News

  1. HERMES.md: Anthropic bug causes $200 extra charge, refuses refund (github.com)
  2. Copy Fail – CVE-2026-31431 (copy.fail)
  3. Maryland becomes first state to ban surveillance pricing in grocery stores (www.theguardian.com)
  4. FastCGI: 30 years old and still the better protocol for reverse proxies (www.agwa.name)
  5. Online age verification is the hill to die on (x.com)
  6. Third Editor Fired in Elsevier's Citation Cartel Crackdown (www.chrisbrunet.com)
  7. Cursor Camp (neal.fun)
  8. Mistral Medium 3.5 (mistral.ai)
  9. Linux 7.0 Broke PostgreSQL: The Preemption Regression Explained (read.thecoder.cafe)
  10. An open-source stethoscope that costs between $2.5 and $5 to produce (github.com)
  11. Zed 1.0 (zed.dev)
  12. We need a federation of forges (blog.tangled.org)
  13. Letting AI play my game – building an agentic test harness to help play-testing (blog.jeffschomay.com)
  14. Show HN: Adblock-rust Manager – Firefox extension to enable the Brave ad blocker (github.com)
  15. GitHub – DOS 1.0: Transcription of Tim Paterson's DOS Printouts (github.com)
  16. Soft launch of open-source code platform for government (www.nldigitalgovernment.nl)
  17. How much LLMs is too much LLMs? (www.sammystraus.com)
  18. Did you ever love her? (alok.github.io)
  19. Bugs Rust won't catch (corrode.dev)
  20. How ChatGPT serves ads (www.buchodi.com)
  21. Before GitHub (lucumr.pocoo.org)
  22. Earl Grey and Orange Shortbread (gochugarugirl.com)
  23. Ghostty is leaving GitHub (mitchellh.com)
  24. pgrust update: at 67% Postgres compatibility, and accelerating (malisper.me)
  25. what's the ideal analogy (alok.github.io)
  26. Infinite Lives, 1990: Super Mario World (approximateknowledge.net)
  27. Art14 Residency: Week Two (writing.natwelch.com)
  28. 20 tips for people who make art (thelabyrinth.substack.com)
  29. Creating a Color Palette from an Image (amandahinton.com)
  30. Quality vs quantity in the age of AI (www.bryanbraun.com)
  31. officer grade pemmican (alok.github.io)
  32. I Built My Own Hair Electrolysis Machine (www.scd31.com)
  33. Mickey Mouse stole our cultural legacy (approximateknowledge.net)
  34. Towards a public homelab (orgnizedmess.net)
  35. Anthropic's Argument for Mythos SWE-bench <br>improvement contains a fatal error (www.philosophicalhacker.com)
  36. Sammy Cottrell (alok.github.io)
  37. Experiments in self-medication (approximateknowledge.net)
  38. [RC] Week #4: Ziglings are done; Google AI Pro fiasco; bricked my new car (lvsl.github.io)
  39. weeknotes #60 (olu.online)
  40. Jump or die, dumbass (alok.github.io)
  41. Infinite Lives, 2024: Caves of Qud (approximateknowledge.net)
  42. Why I made Sourdough, a new vector tile schema for OpenStreetMap (www.jakelow.com)
  43. try not pissing your willpower away (todaythings.substack.com)
  44. Counting zeros (vishnubharathi.codes)
  45. 2048 (approximateknowledge.net)
  46. Redesigning the Recurse Center application to inspire curious programmers (www.recurse.com)
  47. beats you (alok.github.io)
  48. You should try contra dancing (www.benkuhn.net)
  49. Inquiries-Week 8: Fence Maxing (www.fractalkitty.com)
  50. Programming in 2026: excitement, dread, and the coming wave (amontalenti.com)
  51. zork-bench: An LLM reasoning eval based on text adventure games (www.lowimpactfruit.com)
  52. kairos (alok.github.io)
  53. How I set and maintain good habits via journaling (blog.danielsosebee.com)
  54. Real deadlines and fake deadlines (liquidbrain.net)
  55. schmancy (approximateknowledge.net)
  56. What I did on Parental Leave (hamy.xyz)