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An image of an archeologist adventurer who wears a hat and uses a bullwhip

There is only one thing worse than being imitated

2025-04-03T10:50:14-0700 The AI Underwriter Otakar G. Hubschmann 1,000 words

Rated 2025-04-03T19:03:44-0700

Bikes in the Age of Tariffs

Today's post was going to be about a new product we're introducing—but we need to hold off while we recalculate our prices. You've probably seen the news: Virtually all imports into the United States will be subjected to additional, steep import taxes, also called tariffs. The…

Rene Herse Cycles 4,000 words

Rated 2025-04-03T14:52:12-0700

Gemini 2.5 is the New SoTA

Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental is America’s next top large language model.

2025-03-28T07:16:23-0700 thezvi.substack.com Zvi Mowshowitz 4,000 words

Rated 2025-03-31T07:27:30-0700

The art of DJing: Avalon Emerson · Articoli ⟋ RA

One of the most creative DJs in the game unpacks her methods for Elissa Stolman.

2019-02-06T03:30:24-0800 Resident Advisor Elissa Stolman 7,000 words

Rated 2025-03-29T14:57:07-0700

The long-awaited Friend Compound laws in California

[X-posted from the Live Near Friends blog]

2025-01-10T10:48:38-0800 Supernuclear Phil Levin 1,000 words

Rated 2025-03-26T18:53:43-0700

Stimulus Autocomplete with Combobox Navigation

HYBRD 1,000 words

Rated 2025-03-24T15:01:08-0700

A Brief History of The Super 73 Problem

With the rising popularity of the Super 73 model, we’re focused on educating riders and regulatory bodies about the distinctions between throttle-powered and pedal-assist e-bikes.

E-BIKE ACCESS 3,000 words

Rated 2025-03-23T19:27:57-0700

Meet the Guy Who Invented the Belay Test—and the Modern American Climbing Gym

When Peter Mayfield set out to create the first gym designed to welcome new climbers to the sport, he made climbing gym history.

2025-03-17T10:34:38-0700 Climbing Bruce Hildenbrand 3,000 words

Rated 2025-03-23T09:28:26-0700

Memo 3: So, you want to be a Supervisor

The Burton machine when choosing which ambitious neophyte candidate to back, would usually decide on a single factor: “Which one will knock doors in the rain?”.

2024-12-01T10:03:02-0800 Governing San Francisco Zack Rosen 4,000 words

Rated 2025-03-22T18:06:09-0700

Understanding Solar Energy

The biggest energy story of the last fifteen years is the rise of solar photovoltaics, also known as solar PV or simply solar panels.

2025-03-20T05:03:41-0700 Construction Physics Brian Potter 4,000 words

Rated 2025-03-20T16:01:47-0700

Letter from the Levant - On the Origin of the Pork Taboo - Archaeology Magazine - March/April 2025

Exploring ancient people’s shifting beliefs about rearing and eating pigs

2025-02-10T07:08:06-0800 Archaeology Magazine 4,000 words

Rated 2025-03-19T07:43:03-0700

For Delivery Workers in Latin America, Affordable E-Bikes Are a Superpower

In the long run, e-bikes are cheaper than motorbikes. With financing help from start-ups like Guajira, many immigrant workers are making the switch. #Sustainability #Transportation #Work

2025-03-07T00:00:16-0800 Reasons to be Cheerful Mariel Lozada 2,000 words

Rated 2025-03-19T06:29:11-0700

What Bikini Atoll Looks Like Today

Sixty years after the nuclear tests, the groundwater is contaminated and the coconuts are radioactive. But are the coral reefs thriving?

2017-11-20T14:56:06-0800 Medium Stanford Magazine 3,000 words

Rated 2025-03-15T19:34:47-0700

U.S. DOT Orders Review of All Grants Related to Green Infrastructure, Bikes — Streetsblog USA

Now U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is coming for our bike lanes!

2025-03-11T21:00:00-0700 usa.streetsblog.org 1,000 words

Rated 2025-03-13T10:32:33-0700

The Pitchfork Story

A bit more than two years ago, as part of my work in Shopify’s Ruby and Rails Infrastructure team, I released a new Ruby HTTP server called Pitchfork.

2025-03-04T02:03:51-0800 byroot’s blog 10,000 words

Rated 2025-03-11T10:07:07-0700

Opinion | I Loved ‘Anora,’ but I Still Hope It Loses at the Oscars

“Anora” is neither pro-Russian nor anti-Russian. But its Oscar nominations have been portrayed as a national victory in Russia. #Donald Trump #Movies

2025-02-27T02:03:45-0800 The New York Times Michael Idov ($) 2,000 words

Rated 2025-03-09T21:13:13-0700

SFF community reeling after Marion Zimmer Bradley's daughter accuses her of abuse

Moira Greyland's claims that she was molested by the late fantasy author have horrified readers and writers who had been inspired by her work

2014-06-27T01:08:26-0700 The Guardian Alison Flood 1,000 words

Rated 2025-03-08T19:04:25-0800

The Smith v. Substack saga

A tale of lawsuits, impersonation and alter egos.

2025-01-12T17:30:17-0800 Ghost of Lomax 10,000 words

Rated 2025-03-03T13:06:20-0800

The secret to perfectly calculate Rails database connection pool size

island94.org 1,000 words

Rated 2025-02-27T13:21:05-0800

Meet the journalists training AI models for Meta and OpenAI

The gig work platform Outlier is one of several companies courting journalists to train large language models (LLMs).

Nieman Lab 2,000 words

Rated 2025-02-26T17:25:32-0800

I Went To SQL Injection Court — Quarrelsome

sockpuppet.org Quarrelsome 3,000 words

Rated 2025-02-25T19:19:24-0800

Texas’s Barbecue Schism

The New Yorker

Rated 2025-02-25T14:47:37-0800

Notes from Carrierwave to Active Storage

island94.org 1,000 words

Rated 2025-02-24T19:20:42-0800

Why does target=”_blank” have an underscore in front?

Ever wondered why you need the underscore in target="_blank" to open a link in a new tab?

2024-10-25T03:00:00-0700 Kyrylo Silin 200 words

Rated 2025-02-24T08:33:39-0800

The True Costs of Being on YouTube

what I spent, what I earned, and why I'm walking away

2025-02-13T07:29:54-0800 Food Processing carla lalli music 4,000 words

Rated 2025-02-22T21:37:43-0800

The first RCT for GLP-1 drugs and alcoholism isn't what we hoped

or what people seem to think

2025-02-20T09:02:32-0800 Dynomight Internet Newsletter dynomight 2,000 words

Rated 2025-02-22T19:57:07-0800

When Imperfect Systems are Good, Actually: Bluesky’s Lossy Timelines

By examining the limits of reasonable user behavior and embracing imperfection for users who go beyond it, we can continue to provide service that meets the expectations of users without sacrificing scalability of the system.

2025-02-18T16:00:00-0800 Jaz’s Blog Jaz 2,000 words

Rated 2025-02-20T07:50:18-0800

Maximizing resume SNR

This is a brief note about resumes and hiring. At Terraform Industries, I've been doing a lot of recruiting recently and it's helped me crystallize a few ideas I've had in this area. This blog will change over time. Terraform Industries is hiring! Join us as we decarbonize our industrial economy by getting carbon from…

2022-03-22T01:09:33-0700 Casey Handmer's blog 3,000 words

Rated 2025-02-17T14:57:24-0800

Energy Cheat Sheet

Building an intuition about energy

2024-12-20T05:01:09-0800 Construction Physics Brian Potter 4,000 words

Rated 2025-02-17T14:27:31-0800

calculator-app

calculator-app - Chad Nauseam Home

Chad Nauseam Home 2,000 words

Rated 2025-02-16T17:36:11-0800

We Were Wrong About GPUs

Do my tears surprise you? Strong CEOs also cry.

Fly 2,000 words

Rated 2025-02-14T20:37:14-0800

Do you need permission from the government to do independent research?

IRB you kidding me?

2025-02-13T09:00:15-0800 Dynomight Internet Newsletter dynomight 6,000 words

Rated 2025-02-13T19:08:48-0800

Asdf Has Been Re-Written in Golang - Stratus3D

Over the last year I’ve rewritten asdf in Go. I’m excited to announce that the rewrite was released last Wednesday as asdf version 0.16. …

stratus3d.com Trevor Brown 1,000 words

Rated 2025-02-13T07:37:20-0800

Jia Tolentino on Joan Didion’s “everywoman.com”

Didion’s appraisal of Martha Stewart, in which most glosses of the subject could also apply to the author, is an ur-text on contemporary feminine ambition.

2025-02-10T03:00:00-0800 The New Yorker Jia Tolentino 500 words

Rated 2025-02-13T06:56:59-0800

Ruby Outperforms C: Breaking the Catch-22

YJIT’s ability to improve performance by adapting to run-time behavior can increase the speed of our code in a way that dropping down to C can’t. As such, I think we should reconsider the common wisdom that “rewriting our Ruby in C” is the ideal path to performance optimization and take a serious look at “rewriting our C in Ruby” instead.

2023-08-28T17:00:00-0700 Rails at Scale Aaron Patterson 3,000 words

Rated 2025-02-12T21:06:10-0800

Leaking the email of any YouTube user for $10,000

What could've been the largest data breach in the world - an attack chain on Google services to leak the email address of any YouTube channel

brutecat.com 1,000 words

Rated 2025-02-12T15:31:59-0800

Tiny JITs for a Faster FFI

Can we have a faster FFI for CRuby? Yes.

2025-02-11T16:00:00-0800 Rails at Scale Aaron Patterson 2,000 words

Rated 2025-02-12T15:26:07-0800

Introducing: Barbecue Running Gel

It's time to smoke the competition.

2024-02-29T04:02:09-0800 Haterade Liz Cook 1,000 words

Rated 2025-02-11T18:26:07-0800

I Tasted Honda's Spicy Rodent-Repelling Tape

And I will do it again unless someone stops me.

2021-07-30T04:06:12-0700 Haterade Liz Cook 1,000 words

Rated 2025-02-11T18:22:27-0800

VSCode’s SSH Agent Is Bananas

Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.

Fly 500 words

Rated 2025-02-08T00:24:45-0800

1DaySooner's Trump II Health Policy Proposals

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2025-02-07T03:40:50-0800 astralcodexten.com Scott Alexander 15,000 words

Rated 2025-02-07T20:39:55-0800

How to avoid problems with Turbo morphing

A beautiful UI Morphed into existence Suddenly broken

2025-02-04T15:00:00-0800 Radan Skorić’s personal site 1,000 words

Rated 2025-02-06T22:03:38-0800

From Cold DM to Owning a Soccer Club

zachholman.com

Rated 2025-02-06T21:00:43-0800

Ruby "Thread Contention" is simply GVL Queuing

island94.org 1,000 words

Rated 2025-02-03T10:17:51-0800

Dario Amodei — Machines of Loving Grace

How AI Could Transform the World for the Better

darioamodei.com Dario Amodei 15,000 words

Rated 2025-02-03T08:16:12-0800

Everyone knows your location

Recently 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...

2025-01-31T15:30:18-0800 tim.sh tim 3,000 words

Rated 2025-02-02T18:58:15-0800

Archivists Work to Identify and Save the Thousands of Datasets Disappearing From Data.gov

More 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.

2025-01-30T11:36:15-0800 404 Media Jason Koebler 2,000 words

Rated 2025-02-01T17:08:56-0800

Patrick Mahomes and the secrets of the Dad Bod: What we get wrong about athleticism

Patrick Mahomes and Nikola Jokić aren't just superstars. They challenge us to better understand the hidden secrets of athleticism. #NBA #NFL

2025-01-30T02:00:43-0800 The New York Times Rustin Dodd ($) 2,000 words

Rated 2025-02-01T07:47:15-0800

The Antitrust Revolution, by Barry C. Lynn

Liberal democracy’s last stand against Big Tech #Amazon #Apple #Donald Trump #Facebook #Google #Microsoft #Supreme Court

2024-08-20T14:23:10-0700 Harper's Magazine 200 words

Rated 2025-01-30T21:50:20-0800

“Founder Mode” and the Art of Mythmaking

I’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…

2024-12-17T09:53:35-0800 charity.wtf 9,000 words

Rated 2025-01-29T12:39:41-0800