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Manna, Chapter 1, by Marshall Brain
Wilfred/difftastic: a structural diff that understands syntax
Tools built on tree-sitter’s concrete syntax trees
How I like to install NixOS (declaratively)
Galois verification reliability security
docker/awesome-compose: Awesome Docker Compose samples
My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts
Systems Correctness Practices at Amazon Web Services
Co-op says shelves to be more fully stocked this weekend
Durable Execution Solutions | Temporal
A Look Back at Recent Car Carrier Fires
junegunn/fzf: :cherry_blossom: A command-line fuzzy finder
The last six months in LLMs, illustrated by pelicans on bicycles
nail-e/futa: a Functionally Useless Terminal Assistant
The Brilliant Milky Way Connects Photographers Around the Globe and Beyond in an Annual Contest
tools.simonwillison.net colophon
The Lexiconia Codex: A Fantasy Story That Teaches You Every LLM Buzzword
Use Apple products on enterprise networks
The Illustrated Children’s Guide to Kubernetes
ChatGPT Lost a Chess Game to an Atari 2600
Status, class, and the crisis of expertise ⭐️
The Diff - Inflections in finance and tech
College Baseball, Venture Capital, and the Long Maybe
Oxide’s compensation model: How is it going?
There was a good discussion on this topic years ago
Git Notes: git’s coolest, most unloved feature
A deep critique of AI 2027’s bad timeline models
Donald Trump-Inspired ‘Israel Edition’ Coin Pushed During Iran Conflict
NLnet; 62 new projects contribute to digital commons
The Decline of Legacy Media, Rise of Vodcasters, and X’s Staying Power
Spegel - A Terminal Browser That Uses LLMs to Rewrite Webpages
Datadog’s $65M/year customer mystery solved
Scribble-based forecasting and AI 2027
The Fed says this is a cube of $1 million. They’re off by half a million.
laboratory.love ❤️ crowdsourced laboratory testing
A Higgs-bugson in the Linux Kernel
An Expansionary Theory of the Noosphere
Why I don’t think AGI is right around the corner
write a simple shell package with resholve
We reached $1M ARR with zero funding
MacPaint Art From The Mid-80s Still Looks Great Today
Your Review: Of Mice, Mechanisms, and Dementia
Movie Market Summary 1995 to 2025
The AWS Survival Guide for 2025: A Field Manual for the Brave and the Bankrupt
lucianmarin/subreply: Tiny, but mighty social network
Mozilla now only seems to speak using creepy, gibb…
AWS Well-Architected Framework
The Hater’s Guide To The AI Bubble
Parsing Protobuf Like Never Before
Is SoftBank Still Backing OpenAI?
hydrogen jukeboxes: on the crammed poetics of…
You’re Always Betting on Relative Value
The /o in Ruby regex stands for “oh the humanity!”
Go’s race detector has a mutex blind spot
Customizing tmux and making it less dreadful
Gemma 3n: How to Run & Fine-tune
Your Review: My Father’s Instant Mashed Potatoes
I’ve tracked my last 800 flights. Here’s when you really need to get to the airport
StarDict sends X11 clipboard to remote servers
Dollar Street - photos as data to kill country stereotypes
Data Replication Design Spectrum
A short statistical reasoning test
The Cost of a Call: From Voice Phishing to Data Extortion
Toronto’s underground labyrinth
A Navajo weaving of an integrated circuit: the 555 timer
How I solved a distributed queue problem after 15 years
David Walker’s Paper Clip Collection
EFForg/rayhunter: Rust tool to detect cell site simulators on an orbic mobile hotspot
Center for the Alignment of AI Alignment Centers
Your Review: The Synaptic Plasticity and Memory Hypothesis
Oracle and OpenAI Are Full Of Crap
Hosting a WebSite on a Disposable Vape
DevSecOps Solutions for Defense, Government, and Enterprise
Nine Things I Learned in Ninety Years
Sources Say Bay Area House Party
Sonoma County Parks Foundation Water Bark
Oh it’s personal: These are the top viral Russian fake news stories about European politicians
Lovable Vulnerability Explained: How 170+ Apps Were Exposed
NES Super Mario Bros. “arbitrary code execution”
We Gave Our AI Agents Twitter and Now They’re Demanding Lambos
File Format Gallery for Kaitai Struct
Will data centers crash the economy?
Podcast
What Do Medieval Nuns and Bo Jackson Have in Common? - Freakonomics
“Fault-Finder Is a Minimum-Wage Job” - Freakonomics
Movies & TV
Misc.
Predicting the Future of Distributed Systems - Colin Breck
Trust Deterministic Execution to Scale & Simplify Your Systems • Frank Yu