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From underlying principles to reliable shipping workflows: an evolving set of practical web notes.
Ground-penetrating radar has found a rubble-filled corridor behind Tutankhamun’s tomb, which researchers say supports the existence of a hidden chamber. Excavation still needs approval from Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities and could begin as early as November.
Read article ↗Domains, caching, headers, indexing, and rollback: a launch checklist for a static site built to last.
Read article ↗Japan’s over-65 population reached 36.24 million, or 29.6% of the total — a record share — while 9.43 million people aged 65 and over remain in work, the 22nd consecutive annual rise.
Read article ↗A model page for Claude Opus 5.5 from Artificial Analysis pulled 274 points on Hacker News. The ranking matters less than a simpler question: which of the three columns can your team afford to give up?
Read article ↗Give Markdown, structured metadata, and shared templates separate jobs so a new article never requires copying a page.
Read article ↗Ireland's Data Protection Commission has fined Google €403 million after a six-year inquiry into how three location-related features handled user data under the GDPR.
Read article ↗A WordPress core advisory describes an unauthenticated path traversal that can lead to remote code execution under certain conditions. The link drew 184 points and 93 comments on Hacker News.
Read article ↗A Saturn study put more than 10,000 financial questions to 18 AI models and found errors in 57% of answers on average, with even the best model wrong 39% of the time.
Read article ↗A cookie called __obi, set by OpenAI's ad collector at bzr.openai.com, is bound to a ChatGPT account and sent back to OpenAI from advertiser sites that embed OpenAI's tracking code.
Read article ↗A customer wanted to keep a Visual FoxPro app in production, so foxscript puts the same language on a Rust/Wasm runtime, keeps old .fll add-ins loading, and lifts the 2 GB table ceiling. Reports aren't done and builds are unsigned.
Read article ↗Understand WASM's strengths, boundaries, and crossing costs before making a simple browser tool heavier.
Read article ↗A study in Sociology of Religion finds that higher internet penetration is associated with lower religiosity across 81 countries from 1990 to 2022, independent of economic and educational development.
Read article ↗At Apsara, Alibaba's Eddie Wu laid out Qwen's parameter roadmap — 5 to 10 trillion for the Qwen 4.5 and Qwen 5 lines — alongside a 2027 production target for the Zhenwu V900 inference chip.
Read article ↗Zhipu will add a no-retention option to its MaaS platform, promising no static storage of model inputs or outputs, with exceptions for batch and file APIs and for compliance reviews that can keep data for 30 days or more.
Read article ↗Use limits for fonts, scripts, images, and interaction metrics to keep each new feature honest.
Read article ↗A 2026 YouGov poll found more than half of over-55s use social media weekly. Three users describe the same trade-off: staying in touch gets cheaper, attention gets shorter.
Read article ↗Microsoft's Xbox division is cutting 268 roles and redrawing its studio map: Activision takes over the next Halo, Obsidian moves under Bethesda, Playground and Turn 10 merge, and Ninja Theory is expected to close.
Read article ↗Obscura's Hacker News submission claims the VPN can't log your activity. That's a different statement from the usual no-logs promise: one is policy, the other is architecture. What such claims require, what audits can and can't show, and what to ask instead.
Read article ↗What Canvas, Web Workers, and IndexedDB can do—and how to make local processing a verifiable privacy claim.
Read article ↗A public benchmark for models that return bounded choices and probabilities rather than text: 534 English decisions weighted into one score across chance-corrected accuracy, calibration, speed and cost, with scoring code and per-task results released.
Read article ↗A TechRadar report says Apple has added persistent ads to iOS. The 700-point Hacker News thread shows the real argument is over what counts as an ad inside a system interface.
Read article ↗A sysadmin on r/sysadmin says canceling a Grammarly subscription sends a message to every user in the organization. The report is unverified, but the pattern it describes is a real one for anyone managing seat-based SaaS.
Read article ↗A Hacker News thread asks whether the fast-follow play — let a pioneer prove the market, then enter with distribution — still works for large-model products.
Read article ↗How Cloudflare Pages turns one static build into a globally delivered site—and where that model stops being the right fit.
Read article ↗Californians vote on Nov. 3 on a one-time 5% tax on billionaires. Hoover Institution research says nearly 30% of those affected have already left the state, while Nvidia's Jensen Huang says he will pay.
Read article ↗Open-model strength isn't a leaderboard question. Licenses, inference economics and downstream tooling decide more than a few benchmark points.
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