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Opinion | Neil Gaiman, ‘Babygirl’ and the Ethics of Social Liberalism

The New York Times

Rated 2025-01-17T17:03:54-0800 - sethherr

No calls

Enterprise sales don't have to be crazy.

Keygen 2,000 words

Rated 2025-01-17T09:19:31-0800 - sethherr

I Ditched the Algorithm for RSS—and You Should Too - Joey's Hoard of Stuff

Joey Einerhand's Portfolio and tech blog.

joeyehand.com 200 words

Rated 2025-01-16T15:54:30-0800 - sethherr

‘It’s got everything you want, plus dragons’: Brandon Sanderson on the joy of writing fantasy

The hugely popular author reveals his excitement at the release of his latest Stormlight saga, how he extracted himself from Amazon and why JK Rowling should have stuck to novels

2024-12-06T08:32:34-0800 The Guardian James Smart 1,000 words

Rated 2025-01-16T14:03:18-0800 - sethherr

How To Stop Worrying And Learn To Love Lynn's National IQ Estimates

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2025-01-15T05:11:02-0800 astralcodexten.com Scott Alexander 65,000 words

Rated 2025-01-16T13:59:04-0800 - sethherr

What's involved in getting a "modern" terminal setup?

What's involved in getting a "modern" terminal setup?

Julia Evans 2,000 words

Rated 2025-01-16T13:48:46-0800 - sethherr

What Is It (in Ruby 3.4)?

An explanation of the it block parameter introduced in Ruby 3.4

2025-01-10T12:40:50-0800 Kevin Murphy 1,000 words

Rated 2025-01-16T13:15:06-0800 - sethherr

Nobody Cares

A rant about caring

grantslatton.com 2,000 words

Rated 2025-01-16T07:39:42-0800 - sethherr

Why are tech people suddenly so into homeschooling?

I have my suspicions

2025-01-14T07:50:56-0800 Good Tech Things Forrest Brazeal 2,000 words

Rated 2025-01-15T15:30:53-0800 - sethherr

The Origins of Wokeness

paulgraham.com

Rated 2025-01-15T09:03:31-0800 - sethherr

It's Charisma, Stupid

paulgraham.com

Rated 2025-01-14T22:35:46-0800 - sethherr

Take the pedals off the bike

Apparently if you want to teach kids how to ride a bike you're supposed to take the pedals off first, and now my mind will never be the same again.

2025-01-06T08:39:13-0800 Fortress of Doors Lars Doucet 1,000 words

Rated 2025-01-14T19:22:08-0800 - sethherr

Sonos CEO Patrick Spence steps down after app update debacle

Speaker maker Sonos said on Monday Patrick Spence will step down as its CEO after a disastrous app update last year sparked customer criticism and delayed the development and release of other products.

2025-01-13T07:55:38-0800 Reuters ($) 500 words

Rated 2025-01-13T21:35:41-0800 - sethherr

Why is every Bay Area event imposing Chatham House Rules?

An archaic English gag rule is enforcing silence everywhere in the Bay Area, from health conferences to AI salons to dinner parties. #Startups

2025-01-11T06:00:00-0800 The San Francisco Standard Zara Stone ($) 1,000 words

Rated 2025-01-11T17:18:32-0800 - sethherr

How Honeybadger migrated from Sidekiq to Karafka

Honeybadger recently migrated our background job processing from Sidekiq to Karafka. Dig in to see what we learned.

2025-01-07T16:00:00-0800 Honeybadger Roel Bondoc 2,000 words

Rated 2025-01-11T07:48:57-0800 - sethherr

What o3 Becomes by 2028 — LessWrong

Funding for $150bn training systems just turned less speculative, with OpenAI o3 reaching 25% on FrontierMath, 70% on SWE-Verified, 2700 on Codeforce…

2024-12-22T04:37:20-0800 lesswrong.com Vladimir_Nesov 4,000 words

Rated 2025-01-09T20:45:16-0800 - sethherr

Edwin Cohn and the Harvard Blood Factory

How a chemistry “purist” built one of World War II’s greatest applied R&D laboratories.

2025-01-05T10:01:47-0800 Asimov Press Eric Gilliam 9,000 words

Rated 2025-01-08T16:10:07-0800 - sethherr

Trump vows to rename Denali as Mount McKinley

The U.S. changed its name to the Athabascan "Denali" in 2015.

2024-12-22T11:21:06-0800 Reuters Kanishka Singh ($) 1,000 words

Rated 2025-01-08T12:21:45-0800 - sethherr

Magic/Tragic Email Links: Don't make them the only option

Subscription websites now like to use magic email links for login. They are extremely annoying.

2025-01-06T16:00:00-0800 Recyclebin.zip 500 words

Rated 2025-01-08T07:30:06-0800 - sethherr

They squandered the holy grail

Why Apple Intelligence failed even though everything it's built upon is nearly perfect

xeiaso.net 5,000 words

Rated 2025-01-06T13:57:30-0800 - sethherr

Hitting OKRs vs Doing Your Job

In Engineering, quarterly OKRs (Objectives & Key Results) can feel like a duplication of product planning. Basically, they say "Ship the Roadmap." What new information are they communicating in that case? And if the OKRs say anything else, they're in conflict the roadmap! An example (that I made up): In Marketing, quarterly OKRs express our…

2025-01-05T18:09:24-0800 Jessitron 1,000 words

Rated 2025-01-06T13:31:39-0800 - sethherr

Software is eating the world, … all right

I retired from my IT career a couple of months ago after 43 years of commercial software product development and transitioned to the real world where I run two “brick-and-mortar” small businesses. I…

2024-05-18T13:41:38-0700 Medium Jean-Jacques Dubray 3,000 words

Rated 2025-01-06T13:28:02-0800 - sethherr

A Mole Infiltrated the Highest Ranks of American Militias. This Is What He Found.

Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends. The one person he told was a ProPublica reporter.

2025-01-04T02:00:00-0800 ProPublica Joshua Kaplan 10,000 words

Rated 2025-01-05T08:08:32-0800 - sethherr

Judge Rejects New Jersey’s Bid to Halt Congestion Pricing

Starting Sunday, most drivers who enter Manhattan south of 60th Street during peak travel times will be charged a $9 fee. #New Jersey

2025-01-03T17:57:43-0800 The New York Times Tracey Tully, Ana Ley ($) 1,000 words

Rated 2025-01-03T20:35:52-0800 - sethherr

Kids can't use computers... and this is why it should worry you — Coding 2 Learn

coding2learn.org Marc Scott 4,000 words

Rated 2025-01-03T20:27:27-0800 - sethherr

‘Are we the first generation that won’t die?’: Bryan Johnson on his controversial lifestyle

The 47-year-old multimillionaire spends $2m a year on staying youthful and, in a new documentary, he explains why we should be following his lead

2025-01-02T07:23:41-0800 The Guardian Radheyan Simonpillai 2,000 words

Rated 2025-01-03T16:54:09-0800 - sethherr

Lake Tahoe’s Bear Boom

The New Yorker

Rated 2025-01-03T16:04:53-0800 - sethherr

Optimizing Ruby’s JSON, Part 4

In the previous post, we established that as long as ruby/json wasn’t competitive on micro-benchmarks, public perception wouldn’t change. Since what made ruby/json appear so bad on micro-benchmarks was its setup cost, we had to find ways to reduce it further.

2024-12-29T10:21:51-0800 byroot’s blog 4,000 words

Rated 2025-01-03T09:11:08-0800 - sethherr

Ruby 3.4 highlights

blog.sinjakli.co.uk 1,000 words

Rated 2025-01-01T10:49:52-0800 - sethherr

Improve Your Heart Rate Training Zones With The Karvonen Formula

How to use the Karvonen heart rate formula to improve training zones. A comparison with the percent maximum HR method.

2021-01-27T01:16:14-0800 Training 4 Endurance training4endurance 2,000 words

Rated 2024-12-30T18:31:23-0800 - sethherr

Opinion | I Won’t Feel Good About Flying Until the Airlines Solve This

The aviation industry should get serious about direct air capture so that its emissions don’t remain in the atmosphere. #Climate Change #Global Warming

2024-12-28T04:00:05-0800 The New York Times Mark Miodownik ($) 2,000 words

Rated 2024-12-30T17:51:58-0800 - sethherr

The Truth About WHOOP and Other Fitness Trackers: Part I

I spoke with WHOOP’s Principal Scientist and a critic of some wearable devices to help you understand the new world of wearables.

2024-02-12T06:55:29-0800 Two Percent with Michael Easter Michael Easter 4,000 words

Rated 2024-12-30T06:59:34-0800 - sethherr

Pluralistic: Bluesky and enshittification (02 Nov 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

pluralistic.net 3,000 words

Rated 2024-12-29T18:46:42-0800 - sethherr

Joco almost died at launch. Now, it's a lifeline for e-bike delivery riders — and a profitable business

On a September morning in 2024, two Jonathan Cohens — one from the Rockaways in Queens, the other from London — stood in an empty 15,000-square-foot

2024-11-30T07:00:00-0800 TechCrunch Rebecca Bellan 2,000 words

Rated 2024-12-29T07:06:32-0800 - sethherr

PlasticList

Data on plastic chemicals in Bay Area foods

PlasticList 10,000 words

Rated 2024-12-28T21:18:11-0800 - sethherr

The torture of an unphilosophical life

#Culture

2024-12-25T16:03:27-0800 UnHerd Agnes Callard 5,000 words

Rated 2024-12-28T08:14:51-0800 - sethherr

Billionaire Daniel Ek Shuts Down Spotify Unwrapped Calculator

Multi-billionaire Daniel Ek has shut down the Spotify Unwrapped calculator that showcased how little the DSP pays to artists.

2024-12-23T16:45:10-0800 Digital Music News Ashley King 1,000 words

Rated 2024-12-28T07:47:38-0800 - sethherr

Hospitals Gave Them Meds During Childbirth. Why Did Patients Get In Trouble?

Mothers were reported after they were given medications used routinely for pain or in epidurals, to reduce anxiety or to manage blood pressure during cesarean sections. #Doctors #Health Care #Indiana #Pennsylvania #Texas

2024-12-11T03:00:00-0800 The Marshall Project Shoshana Walter 3,000 words

Rated 2024-12-28T07:37:30-0800 - sethherr

fhur

fhur's blog

fhur 1,000 words

Rated 2024-12-27T21:21:18-0800 - sethherr

“The Brutalist” ’s Epic Inversion of the American Dream

In Brady Corbet’s latest film, starring Adrien Brody, Felicity Jones, and Guy Pearce, the director depicts the fate of a brilliant Hungarian architect, who lands in the United States after surviving Buchenwald.

2024-12-20T03:00:00-0800 The New Yorker Justin Chang 1,000 words

Rated 2024-12-27T20:13:15-0800 - sethherr

Batteries

I am a simple enthusiast attempting to convey my love and enjoyment of radio, electronics, and computing and perhaps to inspire YOU to build something too.

hanssummers.com Hans Summers 4,000 words

Rated 2024-12-27T19:22:51-0800 - sethherr

Seconds Since the Epoch

aphyr.com

Rated 2024-12-26T12:52:52-0800 - sethherr

When to Start Sleep Training

I’m answering all of your questions about sleep training: what is sleep training, when to start sleep training, how long does sleep training take, and more!

Taking Cara Babies 3,000 words

Rated 2024-12-26T07:32:54-0800 - l_wals773

Cognitive load is what matters

There are so many buzzwords and best practices out there, but let's focus on something more fundamental. What matters is the amount of confusion developers feel when going through the code.

minds.md 2,000 words

Rated 2024-12-26T06:52:23-0800 - sethherr

Berkeley's Evolution On Housing

To understand and appreciate Adena Ishii's victory, it's important to understand how Berkeley got to this point and what the election really means vs. the bombastic headlines.

2024-12-23T13:56:36-0800 The Discourse Lounge Darrell Owens 3,000 words

Rated 2024-12-25T11:23:27-0800 - sethherr

Huge math error corrected in black plastic study; authors say it doesn’t matter

Correction issued for black plastic study that had people tossing spatulas.

2024-12-16T14:23:34-0800 Ars Technica Beth Mole 1,000 words

Rated 2024-12-20T21:01:32-0800 - sethherr

Introducing Governing San Francisco

Campaigns are marketing and sales. Governing is the product.

2024-11-12T10:24:13-0800 Governing San Francisco Zack Rosen 1,000 words

Rated 2024-12-19T19:31:09-0800 - sethherr

Alignment faking in large language models

A paper from Anthropic's Alignment Science team on Alignment Faking in AI large language models

anthropic.com 2,000 words

Rated 2024-12-19T19:01:38-0800 - sethherr

Optimizing Ruby’s JSON, Part 2

In the previous post, I covered my motivations for improving ruby/json’s performance, and detailed the first 4 notable optimizations applied to speed up JSON generation.

2024-12-18T08:05:51-0800 byroot’s blog 3,000 words

Rated 2024-12-18T19:12:01-0800 - sethherr

Optimizing Ruby’s JSON, Part 1

I was recently made maintainer of the json gem, and aside from fixing some old bugs, I focused quite a bit on its performance, so that it is now the fastest JSON parser and generator for Ruby on most benchmarks.

2024-12-15T11:19:51-0800 byroot’s blog 3,000 words

Rated 2024-12-18T19:04:49-0800 - sethherr