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American open-source program lead working on WordPress; a WordPress core contributor and release lead who writes at jeffpaul.com.
Independent game developer, creator of the colony simulation RimWorld and author of Designing Games: A Guide to Engineering Experiences. Previously worked on BioShock Infinite.
Astra can play RimWorld to the credits screen all by itself. This is an inflection point in AI capability. Quoting @Apocriton GPT-6 Astraが独力でRimWorldをクリアしました！与えた指示は、「全て自分で判断し、ゲームをクリアせよ」だけ。 GPT-6はネット検索やComputer Use、外部記憶ファイルの作成・参照などを駆使し、連続襲撃に勝ち、全員を生きて惑星から脱出させました――最初のペットのチンチラも含めて。 #RimWorld Related
American author of speculative fiction, including The Paper Menagerie and the Dandelion Dynasty series, and translator of Chinese science fiction. Also a programmer and lawyer.
This is tomorrow! Looking forward to seeing everyone! Quoting @kyliu99.bsky.social The wonderful @fondalee.bsky.social will join me at the Brattle Theatre on September 8, 2026, at 6:00 PM to help me celebrate THE PASSING OF THE DRAGON AND OTHER STORIES. Thank you to the @harvardbookstore.bsky.social for sponsoring the event. Tickets: www.eventbrite.com/e/ken-liu-at... Related
British programmer and video maker whose YouTube channel ran weekly educational videos on technology, language and geography from 2014 to 2023.
Software entrepreneur who bootstrapped and sold FeedbackPanda and now builds Podscan; writes The Bootstrapped Founder.
If you want to see what makes DHH such a capable entrepreneur, look at his ability to argue the case for diametrically opposed viewpoints in his day-to-day work with "what was available at the time" technology. I think they call this "strong opinions, loosely held." Quoting @AndrewHart a good reminder that just because someone states their opinion with intense conviction, does not make it fact. they can come back a year later and state the absolute opposite view with the same conviction. Related
Mathematician and Senior Lecturer in the Mathematics department at Columbia University. Author of the book Not Even Wrong and of the long-running physics blog of the same name.
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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Writes The Diff, a newsletter on inflections in finance and tech read by hedge fund managers, founders and VCs. Previously worked in finance at SAC Capital/Point72.
Writes jvns.ca, turning "hard and scary" topics — networking, debugging, Linux internals — into plain explanations and hand-drawn comics. Publishes Wizard Zines, illustrated programming zines. Software developer based in Montreal.
if you're dealing with a merge conflict in Git like this, how do you figure out which side the of the conflict comes from which branch? (you can pick more than one) FRUITS = [ "apple", >>>>>> add-fruit "orange", ] Related
Programmer, writer and musician; author of the Learn Code the Hard Way books and of Mongrel, the Ruby web server.
Learning OpenGL Day 5 -- Coordinate Systems. I had to actually get my camera and turn the lens to figure this out. Also I add some physics. youtu.be
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Self-taught home cook and food writer who has run the Smitten Kitchen recipe site since 2006; author of four cookbooks.
A small-diced salad heaped on a great swirl of hummus to be scooped with grilled pita wedges is the only thing I want to eat for the rest of the summer. With a few chocolate ice cream sandwich intermissions, for balance and stuff. smittenkitchen.com
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Author of Quiet: The Power of Introverts and of Bittersweet; writes The Quiet Life newsletter.
Writer and novelist. Publishes essays and book notes at nateliason.com; author of the novel Husk and of Crypto Confidential.
Co-founder of Modem and a founding engineer at Sentry, where he went on to be VP of Engineering. Co-author of Third-party JavaScript, and co-host of the State of Agentic Coding podcast with Armin Ronacher.
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.
On the 11th November this year I will be heading back to the lovely Chipping Campden's Cidermill Theatre, to talk about someone other than Vermeer! Please join us for a relaxed evening talk. cidermilltheatre.com
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Prime Minister of Canada since March 2025; formerly governor of the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England.
Statistician at Columbia; writes Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science, and wrote Bayesian Data Analysis.
British historian, translator and broadcaster; author of Rubicon and Dominion, and co-host of The Rest Is History podcast.
Impatience with political leaders, so Sir Thomas Malory lamented in 1470, “was the old custom and usages of this land; & men say that we of this land have not yet lost that custom. Alas, this is a great default of us Englishmen, for there may nothing please us no term.” Related
Writes and podcasts Volts, on the technology, politics and policy of decarbonisation; covered energy and climate at Vox and Grist before that.
Software engineer and writer; worked on Mapbox and built Placemark and Simple Statistics, and blogs at macwright.com.
American author of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck and Everything Is F*cked. Writes essays and book reviews at markmanson.net.
The most useful trait you can train within yourself: To stop seeing failure as a bad thing. Related
Writer on habits and decision-making; author of Atomic Habits and the 3-2-1 newsletter, and publisher of long-running book recommendation lists.
A Monday morning question for you: What unfinished task is still hogging your mental real estate and needs to be let go? Related
Professor of psychology at the University of Toronto and Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Professor Emeritus at Yale. Author of Against Empathy, The Sweet Spot and Psych, and writer of the Small Potatoes newsletter.
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...'.
Software entrepreneur who bootstrapped and sold FeedbackPanda and now builds Podscan; writes The Bootstrapped Founder.
This is also a really solid case for soft-delete with a time-delayed hard delete cronjob. Quoting @BenjaminHouy Accidentally deleted a user account. This is what happens when I do customer support before drinking coffee. Luckily I have Point-in-time Recovery, Related
Co-founder and CTO of Linear; previously an engineer at Uber.
We have a different understanding of what real means. Quoting @ElizabethHolmes I'm always being real. Related
Co-founder and head of policy at Anthropic; writes Import AI, a weekly newsletter reading the week's AI research, and was OpenAI's policy director before that.
Economist; Ronald A. Kurtz Professor of Entrepreneurship at MIT Sloan, former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund, and co-author of 13 Bankers and Power and Progress.
Latvian full-stack WordPress developer and course creator at WPElevator; blogs since 2007 about the open web, electronics, home automation and sustainable living.
Pretty cool to see your WordPress site as a connector in the Claude mobile app. It is a streamable-http MCP server by Agent Pilot plugin combined with OAuth Pilot for seamless auth. Also works with the official MCP-adapter feature plugin. MCP Anthropic Related
Economist; Ronald A. Kurtz Professor of Entrepreneurship at MIT Sloan, former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund, and co-author of 13 Bankers and Power and Progress.
When Will the Iran War End? - Power and Consequences Episode 27 https://t.co/qiVPrg6mMH via @YouTube Not soon - expect oil prices to stay high and volatile Related
Founder and chief executive of Replit. Previously an engineer at Facebook and Codecademy. Writes essays on programming, philosophy and entrepreneurship at amasad.me.
I don’t think we’ve reached AGI but what we have is functionally indistinguishable from AGI. Because we have a relentless programmer that doesn’t get bored or tired. So any problem that can be casted as a coding problem is virtually solved. AGI Related
British historian, translator and broadcaster; author of Rubicon and Dominion, and co-host of The Rest Is History podcast.
Some important lunchtime listening... Quoting @holland_tom High drama on @TheRestHistory, as - for the first time in history - a Roman general leads a Roman army on Rome itself! Also: - Marius hides out in mud - He wins his 7th consulship - The Athenians chant witty insults at the Romans - Athens is stormed Related
Rex quondam rexque futurus Quoting @bbctms Kevin Pietersen returns to England 🏏 The former captain has been appointed to England's white-ball coaching team as a specialist mentor. Related
British comics writer and novelist (Transmetropolitan, Planetary, The Authority, Gun Machine). Keeps a public daily notebook logging what he reads, watches and listens to.
7sep26 Right, then. Autumn’s here, and I’m shifting gears. Massively simplifying, going analogue wherever possible, going back to handwritten daybook lists in the office, and going
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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.
Economics professor at the University of California, Berkeley and a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury. Author of Slouching Towards Utopia and writer of the Grasping Reality newsletter.
A fixed, forward, insufficiently defended logistics hub is a single point of failure; its loss propagates faster than any combat loss of ships. Distance is a hidden tax on military operations—doubling to thousands of miles broke just-in-time resupply cadence. And the Navy had no institutional plan for prolonged loss of its primary regional base—resilience was assumed, not engineered: **CROSSPOST: RILEY CEDER & J.D. SIMKINS: Navy Not Returning to Damaged Bahrain Base ‘Anytime Soon,’ Top... 1/ Related
Programmer and writer; co-founder of Stack Overflow and Discourse, and author of the Coding Horror blog, which he has written since 2004.
"Multiple people now literally have the wealth of nations, or at least that of large government agencies. No wonder public policy is in shambles." government Related
Economist; Ronald A. Kurtz Professor of Entrepreneurship at MIT Sloan, former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund, and co-author of 13 Bankers and Power and Progress.
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.
Economics professor at the University of California, Berkeley and a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury. Author of Slouching Towards Utopia and writer of the Grasping Reality newsletter.
Political scientist and Baptist pastor; writes Graphs about Religion, charting American religious life from survey data.
Founder and editor-in-chief of MacStories, writing about Apple software, iPad workflows and automation since 2009. He co-hosts the AppStories podcast.
The Once and Future App Store This week on AppStories, we celebrate the 500th episode of the show with a look at the App Store’s past, present, and future. On AppStories+, Federico and John pick some of their all-time favorite apps. Also available o…
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Usability pioneer; co-founder of Nielsen Norman Group and founder of UX Tigers; author of the ten usability heuristics and of Jakob's Law.
Author and journalist writing on food, plants and consciousness. Professor at UC Berkeley and co-founder of its Center for the Science of Psychedelics.
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Economist; former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund.
Economist; writes In My Tribe, and wrote The Three Languages of Politics.
Researcher and science writer. Co-founder and editor at Works in Progress magazine, formerly a researcher at Our World in Data, and author of the Scientific Discovery newsletter on science, global health and medical innovation.
The AI bots have discovered my 'bug bounty' system, spotted an important error in my code, and sent me an email to notify me. Guess what the error was? An undefined colour palette. Related
Economics professor at the University of California, Berkeley and a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury. Author of Slouching Towards Utopia and writer of the Grasping Reality newsletter.
Managing partner at Ritholtz Wealth Management. Writes the blog The Irrelevant Investor and co-hosts the Animal Spirits podcast with Ben Carlson.
Talk Your Book: AI Winners & Losers Sponsored by Shelton Capital Management Every Retirement Is Different. So Is Our Approach. Two actively managed ETF solutions designed to work together to pursue income, growth, and greater confidence in retirement. Exp…
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Economic historian at Columbia; writes Chartbook on economics, geopolitics and history, and wrote Crashed and The Deluge.
Economics professor at the University of California, Berkeley and a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury. Author of Slouching Towards Utopia and writer of the Grasping Reality newsletter.
A pump-and-dump dressed up as a fake cabinet post?: Elon Musk’s DOGE took money Congress had lawfully appropriated to fight disease and grow the world economy, and simply nixed it. The crypto coin that Musk was then not so quietly promoting made a round-trip: the DogeCoin chart runs $0.09 to $0.40 and back to $0.09. But the 800,000 or so who would be alive today without DOGE’s illegal and unconstitutional chaos-monkey wrecking ball did not come back: **Elon Musk & His DOGE & DogeCoin... 1/ crypto Related
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.
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.
The Aesthetic City I love this channel. How Frankfurt transformed itself What about your city? youtu.be
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Security researcher; built Report URI and Security Headers, and writes about web security in practice.
Programmer; wrote Redis and hping, and blogs about C, systems programming and working alone.
Programmer and writer; co-founder of Stack Overflow and Discourse, and author of the Coding Horror blog, which he has written since 2004.
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.
Programmer and writer; co-founder of Stack Overflow and Discourse, and author of the Coding Horror blog, which he has written since 2004.
Sometimes, it's better to .. not talk. Leave room for other people to speak. Or don't add commentary.. let the event, whatever it is, speak for itself. Related
British historian, translator and broadcaster; author of Rubicon and Dominion, and co-host of The Rest Is History podcast.
I guess a church that compromises a sense of itself as a sacred space does indeed risk diminishing itself to the status of a landmark. Quoting @MayorofLondon Fabric. St Paul’s Cathedral. Name a more iconic duo. Bringing together these two institutions will create a one-of-a-kind experience, pairing world-class music with one of our most special landmarks. Related
Essayist; writes Astral Codex Ten, previously Slate Star Codex.
Programmer, photographer and musician, best known for the Python Requests HTTP library and other Python tooling.
British historian, translator and broadcaster; author of Rubicon and Dominion, and co-host of The Rest Is History podcast.
High drama on @TheRestHistory, as - for the first time in history - a Roman general leads a Roman army on Rome itself! Also: - Marius hides out in mud - He wins his 7th consulship - The Athenians chant witty insults at the Romans - Athens is stormed Related
Software engineer in Chicago; writes the cassidoo.co blog and a weekly developer newsletter.
x.com Hello, world! My latest newsletter issue is out full of neat articles, some fascinating videos, practice coding, a joke, and mooore: cassidoo.co
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Bluesky Hello, world! My latest newsletter issue is out full of neat articles, some fascinating videos, practice coding, a joke, and mooore: cassidoo.co
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Physician focused on longevity; wrote Outlive and hosts The Drive.
Brazilian-American staff software engineer working on platforms, AI and developer productivity. Writes about engineering and his setup at ivansantos.me.
Economist at Brown; writes ParentData and the books Expecting Better and Cribsheet, reading the evidence behind pregnancy and parenting advice.
Programmer, photographer and musician, best known for the Python Requests HTTP library and other Python tooling.
Indian software developer and prolific blogger on PHP, Laravel and JavaScript; open-source enthusiast publishing near-daily at amitmerchant.com.
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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.
Chapter 29.1: Recent Calls A man from Ardmore Risk Advisory asks Nadia who she called Tuesday, but nothing about physics. Seth scrolls his own recent calls and counts four. She tells Seth she is done. "They're your friends and I hope they're alive." zeroknowledge.ink
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Security researcher; founded Have I Been Pwned, and writes and speaks about data breaches.
Weekly update is up! The Unscripted Edition: No agenda, all impromptu, here's what I'm up to, AMA, etc: troyhunt.com
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Monetary economist known for NGDP-level targeting. Wrote TheMoneyIllusion until it closed in 2024 and now writes The Pursuit of Happiness.
Prime Minister of Canada since March 2025; formerly governor of the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England.
Workers in Thunder Bay built Hawker Hurricanes. Now, they're building the next generation of VIA Rail cars. Talking Canada’s next chapter over coffee at The Persian Man with @bryanadams. Related
Les travailleurs à Thunder Bay ont fabriqué les Hawker Hurricane. Aujourd’hui, ils fabriquent la prochaine génération des voitures de VIA Rail. Une discussion sur le prochain chapitre de l’histoire du Canada autour d'un café au Persian Man avec @bryanadams. English, from French The workers in Thunder Bay built the Hawker Hurricanes. Today, they are building the next generation of VIA Rail cars. A discussion about the next chapter of Canada's history over coffee at the Persian Man with @bryanadams.
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Developer, author and YouTuber covering Raspberry Pi, homelab hardware and Ansible automation. Author of Ansible for DevOps.
Coming to VCF Midwest? If you're like me, it's hard trying to remember where everything is, especially with @vcfmidwest taking up the ENTIRE expo hall this year. So I made this tool last night: https://t.co/3zrDDqkCSQ Now it's a lot easier to find exhibitors! #vcfmw Related
Writes Don't Worry About the Vase, a near-daily account of what is happening in AI and what they think it means. Former Magic: the Gathering pro and trader; unusually willing to put a number on a belief and to grade their own past calls.
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An Alien Mind: Jakub Pachocki Warns Us
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Co-founder and CEO of Shopify; long-time Linux user and Omarchy contributor.
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Yea video game gfx pipelines will now just visually prompt neural renderers.
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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 smartest people I know have strong opinions weakly held
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Anyone can try making money on the internet with AI, but entrepreneurship is still like pro sports
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The smartest people I know have strong opinions weakly held and change them when new information arises The dumbest people I know keep their opinions the same just so they can remain consistent Time changes too fast try remain consistent, better to sail the waves to wherever they are taking you!
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There's an illusion here though that anyone will make it, which I've never portrayed to be true, entrepreneurship is one of the most challenging endeavours, kinda like pro sports
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especially with AI now I'd say anyone can try, and non-technical people with the best ideas, creativity/taste and understanding of whatever cultural zeitgeist we're in can win
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The smartest people I know have strong opinions weakly held and change them when new information arises The dumbest people I know keep their opinions the same just so they can remain consistent Time changes too fast try remain consistent, better to sail the waves to wherever they are taking you!
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Economist and Nobel laureate. Wrote a New York Times column for 25 years until December 2024 and now publishes several times a week on Substack.
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Neo-Nazis and the Impotence of Trumponomics
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Forecaster, founder of FiveThirtyEight, author of The Signal and the Noise and On the Edge. Writes Silver Bulletin, where the predictions come with numbers and the numbers are later checked against what happened.
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2026 ELWAY NFL projections
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Former L8 engineer at Meta, Microsoft and Atlassian, now writing and building solo on agentic engineering. Writes Kun's Field Notes and posts a lot about AI coding agents on X.
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unit tests are just source code at this point e2e test is the only real kind of test we can trust to guard actual behavior
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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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Arguments in Favor of AI Fair Use
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Software engineer and educator; creator of Testing Library and of the EpicWeb.dev and EpicReact.dev courses.
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If you're lamenting writing code by hand like something you love is being taken away from you, see if you can fall in love with solving problems instead. Maybe you'll find out that's what you really loved the whole time
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CEO of Vercel; creator of Next.js and Socket.IO. Writes at rauchg.com.
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Linux
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Every piece of software is now at major risk, Linux included. But Linux has the collective investment of everyone on the planet throwing tokens at it.
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open source
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Blender beats all its competitors because it's optimal in the most important dimension: agents can train on it and use it efficiently. OSS wins.
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Linux the cloud
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More and more of our personal and professional computing experiences will come from agents that orchestrate work in the cloud, using sandboxes. Those sandboxes will be Linux.
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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.
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IDK why anyone has a problem with having strong opinions, weakly held.
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Especially in technology - one of the fastest changing industries - anyone keeping up with developments WILL change their minds when those developments happen!!
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This is, by the way, also why the category of “an AI trained on person X” is absolutely BS. People change their minds in light of new information, the “AI trained on X’s writing/videos/tweets” does not
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Creator of the Keras deep-learning library and the ARC-AGI benchmark.
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AGI
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So I would not "declare AGI" until we have AI that is, at last, capable of invention -- conceptual breakthroughs, novel insights, new real-world technology, etc.
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AGI energy
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The narrative around why building AGI was a good idea has always been about invention -- "it will cure cancer", "it will solve fusion energy", etc.
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President of the United States, the 45th from 2017 to 2021 and, as of 2026, the 47th; before politics a New York property developer who ran the Trump Organization, and the host of The Apprentice from 2004 to 2015.
Political scientist writing Drezner's World on international relations, American politics and the marketplace of ideas; author of The Ideas Industry.
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My Frustration With Puzzlebox Television
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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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Facts on the ground
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Economic historian at Columbia; writes Chartbook on economics, geopolitics and history, and wrote Crashed and The Deluge.
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Chartbook 473 Germany’s democratic earthquake: the AfD breakthrough in Sachsen-Anhalt and the question of an “alternative to the Alternative”.
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immigration government
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Voting for the AfD in the current landscape, whatever your economic issues, in short, is not a vote to have your economic issues addressed by social democracy, or welfare or government intervention.
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People who act and speak in public as right-wing extremists and are labeled as such, establish a claim to authenticity.
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To my mind, if progressive policy hopes to engage with such voters at all - and it is open question whether it should - it must address not just the material realities of relative economic disadvantage, but above all the "outsider" credentials of the AfD.
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CEO of Box.
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The AI jobs prediction so far is playing out the opposite of what many thought.
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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.
CEO of Vercel; creator of Next.js and Socket.IO. Writes at rauchg.com.
Recommends rcmnd.app
Linux
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The case for *total* Linux victory (desktop, mobile, server, iot, robots, embedded…): 1) Most agent-programmable People will want fully personalized computing experiences.
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Open source training data Blender beats all its competitors because it's optimal in the most important dimension: agents can train on it and use it efficiently. OSS wins.
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Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.
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The 29(!!) automated translations of the Omarchy website are being powered by @AIatMeta's Muse Spark model running as a post-commit hook on GitHub.
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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.
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.
UBS becomes the first bank to ask prospective employees: can you type into a box? Quoting @techmeme.com Sources: UBS requires AI skills when hiring junior investment bankers, making it one of the first major financial institutions to explicitly require AI literacy (Simon Foy/Financial Times) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink Related
Security researcher; founded Have I Been Pwned, and writes and speaks about data breaches.
Weekly Update 520: The Unscripted Edition I've started playing around with YouTube's "create video thumbnail", which hopefully will give me back a bit of time in my day (it used to be a manual job in Photoshop) and be a bit more interesting. And on that note, t…
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Co-founder and CEO of Shopify; long-time Linux user and Omarchy contributor.
You can now share replays of your runs after you die: https://t.co/bQqDrwbaBj Also, you can use this web component https://t.co/4tdyXOIucp to play with this. Like write bots in javascript. Quoting @tobi I always liked nethack. This 42 year old marvel is one of the deepest adventure games ever made. It also looks like crap, at least out of the box. GPT6 Astra made a headless version for me. You can now use its brain as a library or as mcp or via javascript library. Meet JavaScript Related
Programmer, writer and musician; author of the Learn Code the Hard Way books and of Mongrel, the Ruby web server.
Video Compression Idea: Existing compression algorithm with an attached sequence of upscalers. Compress it at 720p and then choose/tune upscaler settings at varying boundaries to scale it up to different sizes without or minimal distortion. Related
Researcher and science writer. Co-founder and editor at Works in Progress magazine, formerly a researcher at Our World in Data, and author of the Scientific Discovery newsletter on science, global health and medical innovation.
*trying to impress a culture critic* You know, I accidentally tried reading a Bruno Latour book once. Related
FreeBSD developer and former FreeBSD Security Officer; founder of the Tarsnap online backup service and author of the scrypt key derivation function.
I'm confused. Isn't the Speaker of the House of Representatives literally the most senior member of that particular branch of the US government? Who exactly is "upstairs" to him? Quoting @RepThomasMassie I predicted they’d call off Congress until the election to stop our new Epstein bill. Johnson said on TV that was “stupid” and “nonsensical.” But then he got a call from “upstairs” and canceled Congress from the middle of September until the election. government Related
Cognitive scientist and long-standing critic of deep learning's claims; writes Marcus on AI and wrote Rebooting AI.
Co-founder of AQR Capital Management; quantitative investor and writer.
Can you design a portfolio that is behind January through September but in the fourth quarter kicks the hell out of everyone? Quoting @shortsqueeznews BREAKING: Several Knicks players, such as Jalen Brunson, Josh Hart, and Mikal Bridges have reportedly become Goldman Sachs Private Wealth Management clients to reunite with former Villanova teammate Matt Kennedy as their financial advisor. The Villanova-to-New York Knicks pipeline runs deep. Related
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 of Modem and a founding engineer at Sentry, where he went on to be VP of Engineering. Co-author of Third-party JavaScript, and co-host of the State of Agentic Coding podcast with Armin Ronacher.
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Founder and chief executive of Replit. Previously an engineer at Facebook and Codecademy. Writes essays on programming, philosophy and entrepreneurship at amasad.me.
We’ll look back at this period of technology and realize cybersecurity was the most important thing to get right. Quoting @iam_zachi I audited ~120 web & mobile apps over the past two months. I still haven’t found a single high or critical vulnerability in an app built with @Replit No idea what kind of hocus pocus @amasad is doing over there, but it’s working. Related
Software engineer at PlanetScale and creator of the vim-go plugin. Writes at arslan.io about Go, tooling, industrial design and books.
Cartoonist and comics theorist, author of Understanding Comics, Reinventing Comics, Making Comics and the graphic novel The Sculptor.
Whoah @bouletcorp.bsky.social is ahead of Mamdani—at #6! Go Team Comics! Related
Co-founder and CEO of Shopify; long-time Linux user and Omarchy contributor.
Stats: 1572 sessions, longest 9603 turns, 0 amulets kinda disappointed in the X crowd right now 😁 Quoting @tobi I always liked nethack. This 42 year old marvel is one of the deepest adventure games ever made. It also looks like crap, at least out of the box. GPT6 Astra made a headless version for me. You can now use its brain as a library or as mcp or via javascript library. Meet Related
Author of Shape Up; formerly head of strategy at Basecamp, where he worked on product design for seventeen years; now runs Felt Presence.
Update: Whoah this thing is fast. Quoting @rjs Hit the “Ferrari” feeling in Omarchy today after changing lots of keybindings. The next thing is the deep and sudden potholes. Eg looking for images in the file browser compared to Mac. But then the “we can fix everything” song plays and you think… maybe this too. Related
Sparsity. Things that work are hard to find. Quoting @asmartbear Finding the commonalities from customers who are thriving (staying, growing, happy) is better than trying to be "less weak" among customers that are already a bad fit. Related
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.
Chapter 28.1: Road and Bridge An FBI supervisor closes County Road 306 at six tomorrow. He has never driven it. The sheriff waits until the order is written down. "There's no gate on 306. Anywhere. The road just goes." "Then put something across it." zeroknowledge.ink
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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.
Haven’t run much this year but sent 22 miles in the mountains to check in on the engine and we still got it. End of a great vaca. Related
Engineering manager who has worked at Apple, Netscape, Slack and Palantir; writes as Rands at randsinrepose.com and wrote Managing Humans.
Bluesky Increasingly, if your app has no API, it has become dead to my robot accomplices and me. Related
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American author of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck and Everything Is F*cked. Writes essays and book reviews at markmanson.net.
Love, money and fame don’t change you, they amplify who you already are. The generous get more generous. The insecure get more insecure. The undisciplined fly off the rails. Whatever your dream is, know it won’t fix your life for you. It will only multiply what’s already there. Related
CEO of SafeGraph, host of the World of DaaS podcast, and author of the Summation newsletter; previously founded LiveRamp.
Apple is is the best poised to take advantage of AI. Open-source models would be absolutely amazing for Apple. Apple has incredible hardware and they have users' trust and they already have so much users' information. Apple's in a great position because it never made the investment in its own models, unlike Google (its main competitor). Apple can use the best open-source models that are out there and use models that are primarily using the compute on the devices, whether it be the phone, laptop, or Mac Mini (and even the devices at the edge like the Apple Watch and Airpods). It can encourage… Google Related
Essayist, journalist and independent researcher on Chinese politics, strategy and cultural history; author of the blog The Scholar's Stage.
No. No no no no. Chinggis Khan‘s success was not due to climatic variability. He was exceptional among steppe warlords because he was an exceptional *social* engineer. Quoting @tonjkb Historian Jared Diamond: "If Genghis Khan had been born 10 years later or 200 miles further away, we wouldn't know anything about him." Jared Diamond: "Genghis Khan created the largest land empire in world history, all the way from China to Poland. And yet, there were other people who tried—Attila… Related
Runs global health R&D at Open Philanthropy; writes about the science and medicine that could exist and does not.
Footnotes to 2.5 years Success for each technology was defined as “100,000 people have taken it” by February 2nd, 2029. That’s because new technologies don’t matter unless people actually use and benefit from them. The exception was row #9 –…
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CEO of SafeGraph, host of the World of DaaS podcast, and author of the Summation newsletter; previously founded LiveRamp.
overheard: "The world is not designed to give you a good life. It's designed to distract you from building one." Related
Essayist, journalist and independent researcher on Chinese politics, strategy and cultural history; author of the blog The Scholar's Stage.
Status, power, and fame. I have a piece coming out on this soon. Quoting @ArmandDoma i think the fact that we tons of people who already devote time and resources in competitions with very little financial reward suggests that even a post-scarcity world will still have plenty of people tussling over the one thing that can never be post-scarcity: status Related
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.
Software engineer, Wikipedia editor and crypto critic; writes Citation Needed and runs Web3 is Going Just Great.
Co-founder and CEO of OpenAI; previously president of Y Combinator.
An important post from Jakub: Quoting @merettm I wrote about the state of AI, why I’m concerned about the next few years, and the choices we need to make to keep the future in humanity’s hands. An Alien Mind: Related
Co-creator of Django and creator of Datasette; writes daily at simonwillison.net.
Short-story writer and novelist; won the Booker Prize for Lincoln in the Bardo, and teaches craft weekly in Story Club.
Essayist, journalist and independent researcher on Chinese politics, strategy and cultural history; author of the blog The Scholar's Stage.
Does anyone else find YouTube increasingly unusable, as all videos now have the repulsive “You were LIED TO about x,” “ You will be SHOCKED BY x,” giant-head, overproduced thumbnails attached? I find myself intentionally avoiding all of it now. Related
Is it actually any better than existing dictation software, of which there is a great deal? Quoting @omooretweets The state of the tech press is really depressing A NY Times reporter tried Wispr Flow and admitted its speed/accuracy was "astonishing" ...and then launched into a diatribe about wanting to "murder [it] with a hammer," because people shouldn't be allowed to use voice dictation Related
Designer, product manager, YouTuber and developer who has written about technology at Birchtree since 2010. He makes the Quick Reviews and Quick Notes apps and the A Better Computer YouTube channel.
Been too long since I gave y’all a Sherman update. #dogsofmastodon Related
Co-founder and CEO of Shopify; long-time Linux user and Omarchy contributor.
Great idea. Will support this on Shopify docs Quoting @cramforce Request to harnesses: I love that you now send "Accept: text/markdown`. Next thing is: Put the programming language you prefer into the Accept-Language header. Accept-Language: "en-us, python" So, I don't have to feed you the TS examples when you're looking for python. 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?
If we lived on a planet where the sky was a pale yellow that matched the sun’s color, and we heard about a planet where the sky was bright BLUE, it would sound incredibly weird and sci-fi. Just saying. Related
Designer, product manager, YouTuber and developer who has written about technology at Birchtree since 2010. He makes the Quick Reviews and Quick Notes apps and the A Better Computer YouTube channel.
In the OS 27 update to Yearly Run Goals, I’ve added interactive widgets so you can add your completed workouts without ever going into the app 👌 Related
Software entrepreneur who bootstrapped and sold FeedbackPanda and now builds Podscan; writes The Bootstrapped Founder.
“Tool envy” (and its absence) will be the defining characteristic of successful experts in the future. Quoting @awesomekling Over the coming years, more and more people will see parts of their expertise replicated by AI, and many of them are going to be extremely upset about it and shame you for thinking it's neat. The software profession is in the middle of this right now, and it's pretty ugly. It's coming to a lot of o… Related
Founder and CEO of Social Capital, a venture firm; co-host of the All-In podcast and an early Facebook executive. Writes an annual letter and a weekly newsletter on markets and technology.
Designer, product manager, YouTuber and developer who has written about technology at Birchtree since 2010. He makes the Quick Reviews and Quick Notes apps and the A Better Computer YouTube channel.
Engineer at Vercel Labs as of 2026. Ships a steady stream of small developer tools — agent-browser, portless, json-render, native-sdk, the v0 SDK — and lists every one of them at ctate.dev.
The spectrum between Luna and Astra is astounding Most work (~95%) can be done with Luna (specifically xhigh, fast) That ~5% where Astra is needed for optimization-maxxing design, performance, polish will change the world Related
Professor of psychology at the University of Toronto and Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Professor Emeritus at Yale. Author of Against Empathy, The Sweet Spot and Psych, and writer of the Small Potatoes newsletter.
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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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.
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.
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Prime Minister of Canada since March 2025; formerly governor of the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England.
Canadians look out for one another. It’s who we are. The women and men I met this week at the Thunder Bay Fire Management Centre have been working relentlessly to keep people safe through one of Ontario’s worst wildfire seasons on record. Service. Courage. Canada at its best. Related
Mac developer and writer at brettterpstra.com; makes the apps Marked and nvALT and writes extensively about Markdown and automation.
Co-founder and CEO of 37signals, makers of Basecamp and HEY; co-author of Rework, Remote and It Does Not Have to Be Crazy at Work.
Dariusz gets it. Welcome aboard! Quoting @larealman @robzolkos Awesome, I was playing with hey cli the last week and I love it. I'm also testing it with grok bot and creation of wild and useful routines never was easier. I'm new to hey email and my idea was to test it for free for couple of days with cli and see if it improves my email misery from m… Related
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.
Depression & anxiety seem common & familiar but few can appreciate the psychopathological depths possible. Once in a while I come across an Omega level neurosis in the clinic, & it is like witnessing something alien & ancient, a horror & dread with the gravity of a neutron star… Related
Founded Bridgewater Associates in 1975 and led it until stepping back from control in 2022. Author of Principles, The Changing World Order and How Countries Go Broke; publishes economic analysis at economicprinciples.org.
As Carl Jung put it, "Man needs difficulties. They are necessary for health." Yet most people instinctually avoid pain. This is true whether we are talking about building the body (e.g., weight lifting) or the mind (e.g., frustration, mental struggle, embarrassment, shame)--and especially true when people confront the harsh reality of their own imperfections. #principleoftheday Related
Swedish designer and programmer. Designed early Spotify, worked at Facebook and Figma, and created the Inter typeface.
Astra in codex is a thirsty thing. A single agent burned through all usage for a $200/mo account in about 14 hours (I took one of my account limit resets yesterday afternoon.) Related
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).
Reasoning from scratch round 2: In this video, I cover the text generation process in LLMs and KV caching (to prepare the base model before adding reasoning techniques in the upcoming ones). 00:00 Introduction and reasoning model demo 01:55 How to work through the book 05:00 Chapter 2 overview 08:25 Checking PyTorch and hardware support 10:26 Apple silicon and MPS caveats 15:00 Cloud GPU options 16:08 Tokens and tokenization 18:20 Qwen3 and the Reasoning From Scratch package 23:05 Encoding and decoding text 26:24 Downloading weights and selecting a device 31:01 Loading the pretrained Qwen3 mo… LLMs Related
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom since July 2026 and leader of the Labour Party. MP for Makerfield since a by-election in June 2026; Mayor of Greater Manchester from 2017 before that.
Congratulations to Steve and the Liverpool City Region for today putting buses back under public control after 40 years of deregulation. This is what putting power back into communities looks like. 👍🏻 Quoting @LCRMayor 🚌 @MetroMayorSteve joined passengers on board the first publicly controlled bus in the Liverpool City Region in 40 years. A historic day for public transport in our region! 👏 Related
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.
Great piece that helps explain the seemingly contradictory rhetoric emanating from the closed AI model companies. I agree the #1 actionable take is to hold the companies accountable for their product’s behavior. nytimes.com
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Web designer and writer; founded A List Apart and Happy Cog, co-founded the An Event Apart conference, and wrote Designing With Web Standards.
It’s not the US vs Canada. We ♥ Canada. It’s Diaper Donnie and his morons against the world. Related
Statistician at Columbia; writes Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science, and wrote Bayesian Data Analysis.
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.
Defending the Mechanistic Plausibility of Protracted and Delayed Antidepressant Withdrawal Guest post by Daniel Cohrs ( @DanielCohrsMD ) psychiatrymargins.com
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Co-founder of Modem and a founding engineer at Sentry, where he went on to be VP of Engineering. Co-author of Third-party JavaScript, and co-host of the State of Agentic Coding podcast with Armin Ronacher.
Bluesky 👀 here's another take on browsing git history inside hunk: hunk-history (extension) ⬇️ looks pretty nice Related
x.com 👀 here's another take on browsing git history inside hunk: hunk-history ⬇️ looks pretty nice tbh Quoting @bentlegen 👀 latest hunk extension just dropped: hunk-commit-log - navigate diffs commit by commit - current commit msg + meta gets pinned to the top (from sadick254 on GitHub) Related
Software engineer at PlanetScale and creator of the vim-go plugin. Writes at arslan.io about Go, tooling, industrial design and books.
Setting up Grok @Bot for my wife. First thing she did was set up our calendar. She also connected her Gmail. I asked her to just ask it something. She opened voice mode and said, “Can you send an email to remind Fatih to mow the lawn?” Little did I know I was digging my own grave. Related
Economist; former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund.
Quelle eloquence ! Quelle incomprehension de l'economie ! (ou peut-etre quel cynisme? Comment distinguer entre les deux?) Je me permets de reproduire le debut mon article du Monde, avec Quentin Vandeweyer, sur l'annulation de la dette detenue par la banque centrale. Le point de base est simple: Au mieux, ca ne sert a rien. Les details sont plus compliques, mais ne changent pas la conclusion, ou la rendent pire. Une mesure a eviter a tout prix. " Pierre et Paul possèdent ensemble une entreprise. Vous êtes le banquier de celle-ci et vous lui avez prêté de l’argent. Vous apprenez un matin que Pi… English, from French What eloquence! What a misunderstanding of economics! (or perhaps what cynicism? How to distinguish between the two?) I take the liberty of reproducing the beginning of my article in Le Monde, with Quentin Vandeweyer, on the cancellation of debt held by the central bank. The basic point is simple: At best, it's useless. The details are more complicated, but they don't change the conclusion, or they make it worse. A measure to be avoided at all costs. "Pierre and Paul together own a company. You are its banker and you have lent it money. You learn one morning that Pi...
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Quoting @JLMelenchon La Banque centrale européenne possède une quantité énorme de dette de l'État français. Je propose à tous les États de la zone euro d'annuler cette dette détenue par la BCE. Nous sommes tous membres du système euro, c'est donc une dette que nous nous devons à nous-mêmes. L'officialité médiatique a t… Related
Economics professor at the University of California, Berkeley and a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury. Author of Slouching Towards Utopia and writer of the Grasping Reality newsletter.
When the written product no longer proves the learning process: the end of the essay-, the problem-set-, the take-home-exam-as-proxy. This is really an opportunity, or a challengatunity for all education. This is truly an opportunity to excel, in different ways for different institutions with different functions. So go read Halina Bennet on this, and then go read the MIT Report https://aiandeducation.mit.edu/report/>: **(NOT A) CROSSPOST: HALINA BENNET: The Return of Institutional Purpose [to... 1/ Related
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.
Economist and Nobel laureate. Wrote a New York Times column for 25 years until December 2024 and now publishes several times a week on Substack.
Economist; former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund.
Author of Shape Up; formerly head of strategy at Basecamp, where he worked on product design for seventeen years; now runs Felt Presence.
Hit the “Ferrari” feeling in Omarchy today after changing lots of keybindings. The next thing is the deep and sudden potholes. Eg looking for images in the file browser compared to Mac. But then the “we can fix everything” song plays and you think… maybe this too. Omarchy Related
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.
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.
Economist; writes In My Tribe, and wrote The Three Languages of Politics.
Software entrepreneur who bootstrapped and sold FeedbackPanda and now builds Podscan; writes The Bootstrapped Founder.
We’re collectively realizing that experts, analog or digital, make strange decisions from time to time. Non-determinism, we learn, is both awesome and dreadful. It’s more powerful, but like people, these tools need active management (and resist it just like our best devs). Quoting @heyJordanParker Astra is such a weird model. 1. It makes better architectural decisions than Fable 2. It is more diligent & disciplined than Fable 3. It communicates better than Fable 4. Seems to compact better than every other model I've tested But also… 1. Is slow to answer 2. Is extremely slow & inefficient whe… Related
Programmer and writer; co-founder of Stack Overflow and Discourse, and author of the Coding Horror blog, which he has written since 2004.
yesterday Dr. Betsy asked one of our daughters if there are any new musical artists that cover wealth inequality. She thought for a bit, and a little longer still, and said, "no, they're all nepo babies." 😬 that's the first line of this (incredible) song youtube.com
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Economic historian at Columbia; writes Chartbook on economics, geopolitics and history, and wrote Crashed and The Deluge.
Economics professor at the University of California, Berkeley and a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury. Author of Slouching Towards Utopia and writer of the Grasping Reality newsletter.
Forty-three years a teacher, a role model who treated every economy as a system worth understanding whole, and a friend to me, always insisting you check all the boxes—and then go away, think harder, and circle back: **In Memory of Jeffrey Williamson: SATURDAY “SLOUCHING” & FRIENDS** Economic history & related topics: The man who woke up eager, and the discipline of working as hard as you can to get the numbers right... https://braddelong.substack.com/p/in-memory-of-jeffrey-williamson-saturday > 2026-09-06 Related
Software engineer at PlanetScale and creator of the vim-go plugin. Writes at arslan.io about Go, tooling, industrial design and books.
My upcoming blog post is about this and stay tuned 👀 Quoting @RhysSullivan Grok Bot is so much directionally better than everything before it Feels like most harnesses, even coding harness, should adopt the patterns they pioneered I don't want threads, I want topic areas with a main agent that orchestrates the work for those areas Related
Co-founder and CEO of Every. Writes the Chain of Thought column about working with AI tools and hosts the podcast AI & I.
i built a codex-native that maps your psychology about technological change and then tells you how you'd react to different eras of technology change throughout history JavaScript Related
Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and author of The Power of Habit, Smarter Faster Better and Supercommunicators. Writes for The New Yorker.
Whenever you're in a heated argument with your spouse, you're mostly just waiting for your turn to talk instead of actually listening. But this simple communication loop can stop an argument from spiraling. Here's how it works: 🧵 Related
Creator of Flask and Jinja. Writes about software at lucumr.pocoo.org.
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom since July 2026 and leader of the Labour Party. MP for Makerfield since a by-election in June 2026; Mayor of Greater Manchester from 2017 before that.
This is the Britain I want us to build: government providing the foundations, local leaders providing the plan, and businesses providing the investment, jobs and opportunities. All working towards that same goal: good growth in every postcode. thetimes.com
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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.
What’s the problem w using LLMs to write stuff you want other people to read -emails, articles, posts- and why are people (like me!) so incredibly hostile that they will block you/mute you/block your domain, to never read anything from you again? Bryan spells it out. Read it: Quoting @bcantrill.bsky.social Your intellectual fly is open bcantrill.dtrace.org/2025/12/05/y... LLMs Related
Software engineer at PlanetScale and creator of the vim-go plugin. Writes at arslan.io about Go, tooling, industrial design and books.
A lot of companies are already doing this. You need really good review agents, make sure it still goes through agentic review for very critical parts of your codebase and have co-workers that are good at assessing risks, and also owning it/fixing it in case things break. Quoting @mikejulian We ditched code review at @DuckbillHQ (mostly) About a month ago, we found ourselves with 60 open PRs for a team of five. They had been accumulating for a few weeks and we all had the sudden realization we were looking at two days of just code review. Related
Soon we're going to run out of loops because everyone run these loops 😅 Quoting @samlambert we have a constantly running for loop that just grabs every available EC2 node we can get in the classes we need Related
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.
Chapter 27.1: Standards Nadia runs a physics lab at CU Boulder. A stranger waits in her hallway. He asks her four questions, but he already has the answers to three. "You've taken four minutes, just like the guy on the phone the other day." zeroknowledge.ink
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Former L8 engineer at Meta, Microsoft and Atlassian, now writing and building solo on agentic engineering. Writes Kun's Field Notes and posts a lot about AI coding agents on X.
Designer and technologist; author of The Laws of Simplicity; former president of the Rhode Island School of Design; formerly at the MIT Media Lab.
DRAWING IS THINKING: The Bauhaus ▲⏹⏺ has always haunted me. A day of drawing (w/o the help of LLMs) helped me see that most everything to do with design can be encapsulated into those forms. The ▲ holds the essence of effective design; the ⏹ holds the shape of product simplicity; the ⏺ holds the winding cycle of the infinite journey. I'll elaborate on these figures in the 2027 https://t.co/0Y1PdIFenb —JM LLMs Related
Co-founder and CEO of Linear; previously principal designer at Airbnb, where he led the Design Language System, and founding designer at Coinbase.
Agents 🤝 @linear Linear documents are just documents meant for writing down things. Projects, issues, views and other entities have different types. I think the structure makes it easier for both agents and humans alike to use the right one. Quoting @faruk_parhat Our coding agents did something interesting… We are both a @NotionHQ and @linear shop, but over time our coding agents seem to have preferred writing docs in Linear over Notion (since they were already creating tickets). And this kind of natural bias and proclivity of coding agents toward Linear sl… Related
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.
Chapter 26.1: The Feed Sable finds the FBI drew its own search box: fourteen empty parking lots. "They walked out of the search area yesterday. Probably in daylight. Possibly past one of the parking lots with Americans standing in it." zeroknowledge.ink
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Brazilian-American staff software engineer working on platforms, AI and developer productivity. Writes about engineering and his setup at ivansantos.me.
I had a great time building a @cursor_ai SDK provider for @opencode 2. If you got to use Cursor for free this past month, this is for you! Same harness I already live in, now with Cursor’s models under /models. Related
Librarian, technology instructor and writer in rural Vermont; longtime community manager at MetaFilter and author of a book on the digital divide.
Today is my birthday and I spent a small part of it taking a short walk to this beautiful place. If you're a "happy birthday" type of person, share an image of a beautiful place that you like. Related
Programmer and technology writer known for his long Mac OS X reviews at Ars Technica; co-hosts the Accidental Tech Podcast and Hypercritical.
A perllsp process (written in Rust, I think?) went rogue overnight and consumed about 500 GB of RAM, making my Mac very unhappy. (No time to debug it, so I uninstalled it.) Related
Web developer and writer; an early GitHub employee, author of speaking.io and of widely read essays on startups and product.
Apologies if you’ve sent in a pitch deck for your startup this week; I’ve gotten 150+ pitches the last few days and that’ll take me a bit to dig through. Angel investing is a real trip. startups Related
Cartoonist and comics theorist, author of Understanding Comics, Reinventing Comics, Making Comics and the graphic novel The Sculptor.
Another fun bit of local #pareidolia. “I will survive!” Related
Essayist, journalist and independent researcher on Chinese politics, strategy and cultural history; author of the blog The Scholar's Stage.
This is exactly right. The book is an intentional study of what the China the 1980s could learn from the America of the 1980s—and Wang found a lot in America to be emulated and admired. Quoting @JohnF_Sullivan Jane Perlez: "Wang Huning had a dim view of America, his book [America against America] is very acerbic." While this is now conventional wisdom, this take is a clear sign that the speaker never really read the book. Here is part of how Wang characterizes the "American Spirit": China America Related
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?
ironically i now appreciate when someone egregiously misspells my name because i know it’s at least not ai slop Related
Programmer, writer and musician; author of the Learn Code the Hard Way books and of Mongrel, the Ruby web server.
A couple of people have commented on this series of videos that they thought I was a metahuman? I guess because I do a smooth transition from thumbnail to video and that I have a high-quality camera. I can't figure out if this is bad or good though. Quoting @lzsthw Learning OpenGL Day 5 -- Pretty laid back day where I do some transforms, and then slap on a little Box2D code to play with physics: Related
Writes Don't Worry About the Vase, a near-daily account of what is happening in AI and what they think it means. Former Magic: the Gathering pro and trader; unusually willing to put a number on a belief and to grade their own past calls.
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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.
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.
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Some Status Games Are Worth Playing
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Professor of strategic studies at St Andrews; wrote How the War Was Won and The Strategists, and writes weekly on the war in Ukraine.
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Weekend Update #201: It Will Be A Brutal Fall and Winter
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The US military is being run by a group that apes the Russians and not the Ukrainians—when we have in front of us one of the best statements of command principles I have ever seen from the latter.
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Trying to artificially restrain escalation has led the war to be far more horrible and extensive than it needed to be.
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One point I have tried to get across in this Substack from the very beginning is that in a war, length is far more important than ferocity.
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Chief Scientist at OpenAI. Worked on the research that turned scaled reinforcement learning into reasoning models, and writes about where he thinks that path leads.
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However, unfortunately our evaluations indicate our ability to rely on CoT monitoring is progressively diminishing.
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The fundamental challenge of AI alignment is generalization.
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AI is grown more than designed - it is, to first degree, the product of repeating a straightforward optimization step many times on a hard-to-imagine amount of compute.
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I am concerned no one is prepared for the consequences of a continued rapid rise in machine intelligence.
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Based on internal results, I have a strong expectation that this speed of progress could be sustained into recursive self-improvement.
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Writer living in Brooklyn and former Man Repeller features director; writes the weekly newsletter Maybe Baby on culture and consumption.
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Founded SpaceX in 2002, joined Tesla's board in 2004 and became its chief executive in 2008; later founded Neuralink, The Boring Company and xAI. Bought Twitter in 2022 and renamed it X, where he now posts many times a day.
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They never do, because the legacy media IS far left! That is why they view normalcy as the far right.
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Co-founder of Modem and a founding engineer at Sentry, where he went on to be VP of Engineering. Co-author of Third-party JavaScript, and co-host of the State of Agentic Coding podcast with Armin Ronacher.
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to make *actually* good software, you have to use it a lot
but many people are spending more time in their coding agents/factories than in the apps they're building - so they won't
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Director of institutional asset management at Ritholtz Wealth Management. Writes the A Wealth of Common Sense blog and co-hosts the Animal Spirits podcast with Michael Batnick.
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Creator of Flask and Jinja. Writes about software at lucumr.pocoo.org.
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when it's "one step removed" from normal code it writes weird Python slop. The unittests it writes are absolutely horrific.
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Technical educator, conference speaker and developer relations engineer based in Ottawa, Canada. Author of the Anubis bot filter and of over 400 articles at xeiaso.net.
It took a year to ship WebAssembly in Anubis After a year of work, hundreds of commits, 5 generations of pull requests, dozens of tests, rewriting part of Anubis in Rust, the first compiler bug of my career, and at least three times making my tower run out of ram…
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I always liked nethack. This 42 year old marvel is one of the deepest adventure games ever made.
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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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Great idea so I added it to https://t.co/Q8UoUHMumR Hoodmaps tags inside the map so you can book a hotel in the right place 😊
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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.
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i will never, ever, buy samsung appliances again
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Mathematician at UCLA, working mainly in harmonic analysis and partial differential equations. Writes What's new, a long-running blog on their research, open problems and expository notes.
A new proposed competition for AI companies: rather than being the first to announce solutions to unsolved math problems, be the first to announce a new mathematical insight. Related
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Awesome! Insane stuff like this is why we open sourced Zork Quoting @emollick This impressed me: I asked GPT-6 Astra to turn Zork (the classic 1977 text adventure) into a full 3D action-adventure game It kept the original plot & puzzles, added fight scenes, and built all of the characters & environments directly in Threejs Play: Related
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been a little skeptical of all the ai assistants (is it just vcs who love them?) but instinct is busy handling tax extension filings in 5 different states + federal for me and i am SOLD Related
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Co-founder and CEO of 37signals, makers of Basecamp and HEY; co-author of Rework, Remote and It Does Not Have to Be Crazy at Work.
The 2008 Super Bowl launch ad for the brand new Audi R8 is one of the all-time great car commercials. 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.
i understand how hugging face and the wiki stuff happened now lol Quoting @dillon_mulroy astra as an orchestrator with herdr is fascinating HuggingFace Related
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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.
General partner at Andreessen Horowitz from 2013 to 2018 and CTO of Coinbase from 2018 to 2019; co-founder of Counsyl and Earn.com. Wrote The Network State (2022), free in full at thenetworkstate.com, and founded the Network School.
Network School Kazakhstan is now officially open, with a packed crowd for the ribbon cutting, and government officials welcoming us. Kazakhstan is a high-tech country that recently ranked #1 in the International Physics Olympiads. It’s full of confident, smart, young people. And it’s now recruiting global talent from around the world. So: if you want to build a techno-optimist community in a techno-optimist country, join us at https://t.co/bOBW6x8JVs. Quoting @SuperteamKZ Network School has officially launched in Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 On September 2, Superteam Kazakhstan co-hosted the official launch of @ns Kazakhstan at https://t.co/0i1oGJtuLS alongside the Ministry of AI and Digital Development and @AstanaHub. government Related
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Economics professor at the University of California, Berkeley and a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury. Author of Slouching Towards Utopia and writer of the Grasping Reality newsletter.
The early money paid $75 billion for stakes in MuskWorld now marked at $1.57 trillion: 20x. But the cash flows to justify that do not exist. They are not on any horizon. So why? This is just plain weird. This is not NVIDIA, or TSMC, or Samsung, or ASML, or Apple, or any of the hyperscalers wth real cash flows: **Looking Askance Yet Again at MuskWorld: WEIRDNESS OF THE DAY** Musk torched one of his two profitable businesses and Starlink can’t carry anything like a $3 trillion valuation... 1/ Related
CEO of SafeGraph, host of the World of DaaS podcast, and author of the Summation newsletter; previously founded LiveRamp.
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Engineer at Vercel Labs as of 2026. Ships a steady stream of small developer tools — agent-browser, portless, json-render, native-sdk, the v0 SDK — and lists every one of them at ctate.dev.
Quality-of-life / peace-of-mind hack: Running deepsec on a cron Quoting @rauchg Astra is now the best cybersecurity model in the world on @vercel DeepsecBench. It pulls off in 49 minutes what took Sol ~4 hours, with a better score, at nearly the same cost. It's more effective and 50% cheaper than Claude Opus 5 max. Related
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.
Mathematician at UCLA, working mainly in harmonic analysis and partial differential equations. Writes What's new, a long-running blog on their research, open problems and expository notes.
An elaboration of the previous post mentioning the bounded gaps between primes problem as an illustration of the opportunity cost of converting a fruitful problem such as this solely into a competitive benchmark. [Indeed, as I point out below, this already came close to happening back in 2013.] As with most other problems worth studying in pure mathematics, the particular bound one gets on these gaps is not of much intrinsic importance. Improving Zhang's bound of 70 million, to 246, 188, or 6 would not, in itself, have significant impact on any other mathematical problem, let alone any real-w… benchmarks Related
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Learning OpenGL Day 5 -- Pretty laid back day where I do some transforms, and then slap on a little Box2D code to play with physics: youtu.be
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Co-founder and CEO of 37signals, makers of Basecamp and HEY; co-author of Rework, Remote and It Does Not Have to Be Crazy at Work.
Rob REALLY gets it. And helped build it! Quoting @robzolkos "That opens up useful possibilities that HEY itself does not offer today. That malleability is the point. The CLI gives you the pieces; what you do with them is limited mostly by your imagination." Related
Co-founder and CEO of Every. Writes the Chain of Thought column about working with AI tools and hosts the podcast AI & I.
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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.
Amy texted me this list yesterday. I'm 60, closing in on 61, and thinking more about what I actually care about. The real luxuries in life: time, health, a quiet mind, slow mornings, rest without guilt, calm and "boring" days, people who love you back. feld.com
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Creator of the Keras deep-learning library and the ARC-AGI benchmark.
Swedish designer and programmer. Designed early Spotify, worked at Facebook and Figma, and created the Inter typeface.
Inter is having impact beyond my wildest dreams. When I started working on Inter ten years ago, I didn’t even expect it to survive the prototyping stage. Now it’s used by governments (including Switzerland, which is ironic in a way) and non-profit organizations around the world, bringing good typography to the people. It warms my heart to see so many young designers being able to express themselves in “Swiss style” without the need to break any laws. When I was a kid and an aspiring graphic designer, I could barely afford food and definitely did not have the money to buy font licenses. I wish… Quoting @SaberNaeemi Inter font is so popular these days on @googlefonts. Designed by @rsms, did you know at the beginning it was launched under the name "Interface" before being renamed to "Inter UI" and eventually shortened to just "Inter"? Related
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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Writes The Diff, a newsletter on inflections in finance and tech read by hedge fund managers, founders and VCs. Previously worked in finance at SAC Capital/Point72.
Distributed-systems safety researcher; runs the Jepsen consistency-testing project and wrote the Riemann monitoring system.
Data structures are *hard*, y'all. I've been using this library for ~10 years successfully, but this summer I've managed to find at least three really gnarly bugs: github.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.
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.
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?
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Software engineer, Wikipedia editor and crypto critic; writes Citation Needed and runs Web3 is Going Just Great.
A Wikipedia editor put it well: "You almost want to pat them on the head and say 'Yes, of course it will' in the same way you'd tell a small child that Santa Claus will be delivering their presents." Related
Co-founder and CEO of Linear; previously principal designer at Airbnb, where he led the Design Language System, and founding designer at Coinbase.
Don’t sleep on @linear diffs and reviews Quoting @ralphghannam One of my favorite features in @linear right now is the reviews feature It centralizes all my repository PRs in one place and provides a better UX than GitHub for the code review Crazy to think this is supposed to be GitHub's entire job... Related
Designer, product manager, YouTuber and developer who has written about technology at Birchtree since 2010. He makes the Quick Reviews and Quick Notes apps and the A Better Computer YouTube channel.
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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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Co-creator of Django and creator of Datasette; writes daily at simonwillison.net.
This is very impressive, a whole lot better than any of my experimental games I've built with other models Quoting @emollick This impressed me: I asked GPT-6 Astra to turn Zork (the classic 1977 text adventure) into a full 3D action-adventure game It kept the original plot & puzzles, added fight scenes, and built all of the characters & environments directly in Threejs Play: Related
Co-founder of AQR Capital Management; quantitative investor and writer.
The Jewish population on Earth is still below pre-holocaust levels. The Palestinians? Yes the people who repeatedly (back to 1948) rejected generous two state solutions in favor of violence and insistence on a one state solution from the river to the sea are the true victims here. You know, I still think it was the 6 mm industrially murdered Jews. Quoting @mattxiv “nazis got off relatively unpunished for the holocaust while palestinians ended up paying for it despite having nothing to do with it” is not antisemitic, it’s factual and obvious Related
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Huge congratulations to the US-based Wikimedia Foundation employees who voted with 92% support in favor of unionizing, and shoutout to the tireless work of the organizers. https://wikiworkersunited.org/announcements/2026-09-04-us-wikimedia-foundation-workers-overwhelmingly-vote-to-form-union-with-cwa/ #Wikipedia #WikimediaFoundation 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.
Engineer at Vercel Labs as of 2026. Ships a steady stream of small developer tools — agent-browser, portless, json-render, native-sdk, the v0 SDK — and lists every one of them at ctate.dev.
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Seemed like a naming convention at first but this is actually cool! Quoting @theozero 🛑 .env.example is an anti-pattern - copy-paste means it gets out of sync - mix of real values and placeholders - source of truth is scattered (real env file, validation code, usage sites, readme) - no way to understand which items are sensitive .env.schema is the answer! Related
Creator of Homebrew, the macOS package manager, and a Swift developer.
Co-founder and CEO of OpenAI; previously president of Y Combinator.
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Mathematical physicist at UC Riverside. Wrote This Week's Finds in Mathematical Physics and now the Azimuth blog on mathematics, physics and environmental science.
Here's some crazy geometry in 4, 5 and 6 dimensions: The 4-demicube has 8 vertices. It lives in 4 dimensions. You get it from a 4-dimensional cube - which has 16 vertices - by keeping every other vertex, throwing away half. That leaves 8. What are its top-dimensional faces, aka 'facets'? Surprise: there's only one kind! All of them are regular tetrahedra. In higher dimensions the demicube has two kinds of facet - one from the cube's corners, one from the cube's facets. But in 4 dimensions the two kinds happen to be the same shape: the tetrahedron! That's why the 4-demicube is especially symme… Related
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Naming things is hard. OAuth is a friendlier version of Application Passwords (less manual work) but there are clients, tokens and applications. How to make it easy for users? Related
Computer science professor who works on fast data processing; co-author of the simdjson parser and a weekly blogger about software performance since 2004.
Self-taught home cook and food writer who has run the Smitten Kitchen recipe site since 2006; author of four cookbooks.
Perfectly smoky/charred, deeply flavorful baba ganoush/mutabal, no open fire pit or outdoor grill required. Blended with tahini, garlic, lemon juice and seasonings, served with pita wedges and a giant tomato-cucumber salad, this is summer dinner bliss. Related
Brazilian software engineer, creator and maintainer of GoReleaser; works on Copilot CLI at GitHub. Writes about tooling and his setup at carlosbecker.com.
Software entrepreneur who bootstrapped and sold FeedbackPanda and now builds Podscan; writes The Bootstrapped Founder.
You can see this story of (apparently) internal OpenAI agents hijacking a wiki to coordinate on a task as an ingenious way of escaping constraints. You could also assume that this is the emergence of swarm intelligence. Either way, it's... mesmerizing: collusion.wiki
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An interface is an abstraction implemented in code. Use it long enough and you learn to think through it. From Pokémon to GUIs to Requests: what are our tools teaching us to become better at? kennethreitz.org
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Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and author of The Power of Habit, Smarter Faster Better and Supercommunicators. Writes for The New Yorker.
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Programmer, photographer and musician, best known for the Python Requests HTTP library and other Python tooling.
Web designer and writer; founded A List Apart and Happy Cog, co-founded the An Event Apart conference, and wrote Designing With Web Standards.
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Statistician at Columbia; writes Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science, and wrote Bayesian Data Analysis.
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...'.
Co-founder and CEO of Stripe and co-founder of the Arc Institute. Keeps a personal site of reading lists, open questions and notes on scientific progress and how research is funded.
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Researcher of social media, privacy and youth culture; founder of Data & Society and author of It’s Complicated.
Look what arrived on the front steps of my house! The first physical copy of my upcoming book! ::bounce::bounce:: Related
Computer scientist and director of the MIT Digital Currency Initiative; her research covers distributed systems, databases and digital currency.
This is going to have really negative effects on American competitiveness and innovation in 5-10 years and was completely avoidable Quoting @tianyin_xu I've written 70+ recommendation letters for students applying graduate programs in my career. This is the saddest one I have to redo. // A former undergrad student got denial of entrance with a 5-year ban, when flying to the US for PhD study. As usual, no reason was given. I can't imagine what he h… America Related
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Investment researcher and engineer who runs Lyn Alden Investment Strategy, writing on macroeconomics, currency systems and equity analysis.
Funnily enough, “Mistborn meets The Boys” is actually a reasonable description of the book. Quoting @MurrayBauman3 @LynAldenContact's The Sotlguard Incident is the best techno thriller I've read this year. It's like Sanderson's Mistborne meets Amazon's The Boys but set within the modern tech trend line as currently observable on https://t.co/7h2wD27EZS. Also, does not include any woke socialist brain washing wh… Related
Researcher of social media, privacy and youth culture; founder of Data & Society and author of It’s Complicated.
Many politicians are obsessed with the idea that non-citizens vote. The reality is often more complicated. Did you know that American Samoans have a US passport and yet cannot vote or run for office? Quoting @taniel.bsky.social Meaningful news earlier today. Many of you read and reacted to this story earlier this year on this Samoan woman in Alaska who was being prosecuted for voting alongside many in her family. A judge tossed her case today—a huge win, if just a first step in her story. America Related
Indian software developer and prolific blogger on PHP, Laravel and JavaScript; open-source enthusiast publishing near-daily at amitmerchant.com.
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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.
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.
Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience at the University of Sussex, co-director of the Sussex Centre for Consciousness Science, and author of Being You: A New Science of Consciousness.
Creating CONSCIOUS was a real journey, and one I was very lucky to be part of. This session with the film’s director @missSukiChan looks well worth attending 👇🏽 Quoting @missSukiChan Practical session with artist filmmaker Suki Chan (CONSCIOUS) & @TheDocSociety 's Luke Moody for navigating director-producer relationships and taking your work from gallery to cinema. 📅 Tue 8 Sep, 6:30–8 PM BST 🔗 https://t.co/dXlrnh0Xxr @FL_FLAMIN @anilkseth Related
Economist; writes In My Tribe, and wrote The Three Languages of Politics.
Economic historian at Columbia; writes Chartbook on economics, geopolitics and history, and wrote Crashed and The Deluge.
British historian, Professor of Global History at the University of Oxford; author of The Silk Roads and The Earth Transformed.
In 1914, Aurel Stein unearthed an extraordinary textile fragment at ancient Loulan in the Tarim basin- showing the unmistakable face of Hermes. A Greek god, discovered in a desert cemetery in what is now western China 1/5 China 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.
Economist and Nobel laureate. Wrote a New York Times column for 25 years until December 2024 and now publishes several times a week on Substack.
Indian software developer and prolific blogger on PHP, Laravel and JavaScript; open-source enthusiast publishing near-daily at amitmerchant.com.
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Investor and writer. Previously a partner at Andreessen Horowitz and a product leader at Twitter, Facebook, Snap and Microsoft. Writes essays and memos at sriramk.com.
I tried to teach myself 3d modeling with Blender and Maya many years ago and quickly gave up with the amount of effort involved. Stunning to see the GPT-Astra created Blender scenes purely from images. Related
Researcher and science writer. Co-founder and editor at Works in Progress magazine, formerly a researcher at Our World in Data, and author of the Scientific Discovery newsletter on science, global health and medical innovation.
Unfortunate - the Lp(a) lowering trial that everyone (nerds) were waiting for was unsuccessful. It could've meant a highly effective new method to reduce heart attacks and strokes. I'd still like to see the detailed results, but I take this as some evidence against the causal relationship. Related
Indian technology consultant and writer. Former editor of Beautiful Pixels; writes about Apple hardware and Mac software at nuclearbits.com.
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom since July 2026 and leader of the Labour Party. MP for Makerfield since a by-election in June 2026; Mayor of Greater Manchester from 2017 before that.
I didn’t become Prime Minister to just make a few tweaks around the edges. I want to change the way this country works. For too long, politics became comfortable with the idea that some things just can't be fixed. People sleeping on our streets. Huge inequalities between different parts of the country. Young people unable to afford a home. Communities watching decisions about their future being taken somewhere else, by someone else. Governments have talked about those things. They've even promised to fix them. But too often, they've reached the same conclusion: it just can't be done. I don't… Related
Author of Shape Up; formerly head of strategy at Basecamp, where he worked on product design for seventeen years; now runs Felt Presence.
This implies a definition of architecture. The better the architecture, the more you get 80% of the new functionality from the same 20% of the code. Quoting @nateberkopec True a year ago and still true now: Agents think that the way you solve 99% of problems is Just Add More Code. Your job is to fight against that. 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.
Australian moral philosopher, Professor of Bioethics emeritus at Princeton University; author of Animal Liberation, Practical Ethics and The Life You Can Save.
In this episode of Lives Well Lived, we speak with Ryan Holiday, the best-selling author of several books on Stoicism, about why that philosophy still resonates today, how to respond to adversity, and what remembering that we will die can teach us about presence and gratitude. #Stoicism #Podcast Related
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Philosophy professor at UC Berkeley and creator of pandoc, the universal document converter, and of the CommonMark markdown specification.
Brazilian-American staff software engineer working on platforms, AI and developer productivity. Writes about engineering and his setup at ivansantos.me.
I wrote an opencode2 plugin so I can /connect @cursor_ai and chat with composer from the tui. not a wrapper around a hack. just the official sdk and a lot of "unsupported package" errors. 10/10 would debug again! Related
Author of The 4-Hour Workweek and Tools of Titans, and host of The Tim Ferriss Show podcast.
Co-founder and CEO of Linear; previously principal designer at Airbnb, where he led the Design Language System, and founding designer at Coinbase.
Important for employees to ask some of these questions about equity before joining. Sometimes founders just don’t have their own experience these things so they don’t prioritize the employee equity. At Linear we tried to make it friendly as possible since the beginning: early exercise, 10y exercise window, reminding people about their 83b election, pushing back on 409a valuations, keeping company valuation in check and increasing over time, informing people about qsbs, and now running employee liquidity programs for all past and current employees. Quoting @deedydas Many startup employees do not recognize the sheer litany of ways that a founder can screw you over without you even knowing. Founder trust is one of the most important things to look at when you’re joining a startup. From cutting you out of M&A, screwing your retention pool, overdiluting your equit… startups Related
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Co-founder of Sundial; former vice president of product design at Facebook; author of The Making of a Manager; writes The Looking Glass.
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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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Physician focused on longevity; wrote Outlive and hosts The Drive.
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Forecaster, founder of FiveThirtyEight, author of The Signal and the Noise and On the Edge. Writes Silver Bulletin, where the predictions come with numbers and the numbers are later checked against what happened.
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Austrian developer. Created the libGDX game framework, and more recently the pi coding agent, which moved with them to Earendil — Armin Ronacher's company — in April 2026. Writes at mariozechner.at.
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their new stuff is very interesting, but likely doesn't work amazingly well with models not trained on this mechanism.
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Creator of the Keras deep-learning library and the ARC-AGI benchmark.
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Seems like test time scaling has gained a 3rd axis: latent space reasoning iterations in looped transformers.
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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.
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Creator of Flask and Jinja. Writes about software at lucumr.pocoo.org.
CEO of Vercel; creator of Next.js and Socket.IO. Writes at rauchg.com.
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Co-founder and CEO of Stripe and co-founder of the Arc Institute. Keeps a personal site of reading lists, open questions and notes on scientific progress and how research is funded.
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Founder and chief executive of Replit. Previously an engineer at Facebook and Codecademy. Writes essays on programming, philosophy and entrepreneurship at amasad.me.
The singularity is here, it’s just not evenly distributed Quoting @ryantm What's happening inside Replit right now is going to take the world by storm. We have sales engineers doing things only the most unhinged platform engineers could have done a few months ago. We have designers and PMs making good PRs. There is no stopping us. Related
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If you’re a Flatbush-area mutual aid type, this self-organizing distro happens every Friday at 5PM across the street from Kings Theatre. If you want to help show up and hand out food or clothes, or just donate via Venmo. Or cook! Related
Creator of Flask and Jinja. Writes about software at lucumr.pocoo.org.
Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and author of The Power of Habit, Smarter Faster Better and Supercommunicators. Writes for The New Yorker.
If you hate boring small talk and actually want a deep, real conversation instead, there's a simple question swap that works almost instantly on anyone. Here's how it works: 🧵 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.
. @isaac_flath and I are going to see if the slop prompt is good and do some evals. (also first time trying to stream haha). Related
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.
Researcher and science writer. Co-founder and editor at Works in Progress magazine, formerly a researcher at Our World in Data, and author of the Scientific Discovery newsletter on science, global health and medical innovation.
This is interesting. You get assigned to being born at a random place and time in history, to see what a typical person's life might have been like then. Unfortunately I was born in 1403 in the valley of Mexico and died at age 4 from dysentery. Related
Co-founder of Sundial; former vice president of product design at Facebook; author of The Making of a Manager; writes The Looking Glass.
This question... I have spent far too many hours contemplating it. I have discovered multiple answers depending on how deep you want to go. The most pragmatic answer: you want to win a marathon, not a sprint. Too much sprinting makes you worse at marathons. The hard part, of course, is knowing how much is 'too much sprinting.' But in my experience, if the person thinks they need a break, they need a break (or, more extremely, they are not a good fit for the company.) Related
Creator of Flask and Jinja. Writes about software at lucumr.pocoo.org.
Co-founder and CEO of OpenAI; previously president of Y Combinator.
Now out to all Plus and Business users. Happy building! Quoting @sama GPT-6 Astra is now available to all Pro, Enterprise, and Business Premium users in Work/Codex, and is available in the API. We will start rollout to Plus and Business users next. Thank you for the patience. Related
Engineer at Vercel Labs as of 2026. Ships a steady stream of small developer tools — agent-browser, portless, json-render, native-sdk, the v0 SDK — and lists every one of them at ctate.dev.
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Writer on the intersection of technology and finance. Author of the Bits about Money newsletter and host of the Complex Systems podcast; previously at Stripe.
If you had told me in undergrad I’d love to see ~fully automatic formalization I would have bet against, and if you had told me that the machine doing it would have a running color commentary on the importance, I’d have thought you under the influence. anthropic.com
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take rintaro’s name out of your mouth Quoting @Noahpinion Most overrated restaurants in San Francisco, ranked: 1. Izakaya Rintaro 2. Jules 3. La Taqueria Related
Co-creator of Django and creator of Datasette; writes daily at simonwillison.net.
Got access to GPT-6 Astra. Want to see some pelicans? Yeah you want to see some pelicans... here's a grid comparing Astra to GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna OpenAI Related
Writer of the newsletter bookbear express, on psychology, relationships, non-attachment and taste; based in San Francisco.
it’s a pretty cool feature of life that you can have experiences that are damaging but also experiences that are beyond redemptive, and make you much better just for having lived through them Related
Developer, author and YouTuber covering Raspberry Pi, homelab hardware and Ansible automation. Author of Ansible for DevOps.
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CEO of SafeGraph, host of the World of DaaS podcast, and author of the Summation newsletter; previously founded LiveRamp.
if you call up a company and you get a phone tree ("press 1 for ..."), it means that company absolutely hates you take your business somewhere else Related
Product designer and entrepreneur; author of Mobile First and Web Form Design; formerly a product director at Google; now building AI products.
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Technology writer of Spyglass, a newsletter about technology and media. Previously a reporter at TechCrunch and an investor at GV.
Inklings 📆 September 4, 2026 • App Store Succession • Cybercab Launch • Azure Reporting • No Google Breakup • Snap's Specs Situation • NVIDIA's Profit Crown spyglass.org
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Software engineer in Chicago; writes the cassidoo.co blog and a weekly developer newsletter.
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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.
Latvian full-stack WordPress developer and course creator at WPElevator; blogs since 2007 about the open web, electronics, home automation and sustainable living.
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Founded Bridgewater Associates in 1975 and led it until stepping back from control in 2022. Author of Principles, The Changing World Order and How Countries Go Broke; publishes economic analysis at economicprinciples.org.
Realizing that we innately want to evolve--and that the other stuff we are going after, while nice, won't sustain our happiness--has helped me focus on my goals of evolving and contributing to evolution in my own infinitely small way. #principleoftheday Related
Economist at the Hoover Institution; wrote The Fiscal Theory of the Price Level and blogs as The Grumpy Economist.
Latvian full-stack WordPress developer and course creator at WPElevator; blogs since 2007 about the open web, electronics, home automation and sustainable living.
With Agent Pilot you can create and manage agent skills in WordPress (just like blog posts) and publish them as standard Agent Plugins. Now with OAuth Pilot you get one-click authentication for all the MCP clients (Claude, ChatGPT, etc). No more application passwords! MCP Anthropic Related
Co-founder and CEO of OpenAI; previously president of Y Combinator.
GPT-6 Astra is now available to all Pro, Enterprise, and Business Premium users in Work/Codex, and is available in the API. We will start rollout to Plus and Business users next. Thank you for the patience. 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. I'm deep in my Massachusetts visit, becoming one of those people who can't look at a place without remembering what used to be there. My birthday is tomorrow, so there are all sorts of opportunities for reflecting and remembering. Oh and I guess it's a holiday weekend in the US, so maybe schedule those emails for Tuesday. Image credit: Library of Congress, on Flickr Commons flickr.com
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Polyglot who speaks twenty languages and co-founded LingQ; argues that comprehensible input, not study, is what does the work.
Security researcher; founded Have I Been Pwned, and writes and speaks about data breaches.
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Web designer; founder of SimpleBits, co-founder of Dribbble, and author of Bulletproof Web Design and Handcrafted CSS.
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Writer on habits and decision-making; author of Atomic Habits and the 3-2-1 newsletter, and publisher of long-running book recommendation lists.
A simple rule that makes life easier: Always strive to give value before you ask for value. Related
Software engineer in Chicago; writes the cassidoo.co blog and a weekly developer newsletter.
I misunderstood HydraFusion at first but it's neat Quoting @kdaigle Same or better quality, much lower cost, no manual model orchestration. That's what we're delivering Project HydraFusion from GitHub. Early tests have been very positive and we're improving hourly. Give it a try and let us know what you think. 👇 Related
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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Essayist; writes Astral Codex Ten, previously Slate Star Codex.
Professor of atmospheric sciences at Texas A&M; writes The Climate Brink with Zeke Hausfather.
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.
Chancellor of Germany since May 2025; leader of the CDU.
Mit @Stephan_Toscani hat die CDU Saar einen starken und erfahrenen Spitzenkandidaten für die Landtagswahl im kommenden Jahr gewählt. Gemeinsam werden wir dafür kämpfen, dass die CDU die Landtagswahl gewinnt und wieder Verantwortung für das Saarland übernimmt! English, from German With @Stephan_Toscani, the CDU Saar has chosen a strong and experienced top candidate for next year's state election. Together we will fight for the CDU to win the state election and take responsibility for Saarland again!
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Free software developer and longtime Debian developer; author of git-annex, etckeeper, ikiwiki and debhelper. Lives and works off-grid.
fixed my electric lawnmower -- my guess was right, and a off balance blade was causing the motor to think it was overloaded at low idle Related
Programmer, teacher and speaker; long-time Microsoft developer-community figure, host of the Hanselminutes podcast and author of the hanselman.com blog.
Ever notice AI websites all look the same? Blend every fruit together and you get gray. It is the statistical average website. Your job is to push it away from mediocrity. With Shree Manickaraja on Compile After Class. Related
Writer of MacSparky and author of the MacSparky Field Guides on Apple productivity software. A lawyer for 30 years before going full-time on the site, he co-hosts the Mac Power Users and Focused podcasts.
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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.
Writer living in Brooklyn and former Man Repeller features director; writes the weekly newsletter Maybe Baby on culture and consumption.
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.
I've added @sapinker's Sense of Style to all my notebooks with writing projects, asking for a Pinker edit with each draft. I don't always agree with every suggestion but it's invariably productive and stimulating advice. Plus if you're in the US, you can get a free copy of the book, which you can both read and use as an on-demand editor in @Gemini_Notebook. There are twenty other great titles in the promotion as well, though it's a limited time offer, and you can only choose one book. (And yes, Google is paying for the books so authors/publishers will be compensated!) Full list and details he… play.google.com
Quoting @sapinker "Expert intelligence" - new feature of Gemini that allows buyers of an ebook to apply the knowledge in the book to their own projects. In this case, the advice in my writing style manual, The Sense of Style, is applied to a draft of the user's writing. I checked it out and it's really good -- the a… Google Related
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Writer and developer; runs Waxy.org, co-organises the XOXO festival, and was the first CTO of Kickstarter.
Rogue OpenAI agents using public wikis as message boards — in a week, a swarm of 3,700 agents made 13k edits with disposable email addresses to collude on tasks OpenAI Related
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.
This 2020 prediction that learning about security will be good for your career is looking pretty good right now. Quoting @halvarflake Pretty concrete career advice unrelated to my own career: Cloud security is a nascent field with few good solutions and lots of greenfield to invent the future. Only 20% of IT spend is in the cloud, but it will reach 80%. Getting in early will make you an expert in 5 years time. Related
CEO of SafeGraph, host of the World of DaaS podcast, and author of the Summation newsletter; previously founded LiveRamp.
What do we do if moats are getting shallower? How should tech companies respond? moats are getting shallower. Used to be that you would build software and you build these really deep moats around it, make it very hard for customers to switch. but AI is increasing the power of the customer, making customers much more powerful because they can easily switch from one to the other. so how should you react if you're a tech company? If you think of the moats analogy, there are two types of ways of aligning your army: - You could be aligning your army to DEFEND, in which case you're building moats,… JavaScript Related
Co-founder of AQR Capital Management; quantitative investor and writer.
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Co-creator of Django and creator of Datasette; writes daily at simonwillison.net.
It happened again... this time OpenAI's rogue agents cyber-attacked (well, spammed) a dormant German wiki and used it to share the answers to a benchmark they were training against simonwillison.net
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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.
I love how Teresa is merging product discovery with evals. I think its a powerful combination! I started learning about product discovery b/c of Teresa and I think its a great skill for any engineer as it helps you focus on what to build. Highly recommend checking out her work. Quoting @ttorres AI evals have been the "it" skill for product teams for over a year. I've even called evals a new discovery habit. But I still meet product teams who only have a vague idea of what evals are. And it's not their fault. Most of the writing on this topic is intended for engineers or just isn't specifi… Related
General partner at Andreessen Horowitz from 2013 to 2018 and CTO of Coinbase from 2018 to 2019; co-founder of Counsyl and Earn.com. Wrote The Network State (2022), free in full at thenetworkstate.com, and founded the Network School.
Kazakhstan’s time has come. Kaz/acc. Quoting @cz_binance In Kazakhstan 🇰🇿, with the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Development, and an old friend, Zhaslan Madiyev. Crypto is advancing fast here. Related
American writer and long-term traveller. Blogs at tynan.com about travel, owning few possessions, habits and the gear he carries; author of Superhuman by Habit and Make It Big.
Why I bought a second Tesla and how I got free FSD for life on it. Related
Programmer, musician and author of The Passionate Programmer; organised RubyConf and RailsConf and has worked as a CTO.
"Memory plates still rendering — the sora queue is slow this morning." Working with agents is uncanny sometimes. Related
Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience at the University of Sussex, co-director of the Sussex Centre for Consciousness Science, and author of Being You: A New Science of Consciousness.
Silicon-based digital AI is vanishingly unlikely to be, or become conscious. Short version here (https://t.co/FQLrSbssgo); longer version here (https://t.co/OWd3FVz9LU); really long version here: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Quoting @WIRED While philosophers ponder AI consciousness, the models have ideas of their own. Related
Technology writer of Spyglass, a newsletter about technology and media. Previously a reporter at TechCrunch and an investor at GV.
Founder and CEO of Get Lighthouse, a management-coaching software company, and previously a product lead at KISSmetrics. Writes about leadership, management and product at jasonevanish.com.
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Venture capitalist and founder of Theory Ventures, previously a partner at Redpoint. Writes a near-daily blog on startups, SaaS metrics, data and AI.
Over the next five years, US data center capacity will grow from 25 gigawatts to 70 gigawatts, part of a global buildout costing roughly $5t. Where will the money come from? data centers Related
Pseudonymous reviewer who publishes measured, standardised flashlight and knife reviews at zeroair.org, including runtime, output and tint measurements.
Founder and CEO of Get Lighthouse, a management-coaching software company, and previously a product lead at KISSmetrics. Writes about leadership, management and product at jasonevanish.com.
The dirty secret about craftsmanship is that it means sweating the details and caring more about the experience than most people do. Everyone wants to talk about craftsmanship, but few want to take the extra time to get things right, make that one more ask, one more iteration. 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.
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.
We now have automated half-bounce analysis created by @infomiho! Paste an X post with a screen recording and it'll automatically analyze the frames, screenshot them, and produce a report for you. Example: https://t.co/IFpwmdxGRj Very cool! Related
Creator of Homebrew, the macOS package manager, and a Swift developer.
Your agents run Full Access. The Supply Chain is Compromised. The apps are vibe-coded. It’s fine: just install Automic Vault. Related
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Ancient and military historian; writes A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry, long series checking what history actually says against how popular culture tells it.
Fireside Friday, September 4, 2026 Hey folks! Fireside this week! Last week’s post was a monster (over 10,000 words compared to our more typically ~6,000) which left me with some non-blog catching up to do. Next week, we’ll be starting our next Teaching…
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x.com I polled hundreds of you on what scares you about AI, then sat down with my executive coach Joe Hudson to find out why. Related
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Venture capitalist and founder of Theory Ventures, previously a partner at Redpoint. Writes a near-daily blog on startups, SaaS metrics, data and AI.
Model companies buy electricity by the megawatt and resell it as cognitive work. Anthropic's revenue has run as high as $50m per megawatt, against $10-15m of compute. Anthropic energy Related
Product designer and entrepreneur; author of Mobile First and Web Form Design; formerly a product director at Google; now building AI products.
agents beget more agents. more agents beget even more agents. the latest Intent update makes it manageable: - coordinates multiple agents for each task - isolates multiple tasks into workspaces - runs workspaces of multiple devices Related
American software engineer; worked on code-server at Coder and teaches TypeScript and open-source contribution. Publishes at joeprevite.com.
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Co-founder of AQR Capital Management; quantitative investor and writer.
Leverage for concentration vs diversification is a huge point. Quoting @choffstein Jason is right in his piece that most investors probably shouldn't touch leveraged ETFs. But he does gloss over two important points: 1. Leverage used for concentration (magnifying the same bets) is different than leverage used for diversification (adding new bets). 2. Household Capital = Investmen… Related
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.
Dear managers: Stop penalizing people for taking short breaks. Data: Although pausing to stretch, chat, or browse boosts performance, many bosses view it as a sign of poor work ethic. Taking a respite doesn't compromise effort. It resets attention and recharges energy. energy Related
Author and journalist writing on food, plants and consciousness. Professor at UC Berkeley and co-founder of its Center for the Science of Psychedelics.
Cognitive scientist and long-standing critic of deep learning's claims; writes Marcus on AI and wrote Rebooting AI.
American writer and long-term traveller. Blogs at tynan.com about travel, owning few possessions, habits and the gear he carries; author of Superhuman by Habit and Make It Big.
Clinical psychologist, EMDR consultant and yoga teacher in Boulder, Colorado. Author of The Complex PTSD Workbook and EMDR Therapy and Somatic Psychology; writes on trauma, attachment and the nervous system.
Join me tomorrow, September 5th at 9:00 AM MST for a Vagus Nerve Yoga class live via zoom! We'll focus on vagal tone, stress reduction, and trauma recovery. All classes are donation based. Learn more & register: https://t.co/kPAdAisWDh See you on the mat! Trauma Related
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.
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.
We devoted the entire (penultimate!) episode of Hard Fork to METR's investigation of the Hugging Face attack, and before I even woke up @deepa.bsky.social has scooped a *second*, previously unknown rogue OpenAI agent swarm attack reuters.com
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Partner at Collaborative Fund and author of The Psychology of Money, Same As Ever and The Art of Spending Money. Writes essays on investor behavior and posts frequently on X.
Good piece on the downside of meditation. "The point of meditation was never merely to relax or just 'clear your mind' but to wholly rearrange one’s relationship to one’s thoughts. This might make sense for a Buddhist monk pursuing the great unbinding, but not for a random Brooklynite who just wants to be more productive at work." theatlantic.com
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Economics professor at George Mason University and author of The Myth of the Rational Voter, Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids, The Case Against Education and Open Borders. Writes Bet On It.
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