Articles by ColinWright
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Bored of eating your own dogfood? Try smelling your own farts (shkspr.mobi)

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Elon Musk misled Twitter investors, jury finds (bbc.co.uk)

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Calculating pi with a lunar rover [video] (youtube.com)

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Beach Spectres (beachspectres.com)

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Scientists Once Dropped Gophers on a Volcano. Now They're Heroes (popularmechanics.com)

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From DuckDuckGo Back to DuckDuckGo via Mojeek and Kagi (neilzone.co.uk)

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Charles Misner & Patrick Cooney (deprogrammaticaipsum.com)

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Microslop (s-config.com)

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Lloyds, Bank of Scot and Halifax apps showed customers other users' transactions (bbc.co.uk)

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The magic of adding random noise to black and white images [video] (youtube.com)

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Saving No One (pelicancrossing.net)

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We may Soon have City-Spanning 900 MHz Mesh Networks (2021) (cheapskatesguide.org)

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As We May Think (1945) (wikipedia.org)

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German Tank Problem (wikipedia.org)

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Accenture: You're promoted or fired on using the AI (pivot-to-ai.com)

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Five security lessons from the FBI's Washington Post raid (freedom.press)

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[flagged] Psychology suggests making a shopping list is a sign of sharper thinking (indiatimes.com)

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How close are we to a vision for 2010? (shkspr.mobi)

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Rare 'planetary parade' will return to the evening sky this week (livescience.com)

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Louis de Broglie – Nobel Lecture [pdf] (nobelprize.org)

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I verified my LinkedIn identity. Here's what I handed over (thelocalstack.eu)

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Information Wants to Be Surveiled (pelicancrossing.net)

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Judge scolds Zuckerberg's team for wearing Meta glasses to social media trial (cbsnews.com)

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Paediatricians' blood used to make new treatments for RSV and colds (newscientist.com)

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Bungled Boeing Starliner mission put stranded NASA crew at risk (livescience.com)

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Get the Weather in Your Terminal (github.com/chubin)

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Watching an elderly relative trying to use the modern web

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An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me [pdf] (sauf.ca)

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Major 'vibe-coding' platform Orchids is easily hacked, researcher finds (bbc.com)

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Claude Opus 4.6: This AI just passed the 'vending machine test' (sky.com)

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We mourn our craft (nolanlawson.com)

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Tao: An experiment reviving an archaic practice from the era of Gauss (mathstodon.xyz)

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Great Ball Contraption (GBC) at Japan Brickfest 2025 [video] (youtube.com)

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A small gallery of AlphaEvolve experiments (alphaevolve-examples.web.app)

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Trump: Republicans 'should take over the voting' and 'nationalise' US elections (bbc.co.uk)

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Five Geek Social Fallacies (plausiblydeniable.com)

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There's a social network for AI agents, and it's getting weird (theverge.com)

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Trying out Techdirt's 2025 game, One Billion Users (pelicancrossing.net)

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Generative AI and Wikipedia editing: What we learned in 2025 (wikiedu.org)

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In Search of Causality (pelicancrossing.net)

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A non-technical but capable friend has asked me about installing Linux (mathstodon.xyz)

1

How the Web Was Lost (around.com)

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Study is stolen, sold, published. Now the victim is accused of plagiarism (retractionwatch.com)

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Autonomous Aquatic Robot Is Smaller Than a Grain of Salt (wired.com)

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The Truth About Toilet Swirl (smartereveryday.com)

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CompSci was a golden ticket to a lucrative career. Now graduates can't get a job (telegraph.co.uk)

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Rubenerd: The Rubenerd LLM Licencing Pac (rubenerd.com)

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Responsible Disclosure: Chimoney Android App and KYCaid (shkspr.mobi)

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Charlie Eggins 3BLD double world record [video] (youtube.com)

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The Palindromic Hat-Trick (aperiodical.com)

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Lamar wants to have children with his girlfriend. The problem? She's AI (theguardian.com)

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The Worst Devices of CES 2026 [video] (youtube.com)

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University of Utah finds tape with only known copy of Unix V4 hidden in storage (sltrib.com)

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A City on Mars (wikipedia.org)

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AI Contributions to Erdős Problems (github.com/teorth)

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TicTacToe for the AGC (github.com/neilfraser)

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Please Do Not Attempt to Simplify This Code (github.com/kubernetes)

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Smart glasses: 'I was filmed and trolled online' (bbc.co.uk)

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The application of AI tools to Erdos problems passes a milestone (mathstodon.xyz)

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I used Lego to design a farm for people who are blind – like me (bbc.co.uk)

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Write Yourself a Scheme in 48 Hours: An Introduction to Haskell Through Example [pdf] (2007) (wikimedia.org)

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AI Contributions to Erdős Problems (github.com/teorth)

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Fix the News (fixthenews.com)

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AI summaries in Google and AI coding tools have nearly killed Stack Overflow (mastodon.social)

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FakeParts: A New Family of AI-Generated DeepFakes (arxiv.org)

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Happy Perihelion

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Cursor Keys (fraser.name)

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The Tyranny of Categorization. We must redefine our relationship with boundaries (medium.com/in-search-of-leverage)

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A 58-Addition, Rank-23 Scheme for General 3x3 Matrix Multiplication (arxiv.org)

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Expanding in Three Dimensions [video] (youtube.com)

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Echoes from the Moon (arxiv.org)

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Photo from the 60s, scanned and uploaded to Google, correctly geo-located (mastodon.scot)

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Cows painted with zebra-like striping can avoid biting fly attack (2019) (plos.org)

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Amazon non-consensually forced TikTok onto my family's device (neilzone.co.uk)

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Using Vectorize to build an unreasonably good search engine in 160 lines of code (partykit.io)

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Happy Solsthelion

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Before Siri and Alexa, there was ELIZA [video] (youtube.com)

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Fulton surface-to-air recovery system (wikipedia.org)

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A shared chores list or family shopping list? Prohibited (decoded.legal)

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Australia's Alex Carey reprieved by Snicko operator error (bbc.co.uk)

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We should just change the spec and ask Firefox to change (github.com/whatwg)

2

Computing the Integer Binary Logarithm (janmr.com)

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Mt Whitney Model (2022) (grwster.com)

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Interpreters Everywhere [video] (youtube.com)

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Norton's dome – A paradox in Newtonian physics (wikipedia.org)

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Apple Maps claims it's 29,905 miles away (mathstodon.xyz)

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'It May Be Worse'–No Fix for New Google Chrome Attacks (forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman)

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'Three norths' set to leave England for hundreds of years (ordnancesurvey.co.uk)

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Advent of Compiler Optimisations, 2025 (youtube.com)

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GCHQ Christmas card 2025 sets annual festive challenge (bbc.co.uk)

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Tai's model for the determination of total area under metabolic curves [pdf] (1994) (uconn.edu)

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Students' inventiveness at circumventing technical restrictions (hcommons.social)

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Obscuring P2P Nodes with Dandelion (johndcook.com)

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"Not Always Right": Funny and True Stories (notalwaysright.com)

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The best predictors of AI use across studies were aversive personality traits (nih.gov)

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Integers, fractions, and decimals are different things to kids (2015) (mikesmathpage.wordpress.com)

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The Thoughts of a Spiderweb (2017) (quantamagazine.org)

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Warning to lawyers helping LiP who submitted AI-generated authorities (lawgazette.co.uk)

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What little I know about Readily.news (cryptography.dog)

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The Performance Inequality Gap, 2026 (infrequently.org)