Artemis II is not safe to fly
03.30.2026 “Our test facilities can’t reach the combination of heat flux, pressure, shear stresses, etc., that an actual reentering spacecraft does. We’re always having to wait for the flight test to get the final certification that our system is good to go.”—Jeremy VanderKam, deputy manager for Orion’s heat shield, speaking in 2022 On Wednesday, NASA […]
Incident March 30th, 2026 – Accidental CDN Caching
Table of Contents Impact Incident Timeline What Happened? Preventative Measures 🚄 Edits have been added to provide additional clarity as of 00:00 UTC, in addition to an update to the title for accuracy Railway experienced an incident where CDN features were accidentally enabled for some domains without users enabling them. For those affected, this may […]
Universal Claude.md – cut Claude output tokens by 63%
One file. Drop it in your project. Cuts Claude output verbosity by ~63%. No code changes required. Note: most Claude costs come from input tokens, not output. This file targets output behavior – sycophancy, verbosity, formatting noise. It won’t fix your biggest bill but it will fix your most annoying responses. Model support: benchmarks were […]
Show HN: I turned a sketch into a 3D-print pegboard for my kid with an AI agent
AI-generated 3D-printable pegboard toy from a hand-drawn sketch. What I gave AI What it gave me A rough marker sketch Oli and I drew together. I gave Codex just two dimensions: the holes are `4 cm` apart and the pegs are `8 mm` wide. Oli playing with the first printed set, after a little fit-and-feel […]
Android Developer Verification
Posted by Matthew Forsythe, Director Product Management, Android App Safety Android is for everyone. It’s built on a commitment to an open and safe platform. Users should feel confident installing apps, no matter where they get them from. However, our recent analysis found over 90 times more malware from sideloaded sources than on Google Play. […]
Learn Claude Code by doing, not reading
Try before you install Practice slash commands, hooks, and skills in a terminal simulator right in your browser. No setup, no API key. Build real configs Interactive forms generate CLAUDE.md, hooks, and plugin configs you can copy straight into your project. Verify understanding Each module ends with a quiz. Answer wrong and you get the […]
Why I’m betting on ATProto (and why you should, too)
I’m coming home from ATmosphereConf filled with hope and a renewed sense of purpose. I want to talk about why. But first, some context. I have strong opinions about social media. A lot of these come from reading books like The Chaos Machine and Careless People. I highly recommend both if this is something you’re […]
What Gödel Discovered (2020)
In 1931, a 25-year-old Kurt Gödel wrote a proof that turned mathematics upside down. The implication was so astounding, and his proof so elegant that it was…kind of funny. I wanted to share his discovery with you. Fair warning though, I’m not a mathematician; I’m a programmer. This means my understanding is intuitive and not […]
Turning a MacBook into a touchscreen with $1 of hardware (2018)
We turned a MacBook into a touchscreen using only $1 of hardware and a little bit of computer vision. The proof-of-concept, dubbed “Project Sistine” after our recreation of the famous painting in the Sistine Chapel, was prototyped by me, Kevin, Guillermo, and Logan in about 16 hours. The basic principle behind Sistine is simple. Surfaces […]
A sea of sparks: Seeing radioactivity
2025-12-14 — 2026-01-25 (Ionizing Radiation) (Physics) Atoms are very small[citation needed]. Seeing individual atoms is completly impossible: They are thousands of times smaller smaller then the wavelength of light. … but is it possible to see an atom do something? Lots of chemical reactions glow, but none of them are bright enough to see single […]