Wikipedia hosting costs are 1.5% of revenue(pallasblog.substack.com)

31 points by LucasLanglois 3 years ago | 5 comments

The giant basket case countries(noahpinion.blog)

21 points by paulpauper 11 months ago | 13 comments

The Techno-Optimist Manifesto(pmarca.substack.com)

4 points by jger15 3 years ago | 0 comments

Why do we have weird LLM sizes like 3B, 7B, 13B, 33B, 70B? Who invented those?(old.reddit.com)

9 points by mtmail 2 years ago | 4 comments

Is Steve Ballmer the Most Underrated CEO of the 21st Century?(blog.jovono.com)

28 points by ejz 2 years ago | 44 comments

Hal Finney Was Not Satoshi Nakamoto(blog.lopp.net)

70 points by greyface- 3 years ago | 81 comments

What Is the Karakoram Anomaly?(nsidc.org)

74 points by thunderbong 6 days ago | 25 comments

An NSIDC Ask a Scientist article explaining the Karakoram Anomaly, where Karakoram glaciers have gained mass, and the proposed causes and open questions.

Stuck in the Suez Canal – the short version (2021)(cathsenker.co.uk)

54 points by joebig 29 days ago | 7 comments

Blog post by author Cath Senker summarizing her book about ships stranded in the Suez Canal after the 1967 Six-Day War.

A skeptic's first contact with Kubernetes (2024)(blog.davidv.dev)

109 points by pmoriarty 9 days ago | 63 comments

A blog post in which a longtime infrastructure engineer, skeptical of Kubernetes, explains its components and the reasoning and tradeoffs behind them.

The pro-Israel information war(jackpoulson.substack.com)

658 points by anigbrowl 2 years ago | 1067 comments

A Substack investigation by Jack Poulson and Lee Fang into Israeli government-led efforts to shape online discourse and silence pro-Palestinian voices, citing Zoom calls and WhatsApp logs.

Where do the children play?(unpublishablepapers.substack.com)

363 points by casca 11 months ago | 242 comments

A Substack essay by Eli Stark-Elster on Unpublishable Papers arguing children need spaces and a world free of adult supervision to play.

What is a Vector Database? (2021)(pinecone.io)

359 points by gk1 3 years ago | 190 comments

Pinecone's explainer article on what vector databases are and how they store and search embeddings for AI applications.