A designer named Marcin Wichary has revealed the story of how he freaked out a decent slab of the world’s Firefox-using population with Pac-Man.Wichary has held senior design roles at Figma, Medium, and Google. As he wrote here,...
Welcome to Monday morning, an occasion The Register marks with a new instalment of “Who, Me?” It’s our reader-contributed column in which you confess to workplace mistakes and share your escapes from subsequent...
After seeing Karpathy’s Hackertube and Hackerbooks, I just had to make Wikihack.I scraped all mentions of wikipedia on hackernews and ranked them, and turn them into a scrollable feed to make it a bit more easy to digest /...
Here’s the bad news: The deeper your understanding of an issue and the stronger your conviction about the solution, the worse you often become at persuasion. It’s due to a cognitive trap that the fields of behavioral economics...
The secret to smart home technology isn’t making your house feel like a sci-fi movie—it’s focusing...
When Stranger Things came out all those years ago, one image left an indelible mark on pop culture. A set of Christmas lights, lined up with letters of the alphabet, such that the kid who was barely in Season 1 could blink out...
This article is republished with permission from Wonder Tools, a newsletter that helps you discover the most useful sites and apps. I’ve never had a secretary before. Or a chief of staff. With these AI agents, I suddenly feel...
Google has revealed some of its Asian customers – almost certainly Chinese e-tailers – are buying fewer ads.Speaking on Alphabet’s Q3 earnings call last week, chief business officer Philipp Schindler addressed the slowdown in ad...
As debate and legal argument continue over the extent to which developers of large language models are entitled to feed the world’s data into their systems without paying for it, India’s government has come up with an idea to...
Five stories worth your time from our extended colleagues at CIO, Computerworld, Macworld, and PCWorld.
We’re less than a week away from the 2026 Hackaday Supercon, and things are getting a little… intense. So we trust you’ll forgive us if this week’s post weighs in a bit less than usual and reaches you a little later in the day....
Google has revealed some of its Asian customers – almost certainly Chinese e-tailers – are buying fewer ads.Speaking on Alphabet’s Q3 earnings call last week, chief business officer Philipp Schindler addressed the slowdown in ad...
