Solitude Is a Skill - by Elizabeth Weingarten - Behavioral Scientist
We all need different amounts of social time and alone time. If the solitary life comes less natural to you, what should you do?
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Sam Altman May Control Our Future—Can He Be Trusted?
New interviews and closely guarded documents shed light on the persistent doubts about the head of OpenAI, Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz write.
Please your palate with Tokyo’s international grocery stores
The capital has a surfeit of specialty supermarkets with ingredients from all over the world — if you know where to look.
New Chef Program Helps People With Autism Find Jobs in Fine-Dining Restaurants
Culinary jobs have the potential to be a perfect fit, and a new effort is afoot to help autistic workers land them.
NASA’s Artemis II laser communications system is beaming 4K video from the moon
A new laser system aboard NASA’s Orion spacecraft is sending sharper video and more data back to Earth
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NASA’s Near Space Network and Deep Space Network of giant radio antennas
West Virginia renovation projects emblematic of college sports’ sudden pivot to fan-facing venue investment
West Virginia University's simultaneous Milan Puskar Stadium and Hope Coliseum renovation projects are emblematic of college sports’ sudden pivot to fan-facing venue investment, following decades of student-athlete-focused facility investment.
The Vampire Rabbit of Newcastle upon Tyne - The Haunted Palace Blog
Newcastle upon Tyne is best known for its proud history of industry, its football club, and its vibrant nightlife. Many people who walk the busy streets of the Toon, are unfamiliar with its dark history: real life witch trials, public executions, and of course, the terrifying…
Components of A Coding Agent
How coding agents use tools, memory, and repo context to make LLMs work better in practice
six of the main building blocks
application layer, a so-called agentic harness
10 Albums in Rotation on College Radio in 2026 (So Far)
Recommended if you like: music discovery, human curation, independent artists and the "random brilliance" of college radio
Tristan da Cunha: The busiest place you’ve never seen
Photographer Julia Gunther and writer-filmmaker Nick Schönfeld chronicle the rhythms of daily life on Tristan da Cunha, the world’s most remote inhabited island.
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‘Do You Have Any NeeDohs?’ The Squishy Shortage, Explained.
Plus tips for finding a Dohnut, a JellySquish, or any other Needoh you desire.
Picos de Europa: What to do in ‘the world’s most beautiful place’
The dramatic mountain park in northern Spain has topped Time Out’s list of the world’s most beautiful places. Still relatively under the radar, it’s a paradise for outdoor adventure. #Destinations
Stop trying to make people read instructions: 10 startup lessons from Convoy co-founder Dan Lewis – GeekWire
Convoy co-founder and Microsoft Corporate Vice President Dan Lewis drew on his experience building the one-time unicorn trucking startup to share lessons for entrepreneurs at this week's Seattle AI Startup Summit.
Think Labyrinth: Maze Algorithms
Hidden in the Shadow — We Are Inquisitive
Anthropic Maps 171 Emotion-like Concepts Inside Claude - Dataconomy
Anthropic's interpretability team published research revealing that its Claude Sonnet 4.5 model contains 171 internal representations that function analogously to
The Concise Guide to the Law of Large Numbers
Understand the law of large numbers and why larger datasets produce results closer to theoretical truth.
he more times an experiment is repeated, the closer the average of its results will be to the expected theoretical result.
Inside the Effort to Sequence a Thousand Measles Genomes
Understanding the genetics of circulating viruses will determine if the U.S. loses measles elimination status this year.
SSH certificates: the better SSH experience
When I ssh into a server for the first time, I’m confronted with a dialog which asks me to verify I’m actually talking to the machine I expect to be talking to. $ ssh -l jane 192.0.2.65 The authen...
Mapping the Earth’s Magnetism - Nautilus
For centuries, explorers sought to map magnetic and true north and to identify the source of Earth's magnetic pull.
Why humpback whale rescue effort got called off
It was a tough decision to leave Timmy the humpback whale to die on a small island in the Baltic Sea
SQLite Features You Didn’t Know It Had: JSON, text search, CTE, STRICT, generated columns, WAL
SQLite has evolved far beyond a simple embedded database. Explore modern features like JSON, FTS5, window functions, strict tables, and more.
Qwen
Qwen Chat offers comprehensive functionality spanning chatbot, image and video understanding, image generation, document processing, web search integration, tool utilization, and artifacts.
Gemma 4
Our most intelligent open models, built from Gemini 3 research.
Reinventing Embedded Memory: Solving The SRAM Scaling Wall
A new embedded memory architecture with a three-transistor cell.
Modular: Software Pipelining for GPU Kernels: Part 1 - The Pipeline Problem
Flash Attention is a simple algorithm: tiled back-to-back matmuls with an online softmax algorithm in between. The algorithm fits in a few dozen lines of pseudocode. Yet Flash Attention 4's production kernel is 2,875 lines, and the hardest part to get right isn't the math. It's…
Lumotive Debuts ‘World’s First 2D Photonic Beamforming Chip’
The startup's programmable chip uses a metasurface architecture to control light without moving parts.
Claude Code Unpacked
What actually happens when you type a message into Claude Code? The agent loop, 50+ tools, multi-agent orchestration, and unreleased features, mapped from source.
lsof Cheatsheet
Quick reference for finding open files, processes, ports, and deleted files with lsof in Linux
A brief history of instant coffee - Works in Progress Magazine
The method works by warming the air around the coffee rather than the coffee itself.
Morgenthaler’s process involved passing hot water through multiple columns of ground coffee to create a coffee extract, which was then spray dried.
Meta's new prompting technique makes LLMs significantly better at code review — boosting accuracy to 93% in some cases
This technique can be used out-of-the-box, requiring no model training or special packaging. It is code-execution free, which means you do not need to add additional tools to your LLM environment.
One major bottleneck: the need to set up dynamic execution sandboxes for every repository,
ChatGPT - Ring Spun Cotton Quality
ChatGPT helps you get answers, find inspiration, and be more productive.
The Psychology of Defaults: How Pre-Selected Options Influence Behavior - UX Magazine
In our increasingly digitized world, design is no longer just about beauty and usability — it’s about responsibility. Every checkbox ticked by default, every pre-selected plan, and every silent subscription carries a weight that goes beyond UI — it reflects the ethical stance of…
Project Mario - Colossus
The inside story of how DeepMind’s experiments in AI safety governance transformed Demis Hassabis from an idealist into a realist
Google explains how crawling works in 2026
Google went through crawling, fetching, and the bytes it processes.
A Better Strategy for Location-Based Advertising
New research finds that ad effectiveness depends on more than just how close a consumer is to your store—it matters how close they are to your rival.
Meet the airline that only offers business-class seats — and see what it's like inside
Learn all about La Compagnie, the airline that offers business-class seats on direct flights from NYC to Paris.
Claude Code’s Real Secret Sauce Isn’t the Model
Skimming the leaked Claude Code TypeScript snapshots suggests that much of its coding performance comes from the surrounding software harness, including repo context, tooling, caching, memory, and subagents.
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Nobody Is Coming to Save Your Career
I waited years for someone to invest in my career. Nobody came.
drona23/claude-token-efficient: Universal CLAUDE.md - cut Claude output tokens by 63%. Drop-in. No code changes.
Universal CLAUDE.md - cut Claude output tokens by 63%. Drop-in. No code changes. - drona23/claude-token-efficient
The Human Brain Is a Time Traveler
Looking to the future has always defined humanity. Will A.I. become the best crystal ball of all?
Legendary Auctioneer Jussi on How to Decode Auction Numbers
Jussi Pylkannen, one of the most revered auctioneers of his generation, breaks down what bidders need to know about reading between the lines at auction.
Auction estimates reflect sellers, not the market
Be wary of how competition creates optimism
AI for American-Produced Cement and Concrete - Engineering at Meta
Meta is continuing its long-term roadmap to help the construction industry leverage AI to produce high-quality and more sustainable concrete mixes, as well as those exclusively produced in the Unit…
Microbubbles - Works in Progress Magazine
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A Guide to Mushroom Clouds, ‘Sonic Weapons’, and Disintegration - bellingcat
Explosives test in Canada. Source: Defence Research and Development Canada.
Competitive Scrabble Is A Lexical Shitshow | Defector
This piece originally appeared on Unabridged, a newsletter about words published by Stefan Fatsis. If you enjoy this story, and want to read more like it, please consider subscribing to Unabridged. Under an oak-beamed ceiling on the top floor of one of Washington, D.C.’s coolest…
Language Birth
Since 1960, the world has lost hundreds of languages — and gained thousands.
Toki Pona has only 120 words. None of them change form, in any way, in any context. The grammar is nearly the bare minimum — specified word order, and a few particles to denote a predicate, a direct object, subordination, negation. Interpreting any utterance takes a lot of context clues, or a lot…