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From Cold DM to Owning a Soccer ClubRated 2025-2-6 9:00pm
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The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Government TakeoverEngineers between 19 and 24, most linked to Musk’s companies, are playing a key role as he seizes control of federal infrastructure. #Donald Trump #Elon Musk #Government #Politics 2025-2-2 11:02am WIRED Vittoria Elliott 1,000 words Rated 2025-2-3 7:19pm
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Ruby "Thread Contention" is simply GVL Queuingisland94.org 1,000 words Rated 2025-2-3 10:17am
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Dario Amodei — Machines of Loving GraceHow AI Could Transform the World for the Better darioamodei.com Dario Amodei 15,000 words Rated 2025-2-3 8:16am
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Everyone knows your locationRecently I read about a massive geolocation data leak from Gravy Analytics, which exposed more than 2000 apps, both in AppStore and Google Play, that secretly collect geolocation data without user consent. Oftentimes, even without developers` knowledge. I looked into the list (link here) and found at least 3 apps I have installed on my iPhone. Take a look for yourself! This made me come up with an idea to track myself down externally, e.g. to buy my geolocation data leaked by some... 2025-1-31 3:30pm tim.sh tim 3,000 words Rated 2025-2-2 6:58pm
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Archivists Work to Identify and Save the Thousands of Datasets Disappearing From Data.govMore than 2,000 datasets have disappeared from data.gov since Trump was inaugurated. But analyzing exactly what happened and where it went is going to take some time. 2025-1-30 11:36am 404 Media Jason Koebler 2,000 words Rated 2025-2-1 5:08pm
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Senator Ron Wyden (@wyden.senate.gov)NEW: Sources tell my office that Treasury Secretary Bessent has granted DOGE *full* access to this system. Social Security and Medicare benefits, grants, payments to government contractors, including those that compete directly with Musk's own companies. All of it. [contains quote post or other embedded content] 2025-2-1 12:37pm Bluesky Social 2,000 words Rated 2025-2-1 5:08pm
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Patrick Mahomes and the secrets of the Dad Bod: What we get wrong about athleticismPatrick Mahomes and Nikola Jokić aren't just superstars. They challenge us to better understand the hidden secrets of athleticism. #NBA #NFL 2025-1-30 2:00am The New York Times Rustin Dodd ($) 2,000 words Rated 2025-2-1 7:47am
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The Antitrust Revolution, by Barry C. LynnLiberal democracy’s last stand against Big Tech #Amazon #Apple #Donald Trump #Facebook #Google #Microsoft #Supreme Court 2024-8-20 2:23pm Harper's Magazine 200 words Rated 2025-1-30 9:50pm
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“Founder Mode” and the Art of MythmakingI’ve never been good at “hot takes”. Anyone who knows anything about marketing can tell you that the best time to share your opinion about something is when everyone is all worked up about it. Hot topics drive clicks and eyeballs and attention en masse. Unfortunately, my internal combustion engine doesn’t run that way. If… 2024-12-17 9:53am charity.wtf 9,000 words Rated 2025-1-29 12:39pm
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The Alpha Myth: How Captive Wolves Led Us AstrayA wolf paces in captivity, teaching us all the wrong lessons about power 2025-1-27 9:47am The Impossible Path Anthony David Adams 1,000 words Rated 2025-1-28 7:25am
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The Mythical IO-Bound Rails AppWhen the topic of Rails performance comes up, it is commonplace to hear that the database is the bottleneck, so Rails applications are IO-bound anyway, hence Ruby performance doesn’t matter that much, and all you need is a healthy dose of concurrency to make your service scale. But how true is this in general? 2025-1-23 2:17am byroot’s blog 2,000 words Rated 2025-1-26 6:42am
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rubycdp/ferrum: Headless Chrome Ruby APIHeadless Chrome Ruby API. Contribute to rubycdp/ferrum development by creating an account on GitHub. GitHub 4,000 words Rated 2025-1-23 8:13pm
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How shutdown Bay Area tech companies ditch their fancy gear fastSilicon Valley Disposition, an auction site specializing in Bay Area tech companies, helps shutdown and surviving firms offload rare, pricey, high-tech gear. #Arizona #Google #Montana #San Francisco 2025-1-21 4:00am SFGATE Stephen Council 1,000 words Rated 2025-1-23 6:46am
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Creation | anyon_eCreating a highly-integrated open-source laptop from scratch. Power in your hands. byran.ee 2,000 words Rated 2025-1-23 6:40am
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Gem::SafeMarshal escapenastystereo.com 1,000 words Rated 2025-1-22 7:11am
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I am (not) a Failure: Lessons Learned From Six (and a half) Failed Startup AttemptsA while back I wrote : I've had many, many failures in my life. (Hm, maybe I should write a blog post about that.) This is that post. I'm ... blog.rongarret.info 5,000 words Rated 2025-1-20 7:06pm
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Why is Git Autocorrect too fast for Formula One drivers?Why does Git's autocorrect wait 0.1s before executing a mistyped command? Let's dig in. 2025-1-13 5:09am GitButler Scott Chacon 1,000 words Rated 2025-1-20 6:21am
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NYC Congestion Pricing: Early DaysPeople have to pay $9 to enter Manhattan below 60th Street. 2025-1-14 5:53am thezvi.substack.com Zvi Mowshowitz 5,000 words Rated 2025-1-19 2:13pm
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Reverse Engineering a VanMoof e-shifter – Part 2 – Decoding the SignalsNow we've tapped in to the wiring of a VanMoof e-shifter, let's work out the baud rate and format of the data being transmitted and which format of messages are being exchanged between it and the bike. mikecoats.com 1,000 words Rated 2025-1-19 8:04am
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I Ditched the Algorithm for RSS—and You Should Too - Joey's Hoard of StuffJoey Einerhand's Portfolio and tech blog. joeyehand.com 200 words Rated 2025-1-16 3:54pm
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What's involved in getting a "modern" terminal setup?What's involved in getting a "modern" terminal setup? Julia Evans 2,000 words Rated 2025-1-16 1:48pm
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What Is It (in Ruby 3.4)?An explanation of the it block parameter introduced in Ruby 3.4 2025-1-10 12:40pm Kevin Murphy 1,000 words Rated 2025-1-16 1:15pm
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Sonos CEO Patrick Spence steps down after app update debacleSpeaker maker Sonos said on Monday Patrick Spence will step down as its CEO after a disastrous app update last year sparked customer criticism and delayed the development and release of other products. 2025-1-13 7:55am Reuters ($) 500 words Rated 2025-1-13 9:35pm
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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 2025-1-11 6:00am The San Francisco Standard Zara Stone ($) 1,000 words Rated 2025-1-11 5:18pm
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How Honeybadger migrated from Sidekiq to KarafkaHoneybadger recently migrated our background job processing from Sidekiq to Karafka. Dig in to see what we learned. 2025-1-7 4:00pm Honeybadger Roel Bondoc 2,000 words Rated 2025-1-11 7:48am
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What o3 Becomes by 2028 — LessWrongFunding for $150bn training systems just turned less speculative, with OpenAI o3 reaching 25% on FrontierMath, 70% on SWE-Verified, 2700 on Codeforce… 2024-12-22 4:37am lesswrong.com Vladimir_Nesov 4,000 words Rated 2025-1-9 8:45pm
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Edwin Cohn and the Harvard Blood FactoryHow a chemistry “purist” built one of World War II’s greatest applied R&D laboratories. 2025-1-5 10:01am Asimov Press Eric Gilliam 9,000 words Rated 2025-1-8 4:10pm
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Trump vows to rename Denali as Mount McKinleyThe U.S. changed its name to the Athabascan "Denali" in 2015. 2024-12-22 11:21am Reuters Kanishka Singh ($) 1,000 words Rated 2025-1-8 12:21pm
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They squandered the holy grailWhy Apple Intelligence failed even though everything it's built upon is nearly perfect xeiaso.net 5,000 words Rated 2025-1-6 1:57pm
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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. 2025-1-4 2:00am ProPublica Joshua Kaplan 10,000 words Rated 2025-1-5 8:08am
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Judge Rejects New Jersey’s Bid to Halt Congestion PricingStarting Sunday, most drivers who enter Manhattan south of 60th Street during peak travel times will be charged a $9 fee. #New Jersey 2025-1-3 5:57pm The New York Times Tracey Tully, Ana Ley ($) 1,000 words Rated 2025-1-3 8:35pm
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Lake Tahoe’s Bear BoomRated 2025-1-3 4:04pm
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Optimizing Ruby’s JSON, Part 4In 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. 2024-12-29 10:21am byroot’s blog 4,000 words Rated 2025-1-3 9:11am
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Ruby 3.4 highlightsblog.sinjakli.co.uk 1,000 words Rated 2025-1-1 10:49am
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Improve Your Heart Rate Training Zones With The Karvonen FormulaHow to use the Karvonen heart rate formula to improve training zones. A comparison with the percent maximum HR method. 2021-1-27 1:16am Training 4 Endurance training4endurance 2,000 words Rated 2024-12-30 6:31pm
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Joco almost died at launch. Now, it's a lifeline for e-bike delivery riders — and a profitable businessOn 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 2024-11-30 7:00am TechCrunch Rebecca Bellan 2,000 words Rated 2024-12-29 7:06am
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PlasticListData on plastic chemicals in Bay Area foods PlasticList 10,000 words Rated 2024-12-28 9:18pm
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The torture of an unphilosophical life2024-12-25 4:03pm UnHerd Agnes Callard 5,000 words Rated 2024-12-28 8:14am
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Billionaire Daniel Ek Shuts Down Spotify Unwrapped CalculatorMulti-billionaire Daniel Ek has shut down the Spotify Unwrapped calculator that showcased how little the DSP pays to artists. 2024-12-23 4:45pm Digital Music News Ashley King 1,000 words Rated 2024-12-28 7:47am
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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 2024-12-11 3:00am The Marshall Project Shoshana Walter 3,000 words Rated 2024-12-28 7:37am
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BatteriesI 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 2024-12-27 7:22pm
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Seconds Since the EpochRated 2024-12-26 12:52pm
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Berkeley's Evolution On HousingTo 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. 2024-12-23 1:56pm The Discourse Lounge Darrell Owens 3,000 words Rated 2024-12-25 11:23am
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Huge math error corrected in black plastic study; authors say it doesn’t matterCorrection issued for black plastic study that had people tossing spatulas. 2024-12-16 2:23pm Ars Technica Beth Mole 1,000 words Rated 2024-12-20 9:01pm
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Introducing Governing San FranciscoCampaigns are marketing and sales. Governing is the product. 2024-11-12 10:24am Governing San Francisco Zack Rosen 1,000 words Rated 2024-12-19 7:31pm
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Alignment faking in large language modelsA paper from Anthropic's Alignment Science team on Alignment Faking in AI large language models anthropic.com 2,000 words Rated 2024-12-19 7:01pm
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Optimizing Ruby’s JSON, Part 2In 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. 2024-12-18 8:05am byroot’s blog 3,000 words Rated 2024-12-18 7:12pm
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Optimizing Ruby’s JSON, Part 1I 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. 2024-12-15 11:19am byroot’s blog 3,000 words Rated 2024-12-18 7:04pm
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The Illusion of Miles Per Gallon2008-6-20 7:21am Wheels Blog Richard S. Chang 2,000 words Rated 2024-12-17 9:05pm
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