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Matz 2/2: The trajectory of Ruby''s growth, Open-Source Software today etc. (en.kaigaiiju.ch)
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Linux is good now; to feel like you actually own your PC, put Linux on it (www.pcgamer.com)
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Arpanet standardized TCP/IP on this day in 1983 (www.tomshardware.com)
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Observed Agent Sandbox Bypasses (voratiq.com)
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Tixl: Open-source realtime motion graphics (github.com)
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Odin: Moving Towards a New "core:OS" (odin-lang.org)
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Google Opal (opal.google)
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Git analytics that works across GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket (news.ycombinator.com)
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What If Heavy Files Felt Heavy? (www.shiveesh.com)
L1TF Reloaded (github.com)
Readings in Database Systems (5th Edition) (www.redbook.io)
Animated AI (animatedai.github.io)
RAMBnB.xyz P2P marketplace for RAM rentals (www.rambnb.xyz)
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Mitsubishi Diatone D-160 (1985) (audio-database.com)
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Braid Math Article (mathvoices.ams.org)
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OpenAI''s cash burn will be one of the big bubble questions of 2026 (www.economist.com)
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U.S. cybersecurity experts plead guilty for ransomware attacks (www.tomshardware.com)
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Tatiana Schlossberg, granddaughter of John F Kennedy, dies aged 35 (www.bbc.com)
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The sword-wielding man hired to kick squatters out of empty Oakland homes (oaklandside.org)
Zpdf: PDF text extraction in Zig – 5x faster than MuPDF (github.com)
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Everything as Code: How We Manage Our Company in One Monorepo (www.kasava.dev)
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Lottocracy: Democracy Without Elections (www.lottocracy.org)
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A Vulnerability in Libsodium (00f.net)
22 GB of Hacker News in SQLite (hackerbook.dosaygo.com)
HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) (hstspreload.org)
Optimal Classification Cutoffs (finite-sample.github.io)
Toro: Deploy Applications as Unikernels (github.com)
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2025 Was Another Exceptionally Hot Year (e360.yale.edu)
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The 70% AI productivity myth: why most companies aren''t seeing the gains (sderosiaux.substack.com)
Public Sans – A strong, neutral typeface (public-sans.digital.gov)
Singapore Study Links Heavy Infant Screen Time to Teen Anxiety (www.bloomberg.com)
Postgres extension complements pgvector for performance and scale (github.com)
The British Empire''s Resilient Subsea Telegraph Network (subseacables.blogspot.com)
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Win32 is the stable Linux ABI (loss32.org)
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Crimson (YC X25) is hiring founding engineers in London (www.ycombinator.com)
Non-Zero-Sum Games (nonzerosum.games)
Graph Algorithms in Rayon (davidlattimore.github.io)
Nicolas Guillou, French ICC judge sanctioned by the US and "debanked" (www.lemonde.fr)
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