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Gemini CLI Tips and Tricks for Agentic Coding
github.com/addyosmani

Gemini CLI Tips and Tricks. Contribute to addyosmani/gemini-cli-tips development by creating an account on GitHub.

Investors expect AI use to soar. That's not happening
economist.com
Scaleway turns Mac Minis into high‑density, Raspberry Pi–managed servers
scaleway.com

From desktop to datacenter: how Scaleway turns Apple's Mac mini into a fully managed, high-performance cloud server for macOS and iOS developers.

GrapheneOS is leaving France after receiving threats from law enforcement
grapheneos.social

We no longer have any active servers in France and are continuing the process of leaving OVH. We'll be rotating our TLS keys and Let's Encrypt account keys pinned via accounturi. DNSSEC keys may also be rotated. Our backups are encrypted and can remain on OVH for now.

DRAM prices are spiking, but I don't trust the industry's why
xda-developers.com

There are a lot of reasons to be skeptical.

A Vibe Coded SaaS Killed My Team
cendyne.dev

We lost the capitalism game and they're trying to get a second wind through a broken vibe-coded SaaS platform.

Cloudflare outage should not have happened
ebellani.github.io

Yet again, another global IT outage happen (deja vu strikes again in our industry). This time at cloudflare(Prince 2025). Again, taking down large swats of the internet with it(Booth 2025). And yes, like my previous analysis of the GCP and CrowdStrike’s outages, this post critiques Cloudflare’s root cause analysis (RCA), which — despite providing a great overview of what happened — misses the real lesson. Here’s the

Slop Detective – Fight the Slop Syndicate
slopdetective.kagi.com

Fight the Slop Syndicate!

Slashdot effect
en.wikipedia.org
From blood sugar to brain relief: GLP-1 therapy slashes migraine frequency
medlink.com

A diabetes medication that lowers brain fluid pressure has cut monthly migraine days by more than half

KDE Plasma 6.8 Will Go Wayland-Exclusive in Dropping X11 Session Support
phoronix.com
MIT study finds AI can replace 11.7% of U.S. workforce
cnbc.com
OpenAI needs to raise at least $207B by 2030
ft.com

A burning platform

Justice dept. requires RealPage end sharing competitively sensitive information
justice.gov

The Justice Department’s Antitrust Division filed a proposed settlement today to resolve the United States’ claims against RealPage Inc. as part of its ongoing enforcement against algorithmic coordination, information sharing, and other anticompetitive practices in rental housing markets across the country. The proposed settlement would help restore free market competition in

There may not be a safe off-ramp for some taking GLP-1 drugs, study suggests
arstechnica.com

In trial, 82% saw weight rebound and cardiovascular health reverse after withdrawal.

Voyager 1 Is About to Reach One Light-Day from Earth
scienceclock.com
I DM'd a Korean presidential candidate and ended up building his core campaign
medium.com
Indie game developers have a new sales pitch: being 'AI free'
theverge.com

Ash Parrish - “We can produce results that meet our quality standards without its assistance.”

Kagi Hub Belgrade
blog.kagi.com
EU council reaches position on Chat Control
consilium.europa.eu
Await Is Not a Context Switch: Understanding Python's Coroutines vs. Tasks
mergify.com

Python’s async model is misunderstood, especially by engineers coming from JS or C#. In Python, awaiting a coroutine doesn’t yield to the event loop. Only tasks create concurrency. This post explains why that distinction matters and how it affects locking, design, and correctness.

I don't care how well your "AI" works
fokus.cool
A cell so minimal that it challenges definitions of life
quantamagazine.org

The newly described microbe represents a world of parasitic, intercellular biodiversity only beginning to be revealed by genome sequencing.

Statistical Process Control in Python
timothyfraser.com

Timothy Fraser, PhD - Your online textbook for learning reliability and six sigma techniques in R and Python! Made for Cornell University Course SYSEN 5300.

AWS is 10x slower than a dedicated server for the same price [video]
youtube.com
Image Diffusion Models Exhibit Emergent Temporal Propagation in Videos
arxiv.org

Image diffusion models, though originally developed for image generation, implicitly capture rich semantic structures that enable various recognition and localization tasks beyond synthesis. In this work, we investigate their self-attention maps can be reinterpreted as semantic label propagation kernels, providing robust pixel-level correspondences between relevant image regions. Extending this mechanism across frame

ICE Arrests the Press
petapixel.com

Pesala Bandara - A GoFundMe campaign has been set up to help him with the costs.

OpenAI needs to raise $207B by 2030 so it can continue to lose money
ft.com

A burning platform

Space Truckin' – The Nostromo (2012)
alienseries.wordpress.com

“I was really influenced by three films,” Ridley Scott told Fantastic Films in 1979, on the subject of the Nostromo and its claustrophobic corridors. “Not so much in terms of Star…

Show HN: A WordPress plugin that rewrites image URLs for near-zero-cost delivery
wordpress.org
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Serve images from Cloudflare's global CDN. Zero egress fees, one-click setup, works with any theme.

BebboSSH: SSH2 implementation for Amiga systems (68000, GPLv3)
franke.ms
Space: 1999 – Special Effects Techniques
catacombs.space1999.net
Meta Execs Privately Compared Instagram to Addictive Drug, Court Filing Shows
nationalreview.com

The court filing is part of a years-old lawsuit alleging that major social media companies knowingly created products that would harm teen mental health.

CS234: Reinforcement Learning Winter 2025
web.stanford.edu
The gruesome new data on tech jobs
businessinsider.com

Alistair Barr - A new report from Indeed shows tech jobs, and especially data analytics roles, have fallen dramatically in recent years.

The Generative Burrito Test
generativist.com

A critical benchmark for image generation models: A partially eaten burrito with cheese, sour cream, guacamole, lettuce, salsa, pinto beans, and chicken.

Notes on the Troubleshooting and Repair of Computer and Video Monitors
repairfaq.org
Reinventing how .NET builds and ships (again)
devblogs.microsoft.com

Matt Mitchell - An exploration of how .NET evolved from a distributed build system to Unified Build, dramatically reducing complexity and build times while improving flexibility and predictability for shipping .NET releases.

Show HN: KiDoom – Running DOOM on PCB Traces
mikeayles.com
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What they don't tell you about maintaining an open source project
andrej.sh

i built kaneo.app - an open source, self-hosted kanban board. turns out shipping code is the easy part. here's what maintaining it actually looks like.

Ironwood, our latest TPU
blog.google

Google’s seventh-gen Tensor Processing Unit is here! Learn what makes Ironwood our most powerful and energy-efficient custom silicon to date.

Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been Fulfilled
jayd.ml

Jayden Milne - In my recent analysis of YouTube’s information density I included the results from an advanced statistical analysis on the number of videos present on the home page, which projected that around May 2026 there would only be one lonely video on the home screen.

Google steers Americans looking for health care into "junk insurance"
pluralistic.net
ZoomInfo CEO blocks researcher after documenting pre-consent biometric tracking
github.com/clark-prog

Blackout — The Official Blackout Public FAFO Repo. - clark-prog/blackout-public

ICE Offers Up to $280M to Immigrant-Tracking 'Bounty Hunter' Firms
wired.com

Dell Cameron - Immigration and Customs Enforcement lifted a $180 million cap on a proposed immigrant-tracking program while guaranteeing multimillion-dollar payouts for private surveillance firms.

This blog is now hosted on a GPS/LTE modem (2021)
blog.nns.ee
A new bridge links the math of infinity to computer science
quantamagazine.org

Descriptive set theorists study the niche mathematics of infinity. Now, they’ve shown that their problems can be rewritten in the concrete language of algorithms.

The Bughouse Effect
tsvibt.blogspot.com

What happens when you work closely with someone on a really difficult project—and then they seem to just fuck it up? This is a post about t...

Unison 1.0
unison-lang.org

After years of engineering, design, and community collaboration, we're excited to release Unison 1.0. This version delivers a refined programming workflow and a mature toolchain. Join us as we celebrate this milestone and look ahead to the future of Unison.

IQ differences of identical twins reared apart are influenced by education
sciencedirect.com
Bad UX World Cup 2025
badux.lol

Build a bad date picker and win a shit trophy! Presented by Nordcraft.

Google Antigravity exfiltrates data via indirect prompt injection attack
promptarmor.com

An indirect prompt injection in an implementation blog can manipulate Antigravity to invoke a malicious browser subagent in order to steal credentials and sensitive code from a user’s IDE.

Show HN: StepKit, an open and cross-platform durable execution standard
news.ycombinator.com
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Show HN: We built an open source, zero webhooks payment processor
github.com/flowglad
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Open source payments + billing infrastructure. Contribute to flowglad/flowglad development by creating an account on GitHub.

It is ok to say "CSS variables" instead of "custom properties"
blog.kizu.dev

Roma Komarov - TPAC 2025 just ended, and I am positively tired. Attending it remotely, my sleep schedule is chaotic right now. I have many ideas for CSS-related posts in my list of ideas for November, but almost all of them require at least some amount of research and crafting demos. Well! I found one note that I wanted to expand on, and which sounds tiny enough to be able to finish it in my altered state.

Stop Telling Us XMPP Should Use JSON
process-one.net

XML vs. JSON: Stop Worrying About the Wrong Layer

Ilya Sutskever: We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of research
dwarkesh.com

Dwarkesh Patel - “These models somehow just generalize dramatically worse than people. It's a very fundamental thing.”

US banks scramble to assess data theft after hackers breach financial tech firm
techcrunch.com

Zack Whittaker - U.S. banking giants including JPMorgan Chase, Citi, and Morgan Stanley are working to identify what data was stolen in a recent cyberattack on a New York financial firm.

Unifying our mobile and desktop domains
techblog.wikimedia.org
EU set to adopt ChatControl negotiating mandate tomorrow without discussion
digitalcourage.social

🇪🇺EU government ambassadors set to adopt #ChatControl negotiating mandate tomorrow without discussion, including "voluntary" mass scanning and anonymity-destroying age verification. https://www.parlament.gv.at/dokument/XXVIII/EU/46204/imfname_11544887.pdf The protest continues next year! https://chatcontrol.eu 💪

Python is not a great language for data science
blog.genesmindsmachines.com

Claus Wilke - It may be a good language for data science, but it’s not a great one.

Ozempic does not slow Alzheimer's, study finds
semafor.com

Novo Nordisk’s shares fell 6% on the news.

Orion 1.0
blog.kagi.com
Roblox is a problem but it's a symptom of something worse
platformer.news

What is the role of tech journalism in a world where CEOs no longer feel shame?

New layouts with CSS Subgrid
joshwcomeau.com

Josh W. Comeau - Subgrid allows us to extend a grid template down through the DOM tree, so that deeply-nested elements can participate in the same grid layout. At first glance, I thought this would be a helpful convenience, but it turns out that it’s so much more. Subgrid unlocks exciting new layout possibilities, stuff we couldn’t do until now. ✨

FLUX.2: Frontier Visual Intelligence
bfl.ai

Today, we release FLUX.2, our most capable model to date.

Voyager 1 approaches one light day from Earth
newatlas.com

As it heads out of the solar system never to return, the deep space probe Voyager 1 is headed for yet another cosmic milestone. In late 2026, it will become the first spacecraft to travel so far that a radio signal from Earth takes 24 hours, or one light day, to reach it.

Launch HN: Onyx (YC W24) – Open-source chat UI
news.ycombinator.com
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APT Rust requirement raises questions
lwn.net

It is rarely newsworthy when a project or package picks up a new dependency. However, changes i [...]

Brain has five 'eras' with adult mode not starting until early 30s
theguardian.com

Study suggests brain development has four pivotal ‘turning points’ at around the ages of nine, 32, 66 and 83

Constant-time support coming to LLVM: Protecting cryptographic code
blog.trailofbits.com

Trail of Bits developed constant-time coding support for LLVM 21 that prevents compilers from breaking cryptographic implementations vulnerable to timing attacks, introducing the __builtin_ct_select family of intrinsics that preserve constant-time properties throughout compilation.

Trillions spent and big software projects are still failing
spectrum.ieee.org

Why do software failures persist despite soaring IT budgets? Dive into the complexities that keep success elusive.

Making Crash Bandicoot (2011)
all-things-andy-gavin.com

As one of the co-creators of Crash Bandicoot, I have been (slowly) writing a long series of posts on the making of everyone’s favorite orange marsupial. You can find them all below, so enjoy.…

What you can get for the price of a Netflix subscription
nmil.dev

nmil.dev - A couple of weeks ago, I decided to do away with my Netflix subscription. I simply was barely using it, and whenever I did it was more ou...

Most Stable Raspberry Pi? Better NTP with Thermal Management
austinsnerdythings.com

Austin - I’ve written before about building microsecond-accurate NTP servers with Raspberry Pi and GPS PPS, and more recently about revisiting the setup in 2025. Both posts focused on the hardware setup and basic configuration to achieve sub-microsecond time synchronization using GPS Pulse Per Second (PPS) signals. But there was a problem. Despite having a stable PPS […]

Human brains are preconfigured with instructions for understanding the world
news.ucsc.edu

Emily Cerf - Assistant Professor of Biomolecular Engineering Tal Sharf's lab used organoids to make fundamental discoveries about human brain development.

Jakarta is now the biggest city in the world
axios.com
Why I (Still) Love Linux ?
it-notes.dragas.net

Stefano Marinelli - I usually publish articles about how much I love the BSDs or illumos distributions, but today I want to talk about Linux (or, better, GNU/Linux) and why, despite everything, it still holds a place in my heart.

Windows GUI – Good, Bad and Pretty Ugly (2023)
creolened.com
Microsoft doesn't understand the dislike for Windows' new direction
xda-developers.com

You don't need to ask them twice.

More Americans are getting their power shut off, as unpaid bills pile up
washingtonpost.com
EPA just approved new 'forever chemical' pesticides for use on food
washingtonpost.com
DoGE "cut muscle, not fat"; 26K experts rehired after brutal cuts
arstechnica.com

Government brain drain will haunt US after DOGE abruptly terminated.

Fifteen Years
xkcd.com
New report calls for end to child marriage in the US
womensmediacenter.com

While the United States has pledged to eliminate forced and child marriage by the year 2030, there are still 34 states where child marriage is still permitted.

AI has a deep understanding of how this code works
github.com/ocaml

DWARF v5 Debugging Support for OCaml Native Compiler This PR adds DWARF v5 debug information to the OCaml native compiler, allowing proper source-level debugging in GDB and LLDB. What's Impleme...

PRC elites voice AI-skepticism
jamestown.org
PS5 now costs less than 64GB of DDR5 memory. RAM jumps to $600 due to shortage
tomshardware.com

You can spend $50 more to get an entire PS5 Pro.

Unpowered SSDs slowly lose data
xda-developers.com

SSDs aren't ideal for long-term data storage

Claude Advanced Tool Use
anthropic.com

Claude can now discover, learn, and execute tools dynamically to enable agents that take action in the real world. Here’s how.

Claude Opus 4.5
anthropic.com

Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

Pebble Watch software is now open source
ericmigi.com

Eric Migicovsky - Pebble Watch Software Is Now 100% Open Source + Tick Talk #4 - PT2 Demos!

Google's new 'Aluminium OS' project brings Android to PC
androidauthority.com

Goodbye ChromeOS, hello Aluminium OS: Here's everything we know about Google's plans to bring Android to PCs!

GrapheneOS migrates server infrastructure from France
privacyguides.org

The GrapheneOS project has announced on X that they are ceasing all operations in France, asserting that the country is no longer safe for "open source projects"

Is your Android TV streaming box part of a botnet?
krebsonsecurity.com
Launch HN: Karumi (YC F25) – Personalized, agentic product demos
karumi.ai
launch

Karumi is an AI-powered product expert that joins your video calls to deliver live product demos, answer questions, and guide customers in real time. Transform sales, support, and internal training with intelligent, interactive AI assistance.

The Bitter Lesson of LLM Extensions
sawyerhood.com
TSMC Arizona outage saw fab halt, Apple wafers scrapped
culpium.com

Tim Culpan - [Exclusive] Supply of industrial gases used for chipmaking was interrupted when power at a vendor's facilities was cut.

Mind-reading devices can now predict preconscious thoughts
nature.com

Ethicists say AI-powered advances will threaten the privacy and autonomy of people who use neurotechnology.

Show HN: I built an interactive HN Simulator
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