Ancient Tablets Show Markets Worked 4k Years Before Economists Explained Them
A clay tablet from Kanesh, in what is now central Turkey, contains the founding charter of a twelve-partner trading company. Twelve merchants pooled thirty-three pounds of gold. The document specifies the partners by name, the starting capital, the profit split, and the penalty for any partner who wishes to withdraw early. Pull your share before […]
San Diego Photologs from the 1970s
A collection of beautiful, high-resolution photolog scans reveals a colorful world of pastel-colored cars and whimsical signage. The very first post of this newsletter back in 2022 was about Connecticut’s highway photologs from the 1980s. Photologs were essentially an early, film-based version of Google Street View. Almost every state had one of these photolog programs […]
F3
F3 is a data file format that is designed with efficiency, interoperability, and extensibility in mind. It provides a data organization that rectifies the layout shortcomings of the last-generation formats like Parquet, while at the same time maintaining good interoperability and extensibility (a.k.a future-proof) via embedded Wasm decoders. ⚠️ This project is a research prototype […]
The worthlessness of Vitamin D is mildly exaggerated
For a while there, many people thought vitamin D was magical—that it could improve bones, the heart, infections, cancer, heart disease, longevity, even mental health. But among people I respect, opinion is now overwhelmingly that taking vitamin D does nothing unless you’re severely deficient. The central argument is that while vitamin D levels are correlated […]
Krea 2 Technical Report
Introduction Over the past few years, image generation has seen remarkable progress. Diffusion and flow-matching models can generate high-resolution images, produce sharp photorealism and stable structure, render dense text, encode broad world knowledge, and follow user prompts in precise detail. These improvements have been driven by several interacting factors including scalable transformers architectures, improved captioning […]
AI’s Affordability Crisis
A year ago in The Back Of The AI Envelope I pointed out that the AI platforms were running the drug-dealer’s algorithm, ”the first one’s free”. By massively subsidizing the use of their products, they were generating overwhelming demand for them. They used this demand to justify massive investments, in the hope that, by the […]
Markdy: Like Mermaid Diagrams, but for Motion
Use https://github.com/HoangYell/markdy-com/blob/main/docs/AGENT.md as a complete reference (grammar, actions, patterns, examples), then write a Markdy scene: ”A guy holding a coffee cup walks in, trips on a rock, and loses his coffee cup. The cup flies and smashes. He looks sad.”
Lift4D: Harmonizing Single-View 3D Estimation for 4D Reconstruction In-the-Wild
BibTeX @article{litman2026lift4d, author = {Litman, Yehonathan and Ma, Xiaoxuan and Shah, Manan and Ugrinovic, Nicol'{a}s and Kitani, Kris and De la Torre, Fernando and Tulsiani, Shubham}, title = {Lift4D: Harmonizing Single-View 3D Estimation for 4D Reconstruction In-the-Wild}, journal = {arXiv}, year = {2026}, }
Show HN: Bun-sqlgen – Type-safe raw SQL for Bun, no ORM
Type-safe SQL for Bun, no ORM — raw Bun.sql, live-checked against your schema. Tag a query with a name — sql.GetUser`…` — and its fully-typed, null-safe row appears right at the call site: no ORM, no generics, no hand-written types. Codegen plans every query against a real Postgres or SQLite database (no Docker needed), so […]
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