Year: 2026

‘The audience is there for the accidents’: How a play staged on the racetrack became a smash with the racers | stage

‘The audience is there for the accidents’: How a play staged on the racetrack became a smash with the racers | stage

โœจ Read this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Theatre,Stage,Culture,Cornwall,Motor sport,Sport โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: toExie Crosby was five days old when she ran her first ever race. โ€œI grew up around the track,โ€ the 14-year-old says. At nine years old, her racer father gave her the chance to compete in the Micro F2s Championship, a junior league, and Crosby has been racing ever since. โ€œYou're full of adrenaline,โ€ she says of motorsport. "It's the best feeling ever."This month, Crosby took to her local Cornish track, United Downs Racecourse (also known as St Day), for an…
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Iโ€™m a USB-C Maximalist โ€“ Terence Edenโ€™s Blog

Iโ€™m a USB-C Maximalist โ€“ Terence Edenโ€™s Blog

๐Ÿš€ Explore this insightful post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: My wife and I recently went on a 7 week holiday around Europe. Although we each took a massive backpack, we wanted to travel fairly lightly. I took a single universal power brick. This little unit was all I needed to charge my various gadgets. It has a hefty USB-C PD (Power Delivery) port for rapid charging of my phone and laptop. Two other USB-C ports for my other gadgets. And a couple of legacy USB-A ports which were redundant. The pass through was useful…
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‘Fun, propulsive, full of weird joy’: Readers’ favorite albums of 2026 so far, from Mona to Ray and J. Cole | music

‘Fun, propulsive, full of weird joy’: Readers’ favorite albums of 2026 so far, from Mona to Ray and J. Cole | music

โœจ Check out this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Music,Pop and rock,Soul,Folk music,Dance music,Rap,Hip-hop,Jazz,Electronic music,Indie,Culture,Muna,Raye,Arlo Parks,Red Hot Chili Peppers,Boards of Canada,Kneecap,Aldous Harding,Gorillaz,Cribs ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Mona โ€“ Dancing on the wallThe album is a fun and exciting dance record that will definitely be the soundtrack to my summer. It's a propulsive film, full of quirky joy, cheeky lyricism, and relatable insecurities as they contemplate "past their prime" as pop stars in their early 30s. It will undoubtedly be an amazing live show and is a testament to the importance of artists taking breaks, getting…
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A Philosopherโ€™s One-Word Theory to Explain Why the World Feels So Weird

A Philosopherโ€™s One-Word Theory to Explain Why the World Feels So Weird

โœจ Discover this must-read post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Here are some questions that I consider self-evidently compelling about the modern world:Why is the news media so interested in telling you how much the world sucks all the time? Why are so many of us obsessed with distraction and managing our attention?Why is it so hard to stop comparing ourselves to others? And why does everything in art and design seem the same these days?A week ago, I didnโ€™t think these questions were related. Iโ€™m not sure I would have told you I had…
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โ€œIt was not a dream, it was a threatโ€: a film festival that celebrates the rich and complex history of African unity | film

โ€œIt was not a dream, it was a threatโ€: a film festival that celebrates the rich and complex history of African unity | film

๐Ÿ”ฅ Explore this trending post from Culture | The Guardian ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Film,Culture,Africa โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: AAlgeria, 1969. What had been, for seven years, the capital of a newly independent nation, became, over the course of 12 days in July, the global center of an entire continent. That summer, Algeria hosted the first Pan-African Cultural Festival (PANAF) and the capital's streets were transformed into a spectacle of lively performers, lined with banners announcing each country's delegation: Ethiopia, Liberia, and Mali.Imagine an Olympics-style opening ceremony, then ignore it, because the images taken by William Klein in the event's documentary,…
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Tensor is the might

โœจ Explore this awesome post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Every good abstraction solves a problem, and this post will cover everything I know so far about a brilliant math abstraction - tensors.Neural networks, from a simple 2-layer MLP to GPT-5, all boil down to the same thing: floating-point numbers flowing through a graph of operations. This post builds a complete, accelerated tensor library from scratch in C. It is heavily inspired by Bellardโ€™s libnc, which unfortunately has not been open-sourced yet.A tensor is nothing but a flat array of numbers, plus some metadata telling…
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D-topia Review โ€“ A Cozy Sci-Fi Puzzle Targeted at Artificial Intelligence | games

D-topia Review โ€“ A Cozy Sci-Fi Puzzle Targeted at Artificial Intelligence | games

๐Ÿš€ Check out this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Games,PC,AI (artificial intelligence),Culture,Puzzle games ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: IIn the distant future, on a planet other than Earth, artificial intelligence is in charge. This entity is not a Skynet-style killer robot but a machine that cares for humanity. Clearly manifested as cute robots, this technology is prevalent in everything from elegant architectural design to gorgeous, often sunny, artificial weather. The so-called improvement system has only one responsibility: to ensure the greatest amount of happiness for the greatest number of people.In less skilled hands, this game might…
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Danau5tin/ai-trains-ai: RL-training an AI agent to RL-train AI agents. ยท GitHub

Danau5tin/ai-trains-ai: RL-training an AI agent to RL-train AI agents. ยท GitHub

๐Ÿš€ Check out this trending post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: ๐Ÿ”“ Everything is open sourced including: the trained agent's weights (LoRA adapter on ๐Ÿค— HF), agent harness, task families, reward code, GPU orchestration, tinker RL training scripts, and retro write-ups of every pilot (including the failures). Jump to Getting started โ†“ TL;DR: I built a pipeline where an AI agent: Is handed a training task ("teach a model to do X") Writes a complete prime-rl training job, including: environment, reward, dataset, hyperparameters. Submits it to real Runpod GPUs for training. Leveraging Tinker, I then…
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Jonathan Larson Project Review โ€“ Composer’s Lost Songs Find a Wonderful New Home | stage

Jonathan Larson Project Review โ€“ Composer’s Lost Songs Find a Wonderful New Home | stage

๐Ÿ”ฅ Read this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Theatre,Musicals,Southwark Playhouse,Stage,Culture,Comedy,Comedy,Cabaret ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: HOh, do you measure a year? Love is one answer, according to Jonathan Larson, but what about songs? The tribute, which premiered off-Broadway last year, reveals the diligence of the composer and lyricist, who died at age 35 in 1996. But it also highlights the extent of his wealth of lesser-known material, written for obscure cabaret, cut from his musicals or unused, spare parts stored in the archives of the Library of Congress. A selection of 18 songs make up a…
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Germany set to restrict its Freedom of Information Act

Germany set to restrict its Freedom of Information Act

๐Ÿš€ Read this awesome post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Shortly before the German parliament's summer recess, lawmakersย approved a whole series of reforms. "These reforms are meant to get Germany back on track," said Chancellor Friedrich Merz optimistically. Toward the bottom of the 34-point list of reforms is something that has begun to cause great controversy: the ruling coalition of conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU)/ Christian Social Union (CSU) and the center-left Social Democratic Party (SPD) wants to significantly alter the Freedom of Information Act (IFG), which has been in effect since 2006. Critics say,…
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