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The Underground Logic Shaping the Suburbs [video] (youtube.com)

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I'm building a drone for the DARPA lift challenge [video] (youtube.com)

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LLM Councils Show Groupthink (strangeloopcanon.com)

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Windows (davekrugman.com)

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Human Judgment as a Specification (brownplt.org)

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Cosmodial Sky Atlas (frankforce.com)

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The proposed rule changes to the administration of federal grants (terrytao.wordpress.com)

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Mental causation is not load-bearing (unstableontology.com)

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Get your fine, handcrafted artisanal essays right here (rootsofprogress.org)

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Where do migrants live, and where were they born? (ourworldindata.org)

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Visiting the History of Computing and Play (arbesman.substack.com)

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Someone Has to Take the Leap (livenearfriends.com)

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Stop Drawing Eyelashes on Animals (brooke.substack.com)

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What Is Minimalism Worth? (carlbarenbrug.com)

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Designing Software for Software Factories (sshh.io)

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Introduction (fieggen.com)

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What Should We Tell Aliens? (quarter--mile.com)

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A Love Story (pudding.cool)

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Our Achilles Heel (collabfund.com)

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How to build a crazy Australian immigration system (caseyhandmer.wordpress.com)

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Recursive Self Improvement [video] (youtube.com)

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The 2-Year Apartment Rule (tadaima.bearblog.dev)

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A History of Microwave Ovens (2024) (taylor.town)

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TCS and Anthropic partner to bring Claude to regulated industries (anthropic.com)

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Results from First Anthropic Public Record (anthropic.com)

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Claude Corps (anthropic.com)

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1099 contractors can earn ~7% more by reporting their expenses (taylor.town)

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CSS: Unavoidable Bad Parts (matklad.github.io)

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Due to DMA, Siri AI delayed in EU for iOS 27 and iPadOS 27 (apple.com)

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Apple previews new child safety features (apple.com)

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Apple introduces Siri AI, a profoundly more capable and personal assistant (apple.com)

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Apple OS 27 (apple.com)

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Don't Dethrone Consciousness (theintrinsicperspective.com)

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Did Ahmes find the best expansions for 2/n? (plover.com)

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Value Numbering (bernsteinbear.com)

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Great Saunter (2021) (shorewalkers.org)

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Design Thinking Tools: Reverse Brainstorming (designorate.com)

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How to Get Out of a Funk (sublimeinternet.substack.com)

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Getting silly with C, part and((int*)1)[-1] (lcamtuf.substack.com)

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The round-the-world escape from Pearl Harbor (signoregalilei.com)

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A Family Project (2022) (bittersoutherner.com)

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Simulism · on Env (basecase.org)

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Doing something that’s never been done before (2025) (talglobus.com)

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Johnny.Decimal: A system to organise your life (johnnydecimal.com)

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Ascetic Computing (ratfactor.com)

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Parsing XML EXIF from .avif files (plus a rant) (sheep.horse)

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ReKindle: Web-based dashboard for E-ink devices (rekindle.ink)

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Sticky corn confounded western science (signoregalilei.com)

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Six Thinking Hats Technique: A Complete Practical Guide (designorate.com)

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Programmers will document for Claude, but not for each other (plover.com)

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Becoming a Magician (2018) (autotranslucence.wordpress.com)

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A Survey of Inlining Heuristics (bernsteinbear.com)

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Games Between Programs: The Ruliology of Competition (stephenwolfram.com)

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Not the Same Kid (quarter--mile.com)

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Partial static single information form (bernsteinbear.com)

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An Inside View of the Davis-Bacon Act (factorysettings.org)

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A Cheat Sheet for Attracting Private Sector Talent to Government (factorysettings.org)

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You'll never guess who made the first wireless telephone (signoregalilei.com)

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Good (quarter--mile.com)

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Commutator Intuition (pgadey.ca)

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What Columbus used instead of the North Star (signoregalilei.com)

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Leaving No Trace: MOOP Map 2025, BLM Inspection and Solving Our Lag Bolt Problem (burningman.org)

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UX Dark Patterns and Social Media Addiction (designorate.com)

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Uncertainty Could Kill US Industrial Policy (factorysettings.org)

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Finishing Things (ratfactor.com)

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There are only four skills: design, technical, management and physical (lesswrong.com)

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The Services Track and Partner Hub of the Claude Partner Network (anthropic.com)

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Paraxanthine: A Trip Report (bengoldhaber.substack.com)

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Dating Net Worth (datingnetworth.com)

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A chart detailing countries' attitudes toward international cuisines (reddit.com)

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Building for Voice In, Visuals Out (allenpike.com)

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Half a Month of Consolation Writing Advice (astralcodexten.com)

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What we learned mapping a year's worth of AI-enabled cyber threats (anthropic.com)

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Dear Aliens – writing contest winners (dearaliens.net)

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Local AI handwriting recognition is usable now (autodidacts.io)

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WiFi Time (mitxela.com)

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3D-printed book turns its own G-code into raised lettering (designboom.com)

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You Learn a Codebase by Changing It (jakeworth.com)

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Structural diffing in Emacs; deterministic agent harnesses (kevinlynagh.com)

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All Polymarket temperature markets have disappeared (autodidacts.io)

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Taking responsibility for my energy levels (autodidacts.io)

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Social Cache Busting (autodidacts.io)

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Expanding Project Glasswing (anthropic.com)

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Describing Highly Variable Processes with Work Unit Routing Analysis (WURA) (improvesomething.today)

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Gradient Shader (bradwoods.io)

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The Minimum Viable Unit of Saleable Software (brandur.org)

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Bothering to Understand (autodidacts.io)

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Curation and Its Side Effects (autodidacts.io)

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Anthropic confidentially submits draft S-1 to the SEC (anthropic.com)

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How to Make a Hyperlink (incoherency.co.uk)

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A compressed-spring model of spiral galaxy formation (initial email version) (theeggandtherock.com)

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Weekend trivia: your process' memory is a file (lcamtuf.substack.com)

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Build a Custom Friend Compound (livenearfriends.com)

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How to add icons to external links with CSS (gomakethings.com)

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The true reason C++ always wins [video] (youtube.com)

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Local Git remotes (cblgh.org)

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The Costco Theory of the Internet (joanwestenberg.com)

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High Density Living, 2000 Years Ago: Inside the Roman Apartment Building (commonedge.org)

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BenchBench (strangeloopcanon.com)

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Testing the WWI concrete ships and WWII concrete barges (thecretefleet.com)