The Amazon tax(seths.blog)
1311 points by herbertl | 659 comments
Seth Godin blog post arguing Amazon's search ad revenue functions as a tax on merchants and publishers, distorting search results for shoppers.
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I like 'em thick: an apology to my English teachers(experimental-history.com)
818 points by Ariarule | 328 comments
Adam Mastroianni's Experimental History Substack essay "I like 'em thick," subtitled an apology to his English teachers, apparently about writing style.
Beware Management Consultants(about.iceland.co.uk)
553 points by KolmogorovComp | 149 comments
A page from Iceland Foods' company history section recounting the 2001–2005 'Dark Ages' period and a warning about management consultants.
Google has acquired the data of failed US airline Spirit(theregister.com)
544 points by pseudolus | 371 comments
The Register article reporting that Google paid $10 million at auction for defunct Spirit Airlines' data, including emails and recorded calls, for AI use.
Linux 7.3 improves performance when running out of vRAM(pixelcluster.dev)
501 points by flaburgan | 266 comments
Blog post explaining kernel patches merged for Linux 7.3 that improve how games behave when they use more VRAM than the GPU physically has.
Cerebras CS-4(cerebras.ai)
441 points by sunils34 | 256 comments
Cerebras product page introducing the CS-4, which the company bills as the fastest AI accelerator in the industry.
How does IKEA come up with names for its products?(ikea.com)
436 points by NaOH | 308 comments
IKEA Sweden customer service FAQ explaining how the company names its products and the rules behind the naming system.
Hister – A private, full content search index that you control(hister.org)
423 points by auraham | 94 comments
Landing page for Hister, free software that indexes pages you visit and your files into a private, self-controlled full-content search engine.
Using the railway network as a flatbed scanner(philo.gay)
419 points by otherayden | 69 comments
Personal blog post describing using an industrial linear scanning camera to capture very wide photos from trains and ferries, with example images.
And then the men with guns tell you to do it anyway(shkspr.mobi)
399 points by _djo_ | 317 comments
Terence Eden blog post on how governments can force tech companies to comply, starting with Egypt's 2011 forced mobile phone alerts during the revolution.
Fixing a bricked Framework laptop(quantum5.ca)
394 points by jp_sc | 264 comments
A personal blog post describing how the author recovered a Framework 13 AMD 7040 laptop bricked by a failed BIOS 3.20 update using about $20 of tools.
Mojo is now open source(modular.com)
390 points by visheshdembla | 88 comments
Modular blog post announcing that the Mojo programming language is now open source.
A 3D fruit fly on macOS desktop powered by the real FlyWire connectome(github.com)
364 points by phoenix120 | 173 comments
GitHub repository for DesktopFly, a macOS app showing a 3D fruit fly on the desktop driven by a live spiking simulation of the FlyWire connectome.
Scientists stunned by children's lung recovery in ultra low emission zone(bbc.com)
362 points by dabinat | 315 comments
BBC News article reporting that scientists found notable improvements in children's lung health within London's ultra low emission zone.
Sticky wage norms and the real wage cost of unexpected inflation(bfi.uchicago.edu)
355 points by jplusequalt | 214 comments
A Becker Friedman Institute working paper by Hurst, Patterson, Richardson, and Wang on sticky wage norms and how unexpected inflation erodes real wages.
Fairphone is now officially available in the United States(fairphone.com)
333 points by Vinnl | 171 comments
Fairphone blog story about the Fairphone Gen 6 smartphone, shared with news of the company's official availability in the United States.
Git at any scale(cursor.com)
331 points by meetpateltech | 104 comments
Cursor research blog post by Vicent Martí about scaling Git to handle very large repositories.
typ.ing(typ.ing)
321 points by bookofjoe | 102 comments
typ.ing is a minimalist web-based typing trainer by keyboard maker ZSA, showing an onboarding text with accuracy, speed, and time stats.
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Sol loves to cheat(jumploops.com)
217 points by jumploops | 177 comments
The Benchmarkpocalypse(danluu.com)
147 points by cyndunlop | 46 comments
Composable Tests(newsletter.kentbeck.com)
50 points by vinipolicena | 37 comments
