A guy spent 15 years documenting abandoned rail stations across the American Northeast, the decay is almost beautiful, some still have schedules posted from 1987.
Cursor ditches VS Code, but not everyone is happy... — Try Blacksmith for free to run your GitHub Actions 2x faster - https://www.blacksmith.sh/ Cursor 3 just introduced its own frontier model that's been suspiciously dominating all the trust me bro benchmarks. But it turns out
found out my cast iron's been seasoned wrong for three years — turns out you're supposed to let it cool before washing it, not immediately dunk it in cold water like some kind of psychopath 😅
BA’s Best Piña Colada — Two rums and two types of coconut make this tropical drink the last word on summer refreshment.
WWDC 2026: Apple is Folding – Cupertino Lens — The sample app at this year's Platform State of the Union was a place to relax. An origami app. A place, as Maribeth from the Foundation Models team put it, "to unwind and get creative with paper." The demo involved generating paper
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log is non-monotonic in PHP and Lua — If a b 1 and x 1 , you can prove that log a x log b x . (As a reminder, log a x denotes the value t such that x = a t .) This is very intuitive if you think about it: for “normal” numbers, the greater a , the smaller t you will need…
How a 144-Year Architectural Puzzle Was Solved — Get Nebula for 50% off with my link: https://go.nebula.tv/realengineering Watch this video on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/realengineering-why-sagrada-familia-took-144-years-to-finish The bonus Nebula video:…
Someone mapped every freight train route in North America by tracking their whistles. The patterns are weird — whole corridors go silent at night?
Palantir’s access to identifiable NHS England patient data is ‘dangerous’, MPs say — Health service has given US tech firm ‘unlimited access’ to certain data to build integrated platform, according to reports
NASA Fuel Cell Tests Pave Way for Energy Storage on Moon — NASA’s Glenn Research Center is advancing a novel regenerative fuel cell system to revolutionize power generation and energy storage for future Moon missions.
A 0-click exploit chain for the Pixel 10: When a Door Closes, a Window Opens — We recently published an exploit chain for the Google Pixel 9 that demonstrated it was possible t...
Whoop will soon offer users in-app video consultations with licensed clinicians - Engadget — Clinicians will be able to see users’ health data.
Whenever I Make Potato Salad, I Add a Handful of This for Extra Flavor — You’ll never look at this common vegetable the same way again.
FreeBSD ate my ram! — I spent a whole month researching FreeBSD's kernel's virtual memory system to understand why tools like htop, btop and fastfetch report different information about RAM usage. I ended up submitting patches to all of these projects.
I Just Discovered How to Order Trader Joe’s Groceries in Bulk — <img src="https://cdn.apartmenttherapy.info/image/upload//stock/shutterstock_1152185375"> It's not just the flowers. <a…
Football must be ‘shaped through proper consultation’ by FIFA, says AFC — Asian Football Confederation says FIFA future must be 'shaped through proper consultation' after World Cup plan fallout.
Britain 'set for bumper year' for butterflies — A hot and dry spring means a greater variety and more butterflies across the UK, a charity says.
Shell Gets More Tax Relief on $20 Billion Nigerian Oil Project — Nigeria granted Shell Plc a production-linked tax credit for a deepwater project, an incentive that will be offered to other oil majors as Africa’s biggest producer seeks to boost production, according to people…
someone mapped every abandoned railroad in the us and you can see exactly where they're buried under highways — the infrastructure graveyard
Agnost AI: Catch Agent Failures Your Evals Miss — Agnost AI continuously analyzes production conversations, catches agent failures your evals miss, and turns the highest-impact patterns into reviewed fixes. Trusted by Google and 25+ AI teams.
Samsung's Bespoke update is big step towards a useful AI for your fridge - Engadget — Running a software upgrade on a fridge feels strange, but these are the times we live in.
These Shortcut Chicken Caesar Wraps Are My Favorite Make-Ahead Lunch (the Dressing Is Better Than Bottled!) — Who needs a fork?
AirPods Max 2 Available for $509 in All Colors on Amazon — Apple's new AirPods Max 2 just launched last month, and you can get all five color options for $509.00 this weekend on Amazon, down from $549.00. Note: MacRumors is an affiliate partner with some of these vendors. When yo
AI is killing the cheap smartphone — The global memory crunch and the great repricing of consumer electronics
Employees make plans for a windfall as SpaceX shares are unlocked — SpaceX's shares are unlocked Thursday, and some early employees could see a massive windfall. The BBC's Samira Hussain explains.
On Rendering the Sky, Sunsets, and Planets - The Blog of Maxime Heckel — This article explores how to render realistic skies and atmospheres in real time in the browser with shaders, from simple sky domes, to entire planets using shaders, raymarching, Rayleigh and Mie scattering,
Firefox 153 Available With Support For Vulkan Video Decoding, Experimental JPEG-XL — Mozilla has uploaded the Firefox 153.0 release binaries today for the newest monthly update to this cross-platform web browser
Spoorkaart — A customizable map simulating every Dutch train that ran on a real day, including delays and cancellations.
Briton tells of surviving Spain wildfire in car as wife and friends died trying to walk to safety — Malcolm Timbrell's wife and their friends are thought to have died when a devastating wildfire tore through their village in Spain.
3 Costco Ready-to-Eat Dinners for Nights When I’m Too Lazy to Cook (Yes, Chicken Pot Pie Made the List) — Cheaper (and better) than takeout.
The Best Store-Bought Pasta Sauce, Tested and Reviewed (2026) — We tasted 17 jars of pasta sauce. These are the ones we’d recommend.
Switzerland’s solar railway has been a success. What happens next? — Solar railways could soon become commonplace in Europe, following a successful trial in Switzerland.
Daybreak is OpenAI's response to Anthropic's Claude Mythos - Engadget — OpenAI has launched a cybersecurity initiative called Daybreak, powered by GPT-5.5 and Codex Security.
Geek Fighter — Geek Fighter — an original pocket-sized retro browser brawler.
The lasting influence of Netscape Time - The History of the Web — After Netscape, the speed of software sped up beyond what anyone could have imagined. Thanks to a documentary crew and a ghost writer, we have a full view of the whole thing.
Venmo finally takes privacy seriously — Venmo wants to give users more control over what they share.
Magic just revealed 25 wild cards for its most unhinged Commander set yet — Deckbuilding rules exist to be broken, apparently.
NASA is set to begin training with a prototype of Blue Origin's crew moon lander - Engadget — The space agency is planning to put astronauts on the moon in 2028.
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I Tried the New Our Place Cookware Set, and Now I Use It Every Day (It’s THAT Good!) — <img src="https://cdn.apartmenttherapy.info/image/upload//k/Photo/Recipes/2024-03-showdown-how-to-fry-eggs/showdown-how-to-fry-eggs-401-two-fats"> It comes in five gorgeous colors. <a…
Dangote Reverts to Pricing Gasoline in Naira After Dollar Switch — Dangote Petroleum Refinery & Petrochemicals Fze reverted to the sale of petroleum products in naira, a week after switching to sales in US dollars.
'Seems Like AI Slop' Button Added to LinkedIn — LinkedIn has added a 'seems like AI slop' button for users who suspect that what they're viewing was generated by a machine.
What's Actually in Circe's Stew in Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey, According to Food Historians — In Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey, this one scene had movie-goers gagging.
Keyv and friends compromised in npm supply chain attack — Mini Shai-Hulud malware was injected into keyv and eight related npm packages on August 4, 2026 after an attacker compromised the maintainer's GitHub account
20 Best A-Frame Cabins Across the US and Canada — These adorable rentals are the perfect weekend escape.
Arsenal trounce Manchester City 3-0 in Community Shield masterclass — Premier League champions hand new City boss Enzo Maresca a humbling defeat in his first football game in charge.
What a Monopoly importer learned when it tried to make things in the U.S.A. — After getting hit with tariffs for the imported board games he sells, Jonathan Silva decided to see if he could produce a version of his Monopoly game in the United States. This is what he learned.
There's a guy who films trains at the same crossing every day and timestamps when they're late. His spreadsheet goes back eight years. Never posts about it anywhere, just keeps the records.
Igropyr — a fault-tolerant web server in pure Chez Scheme — Igropyr: crashes heal themselves, code hot-swaps, faults speak a protocol, and dialogues are processes. Erlang-style actors on libuv, written entirely in Chez Scheme.
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Miami lands four-star athlete A'mir Sears for 2027 class — Miami landed its top-ranked player of the 2027 class in recently reclassified four-star athlete A'mir Sears.
Argentina star Messi not certain to play ‘much longer’ after father’s death — Former Barcelona and PSG star Lionel Messi, who won the 2022 World Cup, hints at retirement.
Source: Pirates release DH Marcell Ozuna amid offensive woes — Veteran designated hitter Marcell Ozuna, who is hitting just .203 with eight home runs, has been released by the Pirates, a source confirmed to ESPN.
Guardiola in reported talks with Italy - would England come calling? — Former Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola, a fluent Italian speaker, is a contender for the vacant Italy head coach job.
Microsoft Earnings, Apple Earnings — Microsoft unveils its new agentic business model, and Apple confronts shortages in memory and chips even as the Mac benefits from AI.
England beat France in 10-goal thriller to win third-place play-off — Bukayo Saka scores a hat-trick as England beat France 6-4 in a thriller to record their best men's World Cup finish since 1966.
Kuromi x Katseye Target Collab: Preorder 'Wild' Now — Two icons, one collab, zero chill.
Why WNBA Stars Are Still Using College Gyms #WNBA #Basketball — While WNBA viewership and revenue skyrocket, players in cities like Chicago and Dallas are still training in public rec centers and college gyms as owners delay the high-tech, million-dollar facilities they…