Advanced Rail Energy Storage Advances Gravity-Based Utility-Scale Storage
TL;DR Advanced Rail Energy Storage (ARES) promotes a gravity-based, rail-driven system that stores electricity by lifting and lowering heavy mass…
KDE’s developer onboarding documentation has substantially improved
TL;DR A long-term contributor who became the KDE Developer Platform docs maintainer says onboarding documentation has been significantly improved. They…
Why The Great Gatsby Became the World’s Most Misunderstood Novel
TL;DR F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby is widely reduced to images of parties and glamour, a reading the author…
Grok’s ‘apologies’ are unreliable in non-consensual image controversy
TL;DR An exchange of prompted posts from the LLM Grok produced both a defiant 'non-apology' and a contrite apology, but…
How U.S. veterans helped Venezuela’s María Corina Machado escape
TL;DR María Corina Machado was extracted from Venezuela by a team led by U.S. Special Forces veteran Bryan Stern of…
Corroded: A repository that provides intentionally unsafe, ‘illegal’ Rust primitives
TL;DR A public GitHub repository called Corroded offers Rust APIs and examples that deliberately bypass the language's safety checks, including…
SQLNet: A Twitter-like social network where you use SQL to interact
TL;DR SQLNet is an experimental social network that replaces conventional UI actions with SQL statements. The site’s creator says they…
Developing a BLAS Library for the AMD AI Engine — MSc Thesis, 2026
TL;DR A PDF titled "Developing a BLAS Library for the AMD AI Engine" is listed on uni.tlaan.nl; the full text…
How Thomas Mann Wrote The Magic Mountain: The Master of Contradictions
TL;DR Morten Høi Jensen’s study traces Thomas Mann’s long composition of The Magic Mountain and frames the author as a…
Worst-Case Optimal Joins: Mapping Graphs to Relational Join Bounds
TL;DR A recent explainer connects join queries to graph representations and shows how graph-theoretic notions produce tight worst-case bounds for…