1. An FAQ on Reinforcement Learning Environments (epoch.ai)
We interviewed 18 people across RL environment startups, neolabs, and frontier labs about the state of the field and where it
2. Work_mem: It's a Trap (mydbanotebook.org)
My friend Henrietta Dombrovskaya pinged me on Telegram. Her production cluster had just been killed by the OOM killer after eating 2 TB of RAM. work_mem was set to 2 MB.
Something didn't add up.
Hetty, like me, likes playing with monster hardware. 2 TB of RAM is not unusual in her world. But losing the whole cluster to a single query during peak operations is a very different kind of problem from a 3am outage.
Something didn't add up.
Hetty, like me, likes playing with monster hardware. 2 TB of RAM is not unusual in her world. But losing the whole cluster to a single query during peak operations is a very different kind of problem from a 3am outage.
3. US to deploy additional troops to the Middle East, officials say (www.reuters.com)
5. Delphi 13.1 Released, with ARM64 support (blogs.embarcadero.com)
6. Exploring 8 Shaft Weaving (slab.org)
7. Meme Buildings (misfitsarchitecture.com)
If buildings are meant to be for everybody, then everybody is surely entitled to have an opinion on them and any aspect of them – goes one line of reasoning. However, trying to identify buildi…
8. Last love: a romance in a care home (2023) (www.theguardian.com)
The long read: Mary and Derek weren’t the first couple to get together at Easterlea Rest Home. But those other relationships had been more like friendships – and this was something else entirely
9. Show HN: FPGA soft-core of the Saab Viggen's 1963 airborne computer (github.com)
A soft-core FPGA replica of the Saab CK37 — the world's first IC-based airborne computer, rebuilt from the original 1963 FMV maintenance manual and running a PID navigation loop in the original...
10. Physicists Trace Sun's Magnetic Engine, 200k Kilometers Below Surface (news.njit.edu)
11. Essex police pause facial recognition camera use after study finds racial bias (www.theguardian.com)
Academics discover black people ‘significantly more likely’ to be identified when compared with other ethnic groups
12. Time to Dump Windows? (dennisforbes.ca)
The moment has arrived where I use literally zero facilities of Windows in my day to day work or life
13. Randomization in Controlled Experiments (queue.acm.org)
15. Show HN: Tiny pixel characters for Cursor AI agents (github.com)
Turn your Cursor AI agents into tiny pixel characters who live in a cozy cafe, reacting, assisting, and keeping you company while you work. - wunderlabs-dev/cursouls
16. Chuck Norris dies at age 86 (www.bbc.com)
17. Show HN: Vibefolio – a place to showcase your vibecoded projects (vibefolio.link)
Showcase your vibe-coded projects on a public portfolio built for shipping AI projects in public.
18. Nvidia's Huang pitches AI tokens on top of salary (www.cnbc.com)
Most enterprise AI projects have failed since 2018, a sobering track record for an industry awash in enthusiasm.
19. Kin: Semantic version control that tracks code as entities, not files (github.com)
Local-first semantic version control for AI-native teams. Git stores text history. Kin understands code. - firelock-ai/kin
20. Cover Flow with Modern CSS: Scroll-Driven Animations in Action (2025) (addyosmani.com)
Dive into implementing the iconic Cover Flow UI pattern using modern CSS scroll-driven animations and alternative ways of implementing Cover Flow, such as vi...
22. CAIveat Emptor: What You Tell AI Can and Will Be Used Against You (natlawreview.com)
Management consultants are pushing the promise of materially increased profits due to AI-created efficiencies. Businesses big and small across a wide range of industries, including commercial real estate, are simultaneously reducing their workforces and encouraging their remaining employees to harness AI for sensitive and menial tasks alike. And AI is becoming ubiquitous, especially with younger members of the workforce trying to prove their worth in the new AI age.
24. Show HN: Agent Use Interface (AUI) – let users bring their own AI agent (github.com)
The Agent Use Interface (AUI) is a lightweight, XML-based schema that enables LLM agents to discover and construct URL-parameter-driven tasks on behalf of users. - FRE-Studios/Agent-Use-Interface