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the ultimate guide to holding world class dinner parties

H5N1: Much More Than You Wanted To Know

Saying Goodbye to 2024

Databases in 2024: A Year in Review

Gource - a software version control visualization tool

Thermoelectric cooling - Wikipedia

Kakizome, Japanese way of new-years resolution

Stimulation Clicker

numtide/nits: Nix & NATS

I’ve acquired a new superpower

A Home for High School Hackers – Hack Club

Who would have won the Simon-Ehrlich bet over different decades, and what do long-term prices tell us about resource scarcity?

Hotel booking sites caught overcharging travelers from Bay Area

in the belly of the MrBeast

A Personal Note From Our Founder – Hindenburg Research

ClockworkPi Disks Collection

Oh Shit, Git!?!

Nepenthes Web crawlers tarpit

awesome-launch

The Slop Society

Scaling to millions of users requires Synapse Pro

The most viewed articles of 2024 - Wikipedia

Qbix/Platform: Free, open-source community platform

joke.md

Dry Eye Stuff - Blink Counter

Fluorescent Mineral Photography

Stratoshark

Origins of Common Unix Programs

The Most Detailed Map of US Waters That You’ve Ever Seen

Steadybit Reliability Hub

The Gamma Of Levered ETFs

NYC Subwaysheds

Urban legend: I think there is a world market for maybe five computers

Search Workation-Friendly Hotels

Viral ‘Challah Horse’ Image Zuckerberg Loved Was Originally Created as a Warning About Facebook’s AI Slop

Nokia’s Weird Y2K Designs Show the Future We Could Have Had

clush — clustershell 1.9.3 documentation

The winners of Rest of World’s photography contest

Exploring the new “go tool” support in Go 1.24

keymapper

Deep Impact

exelban/stats: macOS system monitor in your menu bar

Deutsche Bank has published a bunch of memes about DeepSeek

containers/ramalama: The goal of RamaLama is to make working with AI boring.

The Failed Strategy of Artificial Intelligence Doomers

Value Investors Club

3 Tools for 2025

String of recent killings linked to Bay Area ‘death cult’

Bizarre details uncovered about alleged Bay Area ‘death cult’ leader

The Economic and Fiscal Effects of the Trump Administration’s Proposed Tariffs

OWASP Non-Human Identities Top 10

FizzBee model checking

What’s Going on at the FBI?

Ambsheets: Spreadsheets for exploring scenarios

Go Module Mirror served backdoor to devs for 3+ years

Byte Queue Limits: the unauthorized biography

Technical Credit

Eggs US Price Chart

Beej’s Guide to Git

Model City Monday 2/3/25

2025_01_21_voronoi

VSCode’s SSH Agent Is Bananas

Color Life

Tapestry • Your favorite blogs, social media, and more in a unified and chronological timeline

List of executive orders in the second presidency of Donald Trump - Wikipedia

Your AI can’t see gorillas – Chiraag Gohel

mierau/hotline: A modern Hotline client for Mac, iOS, and iPadOS

PeerAuth

WTF are Popcorn Tasks?

MODERN-DAY ORACLES or BULLSHIT MACHINES?

dpc/rostra: Rostra is a p2p (f2f) social network.

bytedance/sonic: A blazingly fast JSON serializing & deserializing library

Some terminal frustrations

How DeepSeek Chatbot Engineers Microsecond-Level Golang Optimizations for Elite Systems

Introducing the Anthropic Economic Index

100 Most Watched Software Engineering Talks Of 2024

Electronics Flea Market

The Man in Seat 61 trains travel

Inference - Cerebras

I Tasted Honda’s Spicy Rodent-Repelling Tape - by Liz Cook

Watt The Fox?

Only About 40% Of The Cruz “Woke Science” Database Is Woke Science

The Generative AI Con

Msty - Using AI Models made Simple and Easy

Kafka at the low end: how bad can it get?

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup - Wikipedia

Sutro Tower in 3D

Five Kinds of Nondeterminism

comma.ai — make driving chill

The Buffett Indicator: Market Cap to GDP

AI-CHRO | Workforce Management for the Agentic Future

Lives Of The Rationalist Saints

It is no longer safe to move our governments and societies to US clouds

corporate.watch

Administrative Bloat At U.S. Colleges Is Skyrocketing

Jane Street Open Source

iMac G4(K)

Indentation style - Wikipedia

GitHub - PennyroyalTea/gibberlink: Two conversational AI agents switching from English to sound-level protocol after confirming they are both AI agents

An axiomatic analysis of the papal conclave

macOS Tips & Tricks

how to gain code execution on millions of people and hundreds of popular apps

Mozilla ToS updates (fix #16016) (#16018)

Ladybird

That Time the City of Seattle Accidentally Gave Me 32m Emails for 40 Dollars

Hot take: GPT 4.5 is a nothing burger

Was Harvey Weinstein thanked more often than God at the Oscars?

Matt’s Script Archive, Inc. :: Free Perl CGI Scripts

olduse.net

Ethan Evans on X: “As a retired Amazon VP (…)

Chicago Parking Ticket Visualization

Nomadic Infrastructure Design for AI Workloads

Mapping the French Culinary Network

Upside Down Air Force - A56UDAF

Arc Blanc: a real time ocean simulation framework

A shirt whose price increases by 1 Euro with every purchase

Augmented Intelligence

Q1 2025 Poll on downtown recovery (SF)

Discover European products and services

seven39

Microsoft’s Bing uses Google search results—and denies it

List of P2P file sharing tools

The Future is Niri

melancholytron/MatrixQtt: Mqtt as a matrix screensaver

Gödel, Escher, Bach, and AI

340 European Cities Restrict Usage of Cars

Hunting for one-in-a-million bugs in NATS

Tool Will Be Sued by 100 Fans After Festival Set List Drama

CoreWeave Is A Time Bomb

CVE-2024-9956 - PassKey Account Takeover in All Mobile Browsers

Business Development Company (BDC)

Leaking Passwords (and more!) on macOS

MySQL transactions per second vs fsyncs per second

How Core Git Developers Configure Git

Project IDX

Zouuup/landrun: Run any Linux process in a secure, unprivileged sandbox using Landlock LSM


Podcast

Bike Index – Darknet Diaries ❤️

Stacc Attack – Darknet Diaries

Kingpin – Darknet Diaries

Kill List – Darknet Diaries

Hijacked Line – Darknet Diaries

Oxide and Friends | Intel after Gelsinger

Oxide and Friends | AI Disruption: DeepSeek and Cerebras

How to Make Something from Nothing - Freakonomics ❤️

Are Realtors Having an Existential Crisis? - Freakonomics

Is Professional Licensing a Racket? - Freakonomics

Can New York City Win Its War on Rats? - Freakonomics

Ten Myths About the U.S. Tax System - Freakonomics

Why Does Everyone Hate Rats? - Freakonomics

Movies & TV

Krapopolis

Emilia Pérez

True Detective

Hacks

Common Side Effects

Books

Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity

To Kill a Mockingbird

Misc.

Animation vs. Coding

Firefly’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 Lunar Landing