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The Spectacle of "Building"

https://fakepixels.substack.com/p/the-spectacle-of-building
7•jger15•8h ago

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Animats•4h ago
That's fascinating. It's a view of venture capital within China's system. It still has bubbles, but different types of bubbles. The interaction between the state and VCs is totally different than in the US. There's the old centrally planned economy preference for big projects with high visibility in the physical world. Somehow, this seems to have met up with venture capital and financial bubbles to produce the "building" the post mentions.

Any comments from people in China on this?

[1] https://fakepixels.substack.com/p/the-spectacle-of-building

Convert photos to Atkinson dithering

https://gazs.github.io/canvas-atkinson-dither/
124•nvahalik•2h ago•20 comments

Bill Atkinson has died

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/06/07/bill-atkinson-rip
789•romanhn•6h ago•158 comments

BorgBackup 2 has no server-side append-only anymore

https://github.com/borgbackup/borg/pull/8798
88•jaegerma•4h ago•49 comments

Self-Host and Tech Independence: The Joy of Building Your Own

https://www.ssp.sh/blog/self-host-self-independence/
75•articsputnik•4h ago•13 comments

Discovering a JDK Race Condition, and Debugging It in 30 Minutes with Fray

https://aoli.al/blogs/jdk-bug/
34•aoli-al•3h ago•7 comments

You need much less memory than time

https://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2025/02/you-need-much-less-memory-than-time.html
26•jonbaer•1h ago•4 comments

My experiment living in a tent in Hong Kong's jungle

https://corentin.trebaol.com/Blog/8.+The+Homelessness+Experiment
99•5mv2•6h ago•42 comments

What was Radiant AI, anyway?

https://blog.paavo.me/radiant-ai/
136•paavohtl•9h ago•80 comments

Updates to Advanced Voice Mode for paid users

https://help.openai.com/en/articles/6825453-chatgpt-release-notes
20•mfiguiere•2h ago•15 comments

Washington Post's Privacy Tip: Stop Using Chrome, Delete Meta Apps (and Yandex)

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/06/07/035249/washington-posts-privacy-tip-stop-using-chrome-delete-metas-apps-and-yandex
222•miles•6h ago•117 comments

Math Symbol Frequencies

https://leancrew.com/all-this/2025/06/math-symbol-frequencies/
10•tosh•2h ago•0 comments

The time bomb in the tax code that's fueling mass tech layoffs

https://qz.com/tech-layoffs-tax-code-trump-section-174-microsoft-meta-1851783502
1274•booleanbetrayal•3d ago•782 comments

Low-Level Optimization with Zig

https://alloc.dev/2025/06/07/zig_optimization
227•Retro_Dev•15h ago•100 comments

Why We're Moving on from Nix

https://blog.railway.com/p/introducing-railpack
185•mooreds•11h ago•80 comments

Hate Radio (2011)

https://rwandanstories.org/genocide/hate_radio.html
122•thomassmith65•8h ago•98 comments

OneText (YC W23) Is Hiring a DevOps/DBA Lead Engineer

https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/one-text/b95952a2-9bc2-4c3a-9da1-3dcc157b4a27
1•bluepnume•5h ago

A tool for burning visible pictures on a compact disc surface

https://github.com/arduinocelentano/cdimage
120•carlesfe•14h ago•44 comments

Researchers develop ‘transparent paper’ as alternative to plastics

https://japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/science-nature/technology/20250605-259501/
367•anigbrowl•1d ago•226 comments

Getting Past Procrastination

https://spectrum.ieee.org/getting-past-procastination
276•WaitWaitWha•19h ago•126 comments

Field Notes from Shipping Real Code with Claude

https://diwank.space/field-notes-from-shipping-real-code-with-claude
20•diwank•4h ago•1 comments

The FAIR Package Manager: Decentralized WordPress infrastructure

https://joost.blog/path-forward-for-wordpress/
175•twapi•18h ago•43 comments

How we decreased GitLab repo backup times from 48 hours to 41 minutes

https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2025/06/05/how-we-decreased-gitlab-repo-backup-times-from-48-hours-to-41-minutes/
506•immortaljoe•1d ago•215 comments

Musk-Trump dispute includes threats to SpaceX contracts

https://spacenews.com/musk-trump-dispute-includes-threats-to-spacex-contracts/
117•rbanffy•9h ago•205 comments

I read all of Cloudflare's Claude-generated commits

https://www.maxemitchell.com/writings/i-read-all-of-cloudflares-claude-generated-commits/
200•maxemitchell•1d ago•195 comments

PyOpticL – Code-to-CAD optical system engineering

https://github.com/UMassIonTrappers/PyOpticL
12•cinquemb•6h ago•1 comments

A year of funded FreeBSD development

https://www.daemonology.net/blog/2025-06-06-A-year-of-funded-FreeBSD.html
335•cperciva•1d ago•110 comments

Why are smokestacks so tall?

https://practical.engineering/blog/2025/6/3/why-are-smokestacks-so-tall
158•azeemba•21h ago•42 comments

If it works, it's not AI: a commercial look at AI startups (1999)

https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/80558
97•rbanffy•8h ago•52 comments

Log-Linear Attention

https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04761
18•sva_•6h ago•3 comments

The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Limitations of Reasoning LLMs [pdf]

https://ml-site.cdn-apple.com/papers/the-illusion-of-thinking.pdf
315•amrrs•1d ago•175 comments