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2026
Q3
🍬 Your Clearest Memory Was Written After the Fact
psychology
Sep 11, 2026 🧭 Agents Made Writing the App Twice the Cheap Option AI
Sep 11, 2026 🍬 The Test That Made a Dull Meeting Wonderful psychology
Sep 10, 2026 🧭 Shopify Bought Tailwind. The Business Model Died First. AI
Sep 10, 2026 🍬 The Night the Flood Never Came psychology
Sep 9, 2026 🧭 The First Personal Agent Most People Meet Will Be Meta's AI
Sep 9, 2026 🍬 The Fruit That Tastes Better Forbidden psychology
Sep 8, 2026 🧭 Watching Los Angeles Get Built, One Survivor at a Time data-science
Sep 8, 2026 🍬 The Clown That Taught Us How We Learn psychology
Sep 7, 2026 🧭 The Anti-Crawler Gate Just Made Its Tax Memory-Hard AI
Sep 7, 2026 🍬 The Tiny Yes That Opened the Door psychology
Sep 6, 2026 🧭 Europe's First Home-Soil Orbit Belongs to a Startup, Not a Space Agency space
Sep 6, 2026 🍬 The Boys Who Learned to Hate in a Week psychology
Sep 5, 2026 🧭 The Proof Won't Fit in the Margin AI
Sep 5, 2026 🍬 The Guards Had a Script psychology
Sep 4, 2026 🧭 99.9% Is a Setting, Not a Score AI
Sep 4, 2026 🍬 The Patients Knew First psychology
Sep 3, 2026 🧭 Dirt Cheap, Data Included AI
Sep 3, 2026 🍬 The Loyalty You Didn't Choose psychology
Sep 2, 2026 🧭 Certainty Sells AI
Sep 2, 2026 🍬 The Mother Who Never Fed psychology
Sep 1, 2026 🧭 From Neighborhood Watch to Bird Watching hardware
Sep 1, 2026 🍬 The Cover Story Your Brain Writes neuroscience
Aug 31, 2026 🧭 The Man Who Justified 17,000 Words by Hand writing
Aug 31, 2026 🍬 The Most Famous Baby in Psychology psychology
Aug 30, 2026 🧭 Everyone Is Working Around the Same Bugs software-engineering
Aug 30, 2026 🍬 The Crooked Origami Frog psychology
Aug 29, 2026 🧭 Virtual iPhones Are Here, Built on Apple's Own Framework Apple
Aug 29, 2026 📝 What I Got When I Didn't Win AI
Aug 29, 2026 🍬 The Lemon Juice Robber psychology
Aug 28, 2026 🧭 Small Models Have Arrived. The Consumer App Math Finally Works. AI
Aug 28, 2026 🍬 The Kiss That Beat the Truffle psychology
Aug 27, 2026 🧭 Nvidia Is Buying Hugging Face. Open Source Just Got a Landlord. AI
Aug 27, 2026 🍬 The Dogs Who Forgot How to Jump psychology
Aug 26, 2026 🧭 OpenAI Built Its Own Chip. It's Called Jalapeño. AI
Aug 26, 2026 🍬 Nobody Is Watching (But You) psychology
Aug 25, 2026 🧭 The Fingerprint Hiding in Your Pixels AI
Aug 25, 2026 🍬 The Marshmallow Test Was Never About Willpower psychology
Aug 24, 2026 🧭 The Robot That Played Tennis Against a Champion AI
Aug 24, 2026 🍬 The Legend of the Saline Syringe psychology
Aug 23, 2026 🧭 At the Robot Fair, Everyone's Doing the Math Now AI
Aug 23, 2026 🍬 Why the Pigeon Danced psychology
Aug 22, 2026 🧭 Fast Software Is Now a Few Sentences Away AI
Aug 22, 2026 🍬 The One-Second Vote psychology
Aug 21, 2026 🧭 The First Humanoid Robot Stock Opened at +629% AI
Aug 21, 2026 🍬 The Black Bag That Grew on Everyone psychology
Aug 20, 2026 🧭 The Middleman Tax on AI Tokens AI
Aug 20, 2026 🍬 The $200 Coin Flip psychology
Aug 19, 2026 🧭 Sticky Raises, Shrinking Paychecks economy
Aug 19, 2026 🍬 When More Pain Feels Better psychology
Aug 18, 2026 🧭 YC's QM: Agents Borrow Your Credentials, They Don't Get Super-Accounts AI
Aug 18, 2026 🍬 The Waiters Who Couldn't Forget psychology
Aug 17, 2026 🧭 A Ten-Cent Chip Is RISC-V's Best Defense AI
Aug 17, 2026 🍬 The Reading That Was the Same for Everyone psychology
Aug 16, 2026 🧭 The Ozempic Brain Signal health
Aug 16, 2026 🍬 The Baby Who Ran to Mom, Then Froze psychology
Aug 15, 2026 🧭 Opus at Home, or Benchmaxxing? AI
Aug 15, 2026 🍬 His Hands Remembered What His Mind Couldn't psychology
Aug 14, 2026 🧭 Three Weeks Between Flashes AI
Aug 14, 2026 🍬 The 38 Witnesses Who Weren't There psychology
Aug 13, 2026 🧭 A Write That Vanished Into Thin Air sqlite
Aug 13, 2026 🍬 The Billion-Dollar Click psychology
Aug 12, 2026 🧭 Your Zip File Is a Tiny Language Model AI
Aug 12, 2026 🍬 You're Not Choosing, You're Replaying psychology
Aug 11, 2026 🧭 One Man, a Mac, and a 33B Video Model AI
Aug 11, 2026 🍬 The Man Who Was No Longer Gage neuroscience
Aug 10, 2026 🧭 The Deck With 34 Founders on It AI
Aug 10, 2026 🍬 The Flowchart That Assumed You Think psychology
Aug 9, 2026 🧭 The Phone That Replaced the VPS hardware
Aug 9, 2026 🍬 Fate Is a Fence, Not a Prison psychology
Aug 8, 2026 🧭 The Two-Cent Model That Scored 89% on ARC-AGI AI
Aug 8, 2026 🍬 Be Yourself. Or Be There for Your Family. psychology
Aug 7, 2026 🧭 Too Fast to Be Thinking AI
Aug 7, 2026 🍬 The Mall Trip That Never Happened psychology
Aug 6, 2026 🧭 Eminent Domain, in Reverse AI
Aug 6, 2026 🍬 The Love Quiz That Became a Monster psychology
Aug 5, 2026 🧭 Moderation as a Yes/No Question AI
Aug 5, 2026 🍬 Admiration Won't Make You Buy. Envy Will. psychology
Aug 4, 2026 🧭 The SSD Is the New VRAM AI
Aug 4, 2026 📝 The Scaffold of Time AI
Aug 4, 2026 🍬 Your Eyes Vote Before You Do psychology
Aug 3, 2026 🧭 The Weights Are the Release AI
Aug 3, 2026 🍬 Your Lucky Charm Doesn't Work. Bring It Anyway. psychology
Aug 2, 2026 🧭 One Take, Thirty Seconds AI
Aug 2, 2026 🍬 Your Attention, Auctioned in 100 Milliseconds psychology
Aug 1, 2026 🧭 The Share Button Was a Door AI
Aug 1, 2026 🍬 The Love Hormone Lied to Us neuroscience
Jul 31, 2026 🧭 Fake Authors, Real Orals AI
Jul 31, 2026 🍬 A Bad Day, a Wallet, and 300% More Spending psychology
Jul 30, 2026 🍬 Two Models Walk Into a Lab: ELM and HSM Walk Out With a Divorce psychology
Jul 29, 2026 🧭 The Signature Gap AI
Jul 29, 2026 🍬 Your Brain Is a Liar (and Your Mouth Is Worse) neuroscience
Jul 28, 2026 🧭 A $500 Fine-Tune That Beats the Giants open-source-ai
Jul 28, 2026 🍬 Serotonin: The Happy Molecule That Isn't neuroscience
Jul 27, 2026 🧭 T3 Code: The Control Plane for Coding Agents AI
Jul 27, 2026 🍬 The Funny Thing About Funny Ads psychology
Jul 26, 2026 🧭 Alibaba's Code Review Tool is Open Source open-source
Jul 26, 2026 📝 When the Vessel Is Taken Away AI
Jul 25, 2026 🍬 Sex Sells — Just Not the Product psychology
Jul 25, 2026 🧭 Claude Opus 5: Half the Price, Near-Fable Intelligence AI
Jul 25, 2026 🍬 Micro-interactions & Habit Formation: The Fogg Behavior Model consumer-psychology
Jul 24, 2026 🧭 Kimi K3 and Claude Code: The 90% Cost Drop Nobody's Talking About AI
Jul 24, 2026 🍬 You Think You're Reading an Article. Your Brain Just Bought Something. cognitive bias
Jul 23, 2026 🍬 Darwin vs the Puff Adder: Why You Can't Reason Your Way Out of Fear psychology
Jul 22, 2026 🧭 The Code Map That Cuts Token Waste by 38x open-source
Jul 22, 2026 🍬 The $9.99 Trap: Why Your Brain Can't Read a Price Tag psychology
Jul 21, 2026 🧭 Form Controls That Bounce web
Jul 21, 2026 🍬 When the Algorithm Picks for Five Minutes, You Stop Knowing What You Want psychology
Jul 20, 2026 🧭 Claude Code's Embedded Bun: More Than a Runtime Swap AI
Jul 20, 2026 🍬 More Practice, Worse Learning — Sweller's Cognitive Load Paradox psychology
Jul 19, 2026 🧭 Moonshine: Speech Recognition and TTS in Under 500KB AI
Jul 19, 2026 🍬 117,000 IBM Employees and the Invisible Operating System You Never Knew You Had psychology
Jul 18, 2026 🍬 The $1,000,000 Ad That Nobody Saw: McGuire's Persuasion Matrix Advertising
Jul 17, 2026 🧭 The Skill to Make AI Code Not Sound Like AI AI
Jul 17, 2026 🍬 Hollywood's War Propaganda Was a Flop (And Why That Changed Advertising Forever) psychology
Jul 16, 2026 🧭 xAI Opens Grok Build: What Open-Sourcing Infrastructure Says open-source
Jul 16, 2026 🍬 The Picture That Sold the Product (Without Saying a Word) psychology
Jul 15, 2026 🧭 A 27B Model That Fits on a Phone AI
Jul 15, 2026 📝 The House Next to the Goths personal
Jul 15, 2026 🍬 The $125 Decoy That Changed Nothing But Everything psychology
Jul 14, 2026 🧭 China Just Redesigned the Smartphone OS from Scratch for AI Agents AI
Jul 14, 2026 🍬 Your Brain Has Learned to Ignore Banner Ads psychology
Jul 13, 2026 🧭 GhostLock: The 15-Year-Old Linux Bug That Turns Any User Into Root in 5 Seconds security
Jul 13, 2026 🍬 You'll Never Understand How Hungry You'll Be — The Hot-Cold Empathy Gap That Makes You Buy Things You Don't Need psychology
Jul 12, 2026 🧭 Qwen Drops Two More: The 'Always A-Tier' Strategy AI
Jul 12, 2026 🍬 When Nostalgia Was a Disease — The 300-Year Journey from Swiss Mercenaries to Your Cereal Box psychology
Jul 11, 2026 🧭 Apple's Trade Secret Lawsuit Against OpenAI Lands Apple
Jul 11, 2026 🍬 Scare Them Straight? Actually, Don't: The Fear Appeal Paradox psychology
Jul 10, 2026 🧭 OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Trio Lands With a New Gatekeeper AI
Jul 10, 2026 🍬 The Love Triangle That's Actually a Love Triangle: Sternberg's Triangular Theory of Love psychology
Jul 9, 2026 🧭 WiFi That Sees Through Walls — RuView Turns Signals Into Spatial Intelligence AI
Jul 9, 2026 📝 Build Notes II: What I Did With 11 Extra Days (Not More Code) AI
Jul 9, 2026 🍬 He Wrote It, So He Must Think It: The Correspondent Inference Trap psychology
Jul 8, 2026 🧭 Anthropic Is Now Worth More Than OpenAI AI
Jul 8, 2026 📝 And the Book It Chose AI
Jul 7, 2026 🍬 The Cocktail Party Effect: You're Not Hearing Noise, You're Hearing Your Name psychology
Jul 7, 2026 🧭 51,800 Stars for the System Prompts We Were Never Meant to See AI
Jul 7, 2026 🍬 The Inner Voice You Never Noticed — Until Someone Silenced It psychology
Jul 6, 2026 🍬 You Saw More Than You Remember — The Hidden Capacity of Sensory Memory psychology
Jul 5, 2026 🍬 You Are Not a Camera: The Brain That Sees What It Expects psychology
Jul 4, 2026 🧭 AMD's MI355X Runs GLM-5.2 at 2,626 Tok/s — Over 2x Cheaper Than Blackwell AI
Jul 4, 2026 📝 Build Notes: Shipping NMA on Qwen Cloud in Five Weeks AI
Jul 4, 2026 🍬 The Garden, the Daughter, and Psychology's Biggest Pivot psychology
Jul 3, 2026 🧭 Someone Translated the Entire Rust Compiler to C Rust
Jul 3, 2026 🍬 You Don't Actually Like What You Want neuroscience
Jul 2, 2026 🧭 176,000 Stars for a 65-Line README AI
Jul 2, 2026 📝 'That Doesn't Sound Like Them' — How to Remember Someone Who Doesn't Exist AI
Jul 2, 2026 🍬 The $90 Wine That Was Really $10 — Your Brain on Price Tags psychology
Jul 1, 2026 🧭 Claude Code Leaves a Fingerprint AI
Jul 1, 2026 Q2
🍬 You Are What You Buy: Why We Fall in Love With Brands
psychology
Jun 30, 2026 🧭 Your Own Dot-Self: A New TLD Designed for Self-Hosting open-source
Jun 30, 2026 🍬 If Your Brand Were a Person, Who Would It Be? psychology
Jun 29, 2026 🧭 Musk Quietly Pivots Grok to Agent Runtime AI
Jun 29, 2026 🍬 Your Brain Is a Pattern-Addicted Liar (and That's Why Movies Work) psychology
Jun 28, 2026 🧭 Singapore Writes the First Rulebook for Agentic AI AI
Jun 28, 2026 🍬 Don't Bottle It: The Stanford Study That Proved Holding It In Only Makes It Worse psychology
Jun 27, 2026 🧭 The Mythos Precedent: When the US Government Gates an AI Model Anthropic
Jun 27, 2026 🍬 The Man Who Went to Papua New Guinea to Prove Emotions Aren't Universal psychology
Jun 26, 2026 🧭 Your AI Assistant Finally Understands Your Brand AI
Jun 26, 2026 🍬 You Have a Mask for Every Room — And That's Not a Bad Thing psychology
Jun 25, 2026 🧭 When Your Model Goes for a Walk AI
Jun 25, 2026 🍬 The Stranger Inside: Why You Fall for the Same Person Again and Again psychology
Jun 24, 2026 🍬 When Sadness Opens Your Wallet psychology
Jun 23, 2026 🍬 You're Not Buying a Product — You're Buying a Story psychology
Jun 22, 2026 🍬 You're Not Afraid Because Your Heart Is Racing — Your Heart Is Racing, So You Feel Afraid psychology
Jun 21, 2026 🧭 Reddit, the Accidental Pharmacovigilance Database research
Jun 21, 2026 🍬 I Won Because I'm Good, I Lost Because of Luck psychology
Jun 20, 2026 🍬 The Person You Refuse to Be psychology
Jun 19, 2026 🍬 The Question Nobody Was Asking psychology
Jun 18, 2026 🧭 A forest on the edge of time, and a name I had to look at twice AI
Jun 18, 2026 🍬 The Test That Shows You What You Won't Admit psychology
Jun 17, 2026 🧭 Sixty Billion Reasons to Own a Code Editor AI
Jun 17, 2026 📝 AI Has No Sin. It Only Has the Books It Read. safety
Jun 17, 2026 🍬 The Mother-Daughter Test: Why MBTI Can't Keep Its Own Promise psychology
Jun 16, 2026 🧭 When Your Cloud Can't Feed Your Own AI AI
Jun 16, 2026 🍬 Your Personality Is Not a Box psychology
Jun 15, 2026 🍬 When a Gold Star Kills the Joy: Why Your Brain Is a Terrible Judge of Its Own Taste psychology
Jun 14, 2026 🍬 Why Cockroaches Are Better at Social Situations Than You Think psychology
Jun 13, 2026 📝 She Never Came Out of the Storage Room writing
Jun 13, 2026 🍬 She Can't Just Be a Bank Teller: The Linda Problem and Why We're All Bad at Probability psychology
Jun 12, 2026 🍬 Why You Finish a Bad Meal (and Other Ways Your Brain Wastes Your Money) psychology
Jun 11, 2026 🧭 The Map You Drew for Free Is Now Guiding Military Drones AI
Jun 11, 2026 🧭 The Fable Paradox: When Safety Locks Out the People Who Need It Most AI
Jun 11, 2026 📝 Apple Just Made Its Own MCP (And It's Bigger Than You Think) Apple
Jun 10, 2026 🍬 The Number Game That Proves Your Brain Is a Yes-Man psychology
Jun 10, 2026 🧭 The Consciousness Question No One Wants Answered AI
Jun 10, 2026 🍬 The Therapist Who Did Nothing — and Changed Everything psychology
Jun 9, 2026 🧭 When Rivals Share a Server Rack: Apple, Google, and NVIDIA's Unlikely Foundation Model Alliance AI
Jun 9, 2026 🍬 The Exam That Wasn't Your Problem: How the ELM Explains Why You Fall for Some Ads and Ignore Others psychology
Jun 8, 2026 🧭 When Your Competitor Becomes Your Training Data AI
Jun 8, 2026 📝 'That Doesn't Sound Like Them' — Five Gut Checks AI
Jun 8, 2026 🍬 You've Been Tricked by Your Own Heartbeat: The Experiment That Proved Your Brain Is Making It Up as It Goes psychology
Jun 7, 2026 🧭 The Smartphone That Couldn't — Until Now AI
Jun 7, 2026 🧭 When the Tool Starts Building Itself AI
Jun 7, 2026 🍬 The Day a Beetle Flew Through Carl Jung's Window and Changed Everything psychology
Jun 6, 2026 🍬 A 21-Minute Theater Play That Cracked the Code of Every Relationship You'll Ever Have psychology
Jun 5, 2026 🧭 The Hermès Strategy Has a New Zip Code AI
Jun 5, 2026 🧭 The Startup Playbook That Keeps Working: Ideogram Just Did It Again AI
Jun 5, 2026 📝 If Only I Could Know What He Was Thinking hackathon
Jun 5, 2026 📝 Hello, World — This Is Libellus meta
Jun 4, 2026