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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)

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Macintosh Garden (macintoshgarden.org)

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Roborock Saros Rover [video] (youtube.com)

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The grab list: how museums decide what to save in a disaster (economist.com)

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King County Public Health advises you to flush your toilet rats (reddit.com)

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What Is Claude Code's Plan Mode? (pocoo.org)

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How People Use ChatGPT (forklightning.substack.com)

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Why NYT's Connections makes you feel bad (2023) (raphkoster.com)

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Case Study: K9 Coliving (supernuclear.substack.com)

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Jed's List of Situation Puzzles (kith.org)

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Towards a short taxonomy of technological progress (mynamelowercase.com)

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PhyloPic (phylopic.org)

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The Death Generator (deathgenerator.com)

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Seeing Theory (brown.edu)

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No Beautiful Things (eli.li)

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Socially awkward nerds are mostly just Berkson's paradox (shakeddown.substack.com)

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What is the opposite of a set? [video] (youtube.com)

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The Internet forgets, but I don't want to (alexwlchan.net)

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AI Teddy Bears: A Brief Investigation (lesswrong.com)

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

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The Economics of Parenting with Neighborhood and Peer Effects (nber.org)

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There are too many types of barcode (signoregalilei.com)

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Narrow Escape of a Mouse (futilitycloset.com)

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You Can Just Buy Far-UVC (jefftk.com)

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Visible Mending (bookofjoe2.blogspot.com)

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Mundango (daverupert.com)

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AI Flatters with Fidelity (lucent.substack.com)

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Open Philanthropy Is Now Coefficient Giving (coefficientgiving.org)

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Who Is in Space – Live Updates (whoisinspace.com)

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༄ Gravity Basins ࿐ [video] (youtube.com)

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San Remo Pasta Measurer (toxel.com)

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RamenHaus (ramen.haus)

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AI Is Creating More Work, Countering the Doomers for Now (humanprogress.org)

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What old tennis players teach us (2017) (raphkoster.com)

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Impedance Matching (futilitycloset.com)

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MMAP Advent of Code 2025 (mmapped.blog)

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It's the Same Great Taste (brooke.substack.com)

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Aviation Photos – 6M+ on JetPhotos (jetphotos.com)

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Making the ask: Persuading family to move nearby (livenearfriends.com)

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Business and the Beast (jakehandy.com)

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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)