Universe expected to decay in 10⁷⁸ years, much sooner than previously thought (phys.org)
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The Barbican (arslan.io)
Ruby 3.5 Feature: Namespace on read (bugs.ruby-lang.org)
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Embeddings Are Underrated (technicalwriting.dev)
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Cursor or Windsurf? (news.ycombinator.com)
Intellect-2 Release: The First 32B Model Trained Through Globally Distributed RL (www.primeintellect.ai)
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Continuous Thought Machines (pub.sakana.ai)
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Burrito Now, Pay Later (enterprisevalue.substack.com)
Why Bell Labs Worked (1517.substack.com)
LSP client in Clojure in 200 lines of code (vlaaad.github.io)
Scraperr – A Self Hosted Webscraper (github.com)
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DNS piracy blocking orders: Google, Cloudflare, and OpenDNS respond differently (torrentfreak.com)
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The History and Legacy of Visual Basic (retool.com)
Intel: Winning and Losing (www.abortretry.fail)
Plain Vanilla Web – Guide for de-frameworking yourself (plainvanillaweb.com)
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The Epochalypse Project (epochalypse-project.org)
Oliphaunt – A native Mastodon client for macOS (testflight.apple.com)
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Xenolab – Rasp Pi monitor for my pet carnivourus plants (github.com)
One-Click RCE in Asus''s Preinstalled Driver Software (mrbruh.com)
Leaving Google (www.airs.com)
Fandom Sells Giant Bomb to Independent Creators (about.fandom.com)
Comparison of C/POSIX standard library implementations for Linux (www.etalabs.net)
Dotless Domains (lab.avl.la)
Code Claude Code (github.com)
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Sierpiński Triangle? In My Bitwise and? (lcamtuf.substack.com)
React Three Ecosystem (www.react-three.org)
Pope Leo XIV: "AI poses new challenges re: human dignity, justice and labour" (www.vatican.va)
Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during meetings (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
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US vs. Google Amicus Curiae Brief of Y Combinator in Support of Plaintiffs [pdf] (storage.courtlistener.com)
The deathbed fallacy (www.hjorthjort.xyz)
LTXVideo 13B AI video generation (ltxv.video)
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Gmail to SQLite (github.com)
Odin, a Pragmatic C Alternative with a Go Flavour (bitshifters.cc)
Fleurs du Mal (fleursdumal.org)
Vision Now Available in Llama.cpp (github.com)
Brandon''s Semiconductor Simulator (brandonli.net)
WebGL Water (2010) (madebyevan.com)
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Nao Labs (YC X25) – Cursor for Data (news.ycombinator.com)
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ALICE detects the conversion of lead into gold at the LHC (www.home.cern)
21 GB/s CSV Parsing Using SIMD on AMD 9950X (nietras.com)
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Usenix ATC Announcement (www.usenix.org)
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Data manipulations alleged in study that paved way for Microsoft''s quantum chip (www.science.org)
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Amazon''s Vulcan Robots Now Stow Items Faster Than Humans (spectrum.ieee.org)
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NSF faces shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions (www.science.org)
Hyvector – A fast and modern SVG editor (www.hyvector.com)
Podfox: First Container-Aware Browser (val.packett.cool)
WASM 2.0 (www.w3.org)
Dead Reckoning (www.damninteresting.com)
Audiobookshelf: Self-hosted audiobook and podcast server (www.audiobookshelf.org)
Doge software engineer''s computer infected by info-stealing malware (arstechnica.com)
A Formal Analysis of Apple''s iMessage PQ3 Protocol [pdf] (www.usenix.org)
LegoGPT: Generating Physically Stable and Buildable Lego (avalovelace1.github.io)
Stability by Design (potetm.com)
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Static as a Server (overreacted.io)
Starlink User Terminal Teardown (www.darknavy.org)
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A flat pricing subscription for Claude Code (support.anthropic.com)
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Progress toward fusion energy gain as measured against the Lawson criteria (www.fusionenergybase.com)
From: Steve Jobs. "Great idea, thank you." (blog.hayman.net)
Reservoir Sampling (samwho.dev)
Using eBPF to see through encryption without a proxy (github.com)
Chicago native Cardinal Prevost elected pope, takes name Leo XIV (catholicreview.org)
Void: Open-source Cursor alternative (github.com)
First American pope elected and will be known as Pope Leo XIV (www.cnn.com)
High tariffs become ''real'' with our first 36K bill (blog.adafruit.com)
Trump''s NIH axed research grants even after a judge blocked the cuts (www.propublica.org)
Microservices are a tax your startup probably can''t afford (nexo.sh)
How much better are AI IDEs vs. copy pasting into chat apps? (news.ycombinator.com)
Google to Back Three New Advanced Nuclear Projects (www.esgtoday.com)
What are good high information density UIs (screenshots, apps, sites) (news.ycombinator.com)
20 years to give away virtually all my wealth (www.gatesnotes.com)
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US Routing – Python library for fast local routing in the US (github.com)
Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College (nymag.com)
Using NASA’s SMAP satellite to detect L-band interference (radioandnukes.substack.com)
Ghost students are creating problems for California colleges (www.sfgate.com)
We have reached the "severed fingers and abductions" stage of crypto revolution (arstechnica.com)
Foundation DB Record Layer SQL API (foundationdb.github.io)
Mycoria is an open and secure overlay network that connects all participants (mycoria.org)
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Richest 10 Percent Responsible for Two-Thirds of Warming (e360.yale.edu)
Yggdrasil is an experimental compact routing scheme that is fully decentralised (yggdrasil-network.github.io)
June Huh dropped out to become a poet, now he’s won a Fields Medal (2022) (www.quantamagazine.org)
Samsung is paying 350M for audio brands B&W, Denon, Marantz and Polk (www.engadget.com)
OpenSearch 3.0 Released (opensearch.org)
Mississippi Can''t Possibly Have Good Schools (www.educationdaly.us)
Vagus Nerve Stimulation Erases PTSD: Study (neurosciencenews.com)
OpenAI for Countries (openai.com)
NSA spied through Angry Birds, other apps: report (2014) (www.nbcnews.com)
Mac Themes Garden (damien.zone)
''I paid for the whole GPU, I am going to use the whole GPU'' (modal.com)
Introducing Web Search on the Anthropic API (www.anthropic.com)
Open source Google Analytics replacement (github.com)
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Getting Older Isn''t What You Think (www.katycowan.co.uk)
Mistral ships le chat – enterprise AI assistant that can run on prem (mistral.ai)
Three Chapters at Cloudflare: Programmer to CTO to Board of Directors (blog.cloudflare.com)
Ty: A fast Python type checker and language server, written in Rust (github.com)
Cuttlefish ''talk'' with their arms, study reveals (scienceblog.com)
eInk optimized manga with Kindle Comic Converter (Kobo/ReMarkable) (github.com)
Alignment is not free: How model upgrades can silence your confidence signals (www.variance.co)
My quest to make motorcycle riding that tad bit safer (gill.net.in)
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ACE-Step: A step towards music generation foundation model (github.com)
docker2exe: Convert a Docker image to an executable (github.com)
So Much Blood (dynomight.net)
Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor (zed.dev)
Unity’s Open-Source Double Standard: the ban of VLC (mfkl.github.io)
CLion Is Now Free for Non-Commercial Use (blog.jetbrains.com)
Is Planet Nine Alone in the Outer System? (www.centauri-dreams.org)
Plexe – ML Models from a Prompt (github.com)
DoorDash to acquire Deliveroo (www.cnbc.com)
Bloat is still software''s biggest vulnerability (2024) (spectrum.ieee.org)
Propositions as Types (2014) [pdf] (homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk)
Jury orders NSO to pay 167M for hacking WhatsApp users (arstechnica.com)
EPA Plans to Shut Down the Energy Star Program (www.nytimes.com)
VVVVVV Source Code (github.com)
FTC rule on unfair or deceptive fees to take effect on May 12 (www.ftc.gov)
The DEA is now abandoning body cameras (www.propublica.org)
Claude''s system prompt is over 24k tokens with tools (github.com)
Brush (Bo(u)rn(e) RUsty SHell) a POSIX and Bash-Compatible Shell in Rust (github.com)
India launches attack on 9 sites in Pakistan and Pakistani Jammu and Kashmir (www.reuters.com)
FTC bans hidden fees for live events and short-term rentals, effective May 12 (techcrunch.com)
iOS Kindle app now has a ‘get book’ button after changes to App Store rules (www.theverge.com)
The Turkish İ Problem and Why You Should Care (2012) (haacked.com)
TeleMessage, used by Trump officials, can access plaintext chat logs (micahflee.com)
Sheet Music in Smart Glasses (news.ycombinator.com)
Matt Godbolt sold me on Rust (by showing me C) (www.collabora.com)
Exa (YC S21) – The web as a database (news.ycombinator.com)
Curl: We still have not seen a single valid security report done with AI help (www.linkedin.com)
Accents in latent spaces: How AI hears accent strength in English (accent-strength.boldvoice.com)
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Design and evaluation of a parrot-to-parrot video-calling system (2023) (www.smithsonianmag.com)
Clippy – 90s UI for local LLMs (felixrieseberg.github.io)
Nnd – a TUI debugger alternative to GDB, LLDB (github.com)
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Memory-safe sudo to become the default in Ubuntu (trifectatech.org)
Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview: even better coding performance (developers.googleblog.com)
OpenAI reaches agreement to buy Windsurf for around 3B (www.bloomberg.com)
Getting things “done” in large tech companies (www.seangoedecke.com)
Cursor hits 9B valuation (www.ft.com)
Apple Shortcuts is falling into "the automation gap" (sixcolors.com)
Pixels in Islamic art: square Kufic calligraphy (uwithumlaut.wordpress.com)
You can''t git clone a team (virtualize.sh)
History of “Adventure” for the Atari 2600 (www.atariarchive.org)
An Appeal to Apple from Anukari: one tiny macOS detail to make Anukari fast (anukari.com)
Critical CSS (critical-css-extractor.kigo.studio)
A Tektronix TDS 684B Oscilloscope Uses CCD Analog Memory (tomverbeure.github.io)
Internet usage pattern during power outage in Spain and Portugal (blog.akamai-mpulse.com)
Sneakers (1992) – 4K Restoration (www.blu-ray.com)
The curse of knowing how, or; fixing everything (notashelf.dev)
Analyzing Modern Nvidia GPU Cores (arxiv.org)
Google has most of my email because it has all of yours (2014) (mako.cc)
Databricks in talks to acquire startup Neon for about 1B (www.upstartsmedia.com)
Dimension 126 Contains Twisted Shapes, Mathematicians Prove (www.quantamagazine.org)
Geometrically understanding calculus of inverse functions (2023) (tobylam.xyz)
Replacing Kubernetes with systemd (2024) (blog.yaakov.online)
TextQuery – Query CSV, JSON, XLSX Files with SQL (textquery.app)
Real-time AI Voice Chat at 500ms Latency (github.com)
Possibly a Serious Possibility (kucharski.substack.com)
No Instagram, no privacy (blog.wouterjanleys.com)
How are cyber criminals rolling in 2025? (vin01.github.io)
Bracket – selfhosted tournament system (github.com)
The Beauty of Having a Pi-Hole (den.dev)
Evolving OpenAI''s Structure (openai.com)
As an experienced LLM user, I don''t use generative LLMs often (minimaxir.com)
VectorVFS, your filesystem as a vector database (vectorvfs.readthedocs.io)
Unparalleled Misalignments (rickiheicklen.com)
The Death of Daydreaming: What we lose when phones take away boredom (www.afterbabel.com)
AWS Built a Security Tool. It Introduced a Security Risk (www.token.security)
Judge said Meta illegally used books to build its AI (www.wired.com)
I decided to pay off a school’s lunch debt (www.huffpost.com)
The vocal effects of Daft Punk (bjango.com)
Nevermind, an album on major chords (farina00.github.io)
Trump announces 100% tariffs on movies ‘produced in foreign lands’ (www.theguardian.com)
Helmdar: 3D Scanning Brooklyn on Rollerblades (owentrueblood.com)
Load-Store Conflicts (zeux.io)
Modern Latex (github.com)
AI Meets WinDBG (svnscha.de)
Matrix-vector multiplication implemented in off-the-shelf DRAM for Low-Bit LLMs (arxiv.org)
Typed Lisp, a Primer (alhassy.com)
My AI Native Resume (ai.jakegaylor.com)
Driverless print server for legacy printers, profit goes to open-source (printserver.ink)
The Signal Clone the Trump Admin Uses Was Hacked (www.404media.co)
On Not Carrying a Camera – Cultivating memories instead of snapshots (hedgehogreview.com)
A Texan who built an empire of ecstasy (www.texasmonthly.com)
People are losing loved ones to AI-fueled spiritual fantasies (www.rollingstone.com)
Graceful Shutdown in Go: Practical Patterns (victoriametrics.com)
Hackathons feel fake now (news.ycombinator.com)
RethinkDNS Resolver That Deploys to CF Workers, Deno Deploy, Fastly, Fly.io (github.com)
Why Archers Didn''t Volley Fire (acoup.blog)
Technical analysis of TM SGNL, the unofficial Signal app Trump officials used (micahflee.com)
I''d rather read the prompt (claytonwramsey.com)
Dummy''s Guide to Modern LLM Sampling (rentry.co)
TScale – distributed training on consumer GPUs (github.com)
AI code is legacy code (text-incubation.com)
Design for 3D-Printing (blog.rahix.de)
We know a little more about Amazon''s satellites (arstechnica.com)
Evidence of controversial Planet 9 uncovered in sky surveys taken 23 years apart (www.space.com)
Pascal for Small Machines (pascal.hansotten.com)
Oberon Pi (pascal.hansotten.com)
The Alabama Landline That Keeps Ringing (oxfordamerican.org)
Brian Eno''s Theory of Democracy (www.programmablemutter.com)
I taught AI to commentate Pong in real time (github.com)
Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer (1987) [pdf] (classes.matthewjbrown.net)
Numerical Linear Algebra Class in Julia TUM (venkovic.github.io)
Google Gemini has the worst LLM API (venki.dev)
The US has approved CRISPR pigs for food (www.technologyreview.com)
What went wrong with wireless USB (oldvcr.blogspot.com)
Gorgeous-GRUB: collection of decent community-made GRUB themes (github.com)
When Flat Rate Movers Won''t Answer Your Calls (aphyr.com)
Deadly Screwworm Parasite''s Comeback Threatens Texas Cattle, US Beef Supply (www.bloomberg.com)
DuckDB is probably the most important geospatial software of the last decade (www.dbreunig.com)
''I found your dad'': The mystery of a missing climber (www.espn.com)
We Fell Out of Love with Next.js and Back in Love with Ruby on Rails (hardcover.app)
Free, 100% in browser PDF editor (breezepdf.com)
How LWN is faring in 2025 (lwn.net)
ePub-utils: A Python library and CLI tool for inspecting ePub from the terminal (github.com)
Warren Buffett to Step Down from Berkshire Hathaway at Year-End (www.bloomberg.com)
QModem 4.51 Source Code (github.com)
Why can''t HTML alone do includes? (frontendmasters.com)
Derivation and Intuition behind Poisson distribution (antaripasaha.notion.site)
Run LLMs on Apple Neural Engine (ANE) (github.com)
Why I stopped angel investing after 15 years (and what I''m doing instead) (halletecco.substack.com)
N8n – Flexible AI workflow automation for technical teams (n8n.io)
Time saved by AI offset by new work created, study suggests (arstechnica.com)
The History of Album Art (matthewstrom.com)
Achieving Human Level Competitive Robot Table Tennis (sites.google.com)
Minimum Viable Blog (ostwilkens.se)
Altair at 50: Remembering the first Personal Computer (www.goto10retro.com)
I put sheet music into smart glasses [video] (www.youtube.com)
GitDroid: A third party Android app manager for apps uploaded to GitHub releases (github.com)
Accountability Sinks (250bpm.substack.com)
VR Design Unpacked: The secret to Beat Saber''s fun (www.roadtovr.com)
Connomore64: Cycle exact emulation of the C64 using parallel microcontrollers (github.com)
You could just choose optimism (quarter--mile.com)
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Building Burstables: CPU slicing with cgroups (www.ubicloud.com)
What I''ve learned from jj (zerowidth.com)
Driverless semis have started running regular longhaul routes (www.cnn.com)
Blast – Fast, multi-threaded serving engine for web browsing AI agents (github.com)
Webflow makes GSAP 100% free – plus more updates (webflow.com)
Images of Soviet Venus lander falling to Earth suggest its parachute may be out (www.leonarddavid.com)
The Cannae Problem (www.joanwestenberg.com)