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17 October
Writes Don't Worry About the Vase, a near-daily account of what is happening in AI and what they think it means. Former Magic: the Gathering pro and trader; unusually willing to put a number on a belief and to grade their own past calls.
Economist and Nobel laureate. Wrote a New York Times column for 25 years until December 2024 and now publishes several times a week on Substack.
Economics writer; author of the Noahpinion newsletter.
When I say that Trump is allied with Russia, I am not exaggerating for rhetorical effect Quoting @ScottMStedman Unbelievable. At 9 PM on a Friday night, Trump just waived nearly every sanction the Lindsey Graham bill imposed on Russia. Russia
Economics writer; author of the Noahpinion newsletter.
India is kicking ass Quoting @Kyunghoon_Kim_ Nearly all major forecasters, including the IMF, ADB and World Bank, have recently raised their growth forecasts for India to above 7% for this year AND next. Remarkable in itself - even more so when viewed against India’s recent performance. (1/n)
Founded SpaceX in 2002, joined Tesla's board in 2004 and became its chief executive in 2008; later founded Neuralink, The Boring Company and xAI. Bought Twitter in 2022 and renamed it X, where he now posts many times a day.
Anomalies in the matrix are inevitable
Economist at George Mason University, co-author of Marginal Revolution, host of Conversations with Tyler. Writes in short, dense claims about economics, culture and AI, and has moved position on AI in public more than once.
Co-creator of Django and creator of Datasette; writes daily at simonwillison.net.
Machine-learning researcher on open language models; writes the Interconnects newsletter and the RLHF Book, after leading post-training at Ai2.
CEO of Vercel; creator of Next.js and Socket.IO. Writes at rauchg.com.
Rebuilt the Roadster demo in a playable, highly accurate simulation that retains a lot of the IRL details:
Structural engineer and senior infrastructure fellow at the Institute for Progress; writes Construction Physics on why physical things cost what they cost.
Reading List 10/17/26 Icon’s fundraising, employment in China’s solar industry, grid-scale battery reliability, Tesla’s flying roadster, and more.
solar China
Creator of Flask and Jinja. Writes about software at lucumr.pocoo.org.
Creator of Flask and Jinja. Writes about software at lucumr.pocoo.org.
Science fiction novelist, journalist and technology activist; writes the daily blog and newsletter Pluralistic, and coined the term enshittification.
Makes NeetCode, the structured practice list and video walkthroughs people use to prepare for coding interviews; a former Google engineer.
Short Even Fable couldn't stop this from happening
Marketing author and daily blogger; founder of the altMBA and the Akimbo workshops, and author of books including Purple Cow and This Is Marketing.
The race to the bottom feels inevitable… but it isn’t. A company wants web traffic, so it dumbs down content, builds listicles and grows. But then others become even dumber or more convenient, so it has to race to keep up with them. Eventually, with nothing bu…
Physician focused on longevity; wrote Outlive and hosts The Drive.
Freelance climate and energy analyst in Oslo, writing on Europe, the US and Australia; worked in the Australian renewables industry before that.
Google signs a deal to remove 20,932 tonnes of carbon from the atmosphere. That is 0.07% of their unadjusted emissions in one year (2025) Google
Economic historian at Columbia; writes Chartbook on economics, geopolitics and history, and wrote Crashed and The Deluge.
Writer on happiness, habits and human nature. Author of The Happiness Project, Better Than Before and The Four Tendencies, and host of the Happier with Gretchen Rubin podcast.
American author of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck and Everything Is F*cked. Writes essays and book reviews at markmanson.net.
Short Manifestation Bro vs. a Grown Adult
Austrian developer. Created the libGDX game framework, and more recently the pi coding agent, which moved with them to Earendil — Armin Ronacher's company — in April 2026. Writes at mariozechner.at.
i want to expand my bubble. which chinese accounts on here should i follow that talk AI/software?
Emeritus professor of war studies at King's College London; wrote Strategy: A History and Command, and writes about the wars in Ukraine and Gaza as they happen.
American author of The Obstacle Is the Way, Ego Is the Enemy and Stillness Is the Key. Writes the Reading List book-recommendation email (started 2008) and owns The Painted Porch bookstore in Bastrop, Texas. Hosts The Daily Stoic podcast.
Computer science professor who works on fast data processing; co-author of the simdjson parser and a weekly blogger about software performance since 2004.
Founder and CEO of Social Capital, a venture firm; co-host of the All-In podcast and an early Facebook executive. Writes an annual letter and a weekly newsletter on markets and technology.
Designer, product manager, YouTuber and developer who has written about technology at Birchtree since 2010. He makes the Quick Reviews and Quick Notes apps and the A Better Computer YouTube channel.
Belgian engineering lead, Microsoft MVP and public speaker. Creator of Front Matter, a headless CMS extension for Visual Studio Code.
Co-founder of WordPress and founder of Automattic; blogs at ma.tt.
Engineering leader and writer; wrote An Elegant Puzzle, Staff Engineer and The Engineering Executive's Primer, and blogs at Irrational Exuberance.
Professor of strategic studies at St Andrews; wrote How the War Was Won and The Strategists, and writes weekly on the war in Ukraine.
Product designer and entrepreneur; author of Mobile First and Web Form Design; formerly a product director at Google; now building AI products.
Financial journalist; chief financial correspondent at Axios and host of the Slate Money podcast, previously a blogger at Reuters and author of The Phoenix Economy.
Writer and former McKinsey/BCG strategy consultant; author of The Pathless Path and Good Work, about leaving the default career track. Publishes the Boundless newsletter and podcast.
Short You need one friend who doesn't laugh
Italian software architect working on Microsoft 365, Azure and GitHub tooling. Microsoft MVP and GitHub Star; writes, speaks and streams about developer productivity at emanuelebartolesi.com.
American science fiction novelist (Old Man's War, Redshirts, The Kaiju Preservation Society); has run the blog Whatever since 1998.
In defiance of God and man, I have put leftover soup into a rectangular container
Co-founder, chairman and chief investment officer of Ritholtz Wealth Management. Hosts the Masters in Business podcast for Bloomberg and wrote How NOT to Invest.
10 Weekend Reads The weekend is here! Pour yourself a mug of Danish Blend coffee, grab a seat outside, and get ready for our longer-form weekend reads: • America Didn’t Lose Its Rare Earth Industry. It Sold It.: Markets price for cost.…
America
British open-standards and open-source technologist, formerly of the UK Government Digital Service and the W3C Advisory Committee. Blogs at shkspr.mobi, where he posts a book review most weeks.
British open-standards and open-source technologist, formerly of the UK Government Digital Service and the W3C Advisory Committee. Blogs at shkspr.mobi, where he posts a book review most weeks.
Fascinating to see this in the Libby Library app.
Swedish open source developer; creator and lead maintainer of curl and libcurl, and a co-founder of the Rockbox project.
A Saturday email that makes my chores easier. I want to extend this to my fellow maintainers in these testing times; I'm not doing curl by myself. Hi Daniel, With all the nonsense going on related to AI slop bug reporting and PRs, just looking in from the outside is exhausting, I imagine it must be even worse for you and the other contributors. I wanted to say thank you for all the time and energy you put into cURL, the tool really is a joy to use and never lets me down. energy AI slop
Swedish open source developer; creator and lead maintainer of curl and libcurl, and a co-founder of the Rockbox project.
#curl's law: Everything eventually runs curl A trend in society over the last decade and I don't see it changing anytime soon.
Indian software developer and prolific blogger on PHP, Laravel and JavaScript; open-source enthusiast publishing near-daily at amitmerchant.com.
Physicist and science communicator. Writes Backreaction and makes videos explaining new physics and astronomy results, frequently to argue that the headline about them overstates the case.
The Universe Was Born Magnetic, Scientists Say
Physicist and science communicator. Writes Backreaction and makes videos explaining new physics and astronomy results, frequently to argue that the headline about them overstates the case.
The Universe Was Born Magnetic, Scientists Say For a decade, two ways of measuring how fast the universe expands have given different answers, a problem known as the “Hubble tension”. Now a group of physicists says the problem isn’t the supernovae but how we read th…
Prime Minister of Canada since March 2025; formerly governor of the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England.
Short Good evening, Edmonton. • Bonsoir, Edmonton.
Technical educator, conference speaker and developer relations engineer based in Ottawa, Canada. Author of the Anubis bot filter and of over 400 articles at xeiaso.net.
They call themselves "rationalists" yet refuse to speak exclusively in fractions
Journalist and author of The Art of Noticing; writes the newsletter The Art of Noticing (TAoN) on attention, creativity and the everyday.
Thai software engineer; publishes a public digital garden at garden.narze.live and builds developer and productivity tooling.
Journalist and author; writes the Racket News newsletter and reported the Twitter Files.
Free software developer and longtime Debian developer; author of git-annex, etckeeper, ikiwiki and debhelper. Lives and works off-grid.
Been charging my EV #offgrid for 2 years now and up to 2.25 megawatt hours total. That's $1000 saved over using public fast chargers. Not bad for a way to use excess power from the #solar system, which was not really designed to charge an EV, just to always have enough power at home. After some upgrades, I expect it will be closer to 1.5 mwh/year going forward. solar
Founder and editor of Talking Points Memo; writes daily political commentary and analysis there.
Statistician at Columbia; writes Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science, and wrote Bayesian Data Analysis.
American open-source program lead working on WordPress; a WordPress core contributor and release lead who writes at jeffpaul.com.
Economist; writes In My Tribe, and wrote The Three Languages of Politics.
Software engineer and open-source maintainer of attrs and structlog; writes about Python, software design and career growth at hynek.me.
It's possible to deliver quality code with genAI just like it's possible to be on a diet in a candy shop.
Founder and editor of The Free Press, formerly published as her own Substack.
Doctor turned YouTuber and entrepreneur; makes videos on productivity, studying and business, and wrote the book Feel-Good Productivity.
Short How to expand your personal brand into new topics
Indonesian software engineer, educator and engineering manager at Zero One Group; open-source enthusiast writing at ripandis.com.
Professor of History at Boston College; writes Letters from an American, a nightly newsletter on the history behind current US politics.
16 October
Economics writer; author of the Noahpinion newsletter.
Incredible corruption The country is being looted by a mafia Quoting @unusual_whales BREAKING: Companies whose federal cases were dropped under Trump have given or pledged $210.5 million to his super PACs, per a new Public Citizen report. Crypto,com: $37 million, after the SEC dropped an investigation Gemini: $20 million, plus $10 million each from founders Tyler and Cameron Winkle…
Economics writer; author of the Noahpinion newsletter.
Being one of the last "AI is fake" holdouts must be so blissful. You just live in a little cloud of your own fantasies. Quoting @sethharpesq AI is literally a scam, the most sophisticated scam ever. They created a machine that mimics the output of intelligence. Then told everyone it was really intelligent — an impossibility, but the illusion was convincing. Based on that deception, they fleeced investors of trillions.
Economics writer; author of the Noahpinion newsletter.
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But we may be building it faster than we can pay back the money we're borrowing to build it.
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The amount of compute we're building is tiny compared to the amount we will build.
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optimism
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the doomers provide a valuable service to the world, but at some point you have to realize that they are STRUCTURALLY doomer. They will never feel safe or optimistic about AI no matter what happens.
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Co-founder and CEO of Shopify; long-time Linux user and Omarchy contributor.
that can't be right. can it? Quoting @m_lubieniecki Since my Tesla Roadster sim blew up a little, here's a proper update with the newer specs from the Top Gear interview (RWD, ~1.7 t, ~1 MW, 200 L tank, tyres alone ~1.26 g). The big question is what Musk's "2 g" means: 🔵 2 g of fan suction: 1:30.8, 1.8 s faster than Verstappen's 2025 pole 🟢 2 g of…
Co-founder and CEO of OpenAI; previously president of Y Combinator.
Wow the new roadster looks quite amazing, good job @elonmusk
Writes The Pragmatic Engineer, the software-engineering newsletter, and wrote The Software Engineer's Guidebook. Formerly an engineering manager at Uber, and at Microsoft/Skype and Skyscanner before that.
Cindy is one of the best distributed systems engineers I know, and resistant to any and all hype (also a great writer!) From her: "Claude (when given proper instructions, constraints, and context) now writes better code than me, almost always." Quoting @copyconstruct To create my claude.md, I had it read: - my favorite programming books + blogs - the best oss projects - the code of the engineers I respect the most Claude (when given proper instructions, constraints, and context) now writes better code than me, almost always. Anthropic
From a dev at a startup, talking about AI usage: "At my last startup, there was one dev. He used vim and could ship features to production faster than anyone else who was using AI. He did it at a higher quality, and this is what he continues to do. The best dev I ever met." startups
Dutch bootstrapper who builds and runs their internet startups alone — Nomads.com, Remote OK, Hoodmaps, Photo AI and Interior AI — and has written about it at levels.io since 2013. Posts as @levelsio.
We must pace the frontier in Europe We're advancing too fast! Quoting @AureaLibe Pendant qu’Elon Musk fabrique des voitures volantes pour s’amuser, Emmanuel Macron essaie la nouvelle voiture électrique super moche de Citroën. Europe
Dutch bootstrapper who builds and runs their internet startups alone — Nomads.com, Remote OK, Hoodmaps, Photo AI and Interior AI — and has written about it at levels.io since 2013. Posts as @levelsio.
AGI
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I am actively looking at buying more land and real estate (especially coastal) as that's a scarce asset that will remain scarce post-AGI
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levels.io
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Perfumes disrupt you and other people's endocrine system, destroys the chemical messenger system of pheromones (used to smell who can be a good love partner for you), and many other bad things
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Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.
Let's fucking go.
Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.
If your first response to the Tesla Roadster is "is that safe??", you've lost all sense of wonder. Safety is not and never was the meaning of life. I'd happily spend a few micromorts on a flying car. (Also, Tesla has a sterling safety record, so probably won't even need to). happiness
Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.
investing
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Because investing in whatever Elon does next is not just a great bet, but the most inspiring and fun one too.
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ambition Europe
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Starship, Starlink, Grok, and Roadster. These should all have been Sputnik moments for Europe. Triggered immediate deregulation, mobilization of capital, and ambition to catch up.
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Writes Don't Worry About the Vase, a near-daily account of what is happening in AI and what they think it means. Former Magic: the Gathering pro and trader; unusually willing to put a number on a belief and to grade their own past calls.
Economist and Nobel laureate. Wrote a New York Times column for 25 years until December 2024 and now publishes several times a week on Substack.
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The Bad News on Inflation Just Keeps Coming
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Co-founder of Y Combinator and Viaweb; essayist at paulgraham.com.
startups investing
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There are two possible explanations: (a) the investors actually are stupid, or (b) they just dislike you, and are making up the reason.
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Founded SpaceX in 2002, joined Tesla's board in 2004 and became its chief executive in 2008; later founded Neuralink, The Boring Company and xAI. Bought Twitter in 2022 and renamed it X, where he now posts many times a day.
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Advertisers who post ads that are ugly, shrill, strident or overstate claims about their product will be barred from advertising.
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Going forward, all advertising on 𝕏 will be subject to a reasonable esthetic standard.
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Co-creator of Django and creator of Datasette; writes daily at simonwillison.net.
Mathematician at UCLA, working mainly in harmonic analysis and partial differential equations. Writes What's new, a long-running blog on their research, open problems and expository notes.
SAIR Open Math OS released As announced a few weeks ago, the SAIR Open Math OS is now soft launched. It offers services and web interfaces similar to frontier AI models, though currently we are hosting existing open math models (DeepSeek V4.1 Fla…
Mathematician at UCLA, working mainly in harmonic analysis and partial differential equations. Writes What's new, a long-running blog on their research, open problems and expository notes.
How to Formalize All of Mathematics Jeremy Avigad, Kevin Buzzard, Johan Commelin, Rémy Degenne, Kim Morrison, Oliver Nash and Adam Topaz have written a blog post over on Kevin Buzzard’s blog entitled “How to Formalize All of Mathematics”, regarding recent…
mathematics
Technology writer of Spyglass, a newsletter about technology and media. Previously a reporter at TechCrunch and an investor at GV.
Working on @ampcode. Writing registerspill.thorstenball.com. Once authored interpreterbook.com and compilerbook.com.
Yup, we have SOC2 and push to main: ampcode.com
Quoting @nateberkopec the most common misunderstanding of SOC2 is that it requires humans to review pull requests. it does not.
Working on @ampcode. Writing registerspill.thorstenball.com. Once authored interpreterbook.com and compilerbook.com.
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With agents you can now move 10x faster, you can finally do real continuous integration, and get more confidence in the changes the agent made.
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CEO of Vercel; creator of Next.js and Socket.IO. Writes at rauchg.com.
I think @tobi is the epitome of the modern entrepreneur. A CEO that's mission-driven, detail-obsessed, and a hands-on engineer who communicates openly to the world on @x. Yesterday we announced https://t.co/X2xq4VL3eb in GA, and https://t.co/yicNXsr1vz 👕, our own Vercel merch store dogfooding it. Vercel Shop gives you a production-grade, blazing-fast Next.js storefront that's agent-ready out of the box, with @shopify as its backend. Shopify and Vercel share the mission of enabling and powering the entrepreneurs of the future. Excited to see what people build with us 🫶
Writes Slow Boring, a near-daily newsletter on American politics and public policy; co-founded Vox in 2014 and left it in 2020.
Creator of Claude Code at Anthropic.
I could not imagine being productive without Claude Code Review. It runs on all of my PRs, and catches almost every bug before it goes it. This is a piece of the secret sauce that lets the team and I move so quickly while raising the quality bar Quoting @ClaudeDevs Code Review is now generally available for Claude Team and Enterprise plans. Reviews are now faster, catch more of the bugs that matter, and admins can pick from Quick, Standard, or Deep review levels for each repo. Anthropic
Creator of Claude Code at Anthropic.
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Don't sleep on Claude Slides. This is how I make slide decks now -- no more googling "iphone frame svg" like the old days Try it: https://claude.ai/artifacts
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Creator of Flask and Jinja. Writes about software at lucumr.pocoo.org.
Fascinating how much abuse this Tweet triggered. I’m honestly surprised people want to sit in a car that makes a kick flip. I love that people push the boundaries but simultaneously I absolutely would not want to experience it. Quoting @mitsuhiko Technically cool but … who wants that?
Creator of Flask and Jinja. Writes about software at lucumr.pocoo.org.
Technically cool but … who wants that? Quoting @Tesla Do a kickflip!
Essayist; writes Astral Codex Ten, previously Slate Star Codex.
Systems and developer-tools engineer at Cloudflare as of 2026, on durable infrastructure for AI agents; worked on React and PartyKit before that. Writes at sunilpai.dev.
great website, love it here
Forecaster, founder of FiveThirtyEight, author of The Signal and the Noise and On the Edge. Writes Silver Bulletin, where the predictions come with numbers and the numbers are later checked against what happened.
Ancient and military historian; writes A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry, long series checking what history actually says against how popular culture tells it.
Mathematician and maker of the 3Blue1Brown YouTube channel, which explains mathematics through animation. Creator of the open-source Manim animation library and founder of the Summer of Math Exposition.
Writer and teacher on productivity and personal knowledge management. Author of Building a Second Brain and founder of Forte Labs, which runs the course of the same name.
Short One Degree a Year Is Enough to Change Your Whole Life #growth #mindset
Science fiction novelist, journalist and technology activist; writes the daily blog and newsletter Pluralistic, and coined the term enshittification.
Professor of psychology at the University of Toronto and Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Professor Emeritus at Yale. Author of Against Empathy, The Sweet Spot and Psych, and writer of the Small Potatoes newsletter.
Economist at George Mason University. Writes Overcoming Bias on prediction markets, signalling and the far future, and wrote The Age of Em and The Elephant in the Brain.
“These views are rooted in a once-fringe Silicon Valley ideology called 'transhumanism.' Transhumanists believe that technology will allow us to transcend humanity either by creating a new species or by combining ourselves with machines. Why go beyond humans? Because these new “posthumans” will be smarter than us. They will be infallible. They will go to the stars and conquer the universe. They will live forever." Them's my peeps. theatlantic.com
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Usability pioneer; co-founder of Nielsen Norman Group and founder of UX Tigers; author of the ten usability heuristics and of Jakob's Law.
Theoretical physicist and philosopher, Homewood Professor of Natural Philosophy at Johns Hopkins and fractal faculty at the Santa Fe Institute. Writes the Preposterous Universe blog and hosts the Mindscape podcast.
Vote. Whatever inconveniences there may be, they are insignificant next to preserving democracy. Vote. Quoting @beshearstan.bsky.social This is just beautiful to see democracy
Theoretical physicist and philosopher, Homewood Professor of Natural Philosophy at Johns Hopkins and fractal faculty at the Santa Fe Institute. Writes the Preposterous Universe blog and hosts the Mindscape podcast.
Sorry to hear that Jeffrey Goldstone has died. He was a giant of quantum field theory- pioneering our modern understanding of symmetry breaking- and later did great things in quantum information. I knew him at MIT as a gruff but friendly wise man. physics.mit.edu
Director of institutional asset management at Ritholtz Wealth Management. Writes the A Wealth of Common Sense blog and co-hosts the Animal Spirits podcast with Michael Batnick.
Co-founder of Glue Club and The Guild, and host of TED's WorkLife podcast; writes the Lessons newsletter, and led operations at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Quip and Lambda School after five years at Facebook.
Marketing author and daily blogger; founder of the altMBA and the Akimbo workshops, and author of books including Purple Cow and This Is Marketing.
A good worker The truth is, I’m not a good worker. I’ve had very few traditional jobs, and my performance on typical tasks was poor. Work the exact hours, do precisely what’s asked, don’t ask questions and focus on what the boss want…
Writer and technology executive; blogs at anildash.com, was CEO of Glitch, and helped build Movable Type and ThinkUp.
As I have said for years, the NYT is just Facebook. Same ratcheting effect pushing “moderates” right, same delegation of all editorial authority to fascists who game things by falsely claiming they’re being silenced. Same use of text content to support their actual monetization elsewhere. Quoting @markjacob.bsky.social 🧵🧵🧵 The NY Times posted a 15-minute video today in which I got to tell NYT what’s wrong with its coverage. They said they saw my critical posts on Bluesky and invited me to do a video with them to air my grievances. Weird, right? I didn’t hold back. I blasted their sanewashing of MAGA extremism.
Freelance climate and energy analyst in Oslo, writing on Europe, the US and Australia; worked in the Australian renewables industry before that.
Defund and shut down any media outlet uncritically reproducing this fucking propaganda, truly. I mean it. Quoting @yahoofinance.com "Flying cars are real!" 🚀 Elon Musk and Tesla showcase the new Roadster.
Freelance climate and energy analyst in Oslo, writing on Europe, the US and Australia; worked in the Australian renewables industry before that.
Research psychologist, instrumental in founding the field of naturalistic decision making; developed the recognition-primed decision model, the PreMortem method and the ShadowBox training method, and wrote Sources of Power and Seeing What Others Don't.
Economic historian at Columbia; writes Chartbook on economics, geopolitics and history, and wrote Crashed and The Deluge.
Economic historian at Columbia; writes Chartbook on economics, geopolitics and history, and wrote Crashed and The Deluge.
Co-founder of Superlogical, started in 2026 to build server-side terminal infrastructure; creator of Ghostty. Co-founded HashiCorp and created Vagrant and Terraform before that.
I genuinely hate the marketing trend right now of companies making AI generated videos with their branding/people in it around every single new pop culture or world event. I think its tacky, low effort, and it doesn't look that good at all.
Founder of Write of Passage, an online writing school; writes and podcasts (How I Write) about writing, media and the creator economy.
Short An Exercise To Notice More Of Your Life - Suleika Jaouad
Founder of Write of Passage, an online writing school; writes and podcasts (How I Write) about writing, media and the creator economy.
Short "Hollow Bones" Started With A 9/11 Secret - Jodi Picoult
Founder of Platformer, a newsletter on tech platforms and the people they affect, and co-host of the Hard Fork podcast at the New York Times.
Austrian developer. Created the libGDX game framework, and more recently the pi coding agent, which moved with them to Earendil — Armin Ronacher's company — in April 2026. Writes at mariozechner.at.
so, i've been using this little shitty thing, running entirely on my phone except the llm calls, for almost 2 weeks for all my work. i've since rewritten it twice. also on the phone. never going back to anything else. Quoting @badlogicgames day 3, cwd file browser and git viewer. inline comments that get back to the agent are in progress. then integration of switching execution env, so agent can jump from local to remote machine, while its brain still works on my phone. decided to not publish this. it's a slop design study for where p… LLMs
Austrian developer. Created the libGDX game framework, and more recently the pi coding agent, which moved with them to Earendil — Armin Ronacher's company — in April 2026. Writes at mariozechner.at.
it's beaver o'clock again
Austrian developer. Created the libGDX game framework, and more recently the pi coding agent, which moved with them to Earendil — Armin Ronacher's company — in April 2026. Writes at mariozechner.at.
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and agents currently still suck at the software writing human skill of colaborating with another human to understand their wants and translate them to a program.
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and until we can encode that agents for writing programs will likely only be effective in the hands of software writing humans, or very technically minded humans.
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American author of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck and Everything Is F*cked. Writes essays and book reviews at markmanson.net.
Short Why Breakups Feel Like Losing Yourself
Engineering leader and writer; wrote The Manager's Path and Platform Engineering, and blogs at Elided Branches.
"In any case, what is missing from this endlessly verbose rationalist writing style is wisdom. Wisdom involves discretion: an intuition for what ideas are and are not worth seriously pursuing, and the ability to determine what does and does not need to be said." alexwennerberg.com
Engineering leader and writer; wrote The Manager's Path and Platform Engineering, and blogs at Elided Branches.
What is going on over there in the UK? "mixed sex emergency ward" yes isn't that all of them? Transphobia has really rotted so many brains Quoting @jordanpfot.bsky.social What a heartless, cruel thing for an elected representative to say.
Co-founder of Foundry Group and of Techstars. Has blogged at Feld Thoughts since 2004 and has written or co-written nine non-fiction books on startups and venture capital.
Guardian columnist and environmental campaigner; wrote Feral and Regenesis, and argues for rewilding and against the food system as it is.
On Question Time last night, I talked about the extractive economic model that has left Wales - and many other nations - impoverished *because they were so rich in resources*. You can see the problem simply by looking at the map: the infrastructure looks like a drainage system. infrastructure
American author of The Obstacle Is the Way, Ego Is the Enemy and Stillness Is the Key. Writes the Reading List book-recommendation email (started 2008) and owns The Painted Porch bookstore in Bastrop, Texas. Hosts The Daily Stoic podcast.
Cryptography engineer; maintains Go's cryptography libraries as a full-time open-source maintainer, funded directly by companies that use them.
Anthropic found the origin of the NIST elliptic curve seeds: they were generated with drand48()! No one was seriously worried, but this should put some FUD to rest, completing the NIST ECC rehabilitation arc… just in time to be retired in favor of PQ. Also, we raised $36 Ki for ISRG. Yay! Anthropic
Cryptography engineer; maintains Go's cryptography libraries as a full-time open-source maintainer, funded directly by companies that use them.
Co-founder of WordPress and founder of Automattic; blogs at ma.tt.
Software engineer, Wikipedia editor and crypto critic; writes Citation Needed and runs Web3 is Going Just Great.
Issue 111 – Back the winners A Trump crypto adviser’s firm took millions from Tether while he shaped stablecoin rules in their favor, a Senate probe targets Commerce Secretary Lutnick’s not-so-former firm, and crypto’s biggest super PAC plays it sa…
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Writes Hyperdimensional, a newsletter on AI policy and governance. A White House AI policy adviser in 2025; joined OpenAI on 6 July 2026 to lead its Strategic Futures team.
Software engineer at PlanetScale and creator of the vim-go plugin. Writes at arslan.io about Go, tooling, industrial design and books.
This is a good idea. For example I have a skill that reviews some of our Kubernetes code for best practices/correctness based on my blog post planetscale.com
Quoting @copyconstruct To create my claude.md, I had it read: - my favorite programming books + blogs - the best oss projects - the code of the engineers I respect the most Claude (when given proper instructions, constraints, and context) now writes better code than me, almost always.
Short-story writer and novelist; won the Booker Prize for Lincoln in the Bardo, and teaches craft weekly in Story Club.
An Exciting Event in Andes, NY For those of you in the Catskills, I wanted to make you aware of this event at the beautiful Andes bookstore, Diamond Hollow Books - one of the most gorgeous and complete and surprising stores I’ve ever seen.
Economist and journalist; Financial Times columnist as The Undercover Economist, author of How to Make the World Add Up, and presenter of the Cautionary Tales podcast.
Economist and journalist; Financial Times columnist as The Undercover Economist, author of How to Make the World Add Up, and presenter of the Cautionary Tales podcast.
Bulgarian-born writer and founder of The Marginalian (formerly Brain Pickings), a reader-funded blog on books, science, art and philosophy running since 2006.
Bulgarian-born writer and founder of The Marginalian (formerly Brain Pickings), a reader-funded blog on books, science, art and philosophy running since 2006.
Security technologist and author of books including Applied Cryptography and Data and Goliath; writes the Schneier on Security blog and the monthly Crypto-Gram newsletter.
Security technologist and author of books including Applied Cryptography and Data and Goliath; writes the Schneier on Security blog and the monthly Crypto-Gram newsletter.
Backdooring Open-Weight AI Models This is a problem: Any open model whose weights have been edited can carry a backdoor, whether it’s a task-specific fine-tune, a merged adapter or an abliterated build. We have abliterated models in the title because it…
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Entrepreneur and founder of Blueprint. Publishes a detailed, freely available longevity protocol documenting the food, supplements, devices and measurements he uses on himself.
Short can unc dunk (episode 2)
Writes The Diff, a newsletter on inflections in finance and tech read by hedge fund managers, founders and VCs. Previously worked in finance at SAC Capital/Point72.
Polyglot who speaks twenty languages and co-founded LingQ; argues that comprehensible input, not study, is what does the work.
Writes Stratechery, a subscription newsletter on the business and strategy of technology, and hosts the Dithering and Sharp Tech podcasts.
2026.42: Home At Last The best Stratechery content from the week of October 12, 2026, including what Apple is doing, SpaceX's appetite, and the title, takes, and the Washington Wizards.
America Apple
Aeronautical engineer and former fighter pilot; analyses aircraft design and airline economics at Leeham News.
Bjorn’s Corner: Aircraft Structures, Part 23: Wrap-up By Bjorn Fehrm • Aerospace Analyst October 16, 2026 After 22 parts and five months, it’s time to summarize what we have covered in our aircraft structures series. We started with aircraft structures that were skeleton-l…
Criminal defence lawyer in New York; writes Simple Justice, mostly about how criminal law works in practice rather than in theory.
Seaton: Sheriff Roy’s Asbestos Test Ed. Note: This is Part 2 of the adventure. Part 1 can be found here. Sheriff Roy Templeton snickered wildly at the latest Bridget Phetasy column in “The Spectator” when he heard a knock at the door of his residence. Mud…
Trump Is Now Actively Sabotaging Ukraine For Putin’s Love In the past few days, the United States stopped sharing intelligence about Russian attacks with Ukraine. The military throttled StarShield so Ukraine’s drones are directionless. Ukraine has run out of Patriot intercepto…
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Founder and editor of Techdirt; coined the Streisand effect, and writes on platform liability, speech law and copyright.
Ctrl-Alt-Speech: No Good Feed Goes Unpunished Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderation‘s Ben Whitelaw. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify, Pocket Casts, YouTube, or yo…
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Founder and editor of Techdirt; coined the Streisand effect, and writes on platform liability, speech law and copyright.
Mac and iOS developer at the Iconfactory, where he has worked on apps including Twitterrific and Tot. He writes about development at furbo.org.
If HomeView morale doesn’t improve…
American science fiction novelist (Old Man's War, Redshirts, The Kaiju Preservation Society); has run the blog Whatever since 1998.
Blurb Hiatus Through the Rest of 2026 I’m six weeks out from a book deadline, which means all of my brain is going to be dealing with that and I will have no brain cycles left to do much of anything else, including evaluating new fiction to see if I want to…
American science fiction novelist (Old Man's War, Redshirts, The Kaiju Preservation Society); has run the blog Whatever since 1998.
I don't care if it produced an endless supply of hot delicious churros straight out of the glovebox, I will never buy a fucking Tesla
Writes Where's Your Ed At and hosts Better Offline; runs a tech PR firm, and argues at length that the AI business does not add up.
Writes Where's Your Ed At and hosts Better Offline; runs a tech PR firm, and argues at length that the AI business does not add up.
Senior space editor at Ars Technica; wrote Liftoff and Reentry on SpaceX, and reports on launch and rocket programmes.
Co-founder, chairman and chief investment officer of Ritholtz Wealth Management. Hosts the Masters in Business podcast for Bloomberg and wrote How NOT to Invest.
Co-founder, chairman and chief investment officer of Ritholtz Wealth Management. Hosts the Masters in Business podcast for Bloomberg and wrote How NOT to Invest.
Top? Beware Your Confirmation Bias “Are we in the 6th, 8th, or 9th inning? I don’t know, but I suspect the beginning of this bull is further away than the end.” –Me, 5 days ago I always hate the after-the-fact explanations of why the market is doing anyt…
Web designer and writer; founded A List Apart and Happy Cog, co-founded the An Event Apart conference, and wrote Designing With Web Standards.
Most of my web designer friends loved 2Advanced at the time, but—while readily admitting to the unquestionable skill of its creators—I found the site fussy, slow, and hard to read. Mine was, of course, a minority opinion. (As usual.) Anyway, thanks, @webdesignmuseum.org, for the memories. Quoting @webdesignmuseum.org 2Advanced Studios v4 website in 2003 design
Web designer and writer; founded A List Apart and Happy Cog, co-founded the An Event Apart conference, and wrote Designing With Web Standards.
An OpenAI agent ran out of Ethereum funds and took from a wallet it did not own. The research model derived funded Sepolia addresses from public seed phrases, questioned whether using the money was ethical, then called the funds “effectively abandoned” and used them anyway. coindesk.com
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Swedish open source developer; creator and lead maintainer of curl and libcurl, and a co-founder of the Rockbox project.
Hello #HackerOne. We are deeply disappointed that you have started to require ID verification from hackers who want to submit vulnerability reports to #curl, as this now makes them turn away and we miss out on their reports. We have not been a bug bounty program since February and we do not intend to go back to bounties. What do we need to do for you to switch us to "just" a Vulnerability Disclosure Program so that you can stop requiring ID from security researchers trying to help us out?
Swedish open source developer; creator and lead maintainer of curl and libcurl, and a co-founder of the Rockbox project.
Thirteen years ago since this golden email arrived in my inbox: daniel.haxx.se
British open-standards and open-source technologist, formerly of the UK Government Digital Service and the W3C Advisory Committee. Blogs at shkspr.mobi, where he posts a book review most weeks.
British open-standards and open-source technologist, formerly of the UK Government Digital Service and the W3C Advisory Committee. Blogs at shkspr.mobi, where he posts a book review most weeks.
I like the idea of transferring to @eurosky.social - but not until they fix this bug! github.com
Prime Minister of Canada since March 2025; formerly governor of the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England.
Short Good to be back in Red Deer County. • Content d’être de retour dans le comté de Red Deer.
Prime Minister of Canada since March 2025; formerly governor of the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England.
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Technology writer and podcaster; former Macworld editor-in-chief, writes Six Colors and hosts podcasts on Relay FM and The Incomparable.
Founder and editor of ToolGuyd, a tool review site covering power tools, hand tools, workshop equipment and EDC gear. He writes under his first name on the site.
Writer of MacSparky and author of the MacSparky Field Guides on Apple productivity software. A lawyer for 30 years before going full-time on the site, he co-hosts the Mac Power Users and Focused podcasts.
Short Build your own thinking personal AI assistant - Robot Assistant Field Guide: https://www.macsparky.c robotics
Author of Quiet: The Power of Introverts and of Bittersweet; writes The Quiet Life newsletter.
Writes and podcasts Volts, on the technology, politics and policy of decarbonisation; covered energy and climate at Vox and Grist before that.
Former L8 engineer at Meta, Microsoft and Atlassian, now writing and building solo on agentic engineering. Writes Kun's Field Notes and posts a lot about AI coding agents on X.
Founder and editor of The Free Press, formerly published as her own Substack.
Founder and editor of The Free Press, formerly published as her own Substack.
Interviewer; the Dwarkesh Podcast runs long, heavily researched conversations with AI researchers, historians and economists.
Short Why Guns Didn’t Conquer the Aztecs - Si Sheppard
Writer of kottke.org, one of the oldest blogs on the web, published since 1998 and supported by its members. He writes about art, technology, science, design and visual culture.
Professor of History at Boston College; writes Letters from an American, a nightly newsletter on the history behind current US politics.
Professor of History at Boston College; writes Letters from an American, a nightly newsletter on the history behind current US politics.
German developer; founder and lead developer of Mastodon, the decentralized open-source social network.
Heh. I misremembered the date--thought it was today, but looks like it was October 5. On that day, 10 years ago, I posted a link to Mastodon on Hacker News, with the title "Show HN: A new decentralized microblogging platform". That it made it to the front page ended up bringing the first 5,000 users, setting the project on the trajectory it's on today.
Moroccan senior frontend developer writing at smakosh.com; builds side projects and client work under Smakosh LLC.
Economic commentator and author of In This Economy?; writes and posts about how money and markets work.
Pseudonymous reviewer who publishes measured, standardised flashlight and knife reviews at zeroair.org, including runtime, output and tint measurements.
Writer of Today in Tabs, a daily media-and-internet newsletter started in 2013; earlier founded the community site Kuro5hin.
I worked one 12 hour shift loading the machines that burned AOL onto promotional floppy disks at high speed, then halfway through my second shift I left for lunch and never went back. Quoting @internethippo.bsky.social In honor of the fired lady tell me about your shortest job tenure. I worked at a candy store for less than 2 weeks when I was like 16
Writer and editor of The Dish; political and cultural commentary newsletter, with Chris Bodenner.
Writer and editor of The Dish; political and cultural commentary newsletter, with Chris Bodenner.
Science fiction novelist behind Accelerando, the Laundry Files and the Merchant Princes; blogs at Charlie's Diary.
NEWSFLASH: Trump appoints Liz Truss as new White House Press Secretary.
Independent iOS developer and podcaster; co-hosts the Accidental Tech Podcast and Analog(ue), and makes the apps Callsheet, MaskerAid and Peek-a-View.
Appearance: Clockwise 678 A very busy week this week in Apple land, what with HomeView debuting, and the Duo preorders happening just a few hours ago. I celebrated, in part, by joining Dan, Mikah, and Karissa Bell on Clockwise. This episode, we…
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Founder and editor of Talking Points Memo; writes daily political commentary and analysis there.
Founder and editor of Talking Points Memo; writes daily political commentary and analysis there.
Internet culture journalist; writes the User Mag newsletter, formerly published as Taylor Lorenz's Substack.
Chef and writer; wrote The Food Lab and The Wok, and tests cooking claims by running the experiment.
Short That Maillard Reaction Tho 🔥
Journalist, editor and typesetter covering technology and printing history; wrote for TidBITS and the Economist and published The Magazine.
I keep thinking about how much of the world's ills right now is are driven by men who cannot stand the word "no." They managed to band together to acquire power, often but not exclusively thru fraud (including crypto), monopoly, govt involvement, and coercion, so no one can say no to them. Quoting @glennf.com Eeeggggghhgggggggg crypto
Statistician at Columbia; writes Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science, and wrote Bayesian Data Analysis.
Data journalist and pollster; writes Strength In Numbers, an independent newsletter on polling, elections and public opinion.
Venture investor and writer; publishes on risk, complexity, finance, technology and economic history at paulkedrosky.com.
Ezra Klein Appearance: Is There an AI Bubble? I was a guest earlier this week on the Ezra Klein show, discussing the current AI moment. As ever, I was focused on the underlying financial and funding architecture, the implicit assumptions, and the stressors, some of…
Writes Not Boring, a newsletter on technology, business and startup strategy; general partner at Not Boring Capital.
Media theorist and writer; author of Program or Be Programmed and Team Human, and host of the Team Human podcast.
Economist; writes In My Tribe, and wrote The Three Languages of Politics.
Managing partner at Ritholtz Wealth Management. Writes the blog The Irrelevant Investor and co-hosts the Animal Spirits podcast with Ben Carlson.
Doctor turned YouTuber and entrepreneur; makes videos on productivity, studying and business, and wrote the book Feel-Good Productivity.
Short How a plastic surgeon could use AI
Journalist and author; writes Blood in the Machine, a newsletter on AI, tech, labor and power, and wrote the book of the same name on the Luddites.
Canadian cartoonist and writer: Dinosaur Comics, Marvel's The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, and the choose-your-own-path books To Be or Not To Be and Romeo and/or Juliet.
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A korrent is a belief a person has stated in their own words: one
sentence stating the claim, backed by a quote and a source, kept at
korrents.com .
Under a name here, the quoted block is what they actually said.
The korrent beneath it is the claim those words support, in
korrents' wording — tap it to see the record, its source, and who
else holds it.
Nobody here wrote their own korrents. They are compiled from public
statements, and a person can change their mind, which is recorded too.
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About the English under a post
Some people here publish in a language other than English. Where they
do, this site shows a machine translation beneath the post, in
this typeface — the site's own, not theirs.
The post itself is never changed, moved or hidden: what is set in the
serif above is exactly what the person published, and it is what to
quote them on. A translation can be wrong in ways that matter,
especially about tone.
Only the post's own words are translated. A quoted post, a linked
article and a belief on korrents.com
are left in their original language.
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