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Anyone learned art (drawing, caricature etc.) as an adult?
https://books.google.com/books/about/Drawing_on_the_Right_Side_of_the_Brain.html
https://drawabox.com/
http://www.drawingideasbook.com/book.html
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/crane-bird-jeremy-wells.html
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5771014-the-talent-code
https://www.instagram.com/p/C_C5VQZOYVF/?img_index=8
https://www.leemunroe.com/steve-jobs-calligraphy/
https://line-of-action.com//
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26360349
http://pa-mar.net/Hobbies/Drawing.html
https://streak.club/s/8/daily-art-club
https://youtu.be/watch?v=HnhMgtO15Pk
https://www.youtube.com/@MadCharcoal/videos
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKxVMUwzoPxEyxkyyTHw_0v_TC2iXcFfR
https://www.youtube.com/user/samiramian
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TXEZ4tP06c
Retrieval powered by object storage: AMA
https://github.com/AnswerDotAI/RAGatouille
Why Isn't Elixir More Popular?
https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2024/08/15/welcome-elixir-language-server-team/
https://github.com/ExWeb3/ex_keccak
https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/blob/master/frameworks/Ruby/rails/config/application.rb#L33-L53
https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/blob/master/frameworks/Ruby/rails/config/database.yml
https://github.com/woutdp/live_svelte
https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r22&hw=ph&test=update
https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=test&runid=176ba510-3607-4faa-996e-74f0778b88d4&hw=ph&test=query
What's the "best" book you've ever read?
https://www.alternet.org/2015/01/how-ayn-rand-became-big-admirer-serial-killer
https://www.amazon.com/Making-Atomic-Bomb-Richard-Rhodes/dp/1451677618/
http://amzn.to/2DK6kVP
https://archive.org/details/waythingswork0000unse_p9x7/
https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2019/02/10/reflecting-on-the-soul-of-a-new-machine/
https://brajeshwar.com/#books
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/type-theory-and-formal-proof/0472640AAD34E045C7F140B46A57A67C#
https://ccel.org/ccel/henry/mhc1/mhc1.Lev.ii.html
https://danluu.com/su3su2u1/hpmor/
https://www.deseret.com/entertainment/2024/10/06/best-books-translated-english/
https://dn790002.ca.archive.org/0/items/sciencegovernme00roosgoog/sciencegovernme00roosgoog.pdf
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kermit_the_Hermit
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Origins_of_Virtue
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Canticle_for_Leibowitz?useskin=vector
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_in_Venice
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_consensus_effect
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashish#History
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Leaves
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusions_(Bach_novel)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_telegraph
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papillon_(book)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slate_Star_Codex
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_(2024_film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Stand_of_the_Tin_Can_Sailors
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Master_and_Margarita
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Theory_of_Moral_Sentiments
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen_and_the_Art_of_Motorcycle_Maintenance
https://fablesofaesop.com/the-fox-and-the-grapes.html
https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/329097.Marc_Antoine_Mathieu
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/117833.The_Master_and_Margarita
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/366821.The_Evolution_of_Cooperation
https://hpmor.com/
https://hypercritical.fireside.fm/42
https://imgur.com/e6EHQkv
https://krishna2.com/munger
https://opencw.aprende.org/high-school/humanities-and-social-sciences/godel-escher-bach/video-lectures/
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/empire/id1639561921
https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/12yn28h/comment/jhosllr/
https://www.rifters.com/real/Blindsight.htm
https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-055
https://shepherd.com/book/from-the-holy-mountain
https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/boethius/the-consolation-of-philosophy/h-r-james/
https://tannerlectures.utah.edu/_resources/documents/a-to-z/c/Coetzee99.pdf
https://thewertzone.blogspot.com/2020/05/it-has-been-revealed-that-fantasy.html
https://toot.cat/@dredmorbius/113273553532837922
https://www.wholeearth.info/p/the-next-whole-earth-catalog-fall-1980
https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/taocp.html
https://xkcd.com/1053/
https://xkcd.com/917/
https://youtu.be/qesn8pV9yu8?si=ssccZfQGf9F1fCk3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlhHE2VA1ic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nb2tebYAaOA&t=5043s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rStL7niR7gs
Is CAPTCHA even needed anymore?
https://rishikeshs.com
What book had a big impact on you as a child or teenager?
https://www.amazon.com/Socratic-Logic-Questions-Aristotelian-Principles/dp/1587318083
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecclesiastes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon_of_Sherlock_Holmes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_of_the_Blue_Dolphins
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Anarchist_Cookbook#United_Kingdom
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Demon-Haunted_World
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Escape_(book)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Saga_of_Darren_Shan
https://www.hiracdelest.com/database/articles/kaa_response-full.htm
https://www.pinksaltwall.com/?sr
https://shepherd.com/book/my-side-of-the-mountain
https://shepherd.com/book/siddhartha
https://www.vox.com/22753080/motel-mysteries-book-david-macaulay
Why is the .IO gTLD uncertainty not getting press here?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41729526
https://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI
Developer laptop that doesn't suck in 2024 and it's not Apple silicone
https://comparelaptopprices.com
https://shop.mntre.com/products/mnt-reform
What is happening in tech unrelated to AI?
https://dev.37signals.com/page-refreshes-with-morphing-demo/
https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3.13.html#whatsnew313-free-threaded-cpython
https://fly.io/blog/livebeats/
https://www.globalgovernmentfintech.com/bank-of-russia-extensive-introduction-digital-ruble-july-2025/
https://histre.com/hn/?tags=+all-ai
https://phpbb.go-here.nl/index.php
https://wdc65xx.com/where-to-buy
How do you license a deep learning model for commercial usage
https://x.com/jugurthahadjar/status/1310668293305499653
What do you do for online privacy?
https://bbbhltz.codeberg.page/blog/2021/04/the-privacy-security-rabbit-hole/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_to_hide_argument
https://inteltechniques.com/book7.html
Any Interest in Reading Group for Jaynes Probability Theory the Logic of Science
https://discord.gg/eREs7buM
Is AWS S3 having an outage?
https://cloudstatus.page/cloud/aws/issues
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/time
https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41771629
https://www.taloflow.ai/is-aws-down/us-east-2
How Does the Private Equity Market Work?
https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/private-equity-is-out-of-control-and-looting-america-this-prosecutor-says-we-can-fix-it
Audioscrape: Building in Rust When Everyone Said I Shouldn't
https://www.audioscrape.com/podcast/criminal
https://github.com/ThePrimeagen/harpoon/tree/harpoon2
https://lap.dev/
https://notado.app
https://thisiscriminal.com/episodes
How do you handle SaaS product analytics without a dedicated data team?
https://www.amplitude.com/easy
https://www.producthunt.com/posts/mitzu
Good Online Maths Communities?
https://boards.4chan.org/sci/
https://discord.gg/math
https://github.com/metamath/set.mm
https://kids-math.xhtml.jp
https://leanprover-community.github.io/
https://leanprover-community.github.io/meet.html
https://mathstodon.xyz/
https://www.physicsforums.com/
https://www.reddit.com/r/math/
https://terrytao.wordpress.com/
https://web.libera.chat/##math
https://web.libera.chat/#bitwise
Where would you publish content that should outlive you?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid-free_paper
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pile_%28dataset%29
https://www.familysearch.org/memories/
https://www.historyingranite.org/things-to-see/maze-of-honor/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36065088
https://permanent.org/
https://www.posthaven.com/pledge
https://posthaven.com/pricing
https://www.usafa.edu/radio/
https://www.verbatim.com/subcat/optical-media/cd/archival-grade-gold-cd-r/
https://web.archive.org
How do you stay up to date without over consuming?
https://justinjackson.ca/surfing
https://rockyai.me/
Have you built something that users have become addicted to or overused?
https://ai2sql.io/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RjDj
https://www.engadget.com/2013-04-01-tank-tactics-the-prototype-that-almost-ruined-halfbrick.html
https://www.omegle.com
https://www.paulgraham.com/hackernews.html
https://rockyai.me/
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/rs-gaming/the-flight-of-the-birdman-flappy-bird-creator-dong-nguyen-speaks-out-112457/
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/rs-gaming/the-flight-of-the-birdman-flappy-bird-creator-dong-nguyen-speaks-out-112457/amp/
https://wakatime.com/leaders
Branching File Systems?
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3253
What would you do if you didn't have to work for a living?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40500429
Hacker News leaderboard with submission and comment counts and average karma
https://hn.garglet.com/leaders
https://hn.garglet.com/leaders?page=1&sort_by=avg_karma&page_size=1000
How long do you wait it out in a job you hate
https://uk.adp.com/resources/adp-articles-and-insights/articles/a/are-notice-periods-enforceable-in-the-uk.aspx
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/S-Pickensville-Rd-Columbus-MS-39701/316961665_zpid/
What is the misunderstood difference between X-Windows and Wayland?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Window_manager
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Display_Driver_Model