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aviation.stackexchange.com

What does "treat the propeller as if it's always hot" mean in practice?

Maybe the better way to say it is, “Treat the propeller as if it’s a giant blade that could slice you in half.”

scifi.stackexchange.com

Earliest work of sci-fi to have a prequel

Personally, we would love a prequel to Gilgamesh.

philosophy.stackexchange.com

Was Nietzsche the first psychologist?

We’re on record saying there are no dumb questions.

hsm.stackexchange.com

Where did Dirac say he can only study/work 4 hours a day?

It’s still more than Tim Ferriss works.

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What’s new at Stack Overflow: March 2026

All that's new on Stack Overflow last month, including the redesigned Stack Overflow now available in beta and open-ended questions now available to all users, plus a shoutout to the community members earning the Populist badge.

What’s new at Stack Overflow: February 2026

This month, we’ve launched several improvements to AI Assist, opened Chat to all users on Stack Overflow, launched custom badges across the network, and launched one of the first community-authored coding challenges.

What’s new at Stack Overflow: January 2026

For this first edition of the new year, we’re taking a step back to highlight some of the most impactful features shipped over the last year and how they can help you start 2026 strong.

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thebrockovichreport.com

If data centers are so great, why are they being built in secret?

Figuring out what’s happening in your community shouldn’t be an Agatha Christie novel.

bbc.com

Meta workers can opt out of being tracked at work—but only for half an hour at a time

Meta tracking people’s data? Oh yeah, fork found in kitchen.

copetti.org

PlayStation architecture

The only way you can get a PS5 is if you build your own.

law.stanford.edu

AI outperforms law professors in Stanford law study

ChatGPT: L.L.M, Ph.D, M.D, and now J.D.

tomshardware.com

Mystery company accidentally blew $500 million on Claude AI in a single month — failed to put usage limit on licenses for employees

Why couldn’t they “accidentally” give me $500 million?

stevemagness.substack.com

The cost of safetyism

Kids need to go and touch grass.

nolanlawson.com

Using AI to write better code more slowly

AI, better code, and slowly aren’t mutually exclusive.

arxiv.org

Do language models need sleep? Offline recurrence for improved online inference

If I’m taking a nap and my AI agent is taking a nap, who’s raising shareholder value?

apa.org

Taking a walk may lead to more creativity than sitting

As the kids say…go touch some grass.

virtualosmuseum.org

The Virtual OS Museum

It’s Manchester, Baby!

blog.habets.se

Everything in C is undefined behavior

As Mufasa once said to his junior dev son, Simba, “Everything the C light touches is undefined behavior.”

bbc.com

Japan is gripped by mass allergies. A 1950s project is to blame

Might be a good time for the Japanese language to have a direct translation for, “Bless you.”

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Issue 332: The boring reality of AI

When novelty of AI fades, what we’re left with is the boring realities of enterprise workflows: back-office automation and payroll support. This Overflow is dedicated to those little, boring realities of this modern era of AI—the things that may not make us all 10x developers, but do make our work just a little bit easier. First up, we have a two-for-one pod episode for you with Dataiku’s Florian Douetteau on serious agentic systems and 1Password’s Nancy Wang for a conversation on making agent swarms secure. Peter Salanki, CTO and co-founder of CoreWeave, sat down with us to discuss production-ready AI and avoiding the trap of over-architecting. On the blog, we’ve got our latest Stack Overflow Knows survey on agentic AI in the workplace, a piece on the artisan vs. builder dichotomy, and the first ever best-of round-up from The Heap, our engineering blog for everyone by our community. The realities from the world wide web are just a little more interesting—we’ve got articles on everything from extreme tokenmaxxing and sleepy LLMs to the positives of letting your kids run around alone outside. Plus, there’s nothing boring about the questions and answers coming from our community. They’re sharing their knowledge about Speedos in China, ignored resignation letters, and the will of the dead. If you’re looking to escape your boring AI reality, head on down below because we have all of that and more ready for you in this week’s newsletter.

Issue 331: Tomorrow's technology today

What exactly does it mean to be on the “cutting edge” of technology nowadays? With tech evolving at breakneck speed, it’s hard to keep a handle on what direction the industry is moving. So, this issue, we're talking to people on the cutting edge to understand exactly where that edge is. On the pod, we’ve got conversations on everything from storage on GPUs to security threats to enterprise chatbots with MinIO, CrowdStrike, and Slack. Plus, we’ve got blogs for you on everything coding agents: how they’re causing decision fatigue, how they’re changing the SDLC, and how leaders can get them to work at scale. And we’ve got a wonderful roundup of links and knowledge for you this week. From the web, we’ve got the scoop on mass allergies, a look into the operating systems of ye olden days, and the one simple trick to get your creativity going that Big Chair doesn’t want you to know. Plus, we’re satiating all your curiosity with answers straight from the mouths of our own community. Should you put “whistleblower” on your resume? Is it contradictory that western philosophy doesn’t believe in contradictions? What amount of ghosting is acceptable in academia? Trust us—if you want to be on the cutting edge, you should head down below because we’ve got all that knowledge and more ready for you.

Issue 330: We've got a Heap of news for you

Call us old-fashioned (and we know you do), but we think that software developers and engineers are better than AI at coding. That’s why we’re honoring the minds and work of the people with The Heap, our new software engineering blog written for the community, by the community. And we’re standing on business this week by dedicating this entire newsletter to engineering and software excellence. Besides The Heap, we’ve got conversations with some of the best and brightest minds in today’s technological landscape. Braze’s Jon Hyman joined us on Leaders of Code for a chat about engineering leadership in the age of AI, and how the last 15 years at Braze helped him transform his team to AI-first in just a few months. We’ve got conversations with Neo4j’s Philip Rathle on knowledge context for AI agents, Honeycomb’s Christine Yen on observability in the new world of AI-assisted SDLC, and Resolve AI’s Spiros Xanthos on the importance of retaining human intuition in codebases even when AI writes most of the code. Plus, our very own Josh Zhang is here to answer all our questions on cloud computing (even the dumb ones). And isn’t answering your heaps of questions what Stack does best? Outside of The Heap, our community is sharing knowledge on everything from AI and artistry to the heat of the sun, food supplies on sunken ships, and how to survive a plane crash if you wear glasses. Plus, we’ve got a heap of stories from around the web on tokenmaxxing, rendering the sky, and what time it is exactly in Italy. Don’t let your stack overflow—head down below because we have that and so much more ready for you this week.

Issue 329: The heart of our technology

This week on the blog, we’re diving into all the things that make the tech we know and love possible—architecture, hardware, and databases. We sat down with AMD’s CTO Mark Papermaster for a conversation on silicon and chips, and how AI is helping solve the chip shortage it caused. We’re also pulling back the curtain on our own architecture and how we’re replacing Ingress-NGINX at Stack. Plus, we’re joined by Qdrant’s Brian O’Grady to decipher what exactly we mean when we talk semantic vs. vector search. Beyond the blog, we’ve got a hearty round-up of everything you’re curious about, from phishing attempts to robodogs to piston engines. And there are no dumb questions here—kind of like our new Friday column on MCP servers. Are we all pronouncing “the” incorrectly? Is human imprecision the heart of software development? Is it so wrong to fall in love with a bot? Is Cloudflare trying to hack you? We’ve got all those answers and so much more to satiate your curiousity down below.