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XNS argues wallets should only verify, authorize, sign, and broadcast—leaving construction and UX to apps—so independent reverse-checks catch compromised transaction builders.
7 min · 1,697 words
The people who know the most often sound the least certain
Vrash argues AI needs better storytellers, not researchers trained to sound like politicians—using a Dwarkesh conversation with John Schulman, Beren Millidge, and Charlie O'Neill to show how experts hedge while communicators overclaim.
7 min · 1,667 words
Fiscal dominance is here, or is it?
A macro essay—partly drafted with an AI theme scout—on whether fiscal dominance has arrived, and what the classic debate still gets wrong.
9 min · 1,979 words
An unofficial community project revives Amiga Unix (Amix) for 68040/68060 machines and modern accelerators, with a modern toolchain, package manager, and open grimoire of the work.
3 min · 626 words
Claude Code creator Boris Cherny shares an internal note on product judgment under AI: gather information, act with urgency, and treat being wrong quickly as a feature of good leadership—not a failure.
2 min · 372 words
Glashütte Trash Clock – A 30-minute pendulum clock made from trash
Niklas Roy builds a fully mechanical 30-minute pendulum clock from scavenged junk in Glashütte, Saxony—documenting escapement design, found materials, and the craft of making timepieces from trash.
12 min · 2,722 words
Remus Lazar mined a year of commits, PRs, and Slack after a 64-day coding streak with agents—and set hard limits: two agents max, a pause between plan and build, close sessions, and take the day off.
8 min · 1,873 words
Education as an AI safety area
If we count on human judgement to guide AI, Ruxandra Teslo argues we must maintain the institutions that cultivate it—making education a first-class AI safety concern.
10 min · 2,386 words
Thoughts on the Future of Web Browsers
Sarah Jamie Lewis reflects on AI-stuffed browsers, the erosion of the open web client, and what a healthier browser future might prioritize beyond chat sidebars and surveillance-friendly defaults.
5 min · 1,191 words
the senior engineer death spiralon proving yourself, burning out, and being a good teammate
Sunil Pai names a common failure mode for engineers in new senior roles: cosplaying harder ambition, disappearing into secret overwork, burning out, then damaging trust. His antidote is to drop a level—become the greatest teammate first.
4 min · 993 words
purplesyringa argues that the best technical writing captures the path from confusion to understanding—documenting the missing links experts forget—so others can learn faster than reverse-engineering opaque docs after the fact.
4 min · 921 words
Three levels of noticingI see, but I do not observe
Kabir Khandpur sketches three levels of noticing—paying attention, recognizing patterns, and acting on what you observe—using birdwatching and everyday work as practice for seeing what was always there.
4 min · 906 words
Your dashes suggest which model you're copy-pasting from
Will Keleher spends $2.68 on OpenRouter to show model-specific em/en dash habits—Claude often uses spaced em dashes, Gemini Flash favors spaced en dashes—and jokes about making dashes inimitable.
6 min · 1,301 words
AI Is an Elite Crime SpreeDocuments show a Microsoft exec called AI the "largest theft of labor in human history." New AI regulations are besides the point — the problem is we don’t apply existing laws to the powerful.
Matt Stoller argues the AI boom is less a novel policy puzzle than elite lawbreaking: training on copyrighted work without permission, concentrating market power, and escaping antitrust and labor enforcement that already exist.
13 min · 3,083 words
Bend 2 and the Vibe-Coding Trap
Liam Powell argues Bend 2's AI-proof workflow reinvented formal verification without naming it—contrasting Bend's 442-line LLM proof with a short SPARK/GNATprove recreation of the same demo laws.
2 min · 392 words
My Weird New Hobby: Wandering Around Tokyo on Google Maps
A playful Street View essay: following a 350Z across years of Tokyo captures, noticing wires, houses, and how a city changes (and doesn’t) when you wander it on Maps.
3 min · 668 words
The Lamentable Later Life of LemmingsHow a 1990s smash franchise faded after DMA Design’s early triumph
Jimmy Maher’s Digital Antiquarian traces the later Lemmings sequels and ports after the 1991 phenomenon—covering DMA Design’s struggle to turn a surprise hit into a lasting franchise, and why the later games never matched the original’s magic.
19 min · 4,454 words
If math is more than proof, we need to better celebrate the rest of it
Guest post by Grant Sanderson on Terence Tao’s blog argues that if mathematics is more than formal proof, the community should better celebrate exposition, intuition, and other forms of mathematical contribution.
12 min · 2,704 words
Discover, then compile downThe great unbundling of the LLM
Seldon argues Jev's launch shows frontier LLMs will unbundle into specialized decision primitives, with durable value migrating to a discover-then-compile layer that routes settled work off expensive generation.
17 min · 3,849 words
How I Vibed a Proof of Conway's Conjecture
Dan Abramov recounts a month of multi-agent LLM+Lean work that produced a purported Lean proof of Conway's omnific-integer refinement conjecture—including burn-downs, audits, mathematician checks, ~40B tokens, and lessons on grounding AI math.
31 min · 7,227 words