✨ Discover this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Seventeen contracts. Two conversion passes each. Every single test: green. We had just finished wiring up an AI-powered testing loop to validate the core of Doodledapp, the engine that converts visual flows into Solidity code and back again. The idea was simple: take real, widely-used smart contracts, feed them through the converter, and have AI write tests to catch every bug. The AI ran, the tests ran, and everything passed on the first try. That should have been the celebration moment. Instead, it was the…
🔥 Read this must-read post from BBC Culture 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Beryl Cook's cheerful, kitschy, bawdy paintings were beloved by the British public but ridiculed by the art establishment. One hundred years after her birth, a new exhibition calls for a radical re-evaluation of her work and legacy.By all accounts, Beryl Cook's career path has been impressive. A self-taught artist, she did not pick up a paintbrush until her late 30s and was 49 when she had her first exhibition. But by the time of her death in 2008, aged 81, Cook had created more than…
🔥 Explore this insightful post from WIRED 📖 📂 **Category**: Gear,Gear / Products,Gear / Products / Computers,Gear / Reviews,Product Review ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: The build quality is exceptional, as expected, with a touch of flex in the lid and keyboard. You can even open the device with just one finger now, something that XPS laptops have always struggled with in the past.Get OLEDPhoto: Luke LarsenThere's a small issue with how Dell configures the displays on the XPS 14. The base configuration comes with a standard 1920 x 1200 LCD, though it costs $1,699. That's a pretty serious downgrade from…
🔥 Read this awesome post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: The inexperienced rink - with only Jane Dodds surviving the 2022 gold-medal-winning team - finished sixth at last year's world championships and was well below its best again against the Americans, missing chances and making mistakes.A steal in the third end suggested November's European silver medalists could get the win they needed, but the United States regained control to take the lead into the break.A double in the sixth inning put GB in front again, but giving up three in the next over gave the…
💥 Read this insightful post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: After Monday's resounding defeat to Sri Lanka took the fate of the World Cup out of his team's hands, Australia captain Mitchell Marsh asked the Irish for their luck.The following day, Ireland were scheduled to face Zimbabwe in Pallekele. Any points for the African team will eliminate Australia from the competition.Clearly no one told Marsh that when it comes to Irish luck in a cricketing context, rain is never far away. The two teams shared the points after wet weather led to the match being…
✨ Explore this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Happy belated new year! Linux 6.19 is now out in the wild and… ah, let’s just cut to the chase. We know what you’re here for.The big oneAsahi Linux turns 5 this year. In those five years, we’ve gone from Hello World over a serial port to being one of the best supported desktop-grade AArch64 platform in the Linux ecosystem. The sustained interest in Asahi was the push many developers needed to start taking AArch64 seriously, with a whole slew of platform-specific bugs in popular…
🔥 Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Thrillers,Action and adventure films,Zhang Yimou,China,Asia Pacific,Culture,World news ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: forIn the 1980s and 1990s, Zhang Yimou (Ju Du, Raise the Red Lantern) rose to fame as one of the most talented directors to emerge from China's "fifth generation," filmmakers whose work broke with the socialist realist style of their predecessors. While the fifth generation was still working within the establishment industry, they were viewed to varying degrees if not completely dissident, or at least somewhat innovative and anti-authoritarian. Either way, having started out as a…
✨ Read this insightful post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,Enterprise,Anthropic,artificial intelligence,evergreen,nvidia,xAI 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Nearly 20 US-based AI startups have raised mega rounds of $100 million or more in 2026 — and it's been less than two months. If the first few weeks of 2026 are any indication, the AI startup market will see another year of massive funding rounds at eye-popping valuations. US AI startups raised more than $76 billion through mega rounds in 2025, according to a TechCrunch tally. Will startups see the same success in 2026? Time will tell. Here are all the AI startups…
💥 Explore this trending post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Badosa considered ending her playing career in 2024 due to a series of injuries, including a chronic back problem.It was ranked second in 2022, but despite returning to the top 10 last year, it is now ranked 70th. She added: "Believe me, I am the first one to suffer from pain, suffer from endless nightmares, and try to find solutions every day." "I'll always try again. If there's even a 1% chance I'll stick around, I'll take it."Badosa, who reached the semi-finals of the Australian…
💥 Explore this must-read post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: South Africa fine-tuned their preparations for the T20 Super 8s World Cup by registering a six-wicket win over United Arab Emirates in their final group match in Delhi. Setting a target of 123 for the already eliminated United Arab Emirates, South Africa were bowled out with 40 balls to spare in a match in which the only thing that came close to threatening a Proteas win was the weather.With qualification for the next stage already assured, South Africa made four changes - resting David Miller,…
