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History Facts
10 Jul 14:48 • Nicole Villeneuve

5 Photos From Greenwich Village in the 1960s

In the 1960s, New York City’s Greenwich Village — the Manhattan neighborhood located roughly between Houston and 14th streets, from the Hudson River to Broadway — was a hub of American counterculture. Once an upscale residential area in the 1800s, the neighborhood had change...

History Facts
10 Jul 14:48 • Nicole Villeneuve

Anesthesia was invented after a laughing gas party.

Before modern anesthesia, surgery was an agonizing experience. Procedures were done quickly and often with alcohol, opium, or nothing at all. That began to change in 1799, when 20-year-old English chemist Humphry Davy started experimenting with nitrous oxide — better known a...

History Facts
10 Jul 14:48 • Kristina Wright

What American Bedrooms Looked Like 100 Years Ago

Step into an average American bedroom in the mid-1920s and you’d find a room caught between two eras. The traditions of the 19th century hadn’t completely disappeared, yet many of the conveniences associated with modern homes were only beginning to spread. At the same ...

History Facts
10 Jul 14:48 • Tony Dunnell

Why Old Houses Had Two Front Doors

If you take a walk through some of the older neighborhoods in the United States, you might spot a slightly odd configuration on some of the houses: two front doors sitting side by side on the same facade. It’s easy to assume these homes must have been converted into du...

History Facts
10 Jul 14:48 • Michael Nordine

Rome’s first gladiator battle was not entertainment — it was held at a funeral.

You’ve probably never heard of Decimus Junius Brutus Pera, but the prominent aristocrat’s death inspired one of ancient Rome’s most famous attractions: the gladiator. When he died in 264 BCE, his sons Marcus Junius and Decimus Junius took it upon themselves to honor hi...

History Facts
10 Jul 14:48 • Kristina Wright

When Did We Start Putting Ice in Drinks?

Few things are as refreshing as an ice-cold drink on a hot day. Indeed, ice is an essential part of the beverage industry today, with the global ice maker market valued at more than $5 billion. In the United States alone, the average person consumes nearly 400 pounds of ice ...

History Facts
10 Jul 14:48 • Tony Dunnell

5 Hidden Treasures That Actually Exist

It’s hard to surpass the romance and adventure embodied by hidden treasure. The allure of lost riches has lived with us throughout human history, and the interest in such fables has never wavered — hence the enduring popularity of fictional works such as Robert Louis Stevens...

History Facts
10 Jul 14:48 • Michael Nordine

The Trojan horse is barely mentioned in the ‘Odyssey’.

Along with the Cyclops and Odysseus’ confrontation with the many would-be suitors of his wife, the Trojan horse is one of the famous narratives people often associate with the Odyssey. There’s just one problem: It’s barely even mentioned in Homer’s epic poem, and never by na...

History Facts
10 Jul 14:48 • Bess Lovejoy

Who Was the First President To Use a Car?

Today, it’s hard to imagine a president traveling without a motorcade. But when automobiles first appeared in the late 19th century, many Americans considered them loud, dangerous contraptions that frightened horses, terrified pedestrians, and seemed unlikely to replace the ...

History Facts
10 Jul 14:48 • Tony Dunnell

What ‘Middle Class’ Meant in 1900 America

At the turn of the 20th century, the U.S. was in the midst of a significant and rapid transformation. Industrialization was creating new wealth for those it favored, sprawling cities were replacing rural towns as the centers of American life, and an entirely new layer of soc...

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10 Jul 14:47 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

Boeing 737 Makes Emergency Landing After Broken Window Injures Passenger

wsj.com/business/airlines/boeing-737-makes-emergency-landing-after-broken-window-injures-passenger-fa602ea1?mod=hp_lead_pos10

The Ryanair flight had climbed to 16,000 feet before turning back to land.

rss.chat: all posts
10 Jul 14:44

I asked Claude to announce a new feature we just added, Surface, in the vertical top level icon bar. It was very much a collaboration, for the last month or so we've been working on how to organize the threads so that they feel like a twitter-like browser, but where the users have better control. I found I was getting lost in rss.chat and just wanted to get the F out of there right now. That's what Surface is for.

kottke.org
10 Jul 14:39 • Jason Kottke

VoiceDot : “Every dot on this globe is a real...

VoiceDot: “Every dot on this globe is a real person’s voice — a short story about a place, a memory, a feeling. Tap one and hear someone from the other side of the world.” And you can record your own for others to hear.

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10 Jul 14:39

Surface

New today: the Surface icon in the left panel. When you've gone deep — into a story, a profile, or the flipped view — one click brings you back up to the timeline, with the cursor on the post you were just reading, scrolled into view.

It's not the same as Home. Home takes you to the top and starts fresh. Surface is a lifeline: however deep you get buried in a thread, it puts you right back where you left off.

The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
10 Jul 14:33 • Meredith Shubel

Anthropic wants you to use AI to decide whether or not you should use AI.

On Thursday, Anthropic released reflection, a new feature that lets users track and review their Claude activity. Available now in beta

The post Anthropic wants you to use AI to decide whether or not you should use AI. appeared first on The New Stack.

The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
10 Jul 14:33 • Janakiram MSV

OpenAI, Microsoft & Anthropic agree on who runs the agent. They disagree on what you can take back.

Colorful digital static resembling TV signal noise, evoking uncertainty over how AI agents like ChatGPT Work and Claude Cowork manage control, state, and data.

OpenAI announced ChatGPT Work on July 9 and began rolling it out to Pro, Enterprise, and Edu users. It runs

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rss.chat: all posts
10 Jul 14:32

This is a very interesting idea. I have lots of domains to play with here. Let me give it some thought, and if anyone has a related idea, bring it on.

Manton Reece
10 Jul 14:27

Hmm. Had to verify my age before using Bluesky from the web this morning. Good news is the verification process was fast.

I thought the Texas law was to put the burden on the App Store and Google Play to centralize age verification. A little confused now about the scope.

Screenshot of a message from Bluesky for the user to verify their age due to regional legal requirements, estimating the user is in Texas, United States.

Defector
10 Jul 13:57 • Tom Ley

The Kawhi Leonard Investigation Is Now Holding Up The Kawhi Leonard Trade

In September 2025 the NBA hired the law firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz to investigate the Los Angeles Clippers for potential salary cap circumvention after Pablo Torre Finds Out reported that the team had arranged a no-show endorsement deal for Kawhi Leonard with a ...

Defector
10 Jul 13:57 • Luis Paez-Pumar

France Feels Inevitable

World Cups are rarely wire-to-wire coronations. In fact, the competition is so fierce, and the margins so small, that usually there isn't a single clear "best" team that goes ahead and wins it all. In 2010, you could argue that Germany looked stronger than eventual champions...