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There's a COMPUTER inside my DS flashcart [video]
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A deep critique of AI 2027's bad timeline models
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Beyond Burnout
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Fri Jul 4, 2025 1:57pm PST
Of Course We Should Privatize Some Federal Land (But Probably Won't)
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Epanet-JS
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I can deploy a website with my eyes closed
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Embroidered Life Stories
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Fri Jul 4, 2025 1:02am PST
Design of Q8bot: A Miniature, Low-Cost, Dynamic Quadruped Built with Zero Wires [video]
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Thurs Jul 3, 2025 2:02pm PST
Mobile Shopping Cart Cleaning Solutions
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Thurs Jul 3, 2025 2:02pm PST
Robots move Shanghai city block [video]
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Design Lessons: How Exploiting Three Materials Made Greenhouses Affordable
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Thurs Jul 3, 2025 2:01pm PST
How Would You Respond?
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Thurs Jul 3, 2025 2:01pm PST
Ok, AI Can Write Pretty Good Fiction Now
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Thurs Jul 3, 2025 1:32pm PST
Autoformalization of mathematical theorems? No shit
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Thurs Jul 3, 2025 1:31pm PST
Semi-spoileriffic first thoughts on Jurassic World Rebirth
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Wed Jul 2, 2025 5:22pm PST
A Low-Tech Aprtment of the Future – Urban Biosphere Experiment [video]
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Wed Jul 2, 2025 1:48pm PST
Made to Order
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"Swiss Cheese" Failure Model
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Wed Jul 2, 2025 1:47pm PST
The most mysterious bug I solved at work
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Wed Jul 2, 2025 1:47pm PST
Grep isn't what you think it means [video]
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Wed Jul 2, 2025 1:46pm PST
Why British Antarctica Should Be Settled and Developed
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Wed Jul 2, 2025 1:46pm PST
Building a Family or Friend Compound in Sonoma County
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Wed Jul 2, 2025 4:28am PST
K-Scale Labs Personal Robot [video]
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U.S. Air Force Releases New UAP Video Depicting Metallic-Looking Sphere
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Tues Jul 1, 2025 8:13pm PST
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Tues Jul 1, 2025 8:12pm PST
Gyotaku: Fish Printing [video]
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Tues Jul 1, 2025 8:12pm PST
How to win a Nobel Prize: what kind of scientist scoops medals?
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Tues Jul 1, 2025 8:12pm PST
Infinite Machine Launches the Robust Olto E-Bike for the Bike Lane
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Tues Jul 1, 2025 8:12pm PST
The Magnetic Shadow Effect [video]
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HowisFelix.today?
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Tues Jul 1, 2025 2:05pm PST
Economic Nihilism
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Tues Jul 1, 2025 2:05pm PST
Amateurs Talk Algorithms, Professionals Talk Data Cleaning
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Parasites Found
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Tues Jul 1, 2025 2:04pm PST
Proposal for making credible commitments to AIs
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Mon Jun 30, 2025 7:36pm PST
PewDiePie quits all Google products [video]
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Every Level of Wealth in 13 Minutes [video]
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Mon Jun 30, 2025 4:11pm PST
I became a full time indie developer [video]
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Mon Jun 30, 2025 4:03pm PST
Houten: The Best-Designed Town in the Netherlands [video]
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Mon Jun 30, 2025 3:49pm PST
The Georgist Roots of American Libertarianism
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Mon Jun 30, 2025 12:58pm PST
Occasionally Injected Clocks in Postgres
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Paying for parking, or, we're all Shoupistas now
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The story of Max, a real programmer
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Is chat a good UI for AI? A Socratic dialogue
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The Miura Fold
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Super Municipal Property Tax Simulator 2000
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Sun Jun 29, 2025 1:40pm PST
The Zen of Quakerism (2016)
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Hegel and the AI Mind
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Sun Jun 29, 2025 1:39pm PST
Europe approves first saliva-based contraceptive – no pill required
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Automatic build number incrementing in Xcode
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Sat Jun 28, 2025 6:15pm PST
Making a $20 smart boombox [video]
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Sat Jun 28, 2025 3:52pm PST
X explains Z% of the variance in Y
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My ENTIRE system for making games without an engine [video]
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First-Class Models: The Missing Productivity Revolution
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Fri Jun 27, 2025 12:58pm PST
Career Counseling with Anastasia Gamick [video]
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Web Numbers
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Why Are Homes in Western US States So Expensive?
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Notes on AI and Writing
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The Power and Beauty of Incrementalism
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The Architectural Hostility of Doorknobs
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AirlineMeals.net
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Thurs Jun 26, 2025 3:04pm PST
The cheat codes of technological progress
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Wed Jun 25, 2025 12:47pm PST
The 3DS Still Holds Up
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Wed Jun 25, 2025 12:38pm PST
Heating Water from Afar
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Tues Jun 24, 2025 1:59pm PST
Queer Online Zine Can Only Be Read via Telnet
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London's largest ancient Roman fresco is “most difficult jigsaw puzzle”
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Graphing Without Empty Spaces
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Generating Mazes
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Mon Jun 23, 2025 2:16pm PST
Rethinking Our Adoption Strategy – Evan Czaplicki [video]
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Initial Thoughts on iPadOS 26
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Mon Jun 23, 2025 2:12pm PST
Two Christenings and a Funeral
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2B people don't have safe drinking water: what does this mean for them?
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Comprehensible Input Wiki
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What makes comprehensible input comprehensible?
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Playing Doom in 2025, Or, Sculpture from Clay
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Sun Jun 22, 2025 2:42pm PST
Multiple status ladders are better than a monoculture
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AI hasn't (yet) transformed coding productivity
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Canal Boat Simulator
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Augmented Vertex Block Descent [video]
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Hemline Index
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Sat Jun 21, 2025 6:15pm PST
The Pepperoni Price Index
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Roons: A Marble Computer [video]
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Sat Jun 21, 2025 3:01pm PST
US Congress is making more than 250M acres of public lands available for sale
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US Federal Land Ownership: Overview and Data (2020) [pdf]
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The Mathematics of Juggling [video]
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China's industrial policy has an unprofitability problem
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Fri Jun 20, 2025 1:51pm PST
The Other Sexual Orientation
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Generalizing the Concept of Term Limits
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Why Georgists use the Shoshinsha mark
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How to dress and undress your home
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Everyday Systems
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The Only Life Skill That Matters (2016)
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Faulhaber Polynomials
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Tell me about your favorite tree (a slow-web proposal)
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Dean Thomas – Machines Making Machines [video]
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