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Self-Taught Engineers Often Outperform
michaelbastos.com
The rise of AI as a threat to the S&P 500 [pdf]
autonomy.work
We've got to stop sending files to each other
shkspr.mobi

Terence Eden - Another day, another data breach. the spreadsheet, initially shared in 2022, and thought to contain data related to a small number of applicants, had contained hidden data related to more than 18,000 people.  ICO statement in response to 2022 MoD data breach Why are people still sending files to each other? I remember having a stand-up argument a decade ago with a project manager who wanted us …

Hand: open-source Robot Hand
github.com/pollen-robotics

Code and model to control the AH! Contribute to pollen-robotics/AmazingHand development by creating an account on GitHub.

My bank keeps on undermining anti-phishing education
moritz-mander.de

TLDR: my bank sent out emails with websites which looked a lot like phishing mails, so much so that this similarity could potentially be used against them legally by potential phishing victims – Discussion at hackernews (soon) Chapter 1: You’ve got mail As I was writing my first post some weeks ago, I got an email from my bank in my inbox:

Retro gaming YouTuber Once Were Nerd sued and raided by the Italian government
androidauthority.com

Italian law allows for up to three years in jail for “promotion of pirated copyrighted materials.”…

Upcoming coordinated security fix for all Matrix server implementations
matrix.org

Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications

Voting age to be lowered to 16 in UK by next general election
theguardian.com

16- and 17-year-olds will be able to vote in all elections as part of changes including easier voter registration and crackdown on foreign interference

The AI bubble today is bigger than the IT bubble in the 1990s
apolloacademy.com

Torsten Sløk - The difference between the IT bubble in the 1990s and the AI bubble today is that the top 10 companies...

Gmail/Google starts disabling features unless you agree to data processing
bsky.app/profile/victor.earth

"Either allow us to process and use your data however we want, or disable these existing features we've offered for many years", such a great direction to take your service

Voting age to be lowered to 16 by next general election
bbc.co.uk

Other planned changes include expanding voter ID to include bank cards and moving to automatic registration.

Economists made a model of the U.S. economy. Our debt crashed the model
marketplace.org

Under current debt projections, economists cannot even model out a functioning long-term economy.

New battery has life so long you may never have to recharge
neowin.net

Radiocarbon and perovskite unite in a compact nuclear battery promising safe, almost ever-lasting power for extreme environments and miniature tech applications.

FOSS4G Europe 2025 live streaming [video]
2025.europe.foss4g.org

Themefisher - Embedded FOSS4G Europe 2025 live streams

Open, free, and ignored: the afterlife of Symbian
theregister.com

: It did get sourced, but nobody cared

NINA: Rebuilding the original AIM, AOL Desktop, Yahoo and ICQ platforms
nina.chat
TikTok, AliExpress and WeChat ignore your GDPR rights
noyb.eu

All three companies failed to adequately answer the complainants' access requests

Treating beef like coal would make a big dent in greenhouse-gas emissions
economist.com

Cattle are a surprisingly large producer of greenhouse gases

Code Execution Through Email: How I Used Claude to Hack Itself
pynt.io

This is the story of how I used a Gmail message to trigger code execution through Claude Desktop, and how Claude itself (!) helped me plan the attack.

Wttr: Console-oriented weather forecast service
github.com/chubin

:partly_sunny: The right way to check the weather. Contribute to chubin/wttr.in development by creating an account on GitHub.

Xbox Hacks: The A20 (2021)
connortumbleson.com

In the early 2000s the Xbox was released. We are nearing the 20 year anniversary so its time to dive into the A20 "hack".

Onlycats
onlycats.gg

Only cats allowed

“Reading Rainbow” was created to combat summer reading slumps
smithsonianmag.com

Kayla Randall - With a charismatic host and charming book readings and reviews, the hit series “Reading Rainbow” stands as a beacon of children’s literature

I was wrong about robots.txt
evgeniipendragon.com

Evgenii Pendragon - Recently, I wrote an article about my journey in learning about robots.txt and its implications on the data rights in regards to what I write in my blog. I was confident that I wanted to ban all the crawlers from my website. Turned out there was an unintended consequence that I did not account for. My LinkedIn posts became broken Ever since I changed my robots.txt file, I started seeing that my LinkedIn posts no long

Gaslight-driven development
tonsky.me

Nikita Prokopov - Computers are starting to have opinions on how our APIs should look like

Mistakes Microsoft made in the Xbox security system (2005)
xboxdevwiki.net
Show HN: A 'Choose Your Own Adventure' written in Emacs Org Mode
tendollaradventure.com
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Tsunami warning was issued in Alaska after 7.3 magnitude earthquake [updated]
tsunami.gov
Tin Can – The landline, reinvented for kids
tincan.kids

The super-magical Wi-Fi landline for kids. No screens, no texting, no strangers — just real conversation with Grandma, besties, and contacts you approve. Plug in, twirl that cord, and time-travel to pure voice fun.

I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone (2022)
smallandroidphone.com

Do you think all Android phones are too big? I agree! We need to work together to convince someone to build a small Android phone again.

Metaflow: Build, Manage and Deploy AI/ML Systems
github.com/Netflix

Build, Manage and Deploy AI/ML Systems. Contribute to Netflix/metaflow development by creating an account on GitHub.

A recap on May/June stability at Neon
neon.com

Starting in May, we had a series of feature launches with agentic AI partners that gained far more momentum than we predicted. In two short timespans, the rate of new database creation increased more than 5x, and the rate of branch creation increased more than 50x. While we were humbled by the uptick, the significant […]

Young graduates are facing an employment crisis
wsj.com
Artisanal handcrafted Git repositories
drew.silcock.dev

How to lovingly handcraft your own git repositories

US importers sued for 'greenwashing' Mexican avocados
civileats.com

Isabella Kaminski - Most avocados sold in the U.S. are imports from Mexico, where farming has environmental and human-rights impacts little known to consumers.

Intel's retreat is unlike anything it's done before in Oregon
oregonlive.com

The chipmaker's Oregon workforce is at its lowest point in more than a decade.

Signs of autism could be encoded in the way you walk
sciencealert.com

The Conversation - Autism is a neurodevelopmental condition that affects how people's brains develop and function, impacting behaviour, communication and socialising.

Ask HN: Anyone else tired of AI being forced on you?
news.ycombinator.com
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PyPI Prohibits inbox.ru email domain registrations
blog.pypi.org

We have prohibited new registrations of accounts using inbox.ru email domains.

How and where will agents ship software?
instantdb.com
KX Community Edition
defconq.tech

This is it ladies and gentleman! The moment we’ve all been waiting for! KX just dropped the long-promised Community Edition, and IT'S FREE. Yes!!, you read that right: it's free. Not for a week. Not for personal use only. Free to use, even commercially. Holy cow, this honestly feels like Christmas came early this year. If you're wondering what all the hype is about and why I'm so excited about this breaking news, kee

Ex-Waymo engineers launch Bedrock Robotics to automate construction
techcrunch.com

Kirsten Korosec - Former Waymo engineers have launched an autonomous vehicle startup with $80 million in venture funds.

Mkosi – Build Bespoke OS Images
mkosi.systemd.io
The Italian towns selling houses for €1
theguardian.com

The long read: Frustrated with my life back in the US, I was captivated by the idea of a new home – and new life – for less than the price of an espresso. So I travelled to Italy to find out whether it was too good to be true

Mill: A better build tool for Java, Scala, and Kotlin
mill-build.org
'Gentle parenting' my smartphone addiction
newyorker.com

Kyle Chayka - An app called Opal finally succeeded at curbing my time spent on social media through a combination of mild friction, encouragement, and guilt.

Altermagnets: The first new type of magnet in nearly a century
newscientist.com

#author.fullName} - Researchers have found the first new type of magnet in nearly a century. Now, these strange "altermagnets" could help us build an entirely new type of computer

Show HN: An MCP server that gives LLMs temporal awareness and time calculation
github.com/jlumbroso
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🤖🕰️ An MCP server that gives language models temporal awareness and time calculation abilities. Teaching AI the significance of the passage of time through collaborative tool development. - jlumbro...

Chain of thought monitorability: A new and fragile opportunity for AI safety
arxiv.org

AI systems that "think" in human language offer a unique opportunity for AI safety: we can monitor their chains of thought (CoT) for the intent to misbehave. Like all other known AI oversight methods, CoT monitoring is imperfect and allows some misbehavior to go unnoticed. Nevertheless, it shows promise and we recommend further research into CoT monitorability and investment in CoT monitoring alongside existing safet

Show HN: Improving search ranking with chess Elo scores
zeroentropy.dev
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ZeroEntropy has just released zerank-1 and zerank-1-small, state-of-the-art open models trained with a novel ELO-based pipeline.

cppyy: Automatic Python-C++ Bindings
cppyy.readthedocs.io
Show HN: DataRamen, a Fast SQL Explorer with Automatic Joins and Data Navigation
dataramen.xyz
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Navigate MySQL and PostgreSQL databases fast with DataRamen, a lightweight GUI built for speed, clarity, and effortless data access.

Thankyou for Loving Firefox (2022)
connect.mozilla.org

In nearly 30 years of using Netscape and Firefox, I've never had any problem understanding Mozilla's written communication. Sadly, that has now drastically changed. I am sad to say that, despite being an intelligent, adult native English-speaker, I now find myself in the sad position of being incapa...

Linux Reaches 5% Desktop Market Share in USA
ostechnix.com

sk - Linux desktop market share reaches 5.03% in the USA (June 2025) according to StatCounter. Discover why more users are choosing Linux.

Pgactive: Postgres active-active replication extension
github.com/aws

Contribute to aws/pgactive development by creating an account on GitHub.

ICE may deport to 'third countries' without assurances they won't be tortured
nbcnews.com

The memo instructs ICE employees on how to deport people to countries other than their country of origin, in some cases in as little as six hours.

Ukrainian hackers destroyed the IT infrastructure of Russian drone manufacturer
prm.ua

Українські кіберактивісти у співпраці з військовою розвідкою успішно паралізували діяльність одного з найбільших російських виробників безпілотників — компанії "Гаскар Інтеграция". Внаслідок атаки знищено понад 47 Тб критичних даних, заблоковано внутрішні системи, а робота заводу фактично зупинена.

I'm switching to Python and actually liking it
cesarsotovalero.net

César Soto Valero - I’ve started writing more Python code lately (because of… AI, you know). In this post, I share the tools, libraries, configs, and other integrations I use for building production-grade Python applications following a frontend-backend architecture.

Shipping WebGPU on Windows in Firefox 141
mozillagfx.wordpress.com

After years in development, we will be releasing WebGPU on Windows in Firefox 141! WebGPU gives web content a modern interface to the user’s graphics processor, enabling high-performance comp…

Hijacking Trust? Bitvise Under Fire for Controlling Domain of FOSS Project PuTTY
blog.pupred.com
Nextflow: System for creating scalable, portable, reproducible workflows
github.com/nextflow-io

A DSL for data-driven computational pipelines. Contribute to nextflow-io/nextflow development by creating an account on GitHub.

Tilck: A tiny Linux-compatible kernel
github.com/vvaltchev

A Tiny Linux-Compatible Kernel. Contribute to vvaltchev/tilck development by creating an account on GitHub.

Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 Incident on July 14, 2025
blog.cloudflare.com

On July 14th, 2025, Cloudflare made a change to our service topologies that caused an outage for 1.1.1.1 on the edge, resulting in downtime for 62 minutes for customers using the 1.1.1.1 public DNS Resolver as well as intermittent degradation of service for Gateway DNS. We’re deeply sorry for this outage. This outage was the result of an internal configuration error and not the result of an attack or a BGP hijack.

Lead GrapheneOS developer was forcibly conscripted into a war
grapheneos.social

Our lead developer was forcibly conscripted into a war and we've been asking for help regularly since then and expressing that the situation was dire. Android 16 making our life harder than expected made it worse. The Android 16 changes weren't really the important part...

Congress moves to reject bulk of White House's proposed NASA cuts
arstechnica.com

We’re still months away from these budget bills having a chance to become law.

The reality of firearm suppressors vs. Hollywood
militaryrealism.blog

The reality of firearm suppressors. Hello again. I’m going to stick on the topic of intermediate ballistics this week, but go into a bit more detail on silencers/suppressors1. I hinted last w…

Six Years of Gemini
geminiprotocol.net
LLM Daydreaming
gwern.net

Gwern - Proposal & discussion of how default mode networks for LLMs are an example of missing capabilities for search and novelty in contemporary AI systems.

Why the Upper Middle Class Isn't Special Anymore
ofdollarsanddata.com

On the rise of the upper middle class and the problems that came with it.

Amazon S3 Vectors
aws.amazon.com

Amazon S3 Vectors is a new cloud object store that provides native support for storing and querying vectors at massive scale, offering up to 90% cost reduction compared to conventional approaches while seamlessly integrating with Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases, SageMaker, and OpenSearch for AI applications.

GPUHammer: Rowhammer attacks on GPU memories are practical
gpuhammer.com
Unlike ChatGPT, Anthropic has doubled down on Artifacts
ben-mini.com

Ben Wallace - Back in high school, I remember receiving an email for a study guide from a friend. Instead of the PDF coming attached, it was a link to a site called Dropbox.

OpenAI – vulnerability responsible disclosure
requilence.any.org

What happened? On 29 May 2025 I privately reported a vulnerability to the OpenAI disclosure mailbox using an encrypted email. The flaw allows peeking at chat responses intended for other users. This content may contain personal data, confidential business plans, or proprietary code. OpenAI …

I'm a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It
nytimes.com
My Family and the Flood
texasmonthly.com

Aaron Parsley - The July 4 Texas flooding ripped our Kerr County home from its pillars, pulling us into the water and into the night. Then morning came.

Claude for Financial Services
anthropic.com

Today, we're introducing a comprehensive solution for financial analysis that transforms how finance professionals analyze markets, conduct research, and make investment decisions with Claude.

Where's Firefox going next?
connect.mozilla.org

Hey Firefox friends! We’re trying something new and would love your help. Features like tab groups, vertical tabs, profiles, new tab wallpapers, PWAs, and taskbar pinning weren’t just ideas – they were direct responses to what you told us you wanted. Your input has helped shape where Firefox is tod...

The FIPS 140-3 Go Cryptographic Module
go.dev

Go now has a built-in, native FIPS 140-3 compliant mode.

Hierarchical Modeling (H-Nets)
cartesia.ai

Generate seamless speech, power voice applications, and fine-tune your own voice models on the fastest real-time AI platform.

Human Stigmergy: The world is my task list
aethermug.com

The world is my task list

Hazel: A live functional programming environment with typed holes
github.com/hazelgrove

Hazel, a live functional programming environment with typed holes - hazelgrove/hazel

Helix Editor 25.07
helix-editor.com
Underwriting Superintelligence
underwriting-superintelligence.com

The "Incentive Flywheel" of AI: how insurance unlocks secure Al progress and enables faster AI adoption.

Meta shareholders look to haul CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg to court
nypost.com

Meta shareholders argue that Zuckerberg, Sandberg and former VP Konstantinos Papamiltiadis violated their fiduciary duties over a 2012 consent order.

Study finds AI tools made open source software developers 19 percent slower
arstechnica.com

Coders spent more time prompting and reviewing AI generations than they saved on coding.

Show HN: Beyond Z²+C, Plot Any Fractal
juliascope.com
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Voxtral-Mini-3B-2507 – Open source speech understanding model
huggingface.co
Encrypting files with passkeys and age
words.filippo.io
ICE lawyers are hiding their names in court
theintercept.com

Debbie Nathan - ICE attorneys fighting to deport immigrants are able to obscure their identities — no masks required.

Developer angry that App Store is removing game that hasn't been updated in 7 yr
appleinsider.com

A game developer has accused Apple of undermining the cultural value of games by threatening to pull an app that hasn't seen a single update for seven years from the App Store.

Designing for the Eye: Optical corrections in architecture and typography
nubero.ch

The Nuberodesign Blog

Why my p(doom) has risen, dramatically
garymarcus.substack.com

Gary Marcus - What could happen if power, recklessness, incompetence, and indifference came together

Plasma Bigscreen rises from the dead with a better UI
neowin.net

Another KDE project, Plasma Bigscreen, is back from the dead with a much better UI spread across the entire shell.

How I lost my backpack with passports and laptop
psychotechnology.substack.com

The irrationalist - A tale about mixing GABAergics, neuroticism, responsibility and Heidegger

Mira Murati’s AI startup Thinking Machines valued at $12B in early-stage funding
reuters.com
To be a better programmer, write little proofs in your head
the-nerve-blog.ghost.io

This is a brief write-up of a trick I learned that helps me write code faster and more accurately. I say "trick", but it's really something I started to do without noticing as I moved further into my career. When you're working on something difficult, sketch a proof in your

Nearly 3 out of 4 Oracle Java users say they've been audited in the past 3 years
theregister.com

: Big Red’s changes to Java licensing also inspire exodus to open source

Why the Real Computer Revolution Never Happened – Alan Kay and Anjan Katta [video]
youtube.com
Reflections on OpenAI
calv.info
Tech oligarchs have turned against the system that made them
liberalcurrents.com

It is the tech oligarchs, not young radicals, who have turned against the system that made them.

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