The Investors Guide to Game Theory - Pt.1
What is it, why does it matter for investors, and how can we use it?
How One Man’s Quest for a Musketeer’s Bones Got Him Locked Up
A secret archaeological dig inside a Dutch church has led to drama worthy of Alexandre Dumas. Did Wim Dijkman really find the bones of the fourth musketeer? We may never know.
Spirit Didn't Die From What You Think It Died From
On May 2, 2026, Spirit Airlines stopped flying. Roughly 300 flights and 60,000 passengers a day were instantly orphaned. Seventeen thousand people lost their jobs. United, Delta, JetBlue, and Southwest capped rebooking fares at around $200 one way, which is the closest thing a…
Miso-Sesame Vinaigrette That’s Good on Anything Recipe • 5★
This all-purpose miso-sesame vinaigrette is great on a simple salad with lettuces and fresh vegetables, such as cucumbers, tomatoes, sliced onions, radishes, jicama or grated carrots, or in this Chicken and Cabbage Salad. Try it drizzled on an iceberg wedge, over sliced leftover…
How France Keeps its Small Shops
Commercial lease law, rent indexing and planning rules explain the retail mix other countries are losing
Will farm animals always suffer? - Works in Progress Magazine
5 Python Techniques for Efficient Resource Orchestration
This article explains 5 Python techniques for efficient resource orchestration and sticks to what's stable today, 3.11 and later for the core techniques, with one 3.14-specific tool called out explicitly as requiring that version.
A Researcher Buys 6TB Of Anthropic Claude Data Dump From A China-Based LLM Router, Finds Enough Ammo To Hack Xiaomi, Huawei, And Chinese…
Anthropic Claude's routing logs held SSH keys, VPN configs, and cloud API tokens that developers unknowingly paste into AI prompts.
Mermaid Demos - a Collection by Chris Coyier on CodePen
What is Cherenkov Radiation?
Cherenkov radiation is a form of energy that we can perceive as a blue glow emitted when the electrically charged particles that compose atoms.
An interactive introduction to the spanning tree protocol
Root election, port roles, proposals and agreements, topology changes: explore RSTP through simulations powered by MSTPD compiled to WebAssembly.
The Death of Shame Is Tearing Us Apart
Increasingly, people are ignoring social norms in favor of a narrow self-interest. The results are disastrous, Jay Caspian Kang writes.
JupyterHub 6.0
JupyterHub 6.0 By Serena Bonaretti and Min Ragan-Kelley JupyterHub is a collection of tools that provides standardized, user-friendly computing environments for education and research. Today, we’re …
Henry Disston (1819-1878)
Some more on a Philadelphia success story and institution.
A Stealth Startup Thinks It Just Hacked the Memory Shortage
Kepler Computing claims a new approach to chip design—and a proprietary material—can help end the supply bottlenecks that have sent memory prices surging.
Beyond Conventional Ring Oscillators: Purpose-Built Process Detectors For Deeper Silicon Insight
How design-aware monitor analytics connects production measurements with device behavior and pre-silicon expectations.
https://www.tokyoweekender.com/japan-life/japan-sewer-day-manhole-cover-sale/
Why it helps to see impatience as an emotion, not a trait | Psyche Notes to Self
Watching Penelope’s heroic wait in The Odyssey made me lament my impatience. But maybe I’ve been thinking about it wrong
T-Mobile rips into Starlink's mobile 'threat'
https://searchengineland.com/google-top-ranking-factors-survey-131-seo-professionals-487723
Spotify Just Hit 300 Million Subscribers. Here’s What We’ve Learned.
Gustav Gyllenhammar, Spotify’s Senior Vice President, Markets & Subscriptions, reflects on the journey.
I Haven't Lost a Customer Service Fight in Seven Months
How consumer claims became the highest-ROI thing I do with AI agents, from a $10 mac-and-cheese coupon to a $6,800 IRS reversal.
What do Visa and Mastercard do? An intro to card networks @ tautology.town
tautology.town is a blog that contains tautologies.
Casablanca: How an Unproduced Play Marched Into Movie History | TheCollector
Of all of Hollywood’s beloved classic films, the Warner Bros. studio’s heart-rending wartime hit Casablanca might rank first in the hearts and minds of fans.
Vanilla-Thyme Crème Anglaise It... - SAVEUR Magazine
Vanilla-Thyme Crème Anglaise It doesn’t get more decadent than this sweet, custardy vanilla-thyme crème anglaise recipe, which pairs perfectly with desserts of all kinds. Read more below. ⬇️
David Marlow (@ikiquest)
This picture speaks volumes…
How to be a word detective | Psyche Guides
Etymology unravels the mysteries of language and the hidden webs that link people across the world. Here’s how to dive in
You can now spend the night 80 feet up in a West Virginia fire tower - West Virginia Explorer
An 80-foot fire lookout in West Virginia's Monongahela National Forest has opened for overnight stays starting at $100.
CUDA from First Principles
Understanding Threads, Warps, Streaming Multiprocessors, and the Complete Kernel Execution Pipeline
‘I don’t chase the dollar. I never did’: the astonishing hidden life of Mr T
He grew up in the ghetto, became a global superstar – then gave it all up. Why did he step away from the spotlight?
Why We Can’t Get Enough Juicy Art Heist Stories
The books and movies—Ocean's 8, The Mastermind, Topkapi, How to Steal a Million, Inside, Artifact—all offer mixed messages.
This Bottle of Dijon Mustard from Costco is Crazy Hot. A Months-Long Investigation Rrevealed the Surprising Reason Why. - Longreads
"The search for an answer took us to a mustard dynasty in France, a Hamilton mustard mill and Palliser’s Triangle."
Powering High Precision Lasers
Today, no one can imagine life without the vast number of laser applications, ranging from milliwatt-class lasers to high-power processing.
Bits & Boxes: Where Intelligent Software Meets Physical Fulfillment: The Orchestration Gap
People think his team got robbed at Michigan. His response was a ‘masterclass’
WMU coach Lance Taylor could have joined the chorus of angry responses to a controversial loss at Michigan, but he chose a different path.
https://stratechery.com/2026/write-things-down/
A Pricing Model That Defies Logic, Confuses Economists, and Can Really Work
“Pay-what-you-want” isn’t just for museums and churches.
Smart Outlier Detection
Just because a chip is deemed good doesn't mean it will work as expected.
How the Japanese Practice of "Forest Bathing"—Or Just Hanging Out in the Woods—Can Lower Stress Levels and Fight Disease
When the U.S. media began reporting on the phenomenon of “forest bathing” as a therapy for mental and physical health, the online commentariat—as it will—mocked the concept relentlessly as yet another pretentious, bourgeois repackaging of something thoroughly mundane.
The unreasonable effectiveness of HTML — examples
The Kitchen a Cook Would Build
no designer needed
Fourteen Thousand Omelettes
It takes ten years to make a chef, a man told me once. it took me two just to learn how to make an omelette.
TPU Inference Externalization Full Steam Ahead - InferenceX
InferenceX, Up to 50% Better Performance per Dollar, Rapid Externalization of TPU stack, Growing Customer Base, Ironwood, TPUv8i, Reducing CUDA Moat
Methods for random gradients
An overview of techniques I’ve used to generate random gradient images.
GPT-6 Astra and the Fourth Exponential
AI computer tool use is a big deal.
Ngram error rate
An example illustrating the large amount of error in Ngram data.
Why music is a powerful tool to quiet stress in the brain
Music doesn’t just mask stress, it guides our brain back to a calm state
Possible Production Chokepoint In Large Titanium Castings Vital To U.S. Defense Industry In Oregon
The notion that the U.S.'s large titanium castings capability is concentrated in one 70-mile corridor in Oregon is a production risk scarier than the Bigfoot himself
Field Guide to What Gold Is Actually Doing Part I
Two tribes dominate every conversation about gold, and both lose money reliably.
How to Outlive Your Bucket List
When you’re young, making a bucket list – things you want to do before you die -- feels like you’re choosing prizes that will arrive in the mail later. I’ll take fl...