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#5428: Wills, Superstition, and the One Event With 100% Probability
Daniel is a prepper who's terrified of writing a will. Turns out the law, the psychology, and the Israeli defaults all agree he shouldn't be.
#5427: Why Atheists Still Knock on Wood
Religion and superstition aren't the same thing — and the data says they might even pull in opposite directions.
#5426: AI Wrote His Yom Kippur Prayer
A man skipped synagogue, opened ChatGPT instead, and got a prayer that knew his life. Is AI-generated prayer real prayer?
#5425: Preview Branches Without the Branch Dance
Daniel dreads the branch-switching dance. Turns out Vercel's promote-to-production makes most of those steps not exist.
#5424: ThinkPad E15: Swollen Battery or Bad Keyboard?
A dead arrow key and a jammed trackpad on a two-year-old ThinkPad E15 might be one problem, not three.
#5423: Underground Burial in Jerusalem: 24,000 Graves, 3 Elevators
Jerusalem ran out of ground for its dead — so it built a multi-storey car park where the parking spaces are graves.
#5422: Switching Android Keyboards Without the Tap Dance
One listener wants a one-tap jump between his Parakeet voice keyboard and his typing keyboard. Android says no — unless you know the trick.
#5421: Why Secular Israelis Still Fast on Yom Kippur
A majority of secular Israeli Jews fast on Yom Kippur. What the data say about how faith gets handed down — and how observance becomes a weapon.
#5420: How Keyboard Middleware Actually Works
A keyboard isn't one thing — it's a stack. Here's how input methods, composition buffers, and hooks really work on Linux, Android, and Windows.
#5419: The Attention Budget in Your Pocket
Why phone dictation runs out of room, and how bounded attention windows buy you punctuation without blowing your memory budget.
#5418: Why Dehydration, Not Hunger, Is the Real Risk of a 25-Hour Fast
Twenty-five hours without water is a different problem than twenty-five hours without food. Here's the physiology of dehydration — and how to prepare.
#5417: Can You Version-Control Your Android Apps?
Android Developer Verification enforcement just started. Can you define your installed app list as code — and what breaks if you try?
#5416: Xet, Buckets, and Auto-Pulling Model Weights
Hugging Face swapped its storage backend to Xet with barely a ripple. So why can't a bucket auto-pull new upstream weights?
#5415: Inside F-Droid: Repos, Front Ends, and Sideloading Safely
How F-Droid's repository model works, why it has five front ends, and what actually keeps sideloaded APKs safe.
#5414: Inventing Anna: The Real Tradecraft Behind the Con
How Anna Delvey ran a four-year con on Word docs, AOL addresses, and a supermarket burner phone — and what Netflix got right.
#5413: Who Actually Picks Your In-Flight Movie?
Eight in ten passengers use seatback screens — but at Southwest, one person picks everything. Inside the tiny teams behind airline entertainment.
#5412: Editing vs. Note-Taking for AI Fine-Tunes
Hand-editing a model's output gives three training signals at once. Writing notes gives one — and a weaker one at that.
#5411: Fine-Tuning at 4-Bit vs 16-Bit: What It Really Costs
QLoRA cuts fine-tuning VRAM 15x and cost up to 85% — but you pay in training time, quality, and safety alignment.
#5410: Adapters: 102KB That Reshapes a 403GB Model
A 102KB adapter file changes how a 403GB base model behaves — without ever merging into it. Here's how model adapters actually work.
#5409: What Makes a Model "Agentic"? Atria Dawn Preview
A 744B-parameter model drops quietly on Hugging Face. Is "agentic" a real model category, or just a deployment pattern?