Joe Liemandt of Alpha School on why AI is today's 1910 tractor moment, and why parents once again have to rethink their kids' future: "In 1...

The History of American-Made Laptops // @tbpn shout out to the Osborne 1 in today's post on the announced "made in America" laptop from Andu...

In 1931, a 26-year-old at Procter & Gamble wrote a 3-page memo that created the product manager role. Almost nobody knows his name. But ev...

Dario Amodei was so worried about Y2K that his high school teacher still remembers it decades later. He’s been a doomer for much longer tha...

Given how out-of-nowhere it seems to many, it is astonishing that there was a small group of people who predicted with remarkable accuracy e...

i often really miss this era of ai.

Shazam could name any song back in 2002, on flip phones, with zero AI. You dialed the number 2580, held your phone up to the speaker, and hu...

I bet this read like a banger in Brussels at the time. https://twitter.com/EU_Commission/status/2052461738247754238

Claiming Dario overreacted about Y2K and that it was all going to be fine by default ignores the huge amount of time and money that went int...

Check your phone in a pitch-black bedroom and you go half blind for a while after you put it down. Tesla's new Roadster screen is red on bla...

This story about Yahoo’s black market for servers from the 2000s is amusing. The intention sounded… very reasonable? https://twitter.com/pra...

btw alchemists have tried to turn metal into gold for 2,000 years (Isaac Newton literally spent decades and wrote a million words about it)...

OpenAI introduced GPT-6 with 47-year-old footage of a guy at MIT with a sensor from a military helicopter helmet strapped to his wrist, just...

in honor of muse japan 🇯🇵 launch, muse is doing a speedrun of japan's most important cultural icons

Border agents can tell somebody's hiding inside a car without opening a single door. Every time your heart beats, it rocks the whole vehicle...

1980s: Lean manufacturing 2020s: Lean mathematics

Very sorry to hear this news. 😥 I never had the chance to meet Margaret Hamilton, but her contributions to the flight software that got us...

happy 25th birthday, iPod 💛 a little reintroduction to the iPod in ryOS. a love letter to the little music player i carried everywhere, re...

21 years ago, the founders of youtube were worried because only 40 videos had been uploaded: https://x.com/denk_tweets/status/20917280075852...

I found it really interesting to discuss how differently the history of semiconductor technology could have turned out if a butterfly had fl...