Escaping Google's Manual Reputation Penalty and Resuming Business as Usual
We’ve already seen how Finixio/Clickout’s assets were hit with serious penalties in the days following Google’s...
Feeling Seen
Dec 21st, 2024 This ad struck me as the culmination of a long-standing trend. I struggled...
Is stuff online worth saving?
Related to my post about self-hosted bookmarking tools (thanks to everyone for the suggestions!), I’ve been...
Why eating less slows ageing: this molecule is key
The brain aged more slowly in monkeys given a cheap diabetes drug
When Two Hemispheres Collide: Where to Now for Rewilding in Ireland?
I have just been to visit one of the most enchanting islands, County Kerry, Ireland. Everyone...
The day I canceled my Spotify subscription
I used to be a big fan of Spotify. I was such a fan that I...
Testing for Thermal Issues Becomes More Difficult
Increasingly complex and heterogeneous architectures, coupled with the adoption of high-performance materials, are making it much...
BonkysInferno
You’ve all been having a blast with ^EvergrownPVP - copying and remixing it in all sorts...
The Christmas story of one tube station's 'Mind the Gap' voice (2019)
If you happen to find yourself at Embankment station on the London Underground, pay particular attention...
Google's counteroffer to govt trying to break it up is unbundling Android apps
The Department of Justice’s list of solutions for fixing Google’s illegal antitrust behavior and restoring competition...
The Ugly Truth About Spotify Is Finally Revealed
In early 2022, I started noticing something strange in Spotify’s jazz playlists.I listen to jazz every...
Saving the Apple's Ancient Ancestor in the Forests of Kazakhstan
Malus sieversii is a wild apple native to the mountains of southern Kazakhstan. Anna Yu/Alamy The...
We don't know how many birds die in structural collisions
A widely-touted argument against windmills is their alleged propensity to cause the rampant deaths of avian...
The "Winkel" Bunker – Arcanum Urbex
At the beginning of the 1930s, a German architect was concerned with the possibility of constructing...
First Actively Forming Galaxy as Lightweight as Young Milky Way
For the first time, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has detected and “weighed” a galaxy that...
The Focusing Illusion
In his best-selling book Stumbling on Happiness, psychologist Dan Gilbert notes:Everyone who has observed human behavior...
Britannica Didn’t Just Survive. It’s an A.I. Company Now.
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Technical debt vs. technical assets: What's the difference?
Some people see technical debt as a list of missing features, but it should be a...
When Is Insurance Worth It?
The purpose if insurance is not to help us pay for things that we literally do...
NoDB: Processing Payments Without a Database
I had the weirdest realization a few days ago.Over the last few months, I’ve been studying...
Startup set to brick $800 kids robot is trying to open source it first
Earlier this month, startup Embodied announced that it is going out of business and taking its...
Compiling C to Safe Rust, Formalized
Skip to main content View PDF Abstract:The popularity of the Rust language continues to explode; yet,...
Squirrels Caught Hunting and Eating Meat
When you think of squirrels, you probably imagine cute, fluffy-tailed rodents stuffing their faces with nuts....
Samsung gets $4.7B grants for Texas fabs
Official websites use .gov A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United...
Building Effective "Agents"
Over the past year, we've worked with dozens of teams building large language model (LLM) agents...
What did the DOS "APPEND" command do?
For a long time, I couldn’t quite grasp what the DOS APPEND command could possibly be...
Process Creation in Io_uring
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Ask HN: How do you work with people who are "not quite smart"?
Hey,This is a touchy subject, and that might be a lack of awareness or empathy from...
Decline in teen drug use continues, surprising experts
"Kids who were in eighth grade at the start of the pandemic will be graduating from...
OpenAI O3 breakthrough high score on ARC-AGI-PUB
OpenAI's new o3 system - trained on the ARC-AGI-1 Public Training set - has scored a...
Google support third-party tools in Gemini Code Assist
Google on Tuesday announced support for third-party tools in Gemini Code Assist, its enterprise-focused AI code...
Show HN: Spotify and Apple Health Data as Art
Welcome to the launch of the Day by Data app! Turn your step data into a...
