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Sat Jun 14, 2025 2:55pm PST

Case Study: Mars College

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Sat Jun 14, 2025 2:55pm PST

Attempting to Make the Smallest* Electric Motor [video]

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Sat Jun 14, 2025 2:53pm PST

Tetrachromatic Vision

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Sat Jun 14, 2025 2:22pm PST

A Straightforward Explanation of the Good Regulator Theorem

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Fri Jun 13, 2025 8:52pm PST

MUMPS

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Using computers more freely and safely (2023)

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Fri Jun 13, 2025 4:07pm PST

Malloy: An open-source language for analyzing, transforming, and modeling data

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Fri Jun 13, 2025 3:10pm PST

A Simple Showcase for the Sea-of-Nodes Compiler IR

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Fri Jun 13, 2025 3:05pm PST

Stuck? Build Your Language Backwards

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Fri Jun 13, 2025 3:04pm PST

What I talk about when I talk about IRs

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Fri Jun 13, 2025 3:04pm PST

US Streetlights Are Turning Purple

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Fri Jun 13, 2025 3:03pm PST

30 Minutes with a Stranger

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Fri Jun 13, 2025 2:34pm PST

Do Metaprojects

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Fri Jun 13, 2025 1:52pm PST

Jacob's Phone Simulator

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Fri Jun 13, 2025 1:52pm PST

Why the age of AI is the age of philosophy

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Fri Jun 13, 2025 1:52pm PST

When pop music went supernova

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Fri Jun 13, 2025 1:49pm PST

Futarchy's Fundamental Flaw

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Fri Jun 13, 2025 1:47pm PST

Optimizing tea: An N=4 experiment

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Fri Jun 13, 2025 1:45pm PST

My advice on (internet) writing, for what it's worth

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Fri Jun 13, 2025 5:27am PST

The LIVE Primer

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Thurs Jun 12, 2025 3:04pm PST

Breaking My Security Assignments

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Thurs Jun 12, 2025 3:03pm PST

Why does my ripped CD have messed up track names? And why is one track missing?

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The international standard for identifying postal items

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Wealth Shown to Scale (2020)

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Thurs Jun 12, 2025 3:54am PST

Anti-Ligature Knobs for Institutions

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Wed Jun 11, 2025 6:46pm PST

ChatGPT can't pronounce my kid's name

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Wed Jun 11, 2025 1:14pm PST

Font Memories of Old Macs

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Wed Jun 11, 2025 1:14pm PST

A quick look at the wacky epistemology of analog circuitry

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Wed Jun 11, 2025 1:13pm PST

A 20-minute intro to complex numbers

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Wed Jun 11, 2025 1:05pm PST

Broad-Spectrum Cancer Treatments

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Wed Jun 11, 2025 1:04pm PST

Rebuilding.tech: The Techno‑Industrial Policy Playbook

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Wed Jun 11, 2025 1:31am PST

Advancing underwater energy storage with seabed power solution

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Wed Jun 11, 2025 1:29am PST

Can We Afford Large-Scale Solar PV?

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Wed Jun 11, 2025 1:26am PST

Ryo Minemizu Illuminates the Diversity of Plankton Off the Coast of Japan

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Wed Jun 11, 2025 1:22am PST

How to be Right without being Sure

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Wed Jun 11, 2025 12:03am PST

How to shrink .pck size in Godot (and other tips for HTML5 mobile export)

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Wed Jun 11, 2025 12:02am PST

Using a wicking rope to drain standing water on a flat roof (2024)

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Tues Jun 10, 2025 10:49pm PST

Impulse Becomes First Battery-Integrated Appliance Certified to Safety Standards

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Tues Jun 10, 2025 2:41pm PST

Salto the jumping robot can navigate an agility course (2019)

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Tues Jun 10, 2025 2:34pm PST

Recent Frontier Models Are Reward Hacking

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Tues Jun 10, 2025 2:32pm PST

Read the Pricing First

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Mon Jun 9, 2025 6:58pm PST

The Core of Fermat's Last Theorem Just Got Superpowered

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Mon Jun 9, 2025 6:34pm PST

VisionOS 26 Preview

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Mon Jun 9, 2025 6:22pm PST

Apple Supercharges Spotlight in macOS Tahoe with Quick Keys and More

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Mon Jun 9, 2025 6:04pm PST

Apple Unveils macOS Tahoe with Liquid Glass Design, Phone App, and Translation

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Mon Jun 9, 2025 5:49pm PST

Apple Unveils AI-Powered 'Workout Buddy' for Apple Watch at WWDC

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Mon Jun 9, 2025 5:46pm PST

VisionOS 26 introduces powerful new spatial experiences for Apple Vision Pro

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Mon Jun 9, 2025 5:45pm PST

iOS 26: Visual Intelligence Now Searches On-Screen Content

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Mon Jun 9, 2025 5:44pm PST

iOS 26 Supports iPhone 11 and Newer

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Mon Jun 9, 2025 5:44pm PST

WWDC 2025: Apple Says Personalized Siri Features Are Still Not Ready

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Mon Jun 9, 2025 5:43pm PST

Apple Announces All-New 'Liquid Glass' Software Redesign

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Mon Jun 9, 2025 12:50pm PST

The High Cost of Self-Sufficiency

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Mon Jun 9, 2025 12:20am PST

Mementos

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Fri Jun 6, 2025 10:26pm PST

Bookmarklet: Quote to Markdown

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Fri Jun 6, 2025 9:47pm PST

Scroll-Driven Camera Animation

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Animate a mesh across a sphere's surface

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Catalyzing a Golden Age: A Blueprint for Strategic AI R&D Investment

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Fri Jun 6, 2025 9:45pm PST

How should we think about AI welfare? (Joe Carlsmith) [video]

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Fri Jun 6, 2025 9:44pm PST

The stakes of AI moral status

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Fri Jun 6, 2025 9:44pm PST

Reference Works for Every Subject

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Fri Jun 6, 2025 6:57pm PST

The Brilliant Milky Way Connects Photographers in an Annual Contest

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Fri Jun 6, 2025 6:56pm PST

Why has American pop culture stagnated?

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A Rippling Townhouse Facade by Alex Chinneck Takes a Seat in a London Square

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HTML-bin, an embeddable codebin widget

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Fri Jun 6, 2025 5:45pm PST

Exceptional intervals to the prime number theorem in short intervals

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Fri Jun 6, 2025 5:43pm PST

Rebooting the Attention Machine

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Fri Jun 6, 2025 5:41pm PST

Why Does My Ripped CD Have Messed Up Track Names? and Why Is One Track Missing?

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Fri Jun 6, 2025 5:26pm PST

The 'China Shock'

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Overlooked Films

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Fri Jun 6, 2025 1:11am PST

The Game of Snake and the Nature of Order

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Fri Jun 6, 2025 1:10am PST

How do you prototype a nice language?

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Tanaka Isson

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Fri Jun 6, 2025 12:59am PST

What if Disney World was rebuilt for cars instead? [video]

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Fri Jun 6, 2025 12:59am PST

When was peak message in a bottle?

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Fri Jun 6, 2025 12:56am PST

The Loneliness Epidemic, in Data: Who Americans Spend Time with [video]

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Thurs Jun 5, 2025 6:54pm PST

Praxis: The High-Tech, High-Testosterone Eden That Will Save the World

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Thurs Jun 5, 2025 1:52pm PST

"Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road?"

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Thurs Jun 5, 2025 4:02am PST

My first attempt at iOS app development

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Old payphones get new life, thanks to Vermont engineer

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Modeling land value taxes

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Startup Equity 101

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Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road?

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Wed Jun 4, 2025 5:22am PST

Caltech Develops Drone That Smoothly Transitions from Flight to Four-Wheeling

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Wed Jun 4, 2025 5:21am PST

Televes

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Wed Jun 4, 2025 5:19am PST

Machine Code Isn't Scary

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Making computers multiply FASTER (matrix hacking) [video]

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Mon Jun 2, 2025 12:29pm PST

Colt's Revolutions

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Mon Jun 2, 2025 5:20am PST

Making an Infinite Lego Domino Ring [video]

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Mon Jun 2, 2025 5:07am PST

Box Combinators

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Mon Jun 2, 2025 1:54am PST

The Princeton INTERCAL Compiler's source code

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Exponential Functions and Euler's Formula

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Mon Jun 2, 2025 1:51am PST

I Miss My Fan Regulator

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Mon Jun 2, 2025 1:49am PST

Not Everything Is on the Internet (2024)

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Mon Jun 2, 2025 1:48am PST

The Heat Mirage: My least-favorite internet maneuver

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Mon Jun 2, 2025 1:47am PST

Measles vaccines save lives each year

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Sun Jun 1, 2025 4:04pm PST

Boxtype – A Puzzle Game

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