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settembre 2024

• Mapping the Apple TV+ Universe
• Getting Into Yale Isn’t Enough
• The iPhones 16
• This Is What a Losing Campaign Looks Like
• After Apple, Jony Ive Is Building an Empire of His Own
• The Falling Man
• Sort out your life! 100 tiny tricks to help with everything from digital overwhelm to lumpy sugar and unpaid bills
• Not everything is physics
• What will we do with all this power?
• Replace your smartphone with a smartwatch
• ‘Right to Repair for Your Body’: The Rise of DIY, Pirated Medicine
• Popping the Bubble of Noise-Cancelling Headphones
• The Programmer’s Price
• The inside story of the secret backchannel between the US and China
• Food Shopping in Rome

agosto 2024

• The invisible addiction: is it time to give up caffeine?
• Lessons From a Bank-Robbing Guerrilla Turned President
• Why Casual Reading is Not a Waste of Time
• The Last Man in America to Change His Mind About Trump
• The Mystery of People Who Speak Dozens of Languages
• The Truth About Windows Versus the Mac
• Integration and Android
• Sao Paulo Journal; Rich Brazilians Rise Above Rush-Hour Jams
• How Harris Wins
• What a Broligarch Wants
• Creation Myth
• How ‘Inside Out’ and Its Sequel Changed Therapy
• This is Water
• One More Thing | NextDraft
• McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality
• The Universal Drink
• Email (let's drop the hyphen)

luglio 2024

• Can J.D. Vance's Populist Crusade Succeed?
• The E.U. Goes Too Far
• The cult of 5am: is rising at dawn the secret of health and happiness?
• Why write?
• The Tower
• Inside the tiny chip that powers Montreal subway tickets
• The Worst Thing You Can Do While Flying Has Nothing to Do With Reclining Your Seat
• Secret Meetings, Private Threats and a Massive Arms Race: How the World is Preparing for Trump
• Folklore.org: Round Rects Are Everywhere!
• L'ex Br e la vera storia del partigiano che sparò a Mussolini
• Olive Oatman, the Pioneer Girl Abducted by Native Americans Who Returned a Marked Woman
• Wernher von Braun and the Nazi Rocket Program: An Interview with Michael Neufeld, PhD, of the National Air and Space Museum
• Wernher von Braun and the Nazis
• On Danish exceptionalism
• The biggest CRT ever made: Sony's PVM-4300
• A Privacy Threat Model for The People of Seattle
• A supermarket trip may soon look different, thanks to electronic shelf labels
• Manufacturing Bliss
• Of Modes and Men
• No One Can Explain Why Planes Stay in the Air
• A Day In the Life of Brunello Cucinelli
• Stratechery by Ben Thompson
• Small, cheap, and weird: A history of the microcar
• A Journey Into Shaders
• Ads Don’t Work That Way
• Why do new cars look like this??
• As We May Think

giugno 2024

• The Science of Having a Great Conversation
• The iPhone Isn’t Cool
• California just went 9.25 hours using only renewable energy
• A Golden Age of Renewables Is Beginning, and California Is Leading the Way
• Decentralizing the Electric Grid
• Giant Batteries Are Transforming the Way the U.S. Uses Electricity
• Batteries Taking Charge of the California Grid
• The iPhone Is Now an AI Trojan Horse
• What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
• Apple Intelligence, le potenzialità ci sono
• The Five Tools of Hedonic Design
• Why I'm so excited about solar and batteries
• The Way I Work: Yvon Chouinard, Patagonia
• For 20 Years, I Couldn’t Say What Donald Trump Did on the Set of The Apprentice. Now I Can.
• How the Fridge Changed Flavor
• Patagonia’s Philosopher-King
• Stratechery by Ben Thompson
• The Green-Energy Revolution Shows What Real Innovation Looks Like
• Small, cheap, and weird: A history of the microcar
• A Journey Into Shaders
• These Kids Made Their Influencer Parents Wealthy. Will They See a Dime of That Money?
• Why do new cars look like this??
• What Is The Morning Writing Effect?
• Credit cards as a legacy system

maggio 2024

• How to Make a Great Government Website
• How I upgraded my water heater and discovered how bad smart home security can be
• The iPad Pro Manifesto (2024 Edition)
• The Great Flattening
• The Ultimate Life Coach
• Against Dog Whistle-ism
• From AI to sustainability, why our latest data centers use 400G networking
• How Far Trump Would Go
• The Revenge of the Home Page
• A Week On The Stealth Wealth Yacht Luring The Jet Set To The Galápagos
• Typewriter Community Braces for Influx of Taylor Swift Fans Inspired by Tortured Poets Department
• I posti del cuore di Luca Sofri a Milano
• Treno al posto dell'aereo? In Europa l'alternativa esiste già per 81 milioni di passeggeri
• What Happens to Your Body When You Take Naps Every Single Day?
• Why Intel and AMD don't make chips like the M2 Max and M2 Ultra
• Passkeys: A Shattered Dream
• The Bus Ticket Theory of Genius
• Historical analogies for large language models
• Ads Don’t Work That Way
• What you think about landfill and recycling is probably totally wrong
• You can't reach the brain through the ears
• public/book-of-beliefs.md at master · busterbenson/public
• My year in data
• Suicide Mission
• The Lost Diary of Bobby McIlvaine
• E-Mailing with Bill Gates
• "Circling" and nerd society
• There's No AI Without Nvidia. Meet the CEO Powering the Future
• How Silicon Valley helps spread the same sterile aesthetic across the world
• The Thorny Problem of Keeping the Internet’s Time
• The Psychopolitics Of Trauma

aprile 2024

• The great rewiring: is social media really behind an epidemic of teenage mental illness?
• One More Thing | NextDraft
• The little smart home platform that could
• Sei cose che so sulla scuola
• All Aboard the Bureaucracy Train
• White Families Sucked the Suburbs Dry

marzo 2024

• The War at Stanford
• Simon Willison's Weblog: The GPT-4 barrier has finally been smashed
• DNA Tests Are Uncovering the True Prevalence of Incest
• How Does Paris Stay Paris? By Pouring Billions Into Public Housing
• My Ordinary Life: Improvements Since the 1990s
• Against 3X Speed
• Good Cogs and Their Tools
• 25 Rules For Living From A (Semi-)Successful 26-Year-Old
• The Perfect Spouse Is the Best Life Hack No One Told You About
• Is the AI Boom Real?
• Apple Animation Through the Ages: 2019
• Apple Animation Through the Ages: 2014
• Apple Animation Through the Ages: 2007
• Apple Animation Through the Ages: 2001
• Apple Animation Through the Ages: 1989
• The Stay Rich Portfolio
• The Get Rich Portfolio
• Google's First Tensor Processing Unit : Origins
• Hugging the X-Axis
• School Is Not Enough
• Through the Ages: Apple CPU Architecture
• A Teen’s Fatal Plunge Into the London Underworld
• Thomas Steeles unearths the origins of the world’s most hated font, Comic Sans
• How Amazon created the Prime membership program
• Who’s Canceling Whom?
• You Should Go to a Trump Rally
• As We May Think

febbraio 2024

• Here lies the internet, murdered by generative AI
• Growth Without Goals
• Does My Son Know You?
• All My Thoughts After 40 Hours in the Vision Pro
• The Awfulness of Elite Hypocrisy on Marriage
• Pirate Bay’s Peter Sunde: “No one does tech for good - especially not in fintech”
• Carry-On Baggage Has Reached a ‘Breaking Point’
• Math as a habit
• Why Not 100% Equities
• Delving into Image Processing
• Lies, Damned Lies, and Manometer Readings
• C’era una volta il Giappone
• My Toddler Still Loves Planes, So I Upgraded Her Radar
• Pisa: trent'anni fa il primo clic in Rete nell'indifferenza generale
• How I became financially independent in 5 years - Part IV - the investments
• How I became financially independent in 5 years - Part III
• How I became financially independent in 5 years - Part II
• 11 Awkward Things About Email
• Get Rich With: The Secret Food ‘Stash
• Doing a TED Talk: The Full Story
• Inventing the Perfect College Applicant
• Notes on Doing Something Ridiculously Difficult
• A Badass Utopia
• Which Part of the Money Wave do you Surf?
• If You Wouldn’t Buy it, You Should Probably Sell it
• Why you should Get your Shit Together Before you Make it Big
• The Low Information Diet
• The True Cost of Commuting
• Are You Cleaning Out Your Own Wallet?
• A Millionaire is Made Ten Bucks At A Time
• Pension, Schmension! Retire on Your Own Terms
• The Quitting Lawyer and the Despondent Millionaire
• For the Love of Money
• Reader Case Study: Should This Man Claim his Freedom?
• Avoiding Ivy League Preschool Syndrome
• It's Not a Contest
• Quick Note: Deterioration of Speed
• Macintosh, 40 anni di rivoluzione Apple sulle spalle di un gigante
• White Families Sucked the Suburbs Dry
• Le conseguenze economiche di Bettino Craxi.
• Crisi dell’educazione e digitale
• I Gave the MIT Commencement Speech for 2023
• Fast
• The Success Equation: Untangling Skill and Luck | Michael Mauboussin | Talks at Google
• Runnin' Down a Dream: How to Succeed and Thrive in a Career You Love - Bill Gurley 9/14/2018
• Why I Really retired from Corporate Work
• Your Money Can Work Harder than You Can
• Selling the Dream of Financial Independence - Part 2
• Frugal vs. Cheap
• A Brief History of the Corporation: 1600 to 2100
• The Nerd as the Norm
• Why You Secretly Hate Cool Bars

gennaio 2024

• $60 Uniqlo Down Jacket vs. $400 Arc’teryx Down Jacket!
• The Truth About Expensive Winter Gear
• The Big City Where Housing Is Still Affordable
• Do You Have ‘Bookshelf Wealth’?
• What happens when an astronaut in orbit says he’s not coming back?
• A new global gender divide is emerging
• Why the US can't have nice things
• L'eredità Craxi
• Mourning Google
• Why American cities are squalid
• Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
• “Why We Sleep” update: some thoughts while we wait for Matthew Walker to respond to Alexey Guzey’s criticisms
• Is Matthew Walker’s “Why We Sleep” Riddled with Scientific and Factual Errors?
• Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
• Why We Sleep: a tale of institutional failure
• I once tried to cheat sleep, and for a year I succeeded
• What Is The Morning Writing Effect?
• Matthew Walker's "Why We Sleep" Is Riddled with Scientific and Factual Errors
• 100 Tips for a Better Life
• Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years
• "Whole Earth" origin...
• Theses on Sleep
• Guide to Career Planning, part 1: Opportunity
• Guide to Career Planning, part 2: Skills and education
• The Teenager Leading the Smartphone Liberation Movement
• The Schools That Ban Smartphones
• It Sure Looks Like Phones Are Making Students Dumber
• Imagine a dog. Got it? I don’t. Here’s what it’s like to be unable to visualize anything.
• Money Is the Megaphone of Identity
• Neuroscience is pre-paradigmatic. Consciousness is why
• I Was Addicted to My Smartphone, So I Switched to a Flip Phone for a Month
• Social Quitting
• Le ferite invisibili dei minori stranieri
• What the Longest Study on Human Happiness Found Is the Key to a Good Life
• Nintendo’s design guru Shigeru Miyamoto: ‘I wanted to make something weird’
• How to Make Wealth
• Stuff
• Pmarca Guide to Career Planning: Introduction
• Semiconductor Outlook 2024: AI's Adolescence
• Tra Milano e Miami
• Get Rich With: The Position of Strength
• Hixie's Natural Log
• A blog post is a very long and complex search query to find fascinating people and make them route interesting stuff to your inbox
• Silicon Valley’s Quest to Live Forever
• When Manhattan Was Mannahatta: A Stroll Through the Centuries
• The Earthquake That Will Devastate the Pacific Northwest
• My Left Kidney
• The Techno-Optimist Manifesto
• Finding Great Developers
• How to Pick a Career (That Actually Fits You)
• Don't Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career Advice
• Taipei. A Portrait.

dicembre 2023

• First we shape our social graph; then it shapes us
• What I learnt at Amazon that I wish I knew in government
• How much is that bitch costin’ ya?
• Mr. Money Mustache’s Big Mistake
• The Joy of Self Employment
• Having “The Talk” with a Current or Potential Mate
• Weekend Edition: Retire in your Mind even if you Love your Job
• Become a Lazy Landlord - with REITs
• Domestic Outsourcing: Practical or Wussypants?
• Mrs. Money Mustache: The Secret Life of Frugality
• Eliminate your dependence on foreign (and domestic) clothing
• Understand the Marginal Utility of Booze and Drugs
• Quitting a Cash Cow Job
• Selling the Dream - How to Make your Spouse Love Frugality
• Is This Blog More Powerful than Doubling your Salary?
• High Cost of Living - it’s a State of Mind
• Your Money or Your Life
• How to Make Money In The Stock Market
• It's All About The Safety Margin
• Safety is an Expensive Illusion
• The 4% Rule: The Easy Answer to “How Much Do I Need for Retirement?”
• Killing your $1000 Grocery Bill
• New Cars and Auto Financing: Stupid, or Sensible?
• A Brief History of the ‘Stash: How we Saved from Zero to Retirement in Nine Years
• Frequently Complained Questions
• Frugality: The New Fanciness
• Curing your Clown-Like Car Habit
• Why the Middle Class Keeps Giving Itself the Shaft
• Why We Are Not Really All Doomed
• How to Make Money Buy Happiness
• Is Mr. Money Mustache Ruining Your Marriage? (Part 2)
• Is Mr. Money Mustache Ruining Your Marriage?
• Electric Bikes: Gateway Drug to Bike Commuting?
• If You Think This is About Extreme Frugality, You’re Missing The Point
• Muscle Over Motor
• Wealth Advice that Should Be Obvious
• What if Everyone Became Frugal?
• What is Hedonic Adaptation and How Can it Turn You Into a Sucka?
• Luxury is Just Another Weakness
• The Practical Benefits of Outrageous Optimism
• Efficiency is the Highest Form of Beauty
• Cure Yourself of Tiny Details Exaggeration Syndrome
• Get Rich With: Your Own Urban Tribe
• Intellectual Hipsters and Meta-Contrarianism
• Bourdieu's theory of taste: a grumbling abrégé
• Charlie, la storia del pluralismo
• Quit Your Job
• Notes on “Taste”
• Big Tech Muscles In: The 12 Months That Changed Silicon Valley Forever
• It’s Too Easy to Buy Stuff You Don’t Want
• Be good-argument-driven, not data-driven
• The asbestos times
• Henry Kissinger Always Tended to His Image, Even When It Came to His Obituary
• The Devil at the Dinner Party
• Place and Non-Place
• Lessons from History: The Rise and Fall of the Telecom Bubble
• Scraping training data for your mind
• Solitude and Leadership
• Ok Zoomer. Media, linguaggi e scontri generazionali
• Why Aren’t More People Getting Married? Ask Women What Dating Is Like.
• Osama bin Laden's TikTok popularity is based on childish notions of evil
• Richard Feynman and The Connection Machine
• Why we need Taiwan
• Age and the entrepreneur, part 1: Some data
• The OpenAI Keynote
• Corbolante e la comunicazione istituzionale tra anglicismi, burocratese e inutili allarmismi
• Can We Talk to Whales?
• Is Link Really the Hero of the Zelda Story?

novembre 2023

• The Way of Mediocre Man
• Ue, come funziona il nuovo portafoglio europeo di identità digitale
• ‘You can walk around in a T-shirt’: how Norway brought heat pumps in from the cold
• This Is Not the Way to Help Depressed Teenagers
• Why No One Has Measured The Speed Of Light
• Oops! We Automated Bullshit.
• She lived in a New York hotel for more than 40 years. But her life was a mystery
• ILLIAC IV Supercomputer : DARPA, SIMD, Fairchild and Stanley Kubrick's '2001'
• OpenAI Boardroom Battle: Safety First
• The Universal Drink
• Keep Your Identity Small
• Rich and Anonymous
• What Really Happened to JFK?
• you listen to too much music
• In Praise of Evolvable Systems
• In Praise of Fast Food
• Luck and the Entrepreneur: The four kinds of luck
• Matthew Perry, the best Friend I never knew
• Electrification is efficiency: The world will need less energy after the energy transition
• A Primer on Circadian Rhythms
• Let’s Talk About AI Compute
• Fear and Loathing in 7nm
• Exclusive: Tech billionaire Peter Thiel was an FBI informant
• Why We Crave Software With Style Over "Branding"
• Computers and Creativity
• Golden State; Misplaced Dreams
• Can we have a radioactive release without a panic?
• Half A Million Kinksters Can’t Be Wrong
• Why we didn't get a malaria vaccine sooner
• Good conversations have lots of doorknobs

ottobre 2023

• Iron: From mythical to mundane
• The Earthquake That Will Devastate the Pacific Northwest
• Growing Forests
• The Guts of a New Machine
• The Techno-Optimist Manifesto
• Mexico revives century-old railway in $2.8bn bid to rival Panama Canal
• Poland Begins to Look Beyond the Vote, to Unwinding an ‘Illiberal Democracy’
• Four generations and a culture change
• Cells are very fast and crowded places
• America does not have a good food culture
• American Gentry
• Geeks, MOPs, and sociopaths in subculture evolution
• Long gone, DEC is still powering the world of computing
• AI Doomer vs Techno-Optimist: Social Fabric, AI Girlfriends, Mass Media
• How do computers work? CPU, ROM, RAM, address bus, data bus, control bus, address decoding.
• Institute for the Study of War
• The Truth about College Costs
• From Warp Speed to 100 Days
• Deep Thought, Deep Learning and the World's Total Computing Resources
• What We Can Learn About Gender From The Matrix
• Tutti a Casa è ancora oggi il film definitivo sull'8 settembre
• It's not just you. LinkedIn has gotten really weird.
• How to Cool Down a City
• This Spanish city has been restricting cars for 24 years. Here’s what we can learn from it
• Paris Is Undergoing a Water Revolution
• When tech says ‘no’
• Crony Beliefs
• Episode 122 — From Intel to Disney
• What Are Dreams For?
• [Plura-list] Spaniards fight Wall Street landlords; The Tesla-financial complex
• La storia del "primo filippino", dall'Ottocento a oggi
• On-boarding your AI Intern

settembre 2023

• Airbnb’s Original Sin
• What It’s Like to Be a 13-Year-Old Girl Today
• L'algoritmo che ha mandato in tilt la scuola
• The Errand Friend
• We shouldn’t call ‘peak China’ just yet
• Purges! The Curious Case of the Disappearing Commanders
• US Chipmakers March South as Vietnam Subsidizes Its Tech Future
• Centaurs and Cyborgs on the Jagged Frontier
• Neural Networks and the Origins of Modern Computing
• The Tyranny of the Marginal User
• I Killed My Southern Accent and a Piece of Myself With It
• I nuovi tram a Roma (e non solo): storia e polemiche sul mezzo di trasporto pubblico che inquina meno
• In Rome, It’s Luxury vs. Squalor
• New Air-Conditioning Technology Could Be the Future of Cool
• A Less Religious America Is a More Polarized America
• Arm and a Leg: Arm's Quest To Extract Their True Value
• Huawei’s Breakthrough: The Strategic Implications
• China AI & Semiconductors Rise: US Sanctions Have Failed
• The Wild History of Not Eating Meat
• Il post 68 è parto di Berlusconi
• Earth’s story is not about dynasties but communities
• On the Difficulty of Getting Rid of Books
• Un estudio apunta que el alumnado con jornada intensiva descansa menos y hace más deberes
• How food affects the mind, as well as the body
• The Battle of Hostomel Airport: A Key Moment in Russia’s Defeat in Kyiv
• Language Change, Not Climate Change: Finding the Words to Describe a Prosperous Future
• Can We Talk to Whales?
• The right to be let alone
• How to Flirt, According to a Bartender
• Into the Personal-Website-Verse
• Own Your Platform, Own Your Content
• Using Linux for Work & Play
• Charlie, di carta
• Conte bis, Conte semper
• How digital cash got caught up in the culture wars
• Questions, shrugs and what comes next: A quarter century of change
• Big government is back. How will we pay for it?
• China capitalises on US sanctions in fight to dethrone dollar
• TSMC's New R&D Fab in Taiwan
• Super Mario Bros. Wonder developers discuss Nintendo's push to reinvent its classic side-scrolling formula
• How Do We Manage China’s Decline?
• The Sterile World of Infinite Choice
• Da dove arriva la crisi di Tim
• Why the empty atom picture misunderstands quantum theory
• Elon Musk’s Shadow Rule
• China’s blueprint for an alternative world order
• The Zoomer Question
• Why I Love Tokyo
• 18. From Lockdown to Slowdown: Tokyo as Slowdown City
• Bilancio di una vita senza social
• Inside the Secretive World of Penile Enlargement

agosto 2023

• How Do We Manage China’s Decline?
• Da dove arriva la crisi di Tim
• Why the empty atom picture misunderstands quantum theory
• Perché in Lombardia i treni sono quasi sempre in ritardo
• Elon Musk’s Shadow Rule
• China’s blueprint for an alternative world order
• Appeasing Donald Trump Won’t Work
• Everything I, an Italian, thought I knew about Italian food is wrong
• The Great PowerPoint Panic of 2003
• Cities Are Our Best Hope for Surviving Climate Change
• Letter on Artificial and Human Intelligence
• The Zoomer Question
• What the heck happened in 2012?
• Cities kick out the car: Part 2 of ‘And you may find yourself behind the wheel of a large…
• Cities captured by cars: Part 1 of ‘And you may find yourself behind the wheel of a large…
• Why I Love Tokyo
• Love on the Internet
• Auto Semis – A Kingdom if You Can Take it
• [Plura-list] Spaniards fight Wall Street landlords; The Tesla-financial complex
• Don’t check the clock! 15 ways to get back to sleep when you wake at 3am
• La storia del "primo filippino", dall'Ottocento a oggi
• Where Does Intel Stand Now?
• The Cloud Is a Prison. Can the Local-First Software Movement Set Us F…
• 18. From Lockdown to Slowdown: Tokyo as Slowdown City
• AI Competition: China’s Strategy, Biden’s Wavering Response, and the Implications for AI Safety
• The Rise and Fall of Neoliberalism
• Inside the DIY Race to Replicate LK-99
• The Strange Saga of JFK and the Original ‘Dr. Feelgood’
• Tesla’s secret team to suppress thousands of driving range complaints
• What’s Wrong With the “What’s Wrong With Men” Discourse
• Raw Milk Literally Kills People
• Finally, the Trump Case We’ve Been Waiting For
• AOC Is Just a Regular Old Democrat Now
• How Trump’s New Big Lie-Filled Fascist Ad is Damaging Our Democracy
• Il cinese non esiste
• A mainframe rehosting story from a U.S. Bank
• L’etnografia ferroviaria di Alain Elkann
• Stop trying to have the perfect vacation
• The World’s Last Internet Cafes
• [Plura-list] Tesla's Dieselgate
• Small vehicles of Tokyo
• AI Expansion - Supply Chain Analysis For CoWoS And HBM
• The Kennedys Were Always Bad
• Why are clinical trials so expensive? Tales from the beast's belly
• Ethernet (50th Birthday) - Computerphile
• The IBM mainframe: How it runs and why it survives
• Intel Unveils AVX10 and APX Instruction Sets: Unifying AVX-512 For Hybrid Architectures
• Goodbye to the Prophets of Doom
• The dirty little secret that could bring down Big Tech
• The Supreme Court Has a Clear Intellectual Lightweight
• Republicans Are at War With College Towns. And They’re Losing.
• The Idea Factory
• Bilancio di una vita senza social
• Attrition before breakthrough
• Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address
• Friday Bites: Semicon + CHIPS Act, NEPA, and China’s Smart Homes
• AI Race: Why The US Has to Compete
• How to Do Great Work
• Jared Diamond: A Reply to His Critics
• The Great Inflection? A Debate About AI and Explosive Growth-Asterisk

luglio 2023

• AOC Is Just a Regular Old Democrat Now
• How Trump’s New Big Lie-Filled Fascist Ad is Damaging Our Democracy
• The World’s Last Internet Cafes
• [Plura-list] Tesla's Dieselgate
• Desperately Faking Riches: Inside A Hong Kong Businessman’s Outlandish Efforts To Get On The Forbes Billionaire List
• AI Expansion - Supply Chain Analysis For CoWoS And HBM
• The Remarkable Ivan Sutherland
• Why are clinical trials so expensive? Tales from the beast's belly
• Intel Unveils AVX10 and APX Instruction Sets: Unifying AVX-512 For Hybrid Architectures
• The dirty little secret that could bring down Big Tech
• Republicans Are at War With College Towns. And They’re Losing.
• L'emozione di vedere l'ultimo film di Miyazaki a Tokyo
• A home built for the next pandemic
• How Your House Makes You Miserable
• Hollywood on Strike
• How Kissinger became an asset of China
• Attrition before breakthrough
• Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address
• AI Race: Why The US Has to Compete
• Threads and the Social/Communications Map
• Chinese Firms Are Evading Chip Controls
• The vanishing billionaire: how Jack Ma fell foul of Xi Jinping
• GPT-4 Architecture, Infrastructure, Training Dataset, Costs, Vision, MoE
• GPTs and the Rise and Fall of Great Powers
• Banning road building won’t save the planet
• All Immigrants Are Born on the Fourth of July
• How to Do Great Work
• Threads
• The iPad was meant to revolutionize accessibility. What happened?
• Goodreads was the future of book reviews. Then Amazon bought it.
• Can I Use ChatGPT for the Tedious Parts of My Job?
• The hottest new perk in tech is freedom
• What Did People Do Before Smartphones?
• George Kennan's "Long Telegram"
• Age of Invention: Freight Expectations
• Fast machines, slow machines
• The Guardian’s approach to generative AI
• Responsive Typography: The Basics
• LoveFrom Serif
• Jony Ive spent the past 4 years perfecting his typeface. Here’s why he’ll never be done
• Magic Mushrooms. LSD. Ketamine. The Drugs That Power Silicon Valley.
• Inside the Secretive World of Penile Enlargement
• The Case Against Travel
• How The Selfie Set Us Free
• On Tech: A.I.: Turn A.I. into your study pal.
• Education for a Classless Society
• On Having Enough Socks
• The Optimization Sinkhole

giugno 2023

• Kamil on Russia's Post-Putsch Future
• Location Data Brokers and Threats to Americans' Privacy
• Education for a Classless Society
• We need more water than rain can provide: refilling rivers with desalination
• Jared Diamond: A Reply to His Critics
• Chip Letter Links No.19 : AMD Zen 4, Nvidia, x86 Instructions, 8-Bit Video, General Turtle, 1-Bit Computing, ZX Sp…
• ‘I’m not just faster, but taller’: how I learned to walk properly - and changed my pace, posture and perspective
• The thing you've been avoiding
• Electric bikes are the most climate-friendly way to travel
• The Great Inflection? A Debate About AI and Explosive Growth-Asterisk
• The Puzzle of Non-Proliferation
• The Transistor Cliff
• L’ideologia sociale della macchina
• MattDeBoard.net
• Rebuilding Intel – Foundry vs IDM Decades of Inefficiencies Unraveled
• Letti da rifare 64. Dalla stessa parte mi troverai
• How I learned to program
• Build better ties instead of only asking for microchips, Taiwan tells Europe
• I limiti e i rischi dell’intelligenza artificiale sono imperscrutabili
• Sizing Up the Nightlife
• Contra Marc Andreessen on AI
• I still think it’s very unlikely we’re observing alien aircraft on Earth right now
• The Gervais Principle IV: Wonderful Human Beings
• The Gervais Principle III: The Curse of Development
• The Gervais Principle VI: Children of an Absent God
• The Gervais Principle V: Heads I Win, Tails You Lose
• The Gervais Principle II: Posturetalk, Powertalk, Babytalk and Gametalk
• AT&T’s CRISP Hobbits
• Detecting the Secret Cyborgs
• Why AI Will Save the World
• The Four Quadrants of Conformism
• On Having Enough Socks
• The Gervais Principle, Or The Office According to “The Office”
• Willingness to look stupid
• La piazza che non c’era
• The evidence on how to find the right career for you
• Information security
• Thinking of becoming a software engineer? Read this.
• The two ways people accidentally sabotage their career early on
• How much good can one person do? Here's what the evidence says.
• We reviewed 60 studies on what makes for a dream job. Here’s what we found.
• VLSI Japan: It’s Better on the Backside
• How You Can Have A Fulfilling Career
• Finding Great Developers
• A moonshot for infrastructure
• L'Italia nel multiverso Mediaset
• Why not driving is my own form of resistance
• How Did Birds First Take Off?
• The Myth of ‘Mom Hair’
• How some people get away with doing nothing at work
• You can't control time, but you can change your relationship with the clock
• Charlie, il prezzo dell'accesso
• Where Apple’s Vision Pro Leaves Meta
• Speed matters: Why working quickly is more important than it seems
• You Are Not Late
• So You Don’t Have Time To Read “What is Code?”…
• The Nerd as the Norm
• How to Pick a Career (That Actually Fits You)
• Cities and Ambition
• Treat your to-read pile like a river, not a bucket
• 100 Little Ideas
• Don't Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career Advice
• Tokyo could win ‘not China’ global hub status - but it must want it
• Big Tech at the End of History
• This Will Change the Way You Think About Ambition
• Interpretations of quantum mechanics
• Stop Hiring DEI Consultants. Give the Money to the Poor Instead.
• Zen 4c: AMD’s Response to Hyperscale ARM & Intel Atom
• Observations From Paris
• Dolphin Progress Report: February, March, and April 2023
• Why is Rosetta 2 fast?
• The Strange Story of the Teens Behind the Mirai Botnet
• A Project of One's Own
• Screen Envy on Wall Street
• The big question of how small chips can get
• ‘BlackBerry’ Review: Big Dreams, Little Keyboards
• We Spoke With 5 People Who Work With A.I. Here’s What Keeps Them Up at Night.
• Subscribe to read | Financial Times
• Lessons from the Ultimate China Watcher: László Ladány
• Intel & AMD: The First 30 Years
• What’s a President to Do When a Nation’s Capital Is Sinking? Move It.
• AI Is About to Make Social Media (Much) More Toxic
• Paolo Benanti al Wired Next Fest 2023 Trentino: "Utilizzare ChatGPT per parlare di etica della tecnologia equivale a usare un mezzo che non conosce i fini"
• The PLA on Generative AI + NYC Meetup!
• The Need to Read

maggio 2023

• The Coming Wave of AI, and How Nvidia Dominants
• Jensen Huang NTU Commencement Speech 2023
• Nvidia’s InfiniBand Problem - QMX AI Fabric, Tomahawk-5, Jericho-3AI, Quantum-2
• The Optimization Sinkhole
• The First 'Apple Silicon' - The Aquarius Processor Project
• Windows and the AI Platform Shift
• Sad Reality: The Ukraine War Is Now Going Russia's Way
• Wind Waker, a Zelda Game Whose Time Has Finally Come
• 'The Legend of Zelda,' 'Dinky,' and a Bridge to My Daughter
• Ocarina of Time’ Will Always Be the "Best Game Ever"
• Why A Link to the Past Is the Definitive Legend of Zelda Game
• When digital nomads come to town
• Un articolo di Natalia Ginzburg "Quella croce rappresenta tutti"
• What happens when AI reads a book 🤖📖
• Your Family: Past, Present, and Future
• Meet Your Ancestors (All of Them)
• Why Generation Y Yuppies Are Unhappy
• The Great Perils of Social Interaction
• Why You Secretly Hate Cool Bars
• 10 Types of 30-Year-Old Single Guys
• Why You Should Stop Caring What Other People Think (Taming the Mammoth)
• 10 Types of Odd Friendships You're Probably Part Of
• How to Pick Your Life Partner - Part 2
• The Marriage Decision: Everything Forever or Nothing Ever Again
• How to Pick Your Life Partner - Part 1
• Is software eating Japan? (from my email)
• 10 Thoughts From the Fourth Trimester
• ChatGPT as marketing triumph
• Is the Next Alibaba...AliCloud?
• Beauty Culture is Hustle Culture
• Taiwan vs US Chip Subsidies – Bolstering the Sacred Mountain
• Tech at the G7 2023: What Comes Next
• Governance of superintelligence
• Britain's headlong slide from silicon supremacy to silicon irrelevance
• How technology has changed the world since I was young
• When did we get so bad at typing?
• "La parole aux étudiants, investissez l'avenir" : François Gibelli
• The Party Is Cancelled
• Dumbphones being bought by Gen Z, to reduce distractions
• By Fighting the Ozone Hole, We Accidentally Saved Ourselves
• Meet the people who use Notion to plan their whole lives
• Is Link Really the Hero of the Zelda Story?
• Whatever the Problem, It’s Probably Solved by Walking
• On-boarding your AI Intern
• Sound The Siyrn: AmpereOne 192-Core CPU
• Sound The Siyrn: AmpereOne 192-Core CPU
• Kids Who Get Smartphones Earlier Become Adults With Worse Mental Health
• How Do We Think Beyond Our Own Existence?
• Internet non ha ucciso i libri, li ha resi più forti
• RATP : Jean Castex a discrètement confié le dossier Paris 2024 à un ancien de Matignon
• Congress hates Big Tech - but it still seems optimistic about AI
• Nessuna tecnologia è inevitabile
• Hollowing Out Taiwan
• G7 takes aim — EU's Stockholm stocktake — War envoy visits
• The RISC Wars Part 2 : The Age of Alliances
• Who killed the EU’s translators?
• La stasi e la fine dell'immaginazione
• vita, opere e miracoli di romana liuzzo, nume tutelare della fondazione guido carli
• Commission d'enquête Fonds Marianne — Les LR posent leurs conditions — Darmanin et les manifs
• As Japan's population drops, one city is turning to ChatGPT to help run the government
• Can a Writers Strike Save Hollywood from Monopoly?
• Fake scientific papers are alarmingly common
• 8 Pieces of Advice for Struggling Young Musicians (or Other Creative People)
• Where to Find the Energy to Save the World
• What is to be done?
• 🌎 Seaflooding
• Tackling Tech at the Upcoming G7 Summit
• Suivi du New Deal Mobile
• Il "cardinale esterno"
• Andreotti e il mito di Andreotti
• Comment Zelda a révolutionné le jeu vidéo en openworld (Ft. TheGreatReview)
• A conversation with The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom’s creative leads
• On Device AI – Double-Edged Sword
• How Google is making up for lost time
• The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom changes the conversation
• China's Data Crackdown + ChatGPT Crime
• AI Will Create More Developers, Not Less
• These professors are asking students to consider divisive ideas - and learn
• The Lee Kuan Yew Hypothesis
• How to improve education
• Data on diversity, equity, and inclusion
• Xi Jinping Can’t Handle an Aging China
• How China’s Echo Chamber Threatens Taiwan
• Why the EU loves Erdoğan
• Chip Funds for Underdogs or Chaebols – Comparing Korea and the US
• Can Volkswagen win back China?
• The Long Demise of the Stretch Limousine
• The Making of Shenmue
• Making Mechanical Keyboards in China
• Humane’s new wearable AI demo is wild to watch — and we have lots of questions
• In Norway, the Electric Vehicle Future Has Already Arrived
• Why I'm having trouble covering AI
• How Google tried to fix the web
• The Case for the Total Liberation of Ukraine
• Charlie, magari
• [Mostly Weekly #218] Incontrare i propri eroi, la storia di Shenmue e l'esperto di foto reali
• Some Things I Think
• Will A.I. Become the New McKinsey?
• Requiem for the Newsroom
• Chip Letter Links No. 17: Raptor Lake, Fake Chips, China's Chipmakers, Linux in the Browser, Stepper Prices, Cray …
• The days are long but the decades are short
• Beamer, Dressman, Bodybag
• Meta’s Bizarre AI Infrastructure Choice Costs Them Hundreds of Millions
• Xi Talks AGI + The UK's S&T Policy Renaissance
• Kotkin on China: Cold War 2.0, Reagan, and Stalin vs. Mao
• Google "We Have No Moat, And Neither Does OpenAI"
• The fraud supply chain
• Identity Theft, Credit Reports, and You
• All Rise: How Judges Rule America
• “Hardtech” Corporate VCs Rising in China
• Getting Rid of "You Should Be Grateful"
• Intel Emerald Rapids Backtracks on Chiplets – Design, Performance & Cost
• The co-founder of Skype invested in some of AI’s hottest startups - but he thinks he failed
• Amplifying Korean Concerns on CHIPS Act Restrictions
• Bluesky's big moment
• Apple's Major India Push: What to Know
• What Huawei’s CEO Thinks of America
• The optimal amount of fraud is non-zero
• Improving how credit cards work under the covers
• Air raids on Hong Kong
• ‘The miracle that disrupts order’: mathematicians invent new ‘Einstein’ shape
• If we already understood the brain, would we even know it?
• It’s Not the End of Work. It’s the End of Boring Work.
• Crooks’ Mistaken Bet on Encrypted Phones
• ASML, Europe’s Most Valuable Tech Firm, Is at the Heart of the US-China Chip War
• The RISC Wars Part 1 : The Cambrian Explosion
• Charlie, non è tutto oro quel che paywall
• It Happened Online: Twitter’s “stinking badge,” and “If I were a fish”
• Credit cards as a legacy system
• Harper Reed: big data, 'Obama For America' and the future of journalism.
• 100 ways to slightly improve your life without really trying

aprile 2023

• From our archives: when Concorde first landed in Hong Kong
• Crooks’ Mistaken Bet on Encrypted Phones | The New Yorker
• Email (let's drop the hyphen)
• The ‘Hurtful’ Idea of Scientific Merit
• Commerce’s NSTC Strategy: An Unfinished Puzzle
• Q1 2023: Performance Update and Psychological Learning
• Big Tech Blocked: Microsoft Stopped from Taking Over Gaming
• A guide to prompting AI (for what it is worth)
• AI's Hardware Problem
• How to Have the Fat Talk
• The Room Where It Happens
• How BeReal missed its moment
• Data Brokers and Privacy and Security Risks
• The Benefits of Traveling with Minimal Gear and How to Do It " Shoot It With Film
• End-of-Life Dreams
• How the Boston Marathon Messes With Runners to Slow Them Down
• The Long, Slow Death of Global Development
• DREAM-LOGIC, THE INTERNET AND ARTIFICIAL THOUGHT
• RISC on a Chip: David Patterson and Berkeley RISC-I
• An Illustrated Guide to Self-Censorship
• I set up a ChatGPT voice interface for my 3-year old. Here’s how it went.
• Cosa si sono dette Italia e Taiwan sui chip
• How a Google Antitrust Case Could Determine the Future of AI
• Charlie, tenersi buoni
• [Mostly Weekly #216] Siamo animali danzanti che amano i videogiochi e le gru di carta
• Maps Distort How We See the World
• TSMC Earnings, CDW says IT Spending is Weak, and Further Networking Weakness
• Can Snap snap back?
• Chip Policy for the Green Transition
• Interview: How ChatGPT is changing teaching and assessments
• TSMC’s Heroic Assumption – Low Utilization Rates, Fab Cancellation, 3nm Volumes, Automotive Weakness, AI Advanced …
• Top 10 NPC delegate Proposals: AI, Escape Rooms, Baby Making, and Taiwan
• The Wages of Overwork
• So much for Elon Musk’s everything app
• Steve Jobs' Storytelling Framework
• ‘Overemployed’ Hustlers Exploit ChatGPT To Take On Even More Full-Time Jobs
• The Fake Chip Scourge
• Social media is doomed to die
• As We May Think
• Chip Letter Links No. 16 : Gordon Moore's Notebooks, Nvidia on Acquired, Assembly Language, Jeff Hinton, RISC-V on…
• Charlie, se ci sono di mezzo i soldi
• Assume people like you (they probably do)
• How to Love the World More: George Saunders on the Courage of Uncertainty
• The ’80s Are Back, Baby
• How to Live By Your Values This Year
• The Use of Knowledge in Society
• If you want to follow your dreams, you have to say no to all the alternatives
• Invisible asymptotes — Remains of the Day
• The Military-Industrial Stock Buyback Complex
• Così Renzi il distruttore ha rottamato pure Calenda
• China’s New AI Regulations: Are They Enforcable?
• How two insurgents are taking on Twitter
• The Steam Deck wasn’t born ready, but it’s ready now
• Sparks of AGI: early experiments with GPT-4
• How Optical MEMS Won an Oscar
• Google AI Infrastructure Supremacy: Systems Matter More Than Microarchitecture
• Computing Power and Sustainability in the People’s Daily
• AI Foundations Part 1: Transformers, Pre-Training and Fine-Tuning, and Scaling
• Why Taiwan matters to the world
• Tsai-McCarthy + Military Drills
• The future of education in a world of AI
• Apple's "Perpetual, Royalty-Free License" and Other Arm Myths
• The Inner Ring
• Only Wizards Used Assembly Language
• [Mostly Weekly #212] Il "Día de la memoria" a Buenos Aires e la Luna comunque
• [Mostly Weekly #213] Edición de Buenos Aires
• [Mostly Weekly #214] La Trabahanza e altre suggestioni
• Outsourcing Virtue
• Reality Eats Culture For Breakfast: AI, Existential Risk and Ethical Tech
• The age of average
• The Status Trap
• Charlie, sempre fuori fuoco
• Can Reading Make You Happier?
• ChatGPT is going to change education, not destroy it
• The Unnecessary Obscurity of Assembly Language
• Chip Subsidy Vessels – Comparing the EU and the US
• [nexa] ChatGPT disabled for users in Italy
• No Seriously, What is Intelligence?
• RESTRICT First, Ban Later
• Why journalists can't quit Twitter
• What Happened To My Ambition?
• Amazon Graviton3 vs. Intel Xeon vs. AMD EPYC Performance
• Language models are multiverse generators
• The People Who Prioritize a Friendship Over Romance
• Live Closer to Your Friends
• Line in the Sand
• Venice Is Saved! Woe Is Venice.
• The CCP’s Taiwan Strategy
• China Responds to Tsai’s US Visit
• What’s the Point of Reading Writing by Humans?
• iAPX432 : Gordon Moore, Risk and Intel’s Super-CISC failure
• Silicon Carbide Game-Changer: Aehr's Edge - SiC Pure Play $AEHR
• You'd Be Happier Living Closer to Friends. Why Don't You?
• There's Nothing Unnatural About a Computer
• Perché il lavoro è diventato una religione?
• In Search of Lost Time
• What Plants Are Saying About Us
• You don't need to work on hard problems
• What Bullets Do To Bodies
• You Are You. We Live Here. This is Now.
• I Called Off My Wedding. The Internet Will Never Forget
• Silicon Carbide: A Power Electronics Revolution
• Why Are (White) Men So Unambitious?
• Memorandum For Members and Affiliates of the Intergalactic Computer Network
• Chips Act China Guardrails: The Goldilocks Challenge
• 50 years of silence
• [Simulators seminar sequence] #2 Semiotic physics
• Simulators - LessWrong
• Moore's Law Changed Our Lives Forever: Rest in Peace Gordon Moore
• The Levers That Money Can't Pull
• LA without a car (part 2)
• The Fifty-First State?
• Where Have All The Good Ones Gone?
• Scene creation engines and apprenticeships
• Society's Technical Debt and Software's Gutenberg Moment
• How TikTok failed to make the case for itself
• The Jews of Summer
• I Saw the Face of God in a Semiconductor Factory
• Kotkin on China: Communism’s Achilles’ Heel, Deterrence, and Learning from the USSR
• Amazon’s Cloud Crisis: How AWS Will Lose The Future Of Computing
• The Arm Story Part 3 : Creating A Global Standard
• When did New York start building slowly?
• Banking in very uncertain times
• Google Apollo: The >$3 Billion Game-Changer in Datacenter Networking
• Fire the Fed
• Ms. Petersen Went Up the Mountain Herself
• Countdown to ERNIE: Chinese Media on Baidu’s AI Chatbot
• China’s Chip Industry Dismayed by Multilateral Export Controls
• 2022 letter
• AI’s Regulatory Future
• AI Proposals at ‘Two Sessions’: AGI as ‘Two Bombs, One Satellite’?
• US vs China Semis Industrial Policy: Tale of the Tape
• Behaviorism - Wikipedia
• Is Cultivated Meat For Real?
• Beyond Staple Grains
• New US National Cyber Strategy: Regulation, Resilience, Ransomware, and More
• Ride the Wave: Alphawave
• China’s Censors Are Afraid of What Chatbots Might Say
• EUV Requirements Halved? Applied Materials' Scuplta Redefines Lithography And Patterning Market
• ‘We Knew We Were on the Precipice’
• ChatXiPT, Tweets of the Week, Three Body Problem, Trudeau Troubles, Palo Alto Meetup, Baidu vs Xiaohongshu in Sear…
• China CHIPS Act Guardrails—The Next Great US Policy Innovation?
• [Sneak Peek] Declining Sperm Count: Much More Than You Wanted To Know
• How Ancient Chinese Exceptionalism Shapes China's Worldview Today
• What Teachers Really Think About All Those Spirit Days
• Will Xi Arm Putin? Has a Cold War Already Begun?
• China's Elite on Ukraine War Anniversary
• Can Technology Be Humane?
• What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work?
• The Hard Problems of Edge AI Hardware
• China's “Semiconductor Theranos”: HSMC
• How to Be Great? Just Be Good, Repeatably

marzo 2023

• Do We Need Doctors Or Algorithms?
• The Surprising Path Of Artificial Intelligence
• Will We Need Teachers Or Algorithms?
• The AI industry really should slow down a little
• Chinese Delivery Worker Reflects: "When you call, they want you knocking. When you knock, they want you calling."
• In Sudden Alarm, Tech Doyens Call for a Pause on ChatGPT
• Chip Letter Links No. 15 : Gordon Moore, Itanium, Inventing Ethernet, MIPS, RISC-V and more
• Cinema. Adolfo Celi, 100 anni fa nasceva l'altro eroe dei due mondi
• Charlie, dal vivo
• Tuesday Thread: What are you watching?
• Helen Garner on happiness: ‘It’s taken me 80 years to figure out it’s not a tranquil, sunlit realm’
• ☞ AI, Semiotic Physics, and the Opcodes of Story World
• Quei temerari della Pan Am che fecero per primi il giro del mondo
• La fine del traffico
• RESTRICT China
• Visiting the Morris Chang & Chris Miller Semiconductor Forum
• Now is not the moment to push people into just any job
• Researchers develop blood test for anxiety
• Your Data Is Diminishing Your Freedom
• Microsoft’s new Copilot will change Office documents forever
• Europe's TikTok Debate Can Learn from the US
• Spid e CIE, il grande scontro tra visioni del mondo contrapposte, intervista ad Alfonso Fuggetta
• Addio patente di plastica, la nuova sarà all digital
• L'anno in cui è morto James Bond
• I hate how much I enjoy the Remarkable 2’s $199 keyboard case
• Noam Chomsky: The False Promise of ChatGPT
• [Mostly Weekly #211] Dio Irusu
• Charlie, le cose vere
• The Humans Who Live as Lab Rats
• Why the Floppy Disk Just Won’t Die
• How Complex Systems Fail
• 8 Ways to Read (a Lot) More Books This Year
• TikTok nears the endgame
• On Not Knowing Greek
• How Siri, Alexa and Google Assistant Lost the A.I. Race
• Bring Back Bunny
• Microsoft just laid off one of its responsible AI teams
• Brussels seeks new controls to limit China acquiring high-tech
• New Room-Temperature Superconductor Offers Tantalizing Possibilities
• Health Data Exposed: Gaps in US Privacy Law and Regulation
• Com'è al verde la Silicon Valley
• lifehacks
• To Read, To Try, To Revisit, To Actually Watch
• Creating a Folder Structure for Your Plain Text Files
• [Mostly Weekly #210] Felicemente ritirate dalle relazioni umane e altre novità
• Mossberg: The Disappearing Computer
• 经济学A-Z术语，以A开头|经济学人
• Maciej Besta
• Charlie, retention
• Friday Bites: Tsai to Cali, Chips Act China Guardrails, Matsu Back on the Menu?
• Caro umano ti scrivo
• Meta is building a decentralized, text-based social network
• How MrBeast learns
• "You can only write at the speed of your own self-awareness."
• Linear Drive: Potentially Huge Share Shifts in the Transceiver Market
• Marvell's DSP Dilemma? Networking’s Tectonic Shift Led By Broadcom, Nvidia, Arista Networks, Microsoft, Meta, Maco…
• Is Meta Becoming a Trustworthy AI Company?
• ⚔️ Elon wants to fight back against ChatGPT
• How a single engineer brought down Twitter on Monday
• Remembering the Dot-Com Office Chair -- New York Magazine
• Anna Quindlen's Commencement Address at Villanova
• attending to the other
• Very Long-Term Backup
• Kayfabe
• On Design Thinking
• Trillion Dollar Stopgap: The Intel 8086
• Got That Coffee Klatch Invite
• The Furniture Hustlers of Silicon Valley
• Charlie, non sottovalutare
• Pete Buttigieg's Moment of Truth
• Winners and losers in the race to add AI
• Honestly, it's probably the phones
• Il tesoretto del moto perpetuo
• Discours de Dominique de Villepin aux Nations unies
• la Repubblica/mondo: Quando la storia si presenta come un film
• Per paura di fermarci riempiamo le agende di impegni inutili, dobbiamo re-imparare a non fare niente
• SiC as a Dog: Tesla Investor Day
• Life is a Picture, But You Live in a Pixel
• The implausibility of intelligence explosion
• What's behind the gender imbalance in top-level chess?
• Solid-state physics
• 1401.2392.pdf
• Congress' 2023 Tech Hearings Ramp Up
• In latest round of Twitter cuts, some see hints of its next CEO
• Ford Hearts CATL: America's Awkward Battery Deficiency
• Goodbye Vladivostok, Hello Hǎishēnwǎi!
• Elly e il Movimento democratico delle tasse arcobaleno
• Scendi Giggino che lo studio
• Embracing Chaos: The Imperfect Art of Semiconductor Manufacturing And Lithography
• Buying Experiences Probably Doesn't Make You Happier than Buying Possessions
• The Idea Trap
• On replacing my MacBook Air M1 with a Thinkpad T480
• Eternity in six hours: Intergalactic spreading of intelligent life and sharpening the Fermi paradox
• Sick Week, New Look
• Intel's Dividend Cut, Nvidia's Earnings, and Besi
• Mariana Mazzucato: ‘The McKinseys and the Deloittes have no expertise in the areas that they’re advising in’
• Friday Bites: ‘Asylum-Worthy’ Stand-Up, Canadian Election Interference, Fred Again in MSG
• Are Americans Worried About Chinese Apps?
• India Bans More Chinese Apps: What to Know
• From Draw Down to Bounce Back: A Guide to the Q1 Inventory Bottom
• AMD Genoa Detailed – Architecture Makes Xeon Look Like A Dinosaur
• Centralization vs. Decentralization: Two Centuries of Authority in Design
• Beyond "Fermi's Paradox" XIII: What is the "Ocean Worlds" Hypothesis?
• Earnings Roundup: Applied Materials, ICHR, Renesas, Tokyo Electron, ACLS, ONTO, GFS, ENTG
• Declining sperm count: Much more than you wanted to know
• Friday Bites: China's Breaking Bad, Chaoyang Trap, Gaokao Factory, and NYC's Best Uyghur Food
• Why Finding Purpose Is SO HARD Today
• An Interview with Rajesh Vashist, CEO of SiTime
• China's Best New Novels According to China's Goodreads
• Pace Layering: How Complex Systems Learn and Keep Learning
• Linux On The Laptop Works So Damn Well That It’s Boring
• Something About the Present
• THE MTA’S SPECIAL ARMORED MONEY TRAIN THAT RAN FROM 1951 TO 2006 IN NYC

febbraio 2023

• Il luna park dei convertiti da spiaggia
• On Being an Illegible Person
• On the origins of empathy for other species
• Building Hello Tomorrow’s playfully retrofuturistic world
• With a Simple Twist, a ‘Magic’ Material Is Now the Big Thing in Physics
• Better Than Earth? Are There Superhabitable Worlds In The Milky Way?
• The People Who Are Secretly Working Multiple Full-Time Jobs From Home
• Chip Letter Links No 14: Raspberry Pi Pico
• Charlie, sul posto ma fino a un certo punto
• Lo Spid può cambiare. ma non può essere abolito. Perché è legato a doppio filo con il Pnrr
• I crediti fiscali "che non sono debito" ma erano minibot
• New cracks emerge in Elon Musk's Twitter
• The European Commission's TikTok Ban: What to Know
• ‘An Invisible Cage’: How China Is Policing the Future
• Compute and the Future of US-China Relations
• The Tyranny of Faux Self-Care
• AI Compute 101: The Geopolitics of GPUs
• The Future of the Transistor
• “ASPEN 20” - SR-71 - Groundspeed Check
• China's ChatGPT Fever
• The Purpose of Technology
• Library Genesis
• Curiosity Zone
• Beyond "Fermi's Paradox" IV: What is the Rare Earth Hypothesis?
• Beyond "Fermi's Paradox" XVII: What is the "SETI-Paradox" Hypothesis?
• Beyond "Fermi's Paradox" XVI: What is the "Dark Forest" Hypothesis?
• What is the Percolation Theory Hypothesis?
• What is the Aurora Hypothesis?
• Beyond “Fermi’s Paradox” XII: What is the Waterworlds Hypothesis?
• Beyond “Fermi’s Paradox” X: What is the Firstborn Hypothesis?
• Beyond "Fermi's Paradox" VIII: What is the Zoo Hypothesis?
• Beyond "Fermi's Paradox" VII: What it the Planetarium Hypothesis
• Beyond "Fermi's Paradox" VI: What is the Berserker Hypothesis?
• Beyond the Fermi Paradox V: What is the Aestivation Hypothesis?
• Beyond "Fermi's Paradox" III: What is the Great Filter?
• Beyond "Fermi's Paradox" II: Questioning the Hart-Tipler Conjecture
• A Lunchtime Conversation- Enrico Fermi and Extraterrestrial Intelligence
• The Coming Technological Singularity
• Beyond “Fermi’s Paradox” IX: What is the Brief Window Hypothesis?
• "Team Jorge”: In the heart of a global disinformation machine • Forbidden Stories
• Ray Nayler: Don't be afraid of your own depth
• Why Smart People Hold Stupid Beliefs
• The Arm Story Part 2 : Archimedes to Advanced RISC Machines
• Beyond "Fermi's Paradox" XI: What is the Transcension Hypothesis
• The Work is Not Enough
• ongoing by Tim Bray · Modern Mono
• Apple hardware subscription would be a big step - raising big questions
• The Out-of-Control Spread of Crowd-Control Tech
• Physicists Say Aliens May Be Using Black Holes as Quantum Computers
• the only good coffee is bad coffee
• Tell Good Stories
• "A little bit of slope makes up for a lot of y-intercept"
• Charlie, sapere di non sapere
• The Smoker
• Good conversations have lots of doorknobs
• On Lina Khan Derangement Syndrome
• Subscribe to read | Financial Times
• Trickle-Down Agriculture
• Thick Cables, Thin Margins – Microsoft, Amazon, and Google Overstated By $CRDO Credo
• Two Problems with US-China Tech Security Policy
• Peeling The Onion’s Layers - Large Language Models Search Architecture And Cost
• How to Deter a War for Taiwan + The Burdens of Occupation if China Wins
• Progress Report January 2023
• Dolphin Progress Report: December 2022 and January 2023
• Once Again Through Eratosthenes Sieve : 40 Years of Progress
• Reality has a surprising amount of detail
• How Should We Think About Our Different Styles of Thinking?
• [Mostly Weekly #206] Definire il nuovo anziché rimpiangere il vecchio e altre bischerate simili
• Charlie, con intelligenza
• A ‘Chinese Commonwealth’ Could Be A Path Forward For Taiwan
• digital orto
• Lewis.Learning in War-Time.pdf
• The Tinkerings of Robert Noyce
• ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web
• The Inference Cost Of Search Disruption – Large Language Model Cost Analysis
• War for Taiwan: Could Emerging Tech Tip The Scales?
• How America Took Out The Nord Stream Pipeline
• Il Futuro dei Microchip - ISPI
• China Reacts to Export Controls: Japan, the Netherlands, and Huawei
• Google non lancia Bard come competitor di ChatGPT
• COMSOL: Multiphysics Software for Optimizing Designs
• PocketBook Color
• Childhoods of exceptional people
• Japan was the future but it's stuck in the past
• Actually, Japan has changed a lot
• We invested 10% to pay back tech debt; Here's what happened
• A Century of Moore’s Law
• [Mostly Weekly #205] La calcolatrice dei creativi e gli acquerelli di Miyazaki
• Charlie, nel loro piccolo
• The Arm Story Part 1 : From Acorns
• Failure to Cope "Under Capitalism"
• Kremlin-Linked Group Arranged Payments to European Politicians to Support Russia’s Annexation of Crimea
• La trattativa tra Italia e Realtà
• Dorfles: "La mia vita infinita, da Francesco Giuseppe agli smartphone"
• Virtual aid trip and a policy quiz: the European Commission tourist experience
• Weekly Reads! Chinese AI Investment, State Dpt Memos, Peter Hessler, Tianjin and the Spring Gala
• A Pyrrhic Victory for Meta Over the FTC?
• CHIPS Act: The Battle for R&D Dollars
• TSMC 3nm FinFlex + Self-Aligned Contacts, Intel EMIB 3 + Foveros Direct, AMD Yield Issues, IBM Vertical Transport …
• 🤖 AI
• Russia's 2023 Tech Challenges, According to Its State-Owned Telecom
• Will Young Americans Want to Work in Semiconductor Manufacturing?
• Intel Cuts Pay For Employees To Keep Their Quarterly Dividend
• Instagram's co-founders are mounting a comeback
• The ‘OK’ Computer
• CHIPS Act: Strategic Dilemmas in Manufacturing Incentives
• UK scientists discover method to reduce steelmaking’s CO2 emissions by 90%
• Why are so many tech companies laying people off right now?
• All Red Line - Wikipedia
• Cybersecurity Under the Ocean: Risks Facing Submarine Cables and the Global Internet
• The Gaps In The New China Lithography Restrictions – ASML, SMEE, Nikon, Cannon, EUV, DUV, ArFi, ArF Dry, KrF, and …
• Rep. Khanna on AI, China, and Industrial Policy + Phoenix Meetup!
• The Week CNBC Started to Panic
• Cilo and the Economics of QWERTY
• A Vaccine for Depression?
• ChatGPT Can't Kill Anything Worth Preserving
• The Art and Science of Spending Money
• MacBook Pro M2 è il portatile perfetto, ma non è per tutti
• For your next side project, make a browser extension
• The Best GPUs for Deep Learning in 2023
• Semiconductor Bear Market Rally? – Inventory Analysis Of 71 Companies Over 25 Years
• Exclusive: The $2 Per Hour Workers Who Made ChatGPT Safer
• Social’s Next Wave
• The Founding of ASML Part 2: Oil to Electric
• Insane after coronavirus?
• Archiving Your Teen Self
• 2022 in review
• OUT OF DARTS
• Cowen on China
• Aristocrat Inc. - Believer Magazine
• Finding Awe Amid Everyday Splendor
• A Bombshell For U.S.-China Tech Relations
• 🏆 The very Best of 2022
• A Year in Books
• 2022 Media Diet: TV, Movies, Chess, Elden Ring, Podcasts and YouTube
• Sorry, Wrong Number
• The Cold Wind of Historical Nihilism
• The Founding of ASML - Part 1: The Philips Era
• IEDM: DTCO & More than Moore
• Migrating from Pandemic China
• Mapping out the tribes of climate
• How the First Transistor Worked
• How to Prevent the Next Pandemic
• The Return of the Scarlet Letter
• The Beautiful, Brutal World of Bonsai
• Why Eric Schmidt became an AI cold war hype master
• How Google’s Ad Business Funds Disinformation Around the World
• [Mostly Weekly #191] Mojibake, manga e AI
• The Terrifying Car Crash That Inspired a Masterpiece
• The Art of Dying
• Elite Capture
• A Progress Studies History of Early MIT — Part 1: Training the engineers who built the country

gennaio 2023

• US air force general predicts China conflict in 2025
• How to Be 18 Years Old Again for Only $2 Million a Year
• Guerre di Rete - I pappagalli stocastici sono diventati miliardari
• Losing Taiwan Means Losing Japan
• What time is it on the Moon?
• Chip Letter Links No. 13: Andy Grove and the 80386
• Intel is the Antithesis of "Smart Capital"
• The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete
• Nuar Alsadir: The Craft of Writing Empathy
• The End of Writing
• China's Data Policy and Digital Governance Future
• How Transportation Technologies Shape Cities
• L'ULTIMA LETTERA DI ALDO MORO
• TSMC: Semiconductors and Borders of Light
• The AI Brick Wall – A Practical Limit For Scaling Dense Transformer Models, and How GPT 4 Will Break Past It
• Wealth, Games and Monte Carlo
• Hands-On: A Mechanical Watch Fanatic Reviews The Apple Watch Ultra
• Social Structures in the Digital Age
• [Mostly Weekly #203] Carne sintetica, esistenzialismo e il momento giusto per smettere
• The World-Changing Race to Develop the Quantum Computer
• Repair and Remain
• everything new
• A Place for Fire
• Misreading the Cues
• What if you never sort your life out?
• The Paradox of Goals
• How To Read The Internet
• Looking for Alice
• Notes on Commandments to live by
• Hedging Its Bets: Serbia Between Russia and the EU
• Ricardo Reis: ‘Central banks must balance bringing inflation down without breaking things’
• Martin Wolf: in defence of democratic capitalism
• Welcome to Prineville, Oregon: Population, 800 Million
• As QAnon Falters, European Followers Flock to a Financial Conspiracy
• The x86 architecture is the weirdo
• The Itanium processor, part 1: Warming up
• The Tail End
• Walking Amman (Jordan)
• The Written World and the Unwritten World
• The secret lives of words
• The Work You Do, the Person You Are
• How to Write English Prose
• Ruined Kingdom Skip
• How Kevins Got a Bad Rap in France
• L'era del mindset vincente
• Alarmed by A.I. Chatbots, Universities Start Revamping How They Teach
• Semi-conducteurs : Chine et États-Unis dans la nouvelle ère de la guerre
• Where Data Centers and Abortion Rights Intersect
• Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?
• Inside Truman Capote's Black and White Ball • Magnum Photos
• Our Tote Bags, Ourselves
• Moving is not failure
• I Think We’re Alone Now
• How Transportation Technologies Shaped Empires
• L’atterraggio d'emergenza in mezzo al Pacifico che ha fatto perdere a 214 passeggeri la mezzanotte di Capodanno
• The ‘breakthrough’ obesity drugs that have stunned researchers
• Captain Zilog Crushed! : The Story of the Z8000
• How Your Boss Can Use Your Remote-Work Tools to Spy on You
• Tales from the hack - The time Mudge and Kingpin helped save a bunch of Apple IIGS with Ladyada in high school … @dotMudge @joegrand #talesfromthehack
• Crosetto e il machete della realtà
• Life is Short
• Hackers & Painters
• What Can We Learn from Barnes & Noble's Surprising Turnaround?
• The Mainframe In Your Pocket
• 40 One-Sentence Email Tips
• Project Rough: Achieving 'Perfect' Sound
• Project LS: A Boot Install, Interior Refresh & Wheel Work
• Project 345 Gets (A Little) Serious
• I Took the Cheapest Flight Everyday and Ended up in...
• htmx - Documentation
• ChatGPT: China's AI Researchers React
• Dollars to Megabits, You May Be Paying 400 Times As Much As Your Neighbor for Internet Service
• Marvell's Vision – Custom Silicon, CXL, DPUs, Ethernet, Optical, Telecom, Storage, Automotive, SerDes, 2025 Revenu…
• JavaScript, Shudder, Chat Apps, Concordia, Signia
• True Love Is The Most Important Thing In The World: A Coasian/Evolutionary Approach
• What Kind of Man Was Anthony Bourdain?
• Giovanni van Bronckhorst and the Irresistible Allure of the Long-Range Goal
• The Reluctant Prophet of Effective Altruism
• Bed Habits
• Nasir Ahmed and the image society
• 12ft | Bank of England goes into full crisis management mode | Financial Times
• Don’t Surround Yourself With Smarter People
• Prickles and Goo

dicembre 2022

• Bella vita e guerre altrui del professor Alessandro Orsini, gentiluomo
• Editors’ picks for 2022: ‘How firm is Xi Jinping’s grip on power?’
• Google is panicking over the ability of the ChatGPT bot to answer user questions
• How to Use ChatGPT and Still Be a Good Person
• Apple GPU drivers now in Asahi Linux
• Giovanni Bazoli: "La P2 non finì con Calvi e cercò di ostacolarmi. Convinsi Silvio a comprare il Milan"
• Turisti del web
• Il Black and White Ball di Truman Capote, il party più fascinoso di sempre
• The weird, worrisome mystery behind America's plague of purple streetlights
• The Cinematography of "The Incredibles" Part 1
• An Early Look at Matter on the Web
• A Bombshell For U.S.-China Tech Relations
• Globalization is Dead and No One is Listening
• [Mostly Weekly #197] La notte che l'AI bruciò Cory Doctorow
• Charlie, da homepage a timeline
• The Extended Internet Universe
• AI bot ChatGPT writes smart essays - should academics worry?
• Sanctions forcing Russia to use appliance parts in military gear, U.S. says
• Samsung Backstabs The DRAM Cartel – Capital Expenditure Cuts, 130 Manufacturing Projects, 60 Companies Report
• The global energy crisis “turbocharged” renewable energy growth
• Generative AI: autocomplete for everything
• ChatGPT and the Future of Domain Expertise
• The promise and the peril of ChatGPT
• [Mostly Weekly #196] Batterie indonesiane, wallet argentini e dodecaedri romani
• Italy hosts largest number of shadow Chinese ‘police stations’ worldwide, report says
• Alice nel paese delle meraviglie 3.0: il mondo parallelo di ChatGPT
• China to Hunt Down ‘Incorrect and Non-Standard’ Fonts
• The Psychosocial Beauty of r/AmITheAsshole
• Global per capita CO₂ emissions have (still) peaked
• 52 things I learned in 2022
• GPT-4 Rumors From Silicon Valley
• America’s top universities reap the benefit of Italian-trained scientists
• L’Europa tra gli Investimenti di Cina e Taiwan e i rischi della "dollar diplomacy"
• China harvests masses of data on Western targets, documents show
• Why Does Everything On Netflix Look Like That?
• China’s Silicon Future
• China's Protests: Harbinger or Passing Storm?
• Criticizing Computers
• Chapter 1. Hacker Slang and Hacker Culture
• Dunbar-scale social
• Using GPT-3 to augment human intelligence
• A Private ARPA user manual
• The Mysterious Meeting between Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg
• COVID-19 Origins: Investigating a “Complex and Grave Situation” Inside a Wuhan Lab
• The end of the system of the world
• How you attach to people may explain a lot about your inner life
• The Death of Intellectual Curiosity
• Taipei. A Portrait.

novembre 2022

• [Mostly Weekly #195] Exchange, oggetti degli altri, il censimento dei ricordi fascisti
• What Do We Lose If We Lose Twitter?
• This genetically engineered houseplant does the work of 30 air purifiers
• Thinking together
• [Mostly Weekly #193] ‌La pazzia di Elon Musk, gli artigiani gli utenti e le AI
• Escaping the Digital Dark Age
• Integrated Road Bikes Perform Better, but at What Cost?
• You Don’t Want a World Without Manual Transmission
• Are Modern Bicycles the End of DIY Maintenance?
• [Mostly Weekly #192] Twitter, meritocrazia e tecnofeudalesimo
• A New Materials Paradigm Is Overdue
• Stratechery by Ben Thompson
• Garmin Instinct Solar Review: What’s New & Different
• iPhone 14 Pro Camera Review: A Small Step, A Huge Leap
• Are We Living Under ‘Technofeudalism’?
• Chips and China
• Politics, Friendship, and the Search for Meaning
• Charlie, decidersi
• Workism Is Making Americans Miserable
• Mattei l' uomo mistero
• Democracies correct their mistakes. Dictatorships double down.
• Exit the supersensorium
• Biomanufactured materials are coming
• Umberto Eco's Guide to Writing a Thesis
• Semaform and function
• The Shopping Cure
• Ill With Want
• A history of botany and colonialism touched off by a moss bed
• Socialite, Widow, Jeweller, Spy: How a GRU Agent Charmed Her Way Into NATO Circles in Italy
• Nvidia In the Valley
• Becoming a magician
• The Disappearing Art Of Maintenance

ottobre 2022

• Why I (Still) Love Tech: In Defense of a Difficult Industry
• How Team Boris became Team Rishi
• Starlink signals can be reverse-engineered to work like GPS-whether SpaceX likes it or not
• Amazon Is Becoming the Everything Tracker
• Double-duration Compact Disc (1987 - 1988)
• Tacete, lo straniero vi ascolta. E sghignazza
• [Mostly Weekly #189] Ritrovare la dignità del lavoro e altre storie globali
• Il linguaggio politicamente corretto in azienda
• Chi (non) fa funzionare lo Stato
• how to avoid half-heartedness
• My Sarajevo
• Little Rules About Big Things
• Why we stopped making Einsteins
• The Most Precious Resource is Agency
• Ukraine Holds the Future
• Notes on Progress: An Englishman in New York
• Learn Enough Text Editor to Be Dangerous
• I come bringing good news about hydrogen
• [Mostly Weekly #188] Cucire un nuovo abito per l'umanità e la natura
• EU leaders to clash on energy measures in Prague
• Why some leaders are happier than others to go to Prague
• EU funding fights over energy spell trouble ahead
• Nascent pan-European grouping to hold second meeting in Moldova
• Europe’s fiscal discussions heat up ahead of cold winter
• South Caucasus tests the EU’s geopolitical ambitions
• The CIA Thought Putin Would Quickly Conquer Ukraine. Why Did They Get It So Wrong?
• The iPad isn't a big iPhone or a touch-screen Mac-so what is it?
• DALL-E, the Metaverse, and Zero Marginal Content (Stratechery Article 4-12-2022)
• Le “cucine fantasma” si aggirano per l'Europa
• Aging programmer
• Boom! Antitrust Bill Passed
• [Mostly Weekly #187] Tempi duri per i monopolisti e speciale software
• European left’s recovery shows signs of going into reverse
• EU ploughs ahead on sanctions as Putin annexes Ukrainian regions
• Why crafting an EU gas price cap is taking so long
• Why limited EU loans for unemployed could be replicated
• The Filing Cabinet
• Where to Live
• We Need a New Science of Progress
• Roger Federer as Religious Experience

settembre 2022

• EU battles to keep united front in face of far-right successes
• [Mostly Weekly #186] Come pensare quando si ha paura
• Italy veers right and away from EU’s centre of power
• Why EU’s fresh Russia sanctions remain elusive
• Unabridged.
• Putin’s Kremlin Is in Disarray
• Charter Cities.pdf
• Scenius, or Communal Genius
• On Medici and Thiel
• Cozy futurism
• Why Italy’s diaspora is exasperated with remote voting
• Why free traders are on the defensive in the European Commission
• EU at pains to even out support with energy bills
• Why Italy needs a safe pair of hands at the finance ministry
• European leaders attend Queen’s funeral before heading to UN
• I Wish I Was a Little Bit Taller
• It’s Time to Prepare for a Ukrainian Victory
• [Mostly Weekly #185] Guerre, Pipeline problems e il dossier lavoro
• Ukraine, energy crisis to dominate State of the Union speech
• Why the EU is Moldova’s only option in Russian energy crunch
• Putin and Xi, still partners with ‘no limits’?
• EU energy plans face headwinds from capitals, industry
• Russian nationalist pressure on Putin
• Time Isn't Money
• Questing for Transcendence
• Letter from Utopia
• The Way We Live Now: 11-11-01; Lost and Found
• Why EU finance ministers face a tough balancing act
• Energy crisis revives EU common borrowing discussion
• EU governments to struggle delivering benefits of energy levies
• Will the ECB step up its inflation-fighting efforts?
• Why energy ministers can’t agree on gas price caps
• Greece’s mounting troubles at home and abroad
• [Mostly Weekly #184] La California e le elezioni in Italia passando da Londra
• The Services iPhone
• Trump Puts Himself on the Ballot Again
• ‘A new way of life’: the Marxist, post-capitalist, green manifesto captivating Japan
• Douglas Engelbart | Hidden Heroes
• Can the American Mall Survive?
• An Ode to Code: A Dispatch from Kara Swisher's Last Code Conference
• 'London Bridge is down': the secret plan for the days after the Queen’s death
• David Shor, a Data Guru for Democrats, Throws One Last Bash
• Why EU capitals are rather wary of Liz Truss
• 'Blockchain is bunk': Crypto critics find their voice
• Come funzionano i chip di tessera sanitaria e carta di identità
• Non ci sono abbastanza microchip per le tessere sanitarie
• La nuova tessera sanitaria non avrà il microchip
• Trump’s Second Term Would Look Like This
• [Mostly Weekly #183] I timbri giapponesi e la Costituzione americana
• What Is To Be Done? — Fragments
• The Humiliating History of the TSA