If England has Shakespeare, Spain has Cervantes, Italy has Dante, and Russia has Pushkin, then who do we have? Do we have a great poet who captures the American spirit, the American story, the American identity? We asked a posse of authors and poets to send us their votes. Read more ›
## Today's links - AI and amateurism: When is generative content vernacular? - Hey look at this: Delights to delectate\. - Object permanence: Disney characters x clean underwear; Transparent Pontiac; Makers v dog with LED collar; Microsoft buys Linkedin; Legitimate greatness\. - Upcoming appearances: LA, Menlo Park, Toronto, NYC, Philadelphia, Chicago, Edinburgh, South Bend\. - Recent appearances: Where I've been\. - Latest books: You keep readin' em, I'll keep writin' 'em\. - Upcoming books... Read more ›
For context, this is based on a recent freelance contract in a Django/React TS/React Native codebase size: 20-person team. I have 17 years' experience with w... Read more ›
Reconstruct what was true at the time, find stale or conflicting facts, and generate an incident report. No LLM call. No graph database. Read more ›
Luca Guadagnino’s nearly completed biopic stars Andrew Garfield as the controversial OpenAI founder Read more ›
A Claude Code agent pre-loaded with the HyperFrames video toolkit. Turn a short design.md or a one-line prompt into a finished promo or product-launch video, then preview it online. Fork it, add your HyperFrames key, and ship your first reel in minutes. Read more ›
A true hidden gem of Japanese ambient and new age music is finally getting the vinyl treatment. Amid the diversifying Japanese environmental music scene of the 1990s-a movement that continues to captivate listeners worldwide-a unique masterpiece was born. Odyssey, the cult-classic soundtrack by the electronic duo Mastermind (Hiroshi Ogawa and Hisaki Kurosawa), is being released on vinyl for the very first time via Southern California-based label, Forest Jams. ... Read more ›
Obsidian-style links in a terminal Markdown editor: [[wikilinks]], quick-open, and following links between notes without leaving your shell. Read more ›
Among Apple’s slate of software platforms, macOS is an outlier in having its own brand name (e.g., macOS Golden Gate) instead of just a number. But some new signs indicate Apple may be shifting toward number versioning. Read more ›
Teaching cellular automata to actually do things Read more ›
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Some literate programming on a small crate I've written Read more ›
Authors: Joshua Engels*, Callum McDougall*, Bilal Chughtai*, Janos Kramar, Senthoran Rajamanoharan, Cindy Wu, Arthur Conmy, Asic Q Chen, Jean Tarbouriech, Min Ma, Brendan O'Donoghue+, João Gabriel Lopes de Oliveira+, Rohin Shah+, Neel Nanda+*Primary Contributor+AdvisingPaper here: Overall, we find that DiffusionGemma is not significantly less transparent than Gemma.Gemma and DiffusionGemma perform similarly on monitorability evaluations.Although naively DiffusionGemma has a much larger opaque... Read more ›
The Indian Peaks Wilderness was designated as a protected wilderness area in 1978 by an act of Congress and signed by Jimmy Carter. It encompasses 73,391 acres with over 50 lakes, 28 trails covering 133 miles, and six passes across the Continental Divide. Elevations in these wilderness areas vary from 8,400 to over Read more ›
Start free with Kalshi Agent. Foundation + three tracks: Operator, Quant, and Builder — from Python Kalshi bot to live algorithmic prediction-market strategies. Read more ›
Proper TCP socket splicing reduces the load on userspace processes and enables more efficient data forwarding. We realized that Linux Kernel's SOCKMAP infrastructure can be reused for this purpose. Read more ›
A GPT-in-space simulator to research SpaceX AI satellite viability - davedx/cosmicgpt Read more ›