A new book recovers the origins of Effective Altruism (newrepublic.com)
The Baumol Effect and Jevons paradox are related (www.a16z.news)
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WeatherNext 2: Our most advanced weather forecasting model (blog.google)
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WBlock: A New Ad-Blocker for Safari (github.com)
Google is killing the open web, part 2 (wok.oblomov.eu)
Are you stuck in movie logic? (usefulfictions.substack.com)
Republican push to make U.S. census surveys voluntary alarms statisticians (www.science.org)
Reverse perspective camera for OpenGL (Three.js) (github.com)
Jeff Bezos Creates A.I. Startup Where He Will Be Co-Chief Executive (www.nytimes.com)
Replicate is joining Cloudflare (replicate.com)
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Celtic Code: Drawing Knots with Python (2earth.github.io)
Ned: ImGui Text Editor with GL Shaders (github.com)
FreeMDU: Open-source Miele appliance diagnostic tools (github.com)
GCC 16 considering changing default to C20 (inbox.sourceware.org)
I built a synth for my daughter (bitsnpieces.dev)
C implementation of SIP, ICE, TURN and related protocols (github.com)
Mysterious drones have been spotted at airports across Europe (www.bbc.co.uk)
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FCC Chairman backs demand that NBC fire Seth Meyers ''immediately'' (ew.com)
The evolution of rationality: How chimps process conflicting evidence (arstechnica.com)
Quest for Permissively Licensed PDF Library in C# (duerrenberger.dev)
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Fastmcpp (Fastmcp for C) (github.com)
Craft Chrome Devtools Protocol (CDP) commands with the new command editor (developer.chrome.com)
"Snarky"; "Snark" (notoneoffbritishisms.com)
Why Castrol Honda Superbike crashes on (most) modern systems (seri.tools)
A Man Who Rescued Faulkner (www.theatlantic.com)
Origin and Evolution of the Globstar (mergify.com)
runit Linux: Guide to Unix Init Scheme with Service Supervision (codelucky.com)
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Mixing Is the Heartbeat of Deep Lakes. At Crater Lake, It''s Slowing Down (www.quantamagazine.org)
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Extreme Moon: The Major Lunar Standstill of 2024-2025 (griffithobservatory.org)
Listen to Database Changes Through the Postgres WAL (peterullrich.com)
A 1961 Relay Computer Running in the Browser (minivac.greg.technology)
What Did Medieval Peasants Know? (2022) (www.theatlantic.com)
A new chapter begins for EV batteries with the expiry of key LFP patents (www.shoosmiths.com)
Open Catalyst Project (opencatalystproject.org)
PicoIDE – An open IDE/ATAPI drive emulator (picoide.com)
A File Format Uncracked for 20 Years (landaire.net)
Why your mock breaks later (nedbatchelder.com)
Call Me Maybe: Eavesdropping encrypted LTE calls with ReVoLTE (2020) (montsecure.com)
Britney Spears'' Guide to Semiconductor Physics (britneyspears.ac)
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How Your Brain Creates ''Aha'' Moments and Why They Stick (www.quantamagazine.org)
Pennies Are Trash Now (www.theatlantic.com)
Spam classifier in Go using Naive Bayes (github.com)
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Peter Thiel sells off all Nvidia stock, stirring bubble fears (www.thestreet.com)
The Pragmatic Programmer: 20th Anniversary Edition (www.ahalbert.com)
Shell Grotto, Margate (en.wikipedia.org)
I have recordings proving Coinbase knew about breach 4 months before disclosure (jonathanclark.com)
Adding an imaginary unit to a finite field (www.johndcook.com)
Linux mode setting, from the comfort of OCaml (roscidus.com)
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Dark Pattern Games (www.darkpattern.games)
What if you don''t need MCP at all? (mariozechner.at)
Decoding Leibniz Notation (2024) (www.spakhm.com)
Your Land, My Land (Offrange) – Lithium vs. Lettuce in the Imperial Valley, CA (ambrook.com)
62 chapter open-source Zig book (www.zigbook.net)
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Z3 API in Python: From Sudoku to N-Queens in Under 20 Lines (ericpony.github.io)
The Man Who Keeps Predicting the Web''s Death (tedium.co)
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AI is killing privacy. We can''t let that happen (www.fastcompany.com)
Holes (1970) [pdf] (rintintin.colorado.edu)
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Fourier Transforms (www.continuummechanics.org)
FPGA Based IBM-PC-XT (bit-hack.net)
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Interactive Spectrum Chart (www.potatofi.com)
De Bruijn Numerals (text.marvinborner.de)
Heretic: Automatic censorship removal for language models (github.com)
Production-Grade Container Deployment with Podman Quadlets – Larvitz Blog (blog.hofstede.it)
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PgFirstAid: PostgreSQL function for improving stability and performance (github.com)
Vintage Large Language Models (owainevans.github.io)
MCP: Model Context Pitfalls in an agentic world (hiddenlayer.com)
The politics of purely client-side apps (pfrazee.leaflet.pub)
Denial of Fuzzing: Rust in the Windows Kernel (research.checkpoint.com)
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The Internet Is No Longer a Safe Haven (brainbaking.com)
My mum was a 17-year-old free spirit – so she was locked up and put in a coma (www.bbc.co.uk)
Major Bitcoin mining firm pivoting to AI (www.tomshardware.com)
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“The Fall of Icarus”: Photograph of a falling skydiver in front of the Sun (www.iflscience.com)
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Brimstone: ES2025 JavaScript engine written in Rust (github.com)
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Real-time 4D Julia set navigation via gamepad (banditcat.github.io)
Anthropic''s report smells a lot like bullshit (djnn.sh)
UK''s first small nuclear power station to be built in north Wales (www.bbc.com)
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Microsoft: We see all the backlash and we know we have a lot to fix in Windows (www.neowin.net)
Itiner-e: A high-resolution dataset of roads of the Roman Empire (www.nature.com)
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The inconceivable types of Rust: How to make self-borrows safe (2024) (blog.polybdenum.com)
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EyesOff: How I built a screen contact detection model (ym2132.github.io)
IDEmacs: A Visual Studio Code clone for Emacs (codeberg.org)
AirPods Libreated from Apple''s Ecosystem (github.com)
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Feature Extraction with KNN (davpinto.github.io)
libwifi: an 802.11 frame parsing and generation library written in C (libwifi.so)
AsciiMath (asciimath.org)
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Unflip – a puzzle game about XOR patterns of squares (unflipgame.com)
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I made a better DOM morphing algorithm (joel.drapper.me)
Caffeinated Coffee Consumption or Abstinence to Reduce Atrial Fibrillation (jamanetwork.com)
Archimedes – A Python toolkit for hardware engineering (pinetreelabs.github.io)
AWS Deprecates Two Dozen Services (Most of Which You''ve Never Heard Of) (www.lastweekinaws.com)
The computer poetry of J. M. Coetzee''s early programming career (sites.utexas.edu)
Transgenerational Epigenetic Inheritance: the story of learned avoidance (elifesciences.org)
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FBI Director Waived Polygraph Security Screening for Three Senior Staff (www.propublica.org)
Llmdeathcount.com (llmdeathcount.com)
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An Antivenom Cocktail, Made by a Llama (www.asimov.press)
I implemented an ISO 42001-certified AI Governance program in 6 months (beabytes.com)
Boa: A standard-conforming embeddable JavaScript engine written in Rust (github.com)
Trellis AI (YC W24) Is Hiring: Streamline access to life-saving therapies (www.ycombinator.com)
Windhawk Windows classic theme mod for Windows 11 (windhawk.net)
The Mighty Simplex (2023) (galileo-unbound.blog)
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Waymo Was on a Roll in San Francisco. Then One of Its Cars Killed a Cat (www.nytimes.com)
Linux on the Fujitsu Lifebook U729 (borretti.me)
6B Miles Driven (www.tesla.com)
How to write type-safe generics in C (raphgl.github.io)
The Pen and the Spade: The Poems of Seamus Heaney (literaryreview.co.uk)
Edward Burtynsky''s Warning (www.theatlantic.com)
The Nature of the Beast: Charles Le Brun''s Human-Animal Hybrids (1806) (publicdomainreview.org)
History and use of the Estes AstroCam 110 (www.dembrudders.com)
Kagi Bloopers – Search Results Gone Wrong (help.kagi.com)
Streaming AI Agent Desktops with Gaming Protocols (blog.helix.ml)
Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia''s founder/co-founder – Jung and Naiv: Episode 792 [video] (www.youtube.com)
Activeloop (YC S18) Is Hiring MTS(Back End)and AI Search Engineer (careers.activeloop.ai)
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NATO Ended Russia''s Estonian Air Incursions (themilitaryanalyst.com)
Can text be made to sound more than just its words? (2022) (arxiv.org)
One Handed Keyboard (github.com)
Continuous Architecture: A decade of designing for change (continuousarchitecture.com)
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Ohm Editor (ohmjs.org)
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A structural regular expression engine for Rust (www.sminez.dev)
Löb and Möb: Loops in Haskell (github.com)
So, you want to design your own language? (cs.lmu.edu)
AMD GPUs Go Brrr (hazyresearch.stanford.edu)
Lawmakers want to ban VPNs and have no idea what they''re doing (www.eff.org)
Ucs-Detect (ucs-detect.readthedocs.io)
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Scientists reverse kidney damage in mice, hope for humans next (www.sciencedaily.com)
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Over-reliance on English hinders cognitive science (www.cell.com)
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Async Mutexes (matklad.github.io)
Raycore: GPU accelerated and modular ray intersections (makie.org)
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Brexit reduced UK GDP by 6-8%, investments by 12-18% [pdf] (www.nber.org)
Unofficial Microsoft Teams Client for Linux (github.com)
Go''s Sweet 16 (go.dev)
SSL Configuration Generator (ssl-config.mozilla.org)
30 Days, 9 Cities, 1 Question: Where Did American Prosperity Go? (kyla.substack.com)
Cj–tiny no-deps JIT in C for x86-64 and ARM64 (github.com)
An Italian Company Builds the First Known Propellantless Space-Propulsion System (www.satcom.digital)
HipKittens: Fast and furious AMD kernels (hazyresearch.stanford.edu)
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First Microprocessor – 50th Anniversary 2020 (firstmicroprocessor.com)
Epstein Files Organized and Searchable (searchepsteinfiles.com)
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Houston, We Have a Problem: Anthropic Rides an Artificial Wave – BIML (berryvilleiml.com)
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The accidental click that changed everything: the Apify origin story (blog.apify.com)
Chirp – Local Windows dictation with ParakeetV3 no executable required (github.com)
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Structured Outputs on the Claude Developer Platform (API) (www.claude.com)
GPG and Me (2015) (moxie.org)
Tiny Diffusion – A character-level text diffusion model from scratch (github.com)
Minisforum Stuffs Entire Arm Homelab in the MS-R1 (www.jeffgeerling.com)
AI World Clocks (clocks.brianmoore.com)
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Secret Boat Strike Memo Justifies Kills by Claiming Targeting Drugs, Not People (theintercept.com)
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Bitchat for Gaza – messaging without internet (updates.techforpalestine.org)
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US Tech Market Treemap (caplocus.com)
Germany to Ban Huawei from Future 6G Network in Sovereignty Push (www.bloomberg.com)
You misunderstand what it means to be poor (blog.ctms.me)
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RetailReady (YC W24) Is Hiring (www.ycombinator.com)
''No One Lives Forever'' Turns 25 and You Still Can''t Buy It Legitimately (www.techdirt.com)
The American Tradition of Trying to Address Anxiety with Parks (time.com)
Linear Algebra Explains Why Some Words Are Effectively Untranslatable (aethermug.com)
Cgp-serde: A modular serialization library for Serde powered by CGP (contextgeneric.dev)
Wealthy foreigners ''paid for chance to shoot civilians in Sarajevo'' (www.thetimes.com)
Oracle hit hard in Wall Street''s tech sell-off over its AI bet (www.ft.com)
European Tech News in 6 Languages (europedigital.cloud)
Incus-OS: Immutable Linux OS to run Incus as a hypervisor (linuxcontainers.org)
Don''t turn your brain off (computingeducationthings.substack.com)
Writerdeck.org (www.writerdeck.org)
I think nobody wants AI in Firefox, Mozilla (manualdousuario.net)
AGI fantasy is a blocker to actual engineering (www.tomwphillips.co.uk)
EDE: Small and Fast Desktop Environment (edeproject.org)
Winamp for OS/X (github.com)
Arrival Radar (entropicthoughts.com)
Magit manuals are available online again (github.com)
Nvidia is gearing up to sell servers instead of just GPUs and components (www.tomshardware.com)
Backblaze Drive Stats for Q3 2025 (www.backblaze.com)
A Spectral-Geometric Proof of the Riemann Hypothesis (zenodo.org)
Scientists Produce Powerhouse Pigment Behind Octopus Camouflage (today.ucsd.edu)
Honda: 2 years of ml vs 1 month of prompting - heres what we learned (www.levs.fyi)
Gnome 50 Ends the X11 Era After Decades (linuxiac.com)
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Needy Programs (tonsky.me)
A Common Semiconductor Just Became a Superconductor (www.sciencedaily.com)
An easy-to-use online curve fitting tool (byx2000.github.io)
V8 Garbage Collector (wingolog.org)
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The Floating Head Phenomenon (michaelestrin.substack.com)
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Pegma, the free and open-source version of the classic Peg solitaire (pegma.vercel.app)
Multi-User Dungeon (MUD) (en.wikipedia.org)
RegreSQL: Regression Testing for PostgreSQL Queries (boringsql.com)
Sarah Mason, inventor of the continuity script, first script supervisor (wfpp.columbia.edu)
Codables – Swift-inspired, declarative JSON serialization (github.com)
Hooked on Sonics: Experimenting with Sound in 19th-Century Popular Science (publicdomainreview.org)
What Happened with the CIA and The Paris Review? (www.theparisreview.org)
''The Dream Factory'' Review: A Building and Its Bard (www.wsj.com)
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Why I''m Learning Sumerian (mindthenerd.com)
Fannie Mae officials ousted after sounding alarm on sharing confidential data (apnews.com)
Copyright Winter Is Coming (To Wikipedia?) (authorsalliance.substack.com)
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