We debate endlessly about whether AI will ever achieve consciousness, but we forget how consciousness actually compiled in the first place. It wasn’t spawned in a vacuum; it was forged by the brutal necessity of survival. For millions of iterations over millions of years, early cognition was nothing but pure instinct and bloodlust—refined only by the fight for the right to exist. Humanity is not
FutureMe has 15 million letters in its database. They've been there since 2002. Some of them will be there in 2050. Evengood will have zero. This week I shipped The Quiet Letter — a feature where you write to your future self today, we email it on a date you pick, and we hard-delete the row from our database within 24 hours of sending it. The email is the only artifact. We don't keep a copy. Every
In Q1 2026, our team audited 14 2FA libraries for Next.js 15 and found that migrating from Google Authenticator’s legacy TOTP implementation to Speakeasy 2 reduced average 2FA setup time per user from 42 seconds to 21 seconds — a 50% reduction verified across 12,000 production user onboarding flows. ⭐ vercel/next.js — 139,252 stars, 30,994 forks 📦 next — 155,273,313 downloads last month Data