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skincontact.substack.com

Observations from people-watching

hillelwayne.com

Alan Kay did not invent objects (2019)

vintagecomputing.com

Why the Apple II Didn't Support Lowercase Letters (2020)

github.com

Show HN: LoopMix128 – Fast C PRNG (.46ns), 2^128 Period, BigCrush/PractRand Pass

magazine.atavist.com

Eagle Hunters of Kyrgyzstan

vatican.va

Address of Pope Leo XIV to the College of Cardinals

lcamtuf.substack.com

Sierpiński Triangle? In My Bitwise and?

msn.com

Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College

github.com

Show HN: Xenolab – Rasp Pi monitor for my pet carnivourus plants

zachfred.in

Show HN: PLAttice, for assembling structures much larger than the 3D printer bed

arxiv.org

LLMs for Materials and Chemistry: 34 Real-World Examples

s3data.computerhistory.org

For $595, you get what nobody else can give you for twice the price (1982) [pdf]

mailwip.com

Email Forwarding for Your Domain

bloomberg.com

AI is draining water from areas that need it most

andersource.dev

Adventures in Imbalanced Learning and Class Weight

bleepingcomputer.com

Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during meetings

propublica.org

The Price of Remission

ukdefencejournal.org.uk

Pakistani Govt shares game footage as real military action

insideevs.com

Even Tesla's Insurance Arm Is Getting Wrecked

theatlantic.com

DOGE Is Bringing Back a Deadly Disease

theregister.com

Update turns Google Gemini into a prude, breaking apps for trauma survivors

en.wikipedia.org

Unique Games Conjecture

a16z.com

Lead Bullets (2011)

dinkomarinac.dev

Building Local-First Flutter Apps with Riverpod, Drift, and PowerSync

simonwillison.net

Simon Willison's first blog on LLMs (2022)

sprig.hackclub.com

Show HN: Sprigman – Pac-Man Recreated in a Limited Tile Based JavaScript Engine

newsweek.com

'We Currently Have No Container Ships,' Seattle Port Says

ycombinator.com

Weave (YC W25) is hiring a founding engineer

privacyguides.org

Sam Altman Wants Your Eyeball

righto.com

Reverse engineering the 386 processor's prefetch queue circuitry

theguardian.com

'It cannot provide nuance': UK experts warn AI therapy chatbots are not safe

en.smallyu.net

People Who Hype Cursor Usually Lack Technical Skills

storytotell.org

Prolog's Eternal September (2017)

news.ycombinator.com

Untitled Story

raz.sh

A critical look at MCP

github.com

Show HN: Code Claude Code

etalabs.net

Comparison of C/POSIX standard library implementations for Linux

chaosium.com

Farewell to Lee Gold's Alarums and Excursions

tabakalera.eus

Quantum Visions, an exhibition combining quantum physics and contemporary art

storage.courtlistener.com

US vs. Google amicus curiae brief of Y Combinator in support of plaintiffs [pdf]

uber.com

Fixrleak: Fixing Java Resource Leaks with GenAI

searchengine.show

The Dave and Busters Anomaly

wsj.com

There's a national egg crisis, and one company is making a lot of money

react-three.org

React Three Ecosystem

github.com

QueryLeaf: SQL for Mongo

insideclimatenews.org

Industry groups are not happy about the imminent demise of Energy Star

theguardian.com

Henry James's family tried to keep him in the closet (2016)

embracergamesarchive.com

Embracer Games Archive is preserving 75000 video games and needs contributions

commonwealmagazine.org

The cult of doing business

jeffgeerling.com

Radxa Orion O6 brings Arm to the midrange PC (with caveats)

letsencrypt.org

Sunlight: A certificate transparency implementation built for scalability, ease

hjorthjort.xyz

The Deathbed Fallacy (2018)

abortretry.fail

Intel: Winning and Losing

ltxv.video

LTXVideo 13B AI video generation

cell.com

Loss of dance and infant-directed song among the Northern Aché

petrapalusova.com

The Fallacy of Techno-Feudalism (2024)

smithsonianmag.com

Spanish Shipwreck Reveals Evidence of Earliest Known Pet Cats to Arrive in US

michael.stapelberg.ch

In praise of grobi for auto-configuring X11 monitors

healthimaging.com

CT scans show cigarettes are harder on the lungs than marijuana

dynomight.substack.com

How much information is in DNA?

astria.tacc.utexas.edu

Cosmos 482 Descent Craft tracker

blog.castle.io

Detect and crash Chromium bots

abuseofnotation.github.io

Why should I care? Or why punks are correct and old wise philosophers are wrong

in-ulm.de

Ash (Almquist Shell) Variants

meta.stackexchange.com

After 16 years, we're renewing the StackOverflow Brand

publicdomainreview.org

As Bright as a Feather: Ostriches, Home Dyeing, and the Global Plume Trade

es.wired.com

Europe launches program to lure scientists away from the US

tixy.land

A simple 16x16 dot animation from simple math rules

bonfirenetworks.org

Slow software for a burning world

fakehistoryhunter.net

Not a three-year-old chimney sweep (2022)

leantime.io

Running Windows.exe on a Linux Brain: The Sysadmin's Guide to Neurodivergence

github.com

Gmail to SQLite

phys.org

Private Japanese lunar lander enters orbit around moon ahead of a June touchdown

rulethepla.net

The Screamer – A yell-on yell-off light

kjosib.github.io

Algebraic Effects: Another mistake carried through to perfection?

pagetable.com

6502 Illegal Opcodes in the Siemens PC 100 Assembly Manual

github.com

Vision Now Available in Llama.cpp

news.ycombinator.com

Untitled Story

changelog.com

Our Slack is dead. Long live Zulip

neal.fun

Internet Roadtrip: Vote to steer

stratolaunch.com

Stratolaunch Successfully Completes Reusable Hypersonic Flight and Recovery

tonyyo11.github.io

Six Days in the Dark

blog.chromium.org

Fighting unwanted notifications with machine learning in Chrome

realitystudio.org

Charles Bukowski, William Burroughs, and the Computer (2009)

gencmurat.com

Memory Safety Features in Zig

warpstreamlabs.github.io

Bento gets a makeover

brandonli.net

Brandon's Semiconductor Simulator

plainbudget.com

PlainBudget – Minimalist Plain Text Budgeting

madebyevan.com

WebGL Water (2010)

theguardian.com

Some novelists are becoming video game writers and vice-versa