🔥 Check out this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 Category: 📌 Here’s what you’ll learn: John Carmack's 3/18 .plan John Carmack's .plan March 18, 1997 I have gotten a significant amount of response on the Quake 2 extension mechanism. I do read everything that comes my way (I can't respond to all of it, though), and I have learned a few things from the mail. Nothing is set in stone yet, but it is still looking like a dll is going to be the primary interface. I have been seriously considering a java interface, but the tradeoffs (time…
💥 Read this awesome post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 Category: historic sites,San Antonio,texas,the alamo,u.s. history ✅ Main takeaway: The CEO of the nonprofit that runs the Alamo Shrine has resigned after a powerful Republican state official publicly criticized her, suggesting her views don't align with the history of the Texas shrine. Kate Rogers said in a statement Friday that she resigned the day before, after Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick wrote a letter to the Alamo Trust board suggesting she either resign or be fired. Patrick criticized her for an academic paper questioning the GOP-controlled Legislature's education policies,…
🔥 Check out this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Books,Booker prize,Children's Booker prize,Awards and prizes,Culture 💡 Here’s what you’ll learn: The Booker Prize Foundation has launched a new major literary award, the Booker Prize for Children, which offers £50,000 for the best novel written for readers aged 8-12.The new award will launch in 2026, with the first winner announced in early 2027. The award will be decided by a mixed panel of adult and child judges, and is a first for a Booker Prize. The inaugural jury chair will be Frank Cottrell Boyce, children's book…
💥 Explore this awesome post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 Category: Biotech & Health,Aron D'Souza,Enhanced Games,Equity podcast,human enhanncement,longevity,Peter Thiel ✅ Main takeaway: The Enhanced Games, a new sports competition explicitly designed to allow the use of performance-enhancing drugs, looks like a publicity stunt for the macho tech age: doped Olympic athletes compete for multi-million dollar rewards in Las Vegas. But co-founder Aaron D'Souza has a 90% gross margin in telehealth, targeting governments with aging populations. The games will launch in May 2026 with support from Peter Thiel, and promise $1 million in prizes for anyone who breaks world records. Former Olympians…
✨ Explore this trending post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 Category: ✅ Main takeaway: Harry Maguire and Mason Mount are doubts for Manchester United due to minor injuries. "Bruises, but nothing serious," said Robin Amorim, the team's coach, who will evaluate both players on Saturday.United's only confirmed absentee this weekend is Lisandro Martinez, who is recovering from an anterior cruciate ligament injury suffered in February.Brighton trio Brajan Gruda, Kaoru Mitoma and Joel Veltman missed last weekend's win over Newcastle, but coach Fabian Horzler hopes at least "one or two of them might be available" on Saturday. Diego Gomez overcame the…
✨ Check out this must-read post from Investopedia | Expert Financial Advice and Markets News 📖 📂 Category: Economic News,News ✅ Here’s what you’ll learn: Key takeaways The Federal Reserve's policy committee is widely expected to cut its benchmark interest rate by a quarter of a percentage point at the conclusion of its two-day meeting on Wednesday.Fed officials are lowering interest rates to reduce borrowing costs on loans and support the labor market.The Fed had been keeping interest rates higher for longer to fight inflation, but those concerns have subsided as recent data showed inflation is stubborn but not out…
🚀 Read this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 Category: 📌 Here’s what you’ll learn: The so-called desktop first appeared on a home computer in 1981, with the release of the Xerox 8010 Star Information System. That device pioneered the graphical-user interface, or G.U.I., a convenient series of visual metaphors that allows us to interact more easily with our machines. The most basic computing interface is the command-line prompt, the empty box in which users write instructions in code directly to the machine; the Xerox Star replaced that forbidding vacuum with a friendly illustration of a tabletop surface, textured…
🚀 Check out this must-read post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 Category: 📌 Here’s what you’ll learn: They say never fall in love with a loan player. But there is not enough cold water in the Arctic Ocean to douse the flames of affection Coventry fans feel for Carl Rushworth.In 11 appearances for the Sky Blues, the 24-year-old Brighton goalkeeper has kept six clean sheets, including five in a row.This sealed his place in the club's history, as he recorded a record of 613 minutes without conceding a goal. But for Portsmouth's 90th-minute consolation on Tuesday, that run will remain…
🔥 Discover this insightful post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 Category: Donald Trump news,Fact Checks,karoline leavitt,politifact,White House,white house ballroom ✅ Here’s what you’ll learn: This article originally appeared on PolitiFact. As photos of the destroyed East Wing of the White House made national news, top Democrats shared a video of White House press secretary Carolyn Leavitt appearing to say building the new ballroom is President Donald Trump's top priority. Read more: The East Wing of the White House was demolished. Here's a look at its history “At this moment in time, of course, the ballroom is the president’s…
✨ Explore this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Dev Hynes,Music,Culture,Pop and rock,Indie,R&B,Experimental music 💡 Key idea: DYvonte Haynes tells me how he returned to live in his childhood home in Ilford, east London, when he was 37, after his mother fell ill. “It was a surreal experience,” he says of his sudden move from Brooklyn, where he makes music like Blood Orange, to sleeping in the bedroom where he once put up posters of David Beckham and the Smashing Pumpkins. "Physically, you're bigger: your shape has changed. But the space is the same. The memories…