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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