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Children and Helical Time
If childhood is half of our subjective life, how should that change how we live?
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The most popular blog posts about life, learning & writing on Hacker News. 662 posts.
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The Speed of Prototyping in the Age of AI
How AI has changed the way I prototype, plan, and ship; and what I'm doing to keep my hands dirty.
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Interrail: 6,379Km and 13 Countries over 7 weeks
Last year, my wife and I went on a 5,025 Km Interrail adventure. We got the month-long unlimited pass and saw 10 Countries in 30 Days. That was a bit too intense. So this year we got the 15 travel days in 2 months package. We grabbed the 1st class tickets when they went on sale in December. Here's how our journey…
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Explain it to me like I'm ten
In 2012, the creator of the xkcd cartoon Randall Munroe unveiled Up Goer Five — a detailed diagram of the Saturn V rocket, annotated using only the most common 1,000 (sorry, “ten hundred”) words in…
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Scientists reverse brain aging, with a nasal spray
New therapy is turning back the clock in aging brains, healing inflammation, restoring memory and reshaping the future of brain age-related therapies.
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Having your insulin pump die while you're on vacation
I'm about to tell you a story about the major disaster which affected much of my decisionmaking on my week-long vacation to Santa Fe. I just got home to LA, ...
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We should be more tired than the model
Adding deliberate friction back into development
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I electrified my push scooter with a power drill
My blog about my project cars and other contraptions
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It's death
I’m feeling hungry, so I go to my kitchen and turn on the stove. I inadvertently have the handle of the frying pan sitting above the flame and when I go to pick up the pan my entire hand melts off in an instant.
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Setting up phones is a nightmare
Some thoughts about my experience getting my parents' new devices up and running, and how bad it keeps getting today.
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Using AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things
A UC Berkeley researcher raises profound questions about how we interact with artificial intelligence in daily life.
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Aristotle quotes on virtue, knowledge, and happiness
Find the latest news, events and updates from Campion College on our blogs page. Read about student life, future students, Campion's brag, podcasts and more.
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Moltbook is the most interesting place on the internet right now
The hottest project in AI right now is Clawdbot, renamed to Moltbot, renamed to OpenClaw. It’s an open source implementation of the digital personal assistant pattern, built by Peter Steinberger …
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Profession by Isaac Asimov (1957)
Profession , copyright ©1957 by Street and Smith Publications, Inc., from ISAAC ASIMOV: THE COMPLETE STORIES OF VOL. 1 by Isaac Asimov. Used by permission of Doubleday, a division of Random House, Inc. For on-line information about other Random House, Inc. books and authors, see the Internet Web site at…
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Programming is Art
When I started programming, my whole day revolved around development. I’d wake up, write code, and go to sleep. And that’s how it was day in and day out. My entire social circle consisted of people who also wrote code. I studied frameworks, libraries, and various programming languages.
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Meditation as Wakeful Relaxation: Unclenching Smooth Muscle
I'm writing 30 posts in 30 days at Inkhaven. This is number 26.
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I swear the UFO is coming any minute
Links 'n' updates
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Thinking hard burns almost no calories but destroys your next workout
Your brain uses 20% of your body's energy just idling. Intense thinking barely adds to that. But the mental byproducts of a long cognitive day quietly sabotage your endurance in ways no amount of willpower can fix.
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Ape Coding [fiction]
Ape coding is the software development practice where a human developer deliberately hand-writes source code.
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Enjoy Every Sandwich
this captivating subtitle I wrote really makes you want to read it, doesn’t it?!?
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It's OK to abandon your side-project (2024)
In an industry that pressures developers to always be shipping side-projects, it can be helpful to be retrospective with the projects that don't make the cut
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I stopped following the news
A personal reflection on the decision to stop following daily news and its impact on my well-being.
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To grieve, or not to grieve?
Recent events in the field of AI for mathematics have shown us beyond all reasonable doubt that the field is currently undergoing a rapid transformation, unlike anything that we have ever seen befo…
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Talking to LLMs has improved my thinking
I’ve been surprised by - and enjoy - one aspect of using large language models more than any other. They often put into words things I have long understood, but could not write down clearly. When that happens, it feels less like learning something new and more like recognition. A kind of “ok, yeah" moment.…
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Job loss and cortisone mania
On the morning of 18th August, I got invited at short notice into a 1:1 meeting by my manager, which was unusual . I think I knew what was coming, and I was right: The company is restructuring, and I’m being let go (among a lot of other people). I had time until lunch to say my goodbyes to my colleagues as I would be…
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Appreciating Exif
The '90s-era digital camera metadata format, still useful in 2026.
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I think I hate the internet
I’ve just finished reading Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams and was equally parts shocked and unsurprised by the events she witnessed at Facebook / Met...