The nine-to-five PhD: mere myth or an achievable goal? (www.nature.com)
Diving into Starlink''s User Terminal Firmware (blog.quarkslab.com)
Conway''s Game of Life with Penrose and Voronoi tilings (life.au.pe)
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Casus Belli Engineering (marcosmagueta.com)
The Bureaucrats Won''t Be Toppled: Revolts No Longer Work (unherd.com)
Infinite Velocity (cube-drone.com)
Why LLMs Aren''t Giving You the Result You Expect (akitaonrails.com)
The parking lot that''s keeping the lights on (www.begiant.ca)
Reflecting on my own strange year at Uber (anon-ex-uber.medium.com)
Education research is weak and sloppy. Why? (www.theargumentmag.com)
PyCon US 20216 (us.pycon.org)
Simple Machines (en.wikipedia.org)
Generating Hierarchical JSON Representations of Scientific Sentences Using LLMs (arxiv.org)
Post-quantum cryptography migration at Meta: Framework, lessons, and takeaways (engineering.fb.com)
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How Australia Stopped the Boats (worksinprogress.co)
Northern Lights Visible in US Friday and Saturday (www.livescience.com)
Predicting RNA activity expands therapeutic possibilities (phys.org)
Beanie Is Designed to Read Your Thoughts (www.wired.com)
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Proteus: Heterogeneous FPGA Virtualization [pdf] (dse.in.tum.de)
LibreShockwave – Open-source SDK, decompiler and web player for Adobe Shockwave (github.com)
Trevex: A Black-Box Detection Framework for Data-Flow Transient Execution Vulns (roots.ec)
How an LLM becomes more coherent as we train it (www.gilesthomas.com)
Seinfeld Is Unfunny (tvtropes.org)
CRYS-L – execution engine with 0 variance for critical systems, verify with curl (desarrollador.xyz)
Adversarial distillation (www.frontiermodelforum.org)
The Publishing Mystery That No One Wants to Talk About (www.theatlantic.com)
The DNA Fix for Aging (www.theatlantic.com)
Your Computer Isn''t Yours (sneak.berlin)
Cloudfare Mesh (developers.cloudflare.com)
There is no you in your brain – your identity is a "society of the mind" (bigthink.com)
OpenAI Says Codex Agents Are Running Its Data Platform Autonomously (www.forbes.com)
Release PiClaw v1.8.1 – Heat (github.com)
Vibecheck: AI Web Design Slop Fingerprinter (www.vibecheck.fail)
John Wick, Madara Uchiha, characters that take on entire armies by themselves (www.juanmanarmy.com)
Healing the Invisible Scars of Gen Z''s Over-Sanitized World (www.wsj.com)
New German search engine lets people check whether their relatives were Nazis (www.cnn.com)
Investors salivate over SpaceX''s mega IPO, the company reportedly lost 5B (moneywise.com)
If you want into Anthropic''s Claude club, you may have to show ID (www.theregister.com)
Shuttered startups are selling old Slack chats and emails to AI companies (www.fastcompany.com)
Free tool for WebP and SVG optimization. Privat data (axiomoverclock.ca)
Cisco Wi-Fi boxes are filling their disks with 5MB of undeletable data every day (www.theregister.com)
Intel eases reliance on TSMC with ''Merica-made Core Series 3 processors (www.theregister.com)
Does the brain make its own DMT? New study ignites debate (refractor.io)
Littlebird raises 11M for its AI-assisted ''recall'' tool (techcrunch.com)
Terminator: Code You See Onscreen [video] (www.youtube.com)
Japan''s Cherry Blossom Database, 1,200 Years Old, Has a New Keeper (www.nytimes.com)
A private space company has a new plan to bag an asteroid (arstechnica.com)
Maine Said No to New Data Centers. Other States Are Racing to Follow (www.motherjones.com)
From Endless Frontier to Enemy of the People: The Assault on Public Science (www.lawfaremedia.org)
NASA''s X-59 Completes First Wheels-Up Flight (www.nasa.gov)
A win–lose mindset affects political and policy preferences (www.aeaweb.org)
Who Is Blake Whiting? (theamericanscholar.org)
Japan reveals new name for 40C-and-hotter days after blistering summer (www.bbc.com)
How to Host a Blog on a Subdirectory Instead of a Subdomain (www.davidma.org)
Cerebras Files for IPO as Demand Surges for More Efficient AI Chips (www.wsj.com)
The Danger of "Modern" Open Source (fagnerbrack.com)
How to teach the same skill to different robots (actu.epfl.ch)
DOOM runs in ChatGPT and Claude (chrisnager.com)
"Am I Crazy?" [Wading Through AI – Episode 3] [video] (www.youtube.com)
DriveLogs (DMV-ready driving hour logs for teen drivers, iOS) (www.drivelogs.app)
3 Hours with Claude Opus 4.7: functional study webapp and remote MCP- Oneshotted (github.com)
Kefir C17/C23 Compiler (sr.ht)
The AI Rewrite Dilemma (lh3.github.io)
Landmark ancient-genome study shows surprise acceleration of human evolution (www.nature.com)
Opus 4.7: better or worse so far compared to 4.6? (don''t forget to upvote) (strawpoll.com)
The Linux Slayers: Office, Photoshop, and AutoCAD (hajo.me)
Self-Hosting (blog.pcora.eu)
Event Tensor: A Unified Abstraction for Compiling Dynamic Megakernel (arxiv.org)
Stop Burning Money on UGC Creators: Generate Viral Ads with AI in Seconds (ecomscalingpro.substack.com)
Only 13% of emails are written by people (english.elpais.com)
Kevin Weil and Bill Peebles exit OpenAI as company continues to shed side quests (techcrunch.com)
Cal.com OSS project goes closed source due to AI (cal.com)
Ryan Mather: My tips for getting the best results out of Claude Design (twitter.com)
The big business of survival bunkers (www.economist.com)
High Amplitude Disagreeableness (staysaasy.com)
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Official MCP Package for Dokploy (github.com)
DARPA Launches HARQ to Build Multi-Qubit Quantum Systems (thequantuminsider.com)
Chinese groups call for global AI governance framework – Chinadaily.com.cn (www.chinadaily.com.cn)
Using a USB switch as a full KVM (luke.hsiao.dev)
Synthetic Astrophysics Photometry (github.com)
What Psychedelics Do to the Brain (www.nationalgeographic.com)
Worldmonitor: Real-time global intelligence dashboard (github.com)
Opus 4.7 refuses to solve NYT Connections puzzles (twitter.com)
Airbus Likely Provided Satellite Imagery of US Military Assets to China Before (chinaselectcommittee.house.gov)
Agentic Infrastructure (vercel.com)
Inside Notion (colossus.com)
Focused microwaves allow 3D printers to fuse circuits onto almost anything (newatlas.com)
Tesla Roadstar does not even have a release date so how is that not real fraud? (www.tesla.com)
Opinion 195 (sites.math.rutgers.edu)
Composing a Search Engine (exa.ai)
Amazon won''t release Fire Sticks that support sideloading anymore (arstechnica.com)
Agile Is Dying (twitter.com)
Fulu bounty for Ring Camera jailbreak reaches 23k (bounties.fulu.org)
The new World ID and the partners bringing proof of human to the internet (world.org)
Two Motorola Transistors Became the Default NPNs (www.allaboutcircuits.com)
The Cashier Standard – Age Verification Without Surveillance (claude.ai)
Cerebras S-1 (www.sec.gov)
The N.Y.P.D. Is Teaching America How to Track Everyone Every Day Forever (www.nytimes.com)
Meta targets May 20 for first wave of layoffs; additional cuts later in 2026 (www.reuters.com)
Sam Altman Is Dangerously Disconnected from Reality (weaponizedspaces.substack.com)
Zymacs on Writing .gitignore Files (zymacs.github.io)
Rostra – P2P Social Network (rostra.me)
What Happens to Software When Proof Is Cheap? Allen School Distinguished Lecture [video] (www.youtube.com)
Shakespeare''s ''missing'' London house mapped with new discovery (www.kcl.ac.uk)
You paid for it, you should be comfortable in it (idiallo.com)
Dennis Ritchie''s PhD Dissertation [pdf] (archive.computerhistory.org)
Breakthrough takes big step toward safe, reversible male contraception (news.cornell.edu)
Paper, Love and Software (github.com)
Snowflake vs. Databricks Showdown (select.dev)
Today I shipped 20 apps and a screensaver (blog.gingerbeardman.com)
Machine-Generated Code Deserves Machine-Checked Proofs (zoep.github.io)
Saving a Lost Generation of Young Men – With Chop Saws (www.newyorker.com)
MXMap: Email Providers of Dutch Municipalities (mxmap.nl)
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Strapi: Open-Source Alternative to Sanity and Contentful – OpenAlternative (openalternative.co)
How to Build Advanced Generative AI Agents (Kinda) (www.generative.inc)
If You Want a Better World, Act Like You Live in It (www.theatlantic.com)
Chinese car company patents voice-activated ''in-vehicle toilet'' (www.upi.com)
Tario-2: A Whole-Transcriptome Foundation Model from H&E Alone (www.noetik.blog)
"Show Me the Incentive, and I''ll Show You the Outcome." (www.fixtheincentives.org)
Verijit – Up to 100x faster Verilog simulation [video] (www.youtube.com)
''Everything is coming down'': ChatGPT ads are getting cheaper (digiday.com)
Philz Coffee retreats from controversial plan (www.sfchronicle.com)
A Close Look at a Spinlock (blog.regehr.org)
How Netflix Built the Operations Layer Behind Live at Scale (netflixtechblog.com)
China surfaces details of spacecraft for Moon landing by 2030 (jatan.space)
Why AI Is Not Getting You Out of a Job (yeikoff.xyz)
OpenAI to spend more than 20B on Cerebras chips, receive stake (www.reuters.com)
Books I Like: SICP (users.cms.caltech.edu)
The Computers of WarGames – What Was Real? What Was Fake? [video] (www.youtube.com)
Iceland Just Got Its First Mosquitoes (gizmodo.com)
Year of the IPv6 Overlay Network (www.defined.net)
A more efficient implementation of Shor''s algorithm (lwn.net)
I ran Opus 4.7 vs. Old Opus 4.6 vs. New Opus 4.6 on 28 Zod tasks (www.stet.sh)
MoqBoy: Anarchy Gameboy Player (moq.dev)
The Road to Responsive IntelliJ-Based IDEs (blog.jetbrains.com)
Django Admin–style panel for NestJS (TypeORM/Prisma, filters, actions) (github.com)
Tesla tells HW3 owner to ''be patient'' after 7 years of waiting for FSD (electrek.co)
Choosing Entrepreneurship over a Corporate Career (levels.io)
Easy code and work AI agent system: auto, asynchronous, concurrency, efficiently (github.com)
Tesla Cybertruck sales inflated: SpaceX bought 1,279 units (electrek.co)
"Tokenmaxxing" is making developers less productive than they think (techcrunch.com)
English''s New Consonant (dannylbate.substack.com)
Dip 1053 – A Tale of Tuples (blog.dlang.org)
Linux? In My Web Browser? – How to Bring Up the Linux Kernel (werwolv.net)
Scientists have successfully measured the instantaneous power of black hole jet (www.nature.com)
Even "cat readme.txt" is not safe (blog.calif.io)
Fits on a Floppy – A Manifesto for Small Software (fitsonafloppy.com)
Fuck Facebook, Again (visualgui.com)
"Should be no trouble at all for a driver to understand." (unsung.aresluna.org)
Bluesky experienced sophisticated DDoS attack which intensified through April 16 (bsky.app)
Moltbook, Gas Town and the Death of the Programmer Priest-Class (jchak.com)
Stickers Against Germany (thediasporist.de)
Changes needed to deliver a transformation in biodiversity measurement (www.pnas.org)
Reactionary Red-Lining of AI (www.chrbutler.com)
As Agentic AI explodes, Amazon doubles down on MCP (thenewstack.io)
All 12 moonwalkers had "lunar hay fever" from dust smelling like gunpowder (www.esa.int)
FAA Scraps Civil and Criminal Penalties for Flying Drones Near ICE Vehicles (www.404media.co)
A Visual History of Programming Languages (sheets.works)
The Case for Fixing Everything (www.technologyreview.com)
Anthropic''s Dario Amodei to Meet with White House about Mythos (www.cnbc.com)
NeoGeo AES: SNK announces reissue of retro console without emulation (www.heise.de)
Back When Smoking Was Rewarded (creativepro.com)
CachyOS Is Now the Most Popular Desktop Distro on ProtonDB (boilingsteam.com)
American farmers bet on solar. Then Trump changed the rules (grist.org)
xAI has Released Grok 4.3 (beta) (twitter.com)
The Puppetmaster reveals his form (asimpleman333.github.io)
OVH is increasing hosting prices Up to 4 (old.reddit.com)
Why AI Needs a Sense of Smell (www.noemamag.com)
You bought your Nissan, so why are features still locked behind restrictions? [video] (www.youtube.com)
A shared library for Commodore Amiga written in Motorola 68020 assembly language (amiga-assembly-library.vercel.app)
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The American consumer market is larger than the EU and China''s combined (en.wikipedia.org)
Gen Z is 10 times more accepting of violence against speakers than Boomers (expression.fire.org)
Our Longing for Inconvenience (www.newyorker.com)
Playdate won''t have games using AI-generated assets (www.gamedeveloper.com)
Controversial FISA program extended by House but only until April 30 (www.cbsnews.com)
Twenty Moves Suffice for Rubik''s Cube (www.gathering4gardner.org)
The only fonts I use (rgo.pt)
I Tried the LLM Wiki and RAG on Todays News from BBC, CNN, Euronews (99helpers.com)
Asha Bhosle (1933-2026): The Many-splendoured Voice of India (www.moneylife.in)
Claude Design (claude.ai)
Tumour cells use a genetic trick to become drug-resistant (www.economist.com)
Uber will now pick up your returns from your doorstep (techcrunch.com)
Altman attack suspect suggested ''Luigi''ing some tech CEOs'' in online chat (thehill.com)
Consent Is Not Enough (log.ozgur.works)
Listen to PyPI (miketheman.github.io)
Random musings: 80s hardware, cyberdecks (strangelyentangled.com)
Self-care: Claude Code plugin to self-improve Claude Code (github.com)
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Sneaker Company Allbirds Plans to Pivot to A.I (www.nytimes.com)
Airline adds bunk beds for economy travelers but bans snacks, smells and cuddles (apnews.com)
International standard paper sizes: A series (en.wikipedia.org)
Live Translation, Right in the Browser (artisincode.com)
Recall issued for power banks after explosion kills woman (www.cpsc.gov)
The Patchwright – Cyberpunk Short Film [video] (www.youtube.com)
Anthropic''s Nuclear Bomb (warontherocks.com)
I''m Coding by Hand (miguelconner.substack.com)
Claude Opus fixed 3 production bugs perfectly. All 3 were the wrong fix (gist.github.com)
I am DONE with applying to Indeed or LinkedIn (github.com)
Vectary Canvas: AI-accelerated ideation across 2D, 3D and AR (www.vectary.com)
Bringing BitNet to ExecuTorch via Vulkan (www.collabora.com)
Who will maintain the web when PHP''s veterans retire? (thenewstack.io)
AI''s Mainframe Moment (www.mjeggleton.com)
Writing string.h functions using string instructions in asm x86-64 (pmasschelier.github.io)
ParseBench: Document Parsing Benchmark for AI Agents (github.com)
Draft-Meow-Mrrp-00 (datatracker.ietf.org)
European Space Agency, more than 400 job opportunities in 2026 (www.esa.int)
Oil prices plunge as Iran says Strait of Hormuz ''open'' during ceasefire (www.bbc.com)
Hyperscalers have already outspent most famous US megaprojects (twitter.com)
NIST cuts down CVE analysis amid vulnerability overload (www.csoonline.com)
Suspects used smart glasses, other AI tools to commit ''organized'' retail fraud (www.ctvnews.ca)
Detecting DOSBox from Within the Box (datagirl.xyz)
Congress extends controversial surveillance powers for 10 days (www.npr.org)
Agent Harness: Inside vs. Outside the Sandbox (www.mendral.com)
For Regrowing Human Limbs, This Salamander Gene Could Hold the Keywise (www.newswise.com)
The Watch Expert Catching Multimillion-Dollar Counterfeits (www.gq.com)
NASA Force (nasaforce.gov)
Middle East Energy Infrastructure Damage Close to 60B (oilprice.com)
Snap to Cut 16% of Workforce as It Seeks Profitability (www.wsj.com)
Universal INCOME via check is best way to deal with unemployment caused by AI (xcancel.com)
Systems Distributed ''26 (systemsdistributed.com)
Settling Poker Debts is NP-hard (www.param.me)
In this U.S. hot spot for data centers, voters have turned against them (www.adn.com)
Why scientists are nervous about fungi (www.npr.org)
Our Tax System Should Make You Furious (www.nytimes.com)
Claude Opus 4.7 Dropped and My Trust Got a Little Smaller (www.bhusalmanish.com.np)
App Store Reviews Are Busted (blog.terrygodier.com)
Open Funk Re:Mix: The Open-Source Blender Big Brands Don''t Want [video] (www.youtube.com)
Iran''s Internet Blackout: Peering into the Worst Internet Shutdown (www.kentik.com)
From Vivaldi to Van Halen, classical and heavy metal are a natural pairing (www.theguardian.com)
Saturn''s largest moon could see 10-foot waves from a tiny breeze (www.popsci.com)
The Gregorio project – GPL tools for typesetting Gregorian chant (gregorio-project.github.io)
What''s the Point of Hardbacks? (tomrowley.substack.com)
The Claude Coding Vibes Are Getting Worse (blog.matthewbrunelle.com)
The AI Layoff Trap: firms are firing their customers (tomwatsonofficial.substack.com)
Average new UK electric car price is now lower than petrol vehicles (www.theguardian.com)
Kamal (github.com)
How the cost of a mortgage has changed in the UK – from the 60s until now (2025) (hotminute.co.uk)
Slop Cop (awnist.com)
Agents that remember: introducing Cloudflare Agent Memory (blog.cloudflare.com)
Battery costs declined 99% in 3 decades, making electric transport a reality (ourworldindata.org)
To ace exams, get better at the easy questions (2022) (predr.ag)
Loving the Community Center (pgadey.ca)
Racer: Europe''s Hyperspeed Helicopter (jordanwtaylor2.substack.com)
NIST gives up enriching most CVEs (risky.biz)
Caching Strategies from Scratch (vaibhavacharya.github.io)
AI-news-collector: Creating AI-NEWS (github.com)
Flagship: feature flags built for the age of AI (blog.cloudflare.com)
CodeWeavers CrossOver for Mac – Works great, no miracles (www.dedoimedo.com)
Claude Design by Anthropic Labs (www.anthropic.com)
Cliver-project/CLIver: General-purpose AI agent for your terminal (github.com)
GitHub Is Having Issues (www.githubstatus.com)
Kubernetes operator for deploying, serving, and improve LLM inference engines (github.com)
The Story Behind KI-Tax: A Free Canadian Tax Estimator for Self-Employed People (nextindata.substack.com)
The Automation of Nonsense (xcancel.com)
Stardust in the Clouds of Venus (www.universetoday.com)
Middle schooler finds coin from Troy in Berlin (www.thehistoryblog.com)
Brussels launched an age checking app. It took 2 minutes to hack it (www.politico.eu)
Things AI Shouldn''t Do (jsrn.net)
AI token freeloaders are coming for your customer support chatbot (www.cio.com)
Wikipedia Polymarket page links to malicious domain as official URL (en.wikipedia.org)
Django Bolt – Rust-powered API framework for Django achieving 60k RPS (github.com)
Understand neuroplasticity and your life will never be the same again (timdenning.substack.com)
Could AI''s leading men become as powerful as Ford or Rockefeller? (www.economist.com)
Nintendo Switch spotted running Steam Linux ARM64 as Proton 11.0 ARM64 surfaces (videocardz.com)
Know Your Harness (bythyag.bearblog.dev)
Hex Index: The best place to read on the Internet (hex-index.com)
Byte Magazine Volume 11 Number 05: Mass Storage (archive.org)
Finance Has No Good Framework for Commodity Procurement Under Geopolitical Risk (syncretica.substack.com)
Occulta – Cryptographic address book with UWB proximity key exchange (github.com)
Iceye Open Data (www.iceye.com)
The 7.0 scheduler regression that wasn''t (lwn.net)
Healthchecks.io Now Uses Self-Hosted Object Storage (blog.healthchecks.io)
It Is Time to Ban the Sale of Precise Geolocation (www.lawfaremedia.org)
iPhone Loyalty Hits 96.4% as Android Users Four Times More Likely to Switch (www.macrumors.com)
Chicken Nuget (daniel.haxx.se)
AI agents hire meatbags as the perils of chaos thrive in Silicon Valley (www.sdxcentral.com)
Built a full-stack charitable giving SaaS as a solo developer with agentic AI (www.pifster.org)
How Push Notifications Can Betray Your Privacy (and What to Do About It) (www.eff.org)
Crystal 1.20.0 Is Released (crystal-lang.org)
Tracing the social half-life of a zombie citation (codeactsineducation.wordpress.com)
We Reproduced Anthropic''s Mythos Findings with Public Models (blog.vidocsecurity.com)
Taguar – Desktop app for audio tagging (github.com)
Archive of Byte magazine, starting with issue #1 in 1975 (archive.org)
Mystery Cpuid Bit (www.os2museum.com)
Why robots can''t replace guide dogs (yet) (www.popsci.com)
The Shocking Secrets of Madison Square Garden''s Surveillance Machine (www.wired.com)
Why Everyone Gets the F1 Inerter Wrong – Explained Clearly [video] (www.youtube.com)
Writing text horizontally? Go 2D Like crosswords, demo for CSS/JS menu system (numtel.github.io)
Will Gemma 4 replace Claude Code or are we lying to ourselves again (webmatrices.com)
The Problem with AI Agents Isn''t Identity, It''s Authorization (fusionauth.io)
Token Waste Management: I audited 9,667 Claude Code sessions for 19 (thoughts.jock.pl)
The jobs you want most are never posted (taylordesseyn.substack.com)
AI adoption will accelerate the e-waste crisis (restofworld.org)