News

  1. A party balloon shut down El Paso International Airport; estimated cost –$573k (log.jasongodfrey.info)
  2. Anthropic raises $30B in Series G funding at $380B post-money valuation (www.anthropic.com)
  3. Polis: Open-source platform for large-scale civic deliberation (pol.is)
  4. GPT‑5.3‑Codex‑Spark (openai.com)
  5. The calculus tutorial just shipped! (minireference.com)
  6. Launch HN: Omnara (YC S25) – Run Claude Code and Codex from anywhere (news.ycombinator.com)
  7. Language models imply world models (blog.plover.com)
  8. Shut Up: Comment Blocker (rickyromero.com)
  9. ai;dr (www.0xsid.com)
  10. Gemini 3 Deep Think (blog.google)
  11. MiniMax M2.5 released: 80.2% in SWE-bench Verified (www.minimax.io)
  12. So many trees planted in Taklamakan Desert that it's turned into a carbon sink (www.livescience.com)
  13. An AI agent published a hit piece on me (theshamblog.com)
  14. Beginning fully autonomous operations with the 6th-generation Waymo driver (waymo.com)
  15. Would you rather be righteous, or whole? (thelabyrinth.substack.com)
  16. Inspecting the Source of Go Modules (words.filippo.io)
  17. A brief history of barbed wire fence telephone networks (2024) (loriemerson.net)
  18. Major European payment processor can't send email to Google Workspace users (atha.io)
  19. Culture Is the Mass-Synchronization of Framings (aethermug.com)
  20. The Future for Tyr, a Rust GPU Driver for Arm Mali Hardware (lwn.net)
  21. Improving 15 LLMs at Coding in One Afternoon. Only the Harness Changed (blog.can.ac)
  22. Run Pebble OS in Browser via WASM (ericmigi.github.io)
  23. Apache Arrow is 10 years old (arrow.apache.org)
  24. The "Crown of Nobles" Noble Gas Tube Display (2024) (theshamblog.com)
  25. The secret to getting promoted (bjorg.bjornroche.com)
  26. Reading Roundup: doing it ...right? (cceckman.com)
  27. Talking Fast and Justifying Less (blog.danielsosebee.com)
  28. Brothy Chili with Tomatillo and Greens (www.alisoneroman.com)
  29. What’s in a name? (www.alisoneroman.com)
  30. A Few Notes on Moats (commoncog.com)
  31. Building Chess in about 350 lines of Clojure (www.sammystraus.com)
  32. How Programmers Spend Their Time (probablydance.com)
  33. Winter Pinball League (bytes.zone)
  34. responsibility (clarionsong.substack.com)
  35. Renormalization, Lite: a powerful toy model (blog.veitheller.de)
  36. High-Level Rust: Getting 80% of the Benefits with 20% of the Pain (hamy.xyz)
  37. 2025 Year in Review (thewebivore.com)
  38. Homes for America (exclav.es)
  39. Aspirational Surfing (figbert.com)
  40. Go 1.26 is released (go.dev)
  41. Using an engineering notebook (ntietz.com)
  42. weeknotes #53 (olu.online)
  43. CloudSeed Rust - A Fullstack Rust Boilerplate for Building Webapps in Minutes (hamy.xyz)
  44. A method and calculator for building foamcore drawer organisers (capnfabs.net)
  45. An Early CNY Lunch (gochugarugirl.com)
  46. Finally, we can worry about cross-platform dev again (ascii-tweezers.bearblog.dev)
  47. Cold day in Brooklyn (seinwave.com)
  48. Cold days in Brooklyn (seinwave.com)
  49. National data, local stories: ICE detention in 2026 (exclav.es)
  50. Eight more months of agents (crawshaw.io)
  51. Year of Wayland on the Desktop (peterlyons.com)
  52. I “made” a new interface for this blog (seinwave.com)
  53. My dog has a stinky butt (seinwave.com)
  54. re-typing LLVM (in.silico.2009.tvrip.divx-dynamics.mov)
  55. Filtering Snowflakes (www.fractalkitty.com)
  56. My Journals & Planners for 2026 (vrklovespaper.substack.com)
  57. #31: Open-Source Software in the Age of AI (essays.johnloeber.com)
  58. Giddy Piddy (seinwave.com)
  59. How to trigger custom email notifications from a data fetch (corinfaife.co)
  60. SMLL: Using 200MB of Neural Network to Save 400 Bytes (frankchiarulli.com)
  61. The Energy That the Oceans Have Absorbed From Heat (jimkang.com)
  62. Yapping Beats Typing: Building a Local AI Speech-to-Text Solution for Wayland Linux (bugwhisperer.dev)
  63. barbecue (approximateknowledge.net)
  64. devlog: compatibility packages (dubroy.com)