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Inspired by Gapminder, this shows the population of the countries of the world by morphing their shapes from 1800 to 2100.

A rotatable Earth that drags today's countries and major cities through the Merdith 2021 plate reconstruction model, plus a simple future extrapolation. Continents keep their color families while the land follows plate motion from 1000 million years ago t

Terminal-bench-style scores are tempting progress numbers and very easy to overfit. Used carefully, though, they are a pile of bug reports. goose's Harbor tooling made it cheap to run, pull, compare and explain failures, which led to two small fixes: turn

In 2018 I took an UberPool across Manhattan for $1.78, cheaper than the subway. Today the same ride is about $20 and nobody is surprised. Last month ccusage estimated I burned $5,098.85 of Claude tokens on a $200 plan. Three reasons it is finally coming f

What if every URL you could imagine already existed somewhere? Buried inside an LLM is a compressed model of the web it was trained on, where the BBC's coverage of Waterloo waits to be rendered alongside hallucinated Hacker News and a GeoCities crystal pa

Astronaut: too much pilot training. Astronomer: too many night shifts. But simulating planet formation on an 8-bit home computer? That sounded perfect, even if the first attempt could barely manage 25 rocks. A childhood dream, a detour through compilers a

Three sentences, learned in order, that change how you see the world: you are an idiot, everybody is an idiot, and it is fine. Skip a step and you end up a freeloader, a narcissist, or worse. Get all three and something useful happens. A short framework,

Paul Graham's latest essay says founders should run their companies in 'founder mode' rather than degenerating into managers. The catch: nobody, including Paul, can quite say what founder mode is. The two patron saints offered as evidence are Brian Chesky

Nobody has business cards any more, but sometimes you want to exchange contact details. This project allows you to add your contact details as a qr code to your lock screen. So just pull out your phone and let the other person scan your qr code without ev