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Intel, TSMC tentatively agree to form chipmaking joint venture
finance.yahoo.com

Executives from Intel and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co recently reached a preliminary agreement to form a joint venture to operate the U.S. firm's chipmaking facilities, the Information reported on Thursday, citing two people involved in some of the discussions. TSMC will take a 20% stake in the new company, the report added.

Celebrate 50 years of Microsoft with the company's original source code
gatesnotes.com
Was Houdini a Spy? (2021)
cia.gov
The cultural evolution of distortion in music
royalsocietypublishing.org
Bonobos' calls may be the closest thing to animal language we've seen
arstechnica.com

300 aspects of each call were cataloged, letting researchers estimate meaning.

AI cheats: Why you didn't notice your teammate was cheating
niila.fi

For the past few years, cheats have evolved rapidly. First came memory reading aimbots, then colorbots, and now AI aim assist. Cheats have escaped the host PC. How does it affect the players and anti-cheats?

How Servo Motors Work
jameco.com
Intel, TSMC tentatively agree to form chipmaking joint venture
reuters.com
Senior Developer Skills in the AI Age
manuel.kiessling.net

How time-tested software engineering practices amplify the effectiveness of AI coding assistants.

How Big Is VMS? – VMS Software, Inc
vmssoftware.com
Show HN: GitMCP is an automatic MCP server for every GitHub repo
gitmcp.io
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Instantly create an MCP server for any GitHub project

2025 Recession Indicators Hit Fashion and Wall Street at Once
marieclaire.com

The runway might have hints about the stock market's next move.

The Slow Collapse of Critical Thinking in OSINT Due to AI
dutchosintguy.com

OSINT used to be a thinking game. Now it’s becoming a trusting game and that should terrify you.I’ve seen it firsthand, analysts running solid investigations, then slowly shifting more and more of the thinking to GenAI tools. At first, it’s small. You use ChatGPT to summarise a document or translate a foreign post. Then it’s helping draft your reports. Then it’s generating leads. And eventually, you’re not thinking a

Tenstorrent Launches Blackhole Developer Products at Tenstorrent Dev Day
tenstorrent.com

Tenstorrent launched the next generation Blackhole™ chip family today at their DevDay event in San Francisco.

Show HN: Monkeys.zip – 3000 Monkeys on Typewriters
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An image of an archeologist adventurer who wears a hat and uses a bullwhip
theaiunderwriter.substack.com

Otakar G. Hubschmann - There is only one thing worse than being imitated

Trump's new tariff math looks a lot like ChatGPT's
theverge.com

Dominic Preston - ChatGPT may be the White House’s latest economic advisor.

Bikes in the age of tariffs
renehersecycles.com

Today's post was going to be about a new product we're introducing—but we need to hold off while we recalculate our prices. You've probably seen the news: Virtually all imports into the United States will be subjected to additional, steep import taxes, also called tariffs. The…

Windows debloat script made by Microsoft
github.com/microsoft

Scripts to simplify setting up a Windows developer box - microsoft/windows-dev-box-setup-scripts

Show HN: Hatchet v1 – A task orchestration platform built on Postgres
github.com/hatchet-dev
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Run Background Tasks at Scale. Contribute to hatchet-dev/hatchet development by creating an account on GitHub.

Declarative Schemas for simpler database management
supabase.com

Simplify managing and maintaining complex database schemas

Reasoning models don't always say what they think
anthropic.com
AI 2027
ai-2027.com

A research-backed AI scenario forecast.

Curl-impersonate: Special build of curl that can impersonate the major browsers
github.com/lwthiker

curl-impersonate: A special build of curl that can impersonate Chrome & Firefox - lwthiker/curl-impersonate

Show HN: Novanode, Global load balancing with Caddy, no vendor lock-in
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AnimeJs v4 Is Here
animejs.com

An fast and versatile JavaScript animation library

Overengineered Anchor Links
thirty-five.com

Learn about the 'overengineered anchoring' pattern, a technique to improve the user experience of scrollable content.

Show HN: Benchi – A benchmarking tool written in Go
github.com/ConduitIO
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Benchmark any tool from the CLI. Contribute to ConduitIO/benchi development by creating an account on GitHub.

Show HN: Offline JavaScript PubSub between browser tabs
simon-frey.com
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Show HN: The C3 programming language (C alternative language)
github.com/c3lang
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Compiler for the C3 language. Contribute to c3lang/c3c development by creating an account on GitHub.

Show HN: OpenNutrition – A free, public nutrition database
opennutrition.app
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Hackers stole billions in crypto to keep North Korea’s regime afloat
wsj.com
Show HN: Zxc – Rust TLS proxy with tmux and Vim as UI, BurpSuite alternative
github.com/hail-hydrant
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Terminal based intercepting proxy written in rust with tmux and vim as user interface. - GitHub - hail-hydrant/zxc: Terminal based intercepting proxy written in rust with tmux and vim as user int...

A university president makes a case against cowardice
newyorker.com

Molly Fischer - The Trump Administration wants to punish schools for student activism. Michael Roth, of Wesleyan, argues that colleges don’t have to roll over.

InitWare, a portable systemd fork running on BSDs and Linux
github.com/InitWare

The InitWare Suite of Middleware allows you to manage services and system resources as logical entities called units. Its main component is a service management ("init") system. - InitWar...

The Steam Deck is software-freedom friendly
isomorphism.xyz
Space Debris: Is It a Crisis?
esa.int
.NET library MassTransit going commercial with V9
masstransit.io

An open-source distributed application framework for .NET

I stopped using AI code editors
lucianonooijen.com
DIY Synths Database
diy-synths.snnkv.com

Curated collection of DIY-friendly hardware synthesizers and related musical equipment you can build on your own. All open source.

Calibrated Basic Income by Derek Van Gorder [pdf]
greshm.org
Dijkstra On the foolishness of "natural language programming"
cs.utexas.edu
I maintain a 17 year old ThinkPad
pilledtexts.com

Joshua Liu -  If a book has been in print for forty years, I can expect it to be in print for another forty years. But, and that is the main difference, if it survives …

Unmarked Vans. Secret Lists. Public Denunciations. Our Police State Has Arrived
nytimes.com
Tech companies are telling immigrant employees on visas not to leave the U.S.
washingtonpost.com
Search could be so much better. And I don't mean chatbots with web access
matterrank.ai

Build personalized search engines that score and rank results based on what matters to you.

The reality of working in tech: We're not hired to write code (2023)
idiallo.com

"So, is everyone losing their minds yet?" My ex-coworker asked me over yahoo messenger. He quit after getting enraged by new work policies that specifically targeted him. I looked up from my screen,

An open source, self-hosted implementation of the Tailscale control server
github.com/juanfont

An open source, self-hosted implementation of the Tailscale control server - juanfont/headscale

Search-R1: Training LLMs to Reason and Leverage Search Engines with RL
arxiv.org

Efficiently acquiring external knowledge and up-to-date information is essential for effective reasoning and text generation in large language models (LLMs). Prompting advanced LLMs with reasoning capabilities during inference to use search engines is not optimal, since the LLM does not learn how to optimally interact with the search engine. This paper introduces Search-R1, an extension of the DeepSeek-R1 model where

Web Server for AoE 1, 2 and 3 DE supporting LAN multiplayer 100% offline
github.com/luskaner

Web Server for AoE 1, 2 and 3 DE supporting LAN multiplayer 100% offline - luskaner/ageLANServer

Chronic ethanol produces sex-dependent impairments in striatum computations
science.org
Multi-Token Attention
arxiv.org

Soft attention is a critical mechanism powering LLMs to locate relevant parts within a given context. However, individual attention weights are determined by the similarity of only a single query and key token vector. This "single token attention" bottlenecks the amount of information used in distinguishing a relevant part from the rest of the context. To address this issue, we propose a new attention method, Multi-T

Trump announces sweeping new tariffs to promote US manufacturing
apnews.com

President Donald Trump has announced far-reaching new tariffs on nearly all U.S. trading partners — including a 34% tax on imports from China and 20% on the European Union, among others.

Proof-of-work to protect lore.kernel.org and git.kernel.org against AI crawlers
social.kernel.org

I'm sad to say that we're following the lead of many others and putting in proof-of-work proxies into place to protect ourselves against "AI" crawler bots. Yes, I hate this as much as you, but all ...

Are people bad at their jobs or are the jobs just bad?
annehelen.substack.com

Anne Helen Petersen - A Bed Assembly Drama

MIT 6.5950 Secure Hardware Design – An open-source course on hardware attacks
shd.mit.edu

MIT 6.5950/6.5951

Wikipedia, says its bandwidth costs have gone up 50% since Jan 2024
bsky.app/profile/cameronwilson.bsky.social

The Wikimedia Foundation, which owns Wikipedia, says its bandwidth costs have gone up 50% since Jan 2024 — a rise they attribute to AI crawlers. AI companies are killing the open web by stealing visitors from the sources of information and making them pay for the privilege

What We Knew Without Knowing
newyorker.com

Joan Didion - In notes to her husband, John Gregory Dunne, the writer reflected on her sessions with the psychiatrist Roger MacKinnon.

Trump Announces Sweeping Tariffs
apnews.com

President Donald Trump's barrage of “reciprocal” tariffs shows a willingness to dismantle the global economic system. Business leaders want the tariffs will increase costs for U.S. consumers.

US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU
bbc.com

The US president reveals a "baseline" 10% tariff on all imports into the US on a day he dubs "liberation day"

Prof. Sussman's Reading List (2016)
aurellem.org
Show HN: Color palettes inspired by Mexican architecture
seis.pointlessprojects.com
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Color palettes inspired by Mexican architecture

Pico.sh – SSH powered services for developers
pico.sh
Mozilla launching “Thundermail” email service to take on Gmail, Microsoft 365
techradar.com

Thunderbird is getting a bunch of new features

What, exactly, is an 'AI Agent'? Here's a litmus test
tines.com

What makes an AI system an agent? Stephen O'Brien's litmus test cuts through the confusion to define what separates agents from assistants.

Gemini 2.5 gets 24.4% on MathArena USAMO beating previous top score of 4.7%
matharena.ai

MathArena: Evaluating LLMs on Uncontaminated Math Competitions

Location data show that race affects citations and fines for speeding
science.org
Waltz's team set up at least 20 Signal group chats for crises across the world
politico.com
Tesla's Global Vehicle Deliveries Sank 13% in First Quarter
wsj.com
Item Flow, Part 1: A new unified concept for layout
webkit.org

CSS Grid and Flexbox brought incredible layout tools to the web, but they don’t yet do everything a designer might want.

Restructuring Announcement
automattic.com

Earlier today, CEO Matt Mullenweg shared with Automattic employees the following message.

Ask HN: How do you make a living contributing to and/or creating OSS projects?
news.ycombinator.com
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AI Ambivalence
nolanlawson.com

I’ve avoided writing this post for a long time, partly because I try to avoid controversial topics these days, and partly because I was waiting to make my mind up about the current, all-consu…

Why I don't discuss politics with friends
shwin.co

March 2025

NYC New Subway Map
nytimes.com
Ace: Realtime Computer Autopilot
generalagents.com

Ace is a computer autopilot that performs tasks on your desktop using your mouse and keyboard.

Zero Day in Microchip SAM Microcontrollers
wiki.recessim.com
When Jorge Luis Borges met one of the founders of AI
resobscura.substack.com

Benjamin Breen - One reason I became a historian is the joy of encountering moments in the past that are foreign, yet also oddly familiar.

Amazon Submits Bid for TikTok with US Sale Deadline Nearing
bloomberg.com
PaperBench
openai.com
'I Want to Make You Immortal' – How one woman confronted her deepfakes stalker
404media.co

How one woman confronted her deepfakes stalker, reclaiming her name one link at a time.

Tell HN: Announcing tomhow as a public moderator
news.ycombinator.com
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Hacking the call records of millions of Americans
evanconnelly.github.io

Imagine if anyone could punch in a phone number from the largest U.S. cell carrier and instantly retrieve a list of its recent incoming calls—complete with timestamps—without compromising the device, guessing a password, or alerting the user. Now imagine that number belongs to a journalist, a police officer, a politician, or someone fleeing an abuser. This capability wasn’t a hypothetical. I recently identified a sec

Show HN: Mermaid Chart VS Code Plugin: Mermaid.js Diagrams in Visual Studio Code
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The Mermaid Chart VS Code Plugin is a powerful developer diagramming tool that brings Mermaid.js diagramming directly into your Visual Studio Code environment. Whether you’re visualizing software architecture, documenting API flows, fixing bad documentation, or managing flowcharts and sequence diagrams, this plugin integrates seamlessly into your workflow. Key Features of the Mermaid Chart VS Code […]

Matrix.org Will Migrate to MAS
matrix.org

Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications

Bare: Run JavaScript Everywhere
pears.com

The Holepunch team has introduced Bare, a groundbreaking minimal JavaScript runtime designed for both desktop and mobile. Built to be fast, modular, and efficient, Bare revisits the original vision of Node.js by embracing modularity and universal compatibility.

A small violin part highlights bigger problems for the global economy
nytimes.com
Digital Archivists: Protecting Public Data from Erasure
spectrum.ieee.org

Through clever usage of APIs, the Library Innovation Lab at Harvard Law School has created an archive of Data.gov, home to 311,000 public datasets

Sailing from Berkeley to Hawaii in a 19ft Sailboat
potter-yachters.org
Animals Made from 13 Circles (2016)
dorithegiant.com

Dori - Dori | Art Director, Designer, Artist

Porting Tailscale to Plan 9
tailscale.com

Securely connect to anything on the internet with Tailscale. Built on WireGuard®️, Tailscale enables you to make finely configurable connections, secured end-to-end according to zero trust principles, between any resources on any infrastructure.

Nintendo unveils Switch 2 ahead of June 5 launch
arstechnica.com

$449 buys easier multiplayer, mouse mode, and a chance to upgrade older titles.

Why is the world losing color?
culture-critic.com

The Culturist - The rise of Chromophobia...

How Google built its Gemini robotics models
blog.google

Robots powered by Gemini Robotics models can learn complex actions like preparing salads and even folding an origami fox.

A dramatic Einstein ring seen by Webb
phys.org

One of the first verified predictions of general relativity is the gravitational deflection of starlight. The effect was first observed in 1919 during a total solar eclipse. Since stars appear as points of light, the effect is seen as an apparent shift in the position of stars near the eclipse. But the effect happens more generally.

Tesla First Quarter 2025 Production, Deliveries and Deployments
ir.tesla.com

AUSTIN, Texas, April 2, 2025 – In the first quarter, we produced over 362,000 vehicles, delivered over 336,000 vehicles and deployed 10.4 GWh of energy storage products.

Django 5.2 Released
djangoproject.com

Posted by Sarah Boyce on April 2, 2025

Tesla (TSLA) announces 336,681 deliveries, far worse than expected
electrek.co

Fred Lambert - Tesla (TSLA) has released its Q1 2025 production and delivery numbers. The automaker confirmed it delivered 336,681 electric vehicles during...

Tesla suffers worst quarter since 2022 as deliveries tumble
ft.com

Company loses crown of world’s best-selling electric-vehicle maker to China’s BYD

Using fake deadlines without driving your engineers crazy
newsletter.manager.dev

Anton Zaides - The 5 most common mistakes of managers and how to avoid them

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