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Yes/No/Cancel causes Aspirin sales to soar

https://martin.kleppmann.com/2007/07/19/yes-no-cancel-causes-aspirin-sales-to-soar.html
12•ankitg12•1h ago

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flobosg•18m ago
(2007)
shaftoe444•3m ago
Good year
teeray•6m ago
[delayed]
ccvannorman•3m ago
I thought this was going to be about a marketing success example for Aspirin! ... Although, I guess in a roundabout way it was.

Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results

https://kagi.com/changelog#11296
131•speckx•43m ago•49 comments

DeepSeek-v4-flash-vision-exp

https://api-docs.deepseek.com/guides/vision/
279•dares2573•4h ago•82 comments

AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late

https://annas-archive.pk/blog/physical-destruction.html
371•darccio•4h ago•269 comments

Grand jury declines to indict Ohio man charged with destroying Flock camera

https://san.com/cc/grand-jury-declines-to-indict-ohio-man-charged-with-destroying-flock-camera/
202•throw7•1h ago•75 comments

TigerBeetle Core System Architecture: Deconstructing Performance Engineering

https://ixuvo.com/blog/tigerbeetle-core-system-architecture-performance-engineering
82•ksec•2h ago•32 comments

Kodak's "Pre-Invented" Lunar Orbiter Camera; Or, the Fate of SAMOS Readout

https://invertingvision.com/2026/08/10/kodaks-pre-invented-lunar-orbiter-camera-or-the-fate-of-sa...
9•cainxinth•46m ago•0 comments

Small, native web tricks worth remembering

https://htmlcat.net/
153•marcomezzavilla•4h ago•36 comments

What Happens When the Cost of Intelligence Drops 100x

https://catalystneuro.com/blog/cost-of-intelligence-drops-100x/
14•bkd9•1h ago•6 comments

Radiation damage to Hubble has been 4.3 years out of phase with the Solar cycle

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.18214
21•pppone•1h ago•4 comments

Kino: A high-performance Ractor web server for Ruby 4.0

https://github.com/yaroslav/kino
41•ksec•3h ago•8 comments

The Lost Treasure of Sid Meier's Pirates

https://remapradio.com/articles/the-lost-treasure-of-sid-meiers-pirates/
191•spankibalt•7h ago•109 comments

What We Lost When Search Stopped Making Us Think

https://blog.8ball.space/what-we-lost-when-search/
6•speckx•23m ago•0 comments

Yes/No/Cancel causes Aspirin sales to soar

https://martin.kleppmann.com/2007/07/19/yes-no-cancel-causes-aspirin-sales-to-soar.html
14•ankitg12•1h ago•4 comments

Olympian Jenny Simpson Says Her Running Career Is Over After Cardiac Arrest

https://www.runnersworld.com/news/a73487839/jenny-simpson-running-cardiac-event-update/
6•bookofjoe•33m ago•1 comments

I accidentally logged phone calls to military bases

https://lina.sh/blog/hijacking-e164-arpa
19•gavide•1h ago•0 comments

We are living in a version of the future out of J.G. Ballard or William Gibson

https://precastreinforced.co.uk/2026/08/16/new-worlds/
12•speckx•1h ago•0 comments

Flat Chair by Sara Paculdo

https://www.toxel.com/tech/2026/08/07/flat-chair-by-sara-paculdo/
86•surprisetalk•4d ago•26 comments

Rama 0.4: System proxy and PAC support

https://plabayo.tech/blog/rama-0-4
5•gdcbe•48m ago•3 comments

AI;DR or Don't be a meat proxy

https://theaspiringnerd.com/aidr-or-dont-be-a-meat-proxy/
10•speckx•2h ago•1 comments

Convite

https://www.guidavid.com/writing/convite
8•gdss•1h ago•0 comments

DuckDB V2 PEG-based SQL parser

https://duckdb.org/2026/08/20/duckdb-20-peg-parser
9•karma_daemon•1h ago•0 comments

The road to ACID transactions in Cassandra 6

https://theconsensus.dev/p/2026/08/16/transactions-in-cassandra.html
9•eatonphil•2h ago•0 comments

The August 17 outage

https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/the-august-17-outage-and-the-work-ahead/
605•0xedb•19h ago•692 comments

Nvidia AVO scores 100% on the ARC-AGI-3 interactive reasoning benchmark

https://twitter.com/NVIDIAAI/status/2090786258981466231
33•dsrtslnd23•1h ago•13 comments

We Rebuilt the Linux MicroVM Stack on Apple Silicon

https://encore.dev/blog/firecracker-apple-silicon
123•signa11•7h ago•68 comments

I like 'em thick: an apology to my English teachers

https://www.experimental-history.com/p/i-like-em-thick
817•Ariarule•2d ago•327 comments

HTML Can Do That

https://chrisburnell.com/html-can-do-that/
938•encyclopedism•1d ago•212 comments

I'm Becoming AI-Blind

https://cymerys.com/w/im-becoming-ai-blind
52•rcymerys•2h ago•48 comments

Malicious Rust crate Arrayref runs a build-time payload

https://safedep.io/arrayref-proc-macro1-rust-build-time-malware/
532•abhisek•1d ago•467 comments

Nothing Doing

https://www.futilitycloset.com/2026/08/10/nothing-doing-12/
4•surprisetalk•1h ago•0 comments