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Lovable makes $75m in 7 months—but is it nailing pricing?

The current (and future) monetization strategies of "Shopify for SaaS"

2025-6-25 6:57am The Bill, Please Finn 3,000 words

Rated 2025-6-25 9:14pm

What Problems to Solve - By Richard Feynman

genius.cat-v.org 1,000 words

Rated 2025-6-25 8:18pm

The NO FAKES Act Has Changed – and It’s So Much Worse

A bill purporting to target the issue of misinformation and defamation caused by generative AI has mutated into something that could change the internet forever, harming speech and innovation from here on out.The Nurture Originals, Foster Art and Keep Entertainment Safe (NO FAKES) Act aims to...

2025-6-23 12:39pm Electronic Frontier Foundation Katharine Trendacosta and Corynne McSherry 1,000 words

Rated 2025-6-24 5:56pm

Guess I’m A Rationalist Now

A week ago I attended LessOnline, a rationalist blogging conference featuring many people I've known for years---Scott Alexander, Eliezer Yudkowsky, Zvi Mowshowitz, Sarah Constantin, Carl Feynman---as well as people I've known only online and was delighted to meet in person, like Joe Carlsmith and Jacob Falkovich and Daniel Reeves. The conference was at Lighthaven, a…

2025-6-9 6:02pm Shtetl-Optimized 10,000 words

Rated 2025-6-20 7:12am

New Terms of Service IP clause cannot be terminated or revoked, not even by deleting content · Issue #35086 · mastodon/mastodon

Summary Since it first opened, mastodon.social has operated without any sort of explicit IP grant from the users to the service, which is unusual for a social networking service. Today Mastodon announced effective July 1 there will be a ...

2025-6-17 3:40pm GitHub mcclure 3,000 words

Rated 2025-6-18 9:39pm

How I'm Voting for Mayor in NYC's Democratic Primary

1. Tilson // 2. Myrie // 3. Adams // 4. Lander* // 5. Cuomo // (X) Not Mamdani

2025-6-16 10:19am Maximum New York Daniel Golliher 5,000 words

Rated 2025-6-16 7:42pm

Opinion | The Problem With Everything-Bagel Liberalism

The New York Times

Rated 2025-6-16 7:39pm

Call it Blue Tape

Down with anti-government sentiment in blue states // Interstate praise of the federal system

2025-3-30 3:16pm Maximum New York Daniel Golliher 2,000 words

Rated 2025-6-16 7:26pm

Air-dried vs. Kiln-dried Wood

Are they different to saw, chisel and plane? Does it matter?

2025-6-8 3:00am The American Peasant Christopher Schwarz, Kara Gebhart Uhl ($) 6,000 words

Rated 2025-6-12 7:47am

Don't Panic, but Douglas Adams Predicted All of This

How the author of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy foresaw AI chatbots, voice assistants, and irritating kitchen appliances decades before anyone else

2025-6-7 4:55am My Blameless Life Kris St.Gabriel 3,000 words

Rated 2025-6-10 8:57pm

Opinion | The Problems Democrats Don’t Like to See

The Democratic future isn’t going to look like the Democratic past. #Books #California #Chicago #Housing #Real Estate #Texas #US Politics

2025-6-8 3:00am The New York Times Ezra Klein ($) 3,000 words

Rated 2025-6-10 8:18pm

The Men Who Fix Manhattan's Symbolic Shabbat Boundaries

Every Thursday and Friday morning, Rabbi Moshe Tauber leaves his home in Rockland County, New York, at about 3:30 a.m. He arrives in Manhattan an hour later... #Border #Law #Religion

2017-10-16 3:07pm Atlas Obscura Michael Inscoe 2,000 words

Rated 2025-6-8 7:55pm

Oprah Shamed James Frey. He’s Back Anyway.

Twenty years after “A Million Little Pieces” became a national scandal, James Frey is ready for a new audience. #Books #Writer

2025-6-8 2:01am The New York Times Sam Dolnick ($) 3,000 words

Rated 2025-6-8 2:32pm

Claude’s System Prompt Changes Reveal Anthropic’s Priorities

Reviewing the few changes in the Claude 4.0 system prompts, we get a sense for how system prompts program chatbot applications.

2025-6-3 1:04pm Drew Breunig 1,000 words

Rated 2025-6-4 8:28pm

Direct File on GitHub

Personal blog of Chris Given, government technologist. These words are always written by a human; I have no one to blame but myself.

chrisgiven.com 500 words

Rated 2025-6-4 4:51pm

Problems in Precious Plastic

News update: Precious Plastic is in problems. You can decide the future of the project. Die or grow

preciousplastic.com 2,000 words

Rated 2025-6-4 7:05am

No One Knows How to Deal With 'Student-on-Student' AI CSAM

A new report from Stanford finds that schools, parents, police, and our legal system are not prepared to deal with the growing problem of minors using AI to generate CSAM of other minors.

2025-5-29 6:00am 404 Media Emanuel Maiberg 1,000 words

Rated 2025-6-2 6:52pm

My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts

My smartest friends have bananas arguments about LLM coding.

Fly 3,000 words

Rated 2025-6-2 4:13pm

Opinion | Christo Grozev Is the Man Putin Couldn’t Kill

Putin had Christo Grozev in his sights. Grozev was way ahead of him. #Assassination #Austria #Crime #New York City #Plane Crash

2025-6-2 2:01am The New York Times M. Gessen ($) 6,000 words

Rated 2025-6-2 4:02pm

Melatonin: Much More Than You Wanted To Know

Slate Star Codex

Rated 2025-6-1 11:03am

Figma Slides is a Beautiful Disaster

Some highlights and lowlights.

Allen Pike 1,000 words

Rated 2025-6-1 7:10am

Probe lenses and focus stacking: the secrets to incredible photos taken inside instruments

Photographer Charles Brooks embarked upon a quest to photograph the inside of musical instruments, creating images that look like monumental buildings.

2025-5-22 5:00pm DPReview Abby Ferguson 2,000 words

Rated 2025-5-31 6:07am

Why I Broke Up with New York

Most people accept the city’s chaos as a toll for an expansive life. It took Lena Dunham several decades to realize that she could go her own way.

2025-5-5 3:00am The New Yorker Lena Dunham 3,000 words

Rated 2025-5-30 9:44pm

Why Good Ideas Die Quietly and Bad Ideas Go Viral

A new book, “Antimemetics: Why Some Ideas Resist Spreading,” argues that notions get taken up not because of their virtue but because of their catchiness. #Sociology #Technology

2025-5-28 3:00am The New Yorker Gideon Lewis-Kraus 4,000 words

Rated 2025-5-29 8:05am

The Who Cares Era

dansinker.com 1,000 words

Rated 2025-5-28 6:40am

Salsa Cutthroat Build - Brakes - 180mm flat-mount - Hike Bike Cake

During the Salsa Cutthroat build we discover its unique design for the front brake mount - a flat-mount caliper that is able to take a 180mm rotor.

2020-4-23 4:18pm HikeBikeCake kaitatari.com 1,000 words

Rated 2025-5-27 5:23pm

My review of Power Failure: the downfall of America's greatest company

Power Failure by William Cohan chronicles the spectacular collapse of General Electric, once America's most valuable company. From a $600 billion giant to near-bankruptcy, GE's downfall reveals how financialization and imperial CEOs destroyed a 130-year industrial icon.

2025-5-26 1:30pm Gordon Wintrob 1,000 words

Rated 2025-5-26 8:39pm

Cloudflare CEO: Football Piracy Blocks Will Claim Lives; "I Pray No One Dies" * TorrentFreak

Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince says he "Pray no one dies" after revealing that piracy blocking denies access to critical resources in Spain.

2025-5-25 11:27pm TF Publishing Andy Maxwell 1,000 words

Rated 2025-5-26 8:27am

After 20 Years, the Globally Optimal Boggle Board

danvk.org Dan Vanderkam 2,000 words

Rated 2025-5-26 7:28am

Good Writing

paulgraham.com

Rated 2025-5-24 9:40am

how to cheat at settlers by loading the dice

izbicki.me 3,000 words

Rated 2025-5-22 12:21pm

By Default, Signal Doesn't Recall

Signal Desktop now includes support for a new “Screen security” setting that is designed to help prevent your own computer from capturing screenshots of your Signal chats on Windows. This setting is automatically enabled by default in Signal Desktop on Windows 11. If you’re wondering why we’re on...

Signal Messenger 1,000 words

Rated 2025-5-21 3:17pm

Biking Is Therapy

Derek Bolz made a video about what biking does for his mental health. A partial transcript (boldface mine): Life has been rough lately. I don’t want to air my dirty laundry on the internet, so I won’t go into detail. But for a number of rea

kottke.org 1,000 words

Rated 2025-5-20 10:21am

How do you find the positive integer solutions to \frac{x}{y+z}+ \frac{y}{z+x}+\frac{z}{x+y} = 4?

Answer by ‎Alon Amit (אלון עמית)‎, PhD in Mathematics; Mathcircler.

Quora 4,000 words

Rated 2025-5-20 10:11am

Linguists Find Proof of Sweeping Language Pattern Once Deemed a ‘Hoax’

Inuit languages really do have many words for snow, linguists found—and other languages have conceptual specialties, too, potentially revealing what a culture values

2025-5-9 6:00am Scientific American Cody Cottier ($) 1,000 words

Rated 2025-5-20 8:42am

The Fall of Roam

I don’t use Roam anymore. Why?

2022-2-12 12:00am every.to Dan Shipper 3,000 words

Rated 2025-5-18 6:06pm

Bike-mounted sensor could boost the mapping of safe cycling routes

Studies have shown that many people don't commute by bike due mainly to a fear of being hit by cars. A new bike-mounted proximity sensor has been designed to help such folks, by objectively telling them which streets are the safest for cyclists.

2025-5-12 10:23am New Atlas https://newatlas.com/author/ben-coxworth/ 1,000 words

Rated 2025-5-17 7:29pm

Public Bike Parks Saved My Soul – Travis Engel

Does seeing a nice, tall curb-cut ever remind you of the first time you got both wheels off the ground? Travis had been chasing that dragon for decades until a leg injury brought him swiftly down to earth. But then he found an unlikely path back to dirt jumping when it finally became possible to find a really good public bike park. I don’t skate, but I understand how a skateboard works. That’s why I’m so confused when I see bad skateparks. It should be obvious that a 3-foot quarter...

2025-5-15 2:00am The Radavist Travis Engel 2,000 words

Rated 2025-5-16 6:54pm

Baby Is Healed With World’s First Personalized Gene-Editing Treatment

The technique used on a 9½-month-old boy with a rare condition has the potential to help people with thousands of other uncommon genetic diseases. #Babies

2025-5-15 10:00am The New York Times Gina Kolata ($) 2,000 words

Rated 2025-5-16 7:14am

Sending Threaded Emails Using Rails ActionMailer

At Flexport, we communicate with our customers — and their software — in many ways. API and EDI integrations are ideal because they allow structured data to flow seamlessly with no humans involved…

2020-7-28 7:21am Flexport Engineering Kyle Kinsey 1,000 words

Rated 2025-5-15 1:50pm

SMS 2FA is not just insecure, it's also hostile to mountain people

i have a friend -- she's an old lady born and raised here in the western north carolina mountains. she hates computers, yes, but she's be...

2025-5-14 5:51am stillgreenmoss 1,000 words

Rated 2025-5-14 7:12am

How The Economics of Multitenancy Work

With millions of jobs running monthly on our bare-metal fleet, we've seen the economics of multitenancy hold up — here's a peek behind the curtain of how the math works.

blacksmith.sh 2,000 words

Rated 2025-5-14 7:07am

The Great Displacement Is Already Well Underway

It's Not a Hypothetical, I've Already Lost My Job to AI For The Last Year

2025-5-4 10:52am Shawn K's substack Shawn K 3,000 words

Rated 2025-5-13 1:07pm

Opinion | George Saunders on the Firing of Dr. Carla Hayden

When a ship is sinking, there’s value in knowing how fast, and calling it out. When a country is self-sabotaging, ditto. #Books #Donald Trump #US Politics

2025-5-13 2:02am The New York Times George Saunders ($) 1,000 words

Rated 2025-5-13 7:18am

Meet San Francisco’s ‘anti-profit’ bike shop, Scenic Routes

A bike shop at 521 Balboa St. in the Inner Richmond was born out of a pandemic-era, quarantine-addled Twitter joke.

2025-5-4 11:02am Mission Local Nicholas David 1,000 words

Rated 2025-5-12 7:55pm

DNS Piracy Blocking Orders: Google, Cloudflare, and OpenDNS Respond Differently * TorrentFreak

Facing escalating DNS piracy blocking orders, major providers like OpenDNS, Cloudflare, and Google are adopting notably different responses. #Belgium #Google

2025-5-8 6:23am TF Publishing Ernesto Van der Sar 1,000 words

Rated 2025-5-11 3:47pm

Opinion | What People at Pornhub Were Thinking When It Shared Videos of Child Rape

Five years ago at Pornhub, executives were removing the most obvious videos of children. But one employee said ‘obvious’ meant a ‘3-year-old.’ #Alabama #Child Abuse #Pornography #Rape #Social Media

2025-5-10 4:00am The New York Times Nicholas Kristof ($) 3,000 words

Rated 2025-5-10 4:59pm

Past, Present, and Future of Sorbet Type Syntax – Jake Zimmerman

A discussion of how Sorbet's type syntax came to be, the problems it solves, and how it could improve.

blog.jez.io Jake Zimmerman 4,000 words

Rated 2025-5-9 2:15pm

So much blood

but how much exactly?

2025-5-4 5:00pm DYNOMIGHT dynomight 2,000 words

Rated 2025-5-7 6:48am

The Curse of Knowing How, or; Fixing Everything | Blog

A reflection on control, burnout, and the strange weight of technical fluency.

2025-4-23 5:00pm NotAShelf 2,000 words

Rated 2025-5-6 4:36pm