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Sticky pay norms left 37% of US workers with falling real wages, 2021–2024
An ADP Research and University of Chicago team (Erik Hurst, Christina Patterson, Nela Richardson, and Ye Liv Wang) mined administrative payroll records covering
Stripe to Acquire OpenRouter, the Multi-Model AI Gateway
OpenRouter, the marketplace and routing layer that lets developers access more than 400 AI models through a single API, is being acquired by Stripe. The company
Terry Tao launches Palomar, a preprint-style registry for Lean-verified proofs
As AI systems churn out more mathematical proofs — many of them formalized in the Lean proof assistant — a practical problem has emerged: confirming that a give
The founder's dilemma nobody admits: ambition vs. being a present dad
A startup founder reflects on the collision between professional ambition and fatherhood—a tension he says almost no one talks about openly. Having gone through
Turbovec: Rust vector index fits 10M docs in 4GB, claims to outrun FAISS
Turbovec is an open-source Rust vector search index with Python bindings, built on Google Research's TurboQuant quantizer. Its headline claim is memory efficien
Viral tweet: Claude coded a macOS driver for a Windows-only HP printer
A developer's post claiming they used Claude to write a working macOS driver for an obscure HP printer that the manufacturer supports only on Windows racked up
Who gets to hit send? The unsolvable politics of emergency alert systems
A former Vodafone engineer revisits a hard truth about critical infrastructure: no amount of clever engineering survives contact with coercive power. During Egy
AI;DR: A Pushback Policy Against Unedited AI 'Slop'
A self-described AI enthusiast argues that a norm is breaking down as of late 2026: people are pasting raw, unedited model output into Slack threads, newsletter
Alibaba's Qwen3.8 27B scores 52 on Artificial Analysis, topping open-weight peers
Alibaba has released Qwen3.8 27B, a 27-billion-parameter open-weights model that lands a 52 on Artificial Analysis's composite Intelligence Index — a benchmark
At the End of the World, Patagonia's Aging Solitary Ranch Hands
In Chilean Patagonia, near the southern edge of the continent, a dwindling group of men called puesteros live alone in remote cabins, hired by landowners to ten
Berkeley Researchers Laser-Target Cone Cells to Show 5 People a Color Called 'Olo'
UC Berkeley scientists reported on April 18, 2025 that they induced perception of a color no human can normally see. Dubbed 'olo' — after its (0, 1, 0) LMS colo
Bluesky hijacks an iOS privacy API to stamp its logo on your screenshots
A user noticed that screenshots of Bluesky posts carry the app's butterfly logo in the corner — even though the live app shows a "Follow" button in that exact s