News

  1. Tell HN: An app is silently installing itself on my iPhone every day (news.ycombinator.com)
  2. Why has there been so little progress on Alzheimer's disease? (freakonomics.com)
  3. USB Cheat Sheet (2022) (fabiensanglard.net)
  4. weeknotes #60 (olu.online)
  5. America's Geothermal Breakthrough (oilprice.com)
  6. Mine, an IDE for Coalton and Common Lisp (coalton-lang.github.io)
  7. Amateur armed with ChatGPT solves an Erdős problem (www.scientificamerican.com)
  8. Hokusai and Tesselations (dl.ndl.go.jp)
  9. Simulacrum of Knowledge Work (blog.happyfellow.dev)
  10. Using coding assistance tools to revive projects you never were going to finish (blog.matthewbrunelle.com)
  11. Jump or die, dumbass (alok.github.io)
  12. New 10 GbE USB adapters are cooler, smaller, cheaper (www.jeffgeerling.com)
  13. Infinite Lives, 2024: Caves of Qud (approximateknowledge.net)
  14. Why I made Sourdough, a new vector tile schema for OpenStreetMap (www.jakelow.com)
  15. try not pissing your willpower away (todaythings.substack.com)
  16. Counting zeros (vishnubharathi.codes)
  17. 2048 (approximateknowledge.net)
  18. Redesigning the Recurse Center application to inspire curious programmers (www.recurse.com)
  19. beats you (alok.github.io)
  20. You should try contra dancing (www.benkuhn.net)
  21. Inquiries-Week 8: Fence Maxing (www.fractalkitty.com)
  22. Programming in 2026: excitement, dread, and the coming wave (amontalenti.com)
  23. zork-bench: An LLM reasoning eval based on text adventure games (www.lowimpactfruit.com)
  24. Math Is Hard – OpenBSD Stories (miod.online.fr)
  25. kairos (alok.github.io)
  26. How I set and maintain good habits via journaling (blog.danielsosebee.com)
  27. Real deadlines and fake deadlines (liquidbrain.net)
  28. schmancy (approximateknowledge.net)
  29. OpenAI Privacy Filter (openai.com)
  30. What I did on Parental Leave (hamy.xyz)
  31. Flickr: The first and last great photo platform (petapixel.com)
  32. The Joy of Folding Bikes (blog.korny.info)
  33. Tab Roundup (harihareswara.net)
  34. 1-Bit Hokusai's "The Great Wave" (2023) (www.hypertalking.com)
  35. The Free Universal Construction Kit (fffff.at)
  36. Granola Number 2 (gochugarugirl.com)
  37. Clean Air and Clean Water (approximateknowledge.net)
  38. I am building a cloud (crawshaw.io)
  39. My Nix Config Is Intimate (www.scd31.com)
  40. Why High-Level Rust Wins Over Other High-Level Languages for Agentic Engineering (hamy.xyz)
  41. Borrow-checking without type-checking (www.scattered-thoughts.net)
  42. Rediscovering the Handcart (solar.lowtechmagazine.com)
  43. Mechanistic Interpretability and Lean 4 (alok.github.io)
  44. Engineering words for everyone (approximateknowledge.net)
  45. NixOS is magic (sharphall.org)
  46. John Arbuthnot (alok.github.io)
  47. 2026 NY State Comptroller Election: Who's Running (harihareswara.net)
  48. Quantum Computers Are Not a Threat to 128-bit Symmetric Keys (words.filippo.io)
  49. pgrust: Rebuilding Postgres in Rust with AI (malisper.me)
  50. Slayerfest: An AI Simulation of Academia in the Buffyverse (victoriaritvo.com)
  51. zeno timer trick (alok.github.io)
  52. AI Makes Golang One of the Best Languages (jry.io)
  53. The wordification pipeline (approximateknowledge.net)
  54. When I quit my PhD (www.lowimpactfruit.com)
  55. WHY ARE YOU SO CALM?! My scooter accident (alok.github.io)