughts I had while reading your comment (dynomight.net)

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CallEDD: A website that calls California EDD Paid Family Leave for you (infinitedigits.co)

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All Grocery Stores in Canada (jacobfilipp.com)

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Pizza Box Project Stack (cblgh.org)

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DALT: Depreciation-Assisted Land Value Tax (progressandpoverty.substack.com)

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Dancing with friends and enemies: boids' swarm intelligence (wolfram.com)

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Hi, Jinks (gingerbeardman.com)

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I got through my inbox in only two months (ratfactor.com)

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Vladimir Arnold's Rainbow Is a Masterclass in Simplification [video] (youtube.com)

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Beltrunner: Game Design Postmortem (gingerbeardman.com)

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[flagged] Itadakimasu: A word you say to the food, not the cook (thetokyohermit.substack.com)

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Experience Matters: High-Skilled Immigration (ifp.org)

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Felix and I (jacobfilipp.com)

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Why can't Chinese AI companies raise more money? (the-substrate.net)

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Using AI to analyze life patterns (vkrakovna.wordpress.com)

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Flatworms, Ion Channels, and Burning Mouths (science.org)

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Protect Your Relays (iroh.computer)

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I'm leaving OpenAI to build Jurassic Park (taylor.town)

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Spec-Driven Skill Generation (gricha.dev)

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Improving Fable 5 Safeguards (anthropic.com)

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Zig's Io.Threaded Is Neat (matklad.github.io)

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USB-C is a complete mess [video] (youtube.com)

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The Entropy of a Markov Chain (chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com)

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I built a jellyfish laboratory in my backyard [video] (youtube.com)

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Blog Revival Project (manifund.substack.com)

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The inliner is yielding benefits for ZJIT (railsatscale.com)

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The Selfless Driving Car (angadh.com)

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Judge a Book by Its Cover (mediumrare.site)

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The Fish Who Could Not Imagine Air (novaspivack.com)

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Meta: 7k (lcamtuf.substack.com)

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Tino Cuellar Joins Anthropic as Chief Global Affairs Officer (anthropic.com)

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Perspec 1.0 (adriansieber.com)

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Building community out of strangers (2023) (tracydurnell.com)

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Preventing Misfolding by Preventing Folding (science.org)

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I used to add links by hand (brandur.org)

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Feige's Conjecture (arxiv.org)

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Memoirs of a Long-Time Luddite (angadh.com)

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Warfighting Ability (scottlocklin.wordpress.com)

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Being a Luddite Is Fun Again (404media.co)

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Protopia (kevinkelly.substack.com)

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How AI Can Make Design Work Appear Prematurely Resolved (commonedge.org)

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Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc (birchtree.me)

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Indirect Lessons from Human Alignment (dynomight.net)

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Rebuilding and analysing 4 years of Wordle stats from WhatsApp chat logs (omgmog.net)

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Please let me phone my podcasts app (interconnected.org)

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DIY Adjustable Projector Stand (arun.is)

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A quine in Piet – a GIF image that prints itself [video] (youtube.com)

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Chip motors' tiny electric LUV can drive itself home – with a little human help (designboom.com)

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How to Make Something People (Actually) Give a Shit About (joanwestenberg.com)

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Small Wins on the App Store (cleberg.net)

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No Fixed Frame Is Enough (novaspivack.com)

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Most Likely Future Filter: World Govt (overcomingbias.com)

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VictorTaelin/Nanoproof (github.com/victortaelin)

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Severance (lcamtuf.substack.com)

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A GTK4 SSH-askpass in Zig (xn--gckvb8fzb.com)

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We published a new topic page on economic inequality (ourworldindata.org)

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The most official water costs $120k a gallon (signoregalilei.com)

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Alternative Medicine for Chickens (ambrook.com)

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Seattle's Third Act (ascend.vc)

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The Sylvester–Gallai Theorem (futilitycloset.com)

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Freesocks: Free uncensored proxies for users in heavily-censored regions (freesocks.org)

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Three Myths on the Chinese Economy (zixuanma.blog)

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Join Me in Jamverse (venkateshrao.com)

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How the Words We Teach English Language Learners Changed (pudding.cool)

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Investigating three real-world incidents in our cybersecurity evaluations (anthropic.com)

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The Least Private Operating System Ever Created [video] (youtube.com)

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So you want to use plants to reduce CO₂ (dynomight.net)

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Boarding China's Last Bus (asteriskmag.com)

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Beware the Permanent Periphery (asteriskmag.com)

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Register deprivation: spills and runtime under forced register scarcity (rjp.io)

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Copyright Was Never Your Friend (mkultra.monster)

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Tallest timber tower reaches full height in Sydney with design by SHoP (designboom.com)

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[flagged] The Scientific Literature Is Poisonous to LLMs (reinvent.science)

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Rust and Boll (asteriskmag.com)

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Digitally Entertained with Zero Money (folkmoss.bearblog.dev)

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CipherX applies painless permanent tattoos with dissolving microneedle patches (designboom.com)

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AI in Linux (drewdevault.com)

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Can We Lower Construction Costs with Cheaper Labor or Materials? (construction-physics.com)

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Light Phone Flip (thelightphone.com)

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Making Referential Stability a Type (jovidecroock.com)

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Playing with Georgia (mighil.com)

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The Unbearable Slowness of Being: Why do we live at 10 bits/s? (2024) (arxiv.org)

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Does every question mark deserve a Betteridge? (dynomight.net)

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All Work and No Play (asteriskmag.com)

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Harmony Explained: Progress Towards a Scientific Theory of Music (2012) (arxiv.org)