Spotify leak: why so many 2-minute songs (writingcosmo.substack.com)
Eise.app – Easy (Planetary) Image Stacker in the Browser for Astrophotography (eise.app)
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I don''t do GitHub pull requests – Linus Torvalds (github.com)
Notepad-like simple text editor where files are saved and encrypted with AES-256 (github.com)
OpenAI Residency Program 2026 (openai.com)
Tinker: General Availability and Vision Input (thinkingmachines.ai)
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The Compiler Is Your Best Friend, Stop Lying to It (blog.daniel-beskin.com)
Cross-platform client mod for Slack desktop (github.com)
Simple 3D Packing (github.com)
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Building for the Future (anirudh.fi)
H-1B visa fee upheld by federal judge (www.latimes.com)
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6 Michelin Stock in 60 Minutes (www.youtube.com)
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Rapace – RPC over SHM / WS / TCP / Mem (rapace.bearcove.eu)
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Loki Mode (github.com)
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AI can help get fusion from lab to energy grid by the 2030s – WEF (www.weforum.org)
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Human Processor Model (en.wikipedia.org)
Betty Reid Soskin, who became a park ranger at 85, dies aged 104 (www.theguardian.com)
Atomic Orbital Viewer (asliceofcuriosity.fr)
QNX Self-Hosted Developer Desktop (devblog.qnx.com)
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The moral critic of the AI industry–a Q&A with Holly Elmore (www.foommagazine.org)
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Exe.dev/ (exe.dev)
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Multiverse: The First AI Multiplayer World Model (enigma.inc)
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Python 3.6-3.14 Performance on M1, M5 and Zen2 (crewtech.se)
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Tmux and SSH Agent Forwarding (blog.feld.me)
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Raku 2025 Review (raku-advent.blog)
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Nvidia-Groq deal is structured to keep ''fiction of competition alive'' (www.cnbc.com)
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Scorg – Organization Management Platform for Star Citizen (www.scorg.org)
Google''s boomerang year: 20% of AI engineers/SWE hired in 2025 were ex-employees (www.cnbc.com)
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Rkyv: Zero-copy deserialization framework for Rust (rkyv.org)
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China''s TFR dev team has disbanded, following the arrest of its head dev by MSS (www.reddit.com)
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Attention Is Not What You Need: Grassmann Flows as an Attention-Free Alternative (arxiv.org)
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Administration Is the Root Bug of Civilization (blog.hermesloom.org)
Kubernetes 1.35: In-Place Pod Resize Graduates to Stable – Kubernetes (kubernetes.io)
Toys with the highest play-time and lowest clean-up-time (joannabregan.substack.com)
SaaS Is the New Mall (sagivo.com)
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New York to require social media platforms to display mental health warnings (www.reuters.com)
FreeRadical – Rust CMS that''s 1500% faster than WordPress (freeradical.dev)
Nike''s Crisis and the Economics of Brand Decay (philippdubach.com)
ExpertMouse TB800 EQ Trackball: Listening to Our Users (www.kensington.com)
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NYC phone ban reveals some students can''t read clocks (gothamist.com)
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Apple''s brain drain in post-iPhone era proves it can handle Executive turnover (www.bgr.com)
China Sanctions Boeing, Other U.S. Companies over Taiwan Arms Sale (www.wsj.com)
Data Center Surge Reaches India as American Tech Giants Invest Billions (www.nytimes.com)
America''s Biggest Oil Field Is Turning into a Pressure Cooker (www.wsj.com)
Russia patents space station designed to generate artificial gravity (www.space.com)
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Gaussian Splatting 3 Ways (github.com)
The Epstein Files: Why Half the Internet Is Wrong About Those Redactions (pdfa.org)
"Vibecession" reflects an increasingly difficult economy and society (greyenlightenment.com)
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University threatened with legal action after protest at academic''s talk (www.bbc.co.uk)
AI is a motorbike for the mind – not always a good thing (kau.sh)
"DevOps didn''t exist when I started as a developer." (circleci.com)
Konami Code (craigatallahfrost.com)
The Radicalization of My Father (vomtag.com)
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Cursed circuits #4: PLL frequency multiplier (lcamtuf.substack.com)
Elevator Wiki: wiki about elevators and their related topics (elevation.fandom.com)
MongoBleed (github.com)
Vanslist – No middlemen. No fees. Just people (vanslist.com)
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Paralysed man controls robots by mind using China''s BCI tech (scienceclock.com)
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The Louvre museum''s collection database, updated daily (collections.louvre.fr)
The AI Reality Check: Deconstructing the 2025 Stack Overflow Developer Survey (nitinahirwal.in)
Do you believe in society''s lies? (samkriss.substack.com)
Leaker Who Apple Is Suing Says ''Screw It,'' Here''s the Foldable iPhone Early (gizmodo.com)
I Killed Color on My Phone. The Result Shocked Me (www.nytimes.com)
Laid Off After 25 Years in Tech [video] (www.youtube.com)
Metastable Failures and Interactions Between Systems (charap.co)
Apple''s M-series chip 5 years later (www.tomsguide.com)
The most friendless place on Earth (www.economist.com)
FFmpeg has issued a DMCA takedown on GitHub (twitter.com)
Matz 1/2: A single email sparked Ruby''s growth (en.kaigaiiju.ch)
Matz 2/2: The trajectory of Ruby''s growth, Open-Source Software today etc. (en.kaigaiiju.ch)
New science points to 4 distinct types of autism (www.washingtonpost.com)
Supernova from the dawn of the universe captured by James Webb Space Telescope (phys.org)
Why Your RAG Sucks: The Art and Science of Chunking and Hybrid Search (medium.com)
Vector Embeddings: AI Doesn''t Understand Words. It Understands Math (medium.com)
ICE''s interest in high-tech gear raises new questions: ''What is it for?'' (www.politico.com)
Pg_textsearch: PostgreSQL extension for BM25 relevance-ranked full-text search (github.com)
A Proclamation Regarding the Restoration of the Em-Dash (blog.nawaz.org)
Pagebound is an independent Goodreads alternative (pagebound.co)
Experts Explore New Mushroom Which Causes Fairytale-Like Hallucinations (nhmu.utah.edu)
Mostlymatter: A fork of Mattermost by Framasoft (packages.framasoft.org)
Fix Claude''s Enter Key (chromewebstore.google.com)
TailwindCSS Animation Snippets (snippets.alexandru.so)
iPhone Air 2 Could Still Launch Next Year (www.macrumors.com)
I flew inside my phone – The Hidden City [video] (www.youtube.com)
SourceGit: Open-Source Git UI for Windows/macOS/Linux (github.com)
Tracking Shell Scripts (and Python, Perl, etc.) with eBPF Is Hard (substack.bomfather.dev)
C/C Embedded Files (www.4rknova.com)
Bowie''s ODE solver and the nonlinear pendulum (www.johndcook.com)
Osint Your Future Employer (piotrmackowski.com)
Depth on Demand (solmaz.io)
China isn''t just dumping cheap goods anymore – it''s sending caviar (www.ft.com)
When it all comes crashing down: The aftermath of the AI boom (thebulletin.org)
First 3D-printed microscope blew up in 2025 (www.newscientist.com)
I built fuckstyrofoam.org – crowdsourced database of companies using styrofoam (fuckstyrofoam.org)
Scientists boost mitochondria to burn more calories (phys.org)
What Being a Billionire Looks Like [video] (www.youtube.com)
Everything Is a Number (francescocarlucci.com)
AI Boom Adds 500B To Net Worth Of US Tech Billionaires In 2025 (www.ft.com)
I built a quiet site for finding ambient albums while working (ambientmusic.com)
Hollywood cozied up to AI in 2025 and had nothing good to show for it (www.theverge.com)
Tinykit: Self-hosted Lovable/v0 alternative. Realtime database, storage included (github.com)
Neuromorphic Software Guide (open-neuromorphic.org)
The Renewable-Energy Superpower (www.economist.com)
The /Do Router: Keyword Matching for Specialist Selection in Claude Code (vexjoy.com)
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I shrunk down into an M5 chip [video] (www.youtube.com)
My coworker''s 36 key Corne open-source keyboard setup (nuon.co)
The Story of DeepMind (bigthink.com)
Rackarr – Visual rack layout designer for homelabbers (github.com)
Publisher Pathfinder: a tool to help developers find publishing partners (www.gamesindustry.biz)
Bash script to vendor in NPM packages to your repo (gist.github.com)
Open Neuromorphic (open-neuromorphic.org)
UK campaigner targeted by Trump accuses tech giants of ''sociopathic greed'' (www.theguardian.com)
From Intent to Proof: Dafny Verification for Web Apps (midspiral.com)
The AI bubble is all over now, baby blue (garymarcus.substack.com)
VisualDiffer: Compare Folders and Files on macOS (visualdiffer.com)
AI Generated Tests Might Be Lying to You (www.youtube.com)
More Than 80% of New California Properties Are in High Fire-Risk Areas (www.theguardian.com)
The gut bacteria that put the brakes on weight gain in mice (phys.org)
Am I a Workaholic? (workaholics-anonymous.org)
Shopify Handles 30TB of Data Every Minute with a Monolithic Architecture (medium.com)
Can Apple''s AirPod Translation Get You Through Tokyo? We Tested It (www.nytimes.com)
Guide to Machine Learning (www.ibm.com)
Pew Research - Striking Findings from 2025 (www.pewresearch.org)
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High School Student Discovers 1.5M Potential New Astronomical Objects (www.smithsonianmag.com)
China''s control of battery supply chain a critical risk for US Military (www.tomshardware.com)
Steve wants us to make the Macintosh boot faster (www.folklore.org)
Don''t Get Hacked: Self-Hosting with Coolify and Hetzner (blog.jakesaunders.dev)
Clone Hero – open-source Guitar Hero successor (clonehero.net)
SSH-agent broken in tmux? I''ve got you (blogsystem5.substack.com)
Dual Codebook Representationl Learning for Generative Recommendation (arxiv.org)
What Do We Tell the Humans? (theaidigest.org)
In the ''90s, Wing Commander: Privateer made me realize what kind of games I love (arstechnica.com)
Cjanet (github.com)
Why Are There So Many Car Companies in China and Japan vs. the US? (www.governance.fyi)
C-events, yet another event loop, simpler, smaller, faster, safer (zelang-dev.github.io)
Santa Claus on delivering 99% Uptime [video] (www.youtube.com)
Laser-assisted 3D printing can fabricate thermoset-based electronics in seconds (techxplore.com)
Turning an old Amazon Kindle into a eInk development platform (blog.lidskialf.net)
Rope science, part 11 – practical syntax highlighting (2017) (xi-editor.io)
Bazel Central Registry SSL certificate expired, breaking Bzlmod builds (github.com)
Announce: SMTP DANE Verify – self-monitor your DANE policy (github.com)
We May Never Know If AI Is Conscious, Says Cambridge Philosopher (scitechdaily.com)
WebRTC Architecture Explained: P2P vs. SFU vs. MCU vs. XDN (www.red5.net)
Bill Gates'' Minesweeper addiction helped lead to the Xbox (2023) (arstechnica.com)
Volvo Cars introduce typeface designed with safety in mind (www.volvocars.com)
Trust Wallet Chrome extension hack tied to millions in losses (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
Nvidia CUDA Tile IR Open-Sourced (www.phoronix.com)
Tesla''s European Sales Plunge (247wallst.com)
Building Todoist''s Ramble #2: Capturing Audio in Real-Time (www.doist.dev)
The Problem Was Never Intelligence. It Was Attention (medium.com)
Undefinable yet Indispensable (aeon.co)
Two Different Paths for Psilocybin Biosynthesis in Inocybe&Psilocybe Mushrooms (onlinelibrary.wiley.com)