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newsfeed for busy web developers
Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left

https://moddedbear.com/gmail-thinks-im-stupid-so-i-left

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Cloudflare Turnstile requiring fingerprintable WebGL

https://hacktivis.me/articles/cloudflare-turnstile-webgl-fingerprinting

776
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Microsoft Office 2019 and 2021 for Mac view-only conversion

https://consumerrights.wiki/w/Microsoft_Office_2019_and_2021_for_Mac_view-only_conversion_(2026)

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The dead economy theory

https://www.owenmcgrann.com/p/the-dead-economy-theory

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1398
Claude Opus 4.8

https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-8

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I'm Tired of Talking to AI

https://orchidfiles.com/im-tired-of-ai-generated-answers/

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940
Spain blocks prediction markets Polymarket, Kalshi over lack of gambling licence

https://www.reuters.com/business/spain-blocks-prediction-markets-polymarket-kalshi-over-lack-gambling-licences-2026-05-26/

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Magnifica Humanitas

https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/encyclicals/documents/20260515-magnifica-humanitas.html

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Texas woman arrested for Facebook post about town water quality

https://reclaimthenet.org/texas-woman-arrested-for-facebook-post-about-town-water-quality

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Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/22/us/politics/green-card-changes-trump.html

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Flipper One – we need your help

https://blog.flipper.net/flipper-one-we-need-your-help/

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An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry

https://openai.com/index/model-disproves-discrete-geometry-conjecture/

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I’ve joined Anthropic

https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/2056753169888334312

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Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI

https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/18/elon-musk-has-lost-his-lawsuit-against-sam-altman-and-openai/

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Mozilla to UK regulators: VPNs are essential privacy and security tools

https://blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/2026/05/15/mozilla-to-uk-regulators-vpns-are-essential-privacy-and-security-tools-and-should-not-be-undermined/

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Moving away from Tailwind, and learning to structure my CSS

https://jvns.ca/blog/2026/05/15/moving-away-from-tailwind--and-learning-to-structure-my-css-/

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Removing the modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 hybrid

https://arkadiyt.com/2026/05/13/removing-the-modem-and-gps-from-my-rav4/

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I moved my digital stack to Europe

https://monokai.com/articles/how-i-moved-my-digital-stack-to-europe/

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Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/bambu-lab-abusing-open-source-social-contract/

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Postmortem: TanStack NPM supply-chain compromise

https://tanstack.com/blog/npm-supply-chain-compromise-postmortem

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Hardware Attestation as Monopoly Enabler

https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/116550899908879585

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I returned to AWS and was reminded why I left

http://fourlightyears.blogspot.com/2026/05/i-returned-to-aws-and-was-reminded-hard.html

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Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users

https://reclaimthenet.org/google-broke-recaptcha-for-de-googled-android-users

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Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce

https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/cloudflare-cut-over-1100-jobs-2026-05-07/

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Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license

https://www.digitalfoundry.net/news/2026/05/valve-releases-steam-controller-cad-files-under-creative-commons-license

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Talking to strangers at the gym

https://thienantran.com/talking-to-35-strangers-at-the-gym/

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Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons

https://www.drive.com.au/news/mercedes-benz-commits-to-bringing-back-phycial-buttons/

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The gay jailbreak technique (2025)

https://github.com/Exocija/ZetaLib/blob/main/The%20Gay%20Jailbreak/The%20Gay%20Jailbreak.md

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Zed 1.0

https://zed.dev/blog/zed-1-0

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Ghostty is leaving GitHub

https://mitchellh.com/writing/ghostty-leaving-github

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Microsoft and OpenAI end their exclusive and revenue-sharing deal

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-27/microsoft-to-stop-sharing-revenue-with-main-ai-partner-openai

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Amateur armed with ChatGPT solves an Erdős problem

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/amateur-armed-with-chatgpt-vibe-maths-a-60-year-old-problem/

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DeepSeek v4

https://api-docs.deepseek.com/news/news260424

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GPT-5.5

https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-5/

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Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price

https://wheelfront.com/this-alberta-startup-sells-no-tech-tractors-for-half-price/

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John Ternus to become Apple CEO

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/04/tim-cook-to-become-apple-executive-chairman-john-ternus-to-become-apple-ceo/

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Vercel April 2026 security incident

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/vercel-confirms-breach-as-hackers-claim-to-be-selling-stolen-data/

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Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner

https://isayeter.com/posts/digitalocean-to-hetzner-migration/

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Claude Design

https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-design-anthropic-labs

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Claude Opus 4.7

https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-7

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Google broke its promise to me – now ICE has my data

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/google-broke-its-promise-me-now-ice-has-my-data

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DaVinci Resolve – Photo

https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve/photo

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Someone bought 30 WordPress plugins and planted a backdoor in all of them

https://anchor.host/someone-bought-30-wordpress-plugins-and-planted-a-backdoor-in-all-of-them/

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Artemis II safely splashes down

https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/artemis-ii-splashdown-return/

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EFF is leaving X

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/eff-leaving-x

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Git commands I run before reading any code

https://piechowski.io/post/git-commands-before-reading-code/

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Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/04/13/sam-altman-may-control-our-future-can-he-be-trusted

2016
853
Copilot edited an ad into my PR

https://notes.zachmanson.com/copilot-edited-an-ad-into-my-pr/

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ChatGPT won't let you type until Cloudflare reads your React state

https://www.buchodi.com/chatgpt-wont-let-you-type-until-cloudflare-reads-your-react-state-i-decrypted-the-program-that-does-it/

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People inside Microsoft are fighting to drop mandatory Microsoft Account

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/people-inside-microsoft-are-fighting-to-drop-windows-11s-mandatory-microsoft-account-requirements-during-setup

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Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at kernel with massive speed gains

https://www.xda-developers.com/wine-11-rewrites-linux-runs-windows-games-speed-gains/

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Migrating to the EU

https://rz01.org/eu-migration/

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PC Gamer recommends RSS readers in a 37mb article that just keeps downloading

https://stuartbreckenridge.net/2026-03-19-pc-gamer-recommends-rss-readers-in-a-37mb-article/

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Do Not Turn Child Protection into Internet Access Control

https://news.dyne.org/child-protection-is-not-access-control/

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Rob Pike’s Rules of Programming (1989)

https://www.cs.unc.edu/~stotts/COMP590-059-f24/robsrules.html

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Polymarket gamblers threaten to kill me over Iran missile story

https://www.timesofisrael.com/gamblers-trying-to-win-a-bet-on-polymarket-are-vowing-to-kill-me-if-i-dont-rewrite-an-iran-missile-story/

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Bill C-22, the Lawful Access Act: Dangerous backdoor surveillance risks remain

https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/03/a-tale-of-two-bills-lawful-access-returns-with-changes-to-warrantless-access-but-dangerous-backdoor-surveillance-risks-remains/

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Shall I implement it? No

https://gist.github.com/bretonium/291f4388e2de89a43b25c135b44e41f0

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Tony Hoare has died

https://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2026/03/tony-hoare-1934-2026.html

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Ireland shuts last coal plant, becomes 15th coal-free country in Europe (2025)

https://www.pv-magazine.com/2025/06/20/ireland-coal-free-ends-coal-power-generation-moneypoint/

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Global warming has accelerated significantly

https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-6079807/v1

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Judge orders government to begin refunding more than $130B in tariffs

https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/judge-orders-government-to-begin-refunding-more-than-130-billion-in-tariffs-fdc1e62c

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MacBook Neo

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/03/say-hello-to-macbook-neo/

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The Xkcd thing, now interactive

https://editor.p5js.org/isohedral/full/vJa5RiZWs

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Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS

https://motorolanews.com/motorola-three-new-b2b-solutions-at-mwc-2026/

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Microgpt

http://karpathy.github.io/2026/02/12/microgpt/

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Google API keys weren't secrets, but then Gemini changed the rules

https://trufflesecurity.com/blog/google-api-keys-werent-secrets-but-then-gemini-changed-the-rules

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IDF killed Gaza aid workers at point blank range in 2025 massacre: Report

https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/israeli-soldiers-tel-sultan-gaza-red-crescent-civil-defense-massacre-report-forensic-architecture-earshot

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I verified my LinkedIn identity. Here's what I handed over

https://thelocalstack.eu/posts/linkedin-identity-verification-privacy/

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Keep Android Open

https://f-droid.org/2026/02/20/twif.html

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Gemini 3.1 Pro

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-3-1-pro/

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Claude Sonnet 4.6

https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-sonnet-4-6

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I’m joining OpenAI

https://steipete.me/posts/2026/openclaw

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An AI agent published a hit piece on me

https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me/

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Claude Code is being dumbed down?

https://symmetrybreak.ing/blog/claude-code-is-being-dumbed-down/

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Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month

https://www.theverge.com/tech/875309/discord-age-verification-global-roll-out

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Vouch

https://github.com/mitchellh/vouch

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We mourn our craft

https://nolanlawson.com/2026/02/07/we-mourn-our-craft/

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I now assume that all ads on Apple news are scams

https://kirkville.com/i-now-assume-that-all-ads-on-apple-news-are-scams/

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Claude Opus 4.6

https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-6

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I miss thinking hard

https://www.jernesto.com/articles/thinking_hard

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France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital autonomy from the US

https://apnews.com/article/europe-digital-sovereignty-big-tech-9f5388b68a0648514cebc8d92f682060

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Notepad++ hijacked by state-sponsored actors

https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/hijacked-incident-info-update/

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Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle

https://dmitrybrant.com/2026/02/01/defeating-a-40-year-old-copy-protection-dongle

859
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Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux

https://www.himthe.dev/blog/microsoft-to-linux

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TikTok users can't upload anti-ICE videos. The company blames tech issues

https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/26/tech/tiktok-ice-censorship-glitch-cec

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ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/report-ice-using-palantir-tool-feeds-medicaid-data

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Bugs Apple loves

https://www.bugsappleloves.com

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Danish pension fund divesting US Treasuries

https://www.reuters.com/business/danish-pension-fund-divest-its-us-treasuries-2026-01-20/

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American importers and consumers bear the cost of 2025 tariffs: analysis

https://www.kielinstitut.de/publications/americas-own-goal-who-pays-the-tariffs-19398/

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jQuery 4

https://blog.jquery.com/2026/01/17/jquery-4-0-0/

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STFU

https://github.com/Pankajtanwarbanna/stfu

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Ask HN: Share your personal website

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46618714

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Scott Adams has died

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rs_JrOIo3SE

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Allow me to introduce, the Citroen C15

https://eupolicy.social/@jmaris/115860595238097654

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Cloudflare CEO on the Italy fines

https://twitter.com/eastdakota/status/2009654937303896492

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Bose has released API docs and opened the API for its EoL SoundTouch speakers

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/01/bose-open-sources-its-soundtouch-home-theater-smart-speakers-ahead-of-eol/

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Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team

https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss.com/pull/2388

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Vietnam bans unskippable ads

https://saigoneer.com/vietnam-news/28652-vienam-bans-unskippable-ads,-requires-skip-button-to-appear-after-5-seconds

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Lessons from 14 years at Google

https://addyosmani.com/blog/21-lessons/

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Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/loud-noises-heard-venezuela-capital-southern-area-without-electricity-2026-01-03/

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Linux is good now

https://www.pcgamer.com/software/linux/im-brave-enough-to-say-it-linux-is-good-now-and-if-you-want-to-feel-like-you-actually-own-your-pc-make-2026-the-year-of-linux-on-your-desktop/

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