Evolution Unleashed (2018) (aeon.co)
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Friend''s Guide to Agentic Engineering (abrown.blog)
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Iconify: Library of Open Source Icons (icon-sets.iconify.design)
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How to Use Your Claude Code Pro Subscription in Docker (foldr.uk)
Tunnl.gg: Expose Localhost to the Internet (github.com)
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Trump 25% tariff on European allies until Denmark sells Greenland to US (www.theguardian.com)
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300X fast clustering with rust-louvain for nodes (github.com)
Quantum Name Service (QNS)- Path to Web5 (github.com)
Shackleton and the Endurance Expedition: Photos from the 1915 Disastrous Journey (www.utterlyinteresting.com)
Model is intended for use particularly for language learning (huggingface.co)
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Trump wants nations to pay 1B to stay on his peace board (www.reuters.com)
Crypto holder loses 283M to scammer impersonating wallet support (bsky.app)
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TLS stripping on-device under Windows XP (kianbradley.com)
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Dark Mode vs. Light Mode: Which Is Better? (www.nngroup.com)
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The Missing Semester of Your CS Education (2026) (missing.csail.mit.edu)
VaultGemma: A Differentially Private LLM (arxiv.org)
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Profession by Isaac Asimov (www.abelard.org)
Claude Code read my codebase and generated an O''Reilly-style technical manual (www.linkedin.com)
Google Now Defaults to Not Indexing Your Content (2024) (www.vincentschmalbach.com)
BioNeMo Platform Accelerate AI-Driven Drug Discovery (nvidianews.nvidia.com)
Musk Seeks Up to 134B Damages from OpenAI, Microsoft (www.bloomberg.com)
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Anthropic''s Claude Code and the rise of autonomous coding tools (www.wsj.com)
Using OpenRouter with the Anthropic Agent SDK (openrouter.ai)
Serpl – a pleasant TUI for regex and fixed-string search and replace (github.com)
The life of a playboy publisher who shaped 20th-century literature (www.washingtonpost.com)
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Algebra will return to S.F. middle schools after more than a decade (www.sfchronicle.com)
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Build Your Own AI Coding Agent (Full Guide) [video] (www.youtube.com)
Umarell – men of retirement age who spend their time watching construction sites (en.wikipedia.org)
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AI Sandbox for Claude Code CLI with Node and Python SDKs (sandbox.stateset.app)
You Need More AWS Accounts Than You Think (cloudposse.com)
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IRISC: An ARMv7 assembly interpreter and computer architecture simulator (polysoftit.co.uk)
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AI Code Sandbox Provider Benchmarking (sandbox-comparison.pages.dev)
DetLLM – Deterministic Inference Checks (github.com)
MIT''s Computer Systems Security (2024) (css.csail.mit.edu)
Man accused of aiming laser at Trump helicopter acquitted in 35 minutes (www.theguardian.com)
Interview with Kim Gordon, the rock and fashion icon who never wanted to be one (numero.com)
OpenAI could reportedly run out of cash by mid-2027 (www.tomshardware.com)
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Flux 2 Small, from BFL: AI image generation on consumer GPUs (the-decoder.com)
Sequoia''s Mission Accomplished (colinsteele.org)
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Partial reprogramming as a strategy for aging and disease (www.sciencedirect.com)
Apache Arrow for the Database (dataengineeringcentral.substack.com)
EU Set to Halt US Trade Deal over Trump''s New Tariff Threat (www.bloomberg.com)
Weight-loss drugs could save U.S. airlines more than 500M this year (www.latimes.com)
A.I. and Burnout (petersobot.com)
Texas A&M university is banning Plato, citing his "gender ideology" (lithub.com)
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The EU, spurred by Trump, to sign mega free-trade deal with South America (www.washingtonpost.com)
Chorex: Restartable, Language-Integrated Choreographies (2025) (programming-journal.org)