Sunday, September 13, 2026
ArchiveTrain carrying Boris Johnson and ex-CIA chief may have been targeted in Russian strike, officials say
A Russian drone hit a train engine near the Polish border moments after Boris Johnson and David Petraeus crossed into Poland. The escalatory implications — a strike near NATO territory possibly targeting former Western leaders — are hard to overstate.
Rope, Twine and Thread: Invisible Technologies of the Stone Age
The most transformative technologies of prehistory — string, nets, rope — left almost no trace because they rotted. Archaeologists are piecing together the invisible half of the Stone Age toolkit, and it changes everything about how we understand early human ingenuity.
Indonesia's Green Fuel Boom Is Incinerating the Rainforest
Indonesia kicked its imported-diesel habit with biofuels — a genuine energy-independence win. The cost: accelerated rainforest burning and choking smoke drifting across Southeast Asia. The green-fuel paradox, argued clearly.
Navier-Stokes Announcement
The Clay Mathematics Institute just issued an announcement about the Navier-Stokes equations — one of seven unsolved Millennium Prize Problems governing how fluids behave. The HN math community is electric. If this is what it looks like, it's a generational moment.
how D&D accidentally broke capitalism
D&D is massive. Critical Role sells out arenas. But Hasbro can't capture the profit. A sharp video essay on why the community's shift to participatory, streaming formats broke the usual IP-to-revenue pipeline — and what that means for entertainment capitalism.