Tishman Speyer and The Cooper Union have acquired the Chrysler Building in Midtown Manhattan for $235 million and revealed renovation plans to modernize 75% of office space, restore the iconic Art Deco façade including its famous crown, and upgrade building systems. The project includes a new 61st-floor amenity lounge with terraces offering skyline views and underground wellness spaces.
An interview with Tom Lane, a 25-year PostgreSQL committer, explores the architectural foundations that have sustained the open-source database over three decades, including its process-per-connection model, write-ahead logging for crash recovery, multi-version concurrency control, and memory context hierarchies. These design choices prioritize code simplicity, crash isolation, and production reliability while balancing the need for stable cores with diverse extensions.
LifeOS is Daniel Miessler's personal AI operating system that captures user identity and goals while integrating with existing coding frameworks. With ~19k stars, it ships as a single self-contained skill with honest capability states, permission-based hooks, source-tracked memory, and comprehensive evaluation machinery.