2026-07-01
These Five Navies Are by Far the World’s Largest
Rank the world's navies by the sheer number of ships they float, counting a 100,000-ton supercarrier and a 200-ton patrol boat as one each, and the order looks almost nothing...
Execution Problems Are Often Workflow Problems
Design workflows that keep product initiatives moving
Great Products, Bad Companies
I have long argued that great products are what powers great companies. And while I still believe that great products are necessary for great companies, it’s become quite clear over...
The U.S. Navy Built USS Midway Too Late for World War II — and It Served for the Next 47 Years
USS Midway entered service eight days after Japan's surrender, missing the war that shaped her by a week. Instead of a quiet career, she got a 47-year one — the...
Building a Fiber-Coupled Laser Source for Precision Optics
Laser diodes are convenient light sources, but for precise optical work their often-elliptical beam profile leaves something to be desired. One way to get around this is to couple the...
The consequences of locking intelligence away: an introduction to Claude relays in China
There has been recent discourse floating around on Hacker News about Chinese API relay stations that use every Western VC-subsidized channel of cheap tokens (think Claude/ChatGPT subscriptions, AWS/Azure credits, Kiro,...
Israel Said It Destroyed Iran’s Last F-14 Tomcats in March: Three Months Later, Tehran Released Footage of One Still Flying
For four decades Iran kept the world's last F-14 Tomcats flying under an embargo meant to ground them. In March, Israel said it finally destroyed them. Three months later, Iranian...
"Correct Answer Features" Cannot Explain Multiple Choice Capabilities
TL;DR: I present theoretical and empirical evidence that LLMs cannot be (exclusively) using a "correct answer feature" as the main mechanism by which they perform multiple choice question answering. A...
The U.S. Navy Built 24 Essex-Class Aircraft Carriers in World War II: Today’s Shipyards Couldn’t Repeat It
In 1942, the U.S. built an aircraft carrier in just over 20 months, then made two dozen more. Today a single shipyard builds every American supercarrier, and the next one...
Japan’s Soryu Submarines Started as AIP Hunters and Ended as Battery Pioneers: The Quiet Boats Guarding the First Island Chain
Japan doesn't build nuclear submarines. Instead it built the Soryu class — 12 quiet diesel-electric hunters for the waters around the home islands. The class began with Stirling air-independent propulsion...
Claude Code users complain their chat records are being mysteriously wiped out
Got important chats older than 30 days? You'd better be sure the transcripts still exist
Nano Banana 2 Lite
Nano Banana 2 Lite Also known as Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image (gemini-3.1-flash-lite-image in their API), this is the "fastest and cheapest Gemini image model, engineered for velocity and scale"....
The Gunless U.S. Navy Fighter That Got Shot Up Over Vietnam — and Forced the Navy to Create TOPGUN
The F-4 Phantom was built to kill Soviet bombers at long range with missiles — so the Navy left off the gun. Then Vietnam threw it into close-in dogfights it...
Playwright Georgica Pettus has written a play called...
Playwright Georgica Pettus has written a play called Truck, which is based on the excellent documentary Hands on a Hardbody. “I thought, ‘This is the best premise for a play,...
The Air Force Just Confirmed Its Northrop Grumman B-2 Stealth Bomber Can Sink Ships for the First Time: LRASM Fired Off Guam
For the first time, the Air Force has admitted its B-2 can do something it still won't fully explain: fire an anti-ship missile. In a sinking exercise off Guam, the...
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