History of “Adventure” for the Atari 2600

Of all the original games Atari put out for the VCS, Adventure may be the one that most people are familiar with today. Warren Robinett’s third and final VCS game – though seemingly the second to actually be released – serves as a counterweight to the arcade action of its March 1980 brethren Space Invaders […]
Jiga (YC W21) Is Hiring Engineers

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Internet usage pattern during power outage in Spain and Portugal

By Philip Tellis on 03 May 2025 Table of Contents On Monday this week, the Iberian Peninsula suffered a major power outage that disabled many services across these countries. In this post I’ll look at the patterns we saw in mPulse data during this time. Overall traffic I first looked at the overall data patterns […]
The Death of Daydreaming: What we lose when phones take away boredom

Intro from Jon Haidt: When I was nearly finished writing The Anxious Generation in the summer of 2023, I realized that I had left a gap. The book focused on the collapse of mental health, attention, and socialization of Gen Z—but again and again, older readers and friends would tell me: “this is happening to […]
Management Habits Burning Out Your Best Engineers
Burnout in engineering teams is rarely caused by a single event. Instead, it’s the result of persistent, often overlooked management habits that quietly erode motivation, well-being, and performance. Here are 9 habits, why they matter, what happens if you ignore them, and actionable tips to build a healthier, more sustainable engineering culture. 1. Equating Busyness […]
AWS Built a Security Tool. It Introduced a Security Risk

(If you missed the previous parts of this trust policy blog series, we recommend reading parts one and two first) In the previous post of this series, we explored four dangerous misconceptions regarding how to securely set up cross-account access in AWS environments. In this final post of the series, we’ll walk through a real-world […]
Judge said Meta illegally used books to build its AI

Meta’s copyright battle with a group of authors, including Sarah Silverman and Ta-Nehisi Coates, will turn on the question of whether the company’s AI tools produce works that can cannibalize the authors’ book sales. US District Court Judge Vince Chhabria spent several hours grilling lawyers from both sides after they each filed motions for partial […]
Gandi March 9, 2025 incident postmortem

On Sunday 2025-03-09, Gandi experienced a major incident on its platform caused by a filer storage system outage affecting multiple services including mailboxes. Summary:– Multiple services were severely disrupted from Sunday March 9th 0:31:10 until 16:49:15 including 39% of all mailboxes– Some Mailboxes (~15%) remained unavailable until Monday March 10th 10:29 . However, all users had recovered all of their emails by Wednesday March 12th 17:00:00. – Importantly, this incident did not result […]
The vocal effects of Daft Punk

Daft Punk have used a wide variety of vocal effects in their songs. A May 2001 interview in Remix magazine provided a rare insight from Daft Punk themselves on the topic. “People always ask us what vocoder we use, but every one of our vocal tracks uses a different vocoder effect. We have the old […]
Trump announces 100% tariffs on movies ‘produced in foreign lands’

Donald Trump on Sunday announced on his Truth Social platform a 100% tariff on all movies “produced in Foreign Lands”, saying the US film industry was dying a “very fast death” due to the incentives that other countries were offering to draw American film-makers. In his post, he claimed to have authorised the commerce department […]