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Becoming a Day Person (herman.bearblog.dev)

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Puzzlehunts (vikramsaraph.com)

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A Brief History of Roombas with Fart Spray (taylor.town)

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Did the CHIPS Act Trigger the Manufacturing Construction Boom? (factorysettings.org)

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Cookbooks for Aliens (quarter--mile.com)

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Emotional Distance Tax (cernius.substack.com)

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Why Gen Z Culture Is Basically Medieval China [video] (youtube.com)

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Dear Aliens: A Writing Contest (dearaliens.net)

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Gradient Labs gives every bank customer an AI account manager (openai.com)

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April Cools' Club Manifesto (aprilcools.club)

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Anthropic just fired dev who published dev/Claude-code NPM package (twitter.com/kevinnaughtonjr)

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Kagi: April 1, 1996 (kagi.com)

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Australian government and Anthropic sign MOU for AI safety and research (anthropic.com)

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OpenAI closes funding round at an $852B valuation (cnbc.com)

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App Store expands support to 11 new languages (developer.apple.com)

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The Cybernetics of Alternative Turkey (slimemoldtimemold.com)

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Is Involuntary Psychiatric Hospitalization Causing Harm? (thefrontierpsychiatrists.substack.com)

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Thoughts on Integers (2023) (xoria.org)

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The Extended Sniff Test (2020) (carcinisation.com)

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Updated Apple Developer Program License Agreement Now Available (developer.apple.com)

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Get ready with the latest beta releases (developer.apple.com)

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Lines of Code Are Useful (entropicthoughts.com)

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My Prodigal Brainchild (nealstephenson.substack.com)

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Filtered for Home Security (interconnected.org)

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The Big Here Quiz (kevinkelly.substack.com)

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Infinite Jest Extraction (mattlakeman.org)

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Set the Line Before It's Crossed (nomagicpill.substack.com)

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Order and Tension (slab.org)

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Dark Side, Light Side (homosabiens.substack.com)

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A small set of purple MTG cards (tsvibt.blogspot.com)

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Escaping the Ogallala Trap (worksinprogress.co)

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The first A-Corp law is here (ystrickler.com)

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Larry Ellison's Superyacht [video] (youtube.com)

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Helping disaster response teams turn AI into action across Asia (openai.com)

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Stadler reshapes knowledge work at a 230-year-old company (openai.com)

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You'll never be ready for anything that matters (taylor.town)

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Randomness on Apple Platforms (2024) (xoria.org)

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Meow.camera (meow.camera)

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Last gasps of the rent seeking class? (geohot.github.io)

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AI Won't Automatically Accelerate Clinical Trials (asimov.press)

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Dreaming of a Ten-Year Computer (alexwlchan.net)

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China Is Not an Expansionist Power (zixuanma.blog)

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Principles and Gear (arun.is)

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More Crackle Weave (slab.org)

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Reduce your cloud data usage (practicalbetterments.com)

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Affordances Are Inconceivable (taylor.town)

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Creating West Coast Buddhism (2024) (palladiummag.com)

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Urban Expansion in the Age of Liberalism (worksinprogress.co)

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Making art with CSS gradients and corner-shape and skew, oh my (cassidoo.co)

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Underrated sources of mental tension in meditation (sashachapin.substack.com)

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Does the Internet know what time is it? (alexsci.com)

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Our Approach to the Model Spec (openai.com)

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Children of Heaven (spontaneousoddities.substack.com)

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Microscope Light (mitxela.com)

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"Roadrunner": a bipedal, wheeled robot for multi-modal locomotion [video] (youtube.com)

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macOS Tips (2024) (xoria.org)

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New In-App Purchase and subscription data now available in Analytics (developer.apple.com)

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Helping developers build safer AI experiences for teens (openai.com)

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Why did the chicken cross the road? (taylor.town)

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Property values should be normalized by acre (2024) (postach.io)

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Garmin Watch Faces (caseyhandmer.wordpress.com)

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Are We Better Than Sketchpad? (programmingsimplicity.substack.com)

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Blocking HTTP1.1 (sheep.horse)

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Math Milestones Skill-Tree (taylor.town)

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RIP Dan Simmons. Why Weren't You More Famous? (theintrinsicperspective.com)

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What Happens When You Grow a Tomato from a McDonald's Burger? [video] (youtube.com)

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Φ80 Infiltrates Research Labs (asimov.press)

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Gleam's Design and Compiler [video] (youtube.com)

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Where do I see the IndieWeb in 2030 (alexeystar.com)

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Olive Oil Prices Are Falling (humanprogress.org)

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Confidence scale (like priority scale) (alexwendland.com)

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The selfish case for public libraries (alexwlchan.net)

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No one told me about the "second childhood" (tadaima.bearblog.dev)

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Hold on to Your Hardware: BadRAM (xn--gckvb8fzb.com)

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How the first electric grid was built (worksinprogress.co)

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A $25B Moonshot: Tesla Prepares to Launch Terafab in Four Days (forbes.com/sites/jonmarkman)

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VR Changes Things (spacedino.net)

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Molly guard in reverse (aresluna.org)

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What Owning a Gun in Japan Is Like [video] (youtube.com)

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Launch Now (allenpike.com)

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Creative Musing (mynamelowercase.com)

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Reverse Engineering Reality (floatingpragma.io)

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Teaching Children to Bicycle (entropicthoughts.com)

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Gravity Basins [video] (youtube.com)

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How Well Can You Remember Colors? (dialed.gg)

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1960: The Year of Africa (signoregalilei.com)

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Exploring 8 Shaft Weaving (slab.org)

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My favorite way to write code in 2026 (on becoming a TDD addict) (gomakethings.com)

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You can run a DNS server (2025) (simonsafar.com)

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Overcoming the friendship recession (joeprevite.com)

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A Novelist's Guide to Poisoning, Pt. 1 (antipope.org)

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The 12" chef knife, a humble plea (kellykozakandjoshdonald.substack.com)

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How to defer US taxes (taylor.town)

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We monitor internal coding agents for misalignment (openai.com)

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Show HN: Dear Aliens (Writing Contest) (dearaliens.net)

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Consensus Board Game (matklad.github.io)

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A Journey Through Infertility (pudding.cool)

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Switch Your Phone to an MVNO (practicalbetterments.com)

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Twitter and the Spread of Academic Knowledge (2024) (newthingsunderthesun.com)

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Conway's Game of Life, in real life (lcamtuf.substack.com)