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Can the US build a DJI?
How DJI achieves its exceptional margins, from a teardown of two popular drones.
Apache Cheatsheet
Apache HTTP Server at a glance: service commands, file layout on Ubuntu and RHEL, virtual hosts, modules, .htaccess, redirects, TLS, reverse proxy, and log …
TikTok Quietly Gutted Its Advertising Rules. Scams Have Exploded Ever Since.
Last year, TikTok’s executives quietly defanged its advertising rules, opening the floodgates to fraudsters that target American users with fake sales of products that never arrive. Sources told Forbes the change was understood internally as a way to make more money.
The Rise and Fall of the Plasma Screen
In 1960, a team at the University of Illinois released the first version of their PLATO “computerized instruction system,” a network of what would eventually be thousands of computer terminals connected to large mainframe computers.
NLP for Sentiment Analysis: How It Works and Why It Matters for Business
Discover why sentiment analysis is becoming a core enterprise capability, with modern NLP techniques providing a deeper understanding of the customer experience than ever before.
What Would You Do If Your Employer Could Destroy the World?
Exit interviews with defectors from OpenAI, Anthropic, and DeepMind.
If You Want a Real Digital Commons, Build It Yourself
Rappler’s answer to state-sponsored lies and harassment was to stop using corporate social media as its public square.
Because we owned our own data and combined them with publicly available, vetted databases, our chatbot’s error rate was a little more than 1.6 percent—at the time, the error rate of commercial chatbots was about 16 percent.
Matrix is open-source and allows users to set up their own communication servers.
Asia’s 50 Best Bars | The List and Awards
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In this essay, Carson Gross discusses his advice to young people interested in computer science worried about the future given the advancements in AI.
Free Browser Utilities — 10 Private Tools
Converters, formatters and debuggers that never upload your files.
David Byrne’s New Book Explores the Strange Afterlife of Good Ideas: From Vermeer’s Paintings to Roman Concrete & Dark Matter
David Byrne will always be most widely known as the co-founder and frontman of Talking Heads. That may count among the greatest possible achievements for any artist — to the minds of many an Open Culture reader, at least — but it must occasionally frustrate the man himself.
Any Human Ever
One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived.
Helion CEO David Kirtley on why fusion finally works
26 likes, 2 comments. "Helion CEO David Kirtley on why fusion final...
Why Halloween’s ‘Poison Candy’ Myth Endures
Even though we know better.
Why Are Berries Everywhere, in Every Season? Driscoll’s.
The California giant has helped turn a local, seasonal treat into a worldwide refrigerator staple and marketing juggernaut.
Mathematicians invented a knitting stitch that stops mistakes from spreading
With a little help from knot theory, scientists have invented a “robust knit” to fight laddering
Photography Legend Steve McCurry Opens a New Show at Leica Gallery New York
Photographer Steve McCurry has an exhibition at Leica Gallery New York showcasing works from earlier in his career and a new body of work.
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What Does Maceration Mean in Wine? | Wine Enthusiast
Maceration is like steeping tea, but instead of a teabag, it's grape solids soaking in juice, imparting color, tannins, and flavor.
Why the US has nothing like the European MBDA Meteor Missile
What makes the MBDA Meteor such an amazing air-to-air missile and why doesn’t the US have anything like it?
The Pulse: Firebase’s global outage & poor response
The Firebase iOS SDK crashed after a backend change, crashing all apps which used Firebase analytics for 2-6 hours. Google didn’t update the status page, but did offer a postmortem 4 days later.
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Original designs, defunct pop culture, cult, subculture, counterculture, and forgotten marginalia. Reproductions, redesigns, memes, and memories. These are a few of your favorite things. Mostly tshirts. Doormats, mugs, fanny packs, and candles. Designs you won't find anywhere…
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SSH Config Cheatsheet
SSH client config directives at a glance: Host and Match patterns, keys, jump hosts, keepalives, multiplexing, port forwarding, host key checking, and tokens …
How to Resize and Extend a Linux Partition and Filesystem
Extend a Linux partition and grow ext4, XFS, Btrfs, or LVM storage after a disk resize, with layout checks, safe ext4 shrink steps, and troubleshooting.
The Legend of the Paper Crane - Mazda Stories
Mazda Stories explores the ancient art of origami, its importance in Hiroshima and how it's believed to have miraculous powers…
Southern Olive Oil
As climates shift and traditional growing regions suffer, the American South has potential to be the next global olive oil source.
Dogs, devils, clams and catfish: When cancer is contagious
In a handful of animals, tumors can be transmitted like infectious diseases or parasites, defying science’s tidy definitions
Reducing Fab Cycle Time: What MES, Dispatching, Scheduling and APC Each Contribute - Semiconductor Digest
Dispatching, finite-capacity scheduling, MES, APC and simulation each attack a different share of the time wafers spend waiting, and all of them depend on accurate WIP and equipment-state data.
443: Image Hosting is Quite Powerful on CodePen
We’ve made several upgrades to uploading/hosting images on CodePen lately. One change, moving to the open-source file-uploading library Uppy, was driven by business concerns. But the benefits…
Want to be a lifelong learner? Don’t go it alone | Psyche Ideas
The history of autodidacticism shows that learning has always been social. The right relationships open intellectual horizons
Form Energy and its iron batteries
Form’s 100-hour batteries could make clean energy more weather-resilient and help power data centers.
The Hidden Engineering of Pressure Regulators
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5 Statsmodels Functions That Give You the "Why" Behind the "What"
Statsmodels answers the questions sklearn was never built to answer: is this coefficient real or noise, does this added complexity earn its keep, can I trust these p-values in the first place, and which specific data points are quietly running the whole show.
Note: Run a regression in scikit-learn, and you get exactly two things back: a set of coefficients and a .predict() method. Ask it for a p-value on any of those coefficients, and there’s no built-in way to get one. This isn’t a missing feature scikit-learn’s maintainers overlooked; it’s a deliberate design choice they’ve stated directly: scikit-learn is built for prediction, not statistical inference…
Solving the Five Hard Problems of NFC Antenna Integration at 13.56 MHz - EE Times
Solve 13.56 MHz NFC antenna integration challenges with expert engineering solutions for metal shielding, placement limits, and chipset matching.
A Practical Guide To Naming Things — Smashing Magazine
A practical guide to naming UI components, with useful resources, naming conventions, and structures.
‘It could knock a whole street down’: the art of defusing a second world war bomb
The long read: On 14 January this year, army and navy squads faced an unprecedented challenge: one bomb on a Plymouth building site, another floating on a dredger in Exmouth. That afternoon, the clock started ticking
The Bizarre, Murky History of Soviet-Born Tetris - Longreads
The beloved video game Tetris has a fascinating, complicated history. While the Tetris Company (TTC) claims exclusive rights to the geometric pieces at the heart of the game, known as tetrominoes, history shows that the Russian engineer and game designer duo behind TTC did not…
NVIDIA-Backed Reflection Used 10,500x GB300 GPUs And 46.4 Million Sandboxes Per Day For 4 Weeks To Train Beam, A 501B Open-Weight Model…
Reflection claims Beam is 3-4x more efficient than GLM 5.2 and over 4x more efficient than leading Western open models.
Nobody Redesigned the Allen Key for 115 Years. Here’s the Fix. - Yanko Design
Some of the most personal furniture purchases come with the least personal tool. You bring home a crib, spread the pieces across the floor, and end up pressing a skinny metal Allen key into your fingertips while trying to line up the next bolt. It slips. Your hand cramps. The…
Why Common Lisp
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Two Room-Temperature Antiferromagnetic Semiconductor Candidates | Vals AI
We are sharing two candidate magnets for next-generation computer memory, found by a team of Claude Opus 5.5 agents. Both are predicted to have zero net magnetism yet still sort electrons by spin: one a new compound we designed, the other a material first made in 1999. We're…
Mosquitoes are a choice - Works in Progress Magazine
How Test Engineers Decide What Counts as Good Enough
Gideon Lewis-Kraus reviews “Kobuk the Destroyer, and Other Tales from the Wild, Unseen World of Test Engineering,” by Alex Davies.
sqlite3 Command Line: Create and Query SQLite Databases
Create and query SQLite databases with sqlite3 on Linux. Import CSV files, format query results, and back up or restore your data.
Frontier | Winston (@frontiermap)
One Army plant in Kingsport, Tennessee, is the only US manufacturer of the military explosives RDX and HMX. The plant, Holston, supplies most of the explosives used in US bombs, missiles and artillery shells. In 1980 five US plants could make about 119 million pounds of RDX a…
The Evolutionary Raw Deal of the Human Knee - Nautilus
Why don’t great apes have knee problems?
Learn SSH
SSH is how you log in to and work on remote Linux machines. Start with the basics, then secure your setup and fix the errors you are most likely to run into.