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88

My falling-out with the rationalist community (lcamtuf.substack.com)

2

Apply for Anthropic's AI for Science rare disease research grants (anthropic.com)

27

Cross sectioning insects in an electron microscope with a femtosecond laser [video] (youtube.com)

2

The Scariest Chart in Electrical Engineering [video] (youtube.com)

3

Transformer Is an EOT Solver (elonlit.com)

1

Guide to Rationalist Interior Decorating (lesswrong.com)

1

Frequently Asked Questions on Expertise (jtpeterson.substack.com)

2

Tasty (quarter--mile.com)

2

Languages That Stretch Your DI Capabilities and Imagination (programmingsimplicity.substack.com)

4

Memory Safety's Hardest Problem (matklad.github.io)

1

The Most Counterintuitive Way to Build a Brain [video] (youtube.com)

1

Proof of Fermat Last Theorem from Scratch [video] (youtube.com)

1

Dungeons and Dryers (thega.me.uk)

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[flagged] The Trump administration's Threat to Scientific Research (marginalrevolution.com)

46

Open Book Touch: open-source e-reader (crowdsupply.com)

80

Learning a few things about running SQLite (jvns.ca)

4

Unschooling (uli.rocks)

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The Day WhatsApp Goes Dark (xn--gckvb8fzb.com)

1

A Vacuum of the Imagination (angadh.com)

1

Plotting of and by Students (leancrew.com)

3

The Miso That Went to Space (ambrook.com)

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Three ways people respond to a problem (other than solving it) (improvesomething.today)

1

Pattern Matching on Compressed Strings Without Decompression (spiraldb.com)

1

Measuring Milk Globule Sizes (chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com)

1

Guy Makes Mechanical Mirrors [video] (youtube.com)

1

Tech note: making your own V-I plots at home (lcamtuf.substack.com)

5

10x Is a Lot (quarter--mile.com)

1

Anthropic runs like Wile E. Coyote into the brick wall of consciousness research (theintrinsicperspective.com)

2

You Can Discover the Drives (slimemoldtimemold.com)

3

Just Posting Some Prompts (arjunpanickssery.substack.com)

4

Regularer Expressions (furia.com)

2

Ownership (thorstenball.com)

1

In Tenuous Defense of War Markets (thebsdetector.substack.com)

2

Ethiopia's Airport Will Transform a Continent [video] (youtube.com)

5

Talk: The Art of Braiding Algorithms (pgadey.ca)

3

Teamtype (github.com/teamtype)

1

How to create a unique visual identity (sublimeinternet.substack.com)

2

Does Automation Lower the Labor Share? (drive.google.com)

25

Pseudpocalypse (dynomight.net)

1

Old Icons (leancrew.com)

3

Claude for Teachers (anthropic.com)

1

Can Claude Consent to its own Constitution? (ssrn.com)

1

Writing Club: a run club, but for writing (writingclub.world)

4

Life is getting better when you'd pay more to keep it (kaverennedy.substack.com)

3

Anthropic commits $10M to Canadian AI research (anthropic.com)

2

Don't Panic Cyberdeck (printables.com)

2

Org Charts of the Big Tech Companies (2011) (globalnerdy.com)

1

The Efficiency Gains from Mergers (nicholasdecker.substack.com)

3

The Fishing Contest (quarter--mile.com)

3

AI could keep poor countries poor (deenamousa.com)

1

Leave a failing test before you go on vacation (lukapeharda.com)

15

I'm Making Strandfall, a Solarpunk Orienteering Larp (mssv.net)

1

Borrow-Checking Surprises (scattered-thoughts.net)

1

Speculations on the Future of the Scientific Method (kevinkelly.substack.com)

136

Control the Ideas, Not the Code (antirez.com)

4

Panel meter calculator with floating point (lcamtuf.substack.com)

3

Epos Daimon, the Magic School Where Teens Play Fascists (mssv.net)

1

Most people suck at traveling: 9 principles to travel well (itsiweinstock.substack.com)

73

A love letter to flashcards (lesleylai.info)

2

Banter (homosabiens.substack.com)

1

WikiArchuitectura: The Largest Architecture Encyclopedia (wikiarquitectura.com)

7

Cagire: Live Coding in Forth (raphaelforment.fr)

1

How to be inspired without copying (joanwestenberg.com)

1

We Carried Out the Red/Blue Button Experiment with Life or Death Stakes (thebsdetector.substack.com)

21

The Annotated JEPA (elonlit.com)

156

Punk, or why I don't stream anymore (geohot.github.io)

3

Time Pricing Big Macs Around the World (humanprogress.org)

2

Why Do You Suck at Juggling? (pgadey.ca)

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Comparing ML models in small molecule drug discovery (fbdd-lit.blogspot.com)

2

UST is bringing Claude to physical AI (anthropic.com)

2

Inviting Hard Questions (anthropic.com)

2

Ben Bernanke Appointed to Anthropic's Long-Term Benefit Trust (anthropic.com)

1

Dairy cows make their misery expensive (but their calves can't) (acesounderglass.com)

3

Childhood stunting fell dramatically over the 20th century (ourworldindata.org)

2

Gear Post 2026 (tynan.com)

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China's Nuclear Sector Now Able to Build Fifty Reactors at a Time (humanprogress.org)

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Maxwell's Equations Were Discovered [video] (youtube.com)

7

Writing a bindless GPU abstraction layer (kevin-gibson.com)

1

How to get the smell of cigarette smoke out of your hair (bookofjoe2.blogspot.com)

6

Notable Knot Index (2016) (knots.neocities.org)

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A new way to reflect on how you use Claude (anthropic.com)

2

The Seed Beneath the Snow (eli.li)

2

Listen, you're probably not good at the violin (homosabiens.substack.com)

3

Generative Colors with CSS (gomakethings.com)

2

A Hilariously Surprisingly Replayable Escape Room (mssv.net)

2

Fastest Aircraft Evacuation Slides.wmv [video] (youtube.com)

2

Multiview Stereo Projection [video] (youtube.com)

10

Cursed circuits #6: reverse avalanche oscillator (lcamtuf.substack.com)

2

Werner's Nomenclature of Colours (c82.net)

2

Taiwan's Lost 8-Bit Computer [video] (youtube.com)

4

I Bought a Sony Walkman (82mhz.net)

2

Signal Problems (theanarchistlibrary.org)

1

CSS is simple, stop making it hard (brixit.nl)

10

Text art tools (hlnet.notion.site)

1

Describing All My Photos (alexwlchan.net)

1

The Most Familiar Mystery in Physics (loofwired.com)

1

First Robot-Run Hotel Is Opening in China (gadgetreview.com)

1

The LLM shoggoth meme is weirder than you think (lesswrong.com)

2

Muse Image and Muse Video (meta.com)

2

Trump's Art of the Self-Deal (thefp.com)