In Defense of Dumb Dogs
Your pet is (probably) not a genius, and that’s OK.
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Models overview
Claude is a family of state-of-the-art large language models developed by Anthropic. This guide introduces the available models and compares their performance.
The Aluminum Tech Stack
few analysts have sought to dissect how China’s market share of unglamorous bulk raw material inputs and intermediates across its minerals, metallurgy, and chemicals sectors actually directly enables their market share in these finished, shiny consumer products.
In reality, metals and chemicals production require muscular industrial policy of their own to succeed
The $40 Half Chicken That Ruffled Brooklyn
A New York City councilman’s Instagram post is just the latest entry in a fierce debate about the price of dining out.
How physicists found a new type of magnet hiding in plain sight
How the discovery of altermagnets could change physics and computing
ferromagnets
Spin makes an electron behave like a little rotating ball of charge, which furnishes it with a magnetic field similar to that of a tiny bar magnet.
How chemists engineer the signature smells of luxury perfumes
At Givaudan and IFF, chemists build—and safeguard—new aroma molecules tightly linked to emotion and memory
The engineering marvels hidden inside six-figure watches
Modern luxury watches can be traced back to one of Napoleon Bonaparte’s younger sisters
ufw Command in Linux: Uncomplicated Firewall Reference
Reference for the ufw command on Linux, with examples for enabling the firewall, allowing and denying traffic, deleting rules, and managing application profiles.
The Absolute Hell of Watching a Movie at the Alamo Drafthouse in 2026
Once America's most promising movie theater chain, the Alamo Drafthouse has become a QR-coded symbol of corporate enshittification.
Breaking Down the .claude Folder
The .claude folder is created by tools that integrate with Claude to store local state. It keeps track of how the model behaves inside your project and that includes configuration, cached data, task definitions, and sometimes context that helps the system stay consistent across…
The Secret History of Silk in Ancient China | TheCollector
Widely referred to as the queen of textiles in the ancient world, silk helped to transform ancient China in myriad ways.
What Ghost Kitchens Got Wrong
Two good ideas and one bad mistake
The Donut Empire: Demythifying the USSR
How the Soviet Union inverted the logic of empire, and why it explains everything Russia does today.
The Trap That Skilled Negotiators Miss | MIT Sloan Management Review
Reminding yourself that you have choices can help you counter more aggressively and reduce anchoring in negotiations.
The End of Eleventy
Build Awesome is a rebrand of 11ty/Eleventy, backed by a successful $40k Kickstarter. But this attempt to monetize static site generators repeats the same mistakes that killed Gatsby and Stackbit—and misunderstands who actually builds static sites.
The ‘Annoyance Economy’ Is More Than Just Annoying
A new estimate puts the cost of dealing with robocalls, hidden fees and customer service chatbots that can’t solve most problems at $165 billion.
What Caused Allbirds’ Downfall?
Why did Allbirds fail to make it in the retail market?
How Passive Radar Works
Passive radar is radar that doesn't need a transmitter; it uses existing broadcasts of opportunity.
nslookup Cheatsheet
Quick reference for querying DNS records and checking name resolution with nslookup
New metal with triple copper’s heat conduction challenges fundamental physics
With performance three times better than copper’s, this new material could substantially improve heat management of electronics, data centers and energy systems
This is what happens in your brain when you can’t recall a word - Cella Wright
Dig into what causes the tip of the tongue phenomenon, where your brain struggles to recall a word or term from memory.--You’re sure you know your 3rd grade ...
Škoda’s smart bicycle bell cuts through ANC headphones to alert zoned out pedestrians - Yanko Design
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDaVPfpQvPI Times have changed so much, we’ve got people walking on the streets with their ANC turned on to zone out, but are unaware of the risks motorists can pose. With active noise-cancelling headphones becoming increasingly common, the sounds…
Handmade Designs: The New Trust Signal
In an era of AI-generated-everything, AI-fatigued users want designs that look like they were made by a person.
We Tried 100 Claude Skills. These Are The Best
Tested, ranked, and ready to use
Five ai compute architectures every engineer should know cpus gpus tpus npus and lpus compared
The Hidden Security Risks Lurking Inside Container Images - Dataconomy
Container images are meant to simplify everything. You grab one, start it and your application starts running. There should be
Scientists Are Finally Unlocking a Cancer Treatment’s Full Potential
CAR-T cell therapy, originally developed for cancer, is showing ever more promise as a treatment for autoimmune diseases.
What really happened to the Mary Celeste?
The ultimate ghost ship mystery
Robots eat cars
Modern cars are starting to operate on robot architecture, and that foreshadows how such architecture will spread to every industry that moves physical things.
Beyond Hydraulics | The End Effector
Every excavator, crane, and forklift runs on hydraulics. RISE Robotics is building the electrified alternative.
Opinion | We Are on the Cusp of a Revolution in Rare Disease Treatment
We can’t let the most important medical achievement of a decade slip through our fingers.
Conversation & Public Speaking (@conversationpublicspeaking)
18 years of school trained you to answer questions. In real life? That ruins conversations. Someone says, "You're always late." You answer, "No I'm not!"—and boom, fight starts. Instead, try this: "I understand." Repeat what they said in your own words. Then ask an open…
The Joby Air Taxi Targets Long Range With Hydrogen
Powertrain chief Jon Wagner explains why integration beats invention
Sigmoid vs ReLU Activation Functions: The Inference Cost of Losing Geometric Context - MarkTechPost
Explore Sigmoid vs ReLU activation functions and how losing geometric context affects neural network efficiency and depth.
The Memory Maker - Longreads
OpenAI's Sora allowed you to deepfake yourself. Users started to remember things that never happened.
How to Make Sense of AI
Keeping up with a fast changing revolutionary technology is very scary. Here are some ruthless guidelines for how to make sense of it effectively.
Bears Discover Fire - Lightspeed Magazine
I was driving with my brother, the preacher, and my nephew, the preacher’s son, on I-65 just north of Bowling Green when we got a flat. It was Sunday night and we had been to visit Mother at the Home. We were in my car. The flat caused what you might call knowing groans since…
They’re Made Out of Meat - TERRY BISSON of the UNIVERSE
Copyright, Terry Bisson, 1991 Originally published in OMNI, 1991, and featured in HARPER’S and around the internet since. It has even made its way into several books on consciousness and brain science. I’m surprised, pleased, and proud. But please do not reprint, perform, alter…
Kalman Filter Explained Through Examples
Easy and intuitive Kalman Filter tutorial
The Git Commands I Run Before Reading Any Code
Five git commands that tell you where a codebase hurts before you open a single file. Churn hotspots, bus factor, bug clusters, and crisis patterns.
The 20 most-changed files in the last year.
Every contributor ranked by commit count.
The Patron Saint of Oddballs and Delinquents
The New Orleans writer Nancy Lemann conjures scenes of booze-soaked calamity, where everyone and everything is on the verge of rot, Brandy Jensen writes.
The real reason some people are instantly likable
Small signals of warmth can dramatically change how people respond to you.
In search of Banksy, Reuters found the artist took on a new identity
Anonymity has become part of a lucrative brand for the artist Banksy, but records we unearthed prove his true identity and show the new name he used to travel to Ukraine.
Saving the Girl with Dementia
Saving the Girl with Dementia: It takes a family to drive research for a rare disease forward.
Living Heart Project Builds Virtual Twins for Medicine
Physics-based digital models of human organs can predict clinical outcomes and provide better guidance for lifesaving procedures.
How the hypercuriosity of ADHD may have helped humans thrive | Aeon Essays
ADHD isn’t merely a dysfunction. It’s best understood as an impulsive motivational drive for novel information
Wireless Network Turns Interference Into Computation
Sensor networks could improve capacity faster than they grow
Scientists built a tickle robot to solve one of biology’s strangest mysteries
Tickling may be evolutionarily ancient and recognized across cultures, but science has only scratched the surface of this topic
The next generation of independent music tastemakers
Music streaming has an echo chamber problem. Curators with distinctive taste and compelling visual stories are filling the void.
ReelRank — Everything movies, no ads.
Transparent movie reviews, reels (lists), discussions, logging, and free movies — everything movies, no ads.