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The Brain Sandwich
The brain sandwich is a practical AI coding workflow: understand the problem, let an agent help, then verify and explain its work before sharing it.
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Society, Policy & Culture
The most popular blog posts about society, policy & culture on Hacker News. 8,149 posts.
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Airlines using reverse auctions to determine true seat pricing
Of this (via MR): It’s an auction conducted at the airport terminal. In this auction you are a seller and you are bidding to sell your ticket back to the airline. Optimists look at this and …
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Twitter Thread Compiler Apps and Copyright Ethics
Twitter threads are a pain to read! So let's just steal them, right? Umm... Nope, probably wrong. I'm going to say very wrong. Think about it.
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Out of Africa's midlife crisis
on bottlenecks, crashes and what diversity really looks like
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The Dubrovnik Interviews: Marc Andreessen
The Internet King on why the Internet is a force for good, on media conformity, the inevitable triumph of the WEIRD, Crypto, Retards, etc.
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Boys Rules, Girls Lose - Women at Work
My two daughters are now in college and have put their toes in the working-world with summer jobs. As they’ve grown older, they’ve heard their parent’s advice about women in the workforce. Th…
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The Ruby community has a DHH problem
The Ruby community can no longer afford to stand silent in the face of DHH and his toxic ideas.
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Dublin Core's dirty little secret (2010)
[This is part two in a series — you should read part 1 first for context and then you might go on to part 3.] The Dublin Core — metadata made dumb Just when librarians were in despair o…
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Analysis of all YouTube trending videos in US for 2019
This analysis was featured on: The Hustle newsletter (lead story), TechCrunch, Hacker News, The Growth Newsletter (issue #021), Social Blade, Data Science...
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Unremarkables
There has never been a better time to be remarkable, nor a worse time to be unremarkable.
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Good conversations have lots of doorknobs
Or "Spiderman Is My Boyfriend"
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Most Radioactive Spot in New York: A Street Corner in Queens
Many are going to ask, "What's so weird about this one corner?" and I'm here to answer. The end of Irving Avenue, where it meets Moffat Str...
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Copyright: The Elephant in the Middle of the Glee Club
A group blog on constitutional law, theory, and politics
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Are you breathing? Do you have email apnea? (2014)
It’s believed that many of us spend seven hours or more in front of screens each day. In 2011, researcher Emmanuel Stamatakis, found that “…even those who exercise can’t overcome the detrimental ef…
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Unexpectedly Good Things VR Will Probably Cause (2016)
This is a guest post by VR developer Hugh Hancock , creator of Vive horror/RPG Left-Hand Path .
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Cybersecurity Checklist for Political Campaigns
Short-lived political campaigns rarely build formal security programs and often assume they're too small to attract serious attackers, but campaigns across the United States have been targeted by document theft and credential phishing. Six observed attacker tactics map to a short list of defensive priorities, starting…
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Physics in Metal Music
Metal bands aren't afraid to tackle serious topics in their lyrics. Here, we look at metal songs that deal with concepts in theoretical physics and cosmology.
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Jay Powell traded during blackout period; failed to disclose most trade dates
Jay Powell traded during restricted blackout period; failed to disclose most trade dates; apparently lied about muni conflict; directed massive Wall St bailouts despite conflicts
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The Anti-Intellectualism of Silicon Valley Elites
I recently re-read Richard Hofstadter's Anti-Intellectualism in American Life, and now every time a reactionary Silicon Valley billionaire opens his mouth, I think about it. So I wrote about it for The Nation. Here's the column: On Instagram, there’s an activist named Brian Patrick (@pano.
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United Airlines made passenger abandon mobility device at gate before honeymoon
I did everything right, according to both United and TSA’s disability policies. The TSA told United it was OK.