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| 1 | +--- |
| 2 | +title: "January, February, March 2025" |
| 3 | +date: 2025-03-25 |
| 4 | +--- |
| 5 | + |
| 6 | +[the ultimate guide to holding world class dinner parties](https://auren.substack.com/p/the-ultimate-guide-to-holding-world) |
| 7 | + |
| 8 | +[H5N1: Much More Than You Wanted To Know](https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/h5n1-much-more-than-you-wanted-to) |
| 9 | + |
| 10 | +[Saying Goodbye to 2024](https://kottke.org/24/12/saying-goodbye-to-2024) |
| 11 | + |
| 12 | +[Databases in 2024: A Year in Review](https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pavlo/blog/2025/01/2024-databases-retrospective.html) |
| 13 | + |
| 14 | +[Gource - a software version control visualization tool](https://gource.io/) |
| 15 | + |
| 16 | +[Thermoelectric cooling - Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermoelectric_cooling) |
| 17 | + |
| 18 | +[Kakizome, Japanese way of new-years resolution](https://harimus.github.io//2025/01/02/kakizome.html) |
| 19 | + |
| 20 | +[Stimulation Clicker](https://neal.fun/stimulation-clicker/) |
| 21 | + |
| 22 | +[numtide/nits: Nix & NATS](https://github.com/numtide/nits) |
| 23 | + |
| 24 | +[I’ve acquired a new superpower](https://danielwirtz.com/blog/spot-the-difference-superpower) |
| 25 | + |
| 26 | +[A Home for High School Hackers – Hack Club](https://hackclub.com/) |
| 27 | + |
| 28 | +[Who would have won the Simon-Ehrlich bet over different decades, and what do long-term prices tell us about resource scarcity?](https://ourworldindata.org/simon-ehrlich-bet) |
| 29 | + |
| 30 | +[Hotel booking sites caught overcharging travelers from Bay Area](https://www.sfgate.com/travel/article/hotel-booking-sites-overcharge-bay-area-travelers-20025145.php) |
| 31 | + |
| 32 | +[in the belly of the MrBeast](https://kevinmunger.substack.com/p/in-the-belly-of-the-mrbeast) |
| 33 | + |
| 34 | +[A Personal Note From Our Founder – Hindenburg Research](https://hindenburgresearch.com/gratitude/) |
| 35 | + |
| 36 | +[ClockworkPi Disks Collection](http://dl.clockworkpi.com/) |
| 37 | + |
| 38 | +[Oh Shit, Git!?!](https://ohshitgit.com/) |
| 39 | + |
| 40 | +[Nepenthes](https://zadzmo.org/code/nepenthes/) Web crawlers tarpit |
| 41 | + |
| 42 | +[awesome-launch](https://github.com/KingMenes/awesome-launch) |
| 43 | + |
| 44 | +[The Slop Society](https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-slop-society/) |
| 45 | + |
| 46 | +[Scaling to millions of users requires Synapse Pro](https://element.io/blog/scaling-to-millions-of-users-requires-synapse-pro/) |
| 47 | + |
| 48 | +[The most viewed articles of 2024 - Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2025-01-15/Traffic_report) |
| 49 | + |
| 50 | +[Qbix/Platform: Free, open-source community platform](https://github.com/Qbix/Platform) |
| 51 | + |
| 52 | +[joke.md](https://gist.github.com/simonw/f505ce733a435c8fc8fdf3448e3816b0) |
| 53 | + |
| 54 | +[Dry Eye Stuff - Blink Counter](https://dryeyestuff.com/) |
| 55 | + |
| 56 | +[Fluorescent Mineral Photography](https://www.naturesrainbows.com/photography) |
| 57 | + |
| 58 | +[Stratoshark](https://stratoshark.org/) |
| 59 | + |
| 60 | +[Origins of Common Unix Programs](https://darwinsys.com/history/origins.html) |
| 61 | + |
| 62 | +[The Most Detailed Map of US Waters That You’ve Ever Seen](https://www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/products/arcgis-living-atlas/water/the-most-detailed-map-of-us-waters-that-youve-ever-seen/) |
| 63 | + |
| 64 | +[Steadybit Reliability Hub](https://hub.steadybit.com/) |
| 65 | + |
| 66 | +[The Gamma Of Levered ETFs](https://blog.moontower.ai/the-gamma-of-levered-etfs/) |
| 67 | + |
| 68 | +[NYC Subwaysheds](https://subwaysheds.com/) |
| 69 | + |
| 70 | +[Urban legend: I think there is a world market for maybe five computers](https://geekhistory.com/content/urban-legend-i-think-there-world-market-maybe-five-computers) |
| 71 | + |
| 72 | +[Search Workation-Friendly Hotels](https://www.tripoffice.com/maps) |
| 73 | + |
| 74 | +[Viral 'Challah Horse' Image Zuckerberg Loved Was Originally Created as a Warning About Facebook's AI Slop](https://www.404media.co/viral-challah-horse-zuckerberg-loved-was-created-as-a-warning-about-facebooks-ai-slop/) |
| 75 | + |
| 76 | +[Nokia's Weird Y2K Designs Show the Future We Could Have Had](https://www.404media.co/nokia-design-archive-aalto-university/) |
| 77 | + |
| 78 | +[clush — clustershell 1.9.3 documentation](https://clustershell.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tools/clush.html) |
| 79 | + |
| 80 | +[The winners of Rest of World’s photography contest](https://restofworld.org/2025/tech-photography-contest-winners/) |
| 81 | + |
| 82 | +[Exploring the new "go tool" support in Go 1.24](https://blog.howardjohn.info/posts/go-tools-command/) |
| 83 | + |
| 84 | +[keymapper](https://github.com/houmain/keymapper) |
| 85 | + |
| 86 | +[Deep Impact](https://www.wheresyoured.at/deep-impact/) |
| 87 | + |
| 88 | +[exelban/stats: macOS system monitor in your menu bar](https://github.com/exelban/stats) |
| 89 | + |
| 90 | +[Deutsche Bank has published a bunch of memes about DeepSeek](https://www.ft.com/content/4b39c2d8-56d0-439f-9eb5-0b16b31bd301) |
| 91 | + |
| 92 | +[containers/ramalama: The goal of RamaLama is to make working with AI boring.](https://github.com/containers/ramalama) |
| 93 | + |
| 94 | +[The Failed Strategy of Artificial Intelligence Doomers](https://www.palladiummag.com/2025/01/31/the-failed-strategy-of-artificial-intelligence-doomers/) |
| 95 | + |
| 96 | +[Value Investors Club](https://www.valueinvestorsclub.com/) |
| 97 | + |
| 98 | +[3 Tools for 2025](http://yosemitesam.ch/3-tools-for-2025/) |
| 99 | + |
| 100 | +[String of recent killings linked to Bay Area 'death cult'](https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/bay-area-death-cult-zizian-murders-20064333.php) |
| 101 | + |
| 102 | +[Bizarre details uncovered about alleged Bay Area 'death cult' leader](https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/leader-alleged-bay-area-death-cult-faked-death-sf-20066610.php) |
| 103 | + |
| 104 | +[The Economic and Fiscal Effects of the |
| 105 | +Trump Administration’s Proposed Tariffs](https://budgetlab.yale.edu/sites/default/files/2025-01/The%20Economic%20and%20Fiscal%20Effects%20of%20the%20Trump%20Administration_1.pdf) |
| 106 | + |
| 107 | +[OWASP Non-Human Identities Top 10](https://owasp.org/www-project-non-human-identities-top-10/2025/table-of-contents/) |
| 108 | + |
| 109 | +[FizzBee](https://fizzbee.io/) model checking |
| 110 | + |
| 111 | +[What’s Going on at the FBI?](https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-situation--what-s-going-on-at-the-fbi) |
| 112 | + |
| 113 | +[Ambsheets: Spreadsheets for exploring scenarios](https://www.inkandswitch.com/ambsheets/) |
| 114 | + |
| 115 | +[Go Module Mirror served backdoor to devs for 3+ years](https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/02/backdoored-package-in-go-mirror-site-went-unnoticed-for-3-years/) |
| 116 | + |
| 117 | +[Byte Queue Limits: the unauthorized biography](https://medium.com/@tom_84912/byte-queue-limits-the-unauthorized-biography-61adc5730b83) |
| 118 | + |
| 119 | +[Technical Credit](https://cacm.acm.org/opinion/technical-credit/) |
| 120 | + |
| 121 | +[Eggs US Price Chart](https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/eggs-us) |
| 122 | + |
| 123 | +[Beej's Guide to Git](https://beej.us/guide/bggit/) |
| 124 | + |
| 125 | +[Model City Monday 2/3/25](https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/model-city-monday-2325) |
| 126 | + |
| 127 | +[2025_01_21_voronoi](https://redpenguin101.github.io/html/posts/2025_01_21_voronoi.html) |
| 128 | + |
| 129 | +[VSCode’s SSH Agent Is Bananas](https://fly.io/blog/vscode-ssh-wtf/) |
| 130 | + |
| 131 | +[Color Life](https://colorlife.quick.jaredforsyth.com/) |
| 132 | + |
| 133 | +[Tapestry • Your favorite blogs, social media, and more in a unified and chronological timeline](https://usetapestry.com/) |
| 134 | + |
| 135 | +[List of executive orders in the second presidency of Donald Trump - Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_executive_orders_in_the_second_presidency_of_Donald_Trump) |
| 136 | + |
| 137 | +[Your AI can’t see gorillas – Chiraag Gohel](https://chiraaggohel.com/posts/llms-eda/) |
| 138 | + |
| 139 | +[mierau/hotline: A modern Hotline client for Mac, iOS, and iPadOS](https://github.com/mierau/hotline) |
| 140 | + |
| 141 | +[PeerAuth](https://ksze.github.io/PeerAuth/) |
| 142 | + |
| 143 | +[WTF are Popcorn Tasks?](https://madole.xyz/blog/wtf-are-popcorn-tasks) |
| 144 | + |
| 145 | +[MODERN-DAY ORACLES or BULLSHIT MACHINES?](https://thebullshitmachines.com/) |
| 146 | + |
| 147 | +[dpc/rostra: Rostra is a p2p (f2f) social network.](https://github.com/dpc/rostra) |
| 148 | + |
| 149 | +[bytedance/sonic: A blazingly fast JSON serializing & deserializing library](https://github.com/bytedance/sonic) |
| 150 | + |
| 151 | +[Some terminal frustrations](https://jvns.ca/blog/2025/02/05/some-terminal-frustrations/) |
| 152 | + |
| 153 | +[How DeepSeek Chatbot Engineers Microsecond-Level Golang Optimizations for Elite Systems](https://medium.com/@jamal.kaksouri/beyond-chatgpt-how-deepseek-chatbot-engineers-microsecond-level-golang-optimizations-for-elite-f634be3442f6) |
| 154 | + |
| 155 | +[Introducing the Anthropic Economic Index](https://www.anthropic.com/news/the-anthropic-economic-index) |
| 156 | + |
| 157 | +[100 Most Watched Software Engineering Talks Of 2024](https://www.techtalksweekly.io/p/100-most-watched-software-engineering) |
| 158 | + |
| 159 | +[Electronics Flea Market](https://www.electronicsfleamarket.com/) |
| 160 | + |
| 161 | +[The Man in Seat 61](https://www.seat61.com) trains travel |
| 162 | + |
| 163 | +[Inference - Cerebras](https://cerebras.ai/inference) |
| 164 | + |
| 165 | +[I Tasted Honda's Spicy Rodent-Repelling Tape - by Liz Cook](https://haterade.substack.com/p/i-tasted-hondas-spicy-rodent-repelling) |
| 166 | + |
| 167 | +[Watt The Fox?](https://h.43z.one/blog/2025-02-12/) |
| 168 | + |
| 169 | +[Only About 40% Of The Cruz "Woke Science" Database Is Woke Science](https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/only-about-40-of-the-cruz-woke-science) |
| 170 | + |
| 171 | +[The Generative AI Con](https://www.wheresyoured.at/longcon/) |
| 172 | + |
| 173 | +[Msty - Using AI Models made Simple and Easy](https://msty.app/) |
| 174 | + |
| 175 | +[Kafka at the low end: how bad can it get?](https://broot.ca/kafka-at-the-low-end.html) |
| 176 | + |
| 177 | +[Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup - Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeon_Crawl_Stone_Soup) |
| 178 | + |
| 179 | +[Sutro Tower in 3D](https://vincentwoo.com/3d/sutro_tower/) |
| 180 | + |
| 181 | +[Five Kinds of Nondeterminism](https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/five-kinds-of-nondeterminism/) |
| 182 | + |
| 183 | +[comma.ai — make driving chill](https://comma.ai/) |
| 184 | + |
| 185 | +[The Buffett Indicator: Market Cap to GDP](https://www.longtermtrends.net/market-cap-to-gdp-the-buffett-indicator/) |
| 186 | + |
| 187 | +[AI-CHRO | Workforce Management for the Agentic Future](https://ai-chro.org/) |
| 188 | + |
| 189 | +[Lives Of The Rationalist Saints](https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/lives-of-the-rationalist-saints) |
| 190 | + |
| 191 | +[It is no longer safe to move our governments and societies to US clouds](https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/you-can-no-longer-base-your-government-and-society-on-us-clouds/) |
| 192 | + |
| 193 | +[corporate.watch](https://corporate.watch/) |
| 194 | + |
| 195 | +[Administrative Bloat At U.S. Colleges Is Skyrocketing](https://www.forbes.com/sites/paulweinstein/2023/08/28/administrative-bloat-at-us-colleges-is-skyrocketing/) |
| 196 | + |
| 197 | +[Jane Street Open Source](https://opensource.janestreet.com/) |
| 198 | + |
| 199 | +[iMac G4(K)](https://jcs.org/2025/02/26/imacg4k) |
| 200 | + |
| 201 | +[Indentation style - Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indentation_style) |
| 202 | + |
| 203 | +[GitHub - PennyroyalTea/gibberlink: Two conversational AI agents switching from English to sound-level protocol after confirming they are both AI agents](https://github.com/PennyroyalTea/gibberlink) |
| 204 | + |
| 205 | +[An axiomatic analysis of the papal conclave](https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00199-019-01180-0#Abs1) |
| 206 | + |
| 207 | +[macOS Tips & Tricks](https://saurabhs.org/macos-tips) |
| 208 | + |
| 209 | +[how to gain code execution on millions of people and hundreds of popular apps](https://kibty.town/blog/todesktop/) |
| 210 | + |
| 211 | +[Mozilla ToS updates (fix #16016) (#16018)](https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock/commit/d459addab846d8144b61939b7f4310eb80c5470e) |
| 212 | + |
| 213 | +[Ladybird](https://ladybird.org/) |
| 214 | + |
| 215 | +[That Time the City of Seattle Accidentally Gave Me 32m Emails for 40 Dollars](https://mchap.io/that-time-the-city-of-seattle-accidentally-gave-me-32m-emails-for-40-dollars4997.html) |
| 216 | + |
| 217 | +[Hot take: GPT 4.5 is a nothing burger](https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/hot-take-gpt-45-is-a-nothing-burger) |
| 218 | + |
| 219 | +[Was Harvey Weinstein thanked more often than God at the Oscars?](https://stephenfollows.com/p/harvey-weinstein-thanked-more-than-god) |
| 220 | + |
| 221 | +[Matt's Script Archive, Inc. :: Free Perl CGI Scripts](https://www.scriptarchive.com/) |
| 222 | + |
| 223 | +[olduse.net](https://olduse.net/) |
| 224 | + |
| 225 | +[Ethan Evans on X: "As a retired Amazon VP (...)](https://x.com/EthanEvansVP/status/1895845734177452369) |
| 226 | + |
| 227 | +[Chicago Parking Ticket Visualization](https://mchap.io/parking-ticket-visualization-in-chicago.html) |
| 228 | + |
| 229 | +[Nomadic Infrastructure Design for AI Workloads](https://www.tigrisdata.com/blog/nomadic-compute/) |
| 230 | + |
| 231 | +[Mapping the French Culinary Network](https://theophilecantelob.re/blog/2025/foudinge/) |
| 232 | + |
| 233 | +[Upside Down Air Force - A56UDAF](https://www.frontiernet.net/%7Eatlasf/A56UDAF.htm) |
| 234 | + |
| 235 | +[Arc Blanc: a real time ocean simulation framework](https://jcgt.org/published/0014/01/05/) |
| 236 | + |
| 237 | +[A shirt whose price increases by 1 Euro with every purchase](https://driesdepoorter.be/shirt/) |
| 238 | + |
| 239 | +[Augmented Intelligence](https://onlineonly.christies.com/s/augmented-intelligence/lots/3837) |
| 240 | + |
| 241 | +[Q1 2025 Poll on downtown recovery (SF)](https://growsf.org/pulse/growsf-pulse-february-2025/) |
| 242 | + |
| 243 | +[Discover European products and services](https://www.goeuropean.org/) |
| 244 | + |
| 245 | +[seven39](https://www.seven39.com/) |
| 246 | + |
| 247 | +[Microsoft’s Bing uses Google search results—and denies it](https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/microsofts-bing-uses-google-search.html) |
| 248 | + |
| 249 | +[List of P2P file sharing tools](https://gist.github.com/SMUsamaShah/fd6e275e44009b72f64d0570256bb3b2) |
| 250 | + |
| 251 | +[The Future is Niri](https://ersei.net/en/blog/niri) |
| 252 | + |
| 253 | +[melancholytron/MatrixQtt: Mqtt as a matrix screensaver](https://github.com/melancholytron/MatrixQtt/tree/main) |
| 254 | + |
| 255 | +[Gödel, Escher, Bach, and AI](https://archive.is/YCgdP) |
| 256 | + |
| 257 | +[340 European Cities Restrict Usage of Cars](https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/03/15/056253/340-european-cities-restrict-usage-of-cars) |
| 258 | + |
| 259 | +[Hunting for one-in-a-million bugs in NATS](https://antithesis.com/blog/2025/synadia/) |
| 260 | + |
| 261 | +[Tool Will Be Sued by 100 Fans After Festival Set List Drama](https://www.vulture.com/article/tool-lawsuit-100-fans-festival-setlist.html) |
| 262 | + |
| 263 | +[CoreWeave Is A Time Bomb](https://www.wheresyoured.at/core-incompetency/) |
| 264 | + |
| 265 | +[CVE-2024-9956 - PassKey Account Takeover in All Mobile Browsers](https://mastersplinter.work/research/passkey/) |
| 266 | + |
| 267 | +[Business Development Company (BDC)](https://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/bdc.asp) |
| 268 | + |
| 269 | +[Leaking Passwords (and more!) on macOS](https://wts.dev/posts/password-leak/) |
| 270 | + |
| 271 | +[MySQL transactions per second vs fsyncs per second](https://sirupsen.com/napkin/problem-10-mysql-transactions-per-second) |
| 272 | + |
| 273 | +[How Core Git Developers Configure Git](https://blog.gitbutler.com/how-git-core-devs-configure-git/) |
| 274 | + |
| 275 | +[Project IDX](https://idx.dev/) |
| 276 | + |
| 277 | +[Zouuup/landrun: Run any Linux process in a secure, unprivileged sandbox using Landlock LSM](https://github.com/Zouuup/landrun) |
| 278 | + |
| 279 | +--- |
| 280 | + |
| 281 | +# Podcast |
| 282 | + |
| 283 | +[Bike Index – Darknet Diaries](https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/153/) ❤️ |
| 284 | + |
| 285 | +[Stacc Attack – Darknet Diaries](https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/152/) |
| 286 | + |
| 287 | +[Kingpin – Darknet Diaries](https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/155/) |
| 288 | + |
| 289 | +[Kill List – Darknet Diaries](https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/156/) |
| 290 | + |
| 291 | +[Hijacked Line – Darknet Diaries](https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/154/) |
| 292 | + |
| 293 | +[Oxide and Friends | Intel after Gelsinger](https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/intel-after-gelsinger) |
| 294 | + |
| 295 | +[Oxide and Friends | AI Disruption: DeepSeek and Cerebras](https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/ai-disruption-deepseek-and-cerebras) |
| 296 | + |
| 297 | +[How to Make Something from Nothing - Freakonomics](https://freakonomics.com/podcast/how-to-make-something-from-nothing/) ❤️ |
| 298 | + |
| 299 | +[Are Realtors Having an Existential Crisis? - Freakonomics](https://freakonomics.com/podcast/are-realtors-having-an-existential-crisis/) |
| 300 | + |
| 301 | +[Is Professional Licensing a Racket? - Freakonomics](https://freakonomics.com/podcast/is-professional-licensing-a-racket/) |
| 302 | + |
| 303 | +[Can New York City Win Its War on Rats? - Freakonomics](https://freakonomics.com/podcast/can-new-york-city-win-its-war-on-rats/) |
| 304 | + |
| 305 | +[Ten Myths About the U.S. Tax System - Freakonomics](https://freakonomics.com/podcast/ten-myths-about-the-u-s-tax-system/) |
| 306 | + |
| 307 | +[Why Does Everyone Hate Rats? - Freakonomics](https://freakonomics.com/podcast/why-does-everyone-hate-rats/) |
| 308 | + |
| 309 | +# Movies & TV |
| 310 | + |
| 311 | +[Krapopolis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krapopolis) |
| 312 | + |
| 313 | +[Emilia Pérez](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emilia_P%C3%A9rez) |
| 314 | + |
| 315 | +[True Detective](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_Detective) |
| 316 | + |
| 317 | +[Hacks](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacks_(TV_series)) |
| 318 | + |
| 319 | +[Common Side Effects](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Side_Effects) |
| 320 | + |
| 321 | +# Books |
| 322 | + |
| 323 | +[Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everything_and_More_(book)) |
| 324 | + |
| 325 | +[To Kill a Mockingbird](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Kill_a_Mockingbird) |
| 326 | + |
| 327 | +# Misc. |
| 328 | + |
| 329 | +[Animation vs. Coding](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFmxPMdBqmU) |
| 330 | + |
| 331 | +[Firefly's Blue Ghost Mission 1 Lunar Landing](https://youtube.com/live/ChEuA1AUJAY) |
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