VLC for Android looks dated — but remains the most trusted video player
TL;DR VLC’s Android app retains an old-school interface that doesn’t follow Google’s Material You visual trends, but users value its…
14 Best Fitness Trackers and Activity Trackers, Tested and Reviewed (2025)
TL;DR WIRED updated its annual roundup of fitness trackers in January 2026 after testing dozens of devices across activities like…
How to Start (and Keep) a Healthy Habit — Systems, Friction, Distraction
TL;DR A practical guide argues you should build systems, not chase goals, and lower the barriers that block action. Techniques…
MHC: Manifold-Constrained Hyper-Connections for Scalable Residual Models
TL;DR Researchers propose Manifold-Constrained Hyper-Connections (mHC), a framework that constrains hyper-connected residual paths onto a manifold to recover identity-like behavior…
Rust–: Modified Rust compiler that disables the borrow checker
TL;DR A forked Rust compiler named rustmm has the borrow checker turned off, allowing code that would normally breach Rust's…
Windows 11 Outperforms Linux on Lenovo ThinkPad P1 Gen 8 with Arrow Lake H
TL;DR In tests on a Lenovo ThinkPad P1 Gen 8 equipped with an Intel Core Ultra 7 255H, Windows 11…
Wendy’s drive-thru kiosk halts ordering with on-screen prompt to restart Firefox
TL;DR A reader spotted a Wendy's drive-thru kiosk showing an on-screen instruction to restart Firefox manually, preventing orders from being…
How one simple Gmail trick helped me take back control of my inbox
TL;DR The author stopped treating Gmail as long-term storage and started using Gmail’s built-in Add to Tasks to move action…
AI Labor Is Boring, but AI Lust Turned Erotic Chatbots into Big Business
TL;DR After years of promises that generative AI would boost productivity, the public story around AI in 2025 was dominated…
If childhood occupies half our subjective life, how should we live?
TL;DR A thought experiment treats subjective time as proportional to the fraction of life an interval represents, making childhood feel…