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Was there food and fuel remaining in the wrecks of Erebus and Terror on the Franklin expedition?

Just like in your office, someone was hoarding all the good coffee on the HMS Terror.

writing.stackexchange.com

I feel guilt and anxiety for having used AI in my writing and cannot enjoy it as my own work

Every good writer is a little guilty about something (see: Ernest Hemingway).

travel.stackexchange.com

Flight oxygen mask with eyeglasses

One less thing I have to worry about next time I fly.

physics.stackexchange.com

Why is the Sun made of plasma if its surface temperature is only 6000 K?

“Shut up about the sun!”

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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.

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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.

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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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aesthetikx.info

What is Date::ITALY?

Okay, but can anyone tell me when Mercury is in retrograde during the Julian Method of the Gregorian Calendar?

tanstack.com

Postmortem: TanStack npm supply-chain compromise

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is why we need external security researchers.

blog.maximeheckel.com

On rendering the sky, sunsets, and planets

Oh, this would go crazy in the Metaverse.

arstechnica.com

Amazon employees are "tokenmaxxing" due to pressure to use AI tools

Does there come a time when you’ve eaten too much of your own dog food?

thetypicalset.com

The bottleneck was never the code

AI haters despise this one simple trick—precise Roadmaps.

aaedmusa.com

CARA 2.0

The robotics race has come down to who can build the goodest boy the fastest.

news.mit.edu

MIT engineers’ virtual violin produces realistic sounds

Now you can make a lofi bedroom beats version of Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons.

susam.net

Three inverse laws of AI

I’d add, “Don’t fall in love with it, even if its voice sounds like ScarJo.”

quantamagazine.org

What can we gain by losing infinity?

Buzz Lightyear is going to need a whole rebrand after this one.

legallayer.substack.com

Who owns the code Claude wrote?

Did AI capitalism horseshoe all the way around into communism?

talkie-lm.com

Introducing talkie: a 13B vintage language model from 1930

“Gee whiz, this yarn is swell! Now there's a world-beater of a gazette.” -Someone reading this Overflow in the ‘30s, probably.

leblancfg.com

I spent my sabbatical building a power meter for sledgehammers

I bet this guy listened to a lot of Peter Gabriel during his sabbatical.

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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.

Issue 328: As long as you love AI

If you think about it, tech is kind of like a Backstreet Boys song: it doesn’t care who you are, where you’re from, or what you did, as long as you use it. It’s beautiful how almost everyone on earth has the same addiction to social media. We really are more alike than we think! That’s why, this week, we’re spanning the entire spectrum of tech experiences. For those who’re done screwing around with AI and ready to find out, we’ve got the story of the biggest AI conference in the world, HumanX. For the coding beginner—or the expert nostalgic for the wide-eyed, bushy-tailed optimism of their early code days—we’ve got the Worst Coder in the World’s latest misadventure with agents and Python. Maybe your software genius is bursting out of your brain with nowhere to go? We’ve got you covered with Stack Internal’s Ingestion that makes sorting all your genius as easy as pie. And we haven’t even talked about the wide range of tech complexity happening on the pod: Bloomberg’s Jason Williams dives into the deceptively simple but nearly impossible task of making date and time work in JavaScript and how the Temporal proposal fixes that, while Collate’s Harsha Chintalapani explores the complexities of production data in AI systems. Ah, the dichotomy of it all. And that’s not all. From sledgehammers to infinity to Claude Code, we’ve got stories from all over the web that’ll remind you there are many ways to use technology. There’s no better example of that than our very own Stack users, who cover the entire spectrum of curiosity and knowledge. For instance, why are things the color they are? Why were old computers so weird? Why is everyone bad at math sometimes? Wanna know one of our favorite uses of technology, though? Well, it’s getting to click away on our computers so we can have all those stories and more ready for you down below.

Issue 327: We're off to see the AI agents

Pay no mind to the man behind the curtain! At least, that’s how it usually goes when you think about the software and systems that keep the internet running. But this week, we’re pulling back that curtain. On the pod, we’re joined by Cult.Repo producers Emma Tracey and Josiah McGarvie to talk documenting the people and communities behind the major open-source projects that all our software relies on. Speaking of communities, Mike Swift from Major League Hacking spoke with us about building entry points for early-career devs through hackathons. And what feels more like some Wizard of Oz trickery than the AI systems we know and (sort of) love? On the blog, Reweaver.ai’s Jonathan Gordon wries about the black box that is AI, and why the “magic” of these tools needs the real work of humans. Plus, Chase Roossin and Steven Kulesza from Intuit chat with us about what it takes to get multiple AI agents to work together (spoiler: you don’t have to be a wizard to do it). Plus, there’s no place like home! I mean, that’s the place we get to go on the internet and read cool stuff, right? Good thing we’ve got plenty of fantastic and bizarre conversations from around the web this week. We’ve got the story of cocaine-fueled salmon, Pythagoras in Egypt, Minecraft servers on 1960s UNIVACs, aborted space missions, and so much more. No need to follow that yellow brick road to read any of them. We have all of those stories, links, and questions (oh my!) ready for you down below.

Issue 326: AI can't take away our indomitable human spirit

Anybody feeling wow’ed by the indomitable human spirit lately? From children building apps for the blind to community-funded startups to humans learning new skills at any time in their lives, this Overflow is packed with stories that’ll restore at least some of your faith in humanity. On the pod, we’re joined by Runpod’s Zhen Lu to talk about going to your community instead of VCs when building developer tools. Red Hat’s Stephen Watt, from their Office of the CTO, sat down with us to talk digital sovereignty in a world of AI, and what it would look like to leave nobody behind in the race to sovereign AI. And we still care about humans over here at Stack. We’ve got the story on why AI hasn’t replaced human expertise and why it matters for how you buy for and run your business. Plus, we need a little bit of your human expertise ourselves in our latest Stack Overflow Knows survey. From the web, we’ve got stories on failing AI storefronts (the AI forgot to hire real people to run the store), vibe-coding fifth-graders (they created a Braille tool to help people who are blind), Internet Archive’s new database of rare concert records (everything from Nirvana to Neutral Milk Hotel), and toilets in space (we’ll just let you read that one yourself). And nothing speaks to the indomitable human spirit quite like our never-ending journey for knowledge. How can we take constructive criticism less personally? What happens to our writings—and their copyrights—after we shuffle off this mortal coil? What does it mean to be a coding beginner in a world of AI? We have all those faith-in-humanity-restoring links and more ready for you down below.