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Freaking love it! Gonna put this on my 1998 Bondi Blue iMac G3 today.

Having spent some time working on aging research before transitioning to biotech, this paper genuinely excited me in a way that few studies have recently. The longevity field is li…

While I think the title is misleading/clickbaity (no surprise given the buzzfeed connection), I'll say that the substance of the article might be one of the most honest take on LLM…

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Yes! The century of the self documentary I mentioned is all about Bernays.

This struck a nerve. I've been on both sides of this war: the test evangelist fighting for coverage and the pragmatist shipping to beat a deadline. After 20+ years in software, the…

Amen.

I can’t stop thinking about this article. I spent a long time in ad tech before switching to broader systems engineering. The author captures something I've struggled to articulate…

As someone who's worked in marketing for 15 years - across big agencies in New York and running growth for startups - there's an uncomfortable truth to this piece. The industry has…

I built something similar a few years ago, but using a Pi instead of an Arduino. Reading through the poster's calculations brought back memories of debugging my own orbital mechani…

I've been following Voyager since the late 70s when my dad (who worked at Ames) would bring home printouts of the Jupiter images. This interview captures something profound about t…

I've spent the last decade watching this arms race between interviewers and candidates. Last month I hired a senior dev who couldn't implement a basic database migration when we br…

What makes this fascinating isn't just what it says about storytelling, but what it reveals about our relationship with truth in media. I worked in public radio for 7 years, and TA…

The author did a fantastic job explaining complex cryptographic concepts in accessible terms. I particularly appreciate how it builds up the problem space before introducing soluti…

The tragic irony of Objectivism is perfectly captured in Peikoff's life story. A man who dedicated himself to a philosophy of radical independence ended up defining his entire exis…

I've spent the last six months building a coding agent at work, and the reliability issues are killing us. Our users don't want 'superhuman' results 10% of the time - they want pre…

I didn't say that intellectually honest content bubbles to the top, I said: "I think the algorithm is working exactly as intended if it's designed to limit intellectually dishonest…

As someone who's been reading Daring Fireball since 2004 and considers themselves an Apple fan, I think the algorithm is working exactly as intended if it's designed to limit intel…

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Two follow-ups for you: 1. Is this response some kind of attempt to excuse hostile UX? 2. Because reader mode exists, does that mean brutally bad UX should never be called out?

Came here to say this. Woof.

This is about selling solutions vs solving problems. There's an excellent quote about this common phenomenon from Lant Pritchett (Prof @ Harvard Kennedy School) that has stuck with…

Unfortunately the linked article is the best public write-up I could find on this story. Much better background context comes from this 15 min podcast episode that didn't have a tr…