Infrasound waves stop kitchen fires, but can they replace sprinklers? (arstechnica.com)
Nature vs. nurture: How much of our personalities are determined at birth? (www.bbc.com)
''Go inside, he will kill you'' Israeli militants step up West Bank school attacks (www.theguardian.com)
An unknown Sega Saturn project has come to light after 29 years (32bits.substack.com)
Motion: An open source animation library for JavaScript, React and Vue (github.com)
U.S. Considering Foreign Designs, Shipyards for New Navy Frigate, Destroyer Work (news.usni.org)
Quantization for Modern AI Systems (70-page free eBook) (pawankjha.substack.com)
We migrated 100 services from Nginx to Envoy in one month (www.qovery.com)
Open Design: Use Your Coding Agent as a Design Engine (github.com)
GameStop is looking to buy eBay, report says. Both stocks are soaring (www.msn.com)
Apple Raises Mac Mini''s Starting Price to 799 After AI Frenzy Drains Supply (www.bloomberg.com)
The Century-Long Pause in Fundamental Physics (danieltan.weblog.lol)
Craig Venter of Human Genome Project Dies at 79 (www.economist.com)
Spirit Airlines shutting down after rescue talks collapse (www.bbc.com)
Spirit Airlines canceled all flights and is going out of business (www.cnn.com)
Intel Inside the Micro Revolution: 8008 Origins (thechipletter.substack.com)
Becoming a father shrinks your cerebrum (www.economist.com)
The Cults of TDD and GenAI (drewdevault.com)
Protesters shut down Berkeley Forum event hosting Jeff Dean (www.dailycal.org)
Pushed by Trump policies, top U.S. battery scientist is moving to Singapore (www.science.org)
Chinese Government Got the Largest Digital Rights Conference Canceled (www.wired.com)
Why eldest siblings are brainier (www.economist.com)
Spirit Airlines says it''s going out of business after 34 years (apnews.com)
The Rooks Have Returned (en.wikipedia.org)
Leading journal finds AI is flooding academic publishing with lower quality work (phys.org)
Why TUIs are making a comeback (wiki.alcidesfonseca.com)
The AI Race Is Charged by the Fear of Being Left Behind (thewalrus.ca)
"Gazump" (notoneoffbritishisms.com)
PgAdmin: The Most Popular PostgreSQL Admin Tool (www.pgadmin.org)
How GitHub lost its way (substack.com)
How fast is a macOS VM, and how small could it be? (eclecticlight.co)
Gall''s Law – Yagnipedia (yagnipedia.com)
US to Withdraw Troops from Germany (www.dw.com)
Dazzle Camouflage (en.wikipedia.org)
Who''s the First Person in History Whose Name We Know? (2015) (www.nationalgeographic.com)
Why are there both TMP and TEMP environment variables, and which one is right? (devblogs.microsoft.com)
Brace for the patch tsunami: AI is unearthing decades of buried code debt (www.theregister.com)
ScopeGuard 0.0.7: Your Go-to linter for scope and shadow issues, now with MCP (old.reddit.com)
AI coding tools are silently disagreeing with each other (github.com)
Lucide: Open-source icon library with 1600 vector (SVG) files for icons (github.com)
A collection of Tailwind CSS v4.0 utilities for creating beautiful animations (github.com)
There is no Shopify for service businesses. Prove me wrong (www.indiehackers.com)
Open source ballistic simulator with NASA SRTM terrain masking (Python/C#) (github.com)
Thrml - Probabilistic Compute Simulation on GPUs (docs.thrml.ai)
Shadcn/UI: A set of beautifully designed components that you can customize (github.com)
SKILL.make: Makefile Styled Skill File (github.com)
What is Apache Kafka and how does it work? (stanislavkozlovski.medium.com)
SpaceX ISS Docking SIM (iss-sim.spacex.com)
Wine 11.8 – Run Windows Applications on Linux, BSD, Solaris and macOS (www.winehq.org)
Measuring Strategic Work (fullhoffman.com)
Hermitary – the hermit, hermits, eremitism, silence, and simplicity (www.hermitary.com)
Microsoft Now Recommends 32 GB RAM as a "No Worries" Upgrade for Windows 11 (www.techpowerup.com)
UK firm pioneers data centres using lampposts (www.bbc.com)
NSA Warned Everyone to Reboot Their Routers (www.staysafeonline.org)
Yann LeCun''s Billion Dollar Bet (www.youtube.com)
It''s a Weird Time to Be Named Claude (www.bloomberg.com)
It''s super weird, super odd, super rare: meet the twins who have different dads (www.theguardian.com)
Interstellar comet came from a much different solar system than ours (www.cnn.com)
RYBitten: Configurable RGB-to-RYB Mapping (rybitten.space)
Solar farm lets cattle roam under moving panels (electrek.co)
Just-Bash: A Full Shell Environment That Never Touches Your Disk (www.codeline.co)
Spirit Airlines Is Winding Down All Operations (www.spiritrestructuring.com)
Apple Stops Selling Mac Mini with 256GB of Storage (www.macrumors.com)
Inside Italy''s ''Cheese Bank,'' Parmigiano Reggiano becomes financial gold (www.cnn.com)
Trump says it''s ''treasonous'' to say US not winning war in Iran (www.independent.co.uk)
Farewell to a Giant of Botany (nautil.us)
I Do Not Recommend Bitwarden (xn--gckvb8fzb.com)
You Have No Idea How Much You Still Use BlackBerry (www.wsj.com)
Understanding the LLM Bubble (americanaffairsjournal.org)
Texico: Learn the principles of programming without even touching a computer (www3.nhk.or.jp)
GrapheneOS: The Linux kernel is a fundamentally anti-security project (twitter.com)
Evenpairs – Curated Introductions for Professionals (evenpairs.com)
Why does it take so long to release black fan versions? (www.noctua.at)
AI-CLI – Generate anything from your terminal (ai-cli.dev)
The Hiddn Cost of AI Coding Tools: 12,000/Year (blog.devgenius.io)
When hard drives were still huge: The Quantum Bigfoot turns 30 (www.heise.de)
Capacity Efficiency at Meta (engineering.fb.com)
LibreOffice 26.2.3 Released – What Is New and What Was Fixed? (tux.re)
GPT-5.5 matches hyped Mythos Preview (arstechnica.com)
K3k: Kubernetes in Kubernetes (github.com)
AP-Quiz: Mobile AP Exam Practice for Spare Moments (ap-quiz.com)
Withastro/flue: The sandbox agent framework (github.com)
Echon – A privacy-first Discord alternative built in Tauri/Rust (echon-voice.com)
Finny – AI trading agent that runs in your terminal (www.finnyai.tech)
TanStack Router: modern router designed for type safety, data‑driven navigation (github.com)
Ask Jeeves Shut Down (www.ask.com)
The new Run dialog: faster, cleaner, and more capable (devblogs.microsoft.com)
Sam Altman says OpenAI doesn''t want to replace you with AI (www.neowin.net)
Flexible OLED NUSA Infiltrator Jacket (Cyberpunk 2077 Cosplay) [video] (www.youtube.com)
Primate 0.38: The route is the contract (primate.run)
CSS Reboot Day (May 1, 2026) (holidaytoday.org)
Microsoft''s Xbox mode is now available for all Windows 11 PCs (www.theverge.com)
Wirken: Secure AI agent gateway. Encrypted vault. Single static binary (github.com)
Fixing Up CopyFail on Alpine (astr.al)
The Half of CI We Forgot to Automate (blog.sebastiansastre.co)
High Housing Costs Are Pushing Foreclosures to a Six-Year High (www.wsj.com)
An Unreleased Lyme Disease Vaccine Is Sparking False Conspiracy Theories (www.motherjones.com)
Tesla reveals 573M web of transactions between Elon Musk''s companies (electrek.co)
I built a way to search for people by intent (www.try-sytra.com)
Create an MP4 video of a web page scrolling at a steady speed (github.com)
Coding plan pricing comparisons based on actual usage (sites.diy)
Internet Classism: How We Know You''re Poor and Lame Online (braunandbrains.substack.com)
Spring House (en.wikipedia.org)
Wine 11.8 Improves VBScript Compatibility Fixes Microsoft Golf 1999 (www.phoronix.com)
Amnitex: Lossless memory layer for AI coding assistants (github.com)
Governor – a Claude Code plugin to reduce token/context waste (github.com)
I built the Playwright for desktop apps. 80% token savings (github.com)
Job Postings for Software Engineers Are Rapidly Rising (www.citadelsecurities.com)
Kubernetes Secret Extraction via ArgoCD ServerSideDiff (github.com)
Welcome to Actual Computer (actual.inc)
Hermit – uniform tooling for Linux and Mac (github.com)
We Built an Authorization Engine That the Fortune 100 Bet On (www.technology.org)
Hobson vs. Hansen and the Decline of D.C. Schools (www.educationprogress.org)
OpenX32: Open Linux kernel for Behringer X32 mixer (github.com)
Trump issues executive order against Cuba (www.cbsnews.com)
Industrial Policy for the Intelligence Age [pdf] (cdn.openai.com)
New study finds task switching raises risk in transplant surgeries (news.vt.edu)
Number Go Down (twitter.com)
Deep Moats and Platform Shifts in Computing (semiconductor.substack.com)
Apple Is Holding My Pictures Hostage Until I Accept Their New Terms of Service (probablydance.com)
There''s a lot of hype about Chinese EVs, is any of it true? (arstechnica.com)
History of Visual Basic (Chapter 1) (evilgeniuslabs.ca)
Is Rise of the Robots (1994) the worst game? (old.reddit.com)
Thousands of Pentagon Civilian Workers Will Be Fired Next Week as Purge Begins (www.military.com)
Gut bacteria may play a role in the rise in colon cancer in young adults (www.npr.org)
Russian forces defeated in Saharan stronghold after wave of attacks (www.ft.com)
uget – stupid get-file-over-HTTP program/function (github.com)
Humanity on the Page (www.commonwealmagazine.org)
Pentagon officials broadly detail 55B drone plan under DAWG (breakingdefense.com)
Revolving doors weaken SEC oversight: study (news.mccombs.utexas.edu)
Does threatening an AI agent''s existence make it a better gambler? (handyai.substack.com)
Update concerning DDoS attack on Canonical and Ubuntu (discourse.ubuntu.com)
GitHub Enshittification (pablotron.org)
Good developers learn to program. Most courses teach a language (evilgeniuslabs.ca)
Starting from Scratch (shvbsle.in)
What did you love about VB6? (evilgeniuslabs.ca)
U.S. to Withdraw 5k Troops from Germany, Pentagon Says (www.nytimes.com)
Visual Studio 2026 still ships the form designer Alan Cooper drew in 1987 (evilgeniuslabs.ca)
Oregon''s Non-Affiliated Surge and the Socialist Realignment Nobody Talks About (fullstack.ing)
I got infected with a crypto-miner via misconfigured qBittorrent (blog.vasi.li)
What Software Engineers Can Learn from the Aviation Industry (mwalterskirchen.dev)
WolfCOSE: Zero alloc, PQC, MISRA-C, FIPS 140-3 built with wolfCrypt (github.com)
Copy-Fail: Linux Privilege Escalation (copy.fail)
The downfall of OpenAI and who will follow (msukhareva.substack.com)
Are AI''s Consumer Applications Hitting a Wall? (www.bigtechnology.com)
NASA''s Curiosity and Perseverance rovers capture Mars panoramas [video] (www.space.com)
A Report on Burnout in Open Source Software Communities (2025) [pdf] (mirandaheath.website)
New v2 UALink specification aims to catch up to NVLink (www.networkworld.com)
Keep Android Open: Why Free Android Matters (tux.re)
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Palantir Workers Are Finally Noticing the Skulls on Their Caps (www.techdirt.com)
Disabling the new AF_ALG by default in gnulib (from 2018) (lists.gnu.org)
GameStop is preparing offer for eBay (finance.yahoo.com)
Why is an Oxford lecturer allowed to wear fake breasts to work? (www.andrewdoyle.org)
AI models that consider user''s feeling are more likely to make errors (arstechnica.com)
AI doesn''t replace us, but commodizes us (qihqi.github.io)
Shut out from the US, the world’s largest EV maker thinks it can stay on top (www.cnn.com)
A Programmer''s Guide to Common Lisp (archive.org)
''Empire of Skulls'' book review: When phrenology raced ahead (www.wsj.com)
Friday Studio AI runtime: Turn prompts, skills, & tools into reliable config (github.com)
The Road to a Billion-Token Context (cacm.acm.org)
Trump tears up part of EU tariff deal to raise import duties on cars and lorries (www.theguardian.com)
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Stackless coroutines for gamedev in 200 lines of C (vittorioromeo.com)
A Dark-Money Campaign Is Paying Influencers to Frame Chinese AI as a Threat (www.wired.com)
AI actors and writers will be ineligible for Oscars (www.reuters.com)
GitHub Copilot: Upcoming Deprecation of GPT-5.2 and GPT-5.2-Codex (github.blog)
I built a Claude Code skill for structured decision making (github.com)
Cigna''s exit adds to Obamacare marketplace upheaval (www.msn.com)
Sam Altman falls out of love with universal basic income (www.businessinsider.com)
''They Said A.I. Saved Me'': How South Korea Is Checking on Its Seniors (www.nytimes.com)
Scientific writing for early-career researchers (tiagojct.eu)
Man dies covered in necrotic lesions after amoebas eat him alive (arstechnica.com)
WMO: Likelihood Increases of El Niño (wmo.int)
New scooters roll out in Denver, replacing Lime and Bird (denverite.com)
Baseline Mac-mini now starts at 799 (vs 599) (www.apple.com)
Elfmem: Evolving Agent Memory (benemson.com)
Will Canada go for a split F-35-Gripen fighter jet fleet? (www.espritdecorps.ca)
The docs diff is the plan (spicadust.com)
GameStop Preparing Offer for eBay (www.wsj.com)
Railway introduced undoable deletes for database volumes (railway.com)
The Illuminati in the United States (www.historytoday.com)
Prime Gap Structure (github.com)
No woman in England or Wales can be prosecuted for an abortion any more (www.cosmopolitan.com)
Area 51 just had 17 earthquakes in a single day (www.popsci.com)
Budget LTE Home Network (worldofmatthew.com)
Give a 9B model broken tools. By hour 20 it''ll have the correct diagnosis (ninjahawk.github.io)
TI Calculator Monopoly Offers Lessons for Educators in the Age of Generative AI (www.promarket.org)
Beijing Is Not Playing a Long Game (sharptext.net)
It''s Not a Values Crisis, It''s a Housing Crisis (maxmautner.com)
Claude Code still doesn''t support AGENTS.md (github.com)
FBI cyber boss: China''s hacker-for-hire ecosystem ''out of control'' (www.theregister.com)
GitHub Copilot Switches to Token-Based Billing for Developers (www.aiuniverse.news)
Windows quality update: Progress we''ve made since March (blogs.windows.com)
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Should We Separate the Art from the Artist? (opentodebate.substack.com)
Queen guitarist Brian May barred from planting daffodils in his village (www.cnn.com)
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Amazon Powers ICE. Its Workers Aren''t Happy (www.motherjones.com)
Where to buy a non-Apple, non-Google smartphone (www.theregister.com)
Kanye West Bought an Architectural Treasure Then Gave It a Violent Remix (2024) (www.newyorker.com)
Claude Code completes the first level of several ARC AGI 3 games (arc-agi-runs.web.app)
Flue Sandbox Agent Framework (flueframework.com)
Federation Has a European Legal Problem (connectedplaces.online)
My 5K smart bed needs to shut the hell up (www.theverge.com)
Metropolis 1998 Brings Classic SimCity-style City Building back to life (www.generationamiga.com)
Credit Cards Are Vulnerable to Brute Force Kind Attacks (metin.nextc.org)
Seals Detox After a Long Deep Dive (nautil.us)
Consensus Hardening Protocol (github.com)
A computer scientist beat textbook binary search by more than 2x (boingboing.net)
The Fixi Project (fixiproject.org)
HN Replies – Email notifications for Hacker News comment replies (www.hnreplies.com)
Why the AI era needs BASIC again (github.com)
Turning chess into a roguelike via design first principles (elbowgreasegames.substack.com)
Linux averaging 350 CVEs per day (crib.social)
Stwipe – Payments infrastructure for people who cannot be reasoned with (stwipe.com)
Senate Panel Backs Guard Act, AI Age Verification Bill (reclaimthenet.org)
Token spend breaks budgets – what next? (newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com)
The AI scaffolding layer is collapsing. LlamaIndex''s CEO explains what survives (venturebeat.com)
The Case for Euthanizing Everyone at Age 65 (marshallbrain.com)
Elegy for the Hereditary Peers (engelsbergideas.com)
When a Species'' Survival Hinges on Every Single Embryo (nautil.us)
Majority of US Military sites in Middle East damaged by Iran (www.cnn.com)
Whimsical Animations Course Open House (courses.joshwcomeau.com)
AI is starting to beat doctors at making correct diagnoses (www.science.org)
GIMP 3.4 Will probably draw circles (fosstodon.org)
Pentagon inks deals with AI giants, but not Anthropic (www.dw.com)
Auk Mini 2 (www.auk.com)
Ubuntu servers taken offline by "sustained, cross-border attack" (arstechnica.com)
AI Will Create Jobs (geohot.github.io)
Lib0xc: A set of C standard library-adjacent APIs for safer systems programming (github.com)
LLMs Don''t Understand BGP. Here''s What It Takes to Change That (www.supertrace.ai)
AI predictions in the movie Electric Dreams (1984) (medium.com)
The College-Admissions Chess Game Is More Complicated (www.wsj.com)
Article explains a method to estimate parameter count of closed sourcemodels (www.lesswrong.com)
Why Nihilism Is Great for Values (ajkprojects.com)
A desktop that bends to me (isene.org)
Numbers and the launch algorithm of an indie game that was featured on itch.io (blog.luden.io)
DeepSeek v4, and the end of the OpenAI/Microsoft AGI clause (simonw.substack.com)
Bsky.land – a photo stream from the Bluesky firehose (bsky.land)
I wrote a beginner friendly guide to integrating AI into projects (www.amazon.co.uk)
I endured the Apple Watch for four months (manualdousuario.net)
CachyOS Linux Performance Leading over Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, Fedora Workstation 44 (www.phoronix.com)
A statement about why RightsCon 2026 will not take place in Zambia (www.rightscon.org)
Inspect and filter every HTTP request leaving your microVM (slicervm.com)
Why Your Pbxproj Is Bloated (and How to Fix It) (codingwithvera.com)
Search is full of ads and wrong answers (twitter.com)
The exotic particles that could break the Standard Model (www.nature.com)
Running hackathons: startup&scaleup edition (matloka.com)
The Persian Polycrisis (thehonestsorcerer.substack.com)
Top AI companies agree to work with Pentagon on secret data (www.washingtonpost.com)
ICANN opens applications for new generic top-level domains first time since 2012 (www.theregister.com)
Women sue the men who used their Instagram feeds to create AI porn influencers (www.wired.com)
Minnesota passes ban on fake AI nudes; app makers risk 500K fines (arstechnica.com)
How to speed up clinical trials (Works in Progress Podcast) (podcasts.apple.com)
Analyzing GPT-5.5 and Opus 4.7 with ARC-AGI-3 (arcprize.org)
The Last Moments of Jeju Air Flight 2216 (www.nytimes.com)
AI as Infrastructure (cunderwood.dev)
Musk Warns of Killer AI, While He and Silicon Valley Cash in on AI That Kills (theintercept.com)
The California Government Is Coming for Your E-Bikes (sfstandard.com)
Using "underdrawings" for accurate text and numbers (samcollins.blog)
Andrej Karpathy''s Sequoia talk, I agree with most but not this (twitter.com)
TypeKro: Write TypeScript. Deploy Kubernetes (typekro.run)
Pentagon reaches agreements with top AI companies, but not Anthropic (www.reuters.com)
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It''s Possible to Learn in Our Sleep. Should We? (www.newyorker.com)
Technical Debt of AI Systems: Agent Runtime (leehanchung.github.io)
Y Combinator alum Skio sells for 105M cash, only raised 8M, founder says (techcrunch.com)
Decoding a decade of rising global light pollution (www.darkskyconsulting.com)
Artemis II Fault Tolerance (alearningaday.blog)
Launched tool for contractors, then found the mod sticky banning "SaaS bros" (quotr-8r2q.vercel.app)
The X-Files Has Made Me Nostalgic for a Time I Never Experienced (midnightmurmurations.substack.com)
Clipport – paste screenshots into SSH sessions from iTerm (github.com)
Roger Sweet, Creator of the He-Man Action Figure, Dies at 91 (www.nytimes.com)
AWS stops billing Middle East cloud customers as repairs to war damage drag on (arstechnica.com)
Maintenant: One container to monitor your stack (github.com)
Understand Anything (github.com)
Flock cameras keep telling police a man who doesn''t have a warrant has a warrant (www.youtube.com)
We stopped hiring engineers for coding ability (eliseai.com)
AI Uses Less Water Than the Public Thinks (californiawaterblog.com)
Waymos, robotaxis can now be ticketed by California police. But how exactly? (www.latimes.com)
Karpathy''s Software 3.0 Playbook (philippdubach.com)
Earth is splitting open beneath the Pacific Northwest, scientists say (www.sciencedaily.com)
Xbox has "work to do" as console sales drop 33% in Q3 (sherwood.news)
Tangled – combat LLM spam by building a web of trust (blog.tangled.org)
Beyond Bigger Models: Recursion as the Next Scaling Axis in AI [video] (www.youtube.com)
The Gay Jailbreak Technique (github.com)
LangGraph and Cosmos DB: one back end for agents, memory, and RAG (devblogs.microsoft.com)
DeepSeek V4–almost on the frontier, a fraction of the price (simonwillison.net)
Thermal Grill Illusion (en.wikipedia.org)
Backup Your iCloud? (parachuteapps.com)
Report Links Piracy to Drugs, Weapons, and the Mafia; Calls for US Site-Blocking (torrentfreak.com)
Creatives must embrace grunt work (time.com)
Design Secrets of the General Electric Armament Systems Department (2008) (smallarmsreview.com)
The Era of Big-Account Dominance on Instagram May Be Over, Platform Chief Says (planegraph.com)
Cloudflare – Introducing Dynamic Workflows (blog.cloudflare.com)
Darkness can travel faster than light (physicsworld.com)
With 1 Cyberattacks on the Rise, Durable Defenses Pay Off (spectrum.ieee.org)
Spotify adds ''Verified'' badges to distinguish human artists from AI (www.bbc.com)
What is your AIQ Score? (www.aiqrank.com)