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French teen arrested for licking vending machine straw in Singapore
The good news for Didier Gaspard Owen Maximilien is that Singapore’s draconian attitude toward petty crime won’t get him caned. But filming himself…
 • Rob Beschizza
Engineer’s anti-brain-fog routine: stare at a wall for 10 minutes
Engineer Alex Selimov keeps falling into the same trap: bad sleep, too much coffee, podcasts in his ears while he works, then HackerNews on every…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Waymo says expecting robotaxis not to block bike lanes is “too high a bar”
When your algorithm breaks the law and endangers lives to please the paying customer, you may need to think long and hard.
 • Jason Weisberger
Mini-documentary about Pittsburgh’s Long Lines telecom fortress
You’ve likely heard of the menacingly brutalist AT&T Long Lines skycraper in Manhattan, a massive telecommunications center believed to house an NSA…
 • Rob Beschizza
Legendary emulator ZSNES rewritten from scratch
My first experience of emulation was ZSNES in the late 1990s, letting me return to what then seemed like ancient history: the early 1990s.
 • Rob Beschizza
GoDaddy handed a 27-year-old nonprofit domain to a stranger 2,000 miles away
GoDaddy, the world’s largest domain name registrar, transferred a 27-year-old nonprofit’s main web address to a complete stranger 2,000 miles away.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Play Zork while reading the 1980 code that makes it work
Type “open mailbox” in The Visible Zorker, and the game does what it always did: tells you the mailbox is open, with a leaflet inside.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Trump just killed the Reflecting Pool’s iconic mirror effect
If he can't gold-plate it, he'll turn it into something drab.
 • Jason Weisberger
Grandpa Pudding Brains offends quite easily
The single thing that suggests the attack on Dimwit Donnie's life might have been real is that Trump would likely not have approved a "manifesto" that…
 • Jason Weisberger
Nicolas Cage’s Spider-Noir arrives May 27, in glorious black and white
Nicolas Cage may have been passed over for Superman long, long ago, but at least he’s finally getting to play an equally iconic superhero.
 • Mark Frauenfelder
The great ASMR heist
Imagine, if you will, a picture-perfect movie heist.
 • Grant St. Clair
Willem Dafoe plays a billionaire Onassis figure in The Birthday Party
If there’s one working actor I love, it’s Willem Dafoe, whose willingness to say yes to seemingly any role and then give that role two hundred and ten…
 • Grant St. Clair
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