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arstechnica.com

Federal agencies continue terminating all funding to Harvard

morling.dev

“Streaming vs. Batch” Is a Wrong Dichotomy, and I Think It's Confusing

theatlantic.com

Why Are There So Many 'Alternative Devices' All of a Sudden?

freebasic.net

FreeBASIC is a free/open source BASIC compiler for Windows DOS and Linux

journaldulapin.com

The Lost Japanese ROM of the Macintosh Plus

newatlas.com

Bike-mounted sensor could boost the mapping of safe cycling routes

graphthinking.blogspot.com

Unspoken Currency of Office Politics: Leverage and Sanction Between Coworkers

scworld.com

Google Chrome data leakage bug confirmed as actively exploited

research.ibm.com

Remembering IBM Researcher Dick Garwin

engadget.com

Jamie Lee Curtis publicly shamed Mark Zuckerberg to remove a deepfaked ad

nytimes.com

New York Bans Smartphones in Schools, Joining National Movement

arxiv.org

Understanding Transformers via N-gram Statistics

news.ycombinator.com

Untitled Story

perfectingequilibrium.substack.com

Starship Troopers Revolutionize Warfighting

xata.io

Xata: Postgres at scale, with copy-on-write branching and anonymization

arxiv.org

LLMs are more persuasive than incentivized human persuaders

github.com

Espanso – Cross-Platform Text Expander Written in Rust

github.com

Directory of MCP Servers

austinkleon.substack.com

A library of words: Discovering Roget's Thesaurus (2023)

robertheaton.com

Wacom drawing tablets track the name of every application you open (2020)

theconversation.com

We fall for fake health information – and how it spreads faster than facts

theregister.com

UK hospitals doubt Palantir utility: We'd 'lose functionality rather than gain'

blog.racket-lang.org

Racket – the Language-Oriented Programming Language – 8.17 is now available

github.com

A Simulation in C++ of Joseph Weizenbaum's 1966 Eliza

github.com

Gnosis Evolve MCP for Claude Desktop

scmp.com

Lufthansa plane flown by autopilot after pilot faints in cockpit

nanosats.eu

Largest database of nanosatellites, over 4400 nanosats and CubeSats

tarides.com

OCaml Web Development: Essential Tools and Libraries in 2025

holdtherobot.com

Coding without a laptop: Two weeks with AR glasses and Linux on Android

jpl.nasa.gov

NASA Observes First Visible-Light Auroras at Mars

suberic.net

Mystical

mastdatabase.co.uk

O2 VoLTE: locating any customer with a phone call

theguardian.com

Moment of heart's formation captured in images for first time

utubepublisher.in

Hwacha: Ancient Korea Invented a Rocket Launcher in the 15th Century

eclecticlight.co

A brief history of Mac architecture transitions

new.knife.day

Show HN: I built a knife steel comparison tool

johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com

Dead Stars Don’t Radiate

enterprisebot.ai

Best open source LLMs for Enterprise

bigthink.com

The longest train journey is epic – but nobody's ever taken it

scientificamerican.com

No One Can Explain Why Planes Stay in the Air (2020)

switch-to.eu

Switch to EU

webkit.org

How to have the browser pick a contrasting color in CSS

alexkesin.com

Mr. Secretary, Reclassify the Statin

downtowndougbrown.com

How I fixed the infamous Basilisk II Windows “Black Screen” bug in 2013

techradar.com

Proton threatens to quit Switzerland over new surveillance law

loeber.substack.com

Insurance for AI: Easier Said Than Done

tadaima.bearblog.dev

If nothing is curated, how do we find things

thenightly.com.au

Energy drinks linked to rise in colorectal and blood cancer

newyorker.com

How Cory Arcangel Recovered Late Artist Michel Majerus's Digital Legacy

arxiv.org

Steepest Descent Density Control for Compact 3D Gaussian Splatting

bloomberg.com

FDA Clears First Blood Test to Diagnose Alzheimer's

thebsdetector.substack.com

MIT paper on AI for materials research found to be fraudulent

30fps.net

Palette lighting tricks on the Nintendo 64

muratbuffalo.blogspot.com

Chapter 2: Serializability Theory (1987 Concurrency Control Book)

miasap.se

OBNC – Oberon-07 Compiler

engineering.fb.com

Pyrefly: A new type checker and IDE experience for Python

blog.zamzar.com

Life before the web – Running a Startup in the 1980's (2016)

afarah.info

Focus Is Relaxing

advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Laser-Induced Graphene from Commercial Inks and Dyes

english.elpais.com

The Japanese method of creating forests comes to Mexico

cnbc.com

Moody's downgrades United States credit rating

matklad.github.io

Push Ifs Up and Fors Down

aruarian.dance

You do not need NixOS on the desktop

theregister.com

No-boom supersonic flights could slide through US skies soon

spacepolicyonline.com

IM-2's Imperfect Landing Due to Altimeter Interference

topp.openproblem.net

Open Problems in Computational geometry

robertheaton.com

MinorMiner: We turn your kid's maths homework into Bitcoin

github.com

Oracle VM VirtualBox – VM Escape via VGA Device

sidsite.com

Transformer neural net learns to run Conway's Game of Life just from examples

wsj.com

Why Moderna Merged Its Tech and HR Departments

americastestkitchen.com

What I Know About Cleaning and Seasoning Cast-Iron Skillets (2021)

seiya.me

Implementing a RISC-V Hypervisor

popcorn.swmansion.com

Popcorn: Run Elixir in WASM

tomshardware.com

GlobalWafers to invest 4B dollars in wafer manufacturing in the USA

github.com

Publisher: The Malloy Semantic Model Server

docs.mcp.run

A Critical Look at "A Critical Look at MCP."

github.com

Catalog of Novel Operating Systems

web.archive.org

Identifying almost any x86 CPU (2004)

news.ycombinator.com

Untitled Story

uber.com

Fixrleak: Fixing Java Resource Leaks with GenAI

v8.dev

JavaScript's New Superpower: Explicit Resource Management

aruarian.dance

Japan's IC cards are weird and wonderful

nature.com

Hunting extreme microbes that redefine the limits of life

bbc.co.uk

How can traditional British TV survive the US streaming giants

github.com

Show HN: Fahmatrix – A Lightweight, Pandas-Like DataFrame Library for Java

github.blog

GitHub Models API now available

smithsonianmag.com

The Joys of Discovering the Roman Underground

lwn.net

A kernel developer plays with Home Assistant

bloodinthemachine.com

Behind Silicon Valley and the GOP’s campaign to ban state AI laws

theintercept.com

Google worried it couldn't control how Israel uses Project Nimbus, files reveal

washingtonpost.com

Big Tech takes a harder line against worker activism, political dissent

theautopian.com

The Airplane 'Barf Bag' Is a Genius Invention Most People Never Think About

usetexture.com

Postman for MCP

phl.upr.edu

Wow@Home – Network of Amateur Radio Telescopes

news.ycombinator.com

Untitled Story

github.com

XTool – Cross-platform Xcode replacement

roastmydish.online

Show HN: Roast My Dish – AI roasts your food photos with brutal honesty

github.com

New high-quality hash measures 71GB/s on M4

lwn.net

A kernel developer plays with Home Assistant

speakeasy.com

MCP: An in-depth introduction

github.com

Show HN: Merliot – plugging physical devices into LLMs

mrob.com

WebGL Gray-Scott Explorer (2012)

askcaa.com

Show HN: A C-Suite AI Agent Meant for SMB