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Solving a snaky math problem with Mathematica (leancrew.com)

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Single Sign on for Furries (cendyne.dev)

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Zoomquilt (zoomquilt.org)

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AI Has Made It Easy to Own Your Tools (jimmyhmiller.com)

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Targeting Cash Transfers in a Crisis (deenamousa.com)

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Shipmap.org (shipmap.org)

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Animal Diversity Web (animaldiversity.org)

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Consent Systems (2017) (raphkoster.com)

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Meditation as Wakeful Relaxation: Unclenching Smooth Muscle (psychotechnology.substack.com)

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The palm tree that led to Palmyra (alexwlchan.net)

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Animagraffs – Animated infographics about everything (animagraffs.com)

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Some current game economics (2017) (raphkoster.com)

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On the criteria to be used in decomposing systems into modules (1972) (acm.org)

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Hyundai Introduces Its Next-Gen Atlas Robot at CES 2026 [video] (youtube.com)

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The Great Depression: Elevator Pitch (scottsumner.substack.com)

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Astronomy Picture of the Day (nasa.gov)

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A dream of an ultimate OS (2016) (okmij.org)

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Stellar Catalog: Discover the nearby universe (stellarcatalog.com)

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How to annotate JITed code for perf/samply (bernsteinbear.com)

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Opinionated Takes on Meetups Organizing (lesswrong.com)

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My Notetaking System (Znotes) (tsvibt.blogspot.com)

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Obesity Drug Delivers Strong Weight Loss in Late-Stage Trial (humanprogress.org)

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Insights into Claude Opus 4.5 from Pokémon (lesswrong.com)

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Early Observer (futilitycloset.com)

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Imagine a Bigger Seattle (scottsumner.substack.com)

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Against Against Boomers (astralcodexten.com)

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You Don't Know Africa (youdontknowafrica.com)

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Visualrambling.space (visualrambling.space)

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Walmart and Wing Launches Speedy Drone Delivery Service (humanprogress.org)

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An Argument The Moon is a PLANET [video] (youtube.com)

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Personal Applications of Geometric Algebra [video] (youtube.com)

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It's Always Starlink [video] (youtube.com)

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What to Do If There's a Rat in Your Toilet (secretseattle.co)

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I like when apps are "finished" (cassidoo.co)

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Wrapped Envy Season (wreflection.com)

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I Scanned 19,154 Epstein FOIA Documents and Found Improperly Redacted Content (reddit.com)

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Toward a Theory of Control Architecture [video] (youtube.com)

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The Unreasonable Effectiveness of the Behavioral Sciences [video] (youtube.com)

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What to Do If There's a Rat in Your Toilet (secretseattle.co)

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Doesnt: An Esoteric Programming Language (sr.ht)

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JavaScript's For-Of Loops Are Fast (waspdev.com)

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Zeit v1 (xn--gckvb8fzb.com)

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Zeit: A command line tool for tracking time (zeit.observer)

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Janderland/fenv: FoundationDB development environment (github.com/janderland)

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Reward (taylor.town)

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Which Humans? (2023) (osf.io)

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Toys with the highest play-time and lowest clean-up-time (joannabregan.substack.com)

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Golfing Is Not Rowing (taylor.town)

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Affordances Are Inconceivable (taylor.town)

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Doublespeak: In-Context Representation Hijacking (mentaleap.ai)

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I Let My Email Go for a Month and Now It Is Crushing My Will to Live (scalzi.com)

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E.W.Dijkstra Archive (utexas.edu)

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Formalization of Erdős Problems (xenaproject.wordpress.com)

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Bell Labs Won Its First Nobel Prize (construction-physics.com)

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Perfect Aircrete, Kitchen Ingredients [video] (youtube.com)

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Enacting Land Value Return in your hometown (progressandpoverty.substack.com)

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Targeting by Reference in the Shadow DOM (meyerweb.com)

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Good if make prior after data instead of before (dynomight.net)

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$10,000 Xmas Wager on the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize (twitter.com/mhutter42)

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Santa Claus is not a god yet (taylor.town)

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Toys with the highest play-time and lowest clean-up-time (joannabregan.substack.com)

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There's no such thing as a fake feather [video] (youtube.com)

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Remove Black Color with Shaders (yuanchuan.dev)

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I figured out how to stop making engines and start making games [video] (youtube.com)

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How to Win Titular Metagames (taylor.town)

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Student Loan Deductions (incoherency.co.uk)

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I built Pinpoint: a daily mini-game for discovering your city (imperfectionist.substack.com)

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Charts in Slides (ia.net)

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Confidently Wrong (marginalrevolution.com)

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Recommended Posts, 2017-2025 (raphkoster.com)

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Couple raises family in self-sufficient homestead inside a greenhouse [video] (youtube.com)

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John von Neumann Shot Lightning from His Arse (theintrinsicperspective.com)

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Homemade Juggling Beanbag Guide (joshuaclifton.com)

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Sloot Digital Coding System (wikipedia.org)

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The "Homeless" Streamers of China [video] (youtube.com)

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Prediction Markets Are Accurate (marginalrevolution.com)

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What are the chances the cashless student cafeteria has a privacy policy? (aaronland.info)

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List of Individual Body Parts (wikipedia.org)

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Essentials for Independent Travel in China (kevinkelly.substack.com)

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Gijswijt's Sequence (wikipedia.org)

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The Code That Revolutionized Orbital Simulation [video] (youtube.com)

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The Drosophila of Decision Science (jtpeterson.substack.com)

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We Lost Something: 1970s REPLs Were Better Than Modern Development Environments (programmingsimplicity.substack.com)

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Energy Predictions 2025 (caseyhandmer.wordpress.com)

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A Multimedia Sketchpad (beyondloom.com)

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Testing a cheaper laminar flow hood (chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com)

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Do Not Optimize Away (matklad.github.io)

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Smol share – for sharing ephemeral encrypted snippets of text or links (cblgh.org)

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Too Complex to Fix (spacedino.net)

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We are not here to make code (todepond.com)

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Stagnant Construction Productivity Is a Worldwide Problem (construction-physics.com)

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Peak TIME POTY Drama (manifold.markets)

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AI Safety for Fleshy Humans: a whirlwind tour (aisafety.dance)

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Queries (futilitycloset.com)

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Benevolent Dictator for Now (roc-lang.org)

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Notes on Sorted Data (prasad.me)

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The Triumph of Logical English (worksinprogress.co)

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Year Day is December 11 (taylor.town)

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The Most Common Bad Argument in These Parts (lesswrong.com)

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The Book. The Ultimate Guide to Rebuilding Civilization (hungryminds.com)