Gravity has always been quantum mechanical: it is the wrong thing to quantise
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"IWTLP is live: learn to code by building, graded for real"
The thing that always bothered me about learning to code online: you solve an exercise, hit Run, a green check appears, and you have no idea what it actually checked. On a lot of platforms it compared your printed output to a stored string. So you can pass with a hardcoded answer, a lucky hack,...
How cultural backgrounds shape financial forecasts
There's a funny thing about facts. Two people can look at the same ones but interpret them very differently, depending on their styles of thinking. On Wall Street, analysts with short-term or long-term orientations may issue different financial forecasts for the same company, says Yong Yu, prof...
Stocks Plummeted After Trump’s Iran Comments—Then This Crazy Thing Happened Within Hours
Buying every dip has proved to be a winning strategy under President Trump.
I rebuilt the same SaaS plumbing four times. So I built the thing I wish existed
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🚀 Outbound Without Begging — The Contextual Outreach System That Works
Cold outreach fails when it feels like a stranger asking for your time. It works when it feels like a useful operator noticed a real problem and offered a small, low-risk next step. The difference is almost always structure.
Things I Hate
X THING WILL APPEAR HERE okay :( click to close THIS THING IS NOW SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT okay :( click to close IF YOU WANT X YOU CAN SWIPE RIGHT okay :( click to close ------------ Lack of Tooltips: You'd think GitHub would have developers that carefully document action buttons like "Re-run...
AI Is a Thing We Made
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Fable 5 as an agent: only the last thing it tells you is real
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I tried Siri AI, and so far it actually works
Parents want one thing, and one thing only, out of AI: to add a list of soccer games or "spirit week" theme days from an email or a poorly formatted flyer onto their calendar in one shot. And I have good news for parents with iPhones - the new Siri can finally do this.
I strapped a Pebble watch to my Fitbit Air, and now I want that to be a real thing [Gallery]
There’s an inherent bit of joy that comes from using a Pebble smartwatch, but one thing that’s always made me hesitate is that Pebble’s health tracking is very basic, if it’s there at all. When I saw people strapping mechanical watches to the Fitbit Air , I had to do the thing. So now there’s a...
Is there such a thing as "skill" in interacting with AI?
From my vantage point, it seems the only skill we can even talk about is token saving. Am I missing something? Perhaps there are textbooks on interacting with AI?
Obama’s and Trump’s Presidential Centers Have One Thing in Common
The new Obama Presidential Center, in Chicago, is inspiring—but departs from other presidential libraries in a crucial, and risky, way.
MacOS Golden Gate Fixes the Most Un-Apple-Like Thing About MacOS
Commentary: MacOS Tahoe's worst feature is finally being addressed, and it has nothing to do with AI or Siri.
RakuOS fixes the one thing that annoys me most about immutable Linux distros
Immutable Linux is the future of OS security, but the current distributions do have one particular limitation that RakuOS has overcome.
Snyder's Soapbox: You don't want a salary cap, you just want to be a billionaire
The only thing a salary cap will do is keep player salaries down and save the poor owners some money
The man behind Claude Code says you’re comparing AI costs to the wrong thing
Boris Cherny says most companies are asking the wrong question when evaluating AI investment.
Stassie Karanikolaou Hot Shots To Toast Her 29th Birthday!
Stassie Karanikolaou's 29th birthday has us fiending for one thing and one thing only ... her best bikini shots, duh! From red-hot looks to animal print swimwear, this gorgeous gal has served plenty of memorable beachside moments.