E-COM: The time the USPS spent $40M subsidizing junk (e)mail
https://buttondown.com/blog/the-e-com-story
https://buttondown.com/blog/the-e-com-story
Buttondown
E-COM: The $40 million USPS project to send email on paper
The USPS offered to print your email for you. Only spammers said yes.
The A.I. Radiologist Will Not Be with You Soon
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/technology/ai-jobs-radiologists-mayo-clinic.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/technology/ai-jobs-radiologists-mayo-clinic.html
NY Times
Your A.I. Radiologist Will Not Be With You Soon
Experts predicted that artificial intelligence would steal radiology jobs. But at the Mayo Clinic, the technology has been more friend than foe.
"Google wanted that": Nextcloud decries Android permissions as "gatekeeping"
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/05/nextcloud-accuses-google-of-big-tech-gatekeeping-over-android-app-permissions/
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/05/nextcloud-accuses-google-of-big-tech-gatekeeping-over-android-app-permissions/
Ars Technica
Google restores Nextcloud user’s file access on Android
Nextcloud’s public story of Play Store problems seems to have helped.
SMS 2FA is not just insecure, it's also hostile to mountain people
https://blog.stillgreenmoss.net/sms-2fa-is-not-just-insecure-its-also-hostile-to-mountain-people
https://blog.stillgreenmoss.net/sms-2fa-is-not-just-insecure-its-also-hostile-to-mountain-people
stillgreenmoss
SMS 2FA is not just insecure, it's also hostile to mountain people — stillgreenmoss
i have a friend -- she's an old lady born and raised here in the western north carolina mountains. she hates computers, yes, but she's be...
Ask HN: How are you cleaning and transforming data before imports/uploads?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43986417
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43986417
Artie (YC S23) Is Hiring a Senior Product Marketing Manager (SF)
https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/artie/jobs/sOFeWnv-senior-product-marketing-manager
https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/artie/jobs/sOFeWnv-senior-product-marketing-manager
Y Combinator
Senior Product Marketing Manager at Artie
We’re looking for our first marketing hire to stand up our product marketing function and own the messaging and storytelling around our product’s value. This is an opportunity to make a significant impact in a growing company and build out our marketing function…
Smalltalk-78 Xerox NoteTaker in-browser emulator
https://smalltalkzoo.thechm.org/users/bert/Smalltalk-78.html
https://smalltalkzoo.thechm.org/users/bert/Smalltalk-78.html
Beyond the Wrist: Debugging RSI
https://www.debugyourpain.org/docs/main_posts/understand/debugging_rsi/
https://www.debugyourpain.org/docs/main_posts/understand/debugging_rsi/
www.debugyourpain.org
Beyond the Wrist: Debugging RSI
Beyond the Wrist: Debugging RSI # This is a personal essay about a period of major suffering from chronic pain I went through, and how I acquired the knowledge and skill to eventually lift me out of it.
A fire burning # I am about to give up. My eyes are…
A fire burning # I am about to give up. My eyes are…
The Pigeon Whistle: A Defining Sound of Old Beijing (2019)
http://www.chinatoday.com.cn/ctenglish/2018/cs/201911/t20191129_800186426.html
http://www.chinatoday.com.cn/ctenglish/2018/cs/201911/t20191129_800186426.html
China Today
The Pigeon Whistle: A Defining Sound of Old Beijing
IF you have ever watched a movie that featured old Beijing, there is a good possibility that it contained a scene with a flock of pigeons flying over quadrangular dwellings (siheyuan), giving off a uniquely harmonic buzzing sound as they flew by. That sound…
StackAI (YC W23) Is Hiring Pydantic and FastAPI Wizard
https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/stackai/jobs/8nYnmlN-backend-engineer
https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/stackai/jobs/8nYnmlN-backend-engineer
Y Combinator
Backend Engineer at StackAI
**About Stack AI**
1. **Vision**: Democratize access to Large Language Models, so that anyone can build AI-powered applications that generate positive impact to the world.
2. **Product**: A user-friendly and intuitive No-Code platform integrating best…
1. **Vision**: Democratize access to Large Language Models, so that anyone can build AI-powered applications that generate positive impact to the world.
2. **Product**: A user-friendly and intuitive No-Code platform integrating best…
Why agency and cognition are fundamentally not computational
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1362658/full
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1362658/full
Frontiers
Frontiers | Naturalizing relevance realization: why agency and cognition are fundamentally not computational
The way organismic agents come to know the world, and the way algorithms solve problems, are fundamentally different. The most sensible course of action for ...
Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/copaganda-when-the-police-and-the-media-manipulate-our-news
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/copaganda-when-the-police-and-the-media-manipulate-our-news
Teen Vogue
How to Sniff Out ‘Copaganda’: When the Police and the Media Manipulate Our News
"By cherry-picking anecdotes, news reports can distort our interpretation of the world."
Critical Warning for External Purchases in Apple App Store
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2025/05/14/critical-warning-for-external-purchases-in-app-store/
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2025/05/14/critical-warning-for-external-purchases-in-app-store/
Mjtsai
Michael Tsai - Blog - Critical Warning for External Purchases in App Store