Red Sea Diving Resort: The Holiday Village Run by Spies

Arous was an idyllic holiday resort in the Sudanese desert, on the shores of the Red Sea. But this glamorous destination was also a base for Israeli agents with a secret mission.

One man’s obsessive, 40-year pursuit of the productive life

Stephen Wolfram, creator of Mathematica and WolframAlpha, on his carefully-crafted techniques for being effective at work.

OmniVision unveils 48MP image sensor for 4K video performance

OmniVision Technologies has announced at CES 2020 the OV48C, a 48 megapixel (MP) image sensor with a large 1.2 micron pixel size to enable high resolution and low light performance for flagship smartphone cameras.

What is the Best Audio Codec? — Audiophile ON

Audiophile On lists the best audio codecs for your music if you want the best sound quality, including descriptions of FLAC, OGG, ALAC, DSD, and MQA.

Gustav Klimt in the Brain Lab

What is neuroscience doing to art?

The economics of unused gift cards

Every year, Americans spend billions of dollars on gift cards. But what happens to the money when the gift cards go unused?

Why the French Don’t Show Excitement

Not only is ‘Je suis excité’ not the appropriate way to convey excitement in French, but there seems to be no real way to express it at all.

What Big History Says About How Royal Women Exercise Power

Queens in many societies heavily influenced the policies and governing behavior of their kings.

The Night the Music Died

Fifty years ago, a plane carrying Buddy Holly crashed in a remote Iowa cornfield. This month, hundreds of fans will gather at the ballroom where he played his final show to sing, dance, and mourn the greatest rock star ever to come out of Texas.

What I Learned in Avalanche School (Published 2019)

I wanted to be prepared for the worst nature could throw at me. But the real threat turned out to be human.

The Doctor, the Dentist, and the Killer

Brenda thought she and Ricky would be together forever, until he left her. Kendra thought she and Ricky would be together forever. Then Brenda took matters into her own hands. Inside the case of jealousy, spying, and murder that shook Uptown Dallas.

Postcard Mailing Service

Brighten someone's day -- send a free postcard.

Eating the Arab Roots of Sicilian Cuisine

Adam Leith Gollner on the sun-drenched island’s agrodolce flavors

Mecca 1979: The mosque siege that changed the course of Saudi history

An armed takeover of the Grand Mosque in Mecca put a halt to the modernisation of Saudi society.

What It’s Like to Live in a California Ghost Town

To be an off-season caretaker of Bodie, California (winter population: 5), you need a high tolerance for cold, solitude, and two-hour grocery runs.

Show HN: Art Resources and Tutorials Website

In the Jungle: Inside the Long, Hidden Genealogy of ‘The Lion Sleeps Tonigh

How the American music legends behind 'The Lion Sleeps Tonight' made millions off the work of a Zulu tribesman named Solomon Linda who died a pauper.

The Charisma Effect

How to bend people to your will.

Front-end technologies

The front-end is everything involved with what the user sees, including design and some languages like HTML and CSS.

7 eCommerce trends to watch in 2020 and beyond

The Hardest Part About Learning Hard Things

It may never get any easier, but it’s always worth it.

A 2020 guide to smart discounting

Polly Wong, managing partner at Belardi Wong, offers tips for crafting customer offers while avoiding discount fatigue and harm to the bottom line.

Best Technology Posts of 2019

Technology changes faster than the blink of an eye which is why we share the latest tech gear we can find and now we're sharing this year's most popular.

‘Would You Be Willing?’: Words to Turn a Conversation Around (and Those to Avoid)

Choose your words carefully and you can get someone to change their mind, or see you in a new light.

One Brain, Two Bionic Arms

This man is learning to move two prosthetic arms directly, by thought alone

The Elements of Good Judgment

Judgment—the ability to combine personal qualities with relevant knowledge and experience to form opinions and make decisions—is “the core of exemplary leadership,” according to Noel Tichy and Warren Bennis (the authors of Judgment: How Winning Leaders Make Great Calls). It is…

How to Be Lucky

It pays to imagine your life is on a winning streak.

ritchieng/the-incredible-pytorch: The Incredible PyTorch: a curated list of tutorials, papers, projects, communities and more relating to…

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The Linley Group - Tomahawk 4 Switch First to 25.6Tbps

The authoritative information platform to the semiconductor industry.

Bizcoder - Optimizing for the Speed of Light

You might be wondering what on earth I am talking about but this is something I see API developers getting confused about regularly.

Brian Piercy on LinkedIn: The Surprising Value of Obvious Insights

"...Google's people analytics experts had been studying how to onboard new hires effectively. They came back with a list of tips. Here’s the one that jumped…

I moved my sites from Google Kubernetes Engine to Netlify and saved $1000 /

Miss Girard’s Christmas Gift

When her former student was found wandering the streets a decade after she’d last seen him, Michell Girard immediately agreed to take him in. Then she decided to do far more, including give him the Christmas he’d never had.

Pricing algorithms can learn to collude with each other to raise prices

If you shop on Amazon, an algorithm rather than a human probably set the price of the service or item you bought. Pricing algorithms have become ubiquitous in online retail as automated systems have grown increasingly affordable and easy to implement. But while companies like…

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A Green Beret’s Journey to Blockchain and Crypto

Former U.S. Army Green Beret and a16z crypto deal partner, Alex Pruden served in Iraq, Afghanistan, Kuwait, and Turkey. During this time, he saw first-hand that underlying the Syrian refugee crisis, the rise of radical extremism, and other global conflicts was a lack of trusted…

A Navy Seal's Semester at Yale, at Age 52

How to use returns to build customer loyalty

Returns are on the rise – here’s what you can do to make it your competitive advantage.

Everyone Thinks They’re Managing by Outcomes. Here’s How to Actually Do it.

Have you heard? My new book Continuous Discovery Habits is now available. Get the product trio's guide to a structured and sustainable approach to continuous discovery. Last month, I spoke […]

Distance calculation in Ruby using RGeo

22K subscribers in the rubyonrails community. Everything RoR! Ruby on Rails, often simply Rails, is an open source web application framework which…

How interchangeable parts revolutionised the way things are made

One man's desire to create the perfect gun profoundly changed manufacturing.

The Ultimate List of Free SEO Tools

Interested in seeing if your SEO efforts are paying off? We've curated a list of the best free SEO tools to help you determine where your site stands.

The Definitive Guide to User Onboarding: Part One

Welcome to the largest collection of Product-Led Growth articles, videos, and podcasts all in one place. Whether you're looking for advice on product-led growth, sales, marketing or onboarding, we have it all. Let's turn your product into a powerful growth engine today.

The Ugly History of Beautiful Things: Orchids

Sometimes a flower is just a flower, and sometimes it's a powerful vehicle for giving free rein to our worst colonialist and misogynist impulses.

vumaasha/Atlas: Atlas: A Dataset and Benchmark for E-commerce Clothing Prod

Atlas: A Dataset and Benchmark for E-commerce Clothing Product Categorization - vumaasha/Atlas

Sheet Best

Turn your Google Sheets into a REST API. Build websites, widgets, apps, prototypes, and tons more. Leave the backend to us.

C++ Ecosystem: Compilers, IDEs, Tools, Testing and More

To write a professional C++ application, you not only need a basic text editor and a compiler. You require some more tooling. In this blog post, you’ll see a broad list of tools that make C++ programming possible: compilers, IDEs, debuggers and other. Last Update: 14th October…

Writing is Thinking: Learning to Write with Confidence

Learning to write is learning to think, because writing is thinking. They are two peas in a powerful pod. This article goes over my writing process, focused on minimizing the activation energy to get started.

How Rituals of Pain Help Heal

A new study reveals how ceremonies involving physical suffering can be invaluable tools for building resilience and coping skills.

Out of Water

The sea of simpler songs only the drowned and the fish know to sing.