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My Phone Will Spam You If I Fail to Exercise by 3PM (taylor.town)

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Bus stop balancing is fast, cheap, and effective (worksinprogress.co)

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Seeing Like a Sedan (asteriskmag.com)

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Give us Snot, not Slop (grizzlygazette.bearblog.dev)

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The most popular email providers (alexsci.com)

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What was the first life restoration of a sauropod? (svpow.com)

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The Dysfunctional Tiger (worksinprogress.co)

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Cabbage Genetics (worksinprogress.co)

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The two kinds of desire, and one of the most important things I know (sashachapin.substack.com)

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YouSky: My one-person social network (Short version) (rosswintle.uk)

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Exploring a Future of Programming (sidhion.com)

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Nvidia's Insane AI Found the Math of Reality [video] (youtube.com)

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First 12 Minutes of MTV [video] (youtube.com)

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Giger QTVR (jacobfilipp.com)

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Map projections are tough – here's my new favorite (signoregalilei.com)

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Is Auvelity (dextromethorphan/bupropion) something new in depression treatment? (thefrontierpsychiatrists.substack.com)

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Near-Instantly Aborting the Worst Pain Imaginable with Psychedelics (psychotechnology.substack.com)

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Change your default date format to the least ambiguous (practicalbetterments.com)

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Georgist land taxes balance community benefit and the efficiency of markets (2024) (postach.io)

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Pecking Order and Flight Leadership (2019) (srconstantin.wordpress.com)

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Urban sprawl is a tragedy of the commons (2021) (postach.io)

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The road to hell is paved with asphalt (2024) (postach.io)

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[flagged] Trump Fake Electors Plot (wikipedia.org)

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Proof that at most one of e*pi and e+pi can be rational (math.stackexchange.com)

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The Weird OS Built Around a Database [video] (youtube.com)

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Making Wolfram tech available as a foundation tool for LLM systems (stephenwolfram.com)

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AOL (Sign On – Dial Up) [video] (youtube.com)

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Wilks' Tolerance Intervals (entropicthoughts.com)

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Unconventional strategies for practicing Spanish (2019) (postach.io)

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Everything is Amazing, But Nothing is Ours (2019) (postach.io)

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Using perceptual distance to create better headers (alexwlchan.net)

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Peridot – UIs by Example, Visual Programming and Constr (2022) (instadeq.com)

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Lotus Improv – Spreadsheets Done Right (2002) (instadeq.com)

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How Visual Is Your Language? Semantic Mutation Testing (2022) (instadeq.com)

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Elixir: A low floor high ceiling language for your projects (2022) (instadeq.com)

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Interval Research Corporation: a 1990s PARC without a Xerox (2022) (instadeq.com)

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The Origins of Agar (asimov.press)

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A Brief History of the History of Science (asteriskmag.com)

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How Passkeys Work (cassidoo.co)

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Web Player: Music for Everyone (jappie.me)

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The GRE Is Dystopian (collisteru.substack.com)

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PhET Interactive Simulations (colorado.edu)

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A multi-entry CFG design conundrum (bernsteinbear.com)

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Postcardware.net (postcardware.net)

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Compare Prices by Difference, Not Factor (arizerner.com)

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Dante and the 3-Sphere (johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com)

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Wrapping Code Comments (matklad.github.io)

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I Let Claude Read My Email (ericbrookfield.com)

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Our First Proof Submissions (openai.com)

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Loon: A functional lang with invisible types, safe ownership, and alg. effects (loonlang.com)

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Making frontier cybersecurity capabilities available to defenders (anthropic.com)

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Lil' Fun Langs (taylor.town)

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Who Stole Your Cookie? (gomakethings.com)

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Si Base Units and Constants (taylor.town)

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Mental Health Care and Its Impacts (aeaweb.org)

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Gen Z's College Radio Revival (emwhitenoise.substack.com)

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The largest meteorite on Earth is still where it landed (boingboing.net)

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Can We Understand the Standard Model Using Octonions? [video] (youtube.com)

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How to stop being boring (joanwestenberg.com)

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The System That Punishes Beautiful Design [video] (youtube.com)

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Profitable Parenting (2023) (taylor.town)

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Tiny Musical Intervals (johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com)

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ACX 2025 Prediction Contest Retrospective (entropicthoughts.com)

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Justifying Text-Wrap: Pretty (matklad.github.io)

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Advancing independent research on AI alignment (openai.com)

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The State of Enterprise AI (openai.com)

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When You Anthropomorphize LLMs (mighil.com)

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Tiny corp's product: a training box (geohot.github.io)

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Scent, in Silico (asimov.press)

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Learning KeyBee (entropicthoughts.com)

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Keybee: A Keyboard Designed for Smartphones (keybeekeyboard.com)

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Untapped Way to Learn a Codebase: Build a Visualizer (jimmyhmiller.com)

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Cringeworthy in the Future (kevinkelly.substack.com)

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Type-based alias analysis in the Toy Optimizer (bernsteinbear.com)

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Building in Private (ystrickler.com)

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RAM Is Fake. The Moon Broke Timezones. and Your Compiler Is Guessing [video] (youtube.com)

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FBI Interviewed Trump Accuser, Epstein Files Show (substack.com)

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OpenAI for India (openai.com)

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OpenAI for India (openai.com)

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27-year-old Apple iBooks can connect to Wi-Fi and download official updates (reddit.com)

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Notes on Clarifying Man Pages (jvns.ca)

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Solving Systems of Equations Faster (entropicthoughts.com)

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Beyond AlphaFold (ifp.org)

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Dear Comrade Xi (campbellramble.ai)

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Skill: Cognitive black box flight recorder (tsvibt.blogspot.com)

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AmbientCG – Free Textures, HDRIs and Models (ambientcg.com)

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The Mathematics of Tuning Systems (johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com)

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Extreme brainstorming questions to trigger new, better ideas (2022) (asmartbear.com)

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Screenlife (wikipedia.org)

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Accelerating discovery in India through AI-powered science and education (deepmind.google)

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Mysterious NSFW "Grok" Notification from Google App (taylor.town)

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Tell HN: Google Allegedly Sent NSFW "Grok" Notification to People

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A Pattern Language Index (patternlanguageindex.com)

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Catalyzing Generative Protein [video] (youtube.com)

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God created men; Sam Altman made them equal (taylor.town)

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Engineer's underground dome home blends into desert like living organism [video] (youtube.com)

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Quoting ROUGH DRAFT 8/2/66 (simonwillison.net)

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First kākāpō chick in four years hatches on Valentine's Day (simonwillison.net)

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Ask HN: I'm investing $100k in cool people with boring skills. Any leads?

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My Big Kink Survey dataset, raw (aella.substack.com)