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Within the sports culture of more, bigger, and faster, the epically slow winter sport of curling is an entrancing watch.

Outdoor Vitals' Vantage Alpine puffer jacket uses gold-embedded down to break up water molecules to keep you warm and dry.

A growing legion of “zero trimester” influencers are convincing followers that healthy pregnancies are a choice—and that raw milk, watching sunsets, and pricey specialized courses can help.

New data shows AI bots pushing deeper into the web, prompting publishers to roll out more aggressive defenses.

The explosion of prediction markets in the United States, where people bet on everything from Taylor Swift’s wedding date to election outcomes, has radically expanded the universe of gambling. David Yaffe-Bellany, a technology reporter, explains how these platforms became so...

Experts worry Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Health Department will use an internal AI tool to analyze vaccine injury claims in a way that furthers his anti-vaccine agenda.

After The New York Times reported that President Trump has backtracked on a major demand he’d made on Harvard University, he spiraled out of control in three wild tirades. He angrily insisted on a correction from the Times, and levied unhin...

For content creators, it's murky waters that many wade into.

This video is so depressing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8dcFhF0Dlk

Wednesday, February 4, 2026 I'm going to WordCamp Europe in June in Poland. Can't wait. # News from the most-quoted blogs on Hacker News. Writeup is here.# Here's a news page with stories from the most-quoted blogs on Hacker News. A brilliant idea. All I did was give ea...

On this week’s episode of “The David Frum Show,” David opens with his thoughts on the reported $500 million-dollar deal between World Liberty Financial, a Trump-family business venture, and the United Arab Emirates, as reported by “The Wall Street Journal.” David discusses t...

2025 was one of those years that leaves a real mark. I turned 40, married the love of my life, made huge career moves, and kept pushing forward in every corner of my life. It wasn’t always smooth, but the highlights easily outweighed the hard moments, and I came out of the year feeling more...

for developers who don't use ai -- here's the kind of question i ask chatgpt. "i have a div that contains icons that are either svg's or font-awesome i's. if it were text, i'd use font-size to control the size of the icons, which won't work here. what's the right way to do it?"

apple is a company, very good at selling itself as a lifestyle. but there's only one person, who's been gone for 15 years, who could keep that reality distortion field inflated.

This past week, over a series of events, the New York tech community celebrated the 30th anniversary of a nebulous idea described as “Silicon Alley”, the catch-all term for our greater collective of creators and collaborators, founders and funders, inventors and investors, e...

Spotify’s Molly Holder on the power of prompted playlists. PLUS: Meta is testing a standalone Vibes app

Simon Willison:

OpenAI just released a new macOS app for their Codex coding agent. I’ve had a few days of preview access — it’s a solid app that provides a nice UI over the capabilities of the Codex CLI agent and adds some interesting new features, most notably first-class support for Skills, and Automations for running scheduled tasks.

Interesting, for sure. But super-duper interesting? I don’t know.

Apple Newsroom:

Xcode 26.3 introduces support for agentic coding, a new way in Xcode for developers to build apps using coding agents such as Anthropic’s Claude Agent and OpenAI’s Codex. With agentic coding, Xcode can work with greater autonomy toward a developer’s goals — from breaking down tasks to making decisions based on the project architecture and using built-in tools.

I don’t know if this is super-duper interesting news, but I think it’s super-duper interesting that Apple saw the need to release this now, not at WWDC in June.

A look through the Epstein files.

Doing the math on the Cosmere books, with Mistborn era 3 locked in for releases in 2028, 2029, and 2030, maybe we’ll see Stormlight book 10 around 2043. Joking / not joking with my daughter to read a few chapters at my graveside if I don’t make it. 🪦