This is an interactive global map visualization that highlights the birthplaces of the world’s most “notable people,” based on data from a scientific study and categorized by fields like Science, Leadership, and Culture.

TubeTranscript is a free, AI-powered online tool that quickly generates accurate transcripts and summaries for any YouTube video by simply pasting the video URL, supporting various languages and multi-platform use.

Alio Die is the stage name of Italian composer Stefano Musso, whose music is a fusion of Ambient, Drone Ambient, and Electro-acoustic soundscapes that incorporate field recordings and acoustic instruments to create meditative, mystical, and ritualistic sonic worlds.

This site is Zach Manson’s “digital garden” consisting of over 500 continuously changing personal notes and archives, built with the goal of “learning with the garage door up” across various topics.

Alexey Guzey’s personal website features insightful, long-form essays and notes on a wide array of topics, including AGI, productivity, metascience, philosophy, and detailed critiques of prominent research and theories.

This is a personal blog of Diana Leung featuring philosophical and analytical essays that explore a wide range of topics, including artificial intelligence, societal observations, psychological principles, and personal reflections on life and mortality.

AINews is a daily newsletter and archive by smol.ai that summarizes the top discussions and developments from major AI communities (Discord, Reddit, X/Twitter) to help engineers and enthusiasts keep up with the latest in AI models, agents, infrastructure, and research.

QotNews is a single-page news aggregator that pulls articles from multiple sources, including Hacker News, Reddit, Lobsters, and Tildes, and renders them in a clean, unified reader mode interface.

Neatnik LLC is a tiny independent internet company run by Adam Newbold that creates small, unique, and fun software projects, including the omg.lol social service, voice blogging tool Spake, and hosting services.

This section of Deagel.com serves as an archive for news and reports focused on global military, defense, weapons systems, aerospace forces, and country-specific security intelligence.

Hacker News RSS provides a free service that generates custom, real-time RSS, Atom, and JSON feeds for Hacker News, allowing users to filter posts by points, comments, keywords, users, and various categories like “Ask HN” and job listings.

Pluralistic is Cory Doctorow’s daily blog, free of trackers and ads, that provides commentary and links on technology, digital rights, antitrust, corporate accountability, and the concept of “enshittification.”

This essay by David Perell compiles 50 guiding principles and mental models such as Inversion, Theory of Constraints, and the Personal Monopoly; helping readers think better, inspire curiosity, and improve their intellectual life.

This EMF 2024 talk, “Seams Like Magic,” serves as an excellent primer on sewing basics for beginners, covering essential tools, how to read a pattern, and suggestions for easy first projects.

This EMF 2024 talk details the creation of the Auto Plane Spotter, a robot that uses 1090MHz ADS-B transmissions from nearby aircraft to continuously calculate their position and physically point a pointer at the closest plane.

This State of the Map 2024 (SotM) talk introduces MapLibre Tiles (MLT), a new vector tiles format designed for OpenStreetMap (OSM) data that achieves up to 80% smaller tile sizes and faster decoding compared to the Mapbox Vector Tiles (MVT) standard.

This 2016 33C3 talk by Karsten Nohl and Nemanja Nikodijevic explores the security vulnerabilities of outdated, 80s-era travel booking systems and demonstrates real-world hacking risks like tracking travelers and stealing flights.

This is a free online web application provided by Inlite Research that allows users to upload various image files (PDF, JPEG, TIFF, etc.) and accurately read and decode numerous 1D, 2D (QR, DataMatrix), and Postal barcode types.

This is the personal website and blog of developer Julia Evans, featuring deep, easy-to-understand articles and famous illustrated zines on technical topics such as Linux, networking, and systems debugging.

The Book of Secret Knowledge is a large GitHub repository curating an invaluable collection of cheatsheets, manuals, CLI/web tools, hacks, and inspiring lists primarily aimed at System/Network administrators, DevOps engineers, and Security Researchers.