A data-driven investigation into how essential open-source software depends on a handful of underfunded maintainers

Why warnings about AI risks from researchers and lab leaders are genuine — plus a sharp debate in the comments

An ambitious project building native open-source alternatives to Photoshop, Illustrator, CAD, and Office — early in development

2channel origins, variants, and family tree

Behind the scenes of restoring over 1,300 Victorian animal engravings to rebuild a 40-volume natural history encyclopedia online

Curious and compelling works from the history of art, literature, and ideas

“In 1931, Claude Mythos visited Lovecraft in a dream”

A richly detailed cellular landscape with clickable proteins, structures, and molecular pathways

AI companies are racing to mechanize mathematics. Where does that leave human understanding?

Empirical data on how Claude is used across countries, professions, and real-world work tasks

A permadeath Minecraft experiment where resource inequality across two biomes spirals from peaceful empire-building into espionage and war

Profiles of the pioneers who built the networks, protocols, and communities behind the modern web

A way to stumble through strange, useful, and memorable websites

A visual map of Western thought tracing how key arguments and thinkers support or refute one another

Minute-by-minute crew transcripts, technical commentary, and archival photography from the Moon landings

A glossy, slightly uncanny reveal of a third-generation humanoid robot built for household tasks

Photos, footage, and audio from decades of space exploration

Real-time 3D simulations of the solar system, active spacecraft, and deep-space missions

Explore museum collections, zoom into brushwork, and tour historical sites online

The definitive guide to the world’s hidden wonders

Sights and sounds outside other people’s windows around the world

A geographic lottery of unfamiliar backroads, neighborhoods, and remote landscapes

A world of music history to explore by country and decade

Spin the globe to tune into live local broadcasts from thousands of cities and towns

An interactive map revealing how the Mercator projection distorts geographic scale

Cherry-pick a historical map to justify your territorial claims

A study of 1.5 million conversations revealing how people use AI for everyday questions and workplace tasks

Open-source off-grid communication over LoRa mesh

A detailed 3D animated breakdown of the engine, flight controls, and fuel system inside a Cessna 172

An AskReddit thread of baffling real-world cases that eventually got a definitive explanation

A series of increasingly difficult moral dilemmas, with choices compared against other players

How competition can trap systems into outcomes nobody chose and almost nobody wants — across game theory, markets, evolution, institutions, and AI

There’s plenty to criticize about LessWrong, but this essay sequence on language, categories, and clear thinking is one of its best

Three cube-shaped books that turn the digital color spectrum into tangible, page-by-page gradients

A digital library of books, films, music, software, and archived web pages

A vast visual encyclopedia of paintings and artworks organized by artist, movement, style, and period

A community-maintained list of the foundational subjects every encyclopedia should cover