2026-07-18

Map and Territory, Predictably Wrong

Crossposted (with small tweaks) from my Substack.What Do I Mean By “Rationality”?We distinguish epistemic rationality (making your beliefs more accurate) from instrumental rationality (succeeding at getting what you want).“rationality is...

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NextBSD returns to dollop Apple source on FreeBSD

NextBSD returns to dollop Apple source on FreeBSD

New maintainer revives the project with Darwin components, Gershwin, and Claude Code

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Golden Dome Could Cost $1,200,000,000,000 — or $185,000,000,000. Nobody Knows, Because Nobody Has Defined the Mission

Golden Dome Could Cost $1,200,000,000,000 — or $185,000,000,000. Nobody Knows, Because Nobody Has Defined the Mission

$175 billion, $185 billion, or $1.2 trillion — the price of Golden Dome depends on a question Washington hasn't answered: which war is the shield for?

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China Went From 200 Nuclear Warheads to Roughly 620 in Under a Decade — the Fastest Buildup on Earth

China Went From 200 Nuclear Warheads to Roughly 620 in Under a Decade — the Fastest Buildup on Earth

The fastest nuclear buildup on Earth is real — and the precise speed is less certain than the alarm implies. The full ledger of China's sprint: the numbers, the silos,...

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His A-10’s Cannon Malfunctioned Mid-Burst, Blew Off the Canopy, and Jammed the Nose Gear. He Landed on the Belly

His A-10’s Cannon Malfunctioned Mid-Burst, Blew Off the Canopy, and Jammed the Nose Gear. He Landed on the Belly

The gun the A-10 was built around turned on it mid-burst — canopy gone, radios dead, nose gear jammed. What Capt. Brett DeVries did next is why the Warthog's survivability...

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TradFi Volumes Triple, 12M Users Reached as BTCC Exchange Marks 15 Years

On July 10, BTCC hosted an exclusive VIP dinner in Ginza, Tokyo. The invitation-only event brought VIP clients together under the theme of "Tsumugi" (to weave),

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Hand Wave

Turn sign language into speech with smart glasses Discussion | Link

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Claude make Fable 5 permanent

Claude make Fable 5 permanent An update from the @claudeai account on Twitter: Beginning July 20, Claude Fable 5 will be included in all Max and Team Premium plans, at...

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The Lockheed Martin SR-72 ‘Son of Blackbird’ Will Never Hit Mach 6 As It Looks Doomed

The Lockheed Martin SR-72 ‘Son of Blackbird’ Will Never Hit Mach 6 As It Looks Doomed

A demonstrator was supposed to be flying by 2025. Instead: no photos, no leaks, no acknowledgment. What the silence around Lockheed's "Son of Blackbird" likely means — and the engine...

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nascheme/quixote

nascheme/quixote A certain vintage of Python web nerd might be delighted to learn that the most recent commit to the Quixote web framework was six hours ago. The oldest commit...

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ASMTwo 0.96y1 | PPA.pl

AsmTwo to assembler, który powstał na bazie Asm-One 1.02+. Jego główną zaletą jest zachowanie umiarkowanego zapotrzebowania na pamięć podczas programowania na Amidze 500. Wiąże się to jednak z niedogodnością w...

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The 5 AWS Services Every Developer Must Know to Build AI Products in 2026 (With Real Projects)

You don't need to know all 200+ AWS services to build AI products. You need these 5. Here's the complete beginner's guide to Amazon Bedrock, Lambda, API Gateway

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Flex Filament Stuck To Your Build Platform? Reach For The Isopropanol

Flex Filament Stuck To Your Build Platform? Reach For The Isopropanol

3D printing has been around long enough that everyone’s heard at least one weird trick regarding 3D prints. [Angus] of [Maker’s Muse] puts a few to the test, and came...

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PromptQL

Multiplayer AI that replaces Slack Discussion | Link

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How a Man Once Ordered to Pay Libel Damages Helped Launch an Investigation Into Islamic Private Schools

The post How a Man Once Ordered to Pay Libel Damages Helped Launch an Investigation Into Islamic Private Schools appeared first on ProPublica.

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MC2: The Best Marvel Alternate Universe You Never Heard of

MC2: The Best Marvel Alternate Universe You Never Heard of

The MC2, or Marvel Comics 2, is Marvel's best-kept secret.

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212 Blog Posts To Learn About Cloud Infrastructure

212 Blog Posts To Learn About Cloud Infrastructure

Learn everything you need to know about Cloud Infrastructure via these 212 free HackerNoon blog posts.

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Using Solar Air Heating to Dry Clothes

Using Solar Air Heating to Dry Clothes

About a month ago, [Greenhill Forge] built a few solar panels to collect energy from the sun. Unlike solar photovoltaics, which turn sunlight directly into electricity, these were designed to...

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The 6-Step Playbook for Building an AI-Powered Startup Without Burning Through Cash

AI has collapsed the cost of building a company — here's how to run lean, skip the Series A and keep control of what you build.

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The Most Forbidden Technique is not always forbidden

The Most Forbidden Technique is not always forbidden

A few days ago, Goodfire announced a private beta of Silico, their LLM training platform. As part of the announcement, they made a post describing Silico's reproduction of RLFR, a...

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