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Improving instruction hierarchy in frontier LLMs (openai.com)

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The truth behind the 2026 J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference (lesswrong.com)

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Kniterate Notes (agnescameron.info)

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Minutes is 1% of Your Day (2022) (taylor.town)

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Joey Parrish – Streaming Video on 80s Gaming Hardware (youtube.com)

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The Unpredicted vs. the Over-Expected (kevinkelly.substack.com)

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Being Maximally Useful Whilst Commuting (chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com)

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You gotta think outside the hypercube (lcamtuf.substack.com)

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Are Americans Getting Richer? New Data Might Surprise You (humanprogress.org)

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Six Selfish Reasons to Have Kids (kevinkelly.substack.com)

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N times faster than C, Arm edition (2023) (xoria.org)

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Trapped in MS Office (ia.net)

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I Don't Want to Hire Women (2014) (clarissasblog.com)

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Why haven't π±e, 2^e, π^e, or π^(√2) been shown to be irrational? (reddit.com)

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Ask HN: Who Needs Help?

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The Burnout Economy (spacedino.net)

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I Am Experimenting with Blocking HTTP1.1 (sheep.horse)

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You're Either Excellent, Middling or Lost (aelerinya.substack.com)

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Abundance of the Commons (supernuclear.substack.com)

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(Co)Products: motivating category theory [video] (youtube.com)

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Smart Quotes for Smart People (smartquotesforsmartpeople.com)

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The optimal age to freeze eggs is 19 (lesswrong.com)

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Numbers for Understanding Cities (2022) (postach.io)

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A Class of Models with the Potential to Represent Fundamental Physics (arxiv.org)

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GNU and the AI Reimplementations (antirez.com)

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The most beautiful formula not enough people understand [video] (youtube.com)

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The Finger and the Moon (taylor.town)

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Training Scientists in Low and Middle Income Countries (2024) (newthingsunderthesun.com)

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Students Get Interested in What Their Mentors Are Interested in (2024) (newthingsunderthesun.com)

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Hidden Overheads (2023) (xoria.org)

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Powerball in Python (leancrew.com)

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The online community trilemma (2026) (pluralistic.net)

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A Note on Graciousness (bookofjoe2.blogspot.com)

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Where things stand with the Department of War (anthropic.com)

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The five AI value models driving business reinvention (openai.com)

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Should You Be a Carpenter? [video] (youtube.com)

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ChatGPT for Excel and new financial data integrations (openai.com)

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I'm a Coin Boy, Too (2023) (taylor.town)

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I love email (2023) (xoria.org)

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Case Study: lynnandtonic.com 2025 refresh (lynnandtonic.com)

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A Day in the Life of an Enshittificator [video] (youtube.com)

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Ensuring AI use in education leads to opportunity (openai.com)

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Infinite Jest belongs in the techno-optimist canon (danco.substack.com)

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I made my whole-home humidifier slightly less terrifying [video] (youtube.com)

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Archival Selves (venkateshrao.com)

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Finding the Single Number with XOR (jamessimas.com)

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AI Twitter's favourite lie: everyone wants to be a developer (joanwestenberg.com)

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Analytic Fog Rendering with Volumetric Primitives (2025) (matejlou.blog)

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Hello Developer: March 2026 (developer.apple.com)

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Maybe there's a pattern here? (dynomight.net)

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So long, and thanks for all the logs (jerodsanto.net)

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20 Years of Programming (sidhion.com)

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Digital Iris [video] (youtube.com)

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Radish is for sale: The compound that inspired Live Near Friends (livenearfriends.com)

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/Llms.txt File (llmstxt.org)

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Notes on Project Oberon (sidhion.com)

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Border-Image Tool (jacobfilipp.com)

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Evolution in Higher Dimensions [video] (youtube.com)

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Some Lotto Math (leancrew.com)

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Agentic swarms are an org-chart delusion (joanwestenberg.com)

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The Collective Ambition Behind Odysseus, a Game-Changing Sci-Fi Larp (mssv.net)

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Bridging Research and Manufacturing: The Role of Surface Science Nanometrology [video] (youtube.com)

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A Visual Guide to DNA Sequencing (asimov.press)

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Review: Mercury Personal Banking (taylor.town)

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Book Review: Why Are the Prices So Damn High? (2019) (srconstantin.wordpress.com)

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From Fargo to Zebra (cendyne.dev)

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A New Map of Human Experience [video] (youtube.com)

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Mac Themes Garden (macthemes.garden)

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Querying 3B Vectors (vickiboykis.com)

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Do Less (usefulfictions.substack.com)

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Making interesting borders with CSS corner-shape (cassidoo.co)

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The Housing Ladder's Broken Promise (progressandpoverty.substack.com)

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One-Bit Delay (onebitdelay.com)

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Members only: "Won't Fix" self help (joanwestenberg.com)

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A Geometric Interpretation of the 3D Cross Product (2024) (matejlou.blog)

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Canada Lost Its Measles Elimination Status Because Few Nurses Speak Low German (lesswrong.com)

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A bit of fluid mechanics from scratch not from scratch (tsvibt.blogspot.com)

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Life is the Sum Total of 2k Mondays (joanwestenberg.com)

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SFQ: Simple, Stateless, Stochastic Fairness (brooker.co.za)

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Lil' Fun Langs' Guts (taylor.town)

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Against Query Based Compilers (matklad.github.io)

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American Abundance Index (humanprogress.org)

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The Divergence Machine (venkateshrao.com)

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Circle Games (2019) (srconstantin.wordpress.com)

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Redis Patterns for Coding (antirez.com)

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Josh Collison and Dwarkesh Patel Interview Elon Musk [video] (youtube.com)

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Our Agreement with the Department of War (openai.com)

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Michelangelo's First Painting [video] (youtube.com)

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Remotely unlocking an encrypted hard disk (jyn.dev)

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Highly Customizable Magnetic Touch Sensing Using Cut-Cell Microstructures (e-flesh.com)

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The Tonnetz (johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com)

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Approximation Game (lcamtuf.substack.com)

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Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth (anthropic.com)

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An update on our mental health-related work (openai.com)

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Trump Bans Anthropic from All US Federal Agencies (twitter.com/whitehouse)

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Traveling neighborhoods: a different kind of group trip (2024) (postach.io)

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Colt's Revolutions (2024) (taylor.town)

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Why Concepts Aren't Objects (essenceofsoftware.com)

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The Simple Essence of Monomorphization [video] (youtube.com)

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Writing on Mount Hymettos in Duplo (viewsproject.wordpress.com)