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The Pain of Perfectionism

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/08/11/the-pain-of-perfectionism
4•mitchbob•15h ago

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mitchbob•15h ago
https://archive.ph/ux1vt
WarOnPrivacy•14h ago
In my experience, a quest to be perfect is a quest to be simple and thoughtless.

When perfection is assumed (typically w/o evidence) to be the best outcome, it dismisses the need for evaluation and consideration. Collateral damage is an acceptable cost by default and nuance is a distraction to be buried.

I think perfect can be well compared to a rainbow's end. It is a mirage, seen only at a distance but can not be traveled to. It is nowhere and nothing.

Lastly, perfect is not the same thing as best. And even best is (at best) a broad indicator of where a better outcome might be. It has value as a direction to go. Perfect has not even that.

Node.js 18 LTS EOL extended from April 2025 to May 2032 on Ubuntu

https://ubuntu.com/blog/nodejs-18-lts-eol-extended-from-april-2025-to-may-2032-on-ubuntu
1•denysonique•53s ago•0 comments

Show HN: Aura – Like robots.txt, but for AI actions

https://github.com/osmandkitay/aura
1•OsmanDKitay•2m ago•0 comments

Thursday briefing: How global preparedness prevented a tsunami tragedy

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/31/thursday-briefing-how-global-preparedness-prevented-a-tsunami-tragedy
2•PaulHoule•4m ago•0 comments

Partnering with OpenAI to bring their new open models onto Cloudflare Workers AI

https://blog.cloudflare.com/openai-gpt-oss-on-workers-ai/
1•bundie•4m ago•0 comments

The Arrogance of Compute Power

2•ricecat•5m ago•0 comments

Exposing Microsoft's flawed code that lets attackers access files on your server

https://www.neowin.net/news/researcher-exposes-microsofts-flawed-code-that-lets-attackers-access-files-on-your-computer/
1•bundie•5m ago•0 comments

Igor and Grichka Bogdanoff

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_and_Grichka_Bogdanoff
1•raattgift•6m ago•0 comments

Rollbar session reply beta now available

https://rollbar.framer.website/session-replay
1•nkruger•7m ago•1 comments

US charges 2 Chinese nationals with illegally shipping Nvidia AI chips to China

https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/06/ai_chips_to_china_charges/
2•rntn•7m ago•0 comments

Opioid Settlement Funds–Do Not Neglect Patients with Pain (2021)

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama-health-forum/fullarticle/2783468
2•mooreds•7m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Milo, an AI podcast host dedicated to personal narrative

https://meetmilo.net/
1•bingwu1995•8m ago•0 comments

Show HN: An AI tutor that can draw diagrams and explain concepts on a canvas

https://theclevr.com
1•Cyruskandilat•8m ago•0 comments

The Chief Privacy Officer's New Priorities

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1•mooreds•8m ago•0 comments

Font Choices from Around the Web

https://joeldare.com/font-choices-from-around-the-web
1•codazoda•10m ago•0 comments

Constitution of the United States Website has removed sections (web.archive.org)

https://old.reddit.com/r/law/comments/1mj3ttx/constitution_of_the_united_states_website_has/
2•llm_nerd•10m ago•0 comments

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1•melvinzammit•12m ago•1 comments

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https://nocomplexity.substack.com/p/stop-using-assert-in-your-python
1•runningmike•12m ago•0 comments

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1•whoami_nr•18m ago•0 comments

Proton's New Two-Factor Authenticator App

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2•brideoflinux•18m ago•0 comments

Training Neural Audio Networks

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1•wyager•19m ago•0 comments

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4•walterbell•20m ago•1 comments

Claude Code IDE Integration for Emacs

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34•kgwgk•22m ago•0 comments

EU proposal to scan all private messages gains momentum

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5•6d6b73•22m ago•0 comments

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2•bookofjoe•23m ago•1 comments

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https://stormmcp.ai
3•ColeMCP•23m ago•2 comments

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https://fortune.com/2025/08/03/economic-outlook-recession-warning-zandi-jobs-report-fed-rate-cuts/
5•duxup•26m ago•1 comments

I get paid more than Charles Dickens per word to write code

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3•jimhi•30m ago•1 comments

Repo Man (1984) – Iggy Pop Interview [video]

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2•karaokeyoga•31m ago•0 comments