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Author Replaces Word, InDesign, and Kindle Create with a Git-Based Book Pipeline
A self-published novelist describes abandoning the conventional Microsoft Word → Adobe InDesign → Calibre → Kindle Create chain that had forced him to maintain
Chemistry Behind the Garden Grove Methyl Methacrylate Tank Incident
The Science.org blog post examines the chemistry of methyl methacrylate (MMA), the compound at the center of a hazardous tank incident in Garden Grove. MMA is t
Ferrari Luce debuts as Maranello's latest halo model
Ferrari has unveiled the Luce, the newest addition to its lineup, on the manufacturer's official site. The page positions the car as a flagship offering, though
Hacker News front page reimagined as a standalone aggregator site
A new project, thefrontpage.dev, repackages the Hacker News front page as a destination site, pulling in stories and generating its own summaries rather than ju
Modern Pixel Fonts: Fixing VCR Mono, Faking Subpixel Fringing, and Vercel's Geist Pixel
A roundup of contemporary pixel-style fonts highlights how designers are reinterpreting a 1990s aesthetic for modern systems. Andrew Gleeson's Analog Mono corre
Motorola's Smart Feed app hijacks Amazon launches to inject sketchy affiliate codes
A recent update to Motorola's pre-installed Smart Feed app has been caught intercepting Amazon app launches from the app drawer, briefly redirecting through Chr
Norway's National Library Builds Sovereign Norwegian LLM on 2PB Huawei Flash
Norway's National Library is training a sovereign Norwegian-language LLM because no commercial provider will, and a globally trained English model misses local
Rosalind: Rust genomics engine runs reproducible variant calling on a laptop
Rosalind is a single-threaded Rust library and CLI that performs read alignment and variant calling with memory bounded by local read coverage rather than input
Rust vs C++: Slide Deck Dissects the Real Cost of Memory Safety
A talk delivered at C++Russia 2026 examines where Rust's safety guarantees actually cost performance compared to C++, and where the language quietly pulls ahead
Stack Overflow's Q&A Traffic Collapses, But AI Data Licensing Keeps Company Alive
Stack Overflow's public forum has effectively cratered under pressure from ChatGPT, Copilot, Cursor, Claude, and Gemini. Question volume last month dropped to r
Stanford study: walking boosts creative output by an average of 60% over sitting
A 2014 Stanford study published by the American Psychological Association found that walking substantially increases creative ideation compared to sitting. Acro
The Cost of Safetyism: How Fear Shrunk Childhood Independence
Childhood freedom has collapsed in a single generation. Today, 84% of 11-year-olds aren't allowed to leave their street, and 92% of 14-year-olds can't leave the