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The birth of a WATERBEAR 1000x magnification [video] (youtube.com)

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Snowflake Koch Fractal (xaya-e.bearblog.dev)

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The 80s Movies Rewind (fast-rewind.com)

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Most Code Is Just Cache (sshh.io)

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Quitting 9-to-5 to build genius off-grid homestead, permitted and loan-free [video] (youtube.com)

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Same Energy – Visual Search Engine (same.energy)

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A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages (2009) (james-iry.blogspot.com)

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Some Haskell idioms we like (bellroy.com)

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I Won't Have Kids Right? (arizerner.com)

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Mini Tokyo 3D (minitokyo3d.com)

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Temperature and the Sackur–Tetrode Equation [video] (youtube.com)

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The mountain that weighed the Earth (signoregalilei.com)

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What Drives Retention (2019) (raphkoster.com)

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Bop It Playing Robot [video] (youtube.com)

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An unsolved question in sleep science (autodidacts.io)

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Exams Are Everything in China (andrewbatson.com)

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Thinkism (kevinkelly.substack.com)

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Interview with Yayimhere (esoteric.codes)

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China Fertility Facts of the Day (marginalrevolution.com)

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Defining Groupcore (ystrickler.com)

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What potent consumer technologies have long remained inaccessible? (tsvibt.blogspot.com)

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Google Scholar Labs: AI-powered academic search (scholar.google.com)

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Packaging Perl and Shell for NixOS Deployment (entropicthoughts.com)

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Do (human) readers prefer AI writers? (2025) (marginalrevolution.com)

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Arrows to Arrows, Categories to Queries (reasonablypolymorphic.com)

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Maze Algorithms (2017) (jamisbuck.org)

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The Duck Game Chat for Nintendo Switch (pond.gg)

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Where to Sleep in LAX (cadence.moe)

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My review of the Nüborn Baby at 3 months (joshcollinsworth.com)

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Enosuchblog (yossarian.net)

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Urbanism Is Bottlenecked on Transportation (shakeddown.substack.com)

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Why the government's bank account grew 100x since 2007 (signoregalilei.com)

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100k Stars (chromeexperiments.com)

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Live 2025 – Nova [video] (youtube.com)

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Ocearch Shark Tracker (ocearch.org)

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A Simple Metric for Choosing Immigrants for America (marginalrevolution.com)

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Many Plants – Indoor and House Plant Resource (howmanyplants.com)

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Banks' Images: Evidence from Advertising Videos (marginalrevolution.com)

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Old Maps of the World (oldmapsonline.org)

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To cook well, train your Inner Flavor Simulator (aelerinya.substack.com)

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How Much Should We Spend on Scientific Replication? (ifp.org)

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Where's My Orbital Habitat? (asteriskmag.com)

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Disaster Costs, 1900–2024 (entropicthoughts.com)

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Making a Victorian CSS Border: Dual (jacobfilipp.com)

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Elastic grid by Juan Pinkus, 2021 (2023) (pinkus.link)

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Burnout is breaking a sacred pact (usefulfictions.substack.com)

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Betting on the Millennium Problems (manifold.markets)

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Caves of Qud: A Review (mattkeeter.com)

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My new fave thing to go to is algoraves (interconnected.org)

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Zoomquilt 2 (zoomquilt2.com)

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Abstract Forms and Tangible Biology: palanquins, princes, and a Lego hypothesis [video] (youtube.com)

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Clinic-in-the-loop (asimov.press)

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A Japanese screw craftsman who single-handedly produces 400k screws a day [video] (youtube.com)

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The Next Tiramisu (quarter--mile.com)

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Social Dynamics at Arm's Length (jenn.site)

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Analyzing API Design via Algebraic Laws (reasonablypolymorphic.com)

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Imagination, Patterns, and Visual Proofs (mynamelowercase.com)

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How to Rebuild American Industry (factorysettings.org)

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Thing: Temperature-Sensitive LED Faucet Light (bookofjoe2.blogspot.com)

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Glimpses of the Future (1979) (seated.ro)

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What Context Can Bring to Terminal Mouse Clicks (tratt.net)

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How long would you survive with no DNA? [video] (youtube.com)

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My Meandering Path to Silver (campbellramble.ai)

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Got factory ruin. Now builds Nordic prefab homes with industrial precision [video] (youtube.com)

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Guide to Retroarch, system, emulator, core, and ROM config files (2021) (raphkoster.com)

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Archives.design (archives.design)

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Tips to spot an otter in the wild (2024) (wwt.org.uk)

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Old Games Download: Abandonware and Retrogaming (oldgamesdownload.com)

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Webb Compare (2024) (webbcompare.com)

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

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Snow Simulation Toy (potch.me)

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Drawing Truchet Tiles in SVG (alexwlchan.net)

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Freesound (freesound.org)

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Preserved Fish, Boss of New York City (signoregalilei.com)

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Designing Better Adventures (quarter--mile.com)

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For the Minimalist: Best, Lightest, Smallest, and Cheapest Money Clip (bookofjoe2.blogspot.com)

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Georgism Through Land Leasing (progressandpoverty.substack.com)

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Textfiles.com (textfiles.com)

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Turning stone ruin and underground cistern into convertible home to slow down [video] (youtube.com)

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The Myth of the Golden Years of Housing (humanprogress.org)

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Internet Search Tips (gwern.net)

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Advent of Code vs. Weird Programming Languages (joshmoody.org)

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New Years Bingo (potch.me)

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Genius in the Bottle (summerofprotocols.com)

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The GDB JIT Interface (bernsteinbear.com)

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Path to Philosophy – Find the path of any Wikipedia article to Philosophy (pathtophilosophy.com)

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The Evolution of Bacteria (worksinprogress.co)

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WebGL CRT Shader (gingerbeardman.com)

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Ordering Pizza Ahead While Driving (jefftk.com)

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The three most common hallucinations (sashachapin.substack.com)

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A Pro Meticulously Restores a Damaged Oil Painting [video] (youtube.com)

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Face as a QR Code (bookofjoe2.blogspot.com)

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The most unhinged (recent) computer science discoveries [video] (youtube.com)

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Latest Sunrise and Earliest Sunset (leancrew.com)

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Optimizing for Old Battles (scottlocklin.wordpress.com)

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Academic Torrents (academictorrents.com)

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Using Linear Algebra to Predict a Non-Linear Pendulum (chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com)

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Nothing will change your life more than saying what you want to say (avabear.xyz)