News

  1. Farmer, marketer at odds over sales of white nectarines (apnews.com)
  2. Holes (xkcd.com)
  3. International chess federation sanctions Kramnik (www.fide.com)
  4. The Life and Times of Maxis, Part 1: SimEverything (www.filfre.net)
  5. 60% Fable cost cut by converting code to images and having the model OCR it (github.com)
  6. Costco is the anti-Amazon (phenomenalworld.org)
  7. Factories are just rooms (interconnected.org)
  8. America, 1926: A forgotten 100-year-old report (www.derekthompson.org)
  9. Best Simple System for Now (2025) (dannorth.net)
  10. Jamesob's guide to running SOTA LLMs locally (github.com)
  11. Instead of banning AI, I made a classroom contract with my students (www.science.org)
  12. Valve open-source the Steam Machine e-ink screen so you can make your own (www.gamingonlinux.com)
  13. PostgreSQL and the OOM killer: Why we use strict memory overcommit (www.ubicloud.com)
  14. Home cloud gaming server (miccah.io)
  15. Made a blog post about our REALITY ORP performance at ChaNorth for Upstate Arts... (palomakop.tv)
  16. The Fall and Rise of Screwworm (www.construction-physics.com)
  17. Engineer Two (miguelconner.substack.com)
  18. Using the Quartz Crisis to Make Sense of Technological Disruption (commoncog.com)
  19. Stanford Quarterly Reflection (Y3Q2) (figbert.com)
  20. Wordgard: In-browser rich-text editor from the creator of ProseMirror (wordgard.net)
  21. Half-Baked Product (weli.dev)
  22. Ask HN: Is anyone experimenting with different ways of using LLMs for coding? (news.ycombinator.com)
  23. The Safari MCP server for web developers (webkit.org)
  24. The Stanford Machine (figbert.com)
  25. Show HN: Bramble – Local-first password manager (github.com)
  26. Show HN: ctx – Search the coding agent history already on your machine (github.com)
  27. Understanding is the new bottleneck (geoffreylitt.com)
  28. Iterate Quickly with LuaRocks, Ship Reproducibly with Guix – a hybrid Lua dependency management workflow (www.ryanprior.com)
  29. Tiny Reviews #1 (blog.danielsosebee.com)
  30. mesmerizing (approximateknowledge.net)
  31. Thinking about Legacies (blog.veitheller.de)
  32. Summer update (jamiepalatnik.com)
  33. Artificial adventures (www.scattered-thoughts.net)
  34. Cadmium Red (amandahinton.com)
  35. Scour - June Update (emschwartz.me)
  36. Some Blogs I Read (k-monk.org)
  37. Moduloku (www.fractalkitty.com)
  38. Project Monopoly: Old Kent Road (gochugarugirl.com)
  39. A Retrospective on Goldratt’s Thinking Tools (commoncog.com)
  40. June Life Update (seinwave.com)
  41. Running a Virtual Machine on a Cloud Box That Can't Run Virtual Machines (frankchiarulli.com)
  42. The Hallway Track No. 014: Science's AI productivity paradox, Sakana clears peer review, AI proof search on open Erdős problems (hallway.aris.pub)
  43. Alignment Through Being (aretetelos.substack.com)
  44. Improving MSQ-700 clock stability (blog.jacobvosmaer.nl)
  45. Generating the P3 Tiling (k-monk.org)
  46. Some Applications of Union Find (k-monk.org)
  47. It's our language now! (blog.plover.com)
  48. I owe my life to a 1913 road rage incident (blog.plover.com)