Squid Game: The Challenge has rapidly become unmissable reality TV. Starting with a staggering cast of 456 players, we’ve watched a whole lot of contestants take big risks in a sequence of challenges inspired by the Korean drama, and either see them pay off or result in a gutpunch elimination, all in the name of …
Todd Haynes’ new film May December stars Julianne Moore and Charles Melton as a married couple with a complicated history (to say the least), and Natalie Portman as an actress who inserts themselves into their lives while preparing to perform in a movie about the beginning of their relationship. The detail which makes this marriage …
For all our grumbling about House of the Dragon’s first season—its elongated windup to events obvious from the jump, its textbook-plotted storyline, its delay of all things interesting and consequential—we have to say: when Ramin Djawadi’s score kicks in each week, we’re just happy to get another hour in Westeros. It takes us back to …
zach bacharContributor IDecember 3, 2023 Noah Graham/NBAE via Getty Images Los Angeles Clippers head coach Tyronn Lue acknowledged the challenge of balancing the minutes of the team’s four marquee players following a 113-112 victory over the Golden State Warriors on Saturday night. “It’s been pretty hard,” Lue admitted, via ESPN’s Ohm Youngmisuk. “But I’m built …
Todd Kirkland/Getty Images His resume is so overwhelming that it’s hard to know exactly where to start. Well, maybe not. Having won seven national championships in his coaching lifetime, Nick Saban’s is on his own Mount Rushmore. He’s coached some of the greatest teams and players to ever suit up. He assembled the most dominant …
zach bacharContributor IDecember 3, 2023 Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images Alabama quarterback Jalen Milroe made the case for the Crimson Tide to be considered the best team in college football after defeating No. 1 Georgia in the SEC Championship game. “I got something to say,” Milroe told the media following the win, per David Ubben of …
Linux gaming performance has been improving for years, but how good is it? ComputerBase benchmarked three different Linux operating systems against Windows 11 in several gaming benchmarks and found all three were able to outperform Microsoft‘s latest OS. On top of this, all three Linux variants were able to accomplish their impressive performance runs while …
I recently added some uBlock Origin rules for HN that remove news sources focusing principally on `The` News rather than technical topics and the net result has been a much more pleasurable experience on par with HN from a few years ago. I can read the `news` news in many places, and I do, but …
In my day job, I work on a JavaScript framework (LWC). And although I’ve been working on it for almost three years, I still feel like a dilettante. When I read about what’s going on in the larger framework world, I often feel overwhelmed by all the things I don’t know. One of the best …
In his later life, my father-in-law routinely woke up for the day at 3 a.m. He’d become such an early bird that he morphed into a night owl, a man resigned to a post-retirement inability to clock in more than four or five hours of rest. I can recall taking his routines as a grim …