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"Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road?" (taylor.town)

3 months ago | surprisetalk | taylor.town | newest

33

My first attempt at iOS app development (mgx.me)

3 months ago | surprisetalk | mgx.me | best

69

Old payphones get new life, thanks to Vermont engineer (core77.com)

3 months ago | surprisetalk | core77.com | best

53

Modeling land value taxes (progressandpoverty.substack.com)

3 months ago | surprisetalk | substack.com | frontpage

26

Startup Equity 101 (quarter--mile.com)

3 months ago | surprisetalk | quarter--mile.com | best

1

Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road? (taylor.town)

3 months ago | surprisetalk | taylor.town | newest

1

Caltech Develops Drone That Smoothly Transitions from Flight to Four-Wheeling (core77.com)

3 months ago | surprisetalk | core77.com | newest

1

Televes (nopicnic.com)

3 months ago | surprisetalk | nopicnic.com | newest

83

Machine Code Isn't Scary (jimmyhmiller.com)

3 months ago | surprisetalk | jimmyhmiller.com | best

2

Making computers multiply FASTER (matrix hacking) [video] (youtube.com)

3 months ago | surprisetalk | youtube.com | newest

1

Apple's Unique Anti-Motion-Sickness Screen Animation Trick (core77.com)

3 months ago | surprisetalk | core77.com | newest

1

Colt's Revolutions (taylor.town)

3 months ago | surprisetalk | taylor.town | newest

1

Making an Infinite Lego Domino Ring [video] (youtube.com)

3 months ago | surprisetalk | youtube.com | newest

2

Box Combinators (mmapped.blog)

3 months ago | surprisetalk | mmapped.blog | newest

35

The Princeton INTERCAL Compiler's source code (esoteric.codes)

3 months ago | surprisetalk | esoteric.codes | best

5

Exponential Functions and Euler's Formula (deaneyang.com)

3 months ago | surprisetalk | deaneyang.com | frontpage

20

I Miss My Fan Regulator (rishikeshs.com)

3 months ago | surprisetalk | rishikeshs.com | newest

7

Not Everything Is on the Internet (2024) (bruh.ltd)

3 months ago | surprisetalk | bruh.ltd | frontpage

3

The Heat Mirage: My least-favorite internet maneuver (dynomight.net)

3 months ago | surprisetalk | dynomight.net | newest

5

Measles vaccines save lives each year (ourworldindata.org)

3 months ago | surprisetalk | ourworldindata.org | frontpage

4

Boxtype – A Puzzle Game (inconvergent.net)

3 months ago | surprisetalk | inconvergent.net | newest

1

Arcade Rhythm Games (cadence.moe)

3 months ago | surprisetalk | cadence.moe | newest

1

Hacked (sheep.horse)

3 months ago | surprisetalk | sheep.horse | newest

1

You want to geofence my GPU? (boehs.org)

4 months ago | surprisetalk | boehs.org | newest

2

Be Careful with Dropbox (brandur.org)

4 months ago | surprisetalk | brandur.org | newest

1

Apple Turnaround (hypercritical.co)

4 months ago | surprisetalk | hypercritical.co | newest

12

Bohemians at the Gate? (inferencemagazine.substack.com)

3 months ago | surprisetalk | substack.com | frontpage

3

Against Exponential Backoff (incoherency.co.uk)

4 months ago | surprisetalk | incoherency.co.uk | newest

1

Being a Japanese Politician [video] (youtube.com)

4 months ago | surprisetalk | youtube.com | newest

43

Gradients Are the New Intervals (mattkeeter.com)

4 months ago | surprisetalk | mattkeeter.com | best

55

I made a chair (milofultz.com)

3 months ago | surprisetalk | milofultz.com | best

42

How Georgists Valued land in the 1900's (progressandpoverty.substack.com)

3 months ago | surprisetalk | substack.com | best

2

Saying Goodbye to Glitch (pketh.org)

4 months ago | surprisetalk | pketh.org | newest

15

Estimating Logarithms (obrhubr.org)

3 months ago | surprisetalk | obrhubr.org | best

78

Limits to Growth was right about collapse (thenextwavefutures.wordpress.com)

4 months ago | surprisetalk | wordpress.com | best

16

How to Do Ambitious Research in the Modern Era [video] (youtube.com)

4 months ago | surprisetalk | youtube.com | frontpage

2

Pathological Demand Avoidance (wikipedia.org)

4 months ago | surprisetalk | wikipedia.org | newest

3

Hacking Pinball High Scores (gwern.net)

4 months ago | surprisetalk | gwern.net | frontpage

2

AI decides on trolley problems [video] (youtube.com)

4 months ago | surprisetalk | youtube.com | newest

1

Designing an App Like You Would a Home (daliakatan.substack.com)

4 months ago | surprisetalk | substack.com | newest

70

The Blowtorch Theory: A new model for structure formation in the universe (theeggandtherock.com)

4 months ago | surprisetalk | theeggandtherock.com | best

1

Partisan Corporate Speech (hbs.edu)

4 months ago | surprisetalk | hbs.edu | newest

1

Fingers Wrinkle in the Same Pattern Every Time After Long Exposure to Water (discovermagazine.com)

4 months ago | surprisetalk | discovermagazine.com | newest

65

Monks Behaving Badly: Explaining Buddhist Violence in Asia (direct.mit.edu)

4 months ago | surprisetalk | mit.edu | frontpage

3

Sleep hours fall as income rises (sciencedirect.com)

4 months ago | surprisetalk | sciencedirect.com | newest

1

Total Factor Productivity (elidourado.com)

4 months ago | surprisetalk | elidourado.com | newest

5

Reactions and follow up to College English Majors Can't Read (kittenbeloved.substack.com)

4 months ago | surprisetalk | substack.com | frontpage

12

Flash Back: An “oral” history of Flash (goodinternetmagazine.com)

4 months ago | surprisetalk | goodinternetmagazine.com | frontpage

5

GameStop announces purchase of 4,710 Bitcoin (gamestop.com)

4 months ago | surprisetalk | gamestop.com | newest

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My website is ugly because I made it (goodinternetmagazine.com)

4 months ago | surprisetalk | goodinternetmagazine.com | best

119

The Polymarket users betting on when Jesus will return (ericneyman.wordpress.com)

4 months ago | surprisetalk | wordpress.com | best

1

Orienting Toward Wizard Power (lesswrong.com)

4 months ago | surprisetalk | lesswrong.com | newest

6

Printing metal on glass with lasers [video] (youtube.com)

4 months ago | surprisetalk | youtube.com | frontpage

1

AI Audiobooks are not accessible (sightlessscribbles.com)

4 months ago | surprisetalk | sightlessscribbles.com | newest

2

Show HN: Blogs.hn – Tiny Blog Directory (blogs.hn)

4 months ago | surprisetalk | blogs.hn | newest

14

Vrs: Personal Software Runtime inspired by Emacs, Plan 9, Erlang, Hypermedia (github.com/leoshimo)

4 months ago | surprisetalk | github.com | best

2

How did geometry create modern physics? (quantamagazine.org)

4 months ago | surprisetalk | quantamagazine.org | frontpage

2

Balatro for the Nintendo E-Reader [video] (youtube.com)

4 months ago | surprisetalk | youtube.com | newest

1

Killer Collection of CSS Resets (perishablepress.com)

4 months ago | surprisetalk | perishablepress.com | newest

1

Mainstreaming the Values of the Natural Building Movement [video] (youtube.com)

4 months ago | surprisetalk | youtube.com | newest

5

Implementing complex numbers and FFT with just datatypes (2023) (gist.github.com)

4 months ago | surprisetalk | github.com | frontpage

39

Sketchy Calendar (inkandswitch.com)

4 months ago | surprisetalk | inkandswitch.com | best

2

Pitch: A New Kind of Superhero (quarter--mile.com)

4 months ago | surprisetalk | quarter--mile.com | newest

3

I won $500 vibe coding at a hackathon (handyai.substack.com)

4 months ago | surprisetalk | substack.com | newest

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Poll: How often do you bathe?

4 months ago | surprisetalk | ycombinator.com | frontpage

2

Cooperative Source Software Licenses (bsky.app)

4 months ago | surprisetalk | bsky.app | newest

1

Understanding task types in the Gemini Embedding API (technicalwriting.dev)

4 months ago | surprisetalk | technicalwriting.dev | newest

3

An In-Room Mosquito Tracking Device That Lets You Easily Kill Them (core77.com)

4 months ago | surprisetalk | core77.com | frontpage

7

Rivers (futilitycloset.com)

4 months ago | surprisetalk | futilitycloset.com | frontpage

52

British naval dominance during the age of sail (lesswrong.com)

4 months ago | surprisetalk | lesswrong.com | best

1

Event organisers, you don't need to do anything (todepond.com)

4 months ago | surprisetalk | todepond.com | newest

3

Internet Phone Book (internetphonebook.net)

4 months ago | surprisetalk | internetphonebook.net | frontpage

218

Human (quarter--mile.com)

4 months ago | surprisetalk | quarter--mile.com | best

2

Zero to the Power of Zero (wikipedia.org)

4 months ago | surprisetalk | wikipedia.org | newest

1

Worldcoin: Keynote Summary and Key Announcements [video] (youtube.com)

4 months ago | surprisetalk | youtube.com | newest

4

Neon Is Joining Databricks (neon.tech)

4 months ago | surprisetalk | neon.tech | newest

1

Copyright, AI and American Politics (handyai.substack.com)

4 months ago | surprisetalk | substack.com | newest

4

Writing that changed how I think about PL (bernsteinbear.com)

4 months ago | surprisetalk | bernsteinbear.com | frontpage

3

List of Blog Platforms (manuelmoreale.com)

4 months ago | surprisetalk | manuelmoreale.com | newest

2

One Alien's Trash Is Another Alien's Treasure (thebsdetector.substack.com)

4 months ago | surprisetalk | substack.com | frontpage

1

My Graduate Career in Math (jeremykun.com)

4 months ago | surprisetalk | jeremykun.com | newest

12

Comma 3X: Initial Impressions (beesbuzz.biz)

4 months ago | surprisetalk | beesbuzz.biz | frontpage

2

Spall: A code profiler that runs in the browser (gravitymoth.com)

4 months ago | surprisetalk | gravitymoth.com | newest

79

Reviving a modular cargo bike design from the 1930s (core77.com)

4 months ago | surprisetalk | core77.com | best

3

Michigan Built a Super Highway Using Only U-Turns [video] (youtube.com)

4 months ago | surprisetalk | youtube.com | newest

3

Better Air Purifiers (jefftk.com)

4 months ago | surprisetalk | jefftk.com | frontpage

2

We Trade with Ants: The Little Speakers (fortressofdoors.com)

4 months ago | surprisetalk | fortressofdoors.com | frontpage

1

Claude and I write a utility program (plover.com)

4 months ago | surprisetalk | plover.com | newest

1

New Reports: Land Value Taxes in College Towns (progressandpoverty.substack.com)

4 months ago | surprisetalk | substack.com | newest

4

The British Airways position on various border disputes (drewdevault.com)

4 months ago | surprisetalk | drewdevault.com | frontpage

1

Sea Level Rise (jbrr.dev)

4 months ago | surprisetalk | jbrr.dev | newest

6

Clearly Incorrect (quarter--mile.com)

4 months ago | surprisetalk | quarter--mile.com | frontpage

8

Unique Games Conjecture (wikipedia.org)

4 months ago | surprisetalk | wikipedia.org | frontpage

2

The absolute best transportation for cities (trams/streetcars) [video] (youtube.com)

4 months ago | surprisetalk | youtube.com | newest

1

Everything you always wanted to know about the Carnegie Diplodocus (svpow.com)

4 months ago | surprisetalk | svpow.com | newest

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Being a YouTuber bankrupted me [video] (youtube.com)

4 months ago | surprisetalk | youtube.com | newest

1

The Graphing Calculator Story (2006) [video] (youtube.com)

4 months ago | surprisetalk | youtube.com | newest

2

Write an essay about Julian Togelius (togelius.blogspot.com)

4 months ago | surprisetalk | blogspot.com | newest

1

Radiance Fields and the Future of Generative Media [video] (youtube.com)

4 months ago | surprisetalk | youtube.com | newest

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WebMonkeys: parallel GPU programming in JavaScript (2016) (github.com/victortaelin)

4 months ago | surprisetalk | github.com | best