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Functional Mechanical Sympathy [video] (www.youtube.com)
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Deterministic Concurrency [video] (www.youtube.com)
Thinking Fast and Slow in AI: The Role of Metacognition (arxiv.org)
TabPFN and TabICL vs. tuned XGBoost: the model that doesn''t train won 14/14 (efraingaray.com)
Golang: Crypto/fips140: do not bloat crypto code unnecessarily (github.com)
Microsoft drops Copilot branding from its new laptops (www.tomshardware.com)
Nissan''s third generation e-POWER powertrain (www.nissan-global.com)
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Panda, the world''s first personal AI computer (pandax1.com)
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Research finds 485 chemicals in US pesticide products linked to breast cancer (www.theguardian.com)
Every Household in This Rural Town Receives 10k If a Data Center Gets Built (www.wsj.com)
Self-parking car using genetic algorithm (2021) (trekhleb.dev)
Guitar amp and effects pedal built on the Waveshare ESP32-S3-Touch-AMOLED-2.06 (github.com)
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Hitachi to double US production of small and medium-sized power transformers (www.utilitydive.com)
Coltrane''s Shadow (www.tabletmag.com)
Self-Hosting on the Dark Web (david.alvarezrosa.com)
A New Experiment Meta-Strategy (chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com)
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EV Sales Are Booming in Europe with Gasoline at 10 a Gallon (www.bloomberg.com)
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Cartopolis, interactive globe-sized 3D world (code.garage44.eu)
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Lunar Terminator Paradox (notes.secretsauce.net)
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Wiki Deep dive into Standard diving dress (en.wikipedia.org)
Alan Kay''s answer to "Did the ENIAC have a BIOS"? (www.quora.com)
Imp is a full port of DSPy to the BEAM (github.com)
The state of SIMD in Rust in 2026 (shnatsel.github.io)
Kicki: A DECsystem1060 – Interim Computer Museum (icm.museum)
Lofi Cities – Pixel-art city nights with browser-generated lofi (loficities.com)
Oral history of John Chowning, inventor of FM synthesis [video] (www.youtube.com)
I don''t read code anymore (blog.duyet.net)
Ember-1 (fireworks.ai)
John Coltrane Centenary''s – Impulse Records Release the Legendary Tiberi Tapes (www.jazzwise.com)
Calling the AI bluff: Adding "Do not guess" cut made-up fields from 71% to 20% (earnanhonestdollar.com)
Fragment of oldest known peace treaty found in Turkey (www.livescience.com)
Trail – new kind of logic game (trail.franzai.com)
42x faster prompt lookup drafting in llama.cpp (jadidbourbaki.github.io)
Video CDs Break Windows Explorer (clydesnotes.blogspot.com)
The Greatest Pun in JavaScript (shukla.io)
SNL Weekend Update: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on A.I.''S Threat to Humanity [video] (www.youtube.com)
Don''t couple your Go code to GitHub (iain.rocks)
I spent 10 months building a Markdown editor for Mac, iOS and web (www.markdown.beauty)
The Cartesian Hand: In-Hand Manipulation with All-Linear Fingers (generalroboticslab.com)