1. Do Not Turn Child Protection into Internet Access Control (news.dyne.org)
Age verification turns the open internet into a permission system and pushes control away from families, schools, and users.
2. Some Things Just Take Time (lucumr.pocoo.org)
On friction, patience, and planting trees.
3. Tinybox- offline AI device 120B parameters (tinygrad.org)
4. Blocking Internet Archive Won't Stop AI, but Will Erase Web's Historical Record (www.eff.org)
Imagine a newspaper publisher announcing it will no longer allow libraries to keep copies of its paper. That’s effectively what’s begun happening online in the last few months. The Internet Archive—the world’s largest digital library—has preserved newspapers since it went online in the mid-1990s....
5. Ubuntu 26.04 Ends 46 Years of Silent sudo Passwords (pbxscience.com)
Ubuntu 26.04 Ends 46 Years of Silent sudo Passwords. Starting with the upcoming LTS release, every keystroke at a sudo password prompt will echo an asterisk — a small UX fix that has ignited one of Linux's fiercest debates in years.
8. Floci – A free, open-source local AWS emulator (github.com)
Light, fluffy, and always free - AWS Local Emulator - hectorvent/floci
9. 404 Deno CEO not found (dbushell.com)
The one where I mourn the best runtime and speculate idly
10. Hide macOS Tahoe's Menu Icons (512pixels.net)
I really dislike Apple’s choice to clutter macOS Tahoe’s menus with icons. It makes menus hard to scan, and a bunch of the icons Apple has chosen make no sense and are inconsistent between system applications. Steve Troughton-Smith is my hero for finding a Terminal command to disable them: Here’s one for the icons-in-menus haters […]
11. Mayor of Paris removed parking spaces, "drastically" reduced the number of cars (www.cnn.com)
Paris has become greener and easier to explore for tourists under Mayor Anne Hidalgo, but her car-cutting policies have divided locals as she prepares to leave office.
12. Grafeo – A fast, lean, embeddable graph database built in Rust (grafeo.dev)
13. Electronics for Kids, 2nd Edition (nostarch.com)
No coding. No computers. No kidding.
14. FFmpeg 101 (2024) (blogs.igalia.com)
A high-level architecture overview to start with FFmpeg.
15. No evidence cannabis helps anxiety, depression, or PTSD (www.sciencedaily.com)
The largest review of medicinal cannabis to date found it doesn’t effectively treat anxiety, depression, or PTSD—despite millions using it for those reasons. Researchers warn it could even make mental health worse, raising risks like psychosis and addiction while delaying proven treatments. Some limited benefits were seen for conditions like insomnia and autism, but the evidence is weak. The findings are fueling calls for stricter oversight as cannabis use continues to rise.
16. Molly Guard (bookofjoe2.blogspot.com)
17. Why western carmakers' retreat from electric risks dooming them to irrelevance (www.theguardian.com)
Iran war should be wake-up call about costs of not going full throttle towards EVs as Chinese have done, experts say
18. Passengers who refuse to use headphones can now be kicked off United flights (www.cnn.com)
The world’s happiest countries for 2026, what travelers can expect in terms of rising air fares, plus United Airlines cracks down on noisy passengers. Here’s what’s happening in travel.
19. Thinking Fast, Slow, and Artificial: How AI Is Reshaping Human Reasoning (papers.ssrn.com)
20. Invisalign Became the Biggest User of 3D Printers (www.wired.com)
Joe Hogan, Align Technology’s plastics-nerd CEO, says you shouldn’t eat with your aligners and that you don’t need to wear your retainers every night.
21. Iran launched unsuccessful attack on UK's Diego Garcia (www.bbc.com)
Iran reportedly fired two ballistic missiles at Indian Ocean base, but neither reached the target.
22. Linux Applications Programming by Example: The Fundamental APIs (2nd Edition) (github.com)
Contribute to arnoldrobbins/LinuxByExample-2e development by creating an account on GitHub.
23. Boomloom: Think with your hands (www.theboomloom.com)
Handheld looms for easy weaving, looms for beginners and experts, crafts for kids, tapestry, travel, and more. Boom loom studio.
24. Show HN: Atomic – self-hosted, semantically-connected personal knowledge base (github.com)
Contribute to kenforthewin/atomic development by creating an account on GitHub.
25. Bayesian statistics for confused data scientists (nchagnet.pages.dev)
26. Show HN: Termcraft – terminal-first 2D sandbox survival in Rust (github.com)
Terminal-first 2D sandbox survival in Rust. Contribute to pagel-s/termcraft development by creating an account on GitHub.
27. Fujifilm X RAW STUDIO webapp clone (github.com)
Create and manage Fujifilm camera profiles, with ease and speed. Connect your camera and you are good to go! - eggricesoy/filmkit