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Beware of Fast-Math

simonbyrne.github.io/notes/fastmath

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Photos taken inside musical instruments

dpreview.com/photography/5400934096/probe-lenses-and-focus-stacking-the-secrets-to-incredible-photos-taken-inside-instruments

800
40
The Who Cares Era

dansinker.com/posts/2025-05-23-who-cares

688
712
Square Theory

aaronson.org/blog/square-theory

727
136
CSS Minecraft

benjaminaster.com/css-minecraft

1194
138
Claude 4 System Card

simonwillison.net/2025/May/25/claude-4-system-card

697
250
I used o3 to find a remote zeroday in the Linux SMB implementation

sean.heelan.io/2025/05/22/how-i-used-o3-to-find-cve-2025-37899-a-remote-zeroday-vulnerability-in-the-linux-kernels-smb-implementation

656
221
Postgres IDE in VS Code

techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/adforpostgresql/announcing-a-new-ide-for-postgresql-in-vs-code-from-microsoft/4414648

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Claude 4

anthropic.com/news/claude-4

2011
1163
Watching AI drive Microsoft employees insane

old.reddit.com/r/ExperiencedDevs/comments/1krttqo/my_new_hobby_watching_ai_slowly_drive_microsoft

1081
550
The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source

blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2025/05/19/the-windows-subsystem-for-linux-is-now-open-source

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1181
Push Ifs Up and Fors Down

matklad.github.io/2023/11/15/push-ifs-up-and-fors-down.html

568
197
Baby is healed with first personalized gene-editing treatment

nytimes.com/2025/05/15/health/gene-editing-personalized-rare-disorders.html

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529
AlphaEvolve: A Gemini-powered coding agent for designing advanced algorithms

deepmind.google/discover/blog/alphaevolve-a-gemini-powered-coding-agent-for-designing-advanced-algorithms

1035
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The Barbican

arslan.io/2025/05/12/barbican-estate

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Plain Vanilla Web

plainvanillaweb.com/index.html

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A critical look at MCP

raz.sh/blog/2025-05-02_a_critical_look_at_mcp

619
334
ALICE detects the conversion of lead into gold at the LHC

home.cern/news/news/physics/alice-detects-conversion-lead-gold-lhc

637
300
From: Steve Jobs. "Great idea, thank you."

blog.hayman.net/2025/05/06/from-steve-jobs-great-idea.html

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294
The Death of Daydreaming

afterbabel.com/p/on-the-death-of-daydreaming

700
265
Technical analysis of the Signal clone used by Trump officials

micahflee.com/tm-sgnl-the-obscure-unofficial-signal-app-mike-waltz-uses-to-text-with-trump-officials

805
339
Someone at YouTube needs glasses

jayd.ml/2025/04/30/someone-at-youtube-needs-glasses.html

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694
Firefox tab groups are here

blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/tab-groups-community

805
440
A $20k American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, no screen

theverge.com/electric-cars/655527/slate-electric-truck-price-paint-radio-bezos

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Careless People

pluralistic.net/2025/04/23/zuckerstreisand

1069
537
You wouldn't steal a font

fedi.rib.gay/notes/a6xqityngfubsz0f

1401
393
Whistleblower: DOGE Siphoned NLRB Case Data

krebsonsecurity.com/2025/04/whistleblower-doge-siphoned-nlrb-case-data

817
452
Getting forked by Microsoft

philiplaine.com/posts/getting-forked-by-microsoft

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Gemma 3 QAT Models: Bringing AI to Consumer GPUs

developers.googleblog.com/en/gemma-3-quantized-aware-trained-state-of-the-art-ai-to-consumer-gpus

602
276
Gemini 2.5 Flash

developers.googleblog.com/en/start-building-with-gemini-25-flash

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CVE program faces swift end after DHS fails to renew contract [updated]

csoonline.com/article/3963190/cve-program-faces-swift-end-after-dhs-fails-to-renew-contract-leaving-security-flaw-tracking-in-limbo.html

1933
1094
Whistleblower details how DOGE may have taken sensitive NLRB data

npr.org/2025/04/15/nx-s1-5355896/doge-nlrb-elon-musk-spacex-security

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Cursor IDE support hallucinates lockout policy, causes user cancellations

old.reddit.com/r/cursor/comments/1jyy5am/psa_cursor_now_restricts_logins_to_a_single

1496
600
A Reddit bot drove me insane

posthuman.blog/this-reddit-post-fried-my-brain

697
363
Google is winning on every AI front

thealgorithmicbridge.com/p/google-is-winning-on-every-ai-front

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817
But what if I want a faster horse?

rakhim.exotext.com/but-what-if-i-really-want-a-faster-horse

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Trump temporarily drops tariffs to 10% for most countries

cnbc.com/2025/04/09/trump-announces-90-day-tariff-pause-for-at-least-some-countries.html

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Apache ECharts

echarts.apache.org/en/index.html

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Middle-aged man trading cards go viral in rural Japan town

tokyoweekender.com/entertainment/middle-aged-man-trading-cards-go-viral-in-japan

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404
Bored of It

paulrobertlloyd.com/2025/087/a1/bored

573
478
An image of an archeologist adventurer who wears a hat and uses a bullwhip

theaiunderwriter.substack.com/p/an-image-of-an-archeologist-adventurer

1500
897
How each pillar of the First Amendment is under attack

krebsonsecurity.com/2025/03/how-each-pillar-of-the-1st-amendment-is-under-attack

1174
915
FBI raids home of prominent computer scientist who has gone incommunicado

arstechnica.com/security/2025/03/computer-scientist-goes-silent-after-fbi-raid-and-purging-from-university-website

1007
469
Everyone knows all the apps on your phone

peabee.substack.com/p/everyone-knows-what-apps-you-use

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xAI has acquired X, xAI now valued at $80B

twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1905731750275510312

802
1267
Tracing the thoughts of a large language model

anthropic.com/research/tracing-thoughts-language-model

1065
391
Stoop Coffee: A simple idea transformed my neighborhood

supernuclear.substack.com/p/stoop-coffee-how-a-simple-idea-transformed

1647
497
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat

theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/trump-administration-accidentally-texted-me-its-war-plans/682151

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Monster Cables picked the wrong guy to threaten (2008)

oncontracts.com/monster-cables-picked-the-wrong-guy-to-threaten

564
198
France rejects backdoor mandate

eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/win-encryption-france-rejects-backdoor-mandate

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I'm the Canadian who was detained by ICE for two weeks

theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/19/canadian-detained-us-immigration-jasmine-mooney

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Apple restricts Pebble from being awesome with iPhones

ericmigi.com/blog/apple-restricts-pebble-from-being-awesome-with-iphones

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GIMP 3.0

testing.gimp.org/news/2025/03/16/gimp-3-0-released

1309
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Milk Kanban

brodzinski.com/2025/03/milk-kanban.html

434
166
Samsung Q990D unresponsive after 1020 firmware update

us.community.samsung.com/t5/Home-Theater/Samsung-Q990D-unresponsive-after-1020-firmware-update/td-p/3168571

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OpenAI asks White House for relief from state AI rules

finance.yahoo.com/news/openai-asks-white-house-relief-100000706.html

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Mark Klein, AT&T whistleblower who revealed NSA mass spying, has died

eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/memoriam-mark-klein-att-whistleblower-about-nsa-mass-spying

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A 10x Faster TypeScript

devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/typescript-native-port

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908
uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store

chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ublock-origin/cjpalhdlnbpafiamejdnhcphjbkeiagm

1971
987
US Ends Support For Ukrainian F-16s

ukrainetoday.org/us-ends-support-for-ukrainian-f-16s-but-french-mirages-will-be-salvation-forbes

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Age Verification Laws: A Backdoor to Surveillance

eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/first-porn-now-skin-cream-age-verification-bills-are-out-control

660
445
Mistral OCR

mistral.ai/fr/news/mistral-ocr

1756
417
Apple M3 Ultra

apple.com/newsroom/2025/03/apple-reveals-m3-ultra-taking-apple-silicon-to-a-new-extreme

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Apple's Software Quality Crisis

eliseomartelli.it/blog/2025-03-02-apple-quality

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Firefly ‘Blue Ghost’ lunar lander touches down on the moon

cnn.com/science/live-news/moon-landing-blue-ghost-03-02-25/index.html

768
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I Went to SQL Injection Court

sockpuppet.org/blog/2025/02/09/fixing-illinois-foia

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It is no longer safe to move our governments and societies to US clouds

berthub.eu/articles/posts/you-can-no-longer-base-your-government-and-society-on-us-clouds

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DOGE's only public ledger is riddled with mistakes

nytimes.com/2025/02/21/upshot/doge-musk-trump-errors.html

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DOGE has 'god mode' access to government data

theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/02/doge-god-mode-access/681719

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Multiple Russia-aligned threat actors actively targeting Signal Messenger

cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/russia-targeting-signal-messenger

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Valve releases Team Fortress 2 code

github.com/ValveSoftware/source-sdk-2013/commit/0759e2e8e179d5352d81d0d4aaded72c1704b7a9

1863
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All Kindles can now be jailbroken

kindlemodding.org/jailbreaking/WinterBreak

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Anyone can push updates to the doge.gov website

404media.co/anyone-can-push-updates-to-the-doge-gov-website-2

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Resigning as Asahi Linux project lead

marcan.st/2025/02/resigning-as-asahi-linux-project-lead

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Undergraduate shows that searches within hash tables can be much faster

quantamagazine.org/undergraduate-upends-a-40-year-old-data-science-conjecture-20250210

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Teen on Musk's DOGE team graduated from 'The Com'

krebsonsecurity.com/2025/02/teen-on-musks-doge-team-graduated-from-the-com

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Meta torrented & seeded 81.7 TB dataset containing copyrighted data

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/02/meta-torrented-over-81-7tb-of-pirated-books-to-train-ai-authors-say

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922
Paper Apps

gladdendesign.com/collections/paper-apps

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94
CDC data are disappearing

theatlantic.com/health/archive/2025/01/cdc-dei-scientific-data/681531

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OpenAI O3-Mini

openai.com/index/openai-o3-mini

959
903
JavaScript Temporal is coming

developer.mozilla.org/en-US/blog/javascript-temporal-is-coming

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OpenAI Furious DeepSeek Might Have Stolen All the Data OpenAI Stole from Us

404media.co/openai-furious-deepseek-might-have-stolen-all-the-data-openai-stole-from-us

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DeepSeek-R1

github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1

1786
651
TikTok goes dark in the US

techcrunch.com/2025/01/18/tiktok-goes-dark-in-the-u-s

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Canon wants us to pay for using our own camera as a webcam

romanzipp.com/blog/no-you-cant-use-your-6299-canon-camera-as-a-webcam

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No Calls

keygen.sh/blog/no-calls

1602
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Nobody cares

grantslatton.com/nobody-cares

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Stop Trying to Schedule a Call with Me

matduggan.com/stop-trying-to-schedule-a-call-with-me

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I've acquired a new superpower

danielwirtz.com/blog/spot-the-difference-superpower

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I had to take down my course-swapping site or be expelled

linkedin.com/posts/jdkaim_github-jdkaimhuskyswap-huskyswap-project-activity-7282609173316415488-1jdb

1348
695
How I program with LLMs

crawshaw.io/blog/programming-with-llms

905
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uBlock Origin GPL code being stolen by team behind honey browser extension

old.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/1hr6xjc/ubo_quick_filters_list_being_stolen_by_team

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