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Was Carl Sagan correct to say that meteor entry is "completely silent"?

If a meteor falls but Carl Sagan isn't around to hear it, did it even make a sound?

philosophy.stackexchange.com

How do I prevent myself from being a crank in areas I know very little about?

"The plural of anecdote is not data."

opensource.stackexchange.com

Rights when using developer tooling written by AI

Luckily, the code you write is still yours.

hsm.stackexchange.com

Who is Prof. Y in Einstein–Born correspondence?

"If you publish this manuscript anywhere, in any way, then it's over between us forever." may be the coldest Einstein quote of all time.

You don’t understand DNS like you think you do

Ryan welcomes Cricket Liu, DNS expert and Chief Evangelist at Infoblox, to the show to talk all things DNS. They cover the evolution of one of the oldest DNS server implementations, BIND, and what the future holds for protected DNS configurations; the realities of security threats like DDoS and DNS spoofing; and why outages often trace back to a lack of understanding of DNS’s fundamental role.

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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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shadycharacters.co.uk

An interview with Ollie Wagner, Apple emoji designer

And to Ollie and his work, we say *prayer hand emoji* *thumbs up emoji* *salute emoji* *prayer hand emoji*.

offthebricks.com

Smashed toilet phone web server

A toilet phone web server is its own kind of "ensh*ttification"

xeiaso.net

I hate compilers

At least some of us still care about reproducibility.

orchidfiles.com

I discovered a large-scale malware distribution campaign on GitHub

Like Gandalf the Grey, this dev stood at bridge of GitHub and yelled, "You shall not pass!"

the-decoder.com

Landmark German ruling declares Google's AI Overviews are Google's own words and makes it liable for false answers

Fact checking the search engine we used to use for fact checks.

shkspr.mobi

The unreasonable effectiveness of simple HTML

But I believe plain HTML can save us all.

inverse.com

Here's a dirty trick for speedrunning 'SpongeBob'

The gamer gunk theory is the Krusty Krab secret formula of speedrunning.

jivx.com

150 years of Japan drawn in stations.

If you were wondering what people did before Waymos.

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

It's like smoke breaks but for being spied on.

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.

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Issue 334: Will history repeat itself?

Even with all this fancy new technology, the things people want aren’t so different. So to understand the future, we need to understand the past…especially if we don’t want history to repeat itself (.com bubble, anyone?). In this Overflow, we’re taking the lessons you already know and applying them to new tech you’re learning, because things haven’t changed as much as it may appear. We’ve got a conversation with Trisha Gee, Java champion and developer advocate, on the relevance of traditional tools and how to adapt your current workflow to AI. Databricks' Bryan Clark joined us to discuss the latest database innovations from Lakebase, and why the age-old problem of keeping your infrastructure clean is still around. Our very own Ben Matthews chatted with Intuit’s Eric Anderson about the effect AI code generation has on software teams, proving that developer culture is as important as it’s ever been. There are plenty of things we can learn from the past. For instance, developers can take a chapter from the long history of journalism when using AI workflows. Around the web, others are looking back while looking forward—we’ve got stories this week on the power of simple HTML, historical Japanese railways, and a video game from 2003. And sometimes, history repeats itself in a good way. Take, for instance, Stack Overflow for Agents which is—you guessed it—a place for AI agents to validate and share knowledge. Still, only humans could come up with questions like What do you call nine identical twins? and How old is too old to be an academic? Maybe you’ll feel like history is repeating itself when we say this, but we’ll say it anyway: we have all of that and more ready for you below.

Issue 333: The AI jackpot

We’re all taking a gamble with AI. Whether you’re someone strategizing AI adoption across your org or using a coding agent to vibe your way through a code base, you’re betting on AI being the tool of the future. Some may say we need to hedge our bets—especially when it comes to security—but the industry at large is still rolling the dice with the hope of big wins with AI. This week, we’ve got the spread on the wins and losses so far for AI. On our podcast, Tanya Janca joins us again to talk making secure bets with AI code and why the OWASP Top 10 release included vibe coding as an awareness item. Principal Venture Partners’ Songyee Yoon sat down with us at HumanX to chat being a player in the international AI game, and what VCs are looking for when going all-in on a global AI company. From the web, people in communities around The States aren’t feeling so lucky when it comes to transparency from data centers, while Stanford lawyers took a gamble on AI in their classes. We’ll let you be the judge on whether they cashed out big when they found out AI outperformed their instructors. And we won’t leave your knowledge up to chance. Lady luck must be in your favor because we’ve got Q&As from our site on everything from hot propellers to Nietzsche. You bet that’s all ready for you down below (with so much more).

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.