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Content pruning case study: Cutting 33% of pages that drove just 3% of clicks

Organic traffic climbed after the cleanup, but the data told a more complicated story. Here's what actually drove growth and what went wrong.

US broadcaster group outs 'major progress' on ATSC 3.0 converters

US broadcaster group outs 'major progress' toward affordable ATSC 3.0 converters

Where Human Sleep Went Wrong

Where Human Sleep Went Wrong: A conversation with David Samson, evolutionary anthropologist and author of The Sleepless Ape, about how to sleep

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Why Cleopatra, Lawrence of Arabia, Ben-Hur & Other Hollywood Classics Still Look So Good

Cleopatra cost Twentieth Century Fox $44 million, by the studio's own estimate. That may sound like the budget of one of those genre pictures that winds up going straight to streaming, but if we convert those 1963 dollars into current ones, it comes out to $480 million.

Computer Chips Are the Most Magnificent Things Humanity Has Ever Made

They power our phones, cars, dishwashers—and the A.I. systems that prop up the economy. They’re also at the heart of fierce geopolitical rivalry. Gideon Lewis-Kraus reports.

Lead Belly: The Man Who Invented Rock and Roll

Before rock & roll had a name, Lead Belly's music shaped its sound-igniting skiffle, the Beatles, and Led Zeppelin. With rare footage, electrifying performances, and interviews with music greats, this doc explores his defiant journey from prison to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame…

On the Death of Amazon’s Writing Culture

How AI has turned what was once a superpower into a liability.

Inside the Intel 8087 chip: floating-point addition and subtraction

In 1980, Intel introduced the 8087, a chip that made floating-point operations much faster in the IBM PC and other systems. Although the 808...

1648 micro-instructions

floating-point calculations on 80-bit values

Claude Code Cheatsheet

Quick reference for Claude Code in the terminal: session flags, print mode for scripts, slash commands, keyboard shortcuts, permission rules, MCP servers, …

LoopNet

Find commercial real estate for sale, lease & auction on the leading commercial real estate marketing and advertising marketplace.

Eron (@0xeron)

SVD is the one matrix decomposition that rules them all. Any matrix - any shape, any rank, symmetric or not - unconditionally breaks into three pieces. Every recommendation system, every image compression algorithm, and every transformer attention head in every LLM running today…

How to Find Your Purpose in Life, According to a Therapist

A therapist explains ‘purpose anxiety,’ why finding meaning can feel overwhelming, and how everyday experiences can help you find it.

Her Debut Novel Was a Bestseller and a Hit TV Show. Her Follow-Up Is Just as Charming.

Bonnie Garmus’ Peck & Peck may not achieve the same popularity as Lessons in Chemistry, but it offers something fresh.

A Crane Factory in Vietnam Taught Me There Is No “Next China” -- At least not yet

The author Zhang Weijie (张纬杰) is a Chinese manufacturing professional who has spent years working abroad—across the Middle East, Latin America, and Southeast Asia—witnessing firsthand what happens when Chinese industry goes global.

Mining In Solution

Rethinking mining at depth

Install Ubuntu Desktop

Topics: Installation In this tutorial, we’ll download and install Ubuntu Desktop 26.04 LTS on your laptop or PC. If you’ve never installed an operating system, don’t worry: Ubuntu makes the process...

Bringing the magic: Google breaks open a bottleneck in quantum computing

In a paper published in Science, Google has shown that Magic State Cultivation works on Google Quantum AI hardware.

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Ontology vs. Taxonomy vs. Knowledge Graph vs. Semantic Layer vs. Context Graph

A clear breakdown for AI and localization teams

Specialty Steel Squeeze Drives EU Transformer Shortage

Grid transformers remain in short supply

How the Claude Code team does code review / claude.dev Blog

How do you review code at the volume agents produce it? On the Claude Code team, once we had high coverage and deep reviews, we started optimizing for the minimum amount of human review time that doesn't raise reverts or incidents.

Claude reveals ECDSA curve origins

The decades-old mystery of the origins of one of the most popular cryptographic standards has been explained.

Ubuntu 26.10 (Stonking Stingray) released

UX Maps: Glossary

Use this glossary to quickly clarify key terms and concepts related to UX maps.

Tool: LaTeX renderer

LaTeX renderer turns LaTeX source into a rendered view, either a single display equation typeset by MathJax or a full document or prose fragment typeset by faster-latex, with a live …

SpaceX meets FedEx

No crew, no problem

The Tyranny of Tolerance

(An article about measurement.)

Eron (@0xeron)

MIT just published a paper proving that scaling LLMs has a hard mathematical ceiling - and doubling the width to get there costs 6x more each time. A frontier model costs $300 million to train today. Double it once: $1.8 billion. Four more times: $390 billion for a single…

The Starlink of drinking water

Desal in a beer cooler

Exploring the Most Important Component of Humanoid Robots - The Actuator

A glimpse into china's robotics advantage

Why Hybrid Bonding Is Hard to Perfect

The technical fundamentals of hybrid bonding: benefits, detailed process flow, technical requirements, failure modes, and key equipment suppliers

Building a GPU Compiler from Scratch

Lowering PyTorch Graphs to CUDA via Multi-Level IRs

How to Train Your Robot

The enormous advance in AI capabilities over the last several years has in large part been driven by the availability of vast amounts of training data.

Comfy-Org/ComfyUI

The most powerful and modular diffusion model GUI, api and backend with a graph/nodes interface

ggml-org/llama.cpp

LLM inference in C/C++

What is a Block Flow Shipyard and Why Don’t We Do It?

Why block flow works, why American yards lost it, and how to get it back

Aelos

4 likes, 1 comment. "Buying Property in France: What Americans Get ...

Delta’s Biscoff Cookies Were Supposed to Be Temporary. Then Passengers Fell in Love.

Before Biscoff became a grocery store staple and social media favorite, it was an unlikely solution to an airline’s snack problem.

Show HN: Sygal – Convert PDFs, scans and web pages to Markdown, locally

Sygal converts PDF, Word, Excel, images and web pages into clean Markdown and JSON, locally on your Mac or PC. One-time purchase, no subscription.

Eight Out of Ten Lacquered Chopsticks in Japan Come From One Small Town

Explore the centuries-old history of Wakasa lacquerware in Fukui Prefecture and polish your own pair of chopsticks at historic workshops

wafer-ai/gpu-perf-engineering-resources

A curated resource list for learning AI performance engineering, from GPU fundamentals to production inference

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People I (Mostly) Admire

Podcast · Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher · Freakonomics co-author Steve Levitt tracks down other high achievers for surprising, revealing conversations about their lives and obsessions. Join Levitt as he goes through the most interesting midlife crisis you’ve ever heard — and…

Butternut Squash Lasagna Pie Recipe • 4★

This comforting dish lands somewhere between a lasagna and a pie. Thinly sliced butternut squash and broken dried lasagna noodles are all tossed together in one bowl with cheese, spices and a red pepper sauce, then pressed into a cake pan before baking, at which point everything…

An ancient Chinese math puzzle shows how to win at cards, horse races and gerrymandering

A stratagem that dates back two millennia leads to a math puzzle that took 30 years to solve

git switch: Switch and Create Branches

Switch Git branches, create new branches, track remote branches, and handle uncommitted changes with practical git switch examples.

How China became rich

It’s secret is its cities, not central planning

How I Learned That Some Startup Problems Are Too Big For A Minimum Viable Product

Complex, interconnected problems like compliance require a comprehensive product from the outset, argues guest columnist Daniel Kjellén, CEO and co-founder of Freda. Drawing on his experience selling Tink, he explains how repeat founders can combine capital, credibility and…