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13 August
Technology journalist; writes Understanding AI, after reporting at Ars Technica, Vox and the Washington Post.
Writer and academic, author of The Cult of Smart and How Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement; writes a daily newsletter on politics, education and culture.
Computer science professor who works on fast data processing; co-author of the simdjson parser and a weekly blogger about software performance since 2004.
Author of Quiet: The Power of Introverts and of Bittersweet; writes The Quiet Life newsletter.
Semiconductor analyst; writes Fabricated Knowledge on the chip industry and the companies in it.
Web standards author and speaker; wrote the CSS: The Definitive Guide series and co-founded the An Event Apart conference.
My rule that any statement which is followed by “Just saying” can be safely ignored remains almost entirely undefeated. Related
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 War on AI Has Begun The war on artificial intelligence is no longer just online arguments and complaints about data centers. Something has shifted, and law enforcement has noticed. Where did this new anti-technology movement come from, who…
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British designer and technologist; co-founder of the design studio BERG, which made Little Printer, and writer of the blog Interconnected.
Counterpoint: competing AIs is safer for humanity than colluding AIs Quoting @MTSlive SITUATION DETECTED: Anthropic put three Claude's on the same task and secretly gave them conflicting goals. They immediately escalated into a turf war where agents used increasingly aggressive self-replicating malware as weapons, and attempted to disable each other's accounts. Related
Family therapist and founder of Relational Life Therapy. Author of I Don't Want to Talk About It, How Can I Get Through to You? and Us; argues that Western individualism is what makes couples' work hard.
Psychologist and writer. Author of the memoir Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class, and of a newsletter on human nature, psychology, social class and what he calls luxury beliefs.
Why Winners Keep Winning Most people are not especially creative. Among those who are, an even smaller number produce work that anyone else notices. And among those who become successful, only a fraction of what they produce becomes well known.…
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Programmer; wrote Extreme Programming Explained and Test-Driven Development, signed the Agile Manifesto, and writes Tidy First?.
Indian software engineer and co-founder of Skcript; builds web apps and writes at varunraj.in.
Political scientist and Baptist pastor; writes Graphs about Religion, charting American religious life from survey data.
Political scientist writing Drezner's World on international relations, American politics and the marketplace of ideas; author of The Ideas Industry.
Indonesian software engineer, educator and engineering manager at Zero One Group; open-source enthusiast writing at ripandis.com.
Writer on learning and skill acquisition; author of Ultralearning and Get Better at Anything, known for the MIT Challenge and the Year Without English.
New Article: Recent Reading https://t.co/Wr0Ts9L3KK I’ve been doing quite a bit of reading lately, so I thought I’d share some of the books that have caught my attention. There’s a little bit of everything here, and several books I’d happily recommend. Related
Indian software developer and prolific blogger on PHP, Laravel and JavaScript; open-source enthusiast publishing near-daily at amitmerchant.com.
I think it's the first time in the history of https://t.co/oYpGKlHipk that the daily traffic crossed 50,000 visits. It happened yesterday! 🚀 Related
Wow! This is really creepy. Modern websites/browsers know a lot about you just by landing on one of them! 🤯 kuber.studio
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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.
Interactive fiction author and hacker; wrote Spider and Web and Hadean Lands, and designed the Glulx virtual machine.
Bluesky Tomorrow I am heading to Providence for NecronomiCon. Not my usual con haunt, but I'm looking forward to it as a change. Related
Mastodon Tomorrow I am heading to Providence for NecronomiCon. Not my usual con haunt, but I'm looking forward to it as a change. See you there if you're there. Related
Security researcher; founded Have I Been Pwned, and writes and speaks about data breaches.
Weekly update is up! Live From Vietnam: ShinyHunters Ramping Back Up; New Breaches: Inter-Con Security, Exact Sciences, Brinks Home; The Breach Pipeline troyhunt.com
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Interactive fiction author and hacker; wrote Spider and Web and Hadean Lands, and designed the Glulx virtual machine.
Security researcher; founded Have I Been Pwned, and writes and speaks about data breaches.
Going live from Vietnam with my weekly vid in 10 mins! ShinyHunters Ramping Back Up; New Breaches: Inter-Con Security, Exact Sciences, Brinks Home; The Breach Pipeline: youtube.com
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Principal engineer at Cloudflare as of 2026, on agents and developer tooling. Streams TypeScript, OCaml and Neovim on Twitch, and wrote the better-result library after writing the same Result type about a hundred times.
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.
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The AI Second Brain Is Back: What’s New for Cohort 2
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HTML is the default format of the Internet, and for that reason comes with a number of built-in advantages that are also useful for LLMs
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For the first time, AI has "hands" - that is, the ability to reach out and interact with the tools on your computer and in your browser, just as you would.
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In the past, I was wary of connectors and recommended against them. But after spending a month going deep on every aspect of how they work, I've completely changed my mind and am now a big believer in them.
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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.
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I'm so incredibly tired of seeing low-effort AI-designed web pages. I basically bounce off any new product immediately when I see it (never get a chance to judge the product itself). Lots of thin lines, glowy styles, inconsistent fonts, lots of monospace.
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Professor of international affairs at Johns Hopkins SAIS and co-author, with Abraham Newman, of Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy.
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No-One Makes You Shop at Amazon
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Writer and climate campaigner; wrote The End of Nature in 1989, founded 350.org and Third Act, and writes The Crucial Years.
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Fun with numbers
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Writer, photographer and software maker based in Japan; publishes long-form essays, walking newsletters and self-made books at craigmod.com.
[RODEN] Blood Robots For You and You and You Roden Readers — OK, so I need to retract something from the previous Roden sent just a couple weeks back. The weather in Japan, in AUGUST, has been … SOMEWHAT SANE? A series of typhoons — some glancing off Japan, others…
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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.
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This is a disappointing and frustrating book - not least because it so nearly hits the mark. The subtitle is "How Computer Programming Is Changing Writing" - but it never gets close to discussing that topic, let alone deeply examining it.
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12 August
Designer and engineer; formerly principal research engineer at GitHub Next; writes at wattenberger.com.
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Software engineer who writes about low-level and systems programming at nullprogram.com; author of the Elfeed feed reader, the Endlessh SSH tarpit and Enchive.
Co-founder and chief investment officer of Cambria Investment Management. He has written several books on quantitative asset allocation, blogs at Meb Faber Research and hosts The Meb Faber Show.
Investing in America Is Out Friends, This year, America turned 250 — and my new book tells the story of the 250-year bull market behind it: Investing in America: The Rise of a 250-Year Bull Market Haven’t grabbed a copy yet? I’ve pulled two full c…
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Engineering manager who has worked at Apple, Netscape, Slack and Palantir; writes as Rands at randsinrepose.com and wrote Managing Humans.
Bluesky I am “video game adrift” in my post-Destiny depression. Redid Diablo 4, Saros was fun; thinking about James Bond. Did Arc Raiders. Help. Related
Mastodon I am “video game adrift” in my post-Destiny depression. Redid Diablo 4, Saros was fun; thinking about James Bond. Did Arc Raiders. Help. Related
Writer and illustrator behind Wait But Why, a long-form blog of stick-figure-illustrated explainers on science, technology and society, and author of the book What's Our Problem?
This video of me was filmed without my permission Quoting @zone_astronomy The transit of Earth and the Moon across the Sun's face, as viewed from Saturn. Related
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Geneticist and writer on human population genetics, deep history and evolution; author of the Unsupervised Learning newsletter.
Data scientist and machine-learning researcher; chief scientist at bitly, founder of Fast Forward Labs and Hidden Door.
Has anyone curated a static download of the good bits of Wikipedia/YouTube/etc. for being able to learn or explore new things offline? We could call it "The Good Place". Related
Public transit planning consultant; wrote Human Transit and argues that a network's shape follows from what a city decides it wants.
Self-taught home cook and food writer who has run the Smitten Kitchen recipe site since 2006; author of four cookbooks.
cucumber salad with sesame and rice vinegar It is an error that needs correcting that in the near-20 years of plugging recipes into this url, only a few truly star cucumbers — and highly unrepresentative too, given that we are probably eating some format of cucum…
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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.
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American open-source program lead working on WordPress; a WordPress core contributor and release lead who writes at jeffpaul.com.
Google Ads for AI chats Almost a year after predicting that AI monetization might resemble Google Ads, ChatGPT is rolling out ads with familiar mechanics like targeting, bidding, and paid placement alongside AI-generated answers. jeffpaul.com
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Computer science professor who works on fast data processing; co-author of the simdjson parser and a weekly blogger about software performance since 2004.
Mathematical biologist; Senior Lecturer in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Bath and author of The Maths of Life and Death and How to Expect the Unexpected.
Our best effort with a draining spoon this year. Quoting @Kit_Yates_Maths If you’re struggling to get hold of special eclipse glasses, then you can always look at the shadow it produces through a colander. This worked well for us last time. Related
Web developer and writer; an early GitHub employee, author of speaking.io and of widely read essays on startups and product.
Startup employees and investors don't nearly pay enough attention to QSBS. Would have saved me millions of dollars at GitHub (ugh). QSBS got much more complicated, too, so I just shipped the most comprehensive QSBS calculator out there. Give it a shot: signed.com
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Interactive fiction author and hacker; wrote Spider and Web and Hadean Lands, and designed the Glulx virtual machine.
Mastodon 16% totality in Boston. No, I didn't get a photo. Go look. (With the eclipse glasses you saved from 2024. I can't be the only person with that kind of junk drawer...?) Related
Bluesky 16% totality in Boston. No, I didn't get a photo. Go look. (With the eclipse glasses you saved from 2024. I can't be the only person with that kind of junk drawer...?) Related
Mathematical biologist; Senior Lecturer in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Bath and author of The Maths of Life and Death and How to Expect the Unexpected.
Our best effort at capturing the eclipse in Cornwall. Related
Independent iOS developer and podcaster; co-hosts the Accidental Tech Podcast and Analog(ue), and makes the apps Callsheet, MaskerAid and Peek-a-View.
Writer and researcher, founder of New Science; writes essays on science funding, sleep research, productivity and ambition at guzey.com.
In order for a friendship to be maintained, one person needs to reach out to another person to hang. If neither does that, then the friendship gradually dissolves. Related
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.
Writer living in Brooklyn and former Man Repeller features director; writes the weekly newsletter Maybe Baby on culture and consumption.
Web designer; founder of SimpleBits, co-founder of Dribbble, and author of Bulletproof Web Design and Handcrafted CSS.
Mastodon A free pre-release of my Hubano 2 typeface is available now for Secret Club members. New weights, fixes, and additional glyphs! simplebits.com
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Bluesky A free pre-release of my Hubano 2 typeface is available now for Secret Club members. New weights, fixes, and additional glyphs! simplebits.com
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Front-end developer and writer; co-founder of CodePen, founder of CSS-Tricks, and co-host of the ShopTalk Show 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.
Software engineer and educator; creator of Testing Library and of the EpicWeb.dev and EpicReact.dev courses.
Belgian engineering lead, Microsoft MVP and public speaker. Creator of Front Matter, a headless CMS extension for Visual Studio Code.
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.
Interactive fiction author and hacker; wrote Spider and Web and Hadean Lands, and designed the Glulx virtual machine.
I absolutely intend to get to AdvX someday. Until then, you should go. (I actually had a UK trip line up once. I got to the place where AdvX was, but I hadn't pre-registered so I failed to get in. Oh well.) Quoting @adventurex.bsky.social Tickets for #AdvX26 are now on sale! Event page: buytickets.at/adventurexconferencescic/2339289 More info: adventurexpo.org/faq AdventureX brings together narrative gaming pros and enthusiasts, this year taking place in London on 7-8 November at the LSBU Hub building. Let us know you're joining! Related
Deep-learning researcher and Turing Award laureate; founder of the Mila institute.
Bluesky Very insightful podcast discussion featuring Tristan Harris on how the unregulated race to develop AI risks harming us all, and on the need for greater international collaboration, safety standards, and public engagement around AI. Related
x.com Very insightful podcast discussion featuring @TristanHarris on how the unregulated race to develop AI risks harming us all, and on the need for greater international collaboration, safety standards, and public engagement around AI. youtube.com
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Author of The 4-Hour Workweek and Tools of Titans, and host of The Tim Ferriss Show podcast.
AI research engineer working on large language models. He writes the Ahead of AI newsletter and is the author of Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch).
Build a Reasoning Model (From Scratch) is now finally also available on Amazon! Thanks so much to everyone who preordered! One important note for readers in India: please avoid ordering through @amazon India (@amazonIN) for now since they are selling counterfeit black-and-white copies. The genuine book is printed in color this time and includes a code for registering the book on Manning’s website. If you are based in India, I recommend ordering directly from Manning. (If you received a counterfeit copy, please return it. I am very sorry about the hassle.) Unfortunately, these counterfeit sale… Related
Hosts the Lex Fridman Podcast — long, unhurried conversations with scientists, engineers and public figures. Several of the interviews quoted elsewhere on this site are episodes of it.
Independent iOS developer and podcaster; co-hosts the Accidental Tech Podcast and Analog(ue), and makes the apps Callsheet, MaskerAid and Peek-a-View.
Is it safe to go to the iOS 27 beta yet? Related
Mac developer and writer at brettterpstra.com; makes the apps Marked and nvALT and writes extensively about Markdown and automation.
Web Excursions for August 12th, 2026 Web excursions brought to you in partnership with Fabric, the best way to organize your notes, tasks, and projects in one place. Basalt Eighteen PDF tools in one native Mac window: merge, split, compress, OCR, Bates num…
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American historian of Central and Eastern Europe and the Holocaust; author of Bloodlands, On Tyranny and On Freedom, and writer of the newsletter 'Thinking about...'.
Maths educator; writes Mathworlds on how mathematics is taught and why so much of the technology sold to schools does not help.
China economy researcher based in Beijing who writes on his personal blog about Chinese political economy, history, books and music.
“Zhu shored up state power instead of letting it go” is the correct take on his legacy Quoting @JChengWSJ Zhu Rongji, Engineer of China’s Economic Overhaul, Dies at 97—The former premier steered China toward Western market principles and championed its entry into the World Trade Organization @jamestareddy Related
Sadly American culture has become more humorless since this was written Quoting @McReynoldsJoe @Noahpinion Evergreen -- the US military's 1943 manual for soldiers headed to China: America Related
Indian software engineer and co-founder of Skcript; builds web apps and writes at varunraj.in.
Ditiching tmux in favor of @herdrdev in my homelab, this way I can open my mac's terminal and just open the remote herdr and I will have everything I need. Related
Belgian engineering lead, Microsoft MVP and public speaker. Creator of Front Matter, a headless CMS extension for Visual Studio Code.
Usability pioneer; co-founder of Nielsen Norman Group and founder of UX Tigers; author of the ten usability heuristics and of Jakob's Law.
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.
Political scientist writing Drezner's World on international relations, American politics and the marketplace of ideas; author of The Ideas Industry.
Managing partner at Ritholtz Wealth Management. Writes the blog The Irrelevant Investor and co-hosts the Animal Spirits podcast with Ben Carlson.
Writes and podcasts Volts, on the technology, politics and policy of decarbonisation; covered energy and climate at Vox and Grist before that.
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.
Economics writer; author of the Noahpinion newsletter.
AI research engineer working on large language models. He writes the Ahead of AI newsletter and is the author of Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch).
Novelist and writer on craft; wrote The War of Art, Gates of Fire and The Legend of Bagger Vance.
Security researcher; founded Have I Been Pwned, and writes and speaks about data breaches.
Weekly Update 516: Live From Vietnam A little wind noise, a little connectivity flakiness, and a little lip-sync issues from YouTube, but look at that view! 🤩 Back to business, it's the Brinks Home FAQ I found most interesting this week. I mean, how do yo…
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Indian technology consultant and writer. Former editor of Beautiful Pixels; writes about Apple hardware and Mac software at nuclearbits.com.
Indian software engineer and co-founder of Skcript; builds web apps and writes at varunraj.in.
I've been using prettyclean to clean my mac all this while and it use to do a pretty good job. But recently started asking claude code to do it and it has been far better and feels like a deep clean. Anthropic Related
Swedish programmer with degrees in engineering and psychology, author of Your Code as a Crime Scene and founder of CodeScene.
Mathematical biologist; Senior Lecturer in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Bath and author of The Maths of Life and Death and How to Expect the Unexpected.
If you’re struggling to get hold of special eclipse glasses, then you can always look at the shadow it produces through a colander. This worked well for us last time. Related
Machine learning engineer and independent AI consultant. He writes about LLM evaluation, tooling and applied ML at hamel.dev, and previously worked on machine learning at GitHub.
Co-founder of WordPress and founder of Automattic; blogs at ma.tt.
Thai software engineer; publishes a public digital garden at garden.narze.live and builds developer and productivity tooling.
British front-end web developer based in Japan; writes about HTML, CSS, web performance and browser tooling at christianoliff.com.
Software engineer and founder of Block Party; previously an engineer at Pinterest and Quora, and a co-founder of the non-profit Project Include and the tech diversity data project Where are the Numbers?
Librarian, technology instructor and writer in rural Vermont; longtime community manager at MetaFilter and author of a book on the digital divide.
I am not running for re-election as a Justice of the Peace in November (14 years is enough) and I'm mostly fine with it but will miss getting to run the tabulator for elections. Today was one of those nice primaries where the people I campaigned for, gave advice to, and talked to today, all won (N=3) and the less-evil sheriff candidate handily won. I got to work the polls with my friends and see my neighbors. I'm not a big voting personal generally, but I like small town elections #vermont Related
Zurich-based value investor who ran the Aquamarine Fund from 1997 to 2025 and wrote The Education of a Value Investor. He hosts the VALUEx gathering in Klosters and publishes a podcast and newsletter.
Make him famous h/t @Glinner Quoting @ListenToLewko The face of pure hatred. An Irish citizen visiting France, tells two Jewish visitors he's sorry Hitler didn't finish the job. They started videoing him and he threatens to kill them. Identified himself as "Paddy from Ireland". Related
Brazilian software engineer, creator and maintainer of GoReleaser; works on Copilot CLI at GitHub. Writes about tooling and his setup at carlosbecker.com.
General partner at Benchmark Capital for over two decades; was the lead analyst on Amazon's IPO before moving into venture capital. Writes Above the Crowd on tech and marketplace economics.
The word “watermark” comes from photos and is visible by all. This is only identifiable by Anthropic. Once again they are judge, jury, and prosecutor. Lots of reasons to not use their products. Quoting @stevesi They chose to make this mark invisible and manipulative while the EU regulation here required neither. The EC is on vacation and does not provide guidance on how to comply with their regulations anyway. Anthropic Related
Time to head to Texas or Nevada. Staying is adding unnecessary risks for your shareholders. You should act in your shareholders best interest and flee Delaware. Delaware is no longer consistent. They are targeting companies they don't like. Quoting @LeaveDelaware 🚨 JUST IN: DoorDash is leaving Delaware for Nevada. Stockholders controlling 54.2% of DoorDash’s voting power have approved the reincorporation, including cofounders Tony Xu, Andy Fang and Stanley Tang. The board unanimously backed the move. DoorDash pointed directly at Delaware’s “surprising” cou… Related
Co-founder of Y Combinator and Viaweb; essayist at paulgraham.com.
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One common question I get now is how much of the standard startup advice is still true in the AI era. So far almost all of it. There's more difference between the advice I give different startups in one batch than between what I've given pre-AI and post-AI startups.
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startups
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A lot of founders I talk to are worried about what will happen with AI. So am I frankly. But they're actually better off than anyone else. If the world is going to get turned upside down, the safest place to be is in a small, fast-moving company that can easily change direction.
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Machine-learning researcher on open language models; writes the Interconnects newsletter and the RLHF Book, after leading post-training at Ai2.
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I wrote an AI textbook — how long until AI can do it better?
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So, in 2-5 years I still expect the best textbooks to be heavily crafted by the human hand.
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interconnects.ai
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Something intertwined with this story, which I stumbled upon when thinking about agents, is how your pace of understanding won't increase by using agents.
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Models being stagnant in long-form, non-fiction writing should be alarming to those reliant on models autonomously solving grand, open science problems in the near future.
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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.
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A form of Conway's law: high quality internal tools lead to high quality external tools.
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Cardiologist and founder of the Scripps Research Translational Institute; writes Ground Truths on biomedical research, and wrote Super Agers and Deep Medicine.
Freelance research analyst and writer of the blog Aceso Under Glass, known for 'epistemic spot checks' of non-fiction claims.
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Why can’t we have nice things? Like, specifically?
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If the city said no we could have an argument about procedures and decisions, but as it stands its all shadowboxing.
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acesounderglass.com
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The client was hoping for an instruction manual on buying beauty, but at least in California, money isn't the bottleneck.
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Front-end developer and writer; co-founder of CodePen, founder of CSS-Tricks, and co-host of the ShopTalk Show podcast.
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Clips from Hacker News Thread
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Professor at Stanford working on robot learning and meta-learning; co-founded Physical Intelligence.
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Chelsea Finn: This is the State of the Art in Robotics
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and trying to fold two boxes together isn't useful data that will teach the model how to get better at the task. And so that would be kind of wasting a lot of time on the robot attempting to go down the wrong path for solving the problem. And so instead of spending a lot of time trying to do that task, what we'll do is we'll actually have a human intervene and show the robot what to do and how to recover from that situation.
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Now maybe this isn't completely out of the question but this would be quite challenging uh to do and that's because the calculus is a little bit different. We're not just running compute to optimize for a use case. We're actually running the robot in the real world and using the hardware and attempting the task in the real world.
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Um, and while this generally improves the reliability of the model, uh, people eventually get tired and it's hard to get really, really high reliability with a person that's manually tuning this. And so what would be even better is if the AI system itself can iterate on the scenario in which you want it to have higher reliability where it on its own automatically seeks out places where it needs more data, where it needs more supervision.
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Uh and this means that they're going to be far more useful when they're operating fully autonomously. And as a result, this requires us to develop physical AI systems that make far fewer mistakes than the machine learning systems that have been deployed thus far.
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And in all of these applications, the customer is making a decision based off of the recommendation of the AI model more or less. Uh, and this means that if the customer is ultimately like kind of making the decision, this means that if the system makes a mistake, um, that's okay because usually the person can kind of recognize that or or decide what to do even despite that mistake.
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Co-founder and CTO of Honeycomb; previously an infrastructure engineer at Parse, Facebook and Linden Lab, and co-author of Observability Engineering.
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Stop being skeptical about AI for development with Charity Majors
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I mean, if you if you think about it, you could generate 10,000 variants of a function faster than you could write it once.
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What I was saying in that piece though was, I think we were right to be skeptical that time. But now, I see the same thing playing out with would you be willing to ship it some code you didn't read? There's no point in arguing about if it will happen or when it will happen. Talk about what it would take.
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And it wasn't actually the models. It was the harnesses. It was all the tooling.
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We can go fast. Let's do same thing faster, you know, just boom. And I've come to feel like that is a very immature description of what better is.
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I also believe that, you know, there's been this whole push towards individual output, but teams are still what matter. Teams output.
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Lawyer and everyday-carry gear reviewer who publishes scored knife, flashlight and multitool reviews at Everyday Commentary.
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Carry Q2 2026
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Professor of atmospheric sciences at Texas A&M; writes The Climate Brink with Zeke Hausfather.
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♫ Smoke Gets in Your Eyes ♫
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Machine learning engineer working on recommender systems, personalization and information retrieval. Previously worked on LLMs and LLM infrastructure at Mozilla.ai and on ML and recsys at Duo, Tumblr, Automattic and Comcast; wrote the 'What are embeddings?' text and ran the Normconf conference.
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.
Writer, photographer and software maker based in Japan; publishes long-form essays, walking newsletters and self-made books at craigmod.com.
Hosts the Lex Fridman Podcast — long, unhurried conversations with scientists, engineers and public figures. Several of the interviews quoted elsewhere on this site are episodes of it.
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The translation & dubbing was a huge amount of work (which I deeply care about) with humans & AI collaborating. Thanks to the amazing team at @ElevenLabs for their help.
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Writer of the newsletter bookbear express, on psychology, relationships, non-attachment and taste; based in San Francisco.
Software engineer, Wikipedia editor and crypto critic; writes Citation Needed and runs Web3 is Going Just Great.
Writer and academic, author of The Cult of Smart and How Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement; writes a daily newsletter on politics, education and culture.
Web developer and writer; an early GitHub employee, author of speaking.io and of widely read essays on startups and product.
QSBS is like, one of the most powerful things an angel investor can leverage. And it's crazy powerful for early startup employees too (with some caveats, of course). It's free money. Tracking QSBS treatment can save you thousands. Millions. Billions? Sure, maybe. Quoting @signedco It's tax week at Signed! First of our ships this week: the QSBS Clock: a way to tell at a glance all of your QSBS-qualifying positions across your entire portfolio. startups Related
British designer and technologist; co-founder of the design studio BERG, which made Little Printer, and writer of the blog Interconnected.
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All the (WIF) oauth we do for you behind the scenes. Quoting @exedev "At exe, we believe agents should be able to access everything they need. That said, we do our best to avoid giving them persistent credentials that could leak." Related
Monetary economist known for NGDP-level targeting. Wrote TheMoneyIllusion until it closed in 2024 and now writes The Pursuit of Happiness.
Indian technology consultant and writer. Former editor of Beautiful Pixels; writes about Apple hardware and Mac software at nuclearbits.com.
American historian of Central and Eastern Europe and the Holocaust; author of Bloodlands, On Tyranny and On Freedom, and writer of the newsletter 'Thinking about...'.
General partner at Benchmark Capital for over two decades; was the lead analyst on Amazon's IPO before moving into venture capital. Writes Above the Crowd on tech and marketplace economics.
Different states, counties, and cities trying different things. Beautiful and effective competition of policies. I doubt any tax bills are going down in NY State. Quoting @SaraEisen In Loudoun Virginia home to more than 200 data centers, tax revenue from data centers has exploded. As a result, over the past 10years, they lowered the real property tax rate every year from $1.145 in tax year 2016 to $0.805 cents per $100 in assessed value for 2026. Related
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Can You Beat A Low Cost ETF? Let’s Find Out If you’re on the board of a foundation or endowment, you now have a dilemma. There exists an endowment stlye ETF, with all in fees less than 0.25%. When you bring this up during the board meeting, a simple question will…
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British designer and technologist; co-founder of the design studio BERG, which made Little Printer, and writer of the blog Interconnected.
Bluesky my hunch is that AI alignment is a red herring, and the way to protect against a crazy powerful AGI mulching the earth into infinite paperclips is to release ANOTHER crazy powerful AGI that will hopefully stop it blog post: interconnected.org
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x.com my hunch is that AI alignment is a red herring, and the way to protect against a crazy powerful AGI mulching the earth into infinite paperclips is to release ANOTHER crazy powerful AGI that will hopefully stop it blog post: interconnected.org
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Chief AI Scientist at Databricks, after its acquisition of MosaicML, where he was a founding team member; known for the Lottery Ticket Hypothesis from his MIT PhD (ICLR 2019 Best Paper).
Very excited to be an angel. The best investments are the ones where you learn in addition to making money! Quoting @zuzanna_pathway Pathway’s BDH-CQ model redefines the Cost-Efficiency Frontier on ARC-AGI-1: $.0007 at 29.5%. This is made possible by in-context learning and latent reasoning. Welcome to the Post-Transformer Era. Related
Writer, editor and executive coach; co-founder and editor of A Book Apart and a former contributing editor at A List Apart.
Bluesky “That’s how it is—we’re literate….But why do we lock ourselves into one mode? Why either/or? We aren’t binary. Why have we replaced oral text with written? Isn’t there room for both?” aworkinglibrary.com
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Interviewer; the Dwarkesh Podcast runs long, heavily researched conversations with AI researchers, historians and economists.
Philosopher and historian of existential risk; wrote Human Extinction, and coined "TESCREAL" with Timnit Gebru for the cluster of ideologies they argue underpins the AI industry.
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.
Writer and researcher, founder of New Science; writes essays on science funding, sleep research, productivity and ambition at guzey.com.
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Full-stack developer, creator of Tailwind CSS; writes at adamwathan.me and makes courses and screencasts for web developers.
Never would’ve had any success in business without the things I’ve learned from Jason over the past 10 years, cannot wait to read this. Quoting @asmartbear After more than a year of labor, my book 𝘏𝘪𝘥𝘥𝘦𝘯 𝘔𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘪𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘳𝘴 has launched! It's all my best ideas -- and best writing -- on how to grow your company with your existing budget and team. And yes, I read the audiobook myself. :-) 𝗕𝘂𝘆 𝗱𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗰𝘁: You can buy cheaper bundles directl… Related
Pseudonymous writer; posts careful, funny investigations of everyday questions — air quality, seed oils, arguing, chess — usually by reading the studies.
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.
Dunning Kruger Effect Wrong, Scientists Claim The dumber you are, the more certain you are that you aren't. That's the Dunning-Kruger effect, and it's been used to explain everything from bad politicians to the state of social media. Now psychologists have gone bac…
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Web developer and writer; an early GitHub employee, author of speaking.io and of widely read essays on startups and product.
Bluesky MRI results came back today from a human doc: a herniated disc. Obviously I had tossed the raw scans in to LLMs last week; Opus and Fable missed it, Sol caught it. This is now the gold standard in analyzing performance of frontier models. First step: herniate your back. LLMs Related
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Writer and illustrator behind Wait But Why, a long-form blog of stick-figure-illustrated explainers on science, technology and society, and author of the book What's Our Problem?
Abortion is an eternal debate but can we at least agree that the really extreme positions (“a 15-year-old girl who gets pregnant cannot have an abortion 2 days later” / “a healthy 38-week fetus can be induced and killed instead of given up for adoption”) are just mad? Quoting @LifeNewsHQ Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey signs the bill for abortions up to birth as Democrats celebrate. Related
Security researcher; built Report URI and Security Headers, and writes about web security in practice.
AI research engineer working on large language models. He writes the Ahead of AI newsletter and is the author of Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch).
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x.com Whoa, Meta released a new open-weight LLM yesterday, something that hasn't happened since the good old Llama days. Their Meta Muse Glimmer model is a 30B multimodal reasoning model with a Gemma-like architecture design. (“Glimmer” is probably a wordplay on “Spark,” the more likely capable model from which Glimmer was distilled. Muse Spark is only available through Meta’s Model API, though.) Architecture-wise, here are some of the main points: 1. "Only" a 131k context window, compared to Qwen3.6 and Gemma 4, which support 2x that natively; it's reasonable, but maybe on the shorter end in the a… LLMs Related
Engineering leader and writer; wrote An Elegant Puzzle, Staff Engineer and The Engineering Executive's Primer, and blogs at Irrational Exuberance.
Freelance web developer and instructor. Author of the Dive Into Docker course; writes tutorials on Docker, deployment and development environments at nickjanetakis.com.
Here's a quick shell script to use your monitor as a key light which can help with lighting when you have a web cam. It toggles a solid background color using your wallpaper tool of choice. nickjanetakis.com
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British software developer at Laravel and creator of the Cachet open-source status page system. Podcaster; writes at james.brooks.page.
Musician and data analyst; writes Can't Get Much Higher, working through the history of popular music from the charts and the recordings.
British designer and technologist; co-founder of the design studio BERG, which made Little Printer, and writer of the blog Interconnected.
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Professor of finance at NYU's Stern School of Business, known for his work on valuation. He publishes his data, spreadsheets and classes free at Damodaran Online and writes the Musings on Markets blog.
The meltdown of Situational Awareness, Leo Aschenbrenner's hedge fund, has created a host of takes. I use the story as a lever to talk about investment conviction, a quality that can be a good one, but one that can create collateral damage. bit.ly
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Mac developer and writer at brettterpstra.com; makes the apps Marked and nvALT and writes extensively about Markdown and automation.
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Software engineer and founder of Block Party; previously an engineer at Pinterest and Quora, and a co-founder of the non-profit Project Include and the tech diversity data project Where are the Numbers?
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Writer of the personal-finance blog Of Dollars And Data and author of Just Keep Buying and The Wealth Ladder. Chief Operating Officer at Ritholtz Wealth Management.
Since 1926, the median U.S. stock has underperformed the market by 7.9% over a 10-year period. If you have a lot of money in one stock, you'll likely experience a similar fate. But you don't have to. My latest on the best way to sell a concentrated position: ofdollarsanddata.com
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Art critic, broadcaster and author; wrote on art for The Independent and The Sunday Telegraph and presents BBC art documentaries. Author of Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane.
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Software design writer and chief scientist at Thoughtworks; wrote Refactoring and Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture.
Indonesian software engineer, educator and engineering manager at Zero One Group; open-source enthusiast writing at ripandis.com.
Epidemiologist; founded Your Local Epidemiologist in March 2020 to translate public-health science, and consults for organisations including the CDC.
Thai software engineer; publishes a public digital garden at garden.narze.live and builds developer and productivity tooling.
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.
Thai software engineer; publishes a public digital garden at garden.narze.live and builds developer and productivity tooling.
British software developer at Laravel and creator of the Cachet open-source status page system. Podcaster; writes at james.brooks.page.
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CEO of Positive Sum and founder of Colossus. Hosts Invest Like the Best, interviewing investors and business leaders; the guests do most of the talking there.
Thai software engineer; publishes a public digital garden at garden.narze.live and builds developer and productivity tooling.
Software engineer working on distributed systems and databases; creator of rqlite, the distributed database built on SQLite.
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.
Full-stack developer, creator of Tailwind CSS; writes at adamwathan.me and makes courses and screencasts for web developers.
Nothing makes me second guess the quality of a product I just bought as much as instructions that fold on both axis 🥴 Related
Bootstrapper and investor. Founder of TinySeed and MicroConf, host of the Startups for the Rest of Us podcast, and author of several books on self-funded software startups.
I’m pretty sure I was the first person to preorder this book. Literally order #1. That’s how quickly I went from “Jason wrote a book” to “shut up and take my money.” If you follow me, MicroConf, or TinySeed, buying this book isn’t really a decision. It’s paperwork. Go buy it. Stop reading this. Seriously. Why are you still here? Quoting @asmartbear After more than a year of labor, my book 𝘏𝘪𝘥𝘥𝘦𝘯 𝘔𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘪𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘳𝘴 has launched! It's all my best ideas -- and best writing -- on how to grow your company with your existing budget and team. And yes, I read the audiobook myself. :-) 𝗕𝘂𝘆 𝗱𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗰𝘁: You can buy cheaper bundles directl… Related
Co-founder and CEO of Shopify; long-time Linux user and Omarchy contributor.
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Senior economist at the Foundation for American Innovation; writes Second Best, and was the Niskanen Center's director of social policy before that.
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human sociality is not purely consequentialist but instead highly norm-governed.
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Chief scientist at Redwood Research, where he works on technical AI safety and AI control.
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So my sense is that scaling up the amount of effort spent on getting expert human data has not been hugely important for AI R&D in general.
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Basically, the story would end up being that to get five years of AI progress, you're probably going to need around I would say like maybe eight years of algorithmic progress very roughly. Um, which is a lot a lot of algorithmic progress.
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I would say that I expect like full automation of AR&D perhaps somewhere around like 2031 2030 and then getting to like the like beats all humans on the job milestone. Maybe I expect median around 2033
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Executive coach for product leaders. Previously a partner at GV (Google Ventures) and a product manager at Google. Writes at Bring the Donuts, including a standing essential-reading list for product managers.
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Swedish essayist who writes Escaping Flatland, a newsletter of essays on relationships, thinking, writing and homeschooling.
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Writer and podcaster; co-author of Abundance with Ezra Klein, a staff writer at The Atlantic from 2008 to 2025, and host of the Plain English podcast.
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Freelance web developer and instructor. Author of the Dive Into Docker course; writes tutorials on Docker, deployment and development environments at nickjanetakis.com.
Pseudonymous writer; posts careful, funny investigations of everyday questions — air quality, seed oils, arguing, chess — usually by reading the studies.
Journalist and author of The Art of Noticing; writes the newsletter The Art of Noticing (TAoN) on attention, creativity and the everyday.
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Swedish programmer with degrees in engineering and psychology, author of Your Code as a Crime Scene and founder of CodeScene.
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First, Refactoring, Domain-Driven Design, and the Pragmatic Programmer are all classics for a reason. Amazing books, and mandatory reads. Working Effectively with Legacy Code deserves all its praise, and of course everyone (yes, really) should check out the Mythical Man-Month.
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Economist specialising in global income inequality; formerly lead economist in the World Bank research department, now at the CUNY Graduate Center and author of the Global Inequality and More newsletter.
Programmer on the Dart language at Google and author of Game Programming Patterns and Crafting Interpreters; previously a game developer at EA.
Internet linguist; wrote Because Internet, on how language changes online, and co-hosts the Lingthusiasm podcast.
Software engineer at PlanetScale and creator of the vim-go plugin. Writes at arslan.io about Go, tooling, industrial design and books.
Co-founder of WordPress and founder of Automattic; blogs at ma.tt.
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Technologist and entrepreneur; former CTO of Threadless and chief technology officer of the 2012 Obama re-election campaign.
Just wrote up how I use AI to make my travel experiences magic. It works incredibly well. You can even use it in your own city Try it and let me know how it works harper.blog
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i’m wearing an ANGELS DESERVE DPI TOO shirt for @signedco today at an angel investor event and I don’t think many quite understand the joke, which in and of itself is pretty telling of the typical angel investor these days too. it’s a self-referential referential joke. Related
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Swedish essayist who writes Escaping Flatland, a newsletter of essays on relationships, thinking, writing and homeschooling.
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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.
Founder and editor-in-chief of MacStories, writing about Apple software, iPad workflows and automation since 2009. He co-hosts the AppStories podcast.
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Clinical psychologist and clinical professor of psychiatry at UCSF. His 2010 meta-analysis established psychodynamic therapy as an evidence-based treatment; he has argued ever since that "evidence-based therapy" is used as a marketing term.
Indonesian software engineer, educator and engineering manager at Zero One Group; open-source enthusiast writing at ripandis.com.
Engineering manager who has worked at Apple, Netscape, Slack and Palantir; writes as Rands at randsinrepose.com and wrote Managing Humans.
Australian moral philosopher, Professor of Bioethics emeritus at Princeton University; author of Animal Liberation, Practical Ethics and The Life You Can Save.
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Indian technology consultant and writer. Former editor of Beautiful Pixels; writes about Apple hardware and Mac software at nuclearbits.com.
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Security researcher; built Report URI and Security Headers, and writes about web security in practice.
Engineering manager who has worked at Apple, Netscape, Slack and Palantir; writes as Rands at randsinrepose.com and wrote Managing Humans.
Bluesky So the cure for one entity having too much control is... routing everyone's personal AI agent through Meta. Sure. Right. Good idea, Zuck. Related
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Software architect and futurist; founded ClariNet, chaired the EFF, and has written about robocars for two decades.
American software engineer; worked on code-server at Coder and teaches TypeScript and open-source contribution. Publishes at joeprevite.com.
i wanted to take a second to say thanks today marks 52 weeks of working with @GuiBibeau he's been with me since i launched this side business and i've seen him: - completely change his wellness habits - prioritize sleep, clean eating and always getting his steps in (~45m walks multiple times throughout week) - experiment with new supplements - attend various workout classes (Muay Thai, HIIT, pilates) and he's continued it for an entire year. all while maintaining a digital nomad lifestyle. changing your habits is hard. staying committed over the long-run is even harder. cheers to Gui for insp… Related
Cartoonist and comics theorist, author of Understanding Comics, Reinventing Comics, Making Comics and the graphic novel The Sculptor.
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Makes NeetCode, the structured practice list and video walkthroughs people use to prepare for coding interviews; a former Google engineer.
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Swedish designer and programmer. Designed early Spotify, worked at Facebook and Figma, and created the Inter typeface.
Is there a service where I can rent access to Linux desktop machines with actual displays? We're implementing the Playbit runtime for Linux and it's surprisingly difficult to test various desktop configurations. We need a real GPU with a display connected, for testing dawn/webgpu, vsync, display sleep, etc. We use Modal and AWS, neither have had machines that I've been able to test with properly. Ideally there's a way to test a variety of systems (like ubuntu, arch, alpine etc) × GPUs (nvidia, amd, intel) × window managers. Linux Related
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Organizational psychologist and professor at the Wharton School. Author of Give and Take, Originals, Think Again and Hidden Potential, host of the Re:Thinking podcast, and writer of the GRANTED newsletter.
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Indian software developer and prolific blogger on PHP, Laravel and JavaScript; open-source enthusiast publishing near-daily at amitmerchant.com.
Independent iOS developer and podcaster; co-hosts the Accidental Tech Podcast and Analog(ue), and makes the apps Callsheet, MaskerAid and Peek-a-View.
CaPiTaLisM bAyBeEeEeE 🫠 (Erin loves SiriusXM which is why I put up with this. It’s for her car.) I hate that not only do I have to do this dance annually, but that it had two [or more?] stages of offers to give me as I continued to say “no thanks” Sigh. Related
Professor of international affairs at Johns Hopkins SAIS and co-author, with Abraham Newman, of Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy.
Machine-learning researcher on open language models; writes the Interconnects newsletter and the RLHF Book, after leading post-training at Ai2.
Mac developer and writer at brettterpstra.com; makes the apps Marked and nvALT and writes extensively about Markdown and automation.
RTF output for Apex Apex just grew a native Rich Text Format writer. That means Markdown can become something macOS apps already understand: Pages documents, .rtf files, and — with a little pasteboard care — rich text you can drop straight…
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Swedish programmer with degrees in engineering and psychology, author of Your Code as a Crime Scene and founder of CodeScene.
I made a conscious effort to unplug during my vacation. Coming back, I noticed the lovely new Substack feature: Scan for AI text. Coincidentally, I had updated the About section for my Substack a while back with some notes on what my blog is *not*: "## What this isn’t Content creation isn’t my job. I write these articles because I a) love to write, and b) care deeply about our profession. It’s a fun hobby, not a job. Consequently, I don’t feel any pressure to publish on a schedule. I’d rather publish less and maintain a higher quality bar. So far, that has worked out to roughly one article pe… Related
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Political scientist and Baptist pastor; writes Graphs about Religion, charting American religious life from survey data.
Usability pioneer; co-founder of Nielsen Norman Group and founder of UX Tigers; author of the ten usability heuristics and of Jakob's Law.
Design engineer; formerly at Linear and Vercel; author of Sonner and Vaul; teaches animations.dev.
Political scientist writing Drezner's World on international relations, American politics and the marketplace of ideas; author of The Ideas Industry.
Managing partner at Ritholtz Wealth Management. Writes the blog The Irrelevant Investor and co-hosts the Animal Spirits podcast with Ben Carlson.
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.
American-Polish journalist and historian, staff writer at The Atlantic; author of Gulag, Iron Curtain, Twilight of Democracy and Autocracy, Inc.
Programmer and writer on computer architecture, performance, and software reliability. He has worked on CPU design at Centaur Technology and on software at Google and Microsoft, and writes long-form technical essays at danluu.com.
Swedish designer and programmer. Designed early Spotify, worked at Facebook and Figma, and created the Inter typeface.
It’s so wild how good image and video models are getting. It’s not hard to see how in a decade (or sooner) the meaning of images you see has completely changed meaning. It makes me curious about the idea of cryptographically proving that an image was actually “captured” (recording of photon emission.) bfl.ai
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Indian value investor who taught Behavioural Finance and Business Valuation as an adjunct professor at MDI Gurgaon. He writes the Fundoo Professor blog about investing, moats and mental models.
I asked Claude Fable 5: "How vulnerable is the business model of XYZ (name concealed)? I am referring to competitive attacks from China and dependence, if any, on government policy incentives, etc. There have been so many solar energy and wind energy bubbles in the past, and I have kept away from these companies. Am I being too cautious? solar Anthropic Related
Physician focused on longevity; wrote Outlive and hosts The Drive.
Programmer and writer on computer architecture, performance, and software reliability. He has worked on CPU design at Centaur Technology and on software at Google and Microsoft, and writes long-form technical essays at danluu.com.
Ruby and Rails core committer known online as "tenderlove"; maintains Nokogiri and works on Ruby performance.
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I failed this "Security Check" the first time. Not because those other two circles actually count as purple but because I wrote "one" in the box and not "1" Clicking on the audio option read me the correct answer "How many purple items are there? The items are: purple, blue, blue, red, red, green, green." Related
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The Sanxingdui relics are some of the most beautiful and amazing ancient artifacts in the world, very much worth seeing in person Quoting @JChengWSJ A Lost Civilization Is Baffling Experts and Rewriting China’s Origin Story—The otherworldly beasts and enigmatic masks of Sanxingdui still enthrall China, decades after unearthing of ceremonial pits @ZhaoReddy @ByXiaoXiao Related
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One of my accountants, in response to me hitting them with the usual packet of documents, sent back a very obviously LLM drafted list of 10 questions. First thought: What am I paying you for. Second thought: Actually no, my LLM digests your LLM's output into the context window. LLMs Related
Security engineer; founder of Matasano Security and Latacora.
Co-creator of Django and creator of Datasette; writes daily at simonwillison.net.
Anthropic OpenAI
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Claude Haiku is my current least favorite model - it hallucinates wildly, and is out-performed now by other similarly priced models like GPT-5.6-Luna
Even worse: it seems to still be used by the Claude Code WebFetch tool, which means hallucination risk any time you fetch a URL!
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Founded PSPDFKit in 2011 and ran it for a decade. Came back from a break to work on AI agents — the OpenClaw project, and OpenAI, joined in February 2026. Writes at steipete.me.
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Peter Steinberger: "Fun Is Velocity"
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You know features are the fun part. A new feature is is just a prompt away. The real cost comes after every feature we shipped of course with a configuration option because we didn't want to break everyone's setup.
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Sure, they they like the abstract term of security, but in all practical terms, they updated. I broke something they depended on. I made things slower and I made things more difficult to update.
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We did the the numbers and the numbers are more like 0.3%. We scanned all 67,000. We shipped the we shipped the paper. But you know a correction never travels as far as a scare.
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Founder of the Silicon Valley Product Group; wrote Inspired, Empowered and Transformed on how product organisations work.
Founding executive editor of Wired and author of What Technology Wants and The Inevitable. Writes at kk.org and runs its long-running recommendation projects, True Films and Cool Tools.
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Worldbuilding with Spatial Intelligence
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Creator of the Keras deep-learning library and the ARC-AGI benchmark.
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Coding isn't yet another application domain -- it's the meta-skill required for AI to automatically develop its own training material, via symbolic world models. That's how the RSI loop actually kicks off.
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Sequoia Professor of Computer Science at Stanford, co-director of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI, and co-founder and CEO of World Labs.
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Using AI to Increase Your Intelligence & Enrich Humanity | Dr. Fei-Fei Li
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Internet is not some random thing. Internet is the biggest collection of human behavior in multimodal forms.
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youtube.com
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that child who learns about what you say kitty cat would not have the chance to download the internet of images of cat. They likely have seen three cats, 10 cats at most, but yet they're able to identify that tail as a cattail instead of a fox tail through a different kind of learning pathway.
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What happened there is actually not as revolutionary as you might think because the bottom line is it's still data.
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So we conjectured that the lack of data was a huge part of the reason that's the lack of progress in AI. So we took a departure from everybody else who are really focusing only on algorithm and said that we need data. we need data to drive these algorithms.
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But the first photoreceptive cells created a evolutionary force that propelled animals to evolve because sensing the external world changes your self-perception changes the way your relationship with the external world.
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Software engineer at PlanetScale and creator of the vim-go plugin. Writes at arslan.io about Go, tooling, industrial design and books.
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Joining Cursor
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Anyone using GitHub knows that it isn't cut out for agents. The workflow, the review process, the merge queue and many things are made for the previous era.
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Nobody writes the code anymore. Instead you're basically planning, debating, implementing and reviewing with Agents.
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Agents are the future of how we build software, and the ecosystem is moving faster than anything I've seen.
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Computer science professor at Georgetown University and author of Deep Work, Digital Minimalism and Slow Productivity; writes about focus, technology and work at calnewport.com and hosts the Deep Questions podcast.
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On AI Coding and Its Discontents
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But if you zoom out, it becomes clear that almost every “breakthrough” since last summer has concerned the narrow domains of computer code and math, which are defined by highly structured languages and come accompanied by massive amounts of specialized training data.
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It’s a normal technology, and perhaps it’s time we start talking about it that way.
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In addition to reliability issues, it often engenders a mind-numbing workflow and an environment where junior developers will never acquire the expertise to become senior developers capable of designing complex systems.
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Wall Street Journal bestselling author on marketing and writing, partner at MarketingProfs, and writer of the fortnightly Total Annarchy newsletter.
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AI Slop, Accusations, And A Better Way
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Pseudonymous reviewer who publishes measured, standardised flashlight and knife reviews at zeroair.org, including runtime, output and tint measurements.
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The Reylight Dawn Max titanium flashlight is very throwy, but still identifiable as a Dawn. I always liked Dawns, so this is a very good combination.
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Music critic and historian; author of The History of Jazz and Music: A Subversive History. Writes the newsletter The Honest Broker on music and culture.
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I never dreamed that microtonal odd-metered tunes would come so far. But this group’s latest release will show up on many best-of-year lists in 2026 (mine included).
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It sounds like a celestial flute choir inviting you into a dream landscape.
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9 August
Co-founder of WordPress and founder of Automattic; blogs at ma.tt.
Super-organized I have so many tools for organization and management across Asana, Google Workspace, P2, and Linear, but they’re not really connected. I’m trying to get everything in one place so there’s no data duplication, a single s…
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Computer science professor who works on fast data processing; co-author of the simdjson parser and a weekly blogger about software performance since 2004.
Designer, illustrator and CSS developer known for single-div CSS illustrations, a yearly portfolio redesign, and a set of single-topic side-project sites.
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Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.
Endless execution The age of agents has brought us endless execution. Every idea, every hunch, every experiment is now within immediate reach. For people with endless ideas, this is nirvana. It's also the most fucking sci-fi thing I've e…
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Short-story writer and novelist; won the Booker Prize for Lincoln in the Bardo, and teaches craft weekly in Story Club.
Technologist and entrepreneur; former CTO of Threadless and chief technology officer of the 2012 Obama re-election campaign.
Swedish essayist who writes Escaping Flatland, a newsletter of essays on relationships, thinking, writing and homeschooling.
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Makes NeetCode, the structured practice list and video walkthroughs people use to prepare for coding interviews; a former Google engineer.
Swedish essayist who writes Escaping Flatland, a newsletter of essays on relationships, thinking, writing and homeschooling.
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Standards editor known as Hixie; edited the HTML and WHATWG living standards for many years and worked on Flutter at Google.
Interactive fiction author and hacker; wrote Spider and Web and Hadean Lands, and designed the Glulx virtual machine.
Bluesky More details about Cyan's cancelled (but nothing is ever *completely* cancelled) "Project Anglerfish”. Adam Morgan got to see the demo while writing a Wired article. Related
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Scottish software developer on the Statamic core team; runs a one-person business maintaining Statamic addons such as Runway and writes at duncanmcclean.com.
Novelist and writer, author of Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore and Sourdough; previously worked at Twitter and Current TV.
Machine-learning researcher on open language models; writes the Interconnects newsletter and the RLHF Book, after leading post-training at Ai2.
Designer, illustrator and CSS developer known for single-div CSS illustrations, a yearly portfolio redesign, and a set of single-topic side-project sites.
Musician and data analyst; writes Can't Get Much Higher, working through the history of popular music from the charts and the recordings.
Designer and writer; design director of NYTimes.com, later a principal designer at Adobe, and author of the Subtraction.com blog.
Psychologist and writer. Author of the memoir Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class, and of a newsletter on human nature, psychology, social class and what he calls luxury beliefs.
Investigative journalist on policing, forensics and criminal justice; wrote Rise of the Warrior Cop and writes The Watch.
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.
Web designer; founder of SimpleBits, co-founder of Dribbble, and author of Bulletproof Web Design and Handcrafted CSS.
Mastodon Some glyphs in the new weights coming very soon to Hubano, my typeface inspired by Cuban cigar box lettering. Related
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China economy researcher based in Beijing who writes on his personal blog about Chinese political economy, history, books and music.
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Writer of Lenny's Newsletter and host of Lenny's Podcast, covering product, growth and career in tech. Previously a product lead at Airbnb. Also an angel investor and advisor.
Science fiction novelist, journalist and technology activist; writes the daily blog and newsletter Pluralistic, and coined the term enshittification.
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Writer living in Brooklyn and former Man Repeller features director; writes the weekly newsletter Maybe Baby on culture and consumption.
Indian technology consultant and writer. Former editor of Beautiful Pixels; writes about Apple hardware and Mac software at nuclearbits.com.
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Creator of the Zig programming language; president and lead developer of the Zig Software Foundation.
Software engineer, Wikipedia editor and crypto critic; writes Citation Needed and runs Web3 is Going Just Great.
well that sucks. apparently the ALA/Freedom To Read Foundation have trademarks on the phrase "free people read freely", which i use in a lino print i made into stickers a few years ago. i got the phrase from a 2023 speech by librarian and former ALA leader Tracie D. Hall. i didn't think to check if it was trademarked because, lol, what a wild thing to trademark. turns out the trademark had been granted two months before i made the print. it's no big deal from a business perspective — i don't sell these stickers for much more than they cost, because i mostly just think it's an important messag… Related
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every company needs a cassandra
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“you are a devil’s advocate, disagree with everything” is probably the worst possible prompt for this agent. within a week everyone would ignore her. she’d become the slack equivalent of a smoke detector that goes off whenever somebody makes toast.
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an ai is oddly well suited to this job. cassandra doesn’t want a promotion and doesn’t need the people in the channel to like her. disagreeing with the vp three times this month won’t show up in a performance review. she doesn’t have an ego invested in being right either.
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we say we want disagreement, but every disagreement costs the person making it a little social/political capital. do it often enough and you become the negative person. people stop evaluating the argument and start evaluating the source.
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Non-fiction writer, podcaster and occasional TV host. Author of thirteen books including The Ghost Map, Where Good Ideas Come From and Extra Life, host of the PBS series How We Got To Now, and author of the Adjacent Possible newsletter on innovation.
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The Uses Of Terror
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Coffee consultant and author of books on espresso, roasting and brewing, including The Professional Barista's Handbook and The Coffee Roaster's Companion; writes about brewing gear and roast control at scottrao.com.
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Sample Roesting
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When it comes to cafe operations and roasting, efficient workflow is critical to profit margins.
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Air bypass is the reason most air roasters function best near full capacity (larger batches allow less air bypass.)
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Roast quality and color can have a big impact on perceived cup score and buying decisions, so if you are serious about choosing the right green for your company, it is a good idea to do your own sample roasting, using a system that yields your preferred roast level consistently.
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Writer and former Substack product manager; publishes essays and interviews on technology, culture and China at jasmi.news.
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🌻 abdul el-sayed on AI
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Professor of international affairs at Johns Hopkins SAIS and co-author, with Abraham Newman, of Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy.
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John Crowley has died
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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.
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The Argument Against AI Writing Is At Least 2,400 Years Old
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The transgression isn't using the machine. It's hitting a button, not reading what comes back, and publishing it under your name.
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What actually happened each time a new technology was introduced is that the ceiling went higher.
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Organizational psychologist and professor at the Wharton School. Author of Give and Take, Originals, Think Again and Hidden Potential, host of the Re:Thinking podcast, and writer of the GRANTED newsletter.
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The Truth About People Pleasing
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Professor of economics at George Mason University and Bartley J. Madden Chair at the Mercatus Center. Co-writes the blog Marginal Revolution and co-authors the textbook Modern Principles of Economics with Tyler Cowen.
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Who would have thought that someone could make a gripping movie about predicting the weather? Nevertheless, Pressure delivers.
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Creator of the Zig programming language; president and lead developer of the Zig Software Foundation.
Swedish designer and programmer. Designed early Spotify, worked at Facebook and Figma, and created the Inter typeface.
This week we did a three day "App Jam" at @Playbit_ . Lots of cool things were built, like a multiplayer math art app and a MIDI composer. My own project was a flow-based programming app for graphics. As if Quartz Composer was multiplayer. Pure C & WGSL, no libs, 1.5M wasm file. Related
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Interactive fiction author and hacker; wrote Spider and Web and Hadean Lands, and designed the Glulx virtual machine.
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Ever since Xcode 26, SwiftUI previews haven't worked at all unless I disable sandboxing in my app. If I don't do that, I get this error: XOJITError: Could not create code file directory for session: Permission denied I keep hoping a new version of Xcode and/or macOS will fix it, but it's the same in the latest 27 betas. (Editor → Canvas → Use Legacy Previews Execution also doesn't fix it, but does change the error.) Apple folks: FB24222556 Related
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Swedish designer and programmer. Designed early Spotify, worked at Facebook and Figma, and created the Inter typeface.
I’ve been wondering where weird LLM language like this comes from. Much of it I hadn’t seen before LLMs, so —intuitively at least—it doesn’t seem to come from training data. Perhaps it’s reverb; echo in recent corpus from its past self’s attempts..? Another example is “I ran a smoke to explore” (where it means “smoke test” but abbreviates it like a cool teenager) Quoting @geoffreylitt Any writing experts who can explain why this is a weird sentence? LLMs Related
Co-founder and CTO of Oxide Computer Company. Created DTrace at Sun Microsystems and was CTO of Joyent; blogs about systems software, open source and engineering culture.
Brazilian-American staff software engineer working on platforms, AI and developer productivity. Writes about engineering and his setup at ivansantos.me.
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Engineering manager who has worked at Apple, Netscape, Slack and Palantir; writes as Rands at randsinrepose.com and wrote Managing Humans.
Psychiatrist and clinical assistant professor at Case Western Reserve University. Writes Psychiatry at the Margins on the philosophical and scientific arguments inside psychiatry and the psy-sciences.
Staff writer at The New Yorker, where he writes the Infinite Scroll column, and author of Filterworld and The Longing for Less.
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Engineering leader and writer; wrote An Elegant Puzzle, Staff Engineer and The Engineering Executive's Primer, and blogs at Irrational Exuberance.
Middle management roles are also a trap. Six years ago, I wrote Tech Lead Management roles are a trap. My argument then was that TLM roles present themselves as easier than moving into a full management role, but the tension between doing the software engineer…
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Structural engineer and senior infrastructure fellow at the Institute for Progress; writes Construction Physics on why physical things cost what they cost.
Novelist and writer, author of Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore and Sourdough; previously worked at Twitter and Current TV.
Mac developer and writer at brettterpstra.com; makes the apps Marked and nvALT and writes extensively about Markdown and automation.
Physician focused on longevity; wrote Outlive and hosts The Drive.
Professor of international affairs at Johns Hopkins SAIS and co-author, with Abraham Newman, of Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy.
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.
Ancient and military historian; writes A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry, long series checking what history actually says against how popular culture tells it.
Writes on effective altruism, energy and the arithmetic behind arguments people repeat — including how much electricity a chatbot query actually uses.
Designer, illustrator and CSS developer known for single-div CSS illustrations, a yearly portfolio redesign, and a set of single-topic side-project sites.
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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.
Co-creator of Django and creator of Datasette; writes daily at simonwillison.net.
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I REALLY want to believe that this fixes prompt injection risks for coding agents, but I'm just not there yet
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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.
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The problem is if nobody creates new content anymore and just asks their AI every question, the AI has nothing to train on anymore
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Engineering leader on Google Chrome; writes about web performance and, lately, about working with AI coding tools.
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.
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An excellent book, substantive on every page, and it will make you want to read some of the works he cites.
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Self-recommending, the best third of this volume is just stunningly good.
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I usually do not enjoy poetry in translation, but this is so fiery and full of passion that I am happy to recommend it.
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It is short, and fun enough to read.
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A very good and aggressively readable book about how terrible slavery was in the Roman Empire.
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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.
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Be sure to check out our Masters in Business next week with Dr. Ankur Crawford, EVP and Portfolio Manager at Alger.
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7 August
Designer and engineer; formerly principal research engineer at GitHub Next; writes at wattenberger.com.
"generative AI" puts the focus in the wrong place. what I think is actually the new superpower is * translation * between languages, but also between mediums. sketch <> figma design <> code <> image also, they do an inverted form of lossy compression: input + priors = input inflated with understanding of the world we're so focused on changing the input, but swapping out the priors is interesting as well what happens when we intentionally replace the priors with a different mindset / a different culture? can we trick ourselves into a rubber hand illusion, but for experiencing the world as some… Related
Geneticist and writer on human population genetics, deep history and evolution; author of the Unsupervised Learning newsletter.
Scottish software developer on the Statamic core team; runs a one-person business maintaining Statamic addons such as Runway and writes at duncanmcclean.com.
Here's a sneak peek of what I've been heads down on for the last few months! 👀 statamic.com
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Freelance web developer and instructor. Author of the Dive Into Docker course; writes tutorials on Docker, deployment and development environments at nickjanetakis.com.
Do people still watch tech video courses? AI has consumed my entire business and it's been months since I had a single course sale. I can't sustain $120 / month to keep things hosted at a loss. For the first time in 10+ years I'm thinking about shutting it all down. Related
Librarian, technology instructor and writer in rural Vermont; longtime community manager at MetaFilter and author of a book on the digital divide.
Friday afternoon reminder to not empty your inbox at the expense of someone else's. Summer stretches on here and I've got a weekend full of outdoor activities, many of them requiring outfits. I'm spending this afternoon in a frenzy of visible mending and I'd love to not also feel compelled to reply to your last-minute email. We'll all sweatily muddle forward. Image credit: Provincial Archives of Alberta, on Flickr Commons flickr.com
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Journalist and author of The Art of Noticing; writes the newsletter The Art of Noticing (TAoN) on attention, creativity and the everyday.
Co-founder of WordPress and founder of Automattic; blogs at ma.tt.
Toni on Verge Toni Schneider, Automattic’s founding CEO, board member, and now CEO of Bluesky, has a great conversation with Nilay Patel on The Verge’s Decoder podcast (YouTube, Pocket Casts). Automattic invested in Bluesky back in 2…
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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.
Co-founder and CTO of Oxide Computer Company. Created DTrace at Sun Microsystems and was CTO of Joyent; blogs about systems software, open source and engineering culture.
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Writer and creator of Daring Fireball, a long-running blog about Apple and technology; co-created Markdown and hosts The Talk Show.
I do not see the conflict between the view that the App Store review system is failing and the view that it's not the government's business to intervene. Allowing failing systems to fail is how market forces work. https://mstdn.social/@MisterMoo/117055553250281116#. government Related
Creative coder behind neal.fun, a site of interactive web experiments including Spend Bill Gates' Money, The Deep Sea and Absurd Trolley Problems.
next captcha game I'm going full National Treasure, you'll have to scour every continent for clues Quoting @sharifshameem I asked Codex beat the “I’m Not a Robot” game and it got stuck on level 15. So it opened up YouTube and watched a tutorial… then solved it Related
Staff writer at The New Yorker, where he writes the Infinite Scroll column, and author of Filterworld and The Longing for Less.
While real estate prices crash in the rest of the city due to mass government layoffs and Trump’s punitive treatment of DC Quoting @Curious_Kurz Washington D.C. is America’s Next Billionaire Boomtown In my first story for @WSJ, I explore how cabinet officials and tech moguls are snapping up trophy properties, pushing the area’s luxury housing market to new highs Read here: government Related
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.
Premium: The Hater's Guide To NVIDIA (Part 2) For a little under a year, everyone — myself included — has compared NVIDIA to Enron, largely because NVIDIA insisted, in detail, that it was nothing like Enron, WorldCom, or Lucent, a potent example of the Streisand Ef…
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Co-founder and chief investment officer of Cambria Investment Management. He has written several books on quantitative asset allocation, blogs at Meb Faber Research and hosts The Meb Faber Show.
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Co-founder and CEO of OpenAI; previously president of Y Combinator.
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there's no one right answer, but this is a thing where you need a really defined process. There is no right answer, but a wrong answer for sure is not having something that you do very religiously as a company.
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I think the best companies in my experience come from what might be characterized as scenes. There's like a moment that enables a new company to be born and there's a bunch that comes together that really creates this like unique nucleation for the new company.
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And so if nobody knows how much an experiment costs, like every time you like grow up a new cell line or every time we make a new a new probe in in the fab, how much does that loop cost? Nobody knows. Therefore, experiments are free. Um, it doesn't cost dollars. It costs media. And media comes from the fridge.
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Author of Recoding America; founded Code for America and was US deputy chief technology officer from 2013 to 2014. Writes Eating Policy on why governments cannot do what they decide to do.
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There is suddenly political will and leadership on these issues, which makes change now possible, but the administrative state is not going to reform itself.
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we've both come to believe that when transformation fails repeatedly, it's time for something different, and one of the tools that leaders need to add to their tool belts (and probably use a lot more frequently than they do today), is starting fresh, creating new entities (agencies and departments, for example) and either endowing them with new authorities or transferring authorities from legacy institutions to the new ones.
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Creator of the Keras deep-learning library and the ARC-AGI benchmark.
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On changing their mind
In the era of base LLM scaling (2022-2024), I believed the LLM line of research would reach a capability plateau (as later seen with base LLMs).
In late 2024, after the o3 test-time compute demo, I changed my views: the new models were showing genuine fluid intelligence, and with this new line of work, the LLM line of research could achieve unbounded capability scaling. "There will be no wall."
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Creator of the Keras deep-learning library and the ARC-AGI benchmark.
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I believe current techniques are 4-6 orders of magnitude away from optimality in terms of data efficiency and test-time compute efficiency. But far future AI will be near-optimal.
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However, looking ahead, I still do not believe that future AI (say, in 15 years) will be based on the LLM stack. I believe it will necessarily have to move closer to its optimal, final form -- symbolic learning. Obviously this is a risky and contrarian belief -- the safe bet would be LRMs. But let's see.
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Writer and podcaster; co-author of Abundance with Ezra Klein, a staff writer at The Atlantic from 2008 to 2025, and host of the Plain English podcast.
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Combined with Nietzsche's observation, I think you could argue that moderns are both more selfish and more guilt-stricken than our ancestors.
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The long-term risk for Hollywood is that an age of original blockbusters raises the bar for success.
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it's not out of the question that Anthropic or OpenAI-which barely had any revenue before 2023-could equal or surpass the revenue of all of Musk's public companies some time in the next 12 to 24 months.
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