Private equity is ending private ownership: housing first, now PCs
TL;DR The source headline asserts private equity is eroding private ownership, moving from housing into personal computers. The underlying Reddit…
How to Complain: A Practical Guide to Making Criticism Constructive
TL;DR The author offers guidance on writing complaints that persuade rather than alienate. Key tips: avoid absolute claims, prefer descriptive…
Rich Hickey: Thanks AI — A blunt critique of generative AI’s effects
TL;DR Rich Hickey posted an open, sarcastic response after receiving an apparently AI‑generated praise message, using it to mount a…
fcvvdp: a compact, high-performance C implementation of the CVVDP metric
TL;DR Halide Compression released fcvvdp, a C implementation of the University of Cambridge CVVDP perceptual metric. Benchmarks on a Core…
Best Japanese Learning Tools 2025: Winners Across Apps, Anki, and Readers
TL;DR An online year‑end roundup by Autumn Skerritt names winners across categories for Japanese study tools in 2025, from browser…
Why I Disappeared: A Week Offline in the Galapagos Revealed News Noise
TL;DR A journalist spent a week largely offline in the Galapagos and returned convinced that much of modern news is…
Yale Study Finds Lower mGlu5 Glutamate Receptor Levels in Autistic Brains
TL;DR Researchers at Yale used MRI, PET and EEG to compare 16 autistic adults with 16 neurotypical controls and found…
What an Unprocessed Camera Raw Photo Really Looks Like and Why
TL;DR A camera sensor captures linear, per-pixel light values that initially appear gray and dark. Converting that raw data into…
AI’s memory surge strains DRAM supply and could push up device prices
TL;DR Rapid growth of AI workloads is driving an acute shortage of DRAM memory chips, with demand outstripping supply and…
After 62 years, NYC’s Tunnel No. 3 nears completion to modernize water supply
TL;DR Construction on New York City's Tunnel No. 3, started in 1970, has reached advanced stages and already supplies the…