Articles by surprisetalk
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Information Is Beautiful (informationisbeautiful.net)

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Nature Became a 'Prestige' Journal (asimov.press)

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Good Old Days: Classic games and more (goodolddays.net)

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Tractor (incoherency.co.uk)

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The Coasean Singularity? Demand, Supply, and Market Design with AI Agents (nber.org)

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Infinite Flowers Zoomquilt (infiniteflowers.net)

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Quantifying Multi-Track Novels (kaleidoscopemind.substack.com)

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Disneyland History and Other Disney Park History (yesterland.com)

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Taking AI Doom Seriously for 62 Minutes [video] (youtube.com)

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Protect Human Subjects, Not Bureaucracy (ifp.org)

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1 kilobyte is precisely 1000 bytes? (waspdev.com)

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Next.js Sucks; or Why I Wrote My Own SSG (pcmaffey.com)

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Maybe I shouldn't be validating my kids so much (joannabregan.substack.com)

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FM Synthesizer Knobs Web Demo (lynn.github.io)

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Omniglot – the online encyclopedia of writing systems and languages (omniglot.com)

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The Bitsavers Main Page (bitsavers.org)

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Understanding Neural Network, Visually (visualrambling.space)

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'Work is what you're doing when you'd rather be doing something else' (bookofjoe2.blogspot.com)

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Dataguessr (dataguessr.com)

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The Webcomic List (thewebcomiclist.com)

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Get a Reusable Mask (jefftk.com)

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SVG Silh: Free SVG Images and Icons (svgsilh.com)

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If Each Language Was a Color, What Would It Be? (collisteru.substack.com)

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Innovation Biopics (arbesman.substack.com)

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Viewing Forth (programmingsimplicity.substack.com)

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33rpm – A vinyl screensaver for your Mac (noonpacific.com)

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From 1 to n: Multiplayer Game Design (2018) (raphkoster.com)

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Parking lots as economic drains (progressandpoverty.substack.com)

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Kolakoski Sequence (wikipedia.org)

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Vinklu Turns Forgotten Plot in Bucharest into Tiny Coffee Shop (design-milk.com)

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Miniroll: A Blogroll Directory (miniroll.app)

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Show HN: Adboost – A browser extension that adds ads to every webpage (github.com/surprisetalk)

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The Case for Greenland (campbellramble.ai)

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Launching CivicMapper: Visualizing Land Values in 3D (progressandpoverty.substack.com)

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The natural home for AI agents is your Reminders app (interconnected.org)

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Same Radio, Different Citizens (cosmos-institute.org)

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Claude Biodome (autoncorp.com)

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Switch off quick-start in your TV settings (practicalbetterments.com)

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Removing Dust from 2 Scans of the Same Page with Photo Stacking (jacobfilipp.com)

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I set up my Android TV (monocyte.blog)

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What Is Home-Cooked Software? Touring the Kombucha Programming Language [video] (youtube.com)

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Rising Temperature (arbourtrary.com)

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Evolution of a Sketch (davepagurek.com)

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Look for What's True (dubroy.com)

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OTLO (futurefabric.co)

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Expert Book Recommendations (fivebooks.com)

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A Clever DIY Jig for Repeatable Lathe Work (core77.com)

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Decrease the frequency of product subscription deliveries (practicalbetterments.com)

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One Minute Park (oneminutepark.tv)

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Can AI (actually) beat Minecraft? [video] (youtube.com)

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Stagnant Construction Productivity Is a Worldwide Problem (construction-physics.com)

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The Fantastic Piece of Tinfoil in My Wallet (jefftk.com)

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MathPages (mathpages.com)

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Tomo: The Language of Tomorrow (and the next day, and the next) [video] (youtube.com)

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Preferencing in Algorithmic Hiring: Empirical Evidence and Insights (ssrn.com)

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Simulate Sun Shadows (shademap.app)

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A College Alternative (quarter--mile.com)

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Ask HN: Share your favorite digital bookshelves

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Shift more left with coding agents (gricha.dev)

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FAQ: Memorization (pgadey.ca)

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Plantable Brings Plants and Tables Together in the Workplace (design-milk.com)

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Attilio Berni plays the sub-contrabass saxophone [video] (youtube.com)

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Leaf-and-Branch Resolutions (alexanderbjoy.com)

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Visual Information Theory (colah.github.io)

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Toyota's Brilliant Plan to Sell Unfinished Cars (core77.com)

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Freakpages.org: learn about topics you have never heard of (freakpages.org)

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The Second Great Error Model Convergence (matklad.github.io)

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China Is Erasing Signs of Pessimism and Despair (nytimes.com)

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Proving (literally) that ChatGPT isn't conscious (theintrinsicperspective.com)

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The Everdeck: A Universal Card System (2019) (thewrongtools.wordpress.com)

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The Wadsworth Constant (2012) (knowyourmeme.com)

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Minichord: A pocket-sized musical instrument (github.com/benjaminpoilve)

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Ingenic (kevinkelly.substack.com)

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Minnesota's Rent-Control Strategy Is Becoming a Cautionary Tale (wsj.com)

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Swiss Population Cap Proposal Gets Almost 50% Backing in Poll (bloomberg.com)

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Updated LLM Benchmark (Gemini 3 Flash) (entropicthoughts.com)

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Quality, Quantity, and Effective Iteration (autodidacts.io)

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George Washington's Teeth (wikipedia.org)

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Opentrees.org (2024) (opentrees.org)

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Emoji Design Convergence Review: 2018-2026 (emojipedia.org)

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Good if make prior after data instead of before (lesswrong.com)

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Training an AI on my own writing so the computers can replace me (satyrs.eu)

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Only own one type and color of sock (practicalbetterments.com)

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Speciesquest 2026 (eukaryotewritesblog.com)

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Conditional probability: an educational defect in Physics didactics (scottlocklin.wordpress.com)

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Alan Kay at OOPSLA 1997 – The computer revolution hasnt happened yet [video] (youtube.com)

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Bucket Art (venkateshrao.com)

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Hart et al. 2025 on neural canal ridges in crocs (svpow.com)

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Metazooa (metazooa.com)

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Dinosaurpictures.org – Dinosaur Pictures (dinosaurpictures.org)

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The birth of a WATERBEAR 1000x magnification [video] (youtube.com)

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Snowflake Koch Fractal (xaya-e.bearblog.dev)

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The 80s Movies Rewind (fast-rewind.com)

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Most Code Is Just Cache (sshh.io)

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Quitting 9-to-5 to build genius off-grid homestead, permitted and loan-free [video] (youtube.com)

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Same Energy – Visual Search Engine (same.energy)

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A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages (2009) (james-iry.blogspot.com)

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Some Haskell idioms we like (bellroy.com)