Stop Trying to Schedule a Call With Me
A sharply argued essay captures a familiar complaint in the software business: vendors turn simple product trials into a maze of emails, demos, compliance theater and support dead ends.
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Operating System in 1,000 Lines shows how far a small kernel can go
A new guide walks readers through building a small operating system from scratch in about 1,000 lines of code.
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Meta Replaces US Fact-Checking Program With User-Written Notes
Mark Zuckerberg framed the moderation shift as support for expression, while critics warned it would remove context from misleading posts on Facebook and Instagram.
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A 1993 Volvo Is Being Turned Into an Openpilot Test Bed for a Winter Rally
A builder is retrofitting steering hardware, sensors and control wiring into a 1993 Volvo 940 Estate so it can take on a 6-day, 6,000km Carbage Run through Sweden and Finland.
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A Blog Experiment Finds That Asking an LLM to “Write Better Code” Can Help, Up to a Point
An experiment with Claude 3.5 Sonnet shows that iterative prompting can speed up a Python solution dramatically, but the gains begin to flatten out as the code gets more complex.
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SpaceX Sends Thuraya-4 Connectivity Satellite Toward Geostationary Orbit
The first Falcon 9 mission of 2025 deployed Space42’s all-electric spacecraft, built to provide mobile links across four broad regions.
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Britain's largest dinosaur trackway site found in Oxfordshire quarry
About 200 footprints made 166 million years ago record the movements of sauropods and a three-toed Megalosaurus across a lagoon.
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Spreadsheet-to-App Hobby Turns Google Sheets Into Mobile-Friendly Web Tools
A personal workflow built around Glide shows how ordinary spreadsheets can become phone-friendly apps for takeout, meal planning and pantry tracking.
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India launches first space-docking demonstration mission
ISRO placed two 220-kilogram spacecraft into low Earth orbit to test a capability needed for future sample-return flights and a planned space station.
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Ghostty Reaches 1.0 as a Fast, Cross-Platform Terminal Emulator
Ghostty’s 1.0 milestone puts a spotlight on a terminal emulator that emphasizes native UI behavior, GPU acceleration and portability across platforms.
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An Essay Argues That Some “Abstractions” Are Really Just Layers of Indirection
A new software essay says the real test of an abstraction is whether it hides complexity, or merely adds another layer that future developers must untangle.
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Alpkarakush Fossils Fill Jurassic Theropod Gap in Central Asia
Two specimens found near Tashkumyr established a new predatory dinosaur species and offered clues about its growth and possible social behavior.
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A Menu Bar App Tracks the ISS Urine Tank in Real Time
A GitHub project called pISSStream turns a piece of space-station telemetry into a live status display on Apple devices.
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Parker Solar Probe Makes Record Christmas Eve Solar Pass
NASA’s spacecraft attempted the closest approach ever made to the Sun, entering the corona at extreme speed while mission controllers waited for a survival signal.
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A Personal Essay Turns a Former Colleague Named Julius Into a Carefully Drawn Portrait
Ploum’s “My colleague Julius” uses small, observed details to build a quiet portrait of a man the author remembers from university.
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Scientists unveil 50,000-year-old baby mammoth found in Siberia
The exceptionally preserved carcass, named Yana, emerged from thawing permafrost in Yakutia's Batagaika crater.
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Essay on cognitive load argues software should be designed to reduce mental friction
The article turns a software-design guideline into a broader case for simpler interfaces and deeper modules.
Read report »ARC Prize says OpenAI’s o3 hit a breakthrough score on the ARC-AGI public benchmark
The result boosted claims about novelty-adapting AI, while the benchmark’s own authors warned that cost and efficiency still matter.
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Harper’s excerpt says Spotify’s playlist strategy fueled suspicion of fake artists
The excerpt recounts years of rumors, reporting, and denials around stock music on popular Spotify playlists.
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University of York says a school smartphone ban improved sleep and mood
The findings came from a 21-day experiment at a UK school and pointed to better rest more than better cognition.
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OpenAI whistleblower found dead in San Francisco apartment as lawsuit stakes sharpen
San Francisco police and the medical examiner said former OpenAI researcher Suchir Balaji, 26, was found dead in his Lower Haight apartment and that the death was ruled a suicide.
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Edith Heard receives France’s CNRS Gold Medal for epigenetics work
On 2024-12-12, biologist Edith Heard was due to receive the CNRS Gold Medal in Paris, recognizing her work on epigenetics and X-chromosome inactivation.
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Google launches Gemini 2.0 with new agentic features and broader developer access
The company says the model adds native tool use, multimodal output, and early support for new AI agents.
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itch.io says Funko takedown report knocked its domain offline
The indie game marketplace said its domain was disabled after a Brand Shield phishing report reached its registrar, even after it responded to the complaint.
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