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I spend some time wandering around the web, usually starting from a Hacker News post I find interesting.

When I tell people about my latest random and not so useful discovery, they usually ask me "How did you learn about that?". This is my attempt to provide a partial answer.

5–11 Oct 2026

  • Drive a vehicle directly in your browser with the same engine used by GTA. — patkerr.co.uk 2026-10-11
  • An online stand-up meeting for orchestrating AI agents. — atoll92.github.io 2026-10-11
  • A speculative computer inside a lightbulb that projects information into the world and responds to gestures. — lightbulbcomputer.com 2026-10-11
  • Donald Knuth rewards people who find errors in his books with a check, or now a hexadecimal certificate. — en.wikipedia.org 2026-10-11
  • A look at Alessandro Moreschi, the last castrato to make recordings. — theverifiedpost.com 2026-10-10
  • REA gives a coding agent tools to inspect software and explain how it works. — rea.tools 2026-10-10
  • A guide to setting DNS records for sending email from a custom internet domain. — mailfully.com 2026-10-10
  • A way to mimic a meeting so you do not get disturbed. — iminafleeting.com 2026-10-10
  • The impact of ultra-processed food. — news.vt.edu 2026-10-10
  • A self-hosted way to sync your position between audiobooks and ebooks. — github.com 2026-10-07
  • Mazda, the car company, has written a beautiful story about paper cranes. — mazdastories.com 2026-10-07
  • Rosalind Franklin may have recognized the helical shape of DNA before Watson and Crick. — science.org 2026-10-07
  • If you live in San Francisco and want to know the flattest route between two points. — flattensf.com 2026-10-06
  • Great lamps. — arslan.io 2026-10-06

28 Sep – 4 Oct 2026

  • In America, people are increasingly giving up inviting friends to dinner—perhaps even faster than they are going to church. — derekthompson.org 2026-09-29
  • If you are a big engineering nerd, you will like this one. — withouthotair.com 2026-09-29

21–27 Sep 2026

  • Measles cases are rising worldwide, including in developed countries. If someone you know is hesitant about vaccinating their child, now is a good time to talk to them. — internazionale.it 2026-09-26
  • Olbia's airport is named after Karim Aga Khan IV, who invested in the Costa Smeralda and served as imam of the Nizari Ismailis—the group once known in the West as the Assassins and later popularised by video games. — en.wikipedia.org 2026-09-24
  • A VPN that says it cannot track you. — obscura.com 2026-09-23
  • A nice idea for managing Markdown in the vibe-coding era. — htmx.org 2026-09-23
  • A way to find out whether someone nearby is wearing smart glasses that can record you. — zuckoff.app 2026-09-21
  • If you have heard about Jev, this is the first System One model—and it may be something really interesting. — docs.typesafe.ai 2026-09-21
  • An attempt to understand how Jev works. — archerhume.com 2026-09-21

14–20 Sep 2026

  • If you need to create a beautiful poster with AI, start here. — john.hartnup.uk 2026-09-19
  • A website for buying onion futures—which, apparently, is illegal. — onionfutures.com 2026-09-18
  • A study about the best urinal geometry for reducing splashes. — academic.oup.com 2026-09-18
  • Another nice story about being careful with data. — blog.chriszacharias.com 2026-09-18
  • A guide to using Firecracker. — medium.com 2026-09-17
  • A European AI lab just launched its LLMs, designed to be tiny (less than 500 MB) and run locally. — desertant.com 2026-09-17
  • An interesting new map that tries to preserve geometries and distances by showing all the continents close to each other. It really makes humankind feel closer. — en.wikipedia.org 2026-09-16
  • As we discovered in these petroleum-crisis times, countries own petroleum reserves they can exploit. Here is how the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve works. — johnjwang.com 2026-09-15
  • An interesting piece about why to avoid optimal efficiency when speaking about technology. — humanistreview.ai 2026-09-14

7–13 Sep 2026

  • In March, Waymo's independent study showed 92 percent fewer fatal or serious-injury crashes, a 13-fold reduction versus human drivers in comparable city environments. — spectrum.ieee.org 2026-09-13
  • Sails are coming back for commercial vessels and they might not look like what you expect. — bound4blue.com 2026-09-11
  • Cargo ships are turning back to the wind. — gcaptain.com 2026-09-10
  • I am looking for a way to deliver this content as a newsletter, and at the moment the best solution is Substack, but I'd like to use something that gives me more control. The alternatives are Bluesky blogging platforms, but they require a paid subscription. — opus.ing 2026-09-08

31 Aug – 6 Sep 2026