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- 1A Day With Conjoined Twins: Five Experiments, Two Brains●I Spent a Day With Conjoined Twins: 2 Brains, 5 Crazy Experiments!
A new science video documents a day spent with conjoined twins, running five experiments designed to explore how their two brains work together. The piece blends popular science with curiosity-driven entertainment, testing perception, coordination and decision-making between the twins. It has drawn over a million likes, making it one of the most engaged-with science items of the moment, with viewers discussing what the experiments reveal about shared cognition.
- 2Claude Code's suggested message feature draws debate●Claude Code’s suggested message feature: I think the real customer is the model
A new essay argues that Claude Code's suggested-message feature is best understood as serving the AI model rather than the human user. The author, Zohaib, contends the auto-generated prompts help the model steer conversations and guide coding sessions more effectively. Readers on Hacker News are debating whether such suggestions primarily benefit developers' productivity or the model's own performance.
- 3Pompeii Homes Were Designed Around a Formal Guest Journey●🖼️ Front door, open atrium, formal greeting in the picture gallery room — Pompeii homes had a dedicated hospitality flow
Archaeologists and history enthusiasts are highlighting how wealthy houses in Pompeii, the Roman city buried by Vesuvius in 79 AD, were laid out around a deliberate hospitality sequence: visitors entered through the front door into an open atrium, then proceeded to a formal reception room, often decorated with wall paintings. Commenters note the resemblance to modern real estate thinking, where floor plans and the flow between rooms remain central to how homes are designed and marketed.
- 4Pixel phones failing to connect with Google's own laptops●Our Pixels aren’t working with our Googlebooks, and it’s not just us You'd think Pixel phones would easily work on a Goo
Pixel phone owners are reporting that their devices will not pair properly with Google's Chromebooks, and the problem extends well beyond a handful of users. The frustration stems from the irony that two first-party Google products, designed to work together, are experiencing connectivity failures, prompting complaints and questions about quality control across Google's hardware and software ecosystem.