A 2024 plea for lean software
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The CHIPS Act treats the symptoms, but not the causes
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When US railroad workers get hurt on the job, some supervisors go to extremes to keep it quiet
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How Nikola Jokić became the world’s best basketball player
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Polyamory, the ruling class’s latest fad
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Forever 2014
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New report shows that a crowded historic neighborhood suffered disproportionate casualties in Lahaina Hawaii fire
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Over three decades, tech obliterated media - my front-row seat to a slow-moving catastrophe
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I is for Intent: why your app turned into spaghetti
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Northern Ireland elects Irish nationalist First Minister Michelle O'Neill
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Reverse engineering standard cell logic in the Intel 386 processor
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Everyone’s a sellout now
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Only the Middle East can fix the Middle East – The path to a post-American regional order
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Seismic City by Joanna Dyl: an economic class and political history of the aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake
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Apple Vision Pro review: magic, until it’s not
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A partisan solution to partisan gerrymandering
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How a US mining firm sued Mexico for billions – for trying to protect its own seabed
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Blood, guns, and broken scooters: Inside the chaotic rise and fall of Bird
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"By all means, go after big tech. But for the love of the next generation, don’t pretend that it’s going to help vulnerable youth."
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Inventing the perfect US college applicant – For $120,000 a year, Christopher Rim promises to turn any student into Ivy bait
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Inside the strange, secretive rise of the 'overemployed'
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Fundamental questions about ovaries may unlock longer human lifespan. Philanthropist Nicole Shanahan is spending to find answers.
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Why we can’t build family-sized apartments in North America
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The man in room 117 – Andrey Shevelyov would rather live on the street than take antipsychotic medication. Should it be his decision to make?
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Why flying insects gather at artificial light
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For the first time: system roms, data dumps, scans and photographs, and a MAME driver for the little-known Sega AI
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Recruited to play sports, and win a culture war
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What it takes to manufacture 3D printers in Europe
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Inside the decades-long fight over Yahoo's misdeeds in China
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Rob Pardo on World of Warcraft (2006)
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A wolf killed EU president Ursula von der Leyen’s family pony, it ignited a high-stakes battle
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A cycle of misery: The business of building commercial aircraft
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I assure you, an AI didn't write a terrible "George Carlin" routine
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Inside the crime rings trafficking sand
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Prisoners in the US are part of a hidden workforce linked to hundreds of popular food brands
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Precipice of fear: the freerider who took skiing to its limits
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Beatriz Flamini, the woman who spent five hundred days in a cave
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The new architecture wars
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‘America is under attack’: Inside the anti-D.E.I. crusade
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Dan Wang - 2023 letter
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China’s age of malaise
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How Nellie Bly and other trailblazing women wrote creative nonfiction in English before it was a thing
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The farmers had what the billionaires wanted
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Coming of age at the dawn of the social internet (LiveJournal, AIM, and other pre-Facebook internet things)
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Loneliness results from an isolating society, not individual failures to pursue connection
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Inside the mechanical Bendix Air Data Computer, part 3: pressure transducers
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Michael Bloomberg's funding keeps US gun control advocacy on a tight messaging leash
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The Inside Story of PC Magazine, PC World, and Macworld's Origins, as Told by David Bunnell
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Tools for thinking about censorship
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The tyranny of the algorithm: why every coffee shop looks the same
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