My Week with OpenCode (deadsimpletech.com)
GoodJob, Solid Queue, Sidekiq, Active Job, in 2026 (island94.org)
Computation Sovereignty and the Future of Tastes – An RGA Account (jimiwen.substack.com)
Pokémon card thefts on the rise [video] (www.youtube.com)
Germany''s shut down of nuclear plants a ''huge mistake'', says Merz (brusselssignal.eu)
Nvidia suppliers halt H200 output after China blocks chip (www.ft.com)
Intuition why the derivative of ex is itself (math.stackexchange.com)
A Calif. teen trusted ChatGPT''s drug advice. He died from an overdose (www.sfgate.com)
Gas Town is a glimpse into the future (johncodes.com)
Grand Illusion (chrishedges.substack.com)
Ancient designs may be the first evidence of humans doing math (www.cnn.com)
China Clamps Down on High-Speed Traders, Removing Servers (www.bloomberg.com)
Artisanal Code (sunnyamrat.com)
Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy to step down (www.latimes.com)
Stay-at-home sons are here – and they''re not going anywhere (www.washingtonpost.com)
Dispute with Russian billionaire leads to 4 Bay Area bankruptcies (www.sfgate.com)
Crypto grifters are recruiting open-source AI developers (www.seangoedecke.com)
Ben Affleck and Matt Damon on the Limits of AI in Filmmaking [video] (www.youtube.com)
Myths we tell ourselves about software engineering (medium.com)
GitHub Copilot now supports OpenCode (github.blog)
Video Analysis of ICE Shooting Sheds Light on Contested Moments (www.nytimes.com)
GitHub Banned a Ton of Adult Game Developers and Won''t Explain Why (www.404media.co)
Building Amiga 4000T (Part 1, Daughterboards) (wordpress.hertell.nu)
Matthew McConaughey trademarks catchphrase in bid to beat AI fakes (www.theguardian.com)
ClickHouse Handles Strings (rushter.com)
Plunging US Birth Rate Leaves Too Many Colleges with Too Few Kids (www.bloomberg.com)
Justice Dept. launches criminal investigation of Minnesota governor (www.washingtonpost.com)
daff: data diff (paulfitz.github.io)
Donald Trump Wants to Cancel the Midterm Elections (Jamelle Bouie) [video] (www.youtube.com)
Officials showed off a robo-bus in DC. It got hit by a Tesla driver (www.msn.com)
Compressing Cellular Automata Images (2017) (cloudinary.com)
The Bitter Lesson of Agent Frameworks (browser-use.com)
ChatGPT to start showing ads in the US (www.theguardian.com)
I''m Being Prosecuted for the Opposite of Insider Trading (www.wsj.com)
Why Flutter Isn''t Dead (shorebird.dev)
RFK, Jr., shifts focus to questioning whether cell phones are safe (www.scientificamerican.com)
''Are you Murray Hunter?'' How four posts landed Australian blogger in Thai jail (www.smh.com.au)
The fashion industry that is tech (www.baldurbjarnason.com)
Engine-Bench: Benchmarking Coding Agents on TCG Game Engine Tasks (github.com)
Civilian or military? China turns to merchant fleet to boost military power (www.japantimes.co.jp)
Dancing Mania (en.wikipedia.org)
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Caliper: Right-size your CI runners (www.attune.inc)
Rate Limiting, Cells, and GCRA (brandur.org)
Keifu – A TUI for navigating commit graphs with color and clarity (github.com)
Acetaminophen during pregnancy does not increase risk of autism, ADHD or IDs (medicalxpress.com)
LLMs Are Lagging Indicators (hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com)
Babyfiend.net (babyfiend.net)
Rcarmo/rdp-HTML5: RDP web client with Golang back end (github.com)
Can you legally defend yourself against an attacking police officer? (2017) (law.stackexchange.com)
Bank opacity and deposit rates (www.nber.org)
The past, present and future of LLM coding (www.hermandaniel.com)
FLUX.2 [Klein]: Towards Interactive Visual Intelligence (bfl.ai)
Iran restores sending and receiving SMS (www.iranintl.com)
Mysterious ''iron bar'' discovery in space may reveal Earth''s future (www.bbc.com)
Miyazaki''s Sherlock (animationobsessive.substack.com)
Investors Warn of ''Rot in Private Equity'' as Funds Strike Circular Deals (www.nytimes.com)
Why Americans Can''t Buy the Best Electric Car (www.nytimes.com)
Simulario – A physics simulation based game (x.com)
Why So Many Journalists Fear to Look Within (matthewgreenglobal.substack.com)
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Ralph Loop Built into AWS Kiro (kiro.dev)
Californians have a new privacy tool for deleting their data (apnews.com)
ChatGPT and Codex Are About to Get a Helluva Lot Faster (jpcaparas.medium.com)
Trump Sets Fraudster Free from Prison for a Second Time (www.nytimes.com)
Mothers Against Decapentaplegic (en.wikipedia.org)
What are we actually rushing towards with AI? (slowdown.lovable.app)
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I Got a Job in an Awful Job Market (rebekahbastian.substack.com)
The Dilbert Afterlife (By Scott Alexander) (www.astralcodexten.com)
Re: Mix: open-source repairable blender (github.com)
Before I forget how I got here (richhaase.com)
What happens to cities when the jobs leave? (deadneurons.substack.com)
FTC Finalizes Order Banning GM from Sharing Driver Data (www.pcmag.com)
IETF@40 (www.ietf.org)
I thought Grammarly was essential. It wasn''t (www.makeuseof.com)
I have settled on XChaCha20Blake3 as the AE suite of choice for my projects (mccarty.io)
LimX COSA – Agentic OS for Humanoid Robots (YouTube) (www.youtube.com)
Do Cloudflare''s Lava Lamps Do Anything? (notnotp.com)
US moves to strip sovereign wealth investors of US tax perks (www.ft.com)
Fix the two-party system with proportional representation (agrarianparty.org)
AT&T collapse:A single typo that shut down the US long-distance network (en.wikipedia.org)
Debian gnome team plans to kill GTK2 (ludditus.com)
Install.md: A standard for LLM-executable installation (www.mintlify.com)
Iran, 200 hours of a nationwide internet and telecommunications blackout (www.dw.com)
Adobe Photoshop 2025 Installer Now Working on Linux with Patched Wine (www.phoronix.com)
FAA warns on Central, South American flights over potential military actions (www.reuters.com)
Drawbot: Let''s hack something cute (2025) (www.atredis.com)
Radithor (en.wikipedia.org)
OpenAI to test ads in ChatGPT as it burns through billions (arstechnica.com)
Judge orders Anna''s Archive to delete scraped data; no one thinks it will comply (arstechnica.com)
How to open a file in Emacs (www.murilopereira.com)
The cardinal sin of software architecture (functional.computer)
I set all 376 Vim options and I''m still a fool (evanhahn.com)
Kusto Query Language (github.com)
Polar Vortex Breakdown May Trigger Weeks of Extreme Cold (www.j-c-a.org)
PaperClip on the Atari 8-Bit (stonetools.ghost.io)
I Made a Million Dollar Product from My Dorm Room (nick.winans.io)
We''re more patient with AI than one another (www.uxtopian.com)
Demystifying Evals for AI Agents (www.anthropic.com)
OpenAI Introduces Ads to ChatGPT (twitter.com)
Fastmail Is Down (fastmailstatus.com)
Billionaires demand more babies but make parenthood unaffordable (www.aljazeera.com)
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The truth Elon left out (openai.com)
White House seeks emergency power auction for largest US electric grid (www.reuters.com)
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The Engineer to Executive Translation Layer (refactoring.fm)
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Cloudflare – Elevated 500 errors for customers using User Service Keys (www.cloudflarestatus.com)
Juggle – CLI Ralph Loops with Good UX (github.com)
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Ripple and UC Berkeley Launch the University Digital Asset Xcelerator (UDAX) (ripple.com)
Meta retreats from metaverse after virtual reality check (www.theregister.com)
ChatGPT is getting ads. Sam Altman once called them a ''last resort.'' (www.businessinsider.com)
RFC: Distributed Computation Mesh in Logos Language (github.com)
Trump Delays Plan to Seize Wages of Student Borrowers Amid Affordability Push (www.bloomberg.com)
U-Haul Growth Index: Texas Back on Top as No. 1 Growth State of 2025 (www.uhaul.com)
English is the new programming language (deadneurons.substack.com)
Meta''s Internal Research (metasinternalresearch.org)
Longest Joke in the World (www.longestjokeintheworld.com)
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Grok''s biggest danger isn''t what it says – it''s where it lives (restofworld.org)
LWN is currently under the heaviest scraper attack seen yet (social.kernel.org)
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US Files Forfeiture vs Two AntiSub Warfare Trainers En Route to Chinese Military (www.justice.gov)
The Essential Arrogance of Children (elliotmorris.net)
Nintendo Virtual Boy at 1M Frames per second [video] (www.youtube.com)
The War Between alt.tasteless and rec.pets.cats (1994) (www.wired.com)
OpenAI Asking Contractors to Upload Work from Past Jobs to Evaluate AI Agents (www.wired.com)
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Gladys West''s vital contributions to GPS technology (en.wikipedia.org)
OpenAI to test ads in ChatGPT in bid to boost revenue (www.reuters.com)
Jonathan Haidt Brings New Evidence to the Battle Against Social Media (www.nytimes.com)
Free IP blacklist checker (DNSBL/RBL) with CIDR and /24 support (networkwhois.com)
A controller-enforced alternative to agent-driven ''Ralph'' loops (github.com)
SkipCV (www.skipcv.com)
Open Source Alternatives to Cloudflare Products (oneuptime.com)
Medium Was Built for an Internet That No Longer Exists (medium.com)
Cloudflare Just Bought a Web Framework. Here''s Why That Changes Everything (jpcaparas.medium.com)
Bandcamp bans AI-generated music: ''Human creativity first'' (ra.co)
Interlingua (en.wikipedia.org)
Universal SSL exposes domains to BGP leaks (community.cloudflare.com)
Friday Deploys: Sometimes That Puppy Needs Murdering (charity.wtf)
Tehran Friday prayer leader calls for execution of detained protesters (www.iranintl.com)
Slop Is Everywhere for Those with Eyes to See (www.fromjason.xyz)
Life in Kyiv right now (non-media view, I live there) (www.redshift-observatory.ch)
Cutting LLM token Usage by 80% using REPL driven document analysis (yogthos.net)
Smalloc: A Simple Memory Allocator (github.com)
MySQL vs. PostgreSQL Performance: throughput and latency, reads and writes (binaryigor.com)
The All-Star Chinese AI Conversation of 2026 (www.chinatalk.media)
Is Germany Looking to Put a Backdoor into Arch Linux? (twitter.com)
ChatGPT Go, now available worldwide (openai.com)
The DC-ROMA II is the fastest RISC-V laptop and is odd (www.jeffgeerling.com)
A year in the life of a Staff Engineer (medium.com)
DuckDuckGo is asking for a Yes or No vote on AI (duckduckgo.com)
US says Canada will regret decision to allow Chinese EVs into their market (www.reuters.com)
Golfing APL/K in 90 Lines of Python (aljamal.substack.com)
I''m not a good enough engineer to code with LLMs (kian.wtf)
AI hype is 80% real (sealedabstract.com)
LogiCode: LeetCode for hardware design. Synthesize, optimize, and compete (logi-code.com)
''Dilbert'' Was Always MAGA (www.nytimes.com)
OpenAI testing ads in ChatGPT free and Go tiers (twitter.com)
The wealth of the top% reaches a record 52T (www.cnbc.com)
Building a MCP Client in Google Apps Script (justin.poehnelt.com)
Trump threatens new tariffs on countries opposed to Greenland takeover (www.bbc.co.uk)
Trump wants tech companies to foot the bill for new power plants because of AI (www.cnbc.com)
Squishy Go (puyogo.app)
When Polymarket Can''t Agree on Reality (nymag.com)
Testing a sci-fi story from 1953 (blog.outlandish.claims)
Dnstt (DNS Tunneling) Bypassing Iran''s Current DPI via DoH/DoT (www.bamsoftware.com)
Pencil case feminism (glosswitch.substack.com)
SkyVM (By Dioxus Labs): Instant-Boot Desktop VMs for AI Agents (skyvm.dev)
Daniel Walker Howe, 88, Revisionist Historian of Jackson''s America, Dies (www.nytimes.com)
When tools pretend to be people (uxdesign.cc)
Hands-On Introduction to Unikernels (labs.iximiuz.com)
New Evidence Reveals Renee Good Was Still Alive When ICE Blocked Medic (newrepublic.com)
When it comes to vaccine schedules, the U.S. is now the outlier (www.statnews.com)
Reading across books with Claude Code (pieterma.es)
IBM warns AI spend fails without AI literacy (www.thedeepview.com)
The Toxic Modernity Narrative (www.theargumentmag.com)
Langfuse Joins ClickHouse (langfuse.com)
Temporal API Ships in Chrome 144, Marking a Major Shift for JavaScript Date (socket.dev)
UPenn faculty condemn Trump administration''s demand for ''lists of Jews'' (www.theguardian.com)
OpenAI to start testing ads in ChatGPT free and Go tiers (xcancel.com)
Chinese Fishing Boats Form Sea Barriers (www.nytimes.com)
Creating a 48GB Nvidia RTX 4090 GPU – Brother Zhang''s Repair Shop (Ft. 张哥) [video] (www.youtube.com)
Ads Are Coming to ChatGPT. Here’s How They’ll Work (www.wired.com)
They Wanted a University Without Cancel Culture. Then Dissenters Were Ousted (www.politico.com)
Using a local DNS namespace for local service discovery (tech.stonecharioteer.com)
We do know that Waymos are safer than human drivers (www.theargumentmag.com)
ChatGPT ads are coming, a bellwether for free AI services (www.axios.com)
RTS for Agents (www.getagentcraft.com)
Earth from Space: The Fate of a Giant (www.esa.int)
SkyVM: Instant desktop VMs from memory snapshots (skyvm.dev)
AI Generated Code Isn''t Cheating: OSS Needs to Talk About It (blog.mozilla.ai)
Graphics In Flatland – 2D ray tracing [video] (www.youtube.com)
Claude Cowork Is Now Available to Pro Subscribers (twitter.com)
OpenAI to Test Targeted Ads in ChatGPT (www.bloomberg.com)
OpenAI to Begin Testing Ads in ChatGPT in Push for Fresh Revenue (www.wsj.com)
OpenAI to begin testing ads on ChatGPT in the U.S. (www.cnbc.com)
The pirate-based logic of Rust shared references (ais523.me.uk)
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TSMC says AI demand is "endless" after record Q4 earnings (arstechnica.com)
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OpenAI Has Some Catching Up to Do (every.to)
1Password''s Enterprise Identity Transformation (softwareanalyst.substack.com)
Savewalterwhite.com – is it a real website? (redas.dev)
How Universities Are Shutting Out Disabled Students and Staff (thewalrus.ca)
Life Under a Clicktatorship (donmoynihan.substack.com)
The AI boom is heralding a new gold rush in the American west (www.theguardian.com)
American Invasion of Greenland (2029) (falloutfanfic.fandom.com)
AI and Copyright Law (www.sfchronicle.com)
Is This Billionaire a Financial Genius or a Fraudster? (www.nytimes.com)
Terminalai – Turn natural language into shell commands (www.terminalai.app)
Partly AI-generated folk-pop hit barred from Sweden''s official charts (www.theguardian.com)
Spotify increases its US subscription prices for the third time in 3 years (sherwood.news)
STFU (github.com)
Semantic highlight model to cut token cost for RAG (huggingface.co)
Disproof of Large Language Model Consciousness (web3.arxiv.org)
Future-as-Label: Scalable Supervision from Real-World Outcomes (arxiv.org)
ICE takes back into custody man released for violation of rights (apnews.com)
Tennessee Man Pleads Guilty to Hacking Supreme Court System (news.bloomberglaw.com)
Game Poems (www.gamepoems.com)
Fake cases, real consequences: The AI crisis facing UK law firms (vinciworks.com)
Crystal 1.19.0 Is Released (crystal-lang.org)
The rise of ''micro'' apps: non-developers are writing apps instead of buying them (techcrunch.com)
Dell UltraSharp 52 Thunderbolt Hub Monitor (www.dell.com)
ClickHouse Acquires Langfuse (clickhouse.com)
Bloom Filters (arpitbhayani.me)
Succinate Modulation Associated with Intermittent Fasting in Obesity (onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
Building a World of Warcraft Server in Elixir: 2025 Update (pikdum.dev)
Machado gives Nobel peace prize medal to Trump (www.bbc.com)
Hacking a Consumer Drone: Dumping Firmware and Bruteforcing ECC (neodyme.io)
Exiled crown prince urges world to help protesters topple Iran''s government (www.bbc.com)
Monty Hall Project Management: When to switch plans for better outcomes (davidlemayian.com)
Canada slashes 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs to 6% (electrek.co)
Real Foresight Looks Wrong (Or Why Steve Ballmer Was Right) (notes.philippdubach.com)
Trump Orders USDA Employees to Investigate Foreign Researchers They Work With (www.propublica.org)
Designated Initializers, the best feature of C20 (mropert.github.io)
Google Search Engine (www.google.com)
The Unravelling of Thinking Machines: When 2B Can''t Keep the Founders (medium.com)
Canada, China slash EV, canola tariffs in reset of ties (www.reuters.com)
Google AI Studio''s API key protection is as exposed as the key itself (github.com)
Why Politics Appear (yusufaytas.com)
Poor''s Man Shaders (nullonerror.org)
/R/Atlanta Has New Mods: Here''s What Happened (old.reddit.com)
AI Weiwei: ''You in the West Can''t Compete with China'' (www.thetimes.com)
Emoji Design Convergence Review: 2018 – 2026 (blog.emojipedia.org)
High Contrast-ish Gruvbox theme for VS Code (marketplace.visualstudio.com)
Is Tehching Hsieh the most extreme performance artist ever? (www.theguardian.com)
Programming pearls: a sample of brilliance (1987) [pdf] (dl.acm.org)
Firefly race – watch brains learn in realtime (claude.ai)
What does 2026 hold for Cowboy? (micromobility.io)
Many Small Steps for Robots, One Giant Leap for Mankind (www.notboring.co)
Some (some.3b1b.co)
Eatmydata – transparently disable fsync() and other data-to-disk sync calls (manpages.debian.org)
Indy (YC S21) – A support app designed for ADHD brains (www.shimmer.care)
They''ve pickled each others'' brains (sf.gazetteer.co)
Skills Manager for Your Coding Agent (github.com)
AI and the Corporate Capture of Knowledge (www.schneier.com)
The Reasons New Yorkers'' Groceries Cost So Much (www.vitalcitynyc.org)
Elon Musk''s X down for users (www.bbc.com)
Windows App forgets how to log in with first security update of the year (www.theregister.com)
I Turn Scientific Renderings of Space into Art (nautil.us)
Chinese EVs inch closer to the US as Canada slashes tariffs (techcrunch.com)
I just spoke with a friend in Iran and things are worse than media reports (twitter.com)
Sleep Machine (zzz.jordanstephens.com)
White House Insists Trump Is ''Joking'' About Canceling Midterm Elections (time.com)
My review of the Nüborn Baby at 3 months (joshcollinsworth.com)
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Read at 600 wpm using rapid serial visual representation (RSVP) (read-faster.com)
AI will destroy jobs if not controlled, Khan warns (www.bbc.com)
10,924x: The Instability Bomb at 1.7B Scale (taylorkolasinski.com)
Abandon Git LFS Because AI Agents (justin.poehnelt.com)
DNS tunneling works in Iran; can you support us to scale? (github.com)
How to be a great mentor in business and life (bigthink.com)
Many Bluetooth Devices with Google Fast Pair Vulnerable to "WhisperPair" Hack (arstechnica.com)
Open Responses: What you need to know (huggingface.co)
Picat: A simple, powerful, logic-based multi-paradigm programming language (picat-lang.org)
Twitter Is Down (www.tomsguide.com)
Starlink updates Privacy Policy to allow AI model training with personal data (coywolf.com)
Apple sits out AI arms race to play kingmaker between Google and OpenAI (www.ft.com)
GPU Memory Fundamentals (github.com)
Thoughts on No Graphics API (www.corsix.org)
AWS Launches AWS European Sovereign Cloud and Announces Expansion Across Europe (press.aboutamazon.com)
Judge: ICE violated Liberian man''s rights by bursting through front door (www.fox9.com)
Observations and Thoughts from 180 Days in Rome (avivbenyosef.com)
BIP352: static payment addresses in Bitcoin without on-chain linkability (github.com)
High-Five to the Belgrade Hand (asianometry.passport.online)
20260116 – AI''s first real casualties (e27.co)
Natural History Museum Offering Scorpion Display on Freecycle (www.freecycle.org)
6-Day and IP Address Certificates Are Generally Available (letsencrypt.org)
"Feel nothing to wear" every morning? (stylepilot.ai)
Pebble Brings Open Wearables to Your Wrist (Or Finger) (spectrum.ieee.org)
Serveo: Expose local servers to the internet using only a browser extension (serveo.net)
Everything is amazing and nobody''s happy (notes.philippdubach.com)