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1. LLMs reward expertise
2. Maps & Travel Routes from Books & Films — Reading Maps plots real-world journeys from classic novels and films - Around the World in 80 Days, Heart of Darkness, James Bond, On the Road - on an interactive atlas.
3. Dark Hours, what's actually visible in your sky tonight — ref https://indieweb.social/@tg/117022764569677489
4. Don't be a meat proxy
5. Free Printable Paper Globes — Folding Paper Globes
6. Should You Use AI for a Task? Here’s a Simple Way to Decide - Schneier on Security — This sums up how I tend to use AI. Not for anything I can't check, nor for any skills I want to keep.
7. The Shape of Things to Come, Part 1: The Continuous Thunderdome — Steve Yegge
8. Pandoc - twenty-years-of-pandoc
9. TerminalWidget for Mac, iPhone, and iPad | Terminal Widget
10. Removing Intrusive AI from stuff – librarian.net
11. The Myth, the Mythos and the Man
12. Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science
13. Harness Engineering for Self-Improvement | Lil'Log — this
14. How China Keeps Tabs on Foreigners - The New York Times
15. Note-Taking and Personal Knowledge Management — Unattributed — via @ike@pkm.social boost of https://social.bubbles.town/@bubbles/statuses/01KXX7EG8HYD2E4YSE31SNZ5TC
16. boldsoftware/meat: meat.dev
17. AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decisionmaking · Radically Ethical Data Consulting — If you’re being asked to review huge volumes of terrible AI code, just assume that the organisation is going to burn you out and fire you. You will not convince the person drowning you in 2000 line PRs to stop. Start looking for a new job as…
18. Devtools must be open source - exe.dev blog — Use an agent to personalize your software
19. (1) Andrej Karpathy on X: "We're starting to leave the territory where you'd test an LLM by e.g. "create an svg of pelican on a bicycle". As one idea to generalize it, I was interested what Opus 5 would do if I gave it the first paragraph of the Lord of t
20. pi, minimal and performant | earendil
21. GitHub - 0xchasercat/draco: Draco is a faster, cheaper and lighter firecrawl drop-in replacement that you own entirely, running on your machine, with a built in MCP, free websearch, and browserless JavaScript console. · GitHub
22. Postmortem for Kernel Soundness Bug #14576 — Leonardo de Moura
23. Opinion | I Helped Run Lululemon. The A.I. Revolution Is a Hot Mess.
24. Anime User Interfaces
25. Please use AI
26. Atom is better than RSS, in ways that matter — Chris Morgan
27. The Listening Museum — 36 mechanical keyboards, sound-mapped. Click any one. Type on your keyboard. Hear it. From IBM Model M to HHKB to modern thocky customs.
28. Qwen3.8-Max Blog
29. Elevators
30. herdr — tmux for agents — Persistent terminal multiplexer for coding agents. Detach and reattach, agents keep running. Built-in awareness for blocked, done, and working states. Lives inside your terminal.
31. Elena | Progressive Web Components
32. The Session You Cannot Take With You | EARENDIL
33. Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code — Ankur Sethi's Lab Notebook — "So what's a boy to do? How do I offload the boring work to LLMs without ceding control of my own work and cognition to the slop machine? I've come up with a solution that's grossly inefficient and perhaps slightly comical: I ask…
34. Atlas of Surveillance
35. There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury / Short Stories
36. 29. ikea complexity index
37. Flint: A Visualization Language for the AI Era
38. I Hate Adobe
39. At an LA Costco, Skateboarding and Learning About Loss - The New York Times
40. help wanted - lake hope
41. firecrawl/pdf-inspector: Fast Rust library for PDF inspection, classification, and text extraction. Intelligently detects scanned vs text-based PDFs to enable smart routing decisions. — Fast Rust library for PDF inspection, classification, and text extraction. Intelligently detects scanned vs text-based PDFs to enable smart …
42. Cooking For Engineers - Step by Step Recipes and Food for the Analytically Minded
43. isopolis — behind the scenes
44. How rogue officers turned a nationwide camera network into a tool for stalking: Flock’s array of license-plate cameras was built to fight crime. But at least 50 law enforcement officers were charged with or accused of misusing it and other systems | Was
45. Comfy — Professional Control of Visual AI — Comfy is the AI creation engine for visual professionals who demand control over every model, every parameter, and every output.
46. The Wikimedia Foundation Hired the Union Busters Its Own Encyclopedia Warned About | by Jake Orlowitz | Regarding Wikipedia | Aug, 2026 | Medium — via @MaddieM4@raphus.social boost of https://social.wikiworkersunited.org/@wwu/117032196592598575
47. Federal lawsuit accuses four major publishers of extorting article processing charges
48. What Colors Are We? Constructing A Color Space For Skin Tones — Really cool project to analyze skin colors and transform them into a color space, so that you can pick anything from inside a sphere and get a reasonable skin color
49. Ursula K. Le Guin: A Rant About "Technology"
50. How to plant a nuclear plant in Iran
51. Did Ulysses S. Grant Predict This About the Next Civil War? | Snopes.com
52. How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds - Open RSS
53. Maze Toys
54. Inside an AI TikTok Shop Slop Factory That Shills Supplements Recalled By the FDA — How a company called Rosabella used AI content to market its supplements: "If you’re trying to sell health products to a 50-year-old, well, make your avatar 50 years old."
55. Forget em-dashes: A viral report on AI-generated writing has surprising new clues
56. How the Words We Teach English Language Learners Changed — "Look through the words scattered around this page. Every one of them is among the most commonly used words in the English language. They come from a 2023 list of about 2,800 words, shown to cover over 90% of general English use, intended for people learning the l…
57. Developers are attached to tools because tools encode trust - Stack Overflow
58. Unraveling the mysteries of habit formation | KYOTO UNIVERSITY
59. What DMARC Actually Protects You From, and What It Does Not - SenderLedger
60. Datatype — variable font that turns text into charts
61. Diátaxis Framework — > The Diátaxis framework aims to solve the problem of structure in technical documentation. It adopts a systematic approach to understanding the needs of documentation users in their cycle of interaction with a product.
62. Bending Spoons to buy Airtable for $1.28B | TechCrunch — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/hEx31L0
63. Go 1.27 interactive tour
64. Daring Fireball: Boris Cherny on Trying to Get Claude Code to Rewrite the Claude App
65. How to Run a Gauntlet Loop: The Prompting Method Behind Claude of Duty
66. Is AI Reasoning Right for the Wrong Reasons? | Quanta Magazine
67. Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Technical Timeline of the July 2026 Incident
68. Reading Maps - Browse all routes — Reading maps: Browse the routs of book and film plots and characters on a map
69. SQLite Critical CVEs or LLM Slop? - JFrog Security Research — 3.51.2
70. Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork | Hacker News
71. Native Apps Should Be Avoided Whenever Possible
72. A Reading List for Our Age of A.I. - The New York Times — Each of these books aims to explain how technology, politics, money and power are reshaping our world. I am reading some of these books for the first time; others, for the third or fourth. In reading them together, I’m looking for common themes, patterns and novel que…
73. PGSimCity · How PostgreSQL Works, in 3D — PGSimCity — an explorable 3D city that shows how PostgreSQL actually works.
74. Lakeview Cabin 2 by Hypnohustler — "This time, the terror is real..." Play as four companions as they use anything they can find to survive against terrifying foes. Explore the possibilities of emergent gameplay and dive deeper into the lore of the Lakeview. Just make sure you have a plan before the night falls...
75. The Art of 64-bit Assembly | Hacker News
76. The AI productivity gap | Bjorg
77. One agent, every surface: how we built the Kiro agent harness - Kiro
78. LLM Reward Expertise
79. Why some people mow a lawn better than others — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49172550
80. SwiftUI After 7 Years | Hacker News
81. block/buzz: A hive mind communication platform — It's a Nostr relay: every message, reaction, workflow step, review approval, and git event is a signed event in one log. Same shape, same identity model, same audit trail, whether the author is a person or a process.
82. More German than many Germans — I just wanted to do an internship in Europe so it would be easier to find a job after graduation. That internship completely changed my life.
83. The rooting, firmware analysis and hardcoded, reset-persistent credentials of the TP-Link TL-841N! — In light of continuing my bumbling foray into the hardware hacking landscape, I bought a bottom-of-the-line $10 TP-Link TL-841N(EU) router off a random fellow on Facebook Marketplace, in a thrilling, high-stakes deal conducte…
84. The reporters at this news site are AI bots. OpenAI’s super PAC appears to be funding it. - Model Republic — The reporters at this news site are AI bots. OpenAI’s super PAC appears to be funding it. - Model Republic https://ift.tt/CJ4nBfZ via:mediaeater, journalism, ai, politics, media, openai, society
85. Waxy Refresh: The End of Playfic - Waxy.org
86. pork belly crispy skin with multiple techniques
87. An ESP32 based plane radar — Make with your pi and screens https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49054107
88. Switch - AltTab replacement — A keyboard-driven window switcher for macOS. ⌘-Tab cycles windows, not apps.
89. “As a Windows user, it’s a very surreal way to install a program.” – Unsung
90. A Civilian Plane Crashed in New Mexico. Was the Military’s Tech to Blame? — Drone warfare is making the skies more dangerous, even for airplanes far from the battlefield.
91. AddyOsmani.com - Loop Engineering
92. r/Piracy Megathread — Any links that are not included in the entire Megathread have either not been approved by the moderators or the community, or have been deleted at some point. In other words, use caution anytime you sail in uncharted waters.
93. How Hollywood Stopped Making Movies in Hollywood
94. LightReel: Your AI UGC Marketing Researcher
95. The Economic Benefit of Refactoring
96. TinyNES | Crowd Supply
97. The Shape of Things to Come, Part 2: Model Welfare for Agentic Engineers — Steve Yegge
98. Early insights from eSafety’s comprehensive evaluation project | eSafety Commissioner — The report details data collected in March, just three months after the Social Media Minimum Age (SMMA) obligation took effect on December 10, 2025. Consistent with eSafety’s first Compliance Update, it shows the proportion of under-16…
99. Caldera Music
100. Wind and solar overtake fossil fuels in Germany for the first time ever