The Great Friendship Flattening. “I amass bits of knowledge about my loved ones — my sister’s boyfriend published a poem; my friend left her job — as a spectator, in the same way that I might learn about an influencer’s favorite books…”
Planets and Bright Stars
Why Movies Just Don’t Feel “Real”...
Why Movies Just Don’t Feel “Real” Anymore. “A deep dive into the first principles of movie immersion: on perceptual realism, indexicality, haptic visuality, and cinematic qualia.”
1M context is now generally available for Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6
1M context is now generally available for Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6
Here's what surprised me:Standard pricing now applies across the full 1M window for both models, with no long-context premium.
OpenAI and Gemini both charge more for prompts where the token count goes above a certain point - 200,000 for Gemini 3.1 Pro and 272,000 for GPT-5.4.
Tags: ai, generative-ai, llms, anthropic, claude, llm-pricing, long-context
10 Hours of Ambient Freezer Drone
Some genius has taken an audio sample of the hum of a grocery store freezer, cleaned it up, and extended it into a 10-hour video. The freezer’s hum, variously compared to Brian Eno’s music and “an electrical gong bath”, went viral enough to warrant an article in the Guardi...
Recommendations of 25 medieval manuscripts to explore...
Recommendations of 25 medieval manuscripts to explore online. “Almost every institution with a significant collection of medieval manuscripts digitizes many of their most significant works and makes them freely accessible online.”
Quoting Craig Mod
Simply put: It’s a big mess, and no off-the-shelf accounting software does what I need. So after years of pain, I finally sat down last week and started to build my own. It took me about five days. I am now using the best piece of accounting software I’ve ever used. It’s bla...
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
NYT: ‘Meta Delays Rollout of New AI Model After Performance Concerns’
Eli Tan, reporting for The New York Times:
Meta’s new foundational A.I. model, which the company has been
working on for months, has fallen short of the performance of
leading A.I. models from rivals like Google, OpenAI and Anthropic
on internal tests for reasoning, codi...
The Z9GT model EV from China’s BYD “can be...
The Z9GT model EV from China’s BYD “can be 70 percent charged in five minutes and be almost full in 12 minutes, even in temperatures as low as -30° C” and “has a range of up to 800 km” (~500 miles). The US is sooooo far behind here.
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Sports Programming Accounts for Almost 30 Percent of All Ad-Supported TV Viewing
deadline.com/2026/03/sports-tv-viewing-advertising-nielsen-1236750721/
Dade Hayes, reporting for Deadline:
While the rise of sports programming in recent years has been
well-documented, new figures from Nielsen illustrate the extent of
its dominance. The measurement firm said sports accounted for
29.2% of all advertising-supported TV viewin...
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Claim Chowder: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on the Percentage of Code Being Generated by AI Today
businessinsider.com/anthropic-ceo-ai-90-percent-code-3-to-6-months-2025-3
Business Insider, one year ago:
Dario Amodei, the CEO of the AI startup Anthropic, said on Monday
that AI, and not software developers, could be writing all of the
code in our software in a year.
“I think we will be there in three to six months, where AI is
writing 90% ...
It’s an Open Thread
Since the comments are back open and folks here can now share a little about themselves with each other, I thought I’d open this post up for whatever you guys want to chat about. What are you particularly interested in these days? Working on any fun projects? Got a new hobby? What’s the best thing you’ve seen this week? What’s something you’re struggling with?
Tags: kottke.org
Craig Mod is software bonkers . “I’m...
Craig Mod is software bonkers. “I’m software bonkers: I can’t stop thinking about software. And I can’t stop building software.”
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
‘Software Bonkers’
Craig Mod, on creating his own custom accounting software with Claude Code:
Simply put: It’s a big mess, and no off-the-shelf accounting
software does what I need. So after years of pain, I finally sat
down last week and started to build my own. It took me about five
day...
Balcony solar finally seems to be taking off in the US ....
Balcony solar finally seems to be taking off in the US. “As of Wednesday, Democratic and Republican lawmakers in 28 states and Washington, D.C., have announced their own legislation to make these systems permissible.”
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
‘Grief and the AI Split’
Les Orchard:
I started programming in 1982. Every language I’ve learned since
then has been a means to an end — a new way to make computers do
things I wanted them to do. AI-assisted coding feels like the
latest in that progression. Not a rupture, just another rung on
th...
I turned your most requested project into a product
The Laundry Chair is available exclusively on Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/simonegiertz/laundry-chair-the-bedroom-chair-you-have-always-wanted
The Laundry Chair is finally here!
The Laundry Chair is available now exclusively on Kickstarter through the link in our bio. Get there early to claim the top reward tiers!
Radiolab
• WNYC Studios
Return of the Flesh-Eaters
If a species is horrible enough, do we have the right to kill it forever?
Seventy years ago, a nightmare parasite feasted on the live flesh of warm-blooded creatures in North America: the screwworm. That is, until a young scientist named Edward F. Knipling discovered a cruci...
Yet another graph showing that when you control for...
Yet another graph showing that when you control for quality of life (hours/week worked) and wealth inequality, American exceptionalism disappears.