2026-09-29
A Piece of String Solved the Mystery of the US Air Force’s Crooked SR-71 Blackbird
The titanium tooling had been destroyed, so a new SR-71 Blackbird was impossible. At Edwards, 16 test flights chased a phantom four-degree yaw until a yaw string proved the pitot...
ShipHappens:
ASO, keywords & screenshots for the app store Discussion | Link
The US Army’s 95-Ton Tank Needed Four Tracks and Still Only Hit 8 MPH
Designed to crack Germany's Siegfried Line, the 95-ton T28 wasn't ready until August 1945, three months after Germany surrendered. One prototype was scrapped; the other survives at Fort Benning.
Base Code
Let your whole team build on your product Discussion | Link
llm-anthropic 0.30
Release: llm-anthropic 0.30 In addition to Claude Sonnet 5.5, this release adds the ability to run llm anthropic refresh to refresh the list of Anthropic models directly from their API...
The US Army’s Nuclear-Powered Tank Was Too Radioactive for Its Own Crew
Proposed in 1955 under Operation Question Mark, the 25-ton TV-8 could float across rivers on its sealed turret. Its reactor would have forced constant crew rotation to limit radiation exposure.
This PICO-8 Handheld is No Fantasy
The PICO-8 is what is known as a ‘fantasy console’– you can program it, and there are oodles of games, but it’s not actually the 8-bit console it pretends to...
GTA 6’s $400 Collector’s Edition Is the Latest Example of a Horrible Trend
A new Grand Theft Auto 6 collectors box is the latest example of the games industry prioritizing high-spending customers above all else
You Don’t Need a Big Company’s Budget to Borrow Its Best Systems. Here’s How.
Successful entrepreneurs turn admiration into action by identifying, adapting and measuring the systems that help high-performing companies achieve consistent results.
The US Air Force Wanted 93 Mach 3 YF-12 Interceptors and Built 3. The Program Died in 1968, and Its Radar and Missile Went On to Arm the US Navy’s F-14 Tomcat for the Next 40 Years.
Kelly Johnson's idea was to turn the CIA's A-12 into a missile truck that could sit above 80,000 feet at three times the speed of sound and kill Soviet bombers...
Jeremy Stern’s Profile of Mark Zuckerberg for Colossus
Jeremy Stern, in a massive and massively good profile of Mark Zuckerberg for Colossus: Unsure of my own ability to evaluate such things, I leave Meta HQ and spend another...
TeX was invented to typeset math but is now used for reasoning
I'll keep this short, since it's a simple observation that I haven't seen anybody else make, about the way computer systems do math.If you ask a language model to do...
Spider-Man: Brand New Day Getting Official New Version, Report Says
Sony will reportedly rerelease Spider-Man: Brand New Day in movie theaters with new footage, including cut cameos of other MCU characters.
World of Warcraft: Forever dev teases new 'mega dungeon' to get lost in for hours like the good ol' days
Blackrock Depths fans will have a new dungeon that takes as long as a raid to complete.
Best new video games of 2026 (so far)
The best new video games of 2026 include Cairn, Pragmata, Blood of Dawnwalker, and more. 2026 GOTY is going to be a tough race.
Agent Identity
Give every AI agent real identities, inboxes, and a phone Discussion | Link
Claude Sonnet 5.5
Claude Sonnet 5.5 New Sonnet model from Anthropic today. They say it "runs 30%+ faster, and costs up to 30% less for most work" - it's priced the same as...
AMD bets $8.2B that worlds matter more than words in AI
AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li just co-founded spatial AI research company World Labs in 2024. Now it's joining AMD
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