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gizmodo.com

Workday suffered a data breach

popsci.com

X-ray scans reveal Buddhist prayers inside tiny Tibetan scrolls

newgrounds.com

Newgrounds: Flash Forward 2025

fsantanna.github.io

Structured (Synchronous) Concurrency

smithsonianmag.com

Lab-grown salmon hits the menu

jotunheimr.idlerpg.net

An IRC-Enabled Lawn Mower (2021)

news.ycombinator.com

Untitled Story

coppolaemilio.com

What could have been

nadia.xyz

Shamelessness as a strategy (2019)

apnews.com

Newsmax agrees to pay $67M in defamation case over bogus 2020 election claims

theatlantic.com

AI Is a Mass-Delusion Event

phrack.org

Phrack 72

not-a-tech-bro.ghost.io

Google is watching

fractionaljobs.io

Show HN: Fractional jobs – part-time roles for engineers

papers.ssrn.com

The rising returns to R&D: Ideas are not getting harder to find

help.obsidian.md

Obsidian Bases

ycombinator.com

Spice Data (YC S19) Is Hiring a Product Associate (New Grad)

github.com

Show HN: Strix - Open-source AI hackers for your apps

tinytpu.com

Show HN: I built a toy TPU that can do inference and training on the XOR problem

github.com

Tiny-tpu: A minimal tensor processing unit (TPU), inspired by Google's TPU

historytoday.com

Sikkim and the Himalayan Chess Game (2016)

theregister.com

GenAI FOMO has spurred businesses to light nearly $40B on fire

electrek.co

Tesla insiders have sold more than 50% of their shares in the last year

wsj.com

White House in Talks with Intel for 10% U.S. Government Stake

blog.gingerbeardman.com

Macintosh Drawing Software Compared (2021)

arstechnica.com

T-Mobile claimed selling location data without consent is legal–judges disagree

nearlyright.com

The lottery ticket hypothesis: why neural networks work

dexerto.com

Volkswagen gates a new vehicle's full horsepower behind monthly subscription

youtube.com

Show HN: We started building an AI dev tool but it turned into a Sims-style game

lwn.net

Finding a Successor to the FHS

sustainabilitybynumbers.com

How much do electric car batteries degrade?

news.ycombinator.com

Untitled Story

arstechnica.com

RFK Jr.'s Wi-Fi and 5G conspiracies appear to make it into MAHA report draft

github.com

Show HN: Whispering – Open-source, local-first dictation you can trust

5wgraphicsblog.com

The Cutaway Illustrations of Fred Freeman (2016)

arxiv.org

TREAD: Token Routing for Efficient Architecture-Agnostic Diffusion Training

wiki.archiveteam.org

Robots.txt is a suicide note (2011)

graic.net

Left to Right Programming

blog.gingerbeardman.com

Turning an iPad Pro into the Ultimate Classic Macintosh (2021)

myretrotvs.com

My Retro TVs

annas-archive.org

Anna's Archive: An Update from the Team

theregister.com

AWS pricing for Kiro dev tool dubbed 'a wallet-wrecking tragedy'

nature.com

Countrywide natural experiment links built environment to physical activity

nytimes.com

Counter-Strike: A billion-dollar game built in a dorm room

people.idsia.ch

Who Invented Backpropagation?

grist.org

The administration's assault on science feels eerily Soviet

github.com

Show HN: Open-Source Framework for Real-Time AI Video Avatars

zdnet.com

Win10 users looking for a new OS? Apple $599 MacBook can't come at a better time

wired.com

Apple Finally Destroyed Steve Jobs’ Vision of the iPad. Good

strongtowns.org

The road that killed Legend Jenkins was working as designed

juliusvonbismarck.com

Image Fulgurator (2011)

andykessler.com

The Coming Robot Home Invasion

tinybird.co

How to ingest 1B rows/s in ClickHouse

asimov.press

The Weight of a Cell

realitydefender.com

Launch HN: Reality Defender (YC W22) – API for Deepfake and GenAI Detection

github.com

Show HN: A Minimal Hacker News Reader for Apple Watch Built with SwiftUI

fortune.com

95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing – MIT report

sdiehl.github.io

Typechecker Zoo

axios.com

AI is predominantly replacing outsourced, offshore workers

utilitydive.com

Texas law gives grid operator power to disconnect data centers during crisis

github.com

FFmpeg Assembly Language Lessons

betterthanrandom.substack.com

Discussing politics at work: Don't, just don't

npr.org

Class-action suit claims Otter AI records private work conversations

youtube.com

AI accounts impersonating doctors on social media [video]

gmays.com

Apple and Amazon will miss AI like Intel missed mobile

the-londoner.co.uk

The billionaire developer closing London's pubs

rainviewer.com

Weather Radar APIs in 2025: A Founder's Complete Market Overview

github.com

Vibe coding tips and tricks

scrollguard.app

Show HN: I built an app to block Shorts and Reels

theregister.com

When you're asking AI chatbots for answers, they're data-mining you

abramsplanetarium.org

Sky Calendar

theconversation.com

The circular economy could make demolition a thing of the past

ofdollarsanddata.com

It's the Housing, Stupid

vim.gabornyeki.com

Website is served from nine Neovim buffers on my old ThinkPad

technoblogy.com

Walkie-Textie Wireless Communicator

medicalxpress.com

Electromechanical reshaping, an alternative to laser eye surgery

wsj.com

Gamblers Now Bet on AI Models Like Racehorses

lareviewofbooks.org

Mindless Machines, Mindless Myths

vlaaad.github.io

MCP tools with dependent types

garymarcus.substack.com

LLMs and coding agents are a security nightmare

lucumr.pocoo.org

MCP doesn't need tools, it needs code

os2museum.com

8x19 Text Mode Font Origins

bbc.com

Gazan woman flown to Italy dies of malnutrition

manchester.ac.uk

Scientists discover surprising language 'shortcuts' in birdsong – like humans

karimjedda.com

We accidentally built the wrong internet

heritagedaily.com

Viking-Age hoard reveals trade between England and the Islamic World

emiruz.com

A short statistical reasoning test

eli.thegreenplace.net

Unification (2018)

newyorker.com

The Lives and Loves of James Baldwin

github.com

Nvidia Tilus: A Tile-Level GPU Kernel Programming Language

roguesecurity.dev

SystemD Service Hardening

theverge.com

Sam Altman says 'yes,' AI is in a bubble

simpleflying.com

Airbus A320 Poised to Overtake Boeing 737 as Most-Delivered Commercial Airliner

hyperclay.com

Web apps in a single, portable, self-updating, vanilla HTML file

press.asimov.com

Leeches and the legitimizing of folk-medicine

toolsverse.tools

We built ToolVerse: An AI Tools Discovery Platform with 500 curated apps

cloud.google.com

How Keeta processes 11M financial transactions per second with Spanner

asciitree.reorx.com

Show HN: ASCII Tree Editor

news.ycombinator.com

Untitled Story

science.nasa.gov

A gigantic jet caught on camera: A spritacular moment for NASA astronaut

github.com

IMDB Terminal Browser

lego.com

Lego Transformers Soundwave

blog.yossarian.net

Fun with Finite State Transducers

accc.gov.au

Google admits anti-competitive conduct involving Google Search in Australia

github.com

Mangle – a language for deductive database programming

codemia.io

Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) is reshaping microservice placement

thewaitlist.substack.com

The Microscopic Forces That Break Hearts

theguardian.com

Men paying thousands for leg lengthening surgery

npr.org

8M patients: the only neurosurgeon in Sierra Leone

tedium.co

Primitive Streaming Gods (2018)

clojure.github.io

Clojure Async Flow Guide

buttondown.com

I Prefer RST to Markdown (2024)

natkr.com

Modifying other people's software

blog.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk

It’s OK to block ads (2015)