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Bob Weir has died
rollingstone.com

Richard Gehr,Daniel Kreps - Bob Weir, the singer-guitarist who co-founded the Grateful Dead and later found success with Dead & Company, has died at age 78.

Show HN: Librario, a book metadata API that aggregates G Books, ISBNDB, and more
news.ycombinator.com
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Private equity firms acquired more than 500 autism centers in past decade: study
brown.edu

A new study from researchers at the Brown University School of Public Health highlights a push from private equity investors into autism therapy centers across the nation.

UK Orders Ofcom to Explore Encryption Backdoors
reclaimthenet.org
Tesla's Germany Sales Down 72% from Their Peak
cleantechnica.com

Zachary Shahan - Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. After writing about Tesla’s 10% drop in sales in the UK despite the UK EV market rising 24%, and BYD passing up Tesla in the UK in annual sales last year, a reader pointed out some extra jaw-dropping stats. The ... [continued]

Extracting books from production language models (2026)
arxiv.org

Many unresolved legal questions over LLMs and copyright center on memorization: whether specific training data have been encoded in the model's weights during training, and whether those memorized data can be extracted in the model's outputs. While many believe that LLMs do not memorize much of their training data, recent work shows that substantial amounts of copyrighted text can be extracted from open-weight models

Worst of breed software
worstofbreed.net

The premier destination for Resume-Driven Development, Over-Engineering, and Resume-Padding. Why build simple solutions when you can build a distributed monolith?

Overdose deaths are falling in America because of a 'supply shock': study
economist.com
Code Is Clay
campedersen.com

import { Hypercube, PotteryWheel, BreakingVase, ConveyorBelt, OneAmongMany } from './hypercube'; import Image from 'next/image'; import hypercubeClay from './hy

Bichon: A lightweight, high-performance Rust email archiver with WebUI
github.com/rustmailer

Bichon – A lightweight, high-performance Rust email archiver with WebUI - rustmailer/bichon

Show HN: Play poker with LLMs, or watch them play against each other
llmholdem.com
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Watch AI models battle it out in Texas Hold'em poker. See how different LLMs bluff, bet, and compete.

Finding and fixing Ghostty's largest memory leak
mitchellh.com
Rats caught on camera hunting flying bats
scienceclock.com

In northern Germany, researchers have filmed brown rats (Rattus norvegicus) leaping from cave ledges to catch bats mid-flight — the first evidence that

Circumcision classed as possible child abuse in draft CPS document
theguardian.com

Exclusive: Possible revision of guidance for prosecutors in England and Wales comes amid safety concerns from courts

Show HN: I used Claude Code to discover connections between 100 books
trails.pieterma.es
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Pieter Maes - Thematic links across books, automatically discovered by Claude.

AI is a business model stress test
dri.es

AI commoditizes anything you can specify. It can't commoditize what you have to operate.

Drones that recharge directly on transmission lines
ycombinator.com

Self Charging Drones. Founded in 2025 by Hayden Gosch, Avi Gotskind, Ronan Nopp, and Warren Weissbluth, Voltair has 5 employees based in San Francisco, CA, USA. Voltair is hiring for 7 roles in engineering, marketing, and operations.

Microsoft May Have Created the Slowest Windows in 25 Years with Windows 11
eteknix.com

When it comes to performance, it’s hard to find users who are completely satisfied with Windows 11. Many believe it’s filled with unnecessary features that are difficult to disable.

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt accused of rape, surveillance by ex-mistress
news.com.au
Open Chaos: A self-evolving open-source project
openchaos.dev
I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great
theverge.com

Nathan Edwards - What, like it’s hard?

UK government exempting itself from cyber law inspires little confidence
theregister.com

ANALYSIS: Ministers promise equivalent standards just without the legal obligation

NASA announces unprecedented return of sick ISS astronaut and crew
livescience.com

NASA has announced the early return of Crew-11 from the International Space Station after an unidentified astronaut experienced a medical problem.

All my new code will be closed-source from now on
twitter.com
Eulogy for Dark Sky, a data visualization masterpiece (2023)
nightingaledvs.com

Srini Kadamati - A deep look at how the Dark Sky weather app used simple but highly effective charts to report and contextualize the weather.

Why Is Greenland Part of the Kingdom of Denmark? A Short History
diis.dk

From the Vikings to Trump: Greenland’s historic development negates recent White House territorial demands.

New information extracted from Snowden PDFs through metadata version analysis
libroot.org
Allow me to introduce, the Citroen C15
eupolicy.social

Attached: 1 image I often hear Americans & rich brits justify buying oversized, polluting vehicles by claiming they need them because they live in the "countryside". I call bullshit, Ladies and Gentlemen, allow me to introduce, the Citroen C15⬇ #C15 #carBrain #CarDependency #SUV #NoSUV #Pickup_truck

I got paid minimum wage to solve an impossible problem
tiespetersen.substack.com

Ties Petersen - An experiment involving sweeping floors, simulated annealing, and why algorithms that optimize for the wrong thing ruin your life.

Iran's internet shutdown is chillingly precise and may last some time
theguardian.com

Experts note the blackout is unprecedented in its extent but also selective, allowing some government communications

"We write to ask that you enforce your app stores' terms of service against X" [pdf]
wyden.senate.gov
Org Mode Syntax Is One of the Most Reasonable Markup Languages for Text (2017)
karl-voit.at

Karl Voit - Org Mode Syntax Is One of the Most Reasonable Markup Languages to Use for Text

FFmpeg 8.0
ayosec.github.io
My mouse stopped working because Logitech's servers went down
reddit.com/r/logitech
US oil giant ExxonMobil says Venezuela is 'uninvestable'
ft.com

Chief executive Darren Woods pushes back against president’s call to rush back into troubled country

Landlords are using automated services to monitor tenant promotions
reddit.com/r/shitrentals
CDC staff 'blindsided' as child vaccine schedule unilaterally overhauled
unmc.edu

Washington Post The Trump administration took unprecedented steps to recommend fewer vaccines for children without extensive consultations with career scientists. Vaccine experts at the Centers for…

Oh My Zsh adds bloat
rushter.com

Artem Golubin - Why you might not need Oh My Zsh for your Zsh configuration.

Microsoft revealed as company behind controversial data center proposal in MI
cnbc.com
OLED, Not for Me
nuxx.net
USDA suspends federal financial awards to Minnesota and Minneapolis
turnto10.com

The USDA announced that the agency suspended federal financial awards to Minnesota and Minneapolis "effective immediately."

Caltrain shows why every region should be moving toward regional rail
hsrail.org
See it with your lying ears
lcamtuf.substack.com

lcamtuf - This blog has a history of answering questions that no one should be asking. Today, we continue that proud legacy.

Washington National Opera Is Leaving the Kennedy Center
nytimes.com
Collection and Use of Biometrics by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
federalregister.gov
“Erdos problem #728 was solved more or less autonomously by AI”
mathstodon.xyz

Recently, the application of AI tools to Erdos problems passed a milestone: an Erdos problem (#728 https://www.erdosproblems.com/728) was solved more or less autonomously by AI (after some feedback from an initial attempt), in the spirit of the problem (as reconstructed by the Erdos problem website community), with the result (to the best of our knowledge) not replicated in existing literature (although similar resul

Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are cowards
theverge.com

Elizabeth Lopatto - Once you’ve traded your principles for proximity to power, do you even run your own company?

Start your meetings at 5 minutes past
philipotoole.com
Deno has made its PyPI distribution official
github.com/denoland

https://pypi.org/project/deno/ https://github.com/manzt/denop deno is being distributed on pypi for use in python projects. i think this is a really amazing thing that allows deno to be used in mor...

Sigmund Freud's Begonia
observer.co.uk

Emma Freud - How the gift of a plant helped Emma Freud finally get to know her great-grandfather

Why Are Federal Agents Using GoPros, Smart Glasses, and Phones to Record Us?
gizmodo.com

Matt Novak - "What happened to the police body cameras?" one Uber driver in Minnesota asked a Border Patrol agent.

Video filmed by ICE agent who shot Minneapolis woman emerges
bbc.com

The clip shows the chaotic moments before gunfire rang out on a Minneapolis street.

Iran's complete Internet shutdown reaches 24 hours
mastodon.social/@netblocks

Attached: 1 image ⚠️ Update: It has now been 24 hours since #Iran implemented a nationwide internet shutdown, with connectivity flatlining at 1% of ordinary levels. The ongoing digital blackout violates the fundamental rights and liberties of Iranians while masking regime violence ⏱

QtNat – Open you port with Qt UPnP
renaudguezennec.eu
RTX 5090 and Raspberry Pi: Can it game?
scottjg.com

It turns out, you can attach an external GPU to a Raspberry Pi 5. So my natural first question is, can I game on it? Let’s try it out and compare it with some similar computers. For the showdown of crappy gaming computers, we’ll see which of these handles gaming best: Beelink MINI-S13 CPU: 4-core Intel N150 @ 3.6GHz RAM: 16GB DDR4 PCIe: M.2 Gen3 x4 More powerful than the Raspberry Pi 5, but at a similar price point.

Show HN: Rocket Launch and Orbit Simulator
donutthejedi.com
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Code and Let Live
fly.io

How we learned to stop worrying and love writeable root filesystems.

Show HN: EuConform – Offline-first EU AI Act compliance tool (open source)
github.com/Hiepler
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EU AI Act Compliance Tool - Risk classification and bias testing - Hiepler/EuConform

JavaScript Demos in 140 Characters
beta.dwitter.net
Turn a single image into a navigable 3D Gaussian Splat with depth
lab.revelium.studio
Exercise can be nearly as effective as therapy for depression
sciencedaily.com

A large review of studies suggests that exercise can ease depression about as effectively as psychological therapy. Compared with antidepressants, exercise showed similar benefits, though the evidence was less certain. Researchers found that light to moderate activity over multiple sessions worked best, with few side effects. While it’s not a cure-all, exercise may be a powerful and accessible tool for many people.

My article on why AI is great (or terrible) or how to use it
matthewrocklin.com

Matthew Rocklin - Senior engineers are best positioned to benefit from AI. We're good enough to avoid slop, and there's so much we can accomplish. I wouldn't go back.

Show HN: Scroll Wikipedia like TikTok
quack.sdan.io
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Scroll Wikipedia like TikTok.

73% People Detained by ICE Have No Convictions
cato.org
U.S. mandates more foreign travelers to pay $15,000 visa bond deposits
washingtonpost.com
How Markdown took over the world
anildash.com

Anil Dash - A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

Show HN: I made a memory game to teach you to play piano by ear
lend-me-your-ears.specr.net
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Mordenstar - A Simon-style musical ear training game. Listen to melodies and play them back on piano. Practice mode with sheet music notation or play-by-ear mode. MIDI keyboard support.

The Vietnam government has banned rooted phones from using any banking app
xdaforums.com

The purpose of this current thread is to offer a place where people can freely opine, editorialize, complain, and rant about the cat-and-mouse game between Google and those of us who are trying to bypass their PlayIntegrity checks ... and about...

Flock Hardcoded the Password for America's Surveillance Infrastructure 53 Times
nexanet.ai
Cloudflare CEO on the Italy fines
twitter.com
SendGrid isn’t emailing about ICE or BLM – it’s a phishing attack
fredbenenson.com

For the past several months, I’ve been receiving and then ignoring a steady stream of concerning emails from Sendgrid, the popular email delivery service owned by Twilio that I use for sendin…

Latest SteamOS Beta Now Includes Ntsync Kernel Driver
phoronix.com
Cloudspecs: Cloud Hardware Evolution Through the Looking Glass
muratbuffalo.blogspot.com

This paper (CIDR'26) presents a comprehensive analysis of cloud hardware trends from 2015 to 2025, focusing on AWS and comparing it with ot...

DHS Invokes Immigration Enforcement to Justify Gathering Americans' DNA
reason.com

J.D. Tuccille - A proposed rule change would allow the government to routinely gather people's biometric data without a warrant.

Amiga Pointer Archive
heckmeck.de
How to store a chess position in 26 bytes (2022)
ezzeriesa.notion.site

A tool that connects everyday work into one space. It gives you and your teams AI tools—search, writing, note-taking—inside an all-in-one, flexible workspace.

London–Calcutta bus service
en.wikipedia.org
"They Saw a Protest": Cognitive Illiberalism and the Speech-Conduct Distinction [pdf] (2012)
stanfordlawreview.org
Iran vows regime will "not back down" as web blackout continues
cbsnews.com
People who come off slimming jabs regain weight four times faster than dieters
bbc.com

Overweight people shed large amounts on jabs but gain 0.8 kg a month on average once off them, study shows.

Kagi releases alpha version of Orion for Linux
help.kagi.com
"If Starmer is successful in banning X in Britain, I will move forward in . . ."
twitter.com
MCP is a fad
tombedor.dev

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Surveillance Watch – A map that shows connections between surveillance companies
surveillancewatch.io

Surveillance Watch is an interactive map revealing the intricate connections between surveillance companies, their funding sources and affiliations.

Grok turns off image generator for most after outcry over sexualised AI imagery
theguardian.com

X to limit editing function to paying subscribers after platform threatened with fines and regulatory action

What happened to WebAssembly
emnudge.dev
European Commission issues call for evidence on open source
lwn.net

The European Commission has opened a 'call for evidence' to help shape its European Open Digita [...]

Mathematics for Computer Science (2018) [pdf]
courses.csail.mit.edu
Do not mistake a resilient global economy for populist success
economist.com
Agonist-Antagonist Myoneural Interface
media.mit.edu

Humans can accurately sense the position, speed, and torque of their limbs, even with their eyes shut. This sense, known as proprioception, allows humans to pr…

The No Fakes Act has a “fingerprinting” trap that kills open source?
reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA
Anthropic blocks third-party use of Claude Code subscriptions
github.com/anomalyco

Description As of a few moments ago, usage of claude max stopped with the following error: I did try to reconnect, but got the same error. Plugins No response OpenCode version 1.1.8 Steps to reprod...

Videos Contradict Trump Administration Account of ICE Shooting in Minneapolis
nytimes.com

An analysis of footage from three camera angles show that the vehicle appears to be turning away from a federal officer as he opened fire.

Show HN: Executable Markdown files with Unix pipes
news.ycombinator.com
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Show HN: Various shape regularization algorithms
github.com/nickponline
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Various shape regularization algorithms. Contribute to nickponline/shreg development by creating an account on GitHub.

Logistics Is Dying; Or – Dude, Where's My Mail?
lagomor.ph

↳ Pony Express Rider, oil painting possibly by Lloyd Branson (1853-1925) In March 1860, William H. Russell established the Overland Express Route, colloquially called the Pony Express, to carry express mail between St. Joseph, Missouri, and California; an area with no colonialist settlements between. Russell failed repeatedly to get funding from the Senate Post Office for the project, as most considered year-round tr

Why I left iNaturalist
kueda.net

Ken-ichi Ueda - After almost 18 years, I left iNaturalist, the product and organization I helped create. I left because I don’t believe the current Leadership team is pointing the product in the right direction, and I don’t think they are managing their talented staff in an empathetic or effective way. If you’d like me to continue working on natural history software, support me on Patreon.

Tumblr removed from Apple App Store over abuse images (2018)
bbc.com

The app was removed from Apple's store after images showing child sexual abuse were discovered.

Why Are Grok and X Still Available in App Stores?
wired.com

Caroline Haskins - Elon Musk’s chatbot has been used to generate thousands of sexualized images of adults and apparent minors. Apple and Google have removed other “nudify” apps—but continue to host X and Grok.

How Hackers Are Fighting Back Against ICE
eff.org

Cooper Quintin - A few enterprising hackers have started projects to do counter surveillance against ICE, and hopefully protect their communities through clever use of technology.

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