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I’ve found the comments in the database files (e.g. North America h...

from shagie

I call these “sorting” prompts because they usually push the system...

from Mike Caulfield

The reality is that The Consumer is not, in fact, a boss. Actually,...

from Sarah Mock

The Data-Ink ratio is a concept introduced by Edward Tufte, the exp...

from infovis-wiki.net

each of these subsystems update what they are reacting to at a diff...

from Henrik Karlsson

Neoliberalism has sought to become the most efficient system that w...

from Epoch Philosophy

The old capitalist Left identifies and states the truth of the prob...

from Epoch Philosophy

I threw this party with Mike Wang, who’s my collaborator at Long Jo...

from Jackson Dahl

Politics legendarily creates strange bedfellows. Crypto companies a...

from Patrick McKenzie (patio11)

This has a really good overview of my own thinking around why/when ...

from Astral Codex Ten

If you’re on your phone before bed, you’re in a state of hypnosis. ...

from Tom Sachs

Prior cultures have had granular stepping stones toward manhood for...

from Scott Alexander

This is like the author-attribution complement to everything must h...

from Infrequently Noted

Choose the least capable feature/tool/pattern/etc. suitable for a g...

from Hillel Wayne

Slopsquatting is a type of cybersquatting. It is the practice of re...

from wikipedia.org

Lockfiles have yo exist for languages and ecosystems like ruby wher...

from Nikita Prokopov (niki@tonsky.me)

In the past we tried to obfuscate by compressing text/images/messag...

from tratt.net

In general I do not have a ton of sympathy for hedge fund managers ...

from Matt Levine

departure from most implementations of agents, which is why we’ve p...

from Bryan Houlton

To do that we introduce decaying resolution, turning our memory int...

from Bryan Houlton

(Politically speaking, this idea overlaps appealingly and naturally...

from Max Read

I was agog, for example, to read that Travis Kalanick recently clai...

from Max Read

Yes, right, if you have a foreign-exchange derivative product that ...

from Matt Levine

I seem too passionate, it’s because I care. If I come on strong, it...

from Parks and Recreation

If your context is full of similar past action-observation pairs, t...

from manus.im

As your agent takes on more capabilities, its action space naturall...

from manus.im

This is a good snapshot of LLM/AI-driven businesses in mid-2025.

from Elad Gil

learned: Error rates compound exponentially in multi...

from Utkarsh Kanwat

Here’s another example of someone finding specification-driven-deve...

from Scott Werner

Chase McCoy

This morning I found Chase McCoy’s awesome “weblog about exploring ...

there are huge niches inside the platform that are barely even sear...

from Rendello

The first shoe dropped at CBS last night. TV-wise, it’d be crazy fo...

from John Gruber

Telling Claude Code Who I Am

Added this to my ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md yesterday to work better acros...

The new DeepMind paper introduces a system called CaMeL (short for ...

from Simon Willison

At some point, I realized that if I wrote a wiki page and documente...

from rachelbythebay.com

These are some big names in the tech world, all framing the convers...

from Tom Renner

And even though we saw that the model spec is just markdown, it’s q...

from AI Engineer

But one interesting thing I find is if you have things that are ver...

from Ableton

In the 2020s, a lot of crypto projects raised a lot of money from t...

from Matt Levine

Context Clash is when you accrue new information and tools in your ...

from Drew Breunig

This is a good overview of modern media publishing biases and impli...

from Zvi Mowshowitz

Complex web interfaces are dead in the long term. They are solving ...

from Liad Yosef

Decisions Have Leases

No decision is final

Coming back to GPS, somebody who realised the importance of mapping...

from Interconnected, a blog by Matt Webb

If you are a user of LLM systems that use tools (you can call them ...

from Simon Willison

The word is lessons Using separate language allows for separate ...

from nolearnings.com

What, I’ve wondered, is the role of the author, particularly the lo...

from lethain.com

The imperial boomerang is the thesis that governments that develop ...

from wikipedia.org

A useful way of thinking about persuasive techniques is how Scott A...

from Ludicity

Half the time, we end up with more than +25 % return – the median r...

from a@xkqr.org (kqr)

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