Nando's Malaysia re-sung a 90s karaoke anthem as a love song for PERi-PERi chicken
Chariot rewrote Malaysia's karaoke anthem Belaian Jiwa as a love ballad for PERi-PERi chicken, rekindling passion for the craft — and winning two Kancils.
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SPDX turned 'what license is this file under?' into a machine-readable identifier, and ten years later ISO made it the software bill of materials standard.
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For its 30th, PlayStation had YOASOBI turn 26,000+ fan memories into an anthem that won Spikes Asia's Music Grand Prix.
Fall lesenMarc Andreessen's Anti-Todo List made every busy day feel marvelously productive
Marc Andreessen logged every useful action on an Anti-Todo List and reviewed it at night, making busy days feel marvelously efficient
Fall lesenNutriset's Plumpy'Nut: a 30-cent peanut paste that replaced hospital feeding
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Fall lesenHyperLogLog counted billions of distinct items in kilobytes
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Fall lesenFevicol skipped the buyer and sold glue to the person who actually chose it
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Fall lesenAmazon self-financed growth by collecting before paying suppliers
Amazon funded growth by collecting from customers at order and paying suppliers weeks later, making expansion generate cash.
Fall lesenEFF's Privacy Badger blocked trackers by behavior, so no blocklist went stale
Privacy Badger enforces Do Not Track: when the same third party tracks you across three sites, it blocks the domain automatically — no lists, no settings
Fall lesenThe EU capped 11,000 plants' carbon, crashed the price once, then rebuilt the market
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Fall lesenBogle's 1976 index fund was mocked as un-American, then ate the industry
The first retail index fund opened to jeers while rivals pledged never to settle for average; Vanguard's mutual ownership made the arithmetic of costs decisive.
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Vogel's tested every toaster at The Warehouse by hand — 1,000+ slices — and badged each with its perfect toasting formula; sales rose 64% in-store.
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Fall lesenPark and Pham settled the Kahn-Kalai conjecture in a six-page proof via covers
Two Stanford mathematicians ended a 16-year-old conjecture about random structure with a short proof that skipped the detour through fractional thresholds
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