Explaining British Naval Dominance During the Age of Sail
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/YE4XsvSFJiZkWFtFE/explaining-british-naval-dominance-during-the-age-of-sail
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/YE4XsvSFJiZkWFtFE/explaining-british-naval-dominance-during-the-age-of-sail
Lesswrong
Explaining British Naval Dominance During the Age of Sail — LessWrong
The other day I discussed how high monitoring costs can explain the emergence of “aristocratic” systems of governance: …
Ed Smylie, Who Saved the Apollo 13 Crew with Duct Tape, Dies at 95
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/science/space/ed-smylie-dead.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/science/space/ed-smylie-dead.html
NY Times
Ed Smylie, Who Saved the Apollo 13 Crew With Duct Tape, Dies at 95
He and his team of NASA engineers jumped into action to help three astronauts bound for the moon. His quick thinking earned him a shout-out from Richard Nixon.
Show HN: Workflow Use – Deterministic, self-healing browser automation (RPA 2.0)
https://github.com/browser-use/workflow-use
https://github.com/browser-use/workflow-use
GitHub
GitHub - browser-use/workflow-use: ⚙️ Create and run workflows (RPA 2.0)
⚙️ Create and run workflows (RPA 2.0). Contribute to browser-use/workflow-use development by creating an account on GitHub.
Foundry (YC F24) Is Hiring – Founding Engineer (ML × SWE)
https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/foundry/jobs/uwi8b6I-founding-engineer-ml-x-swe
https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/foundry/jobs/uwi8b6I-founding-engineer-ml-x-swe
Y Combinator
Founding Engineer (ML × SWE) at Foundry
**Stop building GPT wrappers. Build a world model instead.**
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**Why Foundry exists:**
Every SaaS app, enterprise tool, and internal workflow without an API will soon be automated by browser agents—not traditional API integrations. Tens of trillions…
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**Why Foundry exists:**
Every SaaS app, enterprise tool, and internal workflow without an API will soon be automated by browser agents—not traditional API integrations. Tens of trillions…
The Magic Hours: The Films and Hidden Life of Terrence Malick
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n09/david-thomson/cool-tricking
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n09/david-thomson/cool-tricking
London Review of Books
David Thomson · Cool Tricking: Terrence Malick melts away
Terrence Malick is the quietest of American movie directors. He gives no interviews; he avoids talkshows and festival...
ClojureScript forks Google Closure to guarantee backward compatibility
https://clojurescript.org/news/2025-05-16-release
https://clojurescript.org/news/2025-05-16-release
Getting AI to write good SQL: Text-to-SQL techniques explained
https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/techniques-for-improving-text-to-sql
https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/techniques-for-improving-text-to-sql
Google Cloud Blog
Techniques for improving text-to-SQL | Google Cloud Blog
Learn about text-to-SQL techniques like context building and table retrieval, LLM-as-a-judge, and LLM prompting and post-processing.
Behind Silicon Valley and the GOP’s campaign to ban state AI laws
https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/de-democratizing-ai
https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/de-democratizing-ai
Bloodinthemachine
Behind Silicon Valley and the GOP’s campaign to ban state AI laws
Inside the effort to de-democratize AI
A Linux kernel developer plays with Home Assistant: general impressions
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1017720/7155ecb9602e9ef2/
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1017720/7155ecb9602e9ef2/
LWN.net
A kernel developer plays with Home Assistant: general impressions
Those of us who have spent our lives playing with computers naturally see the appeal of deployi [...]
Show HN: Fahmatrix – A Lightweight, Pandas-Like DataFrame Library for Java
https://github.com/moustafa-nasr/fahmatrix
https://github.com/moustafa-nasr/fahmatrix
GitHub
GitHub - moustafa-nasr/Fahmatrix: Fahmatrix is a lightweight, modern Java library for working with tabular data, inspired by Python's…
Fahmatrix is a lightweight, modern Java library for working with tabular data, inspired by Python's Pandas and rooted in the idea of making data understanding (fahm) easy on the JVM. - mous...