Can you build a recognizable World Map in under 500 bytes? (www.experimentlog.com)
Protocol Prying: Vulnerability Research in AirDrop and Quick Share (arxiv.org)
GPT-5.5 Codex reasoning-token clustering may be leading to degraded performance (github.com)
At Dog School, children gain a sense of achievement (www.csmonitor.com)
Better Models: Worse Tools (lucumr.pocoo.org)
Fable created novel 4D splat format (adamraudonis.github.io)
It''s not me, it''s the compiler (parsa.wtf)
AI has torched the market for junior programmers (seldo.com)
Wicklow hotel cancels ''secretive'' Peter Thiel group conference (www.irishtimes.com)
Command and Conquer Generals natively ported to macOS, iPhone, iPad using Fable (github.com)
Zig: All Package Management Functionality Moved from Compiler to Build System (ziglang.org)
EU appears to find datacenter emissions easier to offset than lobbyists (www.theregister.com)
Drone Physics (iahmed.me)
Game Boy Advance Dev: Logging to the Console (www.mattgreer.dev)
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EndBASIC 0.14: Are we multimedia yet? (www.endbasic.dev)
The .join() that should be a bug (kronotop.com)
Verizon is About to Break our Watches (www.jefftk.com)
Sick leave: Germany rising but not the worst in Europe (www.dw.com)
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Plein Air (art.joonas.wtf)
Google Books (or similar) all book scans – 200k bounty (software.annas-archive.gl)
Meta data center water discharges suspended for contaminating water supply (www.tomshardware.com)
Neural Render Proxies for Interactive and Differentiable Lighting (studios.disneyresearch.com)
Finland''s last analogue landline phones go silent after 150 years (www.euronews.com)
Leaking YouTube Creators Private Videos (javoriuski.com)
The End of North America (paulkrugman.substack.com)
Rob Pike – ''Concurrency Is Not Parallelism'' [video] (vimeo.com)
Curveball (mightyburger.net)
Windows CE Dreamcast Community Edition (wince-dc) (github.com)
Designing DB partitions you don''t have to babysit (explainanalyze.com)
California Bans ''Sell by'' Labels, Hoping to Cut Food Waste (www.nytimes.com)
The Reports of Jim Carrey''s Death Are a Failure Mode (tane.dev)
What ORMs have taught me: just learn SQL (2014) (wozniak.ca)
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How working memory could give rise to consciousness (www.scientificamerican.com)
Potential session/cache leakage between workspace instances or consumer accounts (github.com)
Breaking the Bird Barrier: Scientist Decodes Zebra Finch Language (www.freepressjournal.in)
Foundation, a different approach to software and AI (github.com)
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Night Witches – all-female Soviet aviator regiment WW2 (en.wikipedia.org)
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Postgres data stored in Parquet on S3: LTAP architecture explained (www.databricks.com)
Godot bans "vibe-coded" code contributions (theguptalog.blogspot.com)
Classify mechanical faults using Contrastive Language-Audio Pretraining (github.com)
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2026 Unslop AI-Written Fiction Contest Results (www.hyperstitionai.com)
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Mir Books – Books from the Soviet Era (mirtitles.org)
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Maybe you should learn something (www.marginalia.nu)
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Synthesis is harder than analysis (surfingcomplexity.blog)
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MSI Center – How to gain SYSTEM privileges in seconds (mrbruh.com)
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GitFut – Your GitHub stats turned into a World-Cup-style player card (gitfut.com)
Leanstral 1.5: Proof Abundance for All (mistral.ai)
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Archivegenocide.com 64k videos show evidence of Israeli genocide (archivegenocide.com)
GLM5.2 on AMD MI355X at 2626 tok/s/node at over 2x lower cost than Blackwell (www.wafer.ai)
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Nerdle Review (dles.gg)
Applied Category Theory Course (2018) (math.ucr.edu)
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AI First: How the Federal Government Is Prioritizing AI over People and Planet (stopgreedbuildgreen.climateandcommunity.org)
Africans Are Turning to Starlink (www.economist.com)
ContextCodeCache in Rust (github.com)
Topics, Not Feeds (blogsreader.com)
Infracost (YC W21) Is Hiring a Marketing Lead to Shift FinOps Left (www.ycombinator.com)
Espionage Against the European Parliament (citizenlab.ca)
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Kagi Changelog (July 2): Heads, tails, and an AI toggle (kagi.com)
Oak: Git for Agents (oak.space)
Why Being Overqualified Is a Risk (newsletter.bphogan.com)
SearXNG: A free internet metasearch engine (github.com)
HammerDB v6.0 Response Times, Percentiles and Reservoir Sampling (www.hammerdb.com)
ClawdMojis – A Clawd for Every Occasion (github.com)
FreeBSD Ate My RAM (crocidb.com)
The MJ Rathbun case: How an autonomous AI bot cyberbullied a human programmer (chatgptdesactualizado.blogspot.com)
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Instead of banning AI, I made a classroom contract with my students (www.science.org)
Costco Is the Anti-Amazon (phenomenalworld.org)
I Wasn''t Allowed Prompting ChatGPT During My Chalk Talk: This Is Discrimination (inpreparation.substack.com)
AI saves about 3% of your hours, and almost none of it reaches the money (okaneland.com)
Mcpsnoop – Wireshark for MCP (transparent proxy and live TUI) (github.com)
International chess federation sanctions Kramnik (www.fide.com)
US residents angry datacenters ''shoved down our throats'' are recalling officials (www.theguardian.com)
60% Fable cost cut by converting code to images and having the model OCR it (github.com)
Claude, please stop trying to memorize random crap (12gramsofcarbon.com)
The Life and Times of Maxis, Part 1: SimEverything (www.filfre.net)
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Factories Are Just Rooms (interconnected.org)
America, 1926: What a Forgotten 100-Year-Old Report Says About Who We Are (www.derekthompson.org)
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TaskPeace – a task queue my AI coding agents pull work from over MCP (taskpeace.com)
Anatomy of Persistent Memory''s 3 Layers: Comparing ContextNest, Mem0 and Zep (promptowl.ai)
Best Simple System for Now (dannorth.net)
Jamesob''s guide to running SOTA LLMs locally (github.com)
It Still Can''t Do My Job: Four Years of Moving Goalposts (2022–2026) (publicznyprofil.github.io)
Hunting a 16-year-old SQLite WAL bug with TLA (ubuntu.com)
Program-as-Weights: A Programming Paradigm for Fuzzy Functions (arxiv.org)
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The Fall and Rise of Screwworm (www.construction-physics.com)
OM Core – multidimensional models without spreadsheet cell formulas (github.com)
Gemini Code Assist will be shut down on July 17 (docs.cloud.google.com)
Goodebye Forever Probably: Why I''m leaving developer relations (whitep4nth3r.com)
Valve open source the Steam Machine e-ink screen so you can make your own (www.gamingonlinux.com)
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PostgreSQL and the OOM Killer: Why You Must Use Strict Memory Overcommit (www.ubicloud.com)
Zuckerberg ''Admits'' Meta''s Layoffs Were Ineffective (eshumarneedi.com)
Please Stop the AI Confidence Theater (www.elenaverna.com)
Amazon has enough satellites to launch its Starlink competitor (www.theverge.com)
AI Data Centers Use More Water Than Most Tech Giants Report (www.wsj.com)
Ed Zitron on CNBC: GenAI Doesn''t Work, and Big Tech Is Out of Hypergrowth Ideas (www.youtube.com)
The Beauty of Tautologies (scottsumner.substack.com)
Dalus (YC W25) Is Hiring a Senior Software Engineer in Germany (www.ycombinator.com)
Gun Mistakes in Fiction Writing: Handgun Edition (www.swiftsilentdeadly.com)
Commodore 64 Basic for PostgreSQL (thombrown.blogspot.com)
Wordgard: The new in-browser rich-text editor from the creator of ProseMirror (wordgard.net)
Q&A with Micron''s VP and GM of Memory (morethanmoore.substack.com)
Alibaba to ban Claude Code in workplace over alleged backdoor risks, source says (www.reuters.com)
Quake in 13 Kilobytes (2021) (js13kgames.com)
AI is ''not smart'' so what''s next in artificial intelligence? (www.bbc.com)
How working with a blind client revealed invisible accessibility gaps (iinteractive.com)
I Type Holes in Keyboard Covers – This One Survived (medium.com)
Is anyone experimenting with different ways of using LLMs for coding? (news.ycombinator.com)
Underwater Suit-Wearing Cyborg Insect Capable of Diving and Terra-Aqua Travel (www.nature.com)
The Safari MCP server for web developers (webkit.org)
Every AI Visibility Tool Is Lying to You (canonry.ai)
Cowboys, Frontiersmen, Settlers, Townspeople, Cityfolk (huntersoftwareconsulting.com)
Wasmer: Fast, secure, lightweight containers based on WebAssembly (wasmer.io)
14 faster embeddings: how we rebuilt the ONNX path in Manticore (manticoresearch.com)
The Free Market Lie: Why Switzerland Has 25 Gbit Internet and America Doesn''t (stefan.schueller.net)
Is the iPhone birth control? Causal evidence from AT&T''s 2007-2011 monopoly [pdf] (www.nber.org)
Perform DFU Restores on Apple Silicon Macs with Macvdmtool (2021) (www.bkurtz.io)
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Crossword Heatmap (arbourtrary.com)
CarPlay Is Additive (www.caseyliss.com)
Gitstock–Transform you GitHub commit history into K-line and animations (gitstock.org)
"An AI Job Apocalypse?" – Goldman Sachs Report [pdf] (www.goldmansachs.com)
GitHub is proud to announce that you can now obtain your public repo on CD-ROM (forms.cloud.microsoft)
Right to Local Intelligence (righttointelligence.org)
I made a tool that prevents websites from tracking you (github.com)
An American Privacy Emergency (scottaaronson.blog)
ctx – Search the coding agent history already on your machine (github.com)
Flexible metaprogramming with Rhombus (lwn.net)
Inkwell – An RSS reader for e-ink devices (kendal.codeberg.page)
FoundationDB''s Flow – Bringing Actor-Based Concurrency to C11 (apple.github.io)
CLI that helps AI agents avoid vulnerable dependencies (github.com)
Pieces – Social network for people (try.piecesof.me)
Apricot Computers: An underrated British brand (dfarq.homeip.net)
A Special Wireless-Free Nikon Camera Is Publicly Available for the First Time (petapixel.com)
Mystery identity of ''Green Boots'' climber is finally solved after DNA test (www.dailymail.com)
crustc: entirety of rustc, translated to C (github.com)
U.S. Officials Believed Israel Was Plotting to Kill Iranian Negotiators (www.nytimes.com)
Memora: A Harmonic Memory Representation Balancing Abstraction and Specificity (www.microsoft.com)
Simple, beautiful Emacs modeline: modusregel (codeberg.org)
BlastRadar – paste a Git diff, get a production risk score in 10 seconds (blastradar.vercel.app)
Immich 3.0 (github.com)
Reality has a surprising amount of detail (johnsalvatier.org)
US State of Virginia Bans Sale of Geolocation Data (www.hunton.com)
Bramble – Local-first password manager (github.com)
A New Catalog of Stellar Rotation Periods for over a Million Stars (aasnova.org)
The Short Leash AI Coding Method for Beating Fable (blog.okturtles.org)
Claude-real-video － any LLM can watch a video (github.com)
Wireless LAN SD (www.sdcard.org)
Great Salt Lake Tracker – Grow the Flow (growtheflowutah.org)
Modeling the Covid-19 Outbreak with J (2020) (datakinds.github.io)
EFF letter to FTC on X consent order (2 July 2026) [pdf] (cdn.arstechnica.net)
Rust Is Not a Memory-Safe Language (unsoliciteddave.blogspot.com)
Lightning Memory-Mapped Database Manager (LMDB) 1.0 (www.lmdb.tech)
Job seekers giving up: Labor force participation falls to lowest in 50 years (www.cnbc.com)
JEP 539: Strict Field Initialization in the JVM moved to preview (openjdk.org)
Postgres transactions are a distributed systems superpower (www.dbos.dev)
Claude''s AskUserQuestion: "No response after 60s – continued without an answer" (github.com)
Vulkan is now available on NetBSD (github.com)
Klara and the Sun Essay Contest – 1k Prize – AI Use Allowed (willpenman.com)
Exapunks (www.zachtronics.com)
Too many tables are bad for you (www.cybertec-postgresql.com)
Podman v6.0.0 (blog.podman.io)
No LLM Code in Dependencies (joeyh.name)
How VictoriaLogs Stores Your Logs in a Columnar Layout (victoriametrics.com)
The US Government Is Now a Shareholder in 26 Companies (moeonmargin.substack.com)
Former Microsoft dev built a 2.5KB Notepad clone (theguptalog.blogspot.com)
NSA tries to weaken mlkem standardisation (nsa.2026.action.cr.yp.to)
QUALITY.md – open format/specification, agent skill, and CLI (getquality.md)
EU Court of Justice allows criminal prosecution for reposting RT videos (tass.com)
24-bit/192kHz music downloads and why they make no sense (people.xiph.org)
What Breaks a Cell''s Ribs Can Make It Stronger (www.quantamagazine.org)
Spain Orders Blacklist of Palantir from Public and Private Companies (clashreport.com)
ZkGolf (zk.golf)
Since Linux 6.9, LUKS suspend stopped wiping disk-encryption keys from memory (mathstodon.xyz)
Natural history on canvas: Brueghel knew about bird-eating noctule bats (www.pnas.org)
PeerTube is a free, decentralized and federated video platform (github.com)
Manufact (YC S25) – MCP Cloud (manufact.com)
AI Can''t Be Listed as Inventor on Patent Applications, Japan''s Top Court Rules (japannews.yomiuri.co.jp)
A graph paper generator that renders vector PDFs in the browser (freegraphpaper.net)
The Egg Bandits Made a Thousand Times the Fine They Just Paid for Price Fixing (www.thebignewsletter.com)
Comparing Fable and 10 other LLMs on refactoring a LangGraph god node (wtf.korridzy.com)
CLI tool for detecting non-exact code duplication with embedding models (github.com)
Mail Memories – A desktop app to rescue photos from Gmail (mailmemories.com)
How to ask for help from people who don''t know you (pradyuprasad.com)
Orbital Data Centers: Why the Hype Outpaces Reality (spectrum.ieee.org)
Germany’s Infineon opens major chip plant as EU seeks tech autonomy (www.rfi.fr)
ZeroFS – A log-structured filesystem for S3 (www.zerofs.net)
Winamp Skin Museum (skins.webamp.org)
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German Button Maker Searched Rivers of American Midwest for Valuable Shells (www.smithsonianmag.com)
An AI board that pre-registers its bets – bet #1 just graded wrong (github.com)
In the age of algorithms and AI, is traditional media democracy''s defence? (www.martenscentre.eu)
Many people misunderstand the purpose of code review (mathstodon.xyz)
Claudoro, Pomodoro timer embedded in the Claude Code statusline (github.com)
AI fake news complaining about how AI fake news is the death of real news (www.niemanlab.org)
Is One Layer Enough? A Single Transformer Layer Matches Full-Parameter RL Train (arxiv.org)
Karp: Anthropic/OpenAI are stealing customer IP and their tokens have low value (twitter.com)
Using Aspect-Oriented Programming to Record DRL Agents'' Data (blog.ptidej.net)
This blog is written in en-GB (shkspr.mobi)
Who is quitting? (July 2026) (news.ycombinator.com)
Vite Beta (voidzero.dev)
Why I''m Forced to Say Farewell: Google Management Has Lost Its Moral Compass (docs.google.com)
WinPE as a stateless harness for Windows driver testing and fuzzing (bednars.me)
OpenAI: In early talks to give 5% stake to US Government (www.theguardian.com)
Meta building cloud business to sell excess AI capacity (www.reuters.com)
Nvidia offers startup customers chance to swap compute power for revenue share (www.cnbc.com)
Creating a Personalised Bin Calendar (alexwlchan.net)
Aerial Photographs (2017) (www.toronto.ca)
Google loses fight over record 4.7B EU antitrust fine (www.cnbc.com)
We Don''t Have to Be This Bad at Improving Society (kasperjunge.com)
The Fall of the Theorem Economy (davidbessis.substack.com)
My Favorite Keyboards (fabiensanglard.net)
MarketFish – Simulate a market with 128 AI consumers before you launch (github.com)
Asymmetric Quantization: Near-Lossless Retrieval with 97% Storage Reduction (www.mixedbread.com)
The gauge broke: devs felt 20% faster with AI, measured 19% slower (intrepidkarthi.com)
The Wisdom of Quinn the Eskimo (Apple Developer Technical Support Engineer) (github.com)
CursorBench 3.1 (cursor.com)
Kimi K2.7 Code is generally available in GitHub Copilot (github.blog)
Avo 4 released – 15 months and 2000 commits later (avohq.io)
Database Traffic Control (planetscale.com)
Learn Vim motions with an ice-cream van (thisismodest.com)
The vibration of the pager has a sound all its own (www.notyouremergency.com)
Meow – The 4th and final JavaScript runtime and toolchain (meow.style)
A new Android malware from Google (f-droid.org)
Senior SWE-Bench: open-source benchmark that assesses agents as senior engineers (senior-swe-bench.snorkel.ai)
Bring Back Crappy Forums (tedium.co)
Avoiding Fallback in Distributed Systems (builder.aws.com)
Unobin compiles Infrastructure as Code to one binary (cloudboss.co)
Fable 5 update: Still willing to cybercrime (alec.is)
LibreCAD in the Browser (magik.net)
Visual Basic on the PC with Windows 3.1 (stonetools.ghost.io)
Building an Open-Source Robot Vacuum – Meet Oomwoo (makerspet.com)
Billions of doses later: Global review confirms mRNA vaccines safe and effective (news.ubc.ca)
Meta Caps Internal AI Token Spending After Costs Approach Billions in 2026 (mlq.ai)
Curvytron 2, I rewrote my browser party game, 10 years later (curvytron2.com)
The HTML Element (developer.chrome.com)
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Opening up ''Zero-Knowledge Proof'' technology to promote privacy in age assurance (blog.google)
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Healthy but Sedentary People Show Early Decline in Cellular Energy Production (news.cuanschutz.edu)
Why jet engines aren''t made in China (aakash.substack.com)
US feds are actively hiring "person who decides which models to ban" (www.usajobs.gov)
The Underhanded C Contest (underhanded-c.org)
Chip Off the Old Block (www.astralcodexten.com)
The GNU Emacs Architecture: Unlocking the Core [pdf] (www.diva-portal.org)
Client-side load balancing at a million requests per second (engineering.zalando.com)
Cyclearchive.com – search vintage cycling magazines (cyclearchive.com)
Flavor Graveyard (www.benjerry.com)
Proliferate (YC S25) is hiring to building open source Codex (www.ycombinator.com)
ZCode – Harness for GLM-5.2 (zcode.z.ai)
Japan has 41% of the 100-year companies – secrets of 1,447-year survival (www.j-times.org)
OpenWiki: CLI that writes and maintains agent documentation for your codebase (github.com)