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This is brilliant marketing.... Is this product right for you? Ask ChatGPT, Ask Claude, Ask Perplexity. And then click through and you get personalized recommendations.

I'm beginning to suspect that a key skill in working effectively with coding agents is developing an intuition for when you don't need to closely review every line of code they produce. This feels deeply uncomfortable!

Lighthouse - The feed reader for finding actionable content A reimagined RSS feed reader, optimized for people who are serious, intentional, and proactive about their content consumption.

RSS has quietly survived 20+ years while social platforms come and go. Now there are dozens of specialized feed readers, from browser extensions to self-hosted solutions. Maybe the "old" web had some things right about information consumption. lighthouseapp.io/blog/feed-re...

If you're interested in getting an email of top posts from your own feed each week, my Bluesky Feed Curator will be available for signups soon. It will be free. Stay tuned.

Open Social — overreacted The protocol is the API.

overreacted.io/open-social/

Claude Sonnet 4.5 is probably the “best coding model in the world” (at least for now) Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 4.5 today, with a very bold set of claims: Claude Sonnet 4.5 is the best coding model in the world. It’s the strongest model for building …

simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/29/...

Bracket City - The Atlantic Solve nested clues to reveal a satisfying fact about this day in history. Climb the ranks from tourist to kingmaker (or beyond?).

www.theatlantic.com/games/bracke...

Make Something People Want to Talk About - SparkToro In my formative years as a tech entrepreneur, Paul Graham (cofounder of YCombinator), wrote a seminal essay entitled: Be Good. Most tech folks have

sparktoro.com/blog/make-so...

To Understand AI, Watch How It Evolves | Quanta Magazine Naomi Saphra thinks that most research into language models focuses too much on the finished product. She’s mining the history of their training for insights into why these systems work the way they d...

www.quantamagazine.org/to-understan...

I built a Bluesky Feed curator to help me keep up here. For those who remember Nuzzel, it follows a similar algorithm. I mostly follow people in Tech, Data, and Startups. Here are the top posts in my feed this week...

This is a useful discussion for building a local speech transcriber. Good links, tools, and tips here: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4533...

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

Triaging my automation wish list and the options are overwhelming 🤯

My shortlist:

Trend tracking & audience dev
Idea generation
Content curation & repurposing
Marketing/sales (still figuring this out)
Keeping up with... well, everything

What's on your automation wish list?

Two smartphones displaying alternative thematic world maps. The left screen shows a split-continent map with countries grouped and resized by region (e.g., Europe, Africa, Asia) using color to indicate data levels (legend: Hoch, Mittel, Tief, Sehr tief). Smaller countries like Rwanda and Panama are clearly labeled and more visible due to the rearranged layout. The right screen displays a bubble map, where countries are represented by circles scaled to population size and shaded by data intensity. Larger countries like China and the U.S. have prominent bubbles, while smaller countries remain visible. Labels indicate population figures for Switzerland and China.

Better world maps for mobile!
Despite years of mobile-first design, there’s been little experimentation in this area. So we designed our own at NZZ – and validated it in a large user study.
Summary of the paper: jonasoesch.ch/articles/the... 1/3

We just launched Foursquare Spatial Desktop – a geospatial analysis tool powered by embedded DuckDB and built on sqlrooms.org. Everything runs locally: your data stays on your machine, no cloud needed. A modern reimagining of Kepler.gl. Mac only for now. More coming.
foursquare.com/products/spa...

Here's how the protocol works: github.com/permissionle...

‎bitchat mesh ‎chat with people around you. don't need their phone # or email. the sidegroupchat for any function. uses bluetooth mesh, no internet needed. relays messages to go the distance! encrypted private mes...

This new mesh communication app by Jack Dorsey is super cool! Smart features and it's free too. apps.apple.com/us/app/bitch...

Stay close to the source when reading about AI. The further you stray from official announcements and write-ups from the labs, the more likely you're exposed to noise. Assume all reporting is wrong by default unless from primary source. Here's a great list of trustworthy voices...

There are always a flood of posts about what AI can or cannot do, so it is worth pausing and paying attention to this OpenAI tweet. This is a very hard test, done without tools.

Getting gold was also viewed as an unlikely goal. Prediction markets had the chance of this happening this year as 20%

This open-source Trello app looks pretty great. Includes private/public boards and can be self-hosted. kan.bn

The free version is pretty good and the Pro plan is $28/year, which seems pretty reasonable and may help it stay alive.

Raindrop.io — All in One Bookmark Manager For your inspiration, read later, media and stuff

I went down this rabbit hole over the weekend and tried Instapaper, Raindrop, and looked into self-hosting something. Raindrop.io comes out on top for my needs. It works like Pocket but it's much cleaner for bookmark management and it's an easy migration. Lots of integrations and an API too.

what's the best way to quantify an opportunity according to the pain point it... Based on the various opportunity scoring methodologies, the most effective approach to quantify opportunities using pain point severity (0-1 scale) and...

What's the best way to quantify an opportunity according to the pain point it solves and potential revenue?

This answer using Claude-4.0 is pretty great.

What's your preferred approach?

#startups

www.perplexity.ai/search/what-...

YouTube video by Boston SciFi It's Quieter in the Twilight | Trailer | SF48

Here's the trailer. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vJT...

YouTube video by YouTube Movies It's Quieter in the Twilight

And the story of the Voyager project, beautifully told.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIP1...

Voyager 1 alive for another day with Hail Mary thruster fix : Failure could've triggered a small explosion

This is bad-ass engineering.

#space #engineering

www.theregister.com/2025/05/15/v...

🎶 strudel is a new live coding platform for writing dynamic music pieces in the browser. Free and open-source. Follow the links! This is a big rabbit hole. strudel.cc

Bar chart showing 651 NSF-funded research projects, with total terminated days in dark grey or red, completed days in light grey or red. Red highlights projects listed by Ted Cruz as "neo-Marxist class warfare propaganda".

For #TidyTuesday this week, we're looking at data on terminations of NSF grants 📊

🎨 Using colour to highlight one category
📈 Transparency to highlight the important data
✍️ Annotations instead of a legend for transparency

#RStats #ggplot2 #DataViz

I love this take!