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Custom SIM card in Tesla Model 3 2024, Tesla Model Y 2025 and Cybertruck
olegkutkov.me
Avoiding AI is hard – but our freedom to opt out must be protected
theconversation.com

James Jin Kang - As AI algorithms quietly take over life’s most important decisions, the right to opt out is fading – and with it, our autonomy.

The surgeon who used F1 pitstop techniques to save lives of babies
thetimes.com

Molly Hudson, Motor Racing Reporter - Professor Martin Elliott reflects on how watching a Formula 1 race two decades ago led to an unlikely partnership with Ferrari that transformed practices at Great Ormond Street and other hospitals

Why Bell Labs Worked
1517.substack.com

areoform - Or, how MBA culture killed Bell Labs

Burrito Now, Pay Later
enterprisevalue.substack.com

Drayton - Liquid Lunches And The Serious Case for BNPL Securitization

ToyDB rewritten: a distributed SQL database in Rust, for education
github.com/erikgrinaker

Distributed SQL database in Rust, written as an educational project - erikgrinaker/toydb

2024 sea level 'report cards' map futures of U.S. coastal communities
news.wm.edu

Featuring four new localities, the updated report cards show past and projected rates of sea level rise and acceleration for 36 U.S. coastal communities in a new, interactive dashboard.

Why not object capability languages?
blog.plan99.net

Mike Hearn - A map of the security territory

Scraperr – A Self Hosted Webscraper
github.com/jaypyles

Self-hosted webscraper. Contribute to jaypyles/Scraperr development by creating an account on GitHub.

Philips debuts 3D printable components to repair products
tomshardware.com

No more rigging your own fixes, download the official part.

Car companies are in a billion-dollar software war
insideevs.com
LSP client in Clojure in 200 lines of code
vlaaad.github.io

I wrote a small LSP client, it was kinda neat so I’m sharing it

Klarna changes its AI tune and again recruits humans for customer service
customerexperiencedive.com

Over a year after claiming that its AI chatbot could do the work of 700 representatives, Klarna is turning back to people to help with customer service work.

An online exhibition of pretty software bugs
glitchgallery.org

An online exhibition of pretty software bugs, a museum of accidental art. Open for submissions!

Applications of Classical Physics
pmaweb.caltech.edu
Elizabeth Holmes's partner raises millions for blood-testing startup
theguardian.com

Billy Evans, father of Holmes’s children, says company can make diagnoses from users’ blood, urine and saliva

37signals is completing its on-prem move
theregister.com

: Industry ‘pulled a fast one convincing everyone cloud is the only way’ says CTO David Heinemeier Hansson

Plain Vanilla Web
plainvanillaweb.com
An $18M grant would have drastically reduced food waste. Then the EPA cut it
grist.org

Ayurella Horn-Muller - The Rhode Island project to create local jobs, launch compost hubs, and reduce emissions was years in the making.

I built a native Windows Todo app in pure C (278 KB, no frameworks)
github.com/Efeckc17

A lightweight, native Windows Todo application built with pure C and the Win32 API. - Efeckc17/simple-todo-c

High-school shop students attract skilled-trades job offers
wsj.com
DNS piracy blocking orders: Google, Cloudflare, and OpenDNS respond differently
torrentfreak.com
Gonzalo Guerrero
en.wikipedia.org
JEP 515: Ahead-of-Time Method Profiling
openjdk.org
Booting the RP2350 from UART
pfister.dev
In 2025, venture capital can't pretend everything is fine any more
pivot-to-ai.com

Venture capital is screwed. A bubble in AI is their last hope, and they’re betting everything on Sam Altman. It’s heartwarming. Today, we have the Pitchbook-NVCA Venture Monitor for Q1 2025. This i…

Title of work deciphered in sealed Herculaneum scroll via digital unwrapping
finebooksmagazine.com
Backdoor found in popular ecommerce components
sansec.io

Multiple vendors were hacked in a coordinated supply chain attack, Sansec found 21 applications with the same backdoor. Curiously, the malware was injected 6...

Show HN: GlassFlow – OSS streaming dedup and joins from Kafka to ClickHouse
github.com/glassflow
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Real-time deduplication and temporal joins for streaming data - glassflow/clickhouse-etl

A Rust Documentation Ecosystem Review
harudagondi.space
Ask HN: What will tech employment look like in 10 years?
news.ycombinator.com
ask
Zig: A new direction for low-level programming?
bitshifters.cc

Bitshifter - Zig is a general-purpose systems programming language designed by Andrew Kelley. The language bills itself as “a general-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust, optimal, and reusable software”.

The Epochalypse Project
epochalypse-project.org

Raising awareness about the 2038 bug in all its manifestations and trying to fix things while there’s still time.

Most AI spending driven by FOMO, not ROI, CEOs tell IBM
theregister.com

: Just 1 in 4 bets paying off so far

Build iOS Apps on Linux and Windows
forums.swift.org

Hi folks! A few months ago I shared my Swift SDK for Darwin, which allows you to build iOS Swift Packages on Linux, amongst other things. I mentioned that a lot of work still needed to be done, such as handling codesigning, packaging, and bundling. I'm super excited to share that we've finally reached the point where all of these things are now possible with cross-platform, open source software. Enter, xtool! Abo

Absolute Zero: Reinforced Self-Play Reasoning with Zero Data
arxiv.org

Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has shown promise in enhancing the reasoning capabilities of large language models by learning directly from outcome-based rewards. Recent RLVR works that operate under the zero setting avoid supervision in labeling the reasoning process, but still depend on manually curated collections of questions and answers for training. The scarcity of high-quality, human-pro

The Emacs Widget Toolkit
appetrosyan.github.io
Show HN: I’m 16 years old and working on my first startup, a study app
notiv.app
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Transform messy notes into organized study materials with AI-powered recommendations, quizzes, and flashcards.

On thinkers and doers (2022)
strangeloopcanon.com

Rohit Krishnan - Why we might need something like tenure for many more people, to cultivate more thinkers in a doer's world

One-Click RCE in Asus's Preinstalled Driver Software
mrbruh.com

One-Click RCE in ASUS’s Preinstalled Driver Software Introduction This story begins with a conversation about new PC parts. After ignoring the advice from my friend, I bought a new ASUS motherboard for my PC. I was a little concerned about having a BIOS that would by default silently install software into my OS in the background. But it could be turned off so I figured I would just do that.

Fan Service
flak.tedunangst.com
Tufts graduate student Rümeysa Öztürk released from immigration detention
npr.org

Rümeysa Öztürk, a Tufts University doctoral student, was ordered released by a federal judge in Vermont in the latest setback for the Trump administration's effort to deport noncitizen activists it accuses of antisemitism.

Leaving Google
airs.com
NetBSD 10.x Kernel Math_emulation
mezzantrop.wordpress.com

This is my battle-worn, falling-apart laptop rocking an #i486SX CPU from the early ’90s. It’s so ancient that it doesn’t even have an FPU (Actually, that’s not true, they just cut-out F…

Dotless Domains
lab.avl.la
Ireland given two months to implement hate speech laws or face action from EU
thejournal.ie

Muiris O'Cearbhaill - The European Commission said Ireland is allegedly “failing” to comply with laws around race-based violence and hate.

Fandom sells gaming media brand Giant Bomb to long-term staff
about.fandom.com

World’s Largest Fan-Generated Entertainment & Gaming Platform | Fandom Fandom’s brands help fans get more out of the entertainment and games they love,…

Airlines Are Selling Your Data to ICE
jacobin.com

An aviation industry clearinghouse is collecting data on air travelers from billions of flights — and selling it to Trump’s immigration enforcers.

The History and Legacy of Visual Basic
retool.com

How Visual Basic became the world’s most dominant programming environment, its sudden fall from grace, and why its influence is still shaping the future of software development.

Observations from people-watching
skincontact.substack.com

shani - Painting weddings for a few years now, I have spent a fair bit of time observing strangers move through a room.

Sierpiński Triangle? In My Bitwise and?
lcamtuf.substack.com

lcamtuf - Exploring a peculiar bit-twiddling hack at the intersection of 1980s geek sensibilities.

Show HN: LoopMix128 – Fast C PRNG (.46ns), 2^128 Period, BigCrush/PractRand Pass
github.com/danielcota
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A very fast 64-bit PRNG with a 2^128 period, proven injectivity, passing BigCrush & PractRand (32TB). - danielcota/LoopMix128

Why the Apple II Didn't Support Lowercase Letters (2020)
vintagecomputing.com
Show HN: Xenolab – Rasp Pi monitor for my pet carnivourus plants
github.com/blackrabbit17
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A monitoring station for carnivorous flora. Contribute to blackrabbit17/xenolab development by creating an account on GitHub.

Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during meetings
bleepingcomputer.com

Microsoft is working on adding a new Teams feature that will prevent users from capturing screenshots of sensitive information shared during meetings.

Address of Pope Leo XIV to the College of Cardinals
vatican.va
AI is draining water from areas that need it most
bloomberg.com
Email Forwarding for Your Domain
mailwip.com

Mailwip - fast and reliable email forwarding service for your domains. Incoming mail API handler, email webhooks for your web services. Support Rails action mailbox. Replacement for SES incoming. Built-in support for DKIM, SRS, SPF, ARC, DMARC, and more. No credit card required.

DOGE Is Bringing Back a Deadly Disease
theatlantic.com

David Michaels, Gregory Wagner - Cuts to agencies that protect workers’ lungs are going to result in the resurgence of a preventable illness.

Update turns Google Gemini into a prude, breaking apps for trauma survivors
theregister.com

: 'I'm sorry, I can't help with that'

Even Tesla's Insurance Arm Is Getting Wrecked
insideevs.com
For $595, you get what nobody else can give you for twice the price (1982) [pdf]
s3data.computerhistory.org
Reverse engineering the 386 processor's prefetch queue circuitry
righto.com

In 1985, Intel introduced the groundbreaking 386 processor, the first 32-bit processor in the x86 architecture. To improve performance, the ...

Sam Altman Wants Your Eyeball
privacyguides.org

Em - Last week, OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman announced in San Francisco that the World project he co-founded, formerly known as Worldcoin, is opening six stores across the United States, allowing users of the project's app to scan their eyeballs.

'We Currently Have No Container Ships,' Seattle Port Says
newsweek.com

Seattle port commissioner Ryan Calkins described the decline in activity as "a stark reminder" of the impact of tariffs.

'It cannot provide nuance': UK experts warn AI therapy chatbots are not safe
theguardian.com

Experts say such tools may give dangerous advice and more oversight is needed, as Mark Zuckerberg says AI can plug gap

Comparison of C/POSIX standard library implementations for Linux
etalabs.net
Show HN: Code Claude Code
github.com/RVCA212
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Contribute to RVCA212/codesys development by creating an account on GitHub.

A critical look at MCP
raz.sh
US vs. Google amicus curiae brief of Y Combinator in support of plaintiffs [pdf]
storage.courtlistener.com
People Who Hype Cursor Usually Lack Technical Skills
en.smallyu.net
I Want to Love Linux. It Doesn't Love Me Back
fireborn.mataroa.blog
React Three Ecosystem
react-three.org
The cult of doing business
commonwealmagazine.org

Erik Baker’s history of the entrepreneurial work ethic explores the unholy union between American psychology and American business.

Industry groups are not happy about the imminent demise of Energy Star
insideclimatenews.org

By Marianne Lavelle - Despite having industry support and saving consumers half a trillion dollars over the decades, the program could be eliminated imminently.

Radxa Orion O6 brings Arm to the midrange PC (with caveats)
jeffgeerling.com
LTXVideo 13B AI video generation
ltxv.video
The Fallacy of Techno-Feudalism (2024)
petrapalusova.com

The article explores the concept of techno-feudalism in comparison to traditional feudal systems, and highlights both the opportunities and challenges of tech platforms in current digital economy.

Intel: Winning and Losing
abortretry.fail

Bradford Morgan White - Idling at a Zenith

Embracer Games Archive is preserving 75000 video games and needs contributions
embracergamesarchive.com
US Government considering suspending habeas corpus
bbc.com

The White House is "actively looking at" suspending the legal right to challenge detention.

The Deathbed Fallacy (2018)
hjorthjort.xyz
Cosmos 482 Descent Craft tracker
astria.tacc.utexas.edu
After 16 years, we're renewing the StackOverflow Brand
meta.stackexchange.com
Ash (Almquist Shell) Variants
in-ulm.de
Not a three-year-old chimney sweep (2022)
fakehistoryhunter.net

This footage has gone viral online with the claim that it shows an 3 year old chimney sweep on the job: Millions of people saw the footage, shared it online an were upset by it, as they should be&#…

High-income groups disproportionately contribute to climate extremes worldwide
nature.com

While climate injustice is widely recognized, a quantification of how emissions inequality translates into unequal accountability is still lacking. Here researchers examine how affluent groups disproportionately contribute to the increase in mean temperature and the frequency of extreme events.

Slow software for a burning world
bonfirenetworks.org

In a world of “move fast and break things,” we’ve chosen a different tempo — one rooted in care, deep listening, and collective stewardship. Slow software means building for long-term resilience and meaningful participation, rather than chasing novelty, speed, or scale.

In praise of grobi for auto-configuring X11 monitors
michael.stapelberg.ch

Michael Stapelberg - I have recently started using the grobi program by Alexander Neumann again and was delighted to discover that it makes using my fiddly (but wonderful) Dell 32-inch 8K monitor (UP3218K) monitor much more convenient — I get a signal more quickly than with my previous, sleep-based approach.

Europe launches program to lure scientists away from the US
es.wired.com

Fernanda González - El programa Choose Europe for Science contempla una inversión de 500 millones de euros entre 2025 y 2027 para captar especialistas en distintas ramas del conocimiento.

Gmail to SQLite
github.com/marcboeker

Index your Gmail account to a SQLite DB and play with the data. - marcboeker/gmail-to-sqlite

Vision Now Available in Llama.cpp
github.com/ggml-org

LLM inference in C/C++. Contribute to ggml-org/llama.cpp development by creating an account on GitHub.

Uber Driver app can get location in background without the permissions (How?)
developer.apple.com
A simple 16x16 dot animation from simple math rules
tixy.land
Another World
anotherworld.fr
Our Slack is dead. Long live Zulip
changelog.com

It's been more than six months since we invited Zulip's Alya Abbott on the pod and decided to kick the tires to see if Zulip could replace Slack for Changelog's community. The answer has been a resounding **YES**! Here's why.

Unity is threatening to revoke licenses of developers with flawed data
reddit.com/r/gamedev
Charles Bukowski, William Burroughs, and the Computer (2009)
realitystudio.org
Brandon's Semiconductor Simulator
brandonli.net
WebGL Water (2010)
madebyevan.com

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