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Copper Thief Severs 100kW FM Transmission Line, Knocks Ohio Valley Station Off Air
A 100,000-watt country station in Ashland, Kentucky — WDGG 93.7 "The Dawg" — was knocked off the air last Thursday after a suspect allegedly cut and dragged awa
DeepSeek V4 Pro edges out GPT-5.5 Pro 38-33 in precision benchmark
A head-to-head comparison scored DeepSeek V4 Pro at 38.0 against GPT-5.5 Pro's 33.0, with the gap traced to disciplined adherence to constraints rather than raw
Deriving the Perfect Pancake from First Principles
After 25 years of dutifully following pancake recipes from Dorie Greenspan and Kenji López-Alt, the author grew suspicious that conventional recipes were arbitr
Diabetes researchers ejected from ADA conference for sharing editorial critical of Trump
Five prominent scientists, including Diabetes Care editor-in-chief Steven Kahn and former ADA president Desmond Schatz, were physically removed from the America
DIY clone of Sennheiser's overpriced BA2015 battery pack reveals a $0.02 trick
A hardware tinkerer reverse-engineered Sennheiser's BA2015 battery pack, used across much of the company's wireless microphone lineup, and found the proprietary
Dopamine Fracking: How Optimization Culture Strip-Mines Joy
A blogger coins the term 'dopamine fracking' to describe the practice of pouring disproportionate resources—money, analytics, crowdsourced optimization, popular
Experimental Drug Delivers Functional Cure for Many Hepatitis B Patients
A new therapeutic candidate has shown the ability to functionally cure a significant share of patients with chronic hepatitis B virus infection, a condition tha
From juvenile prison to OSS contributor: one developer's path back
Gavin Ray traces a hard road from amphetamine addiction at 14 through a stint in maximum-security juvenile detention, a felony conviction at 19, and stretches o
How Linear achieves sub-frame updates: a local-first database in the browser
Linear's perceived speed comes from inverting the standard web app loop. Instead of treating the browser as a thin client that waits on HTTP round-trips, Linear
How Pre-Modern Societies Shape Their Armies: A Worldbuilder's Framework
Historian Bret Devereaux opens a multi-part series aimed at fantasy worldbuilders and history readers, arguing that armies inevitably mirror the civilian societ
Making Peace with the Dreams You'll Never Live
A personal essay on accepting the lives we won't get to live. The author, told by an orthopedist 15 years ago to avoid knee-heavy sports, mourns never becoming
Motorola routers turn into paperweights as setup app silently dies
For nearly a month, Motorola's MotoSync+ app has been broken on iOS and Android, leaving the company's WiFi routers unusable for any owner who needs to set up a