Microsoft reports several bootloader vulnerabilities (www.microsoft.com)
Binary Distribution Rebuilds (blog.josefsson.org)
Build an 8-bit computer from scratch (eater.net)
Bonobos'' calls may be the closest thing to animal language we''ve seen (arstechnica.com)
Simple Denoising Diffusion (github.com)
Celebrate 50 years of Microsoft with the company''s original source code (www.gatesnotes.com)
Was Houdini a Spy? (2021) (www.cia.gov)
The Mainframe Vocabulary Problem (and Why It Matters) (mainframesociety.com)
The cultural evolution of distortion in music (royalsocietypublishing.org)
Slipstream - a python library for stateful stream processing (slipstream.readthedocs.io)
How Servo Motors Work (www.jameco.com)
The Slow Collapse of Critical Thinking in OSINT Due to AI (www.dutchosintguy.com)
Supervisors often prefer rule breakers, up to a point (journals.aom.org)
Aviator (YC S21) is hiring engineers to build AI DevEx platform (www.ycombinator.com)
Banked Memories for Soft SIMT Processors (arxiv.org)
Senior Developer Skills in the AI Age (manuel.kiessling.net)
How Big Is VMS? – VMS Software, Inc (vmssoftware.com)
Monkeys.zip – 3000 Monkeys on Typewriters (monkeys.zip)
AI Cheats: Why You Didn''t Notice Your Teammate Was Cheating (niila.fi)
Installing AIX PS/2 v1.3 on a 486 (hardwarehacks.org)
New nanoparticle therapies target two major killers – Science – AAAS (www.science.org)
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Bikes in the Age of Tariffs (www.renehersecycles.com)
Hatchet v1 – a task orchestration platform built on Postgres (github.com)
Tenstorrent Launches Blackhole Developer Products at Tenstorrent Dev Day (tenstorrent.com)
An image of an archeologist adventurer who wears a hat and uses a bullwhip (theaiunderwriter.substack.com)
Intel, TSMC tentatively agree to form chipmaking joint venture (www.reuters.com)
2025 Recession Indicators Hit Fashion and Wall Street at Once (www.marieclaire.com)
An automatic MCP server for every GitHub project (gitmcp.io)
Declarative Schemas for simpler database management (supabase.com)
Declarative Web Push – WebKit (webkit.org)
Pocket (acquired by Moz) only works with FF now (news.ycombinator.com)
Reasoning models don''t always say what they think (www.anthropic.com)
AI 2027 (ai-2027.com)
Showcase: Working on a voice/text chat app in a cyberpunk style (static.mollohq.com)
Onyx (YC W24) Is Hiring (www.ycombinator.com)
AnimeJs v4 Is Here (animejs.com)
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Novnaode, Global load balancing with Caddy, no vendor lock-in (news.ycombinator.com)
The C3 programming language (C alternative language) (news.ycombinator.com)
Overengineered Anchor Links (thirty-five.com)
Offline JavaScript PubSub between browser tabs (simon-frey.com)
Bedded Bugs and Stung Beetles: The Cameraman''s Revenge (1912) (publicdomainreview.org)
Nix Ninja – open-source Ninja-compatible build system for Nix (github.com)
OpenNutrition – A free, public nutrition database (www.opennutrition.app)
InitWare, a portable systemd fork running on BSDs and Linux (github.com)
An AlphaStation''s SROM (thejpster.org.uk)
New Windows 11 trick lets you bypass Microsoft Account requirement (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
How North Korea Cheated Its Way to Crypto Billions (www.wsj.com)
Zxc – Rust TLS proxy with tmux and Vim as UI, BurpSuite alternative (github.com)
A University President Makes a Case Against Cowardice (www.newyorker.com)
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The Steam Deck Is Software-Freedom Friendly (isomorphism.xyz)
AI/Math Puzzle (aggressivelyparaphrasing.me)
Type (YC W23) is hiring a senior software engineer (www.ycombinator.com)
AbletonMCP – Ableton Live Model Context Protocol Integration (github.com)
Space Debris: Is It a Crisis? (www.esa.int)
Rust on the Ferris Sweep (gabevenberg.com)
John Cage recital set to last 639 years recently witnessed a chord change (www.spectator.co.uk)
Preventing nearsightedness using AR glasses or projectors (nixon-development.com)
Mirrors: The Blind Spot of Image and Video Generation Models (medium.com)
.NET library MassTransit going commercial with V9 (masstransit.io)
I stopped using AI code editors (lucianonooijen.com)
XWine1 – Xbox One Translation Layer for Windows PCs (github.com)
Flame – BBS and MUD (www.ucc.asn.au)
Calibrated Basic Income by Derek Van Gorder [pdf] (www.greshm.org)
Dijkstra On the foolishness of "natural language programming" (www.cs.utexas.edu)
Reintroducing Capsul (capsul.bearblog.dev)
DIY Synths Database (diy-synths.snnkv.com)
US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU (www.bbc.com)
Aptera''s First Solar Road Trip. 300 Miles, One Charge (aptera.us)
Efficient light control: Meta-optics replace conventional lenses (phys.org)
Why I Maintain a 17 Year Old ThinkPad (pilledtexts.com)
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Tech companies are telling immigrant employees on visas not to leave the U.S. (www.washingtonpost.com)
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The Reality of Working in Tech: We''re Not Hired to Write Code (idiallo.com)
Search-R1: Training LLMs to Reason and Leverage Search Engines with RL (arxiv.org)
The Carbon Bankroll 2.0 [pdf] (2024) (static1.squarespace.com)
An open source, self-hosted implementation of the Tailscale control server (github.com)
Web Server for AoE 1, 2 and 3 DE supporting LAN multiplayer 100% offline (github.com)
Switzerland''s vinyl turntable roundabout: Unique road art (2019) (www.newlyswissed.com)
MIT 6.5950 Secure Hardware Design – An open-source course on hardware attacks (shd.mit.edu)
Minimal CSS-only blurry image placeholders (leanrada.com)
Ploopy Classic 2 open source trackball (blog.ploopy.co)
Color palettes inspired by Mexican architecture (seis.pointlessprojects.com)
Chronic ethanol produces sex-dependent impairments in striatum computations (www.science.org)
Apple''s Cubify Anything: Scaling Indoor 3D Object Detection (github.com)
Rustcraft: Clean slate POSIX shell, written in Rust (github.com)
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Are People Bad at Their Jobs .or Are the Jobs Just Bad? (annehelen.substack.com)
Wikipedia, says its bandwidth costs have gone up 50% since Jan 2024 (bsky.app)
What We Knew Without Knowing (www.newyorker.com)
UpCodes (YC S17) Is Hiring SWEs and CSMs to make construction more productive (up.codes)
Henry James''s American Journey (www.chronicle.com)
Prof. Sussman''s Reading List (aurellem.org)
Who is hiring? (April 2025) (news.ycombinator.com)
In the Matter of the Commas (theamericanscholar.org)
Mozilla launching "Thundermail" email service to take on Gmail, Microsoft 365 (www.techradar.com)
Dipping my toes in OpenBSD, in Amsterdam (ewintr.nl)
Pico.sh (The ultimate SSH powered services for developers) (pico.sh)
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Location data show that race affects citations and fines for speeding (www.science.org)
Waltz''s team set up at least 20 Signal group chats for crises across the world (www.politico.com)
Item Flow, Part 1: A new unified concept for layout (webkit.org)
Vets Who Code (vetswhocode.io)
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Ace: Realtime Computer Autopilot (generalagents.com)
Real-Time Introspective Compression for Transformers (github.com)
PaperBench (openai.com)
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Hacking the Call Records of Millions of Americans via the Verizon iOS app (evanconnelly.github.io)
Tesla''s Global Vehicle Deliveries Sank 13% in First Quarter (www.wsj.com)
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When Jorge Luis Borges met one of the founders of AI (resobscura.substack.com)
Windows on ARM on a Smart Watch (gus33000.me)
NYC New Subway Map (www.nytimes.com)
Zero Day in Microchip Sam Microcontrollers (wiki.recessim.com)
Amazon Submits Bid for TikTok with US Sale Deadline Nearing (www.bloomberg.com)
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Mermaid Chart VS Code Plugin: Mermaid.js Diagrams in Visual Studio Code (docs.mermaidchart.com)
Matrix.org Will Migrate to MAS (matrix.org)
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How Google built its Gemini robotics models (blog.google)
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Publishers trial paying peer reviewers – what did they find? (www.nature.com)
Pulse (YC S24) Is Hiring (www.ycombinator.com)
Await-Tree – Visualize Async Rust Task Execution in Real-Time (github.com)
Gitlab Bluesky Tips (handbook.gitlab.com)
Bare: Run JavaScript Everywhere (pears.com)
A Small Violin Part Highlights Bigger Problems for the Global Economy (www.nytimes.com)
Digital Archivists: Protecting Public Data from Erasure (spectrum.ieee.org)
Why Is the World Losing Color? (www.culture-critic.com)
Certification Authority/Browser Forum adopts new security standards (security.googleblog.com)
Amazon Said to Make a Bid to Buy TikTok in the U.S. (www.nytimes.com)
Do You Take Protein Suppliments? Any Noticeable Benefits? (news.ycombinator.com)
Animals Made from 13 Circles (2016) (www.dorithegiant.com)
Porting Tailscale to Plan 9 (tailscale.com)
Nintendo unveils Switch 2 ahead of June 5 launch (arstechnica.com)
The Secret History of the War in Ukraine (www.nytimes.com)
A dramatic Einstein ring seen by Webb (phys.org)
UCSD: Large Language Models Pass the Turing Test (arxiv.org)
Using fake deadlines without driving your engineers crazy (newsletter.manager.dev)
PowerToys Command Palette Utility (learn.microsoft.com)
What I would do if I was 18 now (levels.io)
Sports supplement creatine makes no difference to muscle gains, trial finds (www.unsw.edu.au)
Starlink sets up subsidiary in Faroe Islands (dimma.fo)
Kindle as a High-Contrast GPS (www.instructables.com)
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Coffea stenophylla: A forgotten bean that could save coffee from extinction (www.smithsonianmag.com)
Vitodeploy: Self hosted Laravel Forge alternative (vitodeploy.com)
Measuring Acceleration Structures (zeux.io)
Wikipedia is struggling with voracious AI bot crawlers (www.engadget.com)
Don''t Bother with Vibe Coding (www.soeren.codes)
All Estimations Are Wrong, but None Are Useful (newsletter.techworld-with-milan.com)
(2016) Interactive Neural Network Art (otoro.net)
RIP Val Kilmer: Real Genius .. the Film Nerd Culture Deserves (2015) (reactormag.com)
The Tectonics Behind the Myanmar Quake (nautil.us)
Multi-threading is always the wrong design (unetworkingab.medium.com)
Code should be stored in a database. Who has tried this? (news.ycombinator.com)
I made Confetti: a configuration language file format (confetti.hgs3.me)
Travel Guide for Stateless People (taejun.substack.com)
Val Kilmer, star of Top Gun and The Doors, dies aged 65 (www.theguardian.com)
Scientists uncover key mechanism in evolution: Whole-genome duplication drives (www.sciencedaily.com)
Open source, 3D-printable smart chess board (thangs.com)
Air pollution kills millions every year – where does it come from? (ourworldindata.org)
A 6-Hour Time-Stretched Version of Brian Eno''s Music for Airports (www.openculture.com)
Val Kilmer has passed away (www.nytimes.com)
Converting a Go-Kart into a Deathtrap (matto.io)
I vibecoded a 35k LoC recipe app (www.recipeninja.ai)
Call for testing: OpenSSH 10.0 (DSA support removed) (lists.mindrot.org)
Move fast, break things: A review of Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson (networked.substack.com)
After Crash FAA Change Requires All Aircraft at Reagan to Broadcast Positions (www.nytimes.com)
Forking Work Simplification – Let''s Bring Back Eisenhower''s Process Improvement (www.governance.fyi)
Silicon Valley, Halt and Catch Fire, and How Microserfdom Ate the World (2015) (grantland.com)
Circuit Tracing: Revealing Computational Graphs in Language Models (Anthropic) (transformer-circuits.pub)
SSLyze – SSL configuration scanning library and CLI tool (github.com)
Stop Syncing Everything (sqlsync.dev)
Simulated Economy Tutorial (jasonfantl.com)
AR Computers to Terminate Eyestrain and Myopia (eyewiki.org)
The March of the Vegetables Parade (www.marchofthevegetables.org)
Testing DVD-R and CD-R 25 years later: optical disks from Japan (goughlui.com)
Jack London, Jack Johnson, and the Fight of the Century (publicdomainreview.org)
The atrocious state of binary compatibility on Linux and how to address it (jangafx.com)
Textcase: A Python Library for Text Case Conversion (github.com)
Offline SOS signalingrecovery app for disasters/wars (github.com)
Why Are Credit Card Rates So High? (libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org)
AI image recognition detects bubble-like structures in the universe (phys.org)
DEDA – Tracking Dots Extraction, Decoding and Anonymisation Toolkit (github.com)
A look back: WordPerfect on DOS (2023) (technicallywewrite.com)
Shared DNA in Music (pudding.cool)
Published Doesn''t Mean Paid (kristie-de-garis.ghost.io)
Hightouch (YC S19) Is Hiring Front End Engineers (job-boards.greenhouse.io)
How AI is creating a rift at McKinsey, Bain, and BCG (the-ken.com)
Cuneiforms: New digital tool for translating ancient texts (www.sciencedaily.com)
Silica Gel Took over the World (www.scopeofwork.net)
Dave Täht has passed away (libreqos.io)
Make SVGs interactive in React with 1 line (svggles.vercel.app)
Qwen-2.5-32B is now the best open source OCR model (github.com)
Is Doge Securities Fraud? (www.bloomberg.com)
Generate autounattend.xml files for Windows 10/11 (schneegans.de)
Zig Topological Sort Library for Parallel Processing (github.com)
The Myst Graph: A New Perspective on Myst (glthr.com)
Camelgate NPM Outage (Cloudflare) (news.ycombinator.com)
Debts, Tech and Otherwise (blogs.newardassociates.com)
Meru Health (YC S18) Is Hiring (www.ycombinator.com)
RubyUI (Former PhlexUI): Ruby Gem for RubyUI Components (github.com)
A Man Powers Home for 8 Years Using 1k Old Laptop Batteries (techoreon.com)
Chess324 – A Chess Variant to Reduce Draws (www.chessprogramming.org)
Terminal dashboard that throttles my PC during peak electricity rates (www.naveen.ing)
We Can, Must, and Will Simulate Nematode Brains (asteriskmag.com)
ASim (YC S21) – Mobile app that generates mobile apps (news.ycombinator.com)
Systems Correctness Practices at AWS: Leveraging Formal and Semi-Formal Methods (queue.acm.org)
Drawing some ovals (that are not ellipses) (medium.com)
Why hasn''t AMD made a viable CUDA alternative? (news.ycombinator.com)
Donkey Kong champion wins defamation case against Australian YouTuber Karl Jobst (www.theguardian.com)
The Colors of Her Coat (www.astralcodexten.com)
First Orbital Rocket Launched from European Soil, Rocket Crashes, but It''s Cool [video] (www.youtube.com)
Globe Gores (blogs.loc.gov)
Xiaomi Car with Driver Assistance Crashes, Three Reported Dead (www.bloomberg.com)
Bletchley code breaker Betty Webb dies aged 101 (www.bbc.com)
Electron Band Structure in Germanium, My Ass (pages.cs.wisc.edu)
CERN scientists find evidence of quantum entanglement in sheep (home.cern)
I made a show shuffler that shuffles shows in order (git.tgwil.net)
Why F#? (batsov.com)
Extend (YC W23) is hiring engineers to build LLM document processing (jobs.ashbyhq.com)
US Marines to get high-speed, radar-evading electric seagliders for rescue ops (interestingengineering.com)
The April Fools joke that might have got me fired (oldvcr.blogspot.com)
Open-source browser-use/CUA equivalent for androids: mobile-use (github.com)
Ukrainian Soldiers Unearth Ancient Greek Burial (archaeology.org)
Self-Hosting like it''s 2025 (kiranet.org)
Interactive article about heart arrhythmias (jenevoldsen.com)
US accidentally sent Maryland father to Salvadorian prison, can''t get him back (www.independent.co.uk)
''A hostile state'': Why some travellers are avoiding the US (www.bbc.com)
Experimental Tauri Verso Integration (v2.tauri.app)
Jargonic: Industry-Tunable ASR Model (aiola.ai)
JavaScript PubSub in 163 Bytes (github.com)
Photoroom (YC S20) Is Hiring Rust, API, and Front End Engineers (Europe, Remote) (jobs.ashbyhq.com)
LLM providers on the cusp of an ''extinction'' phase as capex realities bite (www.theregister.com)
Duolingo-style exercises but with real-world content like the news (app.fluentsubs.com)
Interview with the Creator of Deluxe Ski Jump (spillhistorie.no)
Nue – Apps lighter than a React button (nuejs.org)
Sales Compensation Simulator – Tool for Founders (www.exec.com)
Canoeing on the Danube (jameswarnersmith.co.uk)
Why America now eats a crazy number of avocados (www.wsj.com)
Netflix CEO Says Movie Theaters Are Dead (www.semafor.com)
An ''Administrative Error'' Sends a Maryland Father to a Salvadoran Prison (www.theatlantic.com)
Get the hell out of the LLM as soon as possible (sgnt.ai)
The case against conversational interfaces (julian.digital)
The Pragmatic Open Source Contributor (diurnal.st)
FSKit: Implement a file system that runs in user space (developer.apple.com)
Netflix''s Media Production Suite (netflixtechblog.com)
Charlie Javice convicted of defrauding JPMorgan in 175M startup sale (apnews.com)
Germany Prepares for War (www.bbc.com)
Addressing Burnout – Libera Chat (libera.chat)
A deliberate practice app for guitar players who want to level up (www.captrice.io)
KOReader: Open-Source eBook Reader (github.com)
Everything Is Ghibli (carly.substack.com)
Canada investigates whether Tesla helped itself to a subsidy-fueled sales boom (fortune.com)
New funding to build towards AGI (openai.com)
The US Assault on Science: National Academies Letter (www.nytimes.com)
The Guardian flourishes without a paywall (nymag.com)
Go Optimization Guide (goperf.dev)
LLM Workflows then Agents: Getting Started with Apache Airflow (github.com)
The Surprising History of Scientific Ballooning in 11 Missions (nautil.us)
JEP Draft: Prepare to Make Final Mean Final (openjdk.org)
OpenAI releasing new open model in coming months, seeks community feedback (openai.com)
Kagi for Kids (help.kagi.com)
I made a little puzzle game about a rogue chess knight (knightride.rakhim.org)
Notes on the Pentium''s Microcode Circuitry (www.righto.com)
Honey has now lost 4M Chrome users after shady tactics were revealed (9to5google.com)
DeepSeek surpasses ChatGPT in new monthly visits (economictimes.indiatimes.com)
The Average College Student Is Illiterate (www.persuasion.community)
Chomsky: A "Study in Total Depravity" (bactra.org)
A Man Who Went to Fake Prison Also Went to Real Jail (nymag.com)
France fines Apple 150M for "excessive" pop-ups that let users reject tracking (arstechnica.com)
Augento (YC W25) – Fine-tune your agents with reinforcement learning (news.ycombinator.com)
Distro (YC S24) Is Hiring a Lead Solutions Engineer (www.ycombinator.com)
I made a C program to create a vanity SHA-1 hash for a text file (gist.github.com)
Warner Bros Completes Worldwide Sale of ''Coyote vs Acme'' (deadline.com)
GuMCP – Open-source MCP servers, hosted for free (github.com)
Automating Interactive Fiction Logic Generation with LLMs in Emacs (blog.tendollaradventure.com)
C and C Prioritize Performance over Correctness (2023) (research.swtch.com)
Palma 2 (shop.boox.com)
MLB: Yankees'' new ''''Torpedo Bats'''' legal and likely coming to a dugout near you (thelibertyline.com)
Debugging Lotus 1-2-3 by fax (blog.jgc.org)
Runway Gen-4 (runwayml.com)
Oracle attempt to hide serious cybersecurity incident from customers (doublepulsar.com)
Turso SQLite Offline Sync Public Beta (turso.tech)
Back From The Future: 1995''s predictions of 2025 life (newslttrs.com)
Why do I run FreeBSD for my home servers (aumont.fr)
Java Minecraft in the Browser (browsercraft.cheerpj.com)
There''s White Stuff Growing on Your Cheese That Isn''t Mold (www.thephcheese.com)
AI Agents: Less Capability, More Reliability, Please (www.sergey.fyi)
Amazon introduces Nova Chat, entering the arena with ChatGPT, Claude, Grok (www.aboutamazon.com)