Waymo details why its robotaxis stalled at intersections in SF blackout
TL;DR Waymo says a safety feature that asks human operators to confirm decisions led many of its robotaxis to pause…
Europe’s startup scene shows energy, but venture data lag a clear recovery
TL;DR Despite high-profile events and optimism at conferences, European venture metrics have not yet rebounded from the 2022–23 reset. Investment…
2025: When data centers moved from invisible infrastructure to a public flashpoint
TL;DR Protests and political debates over new data-center projects spread across the U.S. in 2025 as local communities raised concerns…
Nabokov’s blunt guide for foreigners attempting to learn Russian
TL;DR A widely shared tweet highlights excerpts attributed to Vladimir Nabokov from a 1945 student linguistics text on Slavic languages.…
A century before e-scooters: London rode petrol-powered Autopeds in 1917–1922
TL;DR Powered scooters known as Autopeds were sold and used in London from 1917, becoming more common after import restrictions…
Avoid Mini-Frameworks: Why Small Internal Frameworks Cause Lasting Pain
TL;DR An engineer who worked on Google Ads infrastructure warns against teams building 'mini-frameworks' on top of shared stacks. These…
Returning my Framework 16: why I sent the DIY laptop back after testing
TL;DR After buying the Framework 16 DIY, assembling it and testing multiple operating systems, the author decided to return the…
How compilers turn simple loops into closed-form math: a surprising optimization
TL;DR A code example summing integers up to a value triggered markedly different optimizations in GCC and clang. GCC kept…