π₯ Check out this must-read post from BBC Sport π π **Category**: π‘ **What Youβll Learn**: Repeatedly heading the ball "most likely" contributed to the brain disease that was a factor in the death of former Scottish and Manchester United footballer Gordon McQueen, an inquest has found.McQueen, who was diagnosed with vascular dementia, died in 2023 at the age of 70.The inquest into his death, held in Northallerton, North Yorkshire, concluded with a narrative verdict on Monday, with Chief Coroner John Heath telling the court: βI found that Mr McQueen had suffered repeated impacts to the head during his career.βI…
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**What Youβll Learn**: After building some things recently using LLMs and agent workflows, I was noticing more βShow HNβ posts. Assuming there had been a rise in folks building things, but wanting to rule out confirmation bias, I looked at the numbers. Looking at https://hn.algolia.com/api, we can see that for Jan (yet to complete), weβre already +125% more Show HN posts compared to Jan 2025. Show HN posts have gone from 3.5% β 15% of total submissions. βββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββ¬βββββββββββ¬βββββββββββββββββββββ¬βββββββββ β β Jan 2025 β Jan 2026 (26 days) β…
π₯ Check out this insightful post from BBC Sport π π **Category**: π **What Youβll Learn**: Team GB will send a 53-member squad to the Winter Olympics after biathletes Jack Jefferies and Shauna Pendry became the final two members of the group selected to travel to Milan-Cortina.The team selected for the Games is larger than the 50-person squad sent to Beijing in 2022.Jeffries and Pendry will make their Olympic debut in Italy, with Team GB returning to biathlon after not fielding athletes in the discipline four years ago.British Head of Delegation Eve Muirhead said: βI am delighted to welcome Jack…
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**What Youβll Learn**: IIn the show's memo for "Tell Me," its creator Sadiq Ali says that 2025 was the year he would have been expected to die from AIDS-related complications, if not for advances in medicine. Instead, here he was, muscular and strong, wrapped around a Chinese pole, suspending himself in the air, his belly glistening.Ali is also thriving as an artist. His latest show, The Chosen Haram, received five-star reviews, and he has just officially launched his own circus/theatre company. This new…
π₯ Explore this must-read post from WIRED π π **Category**: Business,Business / Artificial Intelligence,Picking Battles π‘ **What Youβll Learn**: Last month, Pamela Griffin and two other residents of Taylor, Texas, took to the stage at a city council meeting to object to the data center project. But later, they sat as council members discussed a proposed technology factory. Griffin has not spoken out against the development. No one did.A similar contradiction is repeated in communities across the United States. Data centers are facing unprecedented public resistance, with environmental costs a major concern. More of them were needed to fuel the…
β¨ Check out this awesome post from BBC Sport π π **Category**: π‘ **What Youβll Learn**: Matt Weston says the turnaround in Great Britain's skeleton team four years ago has been "absolutely insane" as he goes into the next Winter Olympics favorite to win gold.Four years ago, at the Beijing Olympics, Britain failed to win any medal in skeleton for the first time since its reintroduction to the Olympic program in 2002.However, two-time world champion Weston and teammate Marcus White have dominated the men's season this winter leading up to the Milan-Cortina Games. In the Women's World Cup, Tabby Stoeker…
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**What Youβll Learn**: Jan 23, 2026 Today we are happy to announce MapLibre Tile (MLT), a new modern and efficient vector tile format. What is MapLibre Tile? MapLibre Tile (MLT) is a succesor to Mapbox Vector Tile (MVT). It has been redesigned from the ground up to address the challenges of rapidly growing geospatial data volumes and complex next-generation geospatial source formats, as well as to leverage the capabilities of modern hardware and APIs. MLT is specifically designed for modern and next-generation graphics APIs to enable high-performance processing…
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**What Youβll Learn**: Earlier on Monday, Lorenzo Musetti produced a strong performance to defeat Taylor Fritz in straight sets and set up a quarter-final meeting with ten-time champion Novak Djokovic.After going through a grueling five-set battle against Tomas Mattak two days ago, Musetti won 6-2, 7-5, 6-4 over the ninth-seeded American.The 23-year-old Italian, ranked fifth in the world, has reached the quarter-finals in all four Grand Slam tournaments and said he will push Djokovic to his βmax.βThe 24-time Grand Slam champion qualified for the quarter-finals after Jakub Mencic…
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**What Youβll Learn**: The story took a further twist in October 1977 when the London Evening News published a sensational headline, βI'm set to kill Scott.β Freshly out of prison, Newton had withdrawn his blackmail defense and was now claiming to have been paid Β£5,000 as part of what the newspaper described as a βsinister plot involving a senior Liberal supporterβ. Another nine months of police investigation led to Thorpe and three associates being charged with conspiring to murder Scott. The press called it "the trial of the…
π₯ Check out this must-read post from WIRED π π **Category**: Gear,Gear / Products,Gear / Gear News and Events,Gear / Products / Computers,Silicon Wars π **What Youβll Learn**: As you can see, these two new Intel chips are now at the top of the pack in terms of multi-core performance. And when it comes to the X9 388H, that's by a good margin. Coming back with a chip that outperforms Apple's latest M5 by 33 percent is no easy feat, but Intel has pulled it off. The same applies to the graphics division, where Intel has taken the lead in…
