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A nice read from one of the greats on how he’s using LLM editor age...

from Mitchell Hashimoto

My tentative theory here is that a well-run crowdsourced project ha...

from Terence Tao

You can concentrate on the solo performance, or you can concentrate...

from James Lee

Read this whenever you are in doubt about pursuing goals because of...

from defector.com

Advice on Being a First-Time Parent

We are at dinner with Steve and Heather and, in a quiet moment, Ste...

That is, faced with the horror of women’s experience, Freud rejecte...

from Mandy Brown

I like the idea that even as our chips and disks get faster, enhanc...

from brandur.org

These block-by-block photo series from Mose Kane are a fun little p...

from Mose Kane

The central idea is that asynchronous work is encapsulated in objec...

from pigweed.dev

“Nishin, you know what Twitter does to people! The journos can use ...

from Scott Alexander

My tentative theory is that the systems, incentives, and technologi...

from Mathstodon

Believe in truth. To abandon facts is to abandon freedom. If nothin...

from alansammarone

the ranking of posts, which determines the first impression of any ...

from neverland

if you are selling meme tokens, you do not have to represent that y...

from Matt Levine

Kimmel’s suspension has given us the clearest picture yet of how th...

from Garbage Day

God: …and the math results we’re seeing are nothing short of astoun...

from Scott Alexander

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

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