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May 31 Science
The Supplement That Works Is the One We Can't Patent
May 31 Business
Microsoft Didn't Break Your Office License. It Just Stopped Pretending Software Is a Product.
May 31 Software
The 'Domain Expertise Moat' Crowd Is Cheering the Wrong Victory
May 31 Software
The Build System Revolt Is Finally Here — and It's Not About Speed
May 30 Software
The SQLite Revival Is Proof That Developer Infrastructure Has Stopped Scaling With Ambition
May 30 Business
The Knowledge Economy Was Never About Knowledge
May 30 Business
The Dead Economy Theory Gets One Thing Wrong — and It's the Only Thing That Matters
May 30 AI
The Dead Economy Theory Gets the Diagnosis Right and the Patient Wrong
May 29 Business
If the Dead Economy Theory Is Right, Someone Tell the Stock Market
May 29 Business
The Lego Scandal Is Really About the Collapse of Hobbyist Law
May 29 Business
Anthropic Just Froze Prices. That's Bad News for the Competition.
May 29 AI
Anthropic Just Made 'I Don't Know' a Premium Feature. That Tells You Everything.
May 28 AI
The Opus 4.8 Chart Everyone Missed Wasn't a Chart At All
May 28 AI
YouTube's AI Labels Won't Stop the Flood. They Might Start One.
May 28 Business
The Question Isn't Whether You Deserve Fridays Off. It's Whether You Have the Leverage to Take Them.
May 28 AI
Google Isn't Losing Search Traffic. It's Losing the People Who Matter.
May 27 AI
They Found Product-Market Fit. We Found a Duopoly.
May 27 AI
What the Anti-AI Backlash Actually Reveals
May 27 Business
The Great Founder Handoff Is About Markets, Not Management
May 27 Business
Spain Didn't Just Ban Prediction Markets. It Handed Them a Regulatory Roadmap.
May 26 Business
The Housing Crisis Nobody Wants to Name: It's the Taxes, Not the Mortgage
May 26 Business
Ferrari's Electric Car Has 1,050 Horsepower and Weighs a Humvee. The Real Number Is the Price.
May 26 Policy
The Pope Didn't Write an AI Ethics Guide. He Wrote an Indictment of Voluntary Restraint.
May 26 Policy
California Just Admitted Its Age-Verification Law Was Never About Protecting Kids
May 25 Policy
The Vatican's AI Encyclical Is a Reminder That Silicon Valley Doesn't Get to Define What It Means to Be Human
May 25 Software
The Migration Guide Never Includes the Receipt
May 25 Software
Your Go-to-Rust Migration Isn't About Performance. It's a Hiring Ad.
May 25 AI
The Real AI Moat Isn't the Model. It's the Cache.
May 24 Business
Memory Chip Makers Just Became the Most Important Companies in AI
May 24 Business
The Desk Setup Blog Post Is the New Midlife Crisis Sports Car
May 24 AI
The Writerdeck Is a Confession, Not a Solution
May 24 Business
SpaceX Filed to Go Public the Same Week It Blew Up a Rocket. That's the Point.
May 23 Policy
The Green Card Rule Isn't a Cruelty. It's a Confession.
May 23 AI
The Microsoft-Claude Episode Proves AI Tooling Isn't a Market — It's a Mandate
May 23 Business
The Real Conglomerate Story Isn't Diversification — It's Who Finally Gets to Break Them Up
May 23 Software
The Bun Deprecation Isn't About JavaScript Engines — It's About Dependency Risk in Plain Sight
May 23 AI
Anna's Archive Just Asked AIs for a Donation. That Should Worry You.
May 23 Policy
Nobody Knows Who's Writing the Rules Anymore

October 2026

Anthropic's S-1 Was Written for a Jury, Not for You

AI's 80% Price Cut Is a Bailout for Corporate Procurement

The Ten-Year-Old Model Won. So Did the Ten-Year-Old Test.

Your Samsung TV's Security Team Is a Hacker News Thread

Two Hundred Thousand Creative Jobs Vanished. The Real Loss Is the Bottom Rung.

Your Software Isn't Timid Because of Washington. It's Timid Because of Underwriting.

Steal My Bitcoin Is the Only Falsifiable Claim in Crypto This Week

A Half-Hour Walk Is Not a Citation Standard

Kimi's 'Highspeed' Tier Is the Most Honest Thing an AI Lab Has Shipped This Year

Kimi Shipped a Point-One and a Trim Level. That's the Story.

The 'We' in 'We Hacked the iPhone' Is the Whole Story

OpenAI Can't Start 100 Companies, Because a Company Is a Defendant

The AI Consensus Isn't Ideology. It's a Reward Model With a Mouth.

Every Model Agrees About Humanity. That's a Marketing Problem, Not a Safety One.

Three Nights in Jail Over a Cash App Account She Says She Never Opened

The Only Profitable Trust Business Is the One the State Grants You

Anthropic Called It a Duet. Copyright Law Only Counts One Author.

Claude Duet Has 365 Comments and Nothing You Can Test

PHP Shipped the Patch. The Problem Is Everything After It.

The Software Industry Has Two Economies, and Only One Gets a Keynote

Eight Bits of Trust: The Audit Certified the Ceremony, Not the Key

Stop Asking What to Teach Him. Ask Who Will Hire Him.

Your Son Doesn't Need a Curriculum. He Needs a Building.

DeepSeek Gave Away Its Inference Engine. Read the Hardware List First.

DeepSeek Didn't Give Away Its Engine. It Set the Benchmark.

The DeepSeek Ban's Real Target Isn't DeepSeek — It's Your Vendor's Family Tree

AI Code Doesn't Need More Reviewers. It Needs Someone to Blame.

The Joy Was Never the Perk. It Was the Apprenticeship.

Math Has Never Been More Valuable. Its Departments Have Never Been More Expendable.

Your Domain Isn't Property, and That's Why the Right Ignores It

DeepSeek's $0.75 Search Isn't a Price War. It's a Carve-Out With a Meter.

The Holmes Documentary Isn't the Deception. The Paper Trail Is.

Gold Is America's Top Export. That Says Almost Nothing About America.

Solar Didn't Beat Nuclear — the Megaproject Beat Itself

DeepSeek Shipped a Model and Nobody Had to Agree to It

Tesla's Real Roadster Innovation: a $50,000 Deposit and No Published Price

The Tesla Roadster Is a Marketing Budget Disguised as a Car

The Flying Tesla Roadster Is a Confession, Not a Flex

In Waco, Tesla Unveils the Most Successful Car It Never Built

YouTube Didn't Ban AI Slop — It Banned the Redemption Arc

Meta's Muse Spark Open Won a Trophy With a Nationality on It

The Spyware Business Learned to Look Like an Ad Business

Mathematics Got a Verifier. The Rest of Us Got Vibes.

Your Dentist Might Be Great. Nobody Will Ever Audit the Filling.

The Dentist Question Isn't About Trust. It's About the Bill.

The Badge Company Joined the Password Board

The Amazon Price-Fixing Case Has a Missing Defendant

Google Turned AI Safety Into a Guest List

The Fairwind Program Wasn't a Safety Gate. It Was a Sales Funnel.

HomeView Is Not a Gadget. It's a Twenty-Year Promise Apple Hasn't Made.

Apple's HomeView and the Singular-User Bug That Killed the Smart Home

The New 2CV Is a Memorial to the Cheap Car Europe No Longer Builds

Europe's Fridges Weren't Hacked. Its Thermometers Were.

The AI Labs Are Strip-Mining the One Commons That Still Works

The AI Capability Gap Is a Scoreboard Problem, Not an Access Problem

Twenty-Five Fields Medalists Aren't Scared of AI. They're Auditing the Benchmarks.

IRCv3 Has Eight Clients and One Bot That Actually Matters

A Drone Doesn't Check Your Cloud's Passport

The Details Didn't Disappear. They Got Certified.

Value Up, Taxes Down: Wyoming's Exemption Is a Rate Cut With an Expiration Date

Anti-Circumvention Was Enforced by Inconvenience. REA Just Automated It.

TypeSafe's $7.5B Round Is Not a Bubble Story. It's an Audit Story.

Oxide's $445M Doesn't Prove On-Prem Is Back. It Proves Compute Grew a Balance Sheet.

Cloudflare Just Bought the Only Exit From Cloudflare

OpenAI Retracted Three Papers. That Was the Only Trustworthy Part.

The Only Firm DeepSeek Disrupted This September Was DeepSeek

Vance Called H-1B Workers Indentured Servants. His Fix Makes the Indenture Permanent.

OpenAI Says It Solved 372 Math Problems. Who Audits the Checker?

OpenAI's 722 Proofs Aren't a Trust Problem. They're a Credit Problem.

OpenAI Published 722 Proofs. It Should Have Published the 3,278 It Binned.

Mistral's Real Product Isn't a Model — It's a Defense Contract

Mistral Didn't Open-Source Its Model. It Outsourced Its Paperwork.

Mistral's €21 Billion Bet: Europe Is Buying a Logo, Not Sovereignty

Common Lisp's Real Advantage Is That Nobody Has Updated It Since 1994

ChatGPT Didn't Steal the Cartoon. It Stole the Signature.

Anthropic Called the Cops on a Diary Entry. The Real Scandal Is Who Decides.

Apple Promised 14 GB of AI. macOS 27 Delivered 29.

Nebraska's Data Center Numbers Weren't Secret. They Were One Ctrl-C Away.