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For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't know there's anything wrong with it.

Decent OPSEC guide - anonymity, security, and privacy without bullshit.

An in-depth interview with concept artist Rhys Yorke about designing screen graphics and UI for The Expanse TV series. Explores how interface design can establish distinct visual identities for different factions and support storytelling without drawing attention to itself.

An essay analyzing Britain’s economic decline through the lens of infrastructure failure. The authors argue that the 1947 Town...

We usually perceive that it costs more to get higher quality, but software internal quality actually reduces costs.

A deep dive into why Vim matters for programmers and how its modal editing paradigm can dramatically improve coding workflow...

This article addresses a common PostgreSQL optimization challenge: partition pruning normally only works when filtering by the...

How LLMs are enabling a new generation of sophisticated scams at scale. Explores the gap between cheap mass-market schemes and expensive targeted attacks, and how AI makes personalized social engineering affordable and automatable.

The European Commission today presented the European Technological Sovereignty Package, a set of measures to strengthen Europe\'s capacity in semiconductors, artificial intelligence (AI), cloud and open source.

This article warns that the AI industry is repeating historical security failures by normalizing over-reliance on LLM outputs...

A core tenet of the enshittification hypothesis is that all the terrible stuff we're subjected to in our digital lives today is...

An archaeology article revealing how LIDAR technology discovered Phnom Kulen (Mahendraparvata), a 9th-century Khmer city hidden beneath Cambodian jungle. Explores advanced water management systems, urban planning, and engineering that predated Angkor.

A programming aphorism by Philip Greenspun stating that any sufficiently complex program in simpler languages tends to contain a reimplementation of half of Lisp's features. A thoughtful observation on language design and the costs of avoiding abstraction.

We measured 800 popular men's t-shirts styles. The chart below shows the chest width and body length sizing differences for more...

A deep dive into consciousness through computational and structural lenses, exploring how self-modeling systems create the illusion of certainty. Relevant to AI systems design, interpretability, and understanding emergent properties in complex systems.