Weird A.I. Yankovic: a cursed deep dive into the world of voice cloning(waxy.org)

297 points by waxpancake 3 years ago | 170 comments

The Bitcoin whitepaper is hidden in every copy of macOS(waxy.org)

768 points by waxpancake 3 years ago | 357 comments

Andy Baio's Waxy.org post reporting that a PDF of Satoshi Nakamoto's Bitcoin whitepaper ships with every copy of macOS since Catalina.

The washing machine in my ear, and an empty boat(blog.klungo.no)

86 points by danielskogly 3 years ago | 45 comments

Castlevania and Bloodstained developer Shutaro Ida dies aged 52(dexerto.com)

33 points by magoghm 8 months ago | 5 comments

Dostoyevsky isn't difficult(autodidacts.io)

212 points by surprisetalk 4 months ago | 268 comments

Omg.lol: An Oasis on the Internet(blakewatson.com)

706 points by blakewatson 2 years ago | 310 comments

A personal blog post by Blake Watson describing omg.lol, a community web service, as a refuge after leaving Twitter.

It’s been a very hard year(bell.bz)

363 points by surprisetalk 10 months ago | 451 comments

Andy Bell's blog post on how 2025 was a very hard year for his bootstrapped company Set Studio/Piccalilli due to economics, tariffs, politics and AI attitudes.

Private equity is buying everything from vet offices to tech conglomerates(theverge.com)

482 points by Brajeshwar 3 years ago | 312 comments

A Verge Decoder interview with prosecutor Brendan Ballou on how private equity buys companies from vet offices to tech firms, why the system is broken, and fixes.

The Mathocalypse(scottaaronson.blog)

15 points by philipfweiss 19 days ago | 1 comments

Scott Aaronson's Shtetl-Optimized blog post reacting to OpenAI releasing hundreds of AI-solved major math results, including one his wife worked on.

Big data is dead (2023)(motherduck.com)

548 points by armanke13 2 years ago | 428 comments

A 2023 MotherDuck blog post by Jordan Tigani arguing that the era of big data is over and most organizations' data workloads are small.

AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt(futurism.com)

628 points by technewssss 3 months ago | 317 comments

Futurism article reporting that AI companies are using off-balance-sheet arrangements to hide large amounts of debt.

Radio Days(oldster.substack.com)

5 points by NaOH 4 days ago | 2 comments

A personal essay in Oldster Magazine where Michael A. Gonzales recalls childhood mornings in Harlem listening to WNEW and WABC radio and how it shaped his musical taste.