Phil Mickelson and Pat Perez have known each other since they were kids. The San Diego natives were never close friends but shared a mutual respect and long history. So it did not seem unusual that Mickelson made an effort to get to know Perez's wife, Ashley, after they married in 2014, when she was…

2014 was a wild and exciting year at Timehop. Our backend team doubled in size but our user base grew by 17x! Here’s a peek into what powers Timehop. Describe Timehop in 2–3 sentences. Timehop is your personal digital time capsule. We pull in your data from Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, iPhoto and…

Everything I publish, listen to, watch, and read flows into databases I control. The infrastructure is rented, but the data is portable. I didn't build this for the engineering challenge. I built it because I watched platforms I depended on change their terms, degrade their products, and treat my…

In city parks, at Phish shows and outside Madison Square Garden, a nomadic salesman builds his brand, one pistachio-laden wedge at a time. Listen · 6:59 min In an already chaotic scene outside Madison Square Garden after the Knicks won the playoffs, a Good Baklava giveaway caused a…

January 12, 2026 Zach BruggemanJason QuenseRahul Sengottuvelu We built our own background coding agent: Inspect. Inspect writes the code like any other coding agent, but closes the loop on verifying its work by having all the context and tools needed to prove it, as a Ramp engineer would. For…

SwiftMarkdownEngine swift.markdown.video.mp4 A native AppKit Markdown editor for macOS, built on TextKit 2 and bridged to SwiftUI. Live styling, wiki-link support, fenced code blocks with syntax highlighting, LaTeX rendering, embedded images, and GitHub-style task checkboxes. Motivation When we…

Top highlight Mike Carson 5 min read·4 days ago Friendster was the first social network. It has a long history, but the website friendster.com went dead in 2015 and the company officially shut down three years later in 2018. That’s where this story begins. The domain name friendster.com was…

Only a few close friends and family know this, but in 2023, I was quite certain I was done with the venture and technology business. Despite our financial success, my first firm Notation did not survive. That doesn’t mean we abandoned it. My former partner and I still manage the funds there together…

It’s a profoundly different feeling today than the last time Apple’s CEO announced his transition to chairman of the board, and his chosen successor was promoted to replace him as CEO. In August 2011, Steve Jobs was sick. For years he’d managed to stay a step, sometimes two, ahead of the pancreatic…

The cost of building software has drastically decreased. We recently rebuilt Next.js in one week using AI coding agents. But for the past two months our agents have been working on an even more ambitious project: rebuilding the WordPress open source project from the ground up. WordPress powers over…

Published March 5, 2026 The next $1T company will be a software company masquerading as a services firm. Every founder building an AI tool is asking the same question: what happens when the next version of Claude makes my product a feature? They’re right to worry. If you sell the tool, you’re in a…

Crime Scene An aisle in the Smith Union Market in Brooklyn. Vincent Taliercio, a neighborhood fixture and owner of the market, was in the news recently when he was part of a sweeping gambling and loansharking indictment brought against members of the Genovese crime family.Credit...Todd Heisler/The…

As a global macro investor for over 50 years, I’ve had to study the cause-and-effect relationships that drive history in order to place my bets. What I found is that all monetary orders, political orders, and geopolitical orders rise, evolve, and collapse in a repeating pattern I call “the Big…

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Created for testing PDFObject This PDF is three pages long. Three long pages. Or three short pages if you’re optimistic. Is it the same as saying “three long minutes”, knowing that all minutes are the same duration, and one cannot possibly be longer than the other? If these pages are all the same…

Credit...Photo illustration by Tyler Comrie and Hannah Whitaker for The New York Times A Times investigation found that America’s leading bank spent years supporting — and profiting from — the notorious sex offender, ignoring red flags, suspicious activity and concerned executives. Credit...Photo…

Hayden Field is The Verge’s senior AI reporter. An AI beat reporter for more than five years, her work has also appeared in CNBC, MIT Technology Review, Wired UK, and other outlets. Anthropic will start training its AI models on user data, including new chat transcripts and coding sessions, unless…

Photo by Jorik Kleen on Unsplash As you progress in your career, understanding the difference between being useful and being valued is very important. At first glance, they might look similar because the signals you get are more or less the same: a promotion, a higher than expected bonus, a special…

Goodbye to the age of consumer websites and mobile apps. Artificial intelligence has ushered in an era of what insiders in the nation’s innovation capital call “hard tech.” Credit...Illustration by Petra Péterffy Goodbye to the age of consumer websites and mobile apps. Artificial intelligence has…

Authored by: Edward Beeching, Quentin Gallouédec, and Lewis Tunstall Large reasoning models like OpenAI o3 generate a chain-of-thought to improve the accuracy and quality of their responses. However, most of these models reason in English, even when a question is asked in another language. In this…

Apple Developer Event Will Show It’s Still Far From Being an AI Leader Tim Cook, chief executive officer of Apple. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg Confidential tip?Send a tip to our reporters By This article is for subscribers only. Apple, a year after debuting its AI platform, will do…

Disability & Society ISSN: (Print) (Online) Journal homepage: www.tandfonline.com/journals/cdso20 Robert Osman & Veronika Kotýnková Krotká To cite this article: Robert Osman & Veronika Kotýnková Krotká (06 Feb 2025): ‘You find out what’s important’: the crip spacetime of wheelchair users, Disability…

July 2020 ( 5 2 0 ) 2 9 9 - 7 4 8 5 w w w . p i l a t u s o w n e r s . o r g Every owner approaches operating their aircraft differently. Some pilots will make special stops to purchase less expensive fuel. Others choose to go to the most convenient airport and pay a little more per gallon. Some…

Image by Annie Ruygt A heartfelt provocation about AI-assisted programming. Tech execs are mandating LLM adoption. That’s bad strategy. But I get where they’re coming from. Some of the smartest people I know share a bone-deep belief that AI is a fad — the next iteration of NFT mania. I’ve been…

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American consumers are not yet seeing much evidence of the drastic changes President Trump has made on trade. But they are on their way. The number of massive container ships carrying products departing China for the United States has plummeted by about a third this month.Credit...Video by Maggie…

Posted 29 April 2025 I store a lot of data in SQLite databases on remote servers, and I often want to copy them to my local machine for analysis or backup. When I’m starting a new project and the database is near-empty, this is a simple rsync operation: As the project matures and the database grows,…

Today, we’re launching a few updates to Instapaper including a public beta for PDFs, text-to-speech fixes on iOS, and support for Logged-In Sites on Android. PDF Beta If you’re interested in joining the PDF Beta, please send an email to support AT instapaper DOT com from your Instapaper login email…

Kevin Systrom said during testimony in a landmark antitrust trial that he believed Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s chief executive, viewed Instagram as a threat. Listen · 6:29 min Kevin Systrom, one the co-founders of Instagram, in 2023.Credit...Jason Henry for The New York Times Published April 22,…

The world found out shortly before 2 p.m. eastern time on March 15 that the United States was bombing Houthi targets across Yemen. I, however, knew two hours before the first bombs exploded that the attack might be coming. The reason I knew this is that Pete Hegseth, the secretary of defense, had…

In March 2009, after a long night on duty at the hospital, Emmeline Lagrange took a deep breath and prepared to place a devastating phone call. Lagrange, a neurologist, had diagnosed a 42-year-old woman with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS. The woman lived in a small village in the French…

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Updated at 4:00 p.m. ET on March 24, 2025. James Murdoch was seated at a conference table in a Manhattan law office in March 2024 when he realized he was witnessing the final dissolution of his family. Three months earlier, his father, Rupert, had told James and his sisters that he was rewriting the…

ℹ️ Protocol Revision: 2025-03-26 Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open protocol that enables seamless integration between LLM applications and external data sources and tools. Whether you’re building an AI-powered IDE, enhancing a chat interface, or creating custom AI workflows, MCP provides a…

So, about that Signal chat. On Monday, shortly after we published a story about a massive Trump-administration security breach, a reporter asked the secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth, why he had shared plans about a forthcoming attack on Yemen on the Signal messaging app. He answered, “Nobody was…

Memos from Howard Marks Listen to Memo Archived Memos Subscribe On Bubble Watch Exactly 25 years ago today, I published the first memo that brought a response from readers (after having written for almost ten years without receiving any). The memo was called bubble.com, and the subject was the…