Articles by surprisetalk
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A brief history of specifiers and protocols (macwright.com)

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Building Thread-safe Async Primitives in 150 lines of Rust (prasad.me)

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The ABCD Framework for Feedback (cassidoo.co)

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NearbyWiki – Find Interesting Places (bookofjoe2.blogspot.com)

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The economics of dark forest spaces (ystrickler.com)

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Solid State Volumetric Display [video] (youtube.com)

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Has Buddhism been statist for a long time? (marginalrevolution.com)

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Nova Programming Language (nova-lang.net)

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Software Never Fails (entropicthoughts.com)

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Making the Solution Transparent (buttondown.com/dorian)

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Branch, Test, Deploy: A Git-Inspired Approach for Data (motherduck.com)

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Reborrowing (wikipedia.org)

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First explorations in Indian classical music (andrewbatson.com)

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Ignore the pessimists – we are living through a literary golden age (commonreader.co.uk)

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(Dis)Assembling Experience (raphkoster.com)

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So What Should We Call This – A Grue Jay? (utexas.edu)

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BehindTheMedspeak: A Spinal Tap (bookofjoe2.blogspot.com)

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UCSD Faculty Sound Alarm on Declining Student Skills (marginalrevolution.com)

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Financial Markets (humaninvariant.substack.com)

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Could machine learning save this sea cow? (2016) (blog.google)

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When square pixels aren't square (alexwlchan.net)

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Montaigne's Epistemology (jenn.site)

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What did you do [video] (youtube.com)

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People Should Be Smaller (namelessvirtue.com)

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Roger Ebert's Relationship to Anime [video] (youtube.com)

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Tutorial 48: my museum collections kit (svpow.com)

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Four ways journaling has helped me (imperfectionist.substack.com)

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Talking about the Future of AI in Law with David Wakeling (artificialinvestment.substack.com)

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How to Find Time to Do Science (chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com)

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Why Sell Lifetime Plans, in a Default Subscription World? (pketh.org)

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Tyrannicide: Five Lessons for Luigi's Critics (illwill.com)

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Software Gets a New Layer (wreflection.com)

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Review: Surreal Numbers (signoregalilei.com)

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A Man I Want to Meet the Most (chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com)

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Rabbit Hole Learning (seated.ro)

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The "Pretend to Work" Loophole of China [video] (youtube.com)

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Linguistic Sightseeing: The Germanic Languages, Part I (collisteru.substack.com)

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One-Third of US Families Earn over $150k (marginalrevolution.com)

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Talent sorting in Germany is flawed (simongrimm.substack.com)

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Some news: We're selling Radish next year (supernuclear.substack.com)

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RFdiffusion3 Now Available (uw.edu)

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Programming Like a Fighter Pilot [video] (youtube.com)

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Scaling Career and Family: Systems Thinking, Public School, Home Enrichment (caseyhandmer.wordpress.com)

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Hopefully Soon" Is Killing Your Dreams (mindthenerd.com)

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Building a Copying GC for the Plush Programming Language (pointersgonewild.com)

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The Harvard Endowment's Biggest Public Investment Is Now Bitcoin (gizmodo.com)

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When Is a Complex System Stable? (chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com)

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Ants, Storms, and Floods (frankforce.com)

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US parents say Peppa Pig is giving their kids British accents (2021) (theguardian.com)

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Comments on smartphone ban from high school teacher (marginalrevolution.com)

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Hiring: Damned If You Do, Damned If You Don't (factorysettings.org)

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Some Economics of Artificial Super Intelligence (ssrn.com)

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Rock Paper Scissors Is a Game of Skill (collisteru.substack.com)

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When there's a crisis, three things can happen (todepond.com)

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Stumbling (quarter--mile.com)

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Periodic Spaces (ianthehenry.com)

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The War for Seattle [video] (youtube.com)

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China will eventually open its borders to mass immigration (twitter.com/samoburja)

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Is Watching Video Bad for Children's Skills? (nber.org)

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Industrial Policy: When Is Business the Government's Business? (factorysettings.org)

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Elon Musk Drove ~1/3 of Women Off Twitter (kevinmunger.substack.com)

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A WebAssembly interpreter (Part 1) (wasmgroundup.com)

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Intrarectal perfluorodecalin for enteral ventilation in a first-in-human trial (cell.com)

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Ambsheet: A spreadsheet for exploring scenarios [video] (youtube.com)

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Animalcules and Their Motors (asimov.press)

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iPSC-Derived Islet Transplant Under Rectus Sheath in T1D (cell.com)

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The end of progress against extreme poverty? (ourworldindata.org)

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Eric Gilliam on the real reason scientific progress has slowed down [video] (youtube.com)

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Minimum Viable Arduino Project: Aeropress Timer (netninja.com)

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Automatically mark pull requests and issues as stale with GitHub Actions (cassidoo.co)

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Cursed circuits: charge pump voltage halver (lcamtuf.substack.com)

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Ask HN: Who is fundraising? (December 2025)

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Gundam is just the same as Jane Austen but happens to include giant mech suits (eli.li)

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Velato (futilitycloset.com)

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I want you to understand Lagrange multipliers (kaverennedy.substack.com)

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How to get where you need to be when you don't know where you're going (ystrickler.com)

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What's Possible in Brain Circuit Mapping in 5 Years [video] (youtube.com)

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Detecting AV1-encoded videos with Python (alexwlchan.net)

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macOS Tahoe Adoption Rate (reddit.com)

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Jonbar Hinge (wikipedia.org)

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You've (Likely) Been Playing the Game of Life Wrong [video] (youtube.com)

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Tides are weirder than you think (signoregalilei.com)

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Can you trust AI more than you can trust Wikipedia? (thecretefleet.com)

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What Is a Production Process? (construction-physics.com)

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React and Remix choose different futures (laconicwit.com)

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Vanity activities (quarter--mile.com)

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Generalized Worley Noise (ianthehenry.com)

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Rapid Transit Timelines and Scale Comparison (transit-timelines.github.io)

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Synit: A Reactive Operating System (synit.org)

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Concerning Doors: A Grave Warning to All Interdimensional Travellers (sidwashere.substack.com)

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Learning Not to Know (stevenscrawls.com)

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My car charger can boil water fast [video] (youtube.com)

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The Sights and Sounds of Bhutan (waitbutwhy.com)

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Size Matters (matklad.github.io)

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Context Plumbing (interconnected.org)

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The First Prophet of Abundance (asteriskmag.com)

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A most important mustard (asimov.press)

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The Penicillin Myth (asimov.press)

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Antimatter Development Program (caseyhandmer.wordpress.com)