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Adjustments to the China Storefront of the App Store on iOS and iPadOS (developer.apple.com)

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Optimize your boiler's tap water temperature (practicalbetterments.com)

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Moving to Sweden as an American (departure.blog)

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Engineering Liveness (venkateshrao.com)

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An Atlas of the Universe (2009) (atlasoftheuniverse.com)

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Adjustments to the China Storefront of the App Store on iOS and iPadOS (developer.apple.com)

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Anthropic invests $100M into the Claude Partner Network (anthropic.com)

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Zoloft, Revisited (thefrontierpsychiatrists.substack.com)

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Vertical Integrators (2024) (notboring.co)

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Place Capability Graphs [video] (youtube.com)

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Oh, Ambien (thefrontierpsychiatrists.substack.com)

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Firefly128/sparccord: Discord client for Solaris 7 SPARC (github.com/firefly128)

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OverTheWire: Wargames (overthewire.org)

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Teleprinter (zoeblade.com)

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Did Indigenous People Live in Harmony with the Land? (jenn.site)

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Bandit: A 32bit baremetal computer that runs Color Forth [video] (youtube.com)

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Jlevy/on-books: Readings and notes on the past, present, and future of books (github.com/jlevy)

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What Are the Deadliest Animals? (ourworldindata.org)

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Why Are Viral Capsids Icosahedral? (asimov.press)

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The modern formatting addiction in writing (dynomight.net)

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How much of HN is AI? (lcamtuf.substack.com)

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Pairing data with APIs to unlock customer value (openai.com)

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Designing AI agents to resist prompt injection (openai.com)

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Wayfair boosts catalog accuracy and support speed with OpenAI (openai.com)

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New Nature (venkateshrao.com)

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First-Class Types, Syntactically (2024) (xoria.org)

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The Tech Tree of Milk Is Insane [video] (youtube.com)

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The NIMBY Problem (worksinprogress.co)

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Meta's Race to Scale AI Chips for Billions: Four Chips in Two Years (meta.com)

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Go in 9×9 is Awesome (entropicthoughts.com)

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A Recursive Algorithm to Render Signed Distance Fields (pointersgonewild.com)

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Work hard vs. play hard (2024) (taylor.town)

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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)