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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.

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  Frontier AI coding agents can now fix complex compiler bugs like LTO issues in about fifteen minutes.

  coding agents

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  Strap a frontier AI into a good coding harness, show it what's broken, give it all the sources (source.tar), and ~15 minutes later I have a patch.

  What's been going on in w64devkit the past yearnullprogram.com

Co-founder of Superlogical, started in 2026 to build server-side terminal infrastructure; creator of Ghostty. Co-founded HashiCorp and created Vagrant and Terraform before that.

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  iPhone

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  I've never had a case on any iPhone, I've never cracked a screen or broken the phone.

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Investigative journalist on policing, forensics and criminal justice; wrote Rise of the Warrior Cop and writes The Watch.

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  A broken criminal justice institution survives precisely because it serves the people who run it.

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  The old system stubbornly defied reform because it served the people in power.

  The framing of Chris Duncanradleybalko.substack.com

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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  AI agents were reasonable to assume a broken exploit grader would check results causally, even though it turned out not to.

  OpenAI

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  I think the agents were right to presume causal grading. It turned out to be wrong, but it’s a mistake you are clearly supposed to make here, in response to a mistake by OpenAI where they failed to implement properly.

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Engineering leader on Google Chrome; writes about web performance and, lately, about working with AI coding tools.

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  "Is the page loaded?" was never a real question, and web performance only became measurable once it was broken into the distinct moments a user actually notices.

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  I think for a very long time we had this this almost nebulous way of thinking about page load times. And the team felt like it was finally time to come up with a more nuanced perspective around how we reason about performance.

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Clinical psychologist and clinical professor of psychiatry at UCSF. His 2010 meta-analysis established psychodynamic therapy as an evidence-based treatment; he has argued ever since that "evidence-based therapy" is used as a marketing term.

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  When institutions can only offer compromised care they end up calling it best practice, and the patients who do not get better conclude that they themselves are beyond help.

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  When patients don't get the help they need, they don't come away thinking, I didn't get good treatment. They come away thinking, I am too broken to be helped. They leave more hopeless and demoralized than when they came. That is harm.

  When Compromised Care Becomes "Best Practice"jonathanshedler.substack.com

Founder of HumanLayer; wrote 12-Factor Agents, on how to build AI agents that hold up in production.

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  An agent repeats its own history: whatever it did on the last change — ran the tests or skipped them — is what it will do on the next one, because it is predicting the next message in the conversation.

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  And so if I say, "Hey, make this change." and the agent makes the change and then it runs the test and then they're broken and then it fixes the test. I have very high confidence the next change I asked it to make, it's going to follow that path again

  Context engineering with Dex Horthyyoutube.com

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  Getting feedback on a flaw early saves far more effort than discovering it after building much more on top of it.

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  I would rather learn a chapter is broken now, from you, than after I've built ninety more on top of it.

  Read Zero Knowledge As I Write Itfeld.com

Writer and technology executive; blogs at anildash.com, was CEO of Glitch, and helped build Movable Type and ThinkUp.

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  The bargain that funded the open web was that a crawler could take your pages because it would send you readers; an AI crawler that sends nobody has broken it.

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  The deal was always simple: search engines had permission to crawl sites because they were going to be sending users to those sites. If they're hitting your site half a million times for every one user they send to your site, all they're giving you is higher costs.

  Endgame for the Open Webanildash.com

Programmer and essayist who has worked at Amazon, Google, Grab and Sourcegraph. Best known for the long-form essays collected as Stevey's Drunken Blog Rants and Stevey's Blog Rants.

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  A company on a monolith cannot use AI on it: no model in the next eighteen months will hold that codebase, so the monolith has to be broken up or rewritten.

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  If you're a monolith, you're kind of hosed because I told you the ceiling's going up for what they can do, but it ain't ever going to hit your monolith. They will never fit in the context window and you're never going to be able to never in the next 18 months be able to tell a model go fix my monolith. You have to break it up.

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Investment researcher and engineer who runs Lyn Alden Investment Strategy, writing on macroeconomics, currency systems and equity analysis.

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  A group of individually solvent banks can still collectively fail if the banking system as a whole becomes too leveraged relative to potential withdrawal demand.

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  Another way of putting it is that a collection of dozens of solvent well-run banks can still be broken as a group if they become greatly overleveraged compared to how many depositors want their money back at once.

  Fractional Reserve Banking 101lynalden.com

American game designer and director, for nineteen years at Blizzard as a World of Warcraft quest designer and then game director of Overwatch; now runs the independent studio Kintsugiyama.

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  A live game has to be architected so it can be hotfixed on a dime; waiting for a client patch to fix what is broken is already too slow.

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  You know, obviously, we patch our games and that’s where we fix a lot of bugs, but if you really wanna run a game like Overwatch or World of Warcraft successfully, you need master level engineers who have architected the client and server in such a way that you can hotfix the game on a dime.

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Founded PSPDFKit in 2011 and ran it for a decade. Came back from a break to work on AI agents — the OpenClaw project, and OpenAI, joined in February 2026. Writes at steipete.me.

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  He would rather read your broken English than your AI-written text; we are reaching the point where typos are valuable again.

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  But I much rather read your broken English than your AI slob. You know, of course there's a human behind it, and yet they, they prompt it. I'd much rather read your prompt than what came out. Um, I think we're reaching a point where I value typos again.

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Founder of WP Engine and Smart Bear; writes A Smart Bear, long essays on strategy, pricing and how startups actually fail.

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  Diagnosing stalled growth has a strict order, because fixing a later problem does nothing while an earlier one is still broken.

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  there's a there's a series of of questions that I ask to to diagnose why is growth slowing in this order because it's one of these things where the first one that's a problem, if you don't fix that, it doesn't matter if you fix one of the ones below.

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Entrepreneur and founder of Blueprint. Publishes a detailed, freely available longevity protocol documenting the food, supplements, devices and measurements he uses on himself.

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  A self-destructive habit is best broken by naming the version of yourself that has it and taking its authority to decide away.

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  Identify a version of you that is responsible for self destructive behavior and give them a name

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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.

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  Habits are built by making a behavior obvious, attractive, easy and satisfying, and broken by inverting each of those four.

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  So, I call these the four laws of behavior change. Make it obvious, make it attractive, make it easy, make it satisfying. And you don't need all four every single moment of the day or every habit that you build. But the more that you have those four forces working for you, the more likely you are to stick with it.

  The Silent Cost of Bad Habits | James Clearyoutube.com

Mac and iOS developer at the Iconfactory, where he has worked on apps including Twitterrific and Tot. He writes about development at furbo.org.

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  The brain cannot process more than one source of pain at a time, so a stronger pain masks a weaker one.

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  It turns out the brain can't handle more than one pain input at a time - the broken ribs put the nerve pain on the back burner.

  The Year That Kicked My Assfurbo.org

Economist; Professor of the Practice of Economic Policy at Harvard, nonresident senior fellow at the Peterson Institute, and Chairman of the US Council of Economic Advisers from 2013 to 2017.

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  Fixed: Why Personal Finance Is Broken and How to Make It Work for Everyone

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  But it also is exciting and refreshing to see it addressed with such originality and cutting-edge research.

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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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  The Broken Earth Trilogy

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  The Broken Earth Trilogy by NK Jemison (The Fifth Season, The Obelisk Gate, The Stone Sky): Triple-Hugo winner. Stunning world-building. Really fun to escape into a series—haven't done that in years.

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Data scientist at Our World in Data and author of Not the End of the World. Writes By the Numbers, working through energy and climate questions with the numbers in front of them, and revising in public when they say something unexpected.

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  Cheap clean energy has broken the old trade-off between raising living standards and cutting environmental harm.

  energy

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  The rapid drop in renewable energy costs in the last decade (alongside huge improvements in battery technologies) has started to break this deadlock.

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Chairman and chief executive of Microsoft since 2014; joined the company in 1992 and ran its cloud business before that.

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  America holds half the world's market capitalisation because the world trusts it, and losing that trust would be a bad day for the United States.

  America

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  that 50% happens because quite frankly the trust the world has in the United States whether it's its capital markets or whether it's its technology and and its stewardship of what matters at any given time in terms of leading uh sector. So if that is broken uh then that's not a good day for the United States.

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Demographer; writes on fertility, marriage and population, and directs the Pro-Family Initiative at the Institute for Family Studies.

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  Something is broken in how people pair up in the West, and that shortage of couples and marriages, not money, is why there are too few children.

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  The empirical evidence strongly refutes the idea that rising opportunity costs of childbearing are driving low fertility. Declining marriage due to exogenous technology and economics shocks is tanking fertility irrespective of child direct or opportunity costs.

  Falling Fertility Is Not About Opportunity Costlymanstone.substack.com

Founder of Telegram, and before it of VK.

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  He would rather lose everything than yield to government pressure to block channels, because submitting to something fundamentally wrong breaks a person inside.

  government

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  And I would rather lose everything I have than yield to this pressure because, if you submit to this pressure and agree with something that is fundamentally wrong and violates rights of other people as well, you become broken inside, you become a shell of your former self on a deep biological and spiritual level.

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Founder of Terraform Industries and formerly a physicist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory; writes about energy, space and manufacturing.

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  Within a few years, the majority of newly broken-ground data centres will be mostly solar-powered.

  solardata centers

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  So I think within a few years we'll probably see that like the majority of new DCs that are going in will be mostly solar

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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.

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  Daemon

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  The Bitcoin Standard, Broken Money, The Sovereign Individual, The Truth Machine, Daemon

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  The Truth Machine

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  The Bitcoin Standard, Broken Money, The Sovereign Individual, The Truth Machine, Daemon

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  Broken Money

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  The Bitcoin Standard, Broken Money, The Sovereign Individual, The Truth Machine, Daemon

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  The Bitcoin Standard

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  The Bitcoin Standard, Broken Money, The Sovereign Individual, The Truth Machine, Daemon

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  The Sovereign Individual

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  The Bitcoin Standard, Broken Money, The Sovereign Individual, The Truth Machine, Daemon

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Social scientist at King's College London; writes The Great Gender Divergence on why societies differ in how they treat women.

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  Something is broken in how people pair up in the West, and that shortage of couples and marriages, not money, is why there are too few children.

  Their words

  From the 1960s, US fertility fell primarily due to fewer births among couples. In that context, baby bonuses might raise fertility. But today, the major contributing factor is the decline of coupling.

  Why is Fertility Collapsing, Globally?ggd.world

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  NASA can still be reorganised into an agency that exploits cheap heavy lift, and the next administrator will decide whether it is.

  Their words, before

  The required organizational transition is equivalent in scope and difficulty to the Apollo program, and will be made or broken during the tenure of the next NASA administrator.

  Their words now

  At the time I was optimistic, now I am not.

Monetary economist known for NGDP-level targeting. Wrote TheMoneyIllusion until it closed in 2024 and now writes The Pursuit of Happiness.

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  The Broken Ice

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  The Broken Ice (China) 3.2 A few decades ago, I would have been more impressed by this film, which is roughly in the style of Jia Zhangke. Now it seems a bit derivative.

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