2025-02-21
Elon Musk Got Humiliated by a Space Station Astronaut Immediately Before Announcing Space Station Should Be Destroyed
Immediately prior to calling for the destruction of the International Space Station to happen ASAP, Elon Musk got into a pretty heated fight with an astronaut from the orbital outpost....
Craig Mod on how “leave no trace” and “pack it in, pack...
Craig Mod on how “leave no trace” and “pack it in, pack it out” is not just for campers and backpackers in Japan. “The Japanese way is the correct way....
The Two Types of Data Engineers You Meet at Work
Discover different archetypes of data engineers and how their collaboration drives data-driven success.
Here’s what it’s like watching all 24 hours of Christian Marclay’s The...
Here’s what it’s like watching all 24 hours of Christian Marclay’s The Clock at MoMA. “Although I’m literally sitting in a clock, time is meaningless. One hour flies by and...
This Muscle-Powered Robot Might Be the Creepiest Thing We've Ever Seen
We are venturing into entire continents of uncanniness. Behold, the robot known as "Protoclone" built by Clone Robotics. It's supposedly the world's first bipedal, musculoskeletal android. But it's mostly just...
Fast-Coresets: A Nearly-Linear Time Algorithm for Efficient Clustering
Fast-Coresets offer a nearly-linear time solution for clustering compression, balancing efficiency and accuracy. While sensitivity sampling remains the gold standard, heuristic methods can achieve competitive results for well-behaved datasets. Experimental...
ANXIETY: Doechii Raps Over Gotye’s Somebody That I Used To Know (2019)
I can already tell this is going to be my favorite thing of the day: Doechii singing and rapping about anxiety over Gotye’s Somebody That I Used To Know from...
'The Bigotry Is Astounding:' Engineers Waste Time and Money Scanning .Gov Sites for 'Transgender' and Other Terms
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is wasting workers’ time and taxpayer dollars on “a witch hunt to find any content deemed ‘bad,’” according to a source...
Make Big Data More Manageable with Smart Sampling
Fast-Coresets offer the best compression guarantees, but uniform sampling suffices for well-behaved datasets. Future research must address fairness and optimality.
★ Apple Pulls Advanced Data Protection From the UK, in Defiance of UK Demand for Global Backdoor
The UK’s demands are simultaneously infuriatingly offensive, mathematically ignorant (regarding the nature of end-to-end encryption), dangerous (as proven by the recent Salt Typhoon attack China successfully waged to eavesdrop on...
There May Be Downsides Now That Mark Zuckerberg Can Read Your Thoughts With a Scanning Device
Matters Most Grey A lot of ink has been spilled about Elon Musk's rapidly developing Neuralink program, owing in no small part to the kind of hype the billionaire's able...
Behind the Blog: Chatbots as Gospel, Books and Birds
This week, we discuss the new Murderbot show, ChatGPT for journalism, and birdwatching from afar.
Betty White is getting a stamp from the USPS that commemorates her...
Betty White is getting a stamp from the USPS that commemorates her “warmth, wit and charisma”. The first-day-of-issue event is being held at the LA Zoo on March 27 and...
I saw Paddington in Peru last weekend and so it’s been difficult...
I saw Paddington in Peru last weekend and so it’s been difficult to take Ben Whishaw seriously as a hitman in Black Doves. 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
The Marty Cagan Episode: Product Management Crash Course in 61 Minutes
Listen now (61 mins) | In this special podcast, Marty Cagan breaks down what most people get wrong about product management, how to become an irreplaceable PM, and the one...
Yankees Loosen The Boss’s Facial Hair Policy
Yankees owner Hal Steinbrenner: “In recent weeks I have spoken to a large number of former and current Yankees — spanning several eras — to elicit their perspectives on our...
The HackerNoon Newsletter: IBM Researchers Create Mini AI Model That Predicts the Future (2/21/2025)
How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, February 21, 2025? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, we present you...
TSJ Diversified Group, Smart Mountain, Self-employed in Austria: HackerNoon Startups of The Week
Welcome to HackerNoon Startups of the Week! Each week, the HackerNoon team showcases a list of startups from our Startups of The Year database. All these startups have been nominated...
Edith Zimmerman imagines books written by fairy tale and Disney princesses in...
Edith Zimmerman imagines books written by fairy tale and Disney princesses in their 40s, incl. “A Whole New World: Life With Bifocals” by Jasmine & “Where’s That Sea Witch When...
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