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Casey Handmer's blog

I guess we’re doing Moon factories now A quick note collating a list of blogs I’ve written on the topic. I’ll update it with good third...

6 hours ago

A quick note collating a list of blogs I’ve written on the topic. I’ll update it with good third party write ups as I become aware of them. Context: SpaceX announced a refocus on lunar development. My best explanation for this is that SpaceX wants to accelerate human occupation...

Jeffrey Zeldman...

Works in Progress So a dear friend bought me Logic Pro as a birthday gift last month, and I’m teaching myself the...

15 minutes ago

So a dear friend bought me Logic Pro as a birthday gift last month, and I’m teaching myself the program by creating music inside it. If you’re the kind of music lover who finds rough mix acetates fascinating, you may enjoy sampling the quick mixes of partially completed pieces...

The Elysian

Let Cities Build Utopia—new drop! My deep dive on the future of cities is now available as a print pamphlet, digital pamphlet, and...

33 minutes ago

My deep dive on the future of cities is now available as a print pamphlet, digital pamphlet, and audio essay.

Common Edge

The Urban Design Legacy of Colin Rowe A recent book on the architect, planner, and educator sheds new light on his seminal career.

42 minutes ago

A recent book on the architect, planner, and educator sheds new light on his seminal career.

Can We Still Govern?

Why Your Boss Can Block Your Unemployment Benefits And what it means for worker wellbeing and access to the safety net

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And what it means for worker wellbeing and access to the safety net

Old Structures...

Twenty Years On Unsurprisingly this photo by Max Hubacher is titled “View from the Manhattan Bridge towards lower...

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Unsurprisingly this photo by Max Hubacher is titled “View from the Manhattan Bridge towards lower Manhattan”: It’s a reasonably straightforward view with the iconic towers of lower Manhattan behind the Brooklyn Bridge. Want to find Wall Street? Look for the tallest cluster of...

Stratechery by Ben...

Amazon Earnings, CapEx Concerns, Commodity AI Amazon's massive CapEx increase makes me much more nervous than Google's, but it is understandable.

3 hours ago

Amazon's massive CapEx increase makes me much more nervous than Google's, but it is understandable.

Londonist

The Southbank Centre Gets Listed Status Including Hayward Gallery and Queen Elizabeth Hall.

3 hours ago

Including Hayward Gallery and Queen Elizabeth Hall.

Seth's Blog

A starting point for the blog The challenge of the library is the card catalog. If you don’t know what you’re looking for, it’s...

4 hours ago

The challenge of the library is the card catalog. If you don’t know what you’re looking for, it’s hard to find much of anything. The challenge of the web is the search box, for the same reason. It’s efficient once you’re on a mission, but it requires you to go first. And the chat...

NPR Programs:...

Rep. Dan Goldman, D-N.Y., talks about DHS reforms ahead of looming funding deadline NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Rep. Dan Goldman, D-N.Y., about oversight and reforms for the...

4 hours ago

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Rep. Dan Goldman, D-N.Y., about oversight and reforms for the Department of Homeland Security as a funding deadline looms.

Retail Design Blog

Hangzhou Empathy Museum by TAOA This community art museum is a transformative renovation based on an unfinished project, originally...

6 hours ago

This community art museum is a transformative renovation based on an unfinished project, originally consisting of a completed underground parking...

Matt Mullenweg

Leadership at the Peak I want to start by thanking the Automattic board, and in particular General (Ret.) Ann Dunwoody, for...

7 hours ago

I want to start by thanking the Automattic board, and in particular General (Ret.) Ann Dunwoody, for encouraging me to step away from the endless work of being CEO of Automattic to focus on training and development. Ann, as one of this generation’s great leaders, did it herself...

diamond geezer

The Minchenden Oak Yesterday I went in search of one more extremely old tree. Southgate (in Enfield). The Minchenden...

7 hours ago

Yesterday I went in search of one more extremely old tree. Southgate (in Enfield). The Minchenden Oak (800? years old) Minchenden House, just along the ridge from Arnos Grove. It was built in the 1660s and passed through a succession of gentry before one particular daughter...

Anecdotal Evidence

'A Form of Knowledge' A reader asks why “Anecdotal Evidence”? I don’t have a definitive answer. When I covered courts as...

8 hours ago

A reader asks why “Anecdotal Evidence”? I don’t have a definitive answer. When I covered courts as a newspaper reporter I would hear lawyers and judges casually disparage anecdotal evidence, as opposed to physical evidence or sworn testimony. In other words, it was less reliable,...

Least I Could Do

Duh! The post Duh! appeared first on Least I Could Do.

9 hours ago

The post Duh! appeared first on Least I Could Do.

Platformer

Why the infinite-scroll childhood may be coming to an end A lawsuit that begins in LA this week, along with a new investigation into TikTok by the European...

12 hours ago

A lawsuit that begins in LA this week, along with a new investigation into TikTok by the European Commission, could change social apps forever. PLUS: AI ads at the Super Bowl and in ChatGPT

Obsolete Sony’s...

What Is the PS2 BIOS? How It Works and Why Emulators Need It A technical explanation of Sony’s fixed system ROM and its role in PlayStation 2 emulation

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A technical explanation of Sony’s fixed system ROM and its role in PlayStation 2 emulation

Rubenerd

Sandwich questionnaire I needed a palette cleanser after the last few days. So when I saw James and Zachary Kai’s posts...

15 hours ago

I needed a palette cleanser after the last few days. So when I saw James and Zachary Kai’s posts about this important topic, I felt compelled to respond in kind. How many sandwiches do you eat per week? At least a few when we’re at home. I used to eat them more often. I miss...

Slow Boring

Big swings and calls for moderation “Stop running candidates who excite the base but lose in the general.”

15 hours ago

“Stop running candidates who excite the base but lose in the general.”

Arduino Blog

A weather station built specifically for model rocket launches When NASA or SpaceX launches a rocket, it is important for them to monitor the real-time local...

16 hours ago

When NASA or SpaceX launches a rocket, it is important for them to monitor the real-time local weather conditions to adjust parameters or even delay until conditions are more favorable. Model rocket launches are just as affected by weather — more so, in fact, because they have so...

IEEE Spectrum

IEEE Honors Global Dream Team of Innovators Meet the recipients of the 2026 IEEE Medals—the organization’s highest-level honors. Presented on...

19 hours ago

Meet the recipients of the 2026 IEEE Medals—the organization’s highest-level honors. Presented on behalf of the IEEE Board of Directors, these medals recognize innovators whose work has shaped modern technology across disciplines including AI, education, and semiconductors. The...

Mazdak

AI Agents vs. SaaS: Is This the Beginning of a Structural Reset or Another Tech Overreaction? Public software companies just had one of their worst weeks in years—and the market reaction was...

19 hours ago

Public software companies just had one of their worst weeks in years—and the market reaction was swift, brutal, and emotional.

TASTE

The Fight for the Future of the World’s Best Cinnamon As worries emerge about the future of what has become known as the world’s best cinnamon, growers...

19 hours ago

As worries emerge about the future of what has become known as the world’s best cinnamon, growers are deciding the fight ought to be an international one. The post The Fight for the Future of the World’s Best Cinnamon appeared first on TASTE.

TheCollector

What Sparked the Hundred Years’ War Between England and France? In 1337, King Philip VI of France declared that he did not recognize King Edward III of England’s...

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In 1337, King Philip VI of France declared that he did not recognize King Edward III of England’s sovereignty over the Aquitaine region in France. Edward responded by asserting his claim to the French crown. This led to the start of a series of conflicts between the English,...

Blog System/5

Grumpy Julio plays with CLI coding agents Or the more tired “One week with Claude Code”-type article

20 hours ago

Or the more tired “One week with Claude Code”-type article

Birchtree

Celebrating record revenue with layoffs Maddie Agne: Bandai Namco Hits Record High Net Sales Revenue Bandai Namco has posted record high net...

21 hours ago

Maddie Agne: Bandai Namco Hits Record High Net Sales Revenue Bandai Namco has posted record high net sales for the first nine months of the 2026 financial year despite differences in home console title lineups impacting profits. At this point, when I hear a tech or gaming company...

Saturday Morning...

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Up Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Bet you none of these newfangled Ai art generators...

21 hours ago

Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Bet you none of these newfangled Ai art generators will do you an upskirt Pope. Today's News:

YaleNews Articles

‘The Roots of Healing’: The books that fed our knowledge of medicinal plants An exhibit at Sterling Memorial Library traces six centuries of “herbals” — guides to the medicinal...

21 hours ago

An exhibit at Sterling Memorial Library traces six centuries of “herbals” — guides to the medicinal properties of plants — highlighting the enduring intersection of art, science, and the humanities in the pursuit of better medicine.

Classical Wisdom

Was Socrates Wrong? The Case for Arguing with the Greatest Minds in History

21 hours ago

The Case for Arguing with the Greatest Minds in History

Johnathan Bi:...

Transcript of Interview with Dale Allison on Miracles An interview with Dale Allison on Miracles

22 hours ago

An interview with Dale Allison on Miracles

The Diff

Living Forever is an Asset Allocation Problem Plus! Books; SPVs; Blockchain; National Balance Sheets; A Voluntary Y2K

22 hours ago

Plus! Books; SPVs; Blockchain; National Balance Sheets; A Voluntary Y2K

Yale E360

Wolf Found in Los Angeles for the First Time in a Century For the first time in at least a century, a gray wolf has been found in Los Angeles County. Its...

22 hours ago

For the first time in at least a century, a gray wolf has been found in Los Angeles County. Its arrival is a milestone in the return of the long-embattled predator. Read more on E360 →

Archinect

New images revealed of La Brea Tar Pits overhaul as museum announces Ice Age center plans in... The Natural History Museums of Los Angeles County has unveiled new details of the La Brea Tar Pits...

23 hours ago

The Natural History Museums of Los Angeles County has unveiled new details of the La Brea Tar Pits master plan.  The major overhaul is being led by WEISS/MANFREDI, with Gruen Associates serving as executive and landscape architect. The scheme is grounded by an over half-mile...

Infinite Scroll

The Jestergooning Administration Clavicular gets mogged, Will Stancil gets punched, and X still promotes Nazis

23 hours ago

Clavicular gets mogged, Will Stancil gets punched, and X still promotes Nazis

LessWrong

Sympathy for the Model, or, Welfare Concerns as Takeover Risk Published on February 9, 2026 2:19 PM GMT The Claude Opus 4.6 System Card contains a section on...

23 hours ago

Published on February 9, 2026 2:19 PM GMT The Claude Opus 4.6 System Card contains a section on model welfare. In principle, this is good: I care about AI welfare, and I wish our methods for investigating it were less dubious. AI welfare---as it applies to LLMs today---is an...

Probably...

Don’t Bet on the Super Bowl If you have studied probability, you might be familiar with fractional odds, which represent the...

2 days ago

If you have studied probability, you might be familiar with fractional odds, which represent the ratio of the probability something happens to the probability it doesn’t. For example, if the Seahawks have a 75% chance of winning the Super Bowl, they have a 25% chance of losing,...

The Verge

You need to listen to the new Mandy, Indiana record: URGH Often, I focus on recommending older media that isn't currently getting a ton of attention. But this...

2 days ago

Often, I focus on recommending older media that isn't currently getting a ton of attention. But this week, I can't stop listening to the new Mandy, Indiana album long enough to even think about anything else. It's early still, obviously, but URGH is my favorite release of 2026 so...

Pluralistic: Daily...

Pluralistic: End of the line for video essays (07 Feb 2026) Today's links End of the line for video essays: America's worst copyright law keeps getting even...

3 days ago

Today's links End of the line for video essays: America's worst copyright law keeps getting even worse. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Payphone phaseout; Nvidia sock-puppets; Love picking; Fake locksmiths. Upcoming appearances: Where to find me....

Don't Worry About...

Claude Code #4: From The Before Times Claude Opus 4.6 and agent swarms were announced yesterday.

4 days ago

Claude Opus 4.6 and agent swarms were announced yesterday.

Not Boring by Packy...

Weekly Dose of Optimism #179 Opus 4.6, GPT-5.3-Codex, As Rocks May Think, Mouse Brain Computers, Waymo, Contrary Tech Trends + 4...

4 days ago

Opus 4.6, GPT-5.3-Codex, As Rocks May Think, Mouse Brain Computers, Waymo, Contrary Tech Trends + 4 Extra Doses

Sam Solomon

Zen HN HHacker News is probably my favorite place on the internet. I’ve been part of the community for over...

4 days ago

HHacker News is probably my favorite place on the internet. I’ve been part of the community for over a decade, and I’ve learned so much from the incredibly smart and thoughtful people there. I love the site. But it’s ugly. There’s a certain charm to that brutal simplicity, and I...

Caroline Crampton

How Much It Really Costs To Do Nice Things Thirteen things this Thursday that I have read, watched, listened to or otherwise found noteworthy.

5 days ago

Thirteen things this Thursday that I have read, watched, listened to or otherwise found noteworthy.

oftwominds-Charles...

Owning Your Work in a World That Rents Your Life This is the quiet truth of institutional work: improvement doesn't buy freedom. It buys...

a week ago

This is the quiet truth of institutional work: improvement doesn't buy freedom. It buys responsibility without ownership. This guest essay by longtime correspondent 0bserver describes the core dynamics of work in America and the global economy: if we don't own our work, we...

Scarlet Ink

Interview Mistake: Trash Talking Co-Workers Complaining about co-workers is an immature and dangerous temptation.

a week ago

Complaining about co-workers is an immature and dangerous temptation.

nanoscale views

What is the Aharonov-Bohm effect? After seeing this latest extremely good video from Veritasium, and looking back through my posts, I...

a week ago

After seeing this latest extremely good video from Veritasium, and looking back through my posts, I realized that while I've referenced it indirectly, I've never explicitly talked about the Aharonov-Bohm effect.  The video is excellent, and that wikipedia page is pretty good, but...

Winnie Lim

learning to take care of my self For as long as I can remember I had been very unhappy with myself. I think I have internalised the...

a week ago

For as long as I can remember I had been very unhappy with myself. I think I have internalised the judgement of people upon me: lazy, fickle, impulsive, over-sensitive, emotional, bad-tempered, etc....

Computer Ads from...

NCR Tower 1632 Tower 1632. You Can Really Grow Attached to It.

a week ago

Tower 1632. You Can Really Grow Attached to It.

I am BARRY HESS

These artists selling signed vinyl direct on their websites is getting me... These artists selling signed vinyl direct on their websites is getting me. Pretty clever! I like...

a week ago

These artists selling signed vinyl direct on their websites is getting me. Pretty clever! I like supporting them this way, but I do wish they could find a way to reduce the shipping costs. Reply by email

Flashbak

23 Fabulous Vintage Snapshots of People In Barrels Love is in the air. And as thoughts turn to Valentine’s Day, we look at a great album of snapshots...

a week ago

Love is in the air. And as thoughts turn to Valentine’s Day, we look at a great album of snapshots of people getting naked, getting cosy and having barrels of fun – in wooden barrels, once used for booze, grain and oil ever since Pennsylvania oilmen collected the substance in...

iDiallo.com

You Don't Understand Things Better, You Just Feel Smarter After watching a Veritasium video, I feel a surge of intellectual confidence. I feel smarter....

a week ago

After watching a Veritasium video, I feel a surge of intellectual confidence. I feel smarter. Whether it's a video on lasers or quantum physics, it seems like I have a better grasp on the subject. I finally get it. Derek and his crew just have a way of simplifying complex ideas,...

The Pragmatic...

I replaced a $120/year micro-SaaS in 20 minutes with LLM-generated code I used to pay $120/year for a SaaS that hasn’t added new features in four years, and didn’t fix its...

a week ago

I used to pay $120/year for a SaaS that hasn’t added new features in four years, and didn’t fix its broken billing system for three years. Using an LLM, I managed to rewrite all the functionality I used to pay for in 20 minutes. Is this bad news for “write once, don’t update...

Arnaud Bertrand

The incredible story of Alex, forced to flee to China for documenting poverty in the U.S. The hottest term on Chinese social media right now is “kill-line”: if you go to Xiaohongshu,...

a week ago

The hottest term on Chinese social media right now is “kill-line”: if you go to Xiaohongshu, Bilibili or Douyin, everyone is speaking about it.

The Works in...

American water is too clean Clean drinking water is a modern miracle. But it has become expensive, and it doesn’t need to be.

a week ago

Clean drinking water is a modern miracle. But it has become expensive, and it doesn’t need to be.

UX Collective

What makes generated UI worth keeping? Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.

2 weeks ago

Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.

Explosm.net

Comic for 2026.01.26 - Post-It New Cyanide and Happiness Comic

2 weeks ago

New Cyanide and Happiness Comic

Rare Historical...

Beautiful Studio Shots Capture Young Women’s Hairstyles and Fashion of the Early 1990s The early 1990s marked a shift in fashion that was a refreshing contrast to the extravagant styles...

2 weeks ago

The early 1990s marked a shift in fashion that was a refreshing contrast to the extravagant styles of the previous decade. As the world adapted to a more subdued economic environment, the everyday fashion of young women became more relaxed, casual, and, most importantly,...

Global Inequality...

The great puzzle of the Great Terror As I mentioned on Twitter, I just finished reading the second volume of Aragon’s Histoire de l’URSS...

2 weeks ago

As I mentioned on Twitter, I just finished reading the second volume of Aragon’s Histoire de l’URSS (published by Edition 10/18 in 1962).

ntietz.com blog -...

Making niche solutions is the point I got a 3D printer recently, and got to work using it. When I shared one of the first things I made...

2 weeks ago

I got a 3D printer recently, and got to work using it. When I shared one of the first things I made in a private Discord, someone commented that "This is the most niche thing I've ever seen someone design/print." That, my friend, is the point: that we can make exactly what we...

Some Bits: Nelson's...

Trump Nazi memes Parallels between Trump social media posts and Nazi propaganda. It's not accidental.

2 weeks ago

Parallels between Trump social media posts and Nazi propaganda. It's not accidental.

Inverted Passion

Science of habit building This essay is part of the series in which I talk about my learnings and insights building a habit...

2 weeks ago

This essay is part of the series in which I talk about my learnings and insights building a habit coaching app (Nintee) in 2024. It didn’t ultimately work out because an app has marginal influence in a human’s life (v/s that of friends, family, culture and immediate environment)....

Buttondown's blog

Better tag self-management Flip a toggle and subscribers can add or remove tags themselves in the portal.

2 weeks ago

Flip a toggle and subscribers can add or remove tags themselves in the portal.

Uncharted...

AI in 2026 The AI bubble, who will win, the rate of AI progress, are we getting close to AGI, the impact on...

2 weeks ago

The AI bubble, who will win, the rate of AI progress, are we getting close to AGI, the impact on jobs, and more.

High Signal

MRR and how long to get there Hi there Thanks for signing up for my founder newsletter. I fixed some issues with the newsletter...

2 weeks ago

Hi there Thanks for signing up for my founder newsletter. I fixed some issues with the newsletter design

CHM

Generative Music with the Muse Unpacking the mysteries of the rare Triadex Muse from the early 1970s, the first algorithm-based...

2 weeks ago

Unpacking the mysteries of the rare Triadex Muse from the early 1970s, the first algorithm-based sequencer/synthesizer intended for home consumers. The post Generative Music with the Muse appeared first on CHM.

AI for Software...

AI’s Economic Impact Is Real | AI for Software Engineers 78 This week: AI means more software engineers, young adults trust AI with financial decisions, tips on...

2 weeks ago

This week: AI means more software engineers, young adults trust AI with financial decisions, tips on agent safety, and more

Herbert Lui

Manage your energy, not just your time Focus your life on doing things that make you feel a personal lift.  I used to think that meant...

2 weeks ago

Focus your life on doing things that make you feel a personal lift.  I used to think that meant chasing excitement. The definition has expanded.  For example, I’ve realized I feel a personal lift when I do things I used to avoid—whether it’s an ordinary task that makes me...

NeuroLogica Blog

The AI 2027 Scenario A group of AI experts have released a paper that explores (or “predicts”) the possibility of a...

2 weeks ago

A group of AI experts have released a paper that explores (or “predicts”) the possibility of a near-term AI explosion that ultimately leads to the extinction of humanity. This has, of course, sparked a great deal of discussion, feedback, and criticism. Here is the scenario they...

Eukaryote Writes...

23 lessons you will learn living in a very snowy place 6. Snow is heavier than you think. You might think physical strength is useful for lots of things,...

2 weeks ago

6. Snow is heavier than you think. You might think physical strength is useful for lots of things, like overall health or familiar household tasks or picking up dudes (literally or metaphorically.) But actually, the main thing physical strength is useful for is letting you...

Ploum.net

Why there’s no European Google? Why there’s no European Google? And why it is a good thing! With some adjustments, this post is...

2 weeks ago

Why there’s no European Google? And why it is a good thing! With some adjustments, this post is mostly a translation of a post I published in French three years ago. In light of the European Commission’s "call for evidence on Open Source," and as a professor of "Open Source...

CrimethInc.

From Rapid Response to Revolutionary Social Change : The Potential of the Rapid Response Networks In this account, participants in the rapid response networks in the Twin Cities describe their...

2 weeks ago

In this account, participants in the rapid response networks in the Twin Cities describe their experiences, explore the threat represented by the development of Immigration and Customs Enforcement into a political police, and propose a strategy for how the rapid response networks...

Ctrl+Alt+Del Comic

Spaghetti The post Spaghetti appeared first on Ctrl+Alt+Del Comic.

3 weeks ago

The post Spaghetti appeared first on Ctrl+Alt+Del Comic.

The Deleted Scenes

The Social Media Lab Leak The algorithm always wins

3 weeks ago

The algorithm always wins

Wrong Side of...

‘Charlie began taking in a lot of harmful ideological messages’ Yookay News Report (Wrong Side of History newsletter #73)

3 weeks ago

Yookay News Report (Wrong Side of History newsletter #73)

Evan Hahn (dot com)

A mental math heuristic to convert between Fahrenheit and Celsius I sometimes have to convert between Fahrenheit and Celsius. The actual formula is hard to do in my...

3 weeks ago

I sometimes have to convert between Fahrenheit and Celsius. The actual formula is hard to do in my head, but someone once told me a useful approximation: To convert from Celsius to Fahrenheit, double it and add 30. To convert from Fahrenheit to Celsius, subtract 30 and halve it...

Flashbak

Life in 1940s Florida in Gorgeous Kodachrome Founded in 1949, The Sailor Circus Academy is Sarasota’s “premier youth circus training program”...

3 weeks ago

Founded in 1949, The Sailor Circus Academy is Sarasota’s “premier youth circus training program” (yes, there are others). Florida is where in the 1940s the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus wintered. The circus and sideshow industries were headquartered in Sarasota,...

Ed Zitron's Where's...

Premium: This Is Worse Than The Dot Com Bubble Soundtrack - Radiohead - Karma Police I just spent a week at the Consumer Electronics Show, and one...

3 weeks ago

Soundtrack - Radiohead - Karma Police I just spent a week at the Consumer Electronics Show, and one word kept coming up: bullshit.  LG, a company known for making home appliances and televisions, demonstrated a robot (named “CLOiD” for some reason) that could “fold laundry”

Artificial Ignorance

The AI Manager's Schedule The new skills you need when your reports are LLMs.

3 weeks ago

The new skills you need when your reports are LLMs.

iDiallo.com

We Were Never Good Programmers OK, that may be a little mean-spirited, but I don't just mean you. I mean a whole lot of us. A...

3 weeks ago

OK, that may be a little mean-spirited, but I don't just mean you. I mean a whole lot of us. A couple weeks ago, a graph made the rounds showing the decline of Stack Overflow. At its peak, there were 207,000 questions asked in a single month. By December 2025, there were just...

Noahpinion

Trapped in the hell of social comparison A hypothesis about why Americans are unhappy with their economy.

3 weeks ago

A hypothesis about why Americans are unhappy with their economy.

Some Bits: Nelson's...

CNAME vs A record Cloudflare outage report talks about a subtle wrinkle in DNS, where the order of the records matters...

3 weeks ago

Cloudflare outage report talks about a subtle wrinkle in DNS, where the order of the records matters when it probably shouldn't

Works in Progress...

The United States needs fewer bus stops Bus stop balancing is fast, cheap, and effective. It can turn a service people tolerate into one...

3 weeks ago

Bus stop balancing is fast, cheap, and effective. It can turn a service people tolerate into one they’re happy to use.

Jakob Nielsen on UX

18 Predictions for 2026 Accelerating AI capabilities will shift focus from raw intelligence to autonomous agents and...

4 weeks ago

Accelerating AI capabilities will shift focus from raw intelligence to autonomous agents and Generative UI, making UX the primary business moat.

Marcus on AI

Let’s be honest, Generative AI isn’t going all that well A sampling of recent news

4 weeks ago

A sampling of recent news

The Deleted Scenes

Maps Of Time And thoughts on unlikely historical sources

a month ago

And thoughts on unlikely historical sources

Construction Physics

Reading List 1/10/2026 Waymos as kid shuttles, naval reactors for data centers, welder’s anthrax, flood buyouts, and more.

a month ago

Waymos as kid shuttles, naval reactors for data centers, welder’s anthrax, flood buyouts, and more.

Ian Betteridge

Ten Blue Links – "Platforms, promises and bad habits" edition Hello! And welcome back. I have had an extended break over Christmas and the New Year. The one...

a month ago

Hello! And welcome back. I have had an extended break over Christmas and the New Year. The one benefit of being useless at taking my holiday allowance is that I usually end up taking December off, and so it proved again this year. This one is a bit of an

watchTowr Labs

Do Smart People Ever Say They’re Smart? (SmarterTools SmarterMail Pre-Auth RCE CVE-2025-52691) Welcome to 2026! While we are all waiting for the scheduled SSLVPN ITW exploitation programming that...

a month ago

Welcome to 2026! While we are all waiting for the scheduled SSLVPN ITW exploitation programming that occurs every January, we’re back from Christmas and idle hands, idle minds, yada yada. In December, we were alerted to a vulnerability in SmarterTools’ SmarterMail solution,...

Hyphen Nation

What Game Are You Playing? Remind yourself that you always have agency and can stop playing the game any time if you want to.

a month ago

Remind yourself that you always have agency and can stop playing the game any time if you want to.

AI for Software...

AI's Role in Maduro's Capture | AI for Software Engineers 76 Plus: Half of AI code has security flaws, how to fix AI in education, Nvidia acquihires Groq, AI...

a month ago

Plus: Half of AI code has security flaws, how to fix AI in education, Nvidia acquihires Groq, AI safety concerns grow, and more

The American Scholar

“i thank You God for most this amazing day” by E. E. Cummings Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “i thank You God for most this amazing day” by E. E. Cummings...

a month ago

Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “i thank You God for most this amazing day” by E. E. Cummings appeared first on The American Scholar.

Noahpinion

Where does a liberal go from here? Our movement overreached and crashed. But the fundamental ideals are still just as powerful.

a month ago

Our movement overreached and crashed. But the fundamental ideals are still just as powerful.

The Map is Mostly...

Ink in the Stomach Something I believe very strongly, mostly from observing changes in myself, is that, once you’ve...

a month ago

Something I believe very strongly, mostly from observing changes in myself, is that, once you’ve shoved your own hands deep in the entrails of a building, you’ve permanently altered your entire relationship with the world.

Herbert Lui

A journal’s purpose Every journal exists for one purpose: for someone to fill it up.  You can fill up a journal in many...

a month ago

Every journal exists for one purpose: for someone to fill it up.  You can fill up a journal in many ways. Here are some: writing, drawing, collage, painting, or coloring. Once the journal is full, it has achieved its purpose and it quietly transforms into a book.  You can choose...

The AI Underwriter

Who told you you couldn't do that? To those who said it couldn’t be done

a month ago

To those who said it couldn’t be done

Ed Zitron's Where's...

The Enshittifinancial Crisis Soundtrack: Lynyrd Skynyrd — Free Bird This piece is over 19,000 words, and took me a great deal of...

a month ago

Soundtrack: Lynyrd Skynyrd — Free Bird This piece is over 19,000 words, and took me a great deal of writing and research. If you liked it, please subscribe to my premium newsletter. It’s $70 a year, or $7 a month, and in return you get a weekly

Noahpinion

Ten things that are going right in America Is our society slowly putting itself back together?

a month ago

Is our society slowly putting itself back together?

Quantum Frontiers

Quantum computing in the second quantum century On December 10, I gave a keynote address at the Q2B 2025 Conference in Silicon Valley. This is a...

a month ago

On December 10, I gave a keynote address at the Q2B 2025 Conference in Silicon Valley. This is a transcript of my remarks. The slides I presented are here. The first century We are nearing the end of the International Year of … Continue reading →

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What do some of the greatest outliers in business history have in common? For the past year, I’ve been sharing the stories of history’s greatest outliers like James Dyson, Harvey Firestone, Rose Blumkin, Henry Singleton, Sol Price, and Les Schwab. These are names that deserve to...

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A Christmas Dinner The post A Christmas Dinner appeared first on The American Scholar.

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The point of writing every day isn’t to write every day Since 2007, every year, Tony Stubblebine publishes an article on things he feels grateful for....

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Since 2007, every year, Tony Stubblebine publishes an article on things he feels grateful for. Except, sometimes, he’s late.  A couple of days ago, he published the one for 2024—the year before this one. As I dove into his archives, I noticed he’d aggregated some years—one...

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A few years back, I worked at an AI startup as the first hired engineer. All of us could fit in a four-space cubicle, sharing an office with multiple startups. As you can imagine, when you're trying to get a startup off the ground, you have to put in the hours. Every day I would...

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I would like to write a bit about text. That is: technical writing, legal briefs, or even an opinion piece such as this note. Such writings make up much of our society and form a “marketplace of ideas.” Texts are now very cheap to produce using large language models (LLMs). […]

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I like the Steam Deck. It’s what convinced me that gaming on Linux is actually viable now. But after playing through games like God of War Ragnarök1, I felt like I needed an upgrade. I love playing with the Steam Deck, but what I love more is playing without having to worry about...

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The big news in the UK this week was the latest Budget by the Chancellor Rachel Reeves. The scare story in the budget runup All UK readers of this blog will know that the rumours and counter-rumours in the run-up to this budget exceeded anything we have seen before. There were...

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I’m excited that we’re almost at the end of the year. I started this journey to explore our culture’s foundations. By now, we’ve left the lower levels and have moved into the antechambers. On week 48, Gioia recommended three familiar works: Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis,...

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The Map In Your Mind (?) And did technology make us worse mental mappers?

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And did technology make us worse mental mappers?

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Making social networking more like email.

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Fixing the RP2350-USB-A not working as USB host tl;dr: you need to desolder R13, the resistor closest the pin 6 of the board, as indicated by the...

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tl;dr: you need to desolder R13, the resistor closest the pin 6 of the board, as indicated by the red arrow in the cover picture of this article Context I am currently toying around with emulating a USB device. However, I also wanted to be able to plug a keyboard in, so I needed...

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New Cyanide and Happiness Comic

Artificial Ignorance

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Google's simultaneous releases in models, research, and developer tools.

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The popularity of the acai berry as a so-called “superfood” is a triumph of marketing over reality. This is a berry from the Amazon that was eaten by local people – because it was available – but was then marketed by a company called Sambazon and became an international...

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Is 30% of Microsoft's Code Really AI-Generated? A few months back, news outlets were buzzing with reports that Satya Nadella claimed 30% of the code...

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A few months back, news outlets were buzzing with reports that Satya Nadella claimed 30% of the code in Microsoft's repositories was AI-generated. This fueled the hype around tools like Copilot and Cursor. The implication seemed clear: if Microsoft's developers were now "vibe...

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In the last years of the 17th century, Scotland embarked on an ambitious plan for colonial expansion, which failed in disaster and helped end its existence as an independent nation. In 1690, Scotland was in trouble. At this time, Scotland was in a strange and confusing political...

Winnie Lim

my strange relationship with drawing This morning I was watching a youtube video on a famous comic artist’s sketchbook, and I caught...

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This morning I was watching a youtube video on a famous comic artist’s sketchbook, and I caught myself thinking that I have such a weird relationship to drawing. Here I was: fascinated...

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Untangling a cursed formula from 1748.

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Three recent community tech builds, lessons from vibe coding, and rediscovering the joy of building

nanoscale views

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The 2026 APS Oliver E. Buckley Prize in condensed matter physics was announced this week, and it's a really interesting combination of topics that, to a lay person, may seem to be completely unrelated.   Fig. 1 from this follow-up PRB. On the one hand, John Reppy (at age 94!)...

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One of my favorite authors was hired by a prestigious media platform to do a travel show. He hired one of his favorite rappers to record the theme song. He got paid to travel. He went on adventures, gained notoriety, and grew the community of people who followed him. It all...

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All the Saints appear in the French book Heurs of Louis de Laval (Hours of Louis de Leval), published in 1480. Louis de Laval, an aristocrat and politician who served the French King Louis XI of France (1423–83), commissioned Jean de Colombe (c. 1430 – c. 1493) and other artists...

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Are Parents Too Close To Their Children? A Question Inspired by the New John Lewis Christmas Ad

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Antitrust; Passive investing; Export controls; Overtourism; Selective immigration

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A bit of obscure ephemera today. In 1940 the Fels Planetarium in Philadelphia had a program they called "To the Moon by Rocket Ship." It was a program for adults and children describing the science of what it would be like to go to the Moon. It also explored the formation of...

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Hey folks! Fireside this week. I had wanted to have my post on the hoplite debate (the othismos over othismos) ready for this week, but it’s not quite done, so I am shifting that to next week. So instead this week I want to outline another debate in ancient military history, the...

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Despite Lowe's and Home Depot, the simplicity of Menards has made it a staple in the Midwest. The post Menards Teardown: The Masterclass Behind A Midwest Hardware Store appeared first on Scott DeLong.

Citation Needed

Issue 96 – Redefining solvency Sam Bankman-Fried makes his case for a retrial and aspiring crypto banks hit roadblocks

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Sam Bankman-Fried makes his case for a retrial and aspiring crypto banks hit roadblocks

Jim Nielsen’s Blog

Down The Atomic Rabbit Hole Over the years, I’ve been chewing on media related to nuclear weapons. This is my high-level,...

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Over the years, I’ve been chewing on media related to nuclear weapons. This is my high-level, non-exhaustive documentation of my consumption — with links! 📖 The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes. This is one of those definitive histories (it’s close to 1,000 pages and...

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Soundtrack: Queens of the Stone Age - Song For The Dead Editor's Note: The original piece had a mathematical error around burnrate, it's been fixed. A few days ago, Sam Altman said that OpenAI’s revenues were “well more” than $13bn in 2025

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Next we explored the one remaining direction outward from Fairbanks that we hadn’t seen before, heading towards the southeast on the Richardson Highway. This day-trip took us about a hundred miles down to Delta Junction, where we turned around and came back. I’ll describe points...

Quanta Magazine

Physicists Take the Imaginary Numbers Out of Quantum Mechanics Quantum mechanics has at last been formulated exclusively with real numbers, bringing a mathematical...

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Quantum mechanics has at last been formulated exclusively with real numbers, bringing a mathematical puzzle at the heart of the theory into a new era of inquiry. The post Physicists Take the Imaginary Numbers Out of Quantum Mechanics first appeared on Quanta Magazine

Weighty Thoughts

No, AI Power Requirements Aren't Intractable AI’s Electricity Appetite is Big, But Our Wallets are Bigger

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Everywhere you look, you can find traces of the ancient Roman civilization from which the modern West descends. That’s especially true if you happen to be looking in Europe, though echoes of Latin make themselves heard in major languages used all over the world. Take, for...

Flashbak

‘Musically Incompetent’: A 17-Year-Old Morrissey Reviews The Ramones in 1976 “The Ramones have absolutely nothing to add that is of relevance or importance and should be rightly...

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Noahpinion

The internet wants to be fragmented A repost, with some updates.

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A repost, with some updates.

Explosm.net

Comic for 2025.11.07 New Cyanide and Happiness Comic

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mtlynch.io

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New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and founder of small, indie tech businesses. I’m currently working on a book called Refactoring English: Effective Writing for Software Developers. Every month, I publish a retrospective like this one to share how things are...

fast.ai

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An overview of the features of the Solveit platform, which is designed to make exploration and iterative development easier and faster.