Security Through Obscurity Is Not Bad (mobeigi.com)
Redistricting and the Supreme Court have cut voters out of US House races (www.reuters.com)
Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons (www.drive.com.au)
Life''s Compounding Effect (2023) (yusufaytas.com)
A Vasectomy and a Side of Beef (www.npr.org)
AANA Continuous Self-Improvement Skill (clawhub.ai)
Transmute – a self-hosted file converter with a web UI and REST API (github.com)
Emacs: Save any buffer as PDF (my new buffer-to-pdf package) (protesilaos.com)
Modern jet engine turbines: each blade a single crystal (2015) (www.americanscientist.org)
Alert-Driven Monitoring (simpleobservability.com)
The boring SSH tunnel manager (alebeck.github.io)
Utah to hold websites liable for users who mask their location with VPNs (www.tomshardware.com)
The text mode lie: why modern TUIs are a nightmare for accessibility (xogium.me)
Breaking Up with WordPress After Two Decades (yusufaytas.com)
Stop Begging Extension for LibreOffice (extensions.libreoffice.org)
Porsche will contest Laguna Seca in historic colors of the Apple Computer livery (newsroom.porsche.com)
The Petroleum System Is Entering Its Volatile Decline Phase (cleantechnica.com)
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Five Banana Lessons (allensthoughts.com)
Some Important Numbers for Developers (2018) (russolsen.com)
What are the chances a hurricane will hit my home? (www.noaa.gov)
OpenAI delays ChatGPT "adult mode" (www.axios.com)
Meditations on Moloch (2014) (slatestarcodex.com)
Running official Arch Linux on Arm (not to be confused ArchLinuxARM) (charon.konekopi.com)
''Feed a cold'': eating primes immune cells for action (www.nature.com)
Ford Nucleon (en.wikipedia.org)
CPU Work and GPU Work (www.talhoffman.com)
NOAA forecaster on how this year''s El Niño could shatter records (www.livescience.com)
Company said I could move and then changed their mind (www.askamanager.org)
I''m a late arrival to short-form video – its effect on my life has shocked me (www.theguardian.com)
How the JVM Optimizes Generic Code – A Deep Dive [pdf] (cr.openjdk.org)
I rebuilt my blog''s cache. Bots are the audience now (hoeijmakers.net)
Learn concurrency – a deep dive into multithreading with Python (blog.geekuni.com)
What If Your Boss Monitored Your Emotions? (www.theatlantic.com)
How vLLM Works (avkcode.github.io)
Richard Dawkins and the Claude Delusion (plus.flux.community)
Koch Brothers'' covert operations (2010) (www.newyorker.com)
VSCode now adds Copilot as a co-author of all your commits (bsky.app)
Dermatology is wrong about the sun (twitter.com)
Chinese Court Rules That a Worker Cannot Be Replaced by AI (futurism.com)
Coffee doesn''t just wake you up–a biological pathway illuminates health effects (sciencex.com)
Amazon says restoring damaged Middle East cloud operations to take months (www.reuters.com)
In Defense of AI Slop (reidhoffman.substack.com)
Meta abandons open-source Llama for proprietary Muse Spark (thenewstack.io)
Newborns come into the world with LOW vitamin K on purpose (twitter.com)
The problem with ''S-curves'' (energynetworks.substack.com)
Madagascar: AI Trainers – Arte.tv Documentary [video] (www.youtube.com)
Richard Sutton – Father of RL thinks LLMs are a dead end [video] (www.youtube.com)
NASA Tests Magnetoplasmadynamic Thruster in Milestone for Crewed Mars Propulsion (theopenreader.org)
We''re shipping more code than ever, but understand less of it (www.fbritoferreira.com)
Japan is deploying ultra-cheap cardboard drones built for swarm warfare (www.tomshardware.com)
All Four Sentinel-1 Satellites Are Now Live (orbitaltoday.com)
Shares in Japanese toilet maker Toto soar on AI-related pivot (www.ft.com)
Definable Real Number (en.wikipedia.org)
I freed a pool heat pump from an unencrypted Chinese cloud server (thomas-witt.com)
SpaceChem 2012 Tournament (lparchive.org)
Dear Richard Dawkins (dearricharddawkins.com)
NIST''s CAISI Evaluation of DeepSeek V4 Pro finds it to be on par with GPT-5 (www.nist.gov)
Why I don''t like the "staff engineer archetypes" (www.seangoedecke.com)
Edible Plants Wiki (edibleplants.wikioasis.org)
As a Ukrainian journalist, I''ve covered the US for 20 years. I find it shocking (www.theguardian.com)
Systemd-manager-TUI: A TUI application for managing systemd services (github.com)
Mnemory – Persistent memory for AI agents (github.com)
Graphene is on track to deliver on its promises (2019) (www.nature.com)
Becoming Unblockable (www.seangoedecke.com)
Codeonix: Python task automation for your desktop – with AI, 14 triggers (codeonix.app)
Ripple – the elegant TypeScript UI framework (www.ripple-ts.com)
SMS blaster rising in Switzerland (French) (www.rts.ch)
Matt Mullenweg thinks WordPress is in decline. He may be right (werd.io)
Wikipedia in the Terminal (github.com)
The Bureaucratic Escalator and how it operates (profserious.substack.com)
ChatGPT Wrestles with Its Most Chilling Conversation: How Do I Plan an Attack? (www.wsj.com)
Do LLMs Reason, or Do They Just Predict Math Text? (daridor.blog)
Thoth – open-source Local-first AI Assistant (github.com)
Investors pile into clean energy as Iran war drives push for energy security (www.ft.com)
Researchers print structural colour with an inkjet printer (physicsworld.com)
When Microsoft saved Apple (2017) (www.cnbc.com)
Learning Pseudorandom Numbers with Transformers (arxiv.org)
Why Did Huawei Build Its Own Programming Language? [video] (www.youtube.com)
The Human Line Project: Documenting AI Chatbot Harm (www.thehumanlineproject.org)
Grok ''drive an iron nail through the mirror while reciting Psalm 91 backwards'' (www.theguardian.com)
Local-first Kubernetes UI in a single Go binary (github.com)
Executable installer will stop being released with Python 3.16 (www.python.org)
HP 3585A spectrum analyzer teardown (7400.me)
AMD Readies Full Open-Source HDMI 2.1 Support for Linux (www.techpowerup.com)
Context Mode v1.0.0 (context-mode.mksg.lu)
Musk vs. Altman week 1: Elon Musk says he was duped, warns AI could kill us all (www.technologyreview.com)
Musk''s AI told me people were coming to kill me (BBC) (www.bbc.com)
Physicists have measured ''negative time'' in the lab (theconversation.com)
Loss of epigenetic information as a cause of mammalian aging (www.cell.com)
Specsmaxxing – On overcoming AI psychosis, and why I write specs in YAML (acai.sh)
The Final Form of Software Development (blog.zksecurity.xyz)
Under sea internet cables need backup (restofworld.org)
New Netflix documentary reexamines Winnie Mandela''s divisive legacy (www.npr.org)
Reaching for the stars: enduring symbols of Soviet science in pictures (www.theguardian.com)
Training language models to be warm can reduce accuracy and increase sycophancy (www.nature.com)
How electronic warfare is sowing confusion in cockpits (www.cnn.com)
Germany claims it has the best bread (www.economist.com)
Running Shoes Have Evolved – From Ancient Greece to Record-Breaking Marathons (www.nytimes.com)
US Navy signs deal with AI firm for training underwater drones (www.tomshardware.com)
Unruly Play (www.unrulyplay.com)
I Wrote Ultralearning. This Is What I''d Change Because of AI (www.scotthyoung.com)
Turning live heart rate data into a generative audio story (runnory.com)
Engaging Essays in Cosmology [1971-2026] (archive.org)
I wrote a custom CUDA inference engine to run Qwen3.5-27B on 130 mining cards (news.ycombinator.com)
Quantum Machine Learning: A Pragmatic Guide for Classical ML Engineers (pawankjha.substack.com)
The Reality of Being a Man in Your 50s in South Korea (indignified.com)
NodeMind – binary document index, 48 smaller than float32 RAG, no GPU required (github.com)
55M Smartphones Run on the HarmonyOS (www.scmp.com)
MX Script: a scripting language for one file web APIs (www.mxscript.com)
The Last Post (www.penmachine.com)
Suno picks up Songkick as part of AI licensing deal with Warner Music (completemusicupdate.com)
Comparing the Z80 and 6502 to Their Relatives (bumbershootsoft.wordpress.com)
Kimi K2.6 just beat Claude, GPT-5.5, and Gemini in a coding challenge (thinkpol.ca)
Before Barbie: Mattel Engineering Company, Guided Missiles, and the Cold War (medium.com)
ORBA: Orthogonal Reflection Bounded Ablation (huggingface.co)
About St Helena, in the South Atlantic Ocean (sainthelenaisland.info)
After Mythos, Nobody Is Safe from Cybersecurity Threats (www.nytimes.com)
Dr. Jordan B. Peterson''s 10 Step Guide to Clearer Thinking Through Essay Writing (2017) (medium.com)
Metastability in Recovery: Cascading Recovery with a Loop (charap.co)
AI, Intimacy, and the Data You Never Meant to Share (fshot.org)
Original Apollo 11 code open-sourced by NASA (www.tomshardware.com)
CS 153: Frontier Systems – Stanford University (cs153.stanford.edu)
High-tech Chinese cars pop up in California thanks to legal loophole (nypost.com)
Windows API Is Successful Cross-Platform API (retrocoding.net)
Prompt Engineering Is Permanent (yiblet.com)
Elon Musk gets an apology from California regulators as a SpaceX lawsuit settled (apnews.com)
Care Homes and Hotels in Japan Shut as Expansion Strategy Unravels (www.newsonjapan.com)
Farewell, Jeeves: Ask.com shuts down (techcrunch.com)
Why do crabs walk sideways? Scientists trace it back 200M years (www.sciencedaily.com)
Virtual Scrolling (www.nicbarker.com)
Spine – verified codebase onboarding for Claude Code (github.com)
EaglePress - Python3 CMS to blog (postwits.com)
A Common Proof of the Riemann Hypothesis and the Collatz Conjecture (www.academia.edu)
Wyoming celebrates ''nuclear Renaissance'' as feds approve license for a reactor (text.npr.org)
Why Nostr Will Win Where Mastodon and Bluesky Failed (primal.net)
Clandestine network smuggling Starlink tech into Iran to beat internet blackout (www.bbc.com)
Maryland Is First to Ban A.I.-Driven Price Increases in Grocery Stores (www.nytimes.com)
The Race Is on to Find the Treasure Buried in San Francisco (www.nytimes.com)
Am I the only one who hates delivery robots? (www.latimes.com)
Palette Inspiration (paletteinspiration.com)
A Couple Million Lines of Haskell: Production Engineering at Mercury (blog.haskell.org)
China Pressure Canceled Largest Digital Human Rights Conference (www.404media.co)
Buffon''s Needle Problem Visualized (ivanludvig.dev)
Mousetrapped (mousetrappedcomic.blog)
English Became My New Favorite User Interface (www.robot-future.com)
Who is funding the future of British defence? (vulpesetleo.substack.com)
Gute Form (de.wikipedia.org)
Restorative Yoga and the Biology of Belonging (parrik.com)
Built this for my civil engineering firm''s static site on Cloudflare Pages (github.com)
How to run a cross-cutting campaign (parrik.com)
The Apprehension Engine (2022) (guitar.com)
A self was never flat (parrik.com)
''Like science fiction'': How a new wave of immunotherapy is eliminating cancers (www.bbc.com)
Spirit Airlines'' Abandoned Azure Booking APIs and Exposed Phishing Domains (braydenbte.substack.com)
The Google Scholar bug that erases researchers from their own work (matthewearnest.dev)
What Silicon Valley layoffs hide about the future of the job market (www.yahoo.com)
AI is locking people out. At Scale (conesible.de)
Mac browser for a human that also gives coding agents local APIs (github.com)
Last few hours until Unix Epoch 1777777777 (www.epoch101.com)
Cottage – A modern Git based age-encrypted secrets manager for teams (github.com)
VueBuds integrate low-res cameras and visual AI as a smart glasses alternative (spectrum.ieee.org)
How the legal opium market shaped global trade - and led to an opioid crisis (www.bu.edu)
The Claude Delusion: Richard Dawkins believes his AI chatbot is conscious (www.dailygrail.com)
Waymo Drives Off with South Bay Man''s Luggage (sfist.com)
I Uploaded VUMC''s Open Manual of Surgery in Resource-Limited Settings to GitHub (github.com)
Nocturnal migratory birds follow rhythm of the moon (www.lunduniversity.lu.se)
No brain required: This is how the single-celled “Stentor” learns (www.ucsf.edu)
PEP 661 – Sentinel Values, accepted 5 years later (peps.python.org)
Former head of ''Pentagon''s think tank'' joins Anthropic (www.defenseone.com)
Ask.com shuts down after 30 years (mashable.com)
Tesla owner won 10k in court for Tesla''s FSD lies. Tesla is still fighting him (electrek.co)
The physics slop that YouTube wants me to make [video] (www.youtube.com)
talkie-coder: From 1930 to SWE-bench (github.com)
Meta faces New Mexico trial that could force change to Facebook, other platforms (www.reuters.com)
AWS Lightsail''s 0.09/GB Bandwidth Overage Is a Trap for Small Projects (galaxycloudsolutions.com)
The Computer Programme Episode 1, 1982 [video] (archive.org)
CISA, NSA & Five Eyes publishes guide on how to safely deploy AI agents (cyberscoop.com)
Voice-AI-for-Beginners – A curated learning path for developers (github.com)
Facepunch launches s&box, the highly anticipated successor to Garry''s Mod (www.gamingonlinux.com)
Dynamic Traefik configuration with multiple Docker hosts (blog.vasi.li)
Trump''s border wall expansion just bulldozed an ancient tribal site (www.washingtonpost.com)
What Is GStack? Gary Tan''s Open-Source Startup Framework for Claude Code (www.mindstudio.ai)
NovAST (github.com)
Hostis Humani Generis (hostis.black)
Clojurists Together – Q2 2026 Open Source Funding Announcement (www.clojuriststogether.org)
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Shigeru Miyamoto: Better Coder Than Most Without Ever Writing Code (indiepixel.de)
Six Years Perfecting Maps on WatchOS (www.david-smith.org)
Debian adds an SPF record to debian.org (lists.debian.org)
When People Say They Want to Send Their Kid to a Good School (freddiedeboer.substack.com)
Automating Hermitage to see how transactions differ in MySQL and MariaDB (theconsensus.dev)
Seodata.dev – free search volume data to see search demand for your projects (www.seodata.dev)
Neanderthals ran ''fat factories'' 125,000 years ago (www.universiteitleiden.nl)
House Bill Cuts Federal Funds for Online Censorship (reclaimthenet.org)
Why North Korea Will Never Give Up Its Nuclear Weapons (spectator.clingendael.org)
If Nobody Builds It, Everybody Dies [pdf] (github.com)
Deepfakes Are Coming for Your Bank Account (www.theatlantic.com)
We (US Navy) are like pirates... it''s a profitable business (www.theguardian.com)
Pentagon to pull 5k troops from Germany, alarming Republican lawmakers (www.washingtonpost.com)
How the JVM Optimizes Generic Code – A Deep Dive (inside.java)
Jonathan Swift''s Last Joke (www.newyorker.com)
Preliminary Findings on AI Automation from Worker Evaluations (arxiv.org)
The Elizabeth line is getting video wrap-around advertising screens (www.ianvisits.co.uk)
English councils to trial Google AI tool to speed up planning decisions (www.ft.com)
Pixel Embeddings Beat Vision Encoders for Unified Understanding and Generation (github.com)
Inside the Courtroom at the OpenAI Trial (www.nytimes.com)
The Advance of Heliotherapy – Nature (www.nature.com)
VS Code inserting ''Co-Authored-by Copilot'' into commits regardless of usage (github.com)
Museum Speelklok (www.museumspeelklok.nl)
Tech layoffs skyrocketed in Q1 2026 (twitter.com)
Meta buys robotics startup to bolster its humanoid AI ambitions (techcrunch.com)
Anthropic potential 900B valuation round could happen within 2 weeks (techcrunch.com)
Ember 6.12 (blog.emberjs.com)
New Oscars rules: No AI actors, human-written scripts only (www.dw.com)
South Africa withdraws AI policy due to fake AI-generated sources (www.reuters.com)
Kids promised ''forever homes'' instead confined in for-profit institutions (www.ap.org)
Forgiving can improve well-being (news.harvard.edu)
Spirit Airlines Begins Orderly Wind-Down of Operations [pdf] (www.spiritrestructuring.com)
LLMs can hide text in other text of the same length (arxiv.org)
A Note on TurboQuant and the Earlier Eden Work (arxiv.org)
The Dunning-Kruger effect is probably just from bimodal skill distributions (bosoncutter.substack.com)
From toroids to helical tubules: Kirigami-inspired programmable assembly (www.pnas.org)
Is China decoupling on food? [yes] (www.ft.com)
Unsigned Sizes: A Five Year Mistake (c3-lang.org)
Oscars says AI actors and writing cannot win awards (www.bbc.com)
It''s Hard to Get a British Driving License (www.nytimes.com)
In Amsterdam, Ads for Fossil Fuels or Meat Are Now Verboden (www.nytimes.com)
Richard Dawkins and The Claude Delusion: The great skeptic gets taken in (garymarcus.substack.com)
Was physical education as bad as people remember it? A Qualitative Thematic Rev (journals.uol.edu.pk)
Databasus: Free, open source tool to backup PostgreSQL (databasus.com)
Modern C Programming: Busato (github.com)
Data center land use issues are fake (blog.andymasley.com)
Getting the right answer the first time, is how you save time and tokens (github.com)
A flower-like pattern exposes chiral superconductivity''s long-sought fingerprint (phys.org)
NetHack 5.0.0 (nethack.org)
Researchers Asked LLMs for Strategic Advice. They Got "Trendslop" in Return (hbr.org)
Behavioral Sink (en.wikipedia.org)
Chinese Court Rules Firms Can''t Lay Off Workers on AI Grounds (www.bloomberg.com)
California to begin ticketing driverless cars that violate traffic laws (www.bbc.com)
AI may be coming to Windows 11''s Clock app as Microsoft turns it into focus tool (www.windowslatest.com)
Videolan Dav2d (code.videolan.org)
Servers with Personality (caolan.uk)
Fungi and the Rise of Mammals [pdf] (journals.plos.org)
A lost galaxy called ''Loki'' may be hiding inside the Milky Way (phys.org)
Shitpostmodernism: Understanding the Slopgeneration (www.spikeartmagazine.com)
Did I photograph the Aurora or was it something else? (2016) (wp.lancs.ac.uk)
Microsoft: "we expect headcount will decrease year over year" (timesofindia.indiatimes.com)
Welcome to Hell Developer (noahclements.com)
MicroTimes Interviewed Stewart Brand and Matthew McClure of the Well (computeradsfromthepast.substack.com)
Scientists Create First-Ever ''Smell Map'' (hms.harvard.edu)
Iceland''s Pools and Hot Tubs Now UNESCO-Recognized. Some Locals Aren''t Thrilled. (www.nytimes.com)
Do_not_track (donottrack.sh)
Swiss plan to cap population gains ground ahead of referendum (www.ft.com)
MicroGPT Running at 50k Tkps on Cyclone V FPGA (Pure Hardware) (github.com)
Spirit Airlines Ticket Holders Should Not Go to the Airport (www.washingtonpost.com)
MIT AI expert warns automating Gen Z entry-level jobs could backfire (fortune.com)
Array-oriented Functional Programming (2018) [video] (www.youtube.com)
The 11B Casino-Style Economy Built on Players Who Can Never Cash Out (www.bloomberg.com)
The RAMpocalypse has bought Microsoft valuable time in the fight against SteamOS (arstechnica.com)
Neanderthal and Homo sapiens brains differences similar to groups today (sciencex.com)
Roblox shares plummet 18% as child safety measures weigh on bookings (www.cnbc.com)
Attracting Early Stage Investors: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment (2015) (papers.ssrn.com)
Thomson Reuters Hit with Privacy Litigation in Michigan Re:Display of SSN Digits (www.law.com)
AI isn''t coming for your job. It''s coming for your mind (www.bailliegifford.com)
AI threatens Big Law''s talent pipeline (www.axios.com)
Stupid NYT (walzr.com)
DNS, the Phonebook That Isn''t (toolkit.whysonil.dev)
Meta''s Pyrefly sabotages competing Python extensions without telling you (github.com)
AI Agents Are the Mass-Produced Cars of Software (telegraphic.substack.com)
Apple Stores Targeted in 16.2M Counterfeit Device Scheme (pasadenanow.com)
Disneyland Now Uses Face Recognition on Visitors (www.wired.com)
The Annoying Usefulness of Emacs [video] (www.youtube.com)
Chinese AI models are 8 months behind and falling further behind (twitter.com)
Back end-for-Front end: The most secure architecture for browser-based apps (fusionauth.io)
Upcoming Blender Development Fund and AI Policies (www.blender.org)
The Sky Tonight (theskylive.com)
The Fake Hawaii CTO Who Fooled Everyone (dallasexpress.com)
Things I Think I Think About Data Privacy (blogs.newardassociates.com)
24 Years Ago Today, Bethesda Changed Open World RPG Video Games Forever (www.mensjournal.com)
Making Your Writing Work Harder for You (training.kalzumeus.com)
Stop Supplying. Start Owning (allensthoughts.com)
Uber wants to turn its drivers into a sensor grid for AV companies (techcrunch.com)
Zugzwang (en.wikipedia.org)
Santa Cruz restaurant changes logo after flurry of negative reviews for AI art (www.sfgate.com)
LLMs consistently pick resumes they generate over ones by humans or other models (arxiv.org)
The History of Lipstick (www.saturdayeveningpost.com)
B.C. researcher taps magic of Dungeons and Dragons to help kids (www.cbc.ca)
Field vs. Google, Inc (en.wikipedia.org)
Data theft: Teen arrested over hacking of French government website (www.france24.com)
The longest railway tunnel is being built under the Alps (www.euronews.com)
The only schema language AI speaks is JSON Schema (www.sourcemeta.com)
Microsoft Researchers Predicting 2026''s Tech, in 2015 (news.microsoft.com)
Domination: A contrarian view of AI risk (2024) (matthewbutterick.com)
I moved my blog from Jekyll to Emacs Lisp (martinsos.com)
Alberta allows windfall oil and gas payments to select ranchers – on public land (thenarwhal.ca)
US blockade costs Iran 4.8B, US Navy acting ''sort of like pirates,'' Trump says (www.jpost.com)
A preliminary model to establish a digital twin for coffee roasting (www.nature.com)
NASA to increase CLPS contract to support surge of lunar lander missions (spacenews.com)