popular bookmarks generated Tue Dec 9 08:12:34 2025 UTC
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Pluralistic: The Reverse-Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI (05 Dec 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
[https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/pop-that-bubble/#u-washington]
To pop the bubble, we have to hammer on the forces that created the bubble: the myth that AI can do your job, especially if you get high wages that your boss can claw back; the understanding that growth companies need a succession of ever-more-outlandish bubbles to stay alive; the fact that workers and the public they serve are on one side of this fight, and bosses and their investors are on the other side
2025-12-09T05:47:01Z
{ArtificialIntelligence review critique author:CoryDoctorow Pluralistic 2025}
576 - Using LLMs at Oxide / RFD / Oxide
[https://rfd.shared.oxide.computer/rfd/0576]
2025-12-09T05:47:01Z
Perl's decline was cultural
[https://www.beatworm.co.uk/blog/computers/perls-decline-was-cultural-not-technical]
2025-12-09T05:47:01Z
{unix-philosophy perl-culture perl-philosophy wall}
Self-hosting my photos with Immich - Michael Stapelberg
[https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2025-11-29-self-hosting-photos-with-immich/]
2025-12-09T05:47:01Z
The Anatomy of a macOS App – The Eclectic Light Company
[https://eclecticlight.co/2025/12/04/the-anatomy-of-a-macos-app/]
2025-12-09T05:47:01Z
How I block all online ads
[https://troubled.engineer/posts/no-ads/]
2025-12-09T05:47:01Z
{advertising}
Estimates – a necessary evil? - Erik Thorsell
[https://thorsell.io/2025/12/07/estimates.html]
Product Owner: Hey, how long do you believe Feature F will take? Developer: Idk. We haven’t even started working on it and it’s bound to stir up some old issues.
2025-12-09T05:47:01Z
{programming softwareengineering maintenance estimates estimation agile scheduling}
Pluralistic: The Reverse-Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI (05 Dec 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
[https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/pop-that-bubble/]
2025-12-09T05:47:01Z
Resonant Computing Manifesto
[https://resonantcomputing.org/]
2025-12-09T05:47:01Z
Turtletoy
[https://turtletoy.net/]
Create generative art using the javascript Turtle graphics API
2025-12-09T05:47:01Z
{JavaScript experimental inspiration}
Fran Sans Essay — Emily Sneddon
[https://emilysneddon.com/fran-sans-essay]
[heavily illustrated with images][via:"San Francisco has a new font. It was inspired by an old Muni streetcar"https://www.sfchronicle.com/totalsf/article/muni-train-san-francisco-21188933.phphttps://archive.ph/WhVT7 ]"Fran Sans is a display font in every sense of the term. It’s an interpretation of the destination displays found on some of the light rail vehicles that service the city of San Francisco.I say some because destination displays aren’t consistently used across the city’s transit system. In fact, SF has an unusually high number of independent public transit agencies. Unlike New York, Chicago or L.A., which each have one, maybe two, San Francisco and the greater Bay Area have over two dozen. Each agency, with its own models of buses and trains, use different destination displays, creating an eclectic patchwork of typography across the city.Among them, one display in particular has always stood out to me: the LCD panel displays inside Muni’s Breda Light Rail Vehicles. I remember first noticing them on a Saturday in October on the N-Judah, heading to the Outer Sunset for a shrimp hoagie. This context is important, as anyone who’s spent an October weekend in SF knows this is the optimal vibe to really take in the beauty of the city. What caught my eye was how the displays look mechanical and yet distinctly personal. Constructed on a 3×5 grid, the characters are made up of geometric modules: squares, quarter-circles, and angled forms. Combined, these modules create imperfect, almost primitive letterforms, revealing a utility and charm that feels distinctly like the San Francisco I’ve come to know.This balance of utility and charm seems to show up everywhere in San Francisco and its history. The Golden Gate’s “International Orange” started as nothing more than a rust-proof primer, yet is now the city’s defining colour. The Painted Ladies became multicoloured icons after the 1960s Colourist movement covered decades of grey paint. Even the steepness of the streets was once an oversight in city planning but has since been romanticised in films and on postcards. So perhaps it is unsurprising that I would find this same utility and charm in a place as small and functional as a train sign.To learn more about these displays, I visited the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency’s (SFMTA) Electronics Shop at Balboa Park. There, technician Armando Lumbad had set up one of the signs. They each feature one large LCD panel which displays the line name, and twenty-four smaller ones to display the destination. The loose spacing of the letters and fluorescent backlighting gives the sign a raw, analogue quality. Modern LED dot-matrix displays are far more efficient and flexible, but to me, they lack the awkwardness that makes these Breda signs so delightful.Armando showed me how the signs work. He handed me a printed matrix table listing every line and destination, each paired with a three-digit code. On route, train operators punch the code into a control panel at the back of the display, and the LCD blocks light on specific segments of the grid to build each letter. I picked code 119, and Armando entered it for me. A few seconds later the panels revealed my own stop: the N-Judah at Church & Duboce. There in the workshop, devoid of the context of the trains and the commute, the display looked almost monolithic, or sculptural, and I have since fantasised whether it would be possible to ship one of these home to Australia.Looking inside of the display, I found labels identifying the make and model. The signs were designed and manufactured by Trans-Lite, Inc., a company based in Milford, Connecticut that specialised in transport signage from 1959 until its acquisition by the Nordic firm Teknoware in 2012. After lots of amateur detective work, and with the help from an anonymous Reddit user in a Connecticut community group, I was connected with Gary Wallberg, Senior Engineer at Trans-Lite and the person responsible for the design of these very signs back in 1999.Learning that the alphabet came from an engineer really explains its temperament and why I was drawn to it in the first place. The signs were designed for sufficiency: fixed segments, fixed grid, and no extras. Characters were created only as destinations required them, while other characters, like the Q, X, and much of the punctuation, were never programmed into the signs. In reducing everything to its bare essentials, somehow character emerged, and it’s what inspired me to design Fran Sans.I shared some initial drawings with Dave Foster of Foster Type who encouraged me to get the font software Glyphs and turn it into my first working font. From there, I broke down the anatomy of the letters into modules, then used them like Lego to build out a full set: uppercase A–Z, numerals, core punctuation. Some glyphs remain unsolved in this first version, for example the standard @ symbol refuses to squeeze politely into the 3×5 logic. Lowercase remains a question for the future, and would likely mean reconsidering the grid. But, as with the displays themselves, I am judging Fran Sans as sufficient for now.Getting up close to these signs, you’ll notice Fran Sans’ gridlines are simplified even from its real‑life muse, but my hope is that its character remains. Specifically: the N and the zero, where the unusually thick diagonals close in on the counters; and the Z and 7, whose diagonals can feel uncomfortably thin. I’ve also noticed the centre of the M can scale strangely and read like an H at small sizes, but in fairness, this type was never designed for the kind of technical detail so many monospaced fonts aim for. Throughout the process I tried to protect these unorthodox moments, because to me, they determined the success of this interpretation.Fran Sans comes in three styles: Solid, Tile, and Panel, each building in visual complexity. The decision to include variations, particularly the Solid style, was inspired by my time working at Christopher Doyle & Co. There, we worked with Bell Shakespeare, Australia’s national theatre company dedicated to the works of William Shakespeare. The equity of the Bell Shakespeare brand lies in its typography, which is a beautiful custom typeface called Hotspur, designed and produced by none other than Dave Foster.Often, brand fonts are chosen or designed to convey a single feeling. Maybe it’s warmth and friendliness, or a sense of tech and innovation. But what I’ve always loved about the Bell typeface is how one weight could serve both Shakespeare’s comedies and tragedies, simply by shifting scale, spacing, or alignment. Hotspur has the gravity to carry the darkness of Titus Andronicus and the roundness to convey the humour of Much Ado About Nothing. And while Fran Sans Solid is technically no Hotspur, I wanted it to share that same versatility.Further inspiration for Fran Sans came from the Letterform Archive, the world’s leading typography archive, based in San Francisco. Librarian and archivist Kate Long Stellar thoughtfully curated a research visit filled with modular typography spanning most of the past century. On the table were two pieces that had a significant impact on Fran Sans and are now personal must-sees at the archive. First, Joan Trochut’s Tipo Veloz “Fast Type” (1942) was created during the Second World War when resources were scarce. Tipo Veloz gave printers the ability to draw with type, rearranging modular pieces to form letters, ornaments and even illustrations.Second, Zuzana Licko’s process work for Lo-Res (1985), an Emigre typeface, opened new ways of thinking about how ideas move between the physical and the digital and then back again. Seeing how Lo-Res was documented through iterations and variations gave the typeface a depth and richness that changed my understanding of how fonts are built. At some point I want to explore physical applications for Fran Sans out of respect for its origins, since it is impossible to fully capture the display’s charm on screen.Back at the SFMTA, Armando told me the Breda vehicles are being replaced, and with them their destination displays will be swapped for newer LED dot-matrix units that are more efficient and easier to maintain. By the end of 2025 the signs that inspired Fran Sans will disappear from the city, taking with them a small but distinctive part of the city’s voice. That feels like a real loss. San Francisco is always reinventing itself, yet its charm lies in how much of its history still shows through. My hope is that Fran Sans can inspire a deeper appreciation for the imperfections that give our lives and our cities character. Life is so rich when ease and efficiency are not the measure.For commercial and non-commercial use of FRAN SANS, please get in touch: emily@emilysneddon.comWITH THANKSDave Foster, for being my go-to at every stage of this project.Maria Doreuli, for thoughtfully reviewing Fran Sans.Maddy Carrucan, for the words that always keep me dreamy.Jeremy Menzies, for the photography of the Breda vehicles.Kate Long Stellar, for curating a research visit on modular typography.Angie Wang, for suggesting it and helping to make it happen.Vasiliy Tsurkan, for inviting me into to the SFMTA workshop.Armando Lumbad, for maintaining the signs that I love so much.Rick Laubscher, for putting me in touch with the SFMTA.William Maley Jr, for opening up the TRANS-LITE, INC. archives.Gary Wallberg, for designing and engineering the original signs.Gregory Wallberg, for responding to a very suspicious facebook post.Reddit u/steve31086, for sleuthing the details of William Maley Jr."..."OUTSIDE MY LIFE,INSIDE THE DREAM.FALLING UP THE STAIRS,INTO THE STREET.LET THE CABLE CARCARRY ME.STRAIGHT OUT OF TOWN,INTO THE SEA.PAST THE DAHLIAS ANDTHE SELF-DRIVING CARS.THE CHURCH OF 8 WHEELS.THE LOWER HAIGHT BARS.THE PEAK HOUR SPRAWL.THE KIDS IN THE PARK.THE SLANTING HOUSES.THE BAY AFTER DARK.MY WINDOW, MY OWNSILVER SCREEN.I FOLLOW WHERE THEFOG TAKES ME.By MADDY CARRUCAN"
2025-12-09T05:47:01Z
{sanfrancisco emilysneddon muni breda sfmta typography fonts trains segmenteddisplays segmentdisplays 2025 graphicdesign design maddycarrucan}
You are not immune to shopaganda | The Verge
[https://www.theverge.com/cs/features/836456/influencers-tiktok-debt-shopaganda]
via The Verge https://ift.tt/2lRcijh
2025-12-09T05:47:01Z
Writing a good CLAUDE.md | HumanLayer Blog
[https://www.humanlayer.dev/blog/writing-a-good-claude-md]
2025-12-09T05:47:01Z
tunnl.gg | The easiest way to expose localhost to the internet
[https://tunnl.gg/]
Nice, free, no install, ngrok alternative
2025-12-09T05:47:01Z
{libraries cool}
The f*** off contact page - Nic Chan
[https://www.nicchan.me/blog/the-f-off-contact-page/]
2025-12-09T05:47:01Z
{design business ui webdev darkpatterns}
How the creator economy destroyed the internet | The Verge
[https://www.theverge.com/cs/features/810002/influencers-creator-economy-special-series]
via The Verge https://ift.tt/2lRcijh
2025-12-09T05:47:01Z
They have to be able to talk about us without us - Anil Dash
[https://www.anildash.com/2025/12/05/talk-about-us-without-us/]
They have to be able to talk about us without us. What this phrase means, in its simplest form, is that you have to tell a story so clear, so concise, so memorable and evocative that people can repeat it for you even after you’ve left the room. And the people who hear it need to be able to do this the first time they hear the story. Whether it’s the idea behind a new product, the core promise of a political campaign, or the basic takeaway from a persuasive essay (guess what the point of this one is!) — not only do you have to explain your idea and make your case, you have to be teaching your listener how to do the same thing for themselves.
2025-12-09T05:47:01Z
{communication ideas}
Titans + MIRAS: Helping AI have long-term memory
[https://research.google/blog/titans-miras-helping-ai-have-long-term-memory/]
2025-12-09T05:47:01Z
{GenAI google hardware}
Frinkiac
[https://frinkiac.com/]
2025-12-09T05:47:01Z
{simpsons}
pglite
[https://pglite.dev/]
"a complete wasm build of postgres that's under 3mb gzipped."
2025-12-09T05:47:01Z
{postgresql wasm db}
Sam Altman’s Dirty DRAM Deal
[https://www.mooreslawisdead.com/post/sam-altman-s-dirty-dram-deal]
So what happened? Well, it all comes down to three perfectly synergistic events:OpenAI executed two unprecedented RAM deals that took everyone by surprise.The secrecy and size of the deals triggered full-scale panic buying from everyone else.The market had almost zero safety stock left due to tariffs, worry about decreasing RAM prices over the summer, and stalled equipment transfers.
2025-12-09T05:47:01Z
{RAM business opinion openai}
State of AI | OpenRouter
[https://openrouter.ai/state-of-ai]
2025-12-09T05:47:01Z
{GenAI stats}
Why Does A.I. Write Like … That? - The New York Times
[https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/magazine/chatbot-writing-style.html]
2025-12-09T05:47:01Z
{AI writing}
One too many words on AT&T's $2,000 Korn shell and other Usenet topics | Gábor Nyéki
[https://blog.gabornyeki.com/2025-12-usenet/]
2025-12-09T05:47:01Z
{unix att history computing}
GitHub - Tongyi-MAI/Z-Image ⚡️- Image An Efficient Image Generation Foundation Model with Single-Stream Diffusion Transformer
[https://github.com/Tongyi-MAI/Z-Image]
Z-Image is a powerful and highly efficient image generation model with 6B parameters. Currently there are three variants: 🚀 Z-Image-Turbo – A distilled version of Z-Image that matches or exceeds leading competitors with only 8 NFEs (Number of Function Evaluations). It offers ⚡️sub-second inference latency⚡️ on enterprise-grade H800 GPUs and fits comfortably within 16G VRAM consumer devices. It excels in photorealistic image generation, bilingual text rendering (English & Chinese), and robust instruction adherence. 🧱 Z-Image-Base – The non-distilled foundation model. By releasing this checkpoint, we aim to unlock the full potential for community-driven fine-tuning and custom development. ✍️ Z-Image-Edit – A variant fine-tuned on Z-Image specifically for image editing tasks. It supports creative image-to-image generation with impressive instruction-following capabilities, allowing for precise edits based on natural language prompts.
2025-12-09T05:47:01Z
{XDN AI-Art-Research}
Flow Control: a progammer's text editor
[https://flow-control.dev/]
2025-12-09T05:47:01Z
{editor cli}
An Interactive Guide to the Fourier Transform
[https://betterexplained.com/articles/an-interactive-guide-to-the-fourier-transform/]
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4948082
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10635075
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27229836
https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/nhk9c3/an_interactive_guide_to_the_fourier_transform/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38652794
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46118358
2025-12-09T05:47:01Z
{math tutorial programming algorithms interactive visualization}
How to put Tailscale on a jailbroken Kindle (and why you should)
[https://tailscale.com/blog/tailscale-jailbroken-kindle]
Jailbreaking a Kindle makes it able to do much more. Adding Tailscale takes the Kindle even further.
2025-12-09T05:47:01Z
{tailscale kindle jailbreak}
Trains cancelled over fake bridge collapse image - BBC
[https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwygqqll9k2o]
2025-12-09T05:47:01Z
{datadecisions ethics photography journalism publishing security}
Tech elites are starting their own for-profit cities
[https://www.ft.com/content/b127ee7a-5ac4-4730-a395-c9f9619615c7]
It is early October and Srinivasan is hosting what he’s called the Network State Conference, an event targeting “those interested in founding, funding and finding new communities”.
For years, the entrepreneur has preached to clubby tech gatherings that they should gather their online comrades and set up a physical homeland — a network state, be that a city or a country — by joining together to buy land. He has hailed this as the “ultimate exit” by Silicon Valley from “failing” US institutions and democracy....
But what was a fringe concept a matter of years ago is now attracting more interest as scrappy start-up chief executives and aggrieved billionaires contemplate the allure of tech-friendly havens unbound by legacy rules and regulation. While some are aspirational, reliant on their founders securing hard-to-come-by special economic zone status, there are now about 120 “start-up societies” in the works, according to an open-source database shared by Srinivasan. A few have received hundreds of millions of dollars in venture capital from funds backed by the likes of investors Peter Thiel and Marc Andreessen, OpenAI founder Sam Altman and Brian Armstrong, Coinbase chief executive.
Srinivasan himself has started a “Network School” on an artificial island near Singapore, where techno-optimists can work their day jobs remotely while living in a hotel together and learning how to “bootstrap”, or build, a new society. Membership and accommodation, which he dubs “society-as-a-service”, starts at $1,500 a month...
...For proponents, the initiatives offer the opportunity to address all that they believe has caused a decline in American dynamism, from monetary policy to taxation. San Francisco, in particular, has for years been affected by high levels of homelessness and crime, prompting an exodus of tech workers during Covid.
“It’s young people being dissatisfied with stagnation, corruption and isolation,” says Amjad Masad, chief executive of AI coding company Replit, who has observed the rise of the network state movement. Last year, he moved Replit to Foster City — a master-planned city built in the 1960s on marshlands near Silicon Valley...
But the movement’s toughest critics — of whom there is no short supply — cast it as either a bid to play god or an attempt to avoid red tape, more opportunistic than idealistic. Others argue it is part of a broader rise in techno-fascism, or a form of authoritarian rule by technocrats. Either way, they assert, the movement is born from an elite victim complex...
“This whole movement is about reinventing governance for the 21st century, inspired by start-ups and the internet,” says Friedman, grandson of free-market economist Milton Friedman and founder of Pronomos Capital, a venture firm that invests in experimental cities.
Over Zoom, he explains that, as a committed libertarian, he came into the space in the hope of building a state that mirrored his politics. In a democracy, he says, “power is so diluted” that the people cannot stop laws being passed that “help special interests and harm the masses”. Now, he says, he wants “a home for my tribe”. To that end, he is attempting to create cities that are run like a for-profit company, rather than by democratically elected officials. “A private venture-backed company is the city operator and [its directors] design the laws and they earn revenue through some combination of rents, taxes, service fees,” he says of his proposed model....
For this to work, however, he needs targeted countries to pass legislation that will delegate to his projects the “right to write some subset of the regulations”... Friedman is confident that some legislation will be passed next year: “The product market fit today, for what I do, I strongly believe is helping the global south to become first-world.”...
Friedman is cheerfully contrarian and wants to unlock what those in the space dub “radical governance optionality” so that even those who don’t share his politics can experiment. “...
In Ayn Rand’s 1957 novel Atlas Shrugged, a libertarian bible, the author imagined a free-market enclave called Galt’s Gulch. During Barack Obama’s presidency, far-right blogger Curtis Yarvin called for the global order to be substituted with thousands of “sovereign and independent mini-countries, each governed by its own joint-stock corporation without regard to the residents’ opinions”.
In a less consequential governance experiment, every summer hundreds of San Francisco software engineers make the pilgrimage to Nevada to set up Black Rock City — also known as Burning Man festival — for a fortnight of “radical self-expression”, per its principles, and debauchery, before dismantling their tents and returning to their computer monitors.
Some of the earliest investment into tech-aligned nation-building came from Thiel, who in 2008 donated $500,000 to the Seasteading Institute...
Emboldened, in 2022 Srinivasan published his book The Network State, laying out a bold vision, including that the states should be undergirded by a crypto economy. “You can found a tribe just like you can found a start-up. That’s what Joseph Smith of the Mormons did. That’s what Abraham did. That’s what Jesus did,” he said on a 2023 podcast. “What I’m really calling for is something like tech Zionism.”...
Srinivasan’s bid to set up societies that are a law unto themselves has inspired a host of projects that are more modest in their ambition: experimental cities that achieve some — but not full — autonomy from the local government, particularly in the civil and commercial realm. Soon venture capital and crypto money started flowing into these city initiatives, despite being a high-risk investment with no expectation of quick — or perhaps any — returns. “They are ideological — if you’re in crypto, you’re libertarian'...
Arguably the most evolved experiment in alternative governance is Próspera, a gated private community on a Honduran island run by a Delaware-based company, where close to 1,000 residents can enjoy co-working spaces, a beach resort and a golf course. As a for-profit semi-autonomous zone, Próspera has low taxes, its own labour rules and an arbitration system run by retired Arizona judges who hear its cases online. Bitcoin is one of the currencies of choice....
Próspera still “hasn’t attracted the best talent, founders, funders — you still need to be in the midst of San Francisco where all the deal flow is happening and all the labour you need.” But Próspera’s hands-off approach to medical regulation has made it a mecca for people seeking experimental treatments as the field of longevity — or trying to live forever — becomes more popular in Silicon Valley circles....
Cornell University historian Raymond Craib, author of Adventure Capitalism: A History of Libertarian Exit, from the Era of Decolonization to the Digital Age, says it offers a warning to elected politicians about the dangers of carving out semi-autonomous zones...
One area gathering traction is extended “pop-up cities” — where tech workers and creatives descend on one location for what is essentially a weeks-long conference-meets-co-working session.
“We want to create what [Ethereum founder] Vitalik Buterin called a ‘micro exit’ — a temporary exit to experiment, then go back and spread those learnings around the world,” says Timour Kosters, co-founder of Edge City, a non-profit that bills itself as a “society incubator”....
Others focus on improving governance in existing cities without pursuing exclusive sovereignty, inspired by regulation-lite so-called “charter cities” such as Singapore, Hong Kong and Dubai, which have more legal autonomy. Donald Trump promised during his 2024 presidential campaign that he would develop 10 charter cities in the US, dubbed “freedom cities” in order to boost American innovation in light of the US-China tech race...
Meanwhile, Silicon Valley billionaires including Andreessen, Reid Hoffman and Michael Moritz have put money into California Forever, a group that has quietly bought up $1bn worth of land in Solano county in its bid to build a walkable mega-development with affordable housing and a shipping complex — without extra autonomy.
...29-year-old Dryden Brown, a homeschooled professional surfer with a penchant for Austrian economics. Over the past few years, he has gathered libertarian friends, influencers and Silicon Valley edgelords — first over group chat then at opulent dinners in New York and elsewhere — to brainstorm what a techno-utopian city-state should look like, dubbing the movement Praxis....
Brown is also looking to establish a non-US city that can “accelerate western traditional progress” next year, citing the potential future need for a techie escape from America. “There has been deep integration with the tech elites in the Valley and DC in the White House in this Trump administration."
2025-12-09T05:47:01Z
{smart_cities network_state infrastructure governance urban_planning popups}
ken on X: "I Wasted 8 Years of My Life in Crypto" / X
[https://x.com/kenchangh/status/1994854381267947640]
2025-12-09T05:47:01Z
Stacked Diffs with `git rebase --onto`
[https://dineshpandiyan.com/blog/stacked-diffs-with-rebase-onto/]
Using git `rebase --onto` workflow to work with stacked diffs
2025-12-09T05:47:01Z
Why I Ignore The Spotlight as a Staff Engineer - Lalit Maganti
[https://lalitm.com/software-engineering-outside-the-spotlight/]
2025-12-09T05:47:01Z
{programming engineering staff article career}
Code execution with MCP: building more efficient AI agents Anthropic
[https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/code-execution-with-mcp]
2025-12-09T05:47:01Z
{claude programming tips}
AI Slop Is Ruining Reddit for Everyone | WIRED
[https://www.wired.com/story/ai-slop-is-ruining-reddit-for-everyone/]
2025-12-09T05:47:01Z
{articles AI wired reddit}
Touching the Elephant – TPUs | Hacker News
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46172797]
2025-12-09T05:47:01Z
{ml}
Microsoft Download Center Archive - Legacy Update
[https://legacyupdate.net/download-center/]
2025-12-09T05:47:01Z
{win32 utils retro}
Netflix and the Hollywood End Game – Stratechery by Ben Thompson
[https://stratechery.com/2025/netflix-and-the-hollywood-end-game/]
2025-12-09T05:47:01Z
{netflix Hollywood internet tech}
The Unexpected Effectiveness of One-Shot Decompilation with Claude | Chris' Blog
[https://blog.chrislewis.au/the-unexpected-effectiveness-of-one-shot-decompilation-with-claude/]
A deep dive into how a 'one-shot' Claude headless loop (paired with scoring, defensive tooling, and a simple bash driver) massively accelerates matching decompilation of Snowboard Kids 2 on the Nintendo 64.
2025-12-09T05:47:01Z
{reverse-engineering llm}
Context Engineering in Manus
[https://rlancemartin.github.io/2025/10/15/manus/]
2025-12-09T05:47:01Z
{llm-context}
Immigrants Approved for Citizenship Pulled Out of Line by Officials at Oath Ceremony
[https://people.com/immigrants-approved-for-citizenship-pulled-out-by-officials-at-oath-ceremony-11863779]
2025-12-09T05:47:01Z
{lmhr-immigrant-abuse jfc}
| Nova |
[https://nova-lang.net/]
| Nova | - Write rules for computers - Describe the real world - Made for the rest of us
2025-12-09T05:47:01Z
{programming rules language}
fanfa.dev - Animated, interactive And visuals Mermaid Diagrams
[https://fanfa.dev/]
2025-12-09T05:47:01Z
{diagramming}
“The local-first rebellion”: How Home Assistant became the most important project in your house - The GitHub Blog
[https://github.blog/open-source/maintainers/the-local-first-rebellion-how-home-assistant-became-the-most-important-project-in-your-house/]
Explore Home Assistant's rise as the essential local-first smart home hub. Learn key insights into its community-driven success and why it's crucial for modern home automation.
2025-12-09T05:47:01Z
{homeassistant localfirst smarthome automation-guide open-source-framework decentralized-technology}
Most Technical Problems Are Really People Problems
[https://blog.joeschrag.com/2023/11/most-technical-problems-are-really.html]
2025-12-09T05:47:01Z
{technical-debt}
Self-host and scale web apps without Kubernetes complexity | Uncloud
[https://uncloud.run/]
Self-host and scale web apps without Kubernetes complexity | Uncloud Take your Docker Compose apps to production with zero-downtime deployments, automatic HTTPS, and cross-machine scaling. Self-hosting made reliable without the complexity.
2025-12-09T05:47:01Z
{docker self-hosting}
blog.jim-nielsen.com
[https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/icons-in-menus/]
2025-12-09T05:47:01Z
Paper Trails
[https://www.papertrailshq.com/]
2025-12-09T05:47:01Z
{academic papers organization}
AI should only run as fast as we can catch up · Higashi.blog
[https://higashi.blog/2025/12/07/ai-verification/]
Argument: having AI's vibe-code stuff that you don't understand and can't review will not lead to production-ready systems. Having AI produce at a pace which we can review and approve will. It's ideal for cases where verification is easier than production (eg: creating images).
2025-12-09T05:47:01Z
{ai via:HackerNews vibecoding}
Rob Zolkos - Ruby on Rails Software Developer
[https://www.zolkos.com/2025/12/03/vanilla-css-is-all-you-need]
2025-12-09T05:47:01Z
{css webdesign}
Europe is under siege - by Noah Smith - Noahpinion
[https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/europe-is-under-siege]
2025-12-09T05:47:01Z
{Europe Europe-vs-US Europe-China ***}
How the dollar-store industry overcharges cash-strapped customers while promising low prices | US news | The Guardian
[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/03/customers-pay-more-rising-dollar-store-costs]
Exposes how dollar stores exploit low-income shoppers with deceptive pricing and poor quality. Essential reading for understanding predatory retail practices and their social cost.
2025-12-09T05:47:01Z
{retail economics poverty dollar-store-pricing consumer-finance us-business-model}
Tides are weirder than you think – Signore Galilei
[https://signoregalilei.com/2025/11/12/tides-are-weirder-than-you-think/]
"Moon’s gravity causes tides from science class. Those Greek philosophers realized this because high tide gets later by about 50 minutes each day, just as the Moon rises 50 minutes later each day."
2025-12-09T05:47:01Z
{science}
I wasted so much money on AA batteries because I missed this tiny detail
[https://www.makeuseof.com/wasted-money-over-aa-battery-code-meaning/]
2025-12-09T05:47:01Z
{electricity electronics power battery}
Top 5 Small AI Coding Models That You Can Run Locally - KDnuggets
[https://www.kdnuggets.com/top-5-small-ai-coding-models-that-you-can-run-locally]
2025-12-09T05:47:01Z
Masonry: Things You Won’t Need A Library For Anymore
[https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/12/masonry-things-you-wont-need-library-anymore/]
2025-12-09T05:47:01Z
{UI UX code javascript IA CSS design HTML designOps}
Joe Lonsdale Calls For Public Hangings
[https://www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale-calls-for-public-hangings/]
2025-12-09T05:47:01Z
{SiliconValley USA politics authoritarianism LonsdaleJin execution masculinity machismo violence}
magiblot/tvision: A modern port of Turbo Vision 2.0, the classical framework for text-based user interfaces. Now cross-platform and with Unicode support.
[https://github.com/magiblot/tvision]
2025-12-09T05:47:01Z
{cli programming}
Year in Review 2025: Hari Kunzru on AI slop and censorship
[https://www.artforum.com/features/year-in-review-2025-hari-kunzru-ai-slop-1234738077/]
Hari Kunzru nails it:
These days I have a sense of falling from a precipice toward a torrent of algorithmically driven slop. It’s coming, whether we want it or not, and the consequences for our communal life will be devastating.
It’s now seven years since Steve Bannon outlined his infamous strategy to “flood the zone with shit.” This, he said, was a way to “deal with” the media, whom he saw as the real enemies of MAGA. In practice, it has been a very effective method of censorship. With every important issue of the day, the “zone” of public discourse is immediately filled with a volume of competing narratives, often mendacious or misleading. It’s no longer necessary to suppress information. You just have to make the cost of sorting fact from fiction, in terms of time and effort, too high to pay for the ordinary person, who can’t spend all day online weighing up competing claims about robots or pedophilia or Iran.
Generative AI now allows the production of disinformation at scale. The kind of influence ops we associate with Cambridge Analytica or the Russian Internet Research Agency can be conducted with unprecedented scope and sophistication: Thousands of fake people — tens of thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands — making videos, posting in forums, astroturfing entire contexts in which people will live out their political lives. Couple this with the collapse of trust in all kinds of authority, and there is no one even to say what might distinguish “disinformation” from any other kind of data. [...]
The desire to return to consensus reality is hopelessly nostalgic. Yes, there are still hard limits: The “cloud” is a physical place, scooping out mountains for raw materials and venting heat and carbon dioxide out of gargantuan data centers; political power still grows out of the barrel of a gun. But the layer of the stack in which our subjectivities are formed, the place where our beliefs about the world are shaped, is also a battleground. We must teach ourselves to navigate the torrent that is replacing consensus reality, this turbulent, treacherous mediatized flow. There is no shore to swim back to, but in the new age of magic, when reality is labile and can be recoded by the power of signs, by narrative and memes and vibes and compelling images, art becomes a truly political technology. This is not art as critique. Critique is just sincere-posting, dutifully pointing out yet again that the Medbed isn’t “real.” Art can mess with our masters in ways we don’t yet fully understand. It makes culture. It is a transmitter of values. It is the lava out of which future realities will congeal.
2025-12-09T05:47:01Z
{misinformation disinformation facts reality future ai slop hari-kunzru steve-bannon flooding-the-zone-with-shit art media propaganda}
Social Security at 70? Why the Gold Standard Advice Works for Only a Few - The New York Times
[https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/business/social-security-70-retirement.html]
2025-12-09T05:47:01Z
{social-security retirement}
Bag of words, have mercy on us - by Adam Mastroianni
[https://www.experimental-history.com/p/bag-of-words-have-mercy-on-us]
2025-12-09T05:47:01Z
{ai llm psychology}
Designing For Stress And Emergency — Smashing Magazine
[https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/11/designing-for-stress-emergency/]
via Smashing Magazine https://bit.ly/3gZh8S2
2025-12-09T05:47:01Z
{.commentsenseTwitter}
Cancer surge in young or detection surge?
[https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/health/cancer-young-people-deaths.html]
Sounds like colorectal is up and could be obesity. Rest is probably early detection and we might be better not to know.
2025-12-09T05:47:01Z
{s}
TYPOGRAPHY & DYSLEXIA (Bigelow & Holmes)
[https://web.archive.org/web/20200621202901/https://bigelowandholmes.typepad.com/bigelow-holmes/2014/11/typography-dyslexia.html]
via @dahukanna@mastodon.social boost of https://typo.social/@drj/115679398456608515
2025-12-09T05:47:01Z
{typography}
The Best Films of 2025 | The New Yorker
[https://www.newyorker.com/culture/2025-in-review/the-best-films-of-2025]
2025-12-09T05:47:01Z
{film cinema movies thenewyorker lists bestof 2025}
Horses: AI progress is steady. Human equivalence is sudden
[https://andyljones.com/posts/horses.html]
In 1920, there were 25 million horses in the United States, 25 million horses totally ambivalent to two hundred years of progress in mechanical engines.And not very long after, 93 per cent of those horses had disappeared.I very much hope we'll get the two decades that horses did.But looking at how fast Claude is automating my job, I think we're getting a lot less.
2025-12-09T05:47:01Z
{XDN Observations}
GitHub Actions Has a Package Manager, and It Might Be the Worst | Andrew Nesbitt
[https://nesbitt.io/2025/12/06/github-actions-package-manager.html]
2025-12-09T05:47:01Z
{security}
GitHub - Dicklesworthstone/beads_viewer: View your beads (Steve Yegge's task management system for coding agents) like a king.
[https://github.com/Dicklesworthstone/beads_viewer]
bjtitus starred Dicklesworthstone/beads_viewer
2025-12-09T05:47:01Z
{from:ifttt github}
How gifted is your 3-year-old? IQ tests for preschoolers become the norm in Silicon Valley
[https://sfstandard.com/2025/12/07/bay-area-preschooler-iq-test-admission/]
2025-12-09T05:47:01Z
102 Lessons from the 102 Books I Read This Year - Scott H Young
[https://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2025/10/06/102-lessons-from-102-books/]
2025-12-09T05:47:01Z
AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself
[https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-destroying-the-university-and-learning-itself]
2025-12-09T05:47:01Z
{readlater}
Touching the Elephant - TPUs | Consider the Bulldog
[https://considerthebulldog.com/tte-tpu/]
Understanding the Tensor Processing Unit
2025-12-09T05:47:01Z
{ai tensor processing unit}
37signals Dev — Modern CSS patterns in Campfire
[https://dev.37signals.com/modern-css-patterns-and-techniques-in-campfire/]
2025-12-09T05:47:01Z
{css patterns}
Fresh - The Terminal Text Editor
[https://sinelaw.github.io/fresh/]
2025-12-09T05:47:01Z
{development terminal editor}
Mint Editor
[https://mint.photo/]
2025-12-09T05:47:01Z
{photography photo editor}
New US security strategy aligns with Russia's vision, Moscow says
[https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpvd01g2kwwo]
2025-12-09T05:47:01Z
{russia russian-agents lmhr}
A series of tricks and techniques I learned doing tiny GLSL demos
[https://blog.pkh.me/p/48-a-series-of-tricks-and-techniques-i-learned-doing-tiny-glsl-demos.html]
2025-12-09T05:47:01Z
{programming graphics math visualization article}
What MacKenzie Scott’s giving spree reveals about how we donate to charity | Vox
[https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/470404/mackenzie-scott-amazon-trust-based-philanthropy-explained]
Once you begin to see MacKenzie Scott as Toni Morrisons mentee rather than as a certain Amazon founders ex-wife you cant unsee it. https://ift.tt/T2gZCXk via:feedbin
2025-12-09T05:47:01Z
{via:feedbin}
Transparent Leadership Beats Servant Leadership
[https://entropicthoughts.com/transparent-leadership-beats-servant-leadership]
2025-12-09T05:47:01Z
{culture management}
What '67' Reveals About Childhood Creativity - Atlas Obscura
[https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/67-meme-childrens-lore-iona-peter-opie]
"The work of Iona and Peter Opie, two pioneering researchers in postwar Britain, can help us understand the epitome of 2025 memes."
2025-12-09T05:47:01Z
{ionaopie peteropie children childhood 2025 allegrarosenberg creativity folklore memes culture society play}
Here’s how much money Los Camp! make from streaming… - Los Campesinos!
[https://loscampesinos.com/heres-how-much-money-los-camp-make-from-streaming/]
2025-12-09T05:47:01Z
{spotify economics music}
52 things I learned in 2025. This year I stopped being a consultant… | by Tom Whitwell | Dec, 2025 | Medium
[https://medium.com/@tomwhitwell/52-things-i-learned-in-2025-edeca7e3fdd8]
Sharp, actionable insights from a former consultant's year of learning. Return for distilled wisdom on work, life, and technology to apply immediately.
2025-12-09T05:47:01Z
{consulting learning technology product-management business-strategy future-predictions}
Scrollytelling on Steroids With Scroll-State Queries
[https://css-tricks.com/scrollytelling-on-steroids-with-scroll-state-queries/]
Unconvinced of the value of scrollytelling? Alright, skeptic, let’s first warm up with some common use cases for scroll-based styling.
2025-12-09T05:47:01Z
{css scrollytelling games tips}
Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal — ProPublica
[https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-mortgage-fraud-florida-principal-residences]
2025-12-09T05:47:01Z
{dt-investigating-opponents dt-hypocrisy}
Financial Times Discovers the Network State Cult
[https://www.thenerdreich.com/financial-times-wr/]
[regarding:https://www.ft.com/content/b127ee7a-5ac4-4730-a395-c9f9619615c7https://archive.ph/uVbU7 ]"The story whitewashes some aspects of the Network State cult. It makes no mention of Balaji Srinivasan’s fascist vision for a tech “Gray Tribe” that teams up with police to purge the Democratic “Blue Tribe” from San Francisco, or the fact that Srinivasan predicts the USA is headed toward civil war.It describes the Praxis network state—funded by Marc Andreessen, Peter Thiel, and Sam Altman—as “whimsical and rebellious.” (Ignoring the fact that the Praxis website predicts the decline of nation-states and is coded with fascist messaging about restoring Western values.) It describes Praxis CEO Dryden Brown as “a homeschooled professional surfer with a penchant for Austrian economics,” ignoring his vicious anti-LGBTQ pride rant over the summer and his current role in spreading a debunked “white genocide” conspiracy theory about South Africa.“Próspera shuns the ‘network state’ label,” writes Murphy.Yet the project is listed on Srinivasan’s official Network State dashboard.However, the story also has some gems. Murphy explains that the idea of the Network State can be traced back to Curtis Yarvin and his idea for corporate-ruled “patchworks.” (Many people miss this key point.)And it has an amazing end paragraph, in which Thiel protégé Patri Friedman shrugs off concerns about colonialism and techno-fascism:Patri Friedman initially pushes back on the notion of these projects as neocolonialist, declaring “most of our projects are greenfield”.He pauses. “Although, in Africa, we are looking at land parcels large enough that there will be people living there, in which case we will offer relocation bonuses to pay for anybody who wants to move out of the zone.”And what about fears that this marks the rise of techno-fascism?“I mean, we are funding companies that will operate non-democratic cities,” he says, shrugging. “And if you’re not into that you shouldn’t move there.”
It’s good to see major outlets like the venerable FT taking notice of this important story. This is progress, despite the soft focus. But the plan for these corporate dystopia cities is just the tip of the Network State iceberg. This is a full-stack fascist ideology with plans to scrap democracy and remake the world."
2025-12-09T05:47:01Z
{2025 gilduran nerdreich tescreal transhumanism extropianism singularitarianism singularity cosmism rationalism effectivealtruism longtermism aynrand seasteadinginstitute decentralization samaltman hannahmurphy brianarmstrong balajisrinivasan peterthiel marcandreessen drydenbrown próspera}
Ireland - The Cosseted Child of Europe
[https://www.irishpoliticsnewsletter.ie/p/ireland-neutrality]
2025-12-09T05:47:01Z
{ireland defense}
Main Street Autonomy
[https://mainstreetautonomy.com/blog/2025-08-29-all-about-automotive-lidar/]
2025-12-09T05:47:01Z
My mental model of the AI race
[https://interconnected.org/home/2025/12/05/training]
Platform capitalism
2025-12-09T05:47:01Z
{ai llm}
🎄 Twelve Days of Shell 🎄
[https://12days.cmdchallenge.com/]
2025-12-09T05:47:01Z
{bash linux}
'Nothing else looks like them': Saving Japan's exceptionally rare 'snow monsters'
[https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20251203-japans-disappearing-snow-monsters]
2025-12-09T05:47:01Z
{japan weather climate snow tree}
Java Hello World, LLVM Edition - JVM Advent
[https://www.javaadvent.com/2025/12/java-hello-world-llvm-edition.html]
2025-12-09T05:47:01Z
{java jvm llvm ffm}
Controlling dialogs and popovers with the Invoker Commands API
[https://htmhell.dev/adventcalendar/2025/7/]
A collection of bad practices in HTML, copied from real websites.
2025-12-09T05:47:01Z
{#webdev html invoker}
Why One Man Is Fighting for Our Right to Control Our Garage Door Openers: If companies can modify internet-connected products and charge subscriptions after people have already purchased them, what does it mean to own anything anymore? | New York Times
[https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/technology/personaltech/why-one-man-is-fighting-for-our-right-to-control-our-garage-door-openers.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share]
2025-12-09T05:47:01Z
{right-to-repair}
How to quit Spotify - by Brian Merchant
[https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/a-complete-guide-to-quitting-spotify]
"This Black Friday, here's a guide to finding the best Spotify alternative"
2025-12-09T05:47:01Z
{brianmerchant 2025 music streaming spotify applemusic youtubemusic amazonmusic tidal pandora deezer qobuz peloton}
2025 gift guide & 20% off holiday sale
[https://austinkleon.substack.com/p/2025-gift-guide-and-20-off-holiday]
10 gift ideas for artists, writers, and other creative weirdos
2025-12-09T05:47:01Z
{gifts}
StreetPass for Mastodon
[https://streetpass.social/]
1. Mastodon users verify themselves by adding a custom link to their personal site.2. StreetPass lets you know when you've found one of these links, and adds them to your StreetPass list.3. Browse the web as usual. StreetPass will build a list of Mastodon users made up of the websites you go to.
2025-12-09T05:47:01Z
GitHub - rustfs/rustfs: 🚀 High-performance distributed object storage for MinIO alternative.
[https://github.com/rustfs/rustfs]
w1zard starred rustfs/rustfs
2025-12-09T05:47:01Z
{from:ifttt github}
Six New Tips for Better Coding With Agents
[https://steve-yegge.medium.com/six-new-tips-for-better-coding-with-agents-d4e9c86e42a9]
I’m hanging out in Sydney with my esteemed co-author and co-conspirator Gene Kim today; we flew in to conduct Vibe Coding workshops and…
2025-12-09T05:47:01Z
{ai-coding}
Finder: Spaltenansicht passt sich in macOS Tahoe endlich automatisch an
[https://stadt-bremerhaven.de/finder-spaltenansicht-passt-sich-in-macos-tahoe-26-1-endlich-automatisch-an/]
In macOS Tahoe 26.1 hat Apple eine kleine Einstellung im Finder versteckt, die im Alltag einiges an Gefrickel spart. Es geht um die ...
2025-12-09T05:47:01Z
(500) https://opensquare.nyupress.org/books/9781479811908/
[https://opensquare.nyupress.org/books/9781479811908/]
@Theblerdsenpai @NYUpress Shit. Try this one instead:
2025-12-09T05:47:01Z
{BHM}