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1. Start your own Internet Resiliency Club – Bow Shock Systems Consulting
2. Foundations of Computer Vision
3. Writing Toy Software Is A Joy | Joshua Barretto — You should write more toy programs
4. Agentic Coding Recommendations | Armin Ronacher's Thoughts and Writings — via Armin Ronacher's Thoughts and Writings https://bit.ly/3qecCVC
5. Strudel REPL
6. A meta-analysis of three different notions of software complexity
7. Anthropic: How we built our multi-agent research system
8. kadekillary.work
9. How we built our multi-agent research system
10. Modifying an HDMI dummy plug’s EDID using a Raspberry Pi
11. Seven replies to the viral Apple reasoning paper – and why they fall short — Gary Marcus outlines and comments on the arguments against the paper from Apple on the limited reasoning capabilities of current GenAI systems
12. Telephone Exchanges — photographs and information on telephone exchanges within the UK.
13. Endometriosis is an incredibly interesting disease
14. strace tips for better debugging | A Random Walk — https://lobste.rs/s/c7udeu/strace_tips_for_better_debugging
15. A receipt printer cured my procrastination [ADHD]
16. [2506.08872] Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task — small n
17. Meta's Llama 3.1 can recall 42 percent of the first Harry Potter book
18. Frequent reauth doesn't make you more secure
19. nanonets/Nanonets-OCR-s · Hugging Face — Another LLM OCR.
20. Why Generative AI Coding Tools and Agents Do Not Work For Me - miguelgrinberg.com — via https://bit.ly/3UvQk1C https://bit.ly/3UvQk1C
21. 'There's a huge amount that we don't understand': Why sperm is still so mysterious
22. Tim Dierks: Security Standards and Name Changes in the Browser Wars — Why was the name "SSL" changed to "TLS"? Because Microsoft and Netscape had forked it and moving away from the name Netscape had created was part of the horsetrading needed to reach a compromise.
23. The lethal trifecta for AI agents: private data, untrusted content, and external communication
24. Cray supercomputer Vs Raspberry Pi
25. The Art of Lisp & Writing
26. Mathematical Illustrations — "A manual of geometry and PostScript" "The current version has been published as a book of about 350 pages by Cambridge University Press. By agreement with the Press, however, it will remain posted on this web site. [...] From January 1, 2004 on, no changes except simple error corrections will be…
27. Transitous
28. SIMD-friendly algorithms for substring searching
29. Speech-to-Text at Flat $0.06 per hour by Borg — Audio to text conversion at a flat rate of $0.06/hour. No subscriptions, no hidden fees, with free tier available.
30. Coding agents have crossed a chasm // flurries of latent creativity
31. Q-learning is not yet scalable
32. Inside the Apollo "8-Ball" FDAI (Flight Director / Attitude Indicator)
33. 233. "The Illusion of Thinking" — Thoughts on This Important Paper
34. WVU student discovers long-awaited mystery fungus sought by LSD’s inventor | WVU Today | West Virginia University
35. I have reimplemented Stable Diffusion 3.5 from scratch in pure PyTorch | Hacker News
36. The Many Sides of Erik Satie | The MIT Press Reader — “The Satie life contains so much murk; his music sparkles with riverine clarity.”
37. ‘Extremely disturbing and unethical’: new rules allow VA doctors to refuse to treat Democrats, unmarried veterans | Trump administration | The Guardian — Doctors and other medical staff can also be barred from working at VA hospitals based on their marital status, political party affiliation or union activity, documents revi…
38. Tattoy
39. The Gentle Singularity - Sam Altman — blah blah blah blah superintelligence blah blah investors please give us money blah blah blah also includes numbers about energy usage that are almost certainly other people's estimates and not company data, even though he must know what the real numbers are.
40. A story from Samuel Z. Alemayehu on Medium
41. LLM agents flunk CRM and confidentiality tasks — : 6-in-10 success rate for single-step tasks
42. Israel’s Crimes of the Century
43. How to draft a will to avoid becoming an AI ghost—it’s not easy - Ars Technica — Why requests for "no AI resurrections" will probably go ignored. As artificial intelligence has advanced, AI tools have emerged to make it possible to easily create digital replicas of lost loved ones, which can be generated without the knowledg…
44. Using Signal groups for activism
45. container-use
46. Untitled (https://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html) — you are here - if the moon were the size of 1 pixel
47. The Psychology Behind Tech Billionaires — L ike many people alive today, I have no desire to live on Mars. It is, by all accounts, a pretty shitty place for human habitation. via Pocket
48. Chawan: 0.2.0
49. Model Once, Represent Everywhere: UDA (Unified Data Architecture) at Netflix | by Netflix Technology Blog | Jun, 2025 | Netflix TechBlog
50. Mysterious link between Earth’s magnetism and oxygen baffles scientists — Earth’s magnetic field seems to correlate with conditions that helped complex life to thrive — a discovery that could aid the search for life on distant exoplanets.
51. Field Notes From Shipping Real Code With Claude - diwank's space
52. cosmos72/twin: Text mode window environment. A "retro" program for embedded or remote systems, that doubles as X11 terminal and text-mode equivalent of VNC server
53. How Amy Coney Barrett Is Confounding the Right and the Left - The New York Times
54. In Gaza, Israel destroyed its reputation. Attacking Iran is a belated and dangerous attempt to restore it
55. Infinite Grid of Resistors
56. CI/CD Observability with OpenTelemetry - A Step by Step Guide | SigNoz
57. graydon2 | retrobootstrapping rust for some reason — via https://types.pl/@graydon/114694778091773201
58. OxCaml | About — OCaml extensions built and used by Jane Street.
59. Louvre shuts down in a staff strike, sounding the alarm on overtourism | AP News
60. nytimes.com — Before ChatGPT distorted Eugene Torres’s sense of reality and almost killed him, he said, the artificial intelligence chatbot had been a helpful, timesaving tool. Mr. Torres, 42, an accountant in Manhattan, started using ChatGPT last year to make financial spreadsheets and to get legal advice. via Pocket
61. Alpha-Otto's RevForce engine revolutionizes two-strokes — The defining characteristic of a two-stroke engine is to fire (combust) every time the piston is at top dead center. This makes them highly power dense, but also notoriously makes two-stroke engines dirty, inefficient, and not prone to long lifespans. Alpha-Otto ha…
62. Bottom Trawling | Gwynne Dyer
63. I ditched the gym and you can too – here are six ways to get fit without it — Whether you enjoy ‘rucking’, walking, running or making your own sandbags, life after winding up your monthly membership can be your healthiest and happiest ever
64. Society may have overestimated risk of the ‘manosphere’, UK researchers say • The Guardian — Robert Booth: The Ofcom study involved 38 men, and more misogynistic men may have declined to take part. Some potential recruits refused to take part, considering the government-appointed regulator to be part of the “mainstream”. Per…
65. Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task
66. RAG is a Fancy, Lying Search Engine — RAG is popular but unfit for many enterprise use cases and I explain both of those things.
67. BBC examining plans that could lead to US consumers paying for its journalism • The Guardian — Michael Savage: Senior BBC figures are examining plans that would lead to American consumers paying to access its journalism, as the broadcaster looks to the US to boost its fragile finances. The corporation, which is facing fie…
68. GenAI is Our Polyester
69. Air Lab Simulator — open hardware air quality meter
70. I replaced these expensive productivity apps with free tools and I couldn’t be happier
71. US experts fear all vaccines at risk as Trump officials target mRNA jabs | US healthcare | The Guardian — As top US health officials turn against some mRNA vaccines, experts fear for the country’s preparedness for the next pandemic and worry that other vaccines will be targeted next.
72. The Yale Review | My Harrowing Months as Patricia Highsmith’s… — Elena Gosalvez Blanco recalls her time as Patricia Highsmith's assistant in the novelist's final months.
73. 10 habits people slip into as they get older that lead them to let go of themselves
74. nytimes.com — Israel said on Monday that it had struck the command center of Iran’s Quds Force, a special military unit that coordinates support for Iranian allies in the Middle East and reports directly to the country’s supreme leader. via Pocket
75. Covert Web-to-App Tracking via Localhost on Android
76. Pipo360 - Generate Backends with AI
77. The Shipping Forecast - 99% Invisible — 99% Invisible: The Shipping Forecast
78. The Many Sides of Erik Satie | Hacker News
79. Meta introduces advertising to WhatsApp in push for new revenues | FT
80. If This Story Had a Title Then I Forgot by CompletelyDifferent — Murderbot, gen. "Murderbot is at a party. This is not a normal state of affairs for SecUnits. Neither is the comfy clothes or the sitting or the way the humans keep smiling in its general direction. The smiling, it suspects, will stop, if/when they realise thei…
81. ‘The risk was worth it’: All Fours author Miranda July on sex, power and giving women permission to blow up their lives | Miranda July | The Guardian
82. Home - The Hewlett Packard Archive
83. nytimes.com — via NYT > Israel News https://nyti.ms/3o4Y88O
84. nytimes.com — The man suspected of assassinating a Democratic state lawmaker in Minnesota and wounding another remained on the loose on Sunday as investigators tried to piece together what led to the shootings and where the perpetrator might now be hiding. via Pocket
85. Uparalleled Misalignments - Pairs of non-synonymous phrases where individual words are synonyms
86. Could this city be the model for how to tackle the housing crisis and climate change?
87. New York passes a bill to prevent AI-fueled disasters | TechCrunch
88. Charts in CSS - DEV Community — Charts have been done in CSS many times before — there's even a dedicated project. So why this post? Because CSS evolves all the time — new, cool techniques emerge, allowing us to do things simpler, or add even more complicated new features.
89. TimeGuessr — Geoguessr but with historic photos. Guess the year in history and location a photo was taken.
90. Trump team leaks AI plans in public GitHub repository
91. US veterans are more likely to end up in prison than civilians. These horses might help them
92. SecureBoot bypass for UEFI-compatible firmware based on Insyde H2O
93. How To Bring Back Oddly Shaped App Icons in macOS 26 Tahoe
94. Download festival rockers told to take off smartwatches after moshpits spark emergency alerts | Download festival | The Guardian
95. Normal Technology at Scale
96. They Asked ChatGPT Questions. The Answers Sent Them Spiraling. - The New York Times
97. Debunking HDR
98. Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps
99. nytimes.com — At the No Kings protest in Salt Lake City on Saturday, two armed security members spotted a man dressed all in black move away from demonstrators and to a secluded area behind a wall, the police said. via Pocket
100. Waymo rides cost more than Uber or Lyft -- and people are paying anyway