News

  1. Tab Roundup (harihareswara.net)
  2. DuckDB 1.5.2 – SQL database that runs on laptop, server, in the browser (duckdb.org)
  3. Show HN submissions tripled and now mostly share the same vibe-coded look (www.adriankrebs.ch)
  4. Treetops glowing during storms captured on film for first time (www.psu.edu)
  5. Qwen3.6-27B: Flagship-Level Coding in a 27B Dense Model (qwen.ai)
  6. Columnar Storage Is Normalization (buttondown.com)
  7. Our eighth generation TPUs: two chips for the agentic era (blog.google)
  8. 3.4M Solar Panels (tech.marksblogg.com)
  9. GitHub CLI now collects pseudoanonymous telemetry (cli.github.com)
  10. Kernel code removals driven by LLM-created security reports (lwn.net)
  11. Nobody Got Fired for Uber's $8M Ledger Mistake? (news.alvaroduran.com)
  12. Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux (social.hails.org)
  13. How does GPS work? (perthirtysix.com)
  14. XOR'ing a register with itself is the idiom for zeroing it out. Why not sub? (devblogs.microsoft.com)
  15. Granola Number 2 (gochugarugirl.com)
  16. My Nix Config Is Intimate (www.scd31.com)
  17. Why High-Level Rust Wins Over Other High-Level Languages for Agentic Engineering (hamy.xyz)
  18. Rediscovering the Handcart (solar.lowtechmagazine.com)
  19. Drunk post: Things I've learned as a senior engineer (2021) (luminousmen.substack.com)
  20. Mechanistic Interpretability and Lean 4 (alok.github.io)
  21. Another Day Has Come (daringfireball.net)
  22. ChatGPT Images 2.0 (openai.com)
  23. The Vercel breach: OAuth attack exposes risk in platform environment variables (www.trendmicro.com)
  24. Engineering words for everyone (approximateknowledge.net)
  25. NixOS is magic (sharphall.org)
  26. Making RAM at Home [video] (www.youtube.com)
  27. John Arbuthnot (alok.github.io)
  28. 2026 NY State Comptroller Election: Who's Running (harihareswara.net)
  29. Quantum Computers Are Not a Threat to 128-bit Symmetric Keys (words.filippo.io)
  30. pgrust: Rebuilding Postgres in Rust with AI (malisper.me)
  31. Slayerfest: An AI Simulation of Academia in the Buffyverse (victoriaritvo.com)
  32. zeno timer trick (alok.github.io)
  33. AI Makes Golang One of the Best Languages (jry.io)
  34. The wordification pipeline (approximateknowledge.net)
  35. When I quit my PhD (www.lowimpactfruit.com)
  36. Contact Lens Uses Microfluidics to Monitor and Treat Glaucoma (spectrum.ieee.org)
  37. WHY ARE YOU SO CALM?! My scooter accident (alok.github.io)
  38. Garbage Collection Without Unsafe Code (fitzgen.com)
  39. An ode to Strawberry Music Player (www.vesto.me)
  40. Misaligned, uncontained slop (approximateknowledge.net)
  41. ME163* (figbert.com)
  42. President Graph – FRED Data Broken Down by Party and President (probablydance.com)
  43. SQLite prefixes its temp files with `etilqs_` (avi.im)
  44. Effective pre-journaling (approximateknowledge.net)
  45. [RC] Week #3: Journey through Ziglings (lvsl.github.io)
  46. Art14 Residency: Week One (writing.natwelch.com)
  47. Beyond strength (alok.github.io)
  48. How to Dine with a Baby (www.alisoneroman.com)
  49. Fish Cakes with Beans and Greens (www.alisoneroman.com)
  50. Ashland birds (and one bug) (cceckman.com)
  51. Equipment (cceckman.com)
  52. The amount of honor to go around is very limited (alok.github.io)
  53. Infinite Lives, 2000: Diablo II (approximateknowledge.net)
  54. Eleventy (macwright.com)
  55. Chicken Noodle Soup with Cabbage, Dill and Lots of Lemon (www.alisoneroman.com)
  56. A Soothing Six Minutes of Chicken Soup (www.alisoneroman.com)
  57. Chicken Broth, The Long Way (www.alisoneroman.com)
  58. EsoNatLangs Bring the Complexity of Natural Language into Code (esoteric.codes)
  59. From Priests to Software Engineers (alok.github.io)
  60. Solar Revolution (approximateknowledge.net)
  61. Chicken Meatballs with Orzo and Spinach (gochugarugirl.com)
  62. Soft-launching Little Irons (george.mand.is)
  63. I'm Coding by Hand (miguelconner.substack.com)