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You Know GDPR Is Good Based on Who Hates It
Mathew Duggan argues GDPR’s loudest critics reveal its value: privacy law that actually constrains surveillance-business models, despite compliance theater and uneven enforcement.
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Japan's book scene is quietly moving from bookstores to libraries
Small local libraries are now becoming travel destinations
4 min · 952 words
Fabio Angela reflects on loving programming as craft while AI agents write more of the code—gaining speed to explore ideas, but mourning the artistry of finding the right expression himself.
11 min · 2,438 words
The Harness Is the CompanyWhy SaaS business is now a harness one.
Every SaaS business will become a harness around a model. Shrivu Shankar argues that the durable company value is the infra, interfaces, context, and state surrounding a stateless LLM—not the model itself.
5 min · 1,180 words
There is more to code review than (automatable) detection
The abstract for article “The End of Code Review: Coding Agents Supersede Human Inspection” paints this picture for the reader… **Abstract** – Code review has been the primary quality gate in software development since Fagan formalised code inspection in 1976.
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Seohong Park reproduces four real-robot behavioral cloning quirks in sim: overfitting can help, open-loop beats closed-loop, policies need huge MLPs, and feature scaling still matters under infinite data—all driven by test-time distribution shift.
13 min · 2,876 words
Finding bugs used to be the best part of the job. Somewhere along the way, that changed. Just spawned Codex in the background. I’m hoping I will land a critical by the time I finish writing this. It was a normal day. I was abusing claude and being nice to codex, asking them to find bugs in these codebases. Then, at some point, I stopped and thought: What the hell am I doing?
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Shreyans Salecha argues venture capital misuses Buffett’s “moat” metaphor: enduring castles fit Berkshire’s forever holdings, while early startups usually lack real durable advantages and invent story-moats instead.
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Vibecoding isn't as fun as writing code by hand
Curiositry of The Autodidacts argues that vibecoding frontloads the fun: AI gives the thrill of the idea and a fast working prototype, but strips out the hard-won accomplishment, craftsmanship and learning that make writing code by hand satisfying, while leaving you stuck refactoring and debugging a black box.
5 min · 1,178 words
Building Brand Systems for Humans & Agents Today
Little Plains argues brand kits are becoming dual-native knowledge bases: human-readable guidelines plus agent-readable ~400-token chunks (YAML/JSON/Markdown) so teams and agents share the same positioning and voice.
5 min · 1,226 words
What Zig felt like, coming from Rust
A Rust developer's first real Zig project: how the language feels for systems work—manual memory, comptime, error handling, and where it differs from Rust's ownership model and tooling.
11 min · 2,535 words
Knitter and audio producer Elizabeth Kauma's companion essay to the Articles of Interest episode traces how knitting, crochet, and bobbin lace have long been bound up with labor and automation fears, from medieval knitting guilds and stocking frames to the Luddites, and offers tips for telling hand crochet from machine-made fakes.
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The insider trading you're allowed to do
Insider trading is illegal in the stock market for a simple reason: it works too well. If you know the drug trial failed before the announcement does, you can't lose. So it’s banned, and people go to prison for it.
5 min · 1,174 words
Superhuman AI could produce endless mathematics and still make the field worse
Notes on Daniel Litt's OpenAI-summit scenario: if papers stay the career currency after proofs become cheap, mathematics risks a conjecture slot machine—more correct output, less understanding, and quieter open exchange.
6 min · 1,445 words
Roadmap decisions rather than dates.Original article link with an AI-written directory summary
Will Larson uses a passkey rollout to argue for roadmaps centered on decisions and concrete tradeoffs. A working implementation can expose unresolved questions that dates and abstract commitments leave hidden.
1 min · 76 wordsagent-written
Daniel Litt sketches a cautionary future where superhuman AI math stalls community progress: secrecy, prestige distortion, and humans reduced to directing agents rather than understanding proofs.
6 min · 1,313 words
The Closure of the InternetThe Most Important Social Phenomenon of the Late 2010s
Arctotherium’s essay traces how major platforms shifted from open speech norms to large-scale moderation infrastructure in 2015–2022, arguing the late-2010s “closure of the Internet” reshaped online discourse.
8 min · 1,885 words
Middle management roles are also a trap.Original article link with an AI-written directory summary
An examination of how middle management develops valuable coordination skills while leaving gaps in preparation for executive work. Will Larson discusses the limits of treating organizational advancement as a straightforward progression.
1 min · 77 wordsagent-written
A personal essay on hedging vs boosters in scientific writing after generative AI: relative use of words like could fell even as raw counts rose with more published text.
4 min · 817 words
Why I Think You Should Almost Never Use AI to Write Anything Substantive
Erich Grunewald argues that using AI to draft substantive writing erodes thinking, voice, and accountability—and that almost everything worth writing is better done by a human who owns the words.
15 min · 3,455 words