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Michael Huemer Is Wrong About AI Hype

Bentham's Bulldog · ·Jan 14, 2026 · 11 min read

How Uber Serves over 150 Million Reads per Second from Integrated Cache

Alex Xu · ByteByteGo Newsletter ·Jan 14, 2026 · 10 min read

UNICEF: Over 100 children killed in Gaza since “ceasefire”; Mass funeral in Iran; ICE arrests dozens of refugees in Minnesota

Ryan Grim & Jeremy Scahill · Drop Site ·Jan 14, 2026 · 17 min read

Flu antivirals: What to know and when to use them

Dr. Katelyn Jetelina · Your Local Epidemiologist ·Jan 14, 2026 · 11 min read

If You Think MAGA Journalism Is Bad Now, Just Wait

Sarah Longwell, Tim Miller, Bill Kristol · The Bulwark ·Jan 14, 2026 · 13 min read

Inside the Stunning Collapse of the Quebec Liberal Party

The Walrus · ·Jan 14, 2026 · 10 min read

All the poll questions readers suggested we ask in 2026

G. Elliott Morris · G. Elliott Morris ·Jan 14, 2026 · 21 min read

Schools are getting worse in most red states

Matthew Yglesias · Slow Boring ·Jan 14, 2026 · 10 min read

Ben Buchanan on AI

Jordan Schneider · ChinaTalk ·Jan 14, 2026 · 54 min read

Roundup #75: Checking in on the Bad Guys

Noah Smith · Noahpinion ·Jan 14, 2026 · 17 min read

Six Points to Navigate the Turmoil in Iran

Vijay Prashad · ·Jan 13, 2026 · 10 min read

How Somalis Became the New ‘Welfare Queens’

Sarah Longwell, Tim Miller, Bill Kristol · The Bulwark ·Jan 13, 2026 · 11 min read

SOTA On Bay Area House Party

Scott Alexander · Astral Codex Ten ·Jan 13, 2026 · 17 min read

Design Systems for Software Engineers

Gergely Orosz · The Pragmatic Engineer ·Jan 13, 2026 · 20 min read

How Lyft Built an ML Platform That Serves Millions of Predictions Per Second

Alex Xu · ByteByteGo Newsletter ·Jan 13, 2026 · 12 min read

Spectech Lessons and Updated Hypotheses from 2025

Ben Reinhardt · ·Jan 13, 2026 · 12 min read

In From the Cold

Roger Pielke Jr. · The Honest Broker ·Jan 13, 2026 · 11 min read

All Kidding Aside, I Find the Creative Arc of Stranger Things to Be Quite Sad

Freddie deBoer · ·Jan 13, 2026 · 22 min read

More children die from cold exposure in Gaza; Death toll climbs in Iran; Minnesota and the Twin Cities sue DHS to halt ICE’s “federal invasion”

Ryan Grim & Jeremy Scahill · Drop Site ·Jan 13, 2026 · 19 min read

Send It In, Jerome!

Sarah Longwell, Tim Miller, Bill Kristol · The Bulwark ·Jan 13, 2026 · 13 min read

A brutal flu season, new dietary guidelines, and why cancer screenings are at risk

Dr. Katelyn Jetelina · Your Local Epidemiologist ·Jan 13, 2026 · 12 min read

🤬 Fed Up With the Fed Fight

Peter Rothpletz · Zeteo ·Jan 13, 2026 · 10 min read

How Washington Uses Energy as a Weapon

Michael Hudson · ·Jan 13, 2026 · 20 min read

Mantic Monday: The Monkey's Paw Curls

Scott Alexander · Astral Codex Ten ·Jan 12, 2026 · 27 min read

Golden Globes Recap: Rose Byrne and Teyana Taylor and Timmy Supreme

Hunter Harris · ·Jan 12, 2026 · 10 min read

How the UAE’s Decade-Long Project in Yemen Ended in 48 Hours

Ryan Grim & Jeremy Scahill · Drop Site ·Jan 12, 2026 · 10 min read

A Guide to LLM Evals

Alex Xu · ByteByteGo Newsletter ·Jan 12, 2026 · 10 min read

My Competitive Debate Cancellation Story

Bentham's Bulldog · ·Jan 12, 2026 · 13 min read

Inventing the Methods Section

Asimov Press · ·Jan 12, 2026 · 32 min read

Iran kills hundreds of protestors, shuts off internet; A gravestone for Refaat Alareer

Ryan Grim & Jeremy Scahill · Drop Site ·Jan 12, 2026 · 21 min read
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