Vigilantes at Dawn - Longreads
A forgotten deportation, a family archive, and the cost of belonging.
Fraud Investigation Lessons From Finance
The financial industry has paid tens of billions of dollars in tuition on fraud detection. Here are some observations for investigators with badges, press cards, or GoPros.
Question behind the question
Your ability to answer questions is a competitive advantage. Here’s how to uncover the deeper underlying question.
MySQL/MariaDB Cheatsheet
Quick reference for common MySQL and MariaDB command-line administration tasks
UFW Cheatsheet
Quick reference for managing firewall rules with UFW on Linux
5 Products Made from Cardboard: The Bench Supports 300 Pounds - Yanko Design
Cardboard was once seen as just packaging, but it is now becoming a design hero. As sustainability and cost efficiency drive modern innovation, this humble material is being reimagined for far more than shipping boxes. Lightweight, strong, and easily recyclable, it inspires…
It’s the Hottest Restaurant in America. It’s Probably in Your Mall’s Parking Lot. How Did This Happen?
It started with a cheese pull.
The Complete Hugging Face Primer for 2026
A practical 2026 guide to Hugging Face. Explore transformers, datasets, sentiment analysis, APIs, fine-tuning, and deployment with Python.
Today, the Hugging Face Hub hosts millions of pre-trained models, hundreds of thousands of datasets, and large collections of demo applications, all contributed by a global community.
Spaces: this is where you can build and host your demo, using Gradio and Streamlit.
The ‘Godmother’ of Weed vs. Her Uncle, the DEA Agent | THE CITY — NYC News
Cannabis officials courted a rising pot star to join New York’s legal market. Then a stunning police raid upended everything and shattered her family.
Chmod Cheatsheet
Quick reference for changing file and directory permissions with chmod in Linux
How Queen Nzinga Outsmarted the Portuguese Empire With a Human Throne | TheCollector
Learn about Queen Nzingha’s fierce leadership, her resistance against Portuguese colonization, and her legacy in African history.
A Deep Dive Into Modern Computer Memory: ROM, DRAM, SRAM & Flash
Explore the four key modern memory types: ROM, DRAM, SRAM, and flash, their unique roles, and trade-offs in speed, cost, and storage.
bobeff/open-source-games
A list of open source games
SCP Cheatsheet
Quick reference for secure file transfer with scp over SSH
Hackers made death threats against this security researcher. Big mistake.
Allison Nixon had helped arrest dozens of members of The Com — a loose affiliation of online groups responsible for violence and hacking campaigns. Then she became a target.
Alibaba unveils new Qwen3.5 model for 'agentic AI era'
Alibaba on Monday unveiled a new artificial intelligence model Qwen 3.5 designed to execute complex tasks independently, with big improvements in performance and cost that the Chinese tech giant claims beat major U.S. rival models on several benchmarks.
The Hidden Bias in Language That Turned Left-Handedness Into a Bad Thing
While the days of forcing left-handed children to use their right hands are mostly over, the bias against lefties continues in most languages around the world.
What It's Like to Be...a Baker - By Dan Heath - Behavioral Scientist
Tinkering with the recipe for gingerbread cake until it's right, adjusting to the variability of local grains, and cherishing the quiet mornings when the sun fills the bakery windows with Sophie Williams, a baker in Bellingham, Washington.
Claude Code Tips From the Guy Who Built It
Boris Cherny created Claude Code at Anthropic. Over three Twitter threads (early January, late January, and February 2026), he shared how he and the Claude Code team use it every day. His setup is, in his own words, "surprisingly vanilla." I've pulled together every tip from all…
Introduction to Laplace transforms
A Laplace transform is a type of integral transform that acts on functions.
2016 Airstream Flying Cloud 25 25 | T154SF | by PPL
The wonder of modern drywall
How gypsum changed construction
Learning about longevity from long-lived animals
The secrets to extending human lifespans might lie in the animals that can already live for centuries.
Wget Cheatsheet
Quick reference for downloading files and mirroring websites with wget
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/FreZTE9Bc7reNnap7/life-at-the-frontlines-of-demographic-collapse
10th Person - Blain Smith
12 Python Libraries You Need to Try in 2026 - KDnuggets
These are 12 Python libraries that made waves in 2025, and that every developer should try in 2026.
MarkItDown
Polars
Tar Cheatsheet
Quick reference for creating, listing, extracting, and compressing tar archives in Linux
Who Is Paying for the 2025 U.S. Tariffs? - Liberty Street Economics
Over the course of 2025, the average tariff rate on U.S. imports increased from 2.6 to 13 percent. In this blog post, we ask how much of the tariffs were paid by the U.S., using import data through November 2025. We find that nearly 90 percent of the tariffs’ economic burden…
Nvidia’s new technique cuts LLM reasoning costs by 8x without losing accuracy
Nvidia researchers developed dynamic memory sparsification (DMS), a technique that compresses the KV cache in large language models by up to 8x while maintaining reasoning accuracy — and it can be retrofitted onto existing models in hours.
OpenClaw: The Viral AI Agent that Broke the Internet - Peter Steinberger | Lex Fridman Podcast #491
Peter Steinberger is the creator of OpenClaw, an open-source AI agent framework that's the fastest-growing project in GitHub history.Thank you for listening ...
Screen Cheatsheet
Quick reference for GNU Screen sessions, windows, detach/attach, and common key bindings
Autonomous Driving: Assessment Of YOLO Algorithms (RMIT et al.)
A new technical paper titled “Advances in You Only Look Once (YOLO) algorithms for lane and object detection in autonomous vehicles” was published by RMIT University, Kyungpook National University, Deakin University and the RCA Robotics Laboratory, Royal College of Art. Abstract…
The Mount Rushmore of 90s West Coast Rap Songs
West Coast rap during the 90's had dozens of classic songs. Noisey selects 4 of the greatest songs from hip-hop's golden age in California.
How to Parse Command-Line Options in Bash with getopts
This guide explains how to parse command-line options in Bash with getopts, including option strings, OPTARG and OPTIND, error handling, and practical script examples.
Designing Prediction Markets — LessWrong
Prerequisite: basic familiarity with what a prediction market is …
Why Do We Like Music?
People with musical anhedonia don’t get any enjoyment from music. Shayla Love writes about scientists studying this condition to learn about how music affects listeners’ minds and moods.
musical anhedonia
expectations
'Observational memory' cuts AI agent costs 10x and outscores RAG on long-context benchmarks
As AI agents move into production, teams are rethinking memory. Mastra’s open-source observational memory shows how stable context can outperform RAG while cutting token costs.
A JavaScript developer's guide to Rails: What is Polymorphic Rails Model?
Learn how Rails polymorphic associations work under the hood, from database schema to model setup, with clear examples for JavaScript developers new to ActiveRecord.
I Asked Gemini Where Upper-Middle-Class Retirees Can Live Like Royalty on a Budget -- Here's What It Said
Retirees with solid nest eggs face a choice: Stretch that money in expensive U.S. cities or leverage it abroad for a lifestyle that would cost triple at home.
Claude Code for Everything: The Best Personal Assistant Remembers Things About You (A CLAUDE.md Deep Dive)
How CLAUDE.md files give Claude the context it needs to be effective, automatically, every session
Pan-Baked Lemon-Almond Tart
This flourless, crustless tart is rich, moist, sweet and and prepared almost entirely on the stovetop (with the exception of a few minutes spent under the broiler to crisp the top). It is the ideal decadent breakfast, a new twist on the classic coffeecake or last-minute dessert.
Probabilistic Nearest Neighbor Search: The Swiss Army Knife of GenAI
ANN — Approximate Nearest Neighbors — is at the core of fast vector search, itself central to GenAI, especially GPT and LLM. My new methodology, abbreviated as PANN, has many other app…
Friction Science: Why Users Drop Off - UX Magazine
Most teams worry about small changes to UI when users stop using the product. But research shows that the real problem is psychological friction. This is when your brain has hidden mental interruptions that make you think, "Maybe later." This article looks at the four types of…
Art of Roads in Games
How games implement roads
Game Theory Patterns at Work
Foundations: Games, Rationality, and Traps In organizations, strategies and execution are interdependent. Outcomes depend not just on what you do, but on what others do, and what they expect you to…
What AI builders can learn from fraud models that run in 300 milliseconds
Mastercard's Decision Intelligence Pro uses recurrent neural networks to analyze 160 billion yearly transactions in under 50 milliseconds, delivering precise fraud risk scores at 70,000 transactions per second during peak periods.
that transaction flows through Mastercard’s orchestration layer, back onto the network, and then on to the issuing bank. Typically, this occurs in less than 300 milliseconds.
they’re not looking for anomalies, per se; they’re looking for transactions that, by design, are similar to consumer behavior
Bulk RRAM: Scaling the AI Memory Wall
UC San Diego researchers have reimagined RRAM, creating a device that could redefine AI's memory challenges. Discover how this could impact edge computing.
Fed on Reams of Cell Data, AI Maps New Neighborhoods in the Brain | Quanta Magazine
Machine learning is helping neuroscientists organize vast quantities of cells’ genetic data in the latest neurobiological cartography effort.
Gate-All-Around (GAA) Technology for Sustainable AI - SemiWiki
Key takeaways ▼ The transition from FinFET to Gate-All-Around (GAA) transistor technology represents a pivotal moment in the evolution of logic devices, driven by both physical scaling limits and the … Continue reading "Gate-All-Around (GAA) Technology for Sustainable AI"