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.
The Death of a Superman - Believer Magazine
The last night of Superman’s life came on a balmy Friday in Los Angeles, California. It should have been just like any other night for Christopher Dennis. Blue-eyed, standing six foot five, and bearing an uncanny resemblance to Christopher Reeve, for years Dennis had been a…
New CSS Multi-Column Layout Features in Chrome | CSS-Tricks
Chrome 145 introduces the column-height and column-wrap CSS multi-column layout properties, enabling us to wrap the additional content into a new row.
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?
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
microwave
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.