Bicycle(ciechanow.ski)
2962 points by todsacerdoti | 336 comments
Bartosz Ciechanowski's interactive explainer article on how bicycles work, covering the physics of riding, steering, and balance with 3D demonstrations.
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Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter(futureoflife.org)
949 points by jiripospisil | 887 comments
Future of Life Institute open letter calling on AI labs to pause training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4 for at least six months, with a signature count.
Senate Bill to Ban TikTok(congress.gov)
485 points by WUMBOWUMBO | 440 comments
Congress.gov page for S.686, the RESTRICT Act, a 118th Congress Senate bill sponsored by Sen. Mark Warner, introduced March 7, 2023 and referred to the Commerce Committee.
Treat your to-read pile like a river, not a bucket(oliverburkeman.com)
352 points by pps | 170 comments
Oliver Burkeman essay arguing readers should treat their backlog of books, articles and podcasts as a flowing river to dip into rather than a bucket to empty.
Incompetent but Nice(jacobian.org)
258 points by nemoniac | 275 comments
Awk Technical Notes(maximullaris.com)
141 points by todsacerdoti | 27 comments
BASIC is anything but dead(theregister.com)
102 points by samizdis | 95 comments
