Researchers Describe a Spider Web Unlike Any Previously Documented in 2025
TL;DR The New York Times ran a science piece headlined about a spider web described as unlike any seen before.…
NeXTSTEP 3.3 Ported to HP PA-RISC Workstations (712–755) in 1994
TL;DR NeXTSTEP 3.3 was released with an official port to a select set of 32-bit HP 9000 PA-RISC workstations in…
21 Lessons From Fourteen Years at Google: Practical Career and Engineering Advice
TL;DR An engineer reflects on 14 years at Google and distills 21 non-technical lessons about building software in large organizations.…
AGI Is Here — A Plain Reading of the Threshold and Strategic Case
TL;DR Author Robin Sloan argues that artificial general intelligence has already been achieved, pointing to the emergent generality of large…
The Unbearable Joy of Sitting Alone in a Café — Quiet, Dogs, and Paper Notes
TL;DR A writer on staycation describes repeatedly visiting a neighborhood café without a phone, bringing a dog, and discovering how…
During Hurricane Helene I Wanted a Plain-Text Website for Faster Access
TL;DR On the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Helene, a web developer recounts struggling to load emergency information on mobile as…
Millennium Challenge: Real Story of a Corrupted Military Exercise and Legacy
TL;DR Millennium Challenge 2002 was a large, congressionally mandated U.S. war‑game that exposed deep disagreements over how simulations should inform…
North Dakota law accidentally lists fake minerals named after coal lawyers
TL;DR A North Dakota statute listing critical minerals included two fabricated names — friezium and stralium — that appear to…
One Writer’s Six-Week Experiment to Shift Her Big Five Personality Traits
TL;DR A journalist tested whether short, targeted activities drawn from recent psychology research could change core personality traits over six…
Why an ordinary least-squares line can look biased with correlated data
TL;DR A user generated a correlated bivariate data set and found that an ordinary least squares (OLS) regression line looked…