2. GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing (github.blog)
Starting June 1, your Copilot usage will consume GitHub AI Credits.
3. Men Who Stare at Walls (www.alexselimov.com)
I came across a video by Simple Lucas describing a routine to improve focus and productivity.
The routine was basically:
Don't use any screens/entertainment when trying to focus on work.
When you start to feel mentally drained, sit and stare at a wall for x minutes to recover focus.
I've been trying it, and it's a very effective (but hard) routine.
The routine was basically:
Don't use any screens/entertainment when trying to focus on work.
When you start to feel mentally drained, sit and stare at a wall for x minutes to recover focus.
I've been trying it, and it's a very effective (but hard) routine.
4. Is my blue your blue? (ismy.blue)
Test your color perception with this interactive test.
5. 4TB of voice samples just stolen from 40k AI contractors at Mercor (app.oravys.com)
Advanced bio-acoustic analysis for HR, relationships, and personal insights. Trust Your Intuition. Verify It.
7. Self-updating screenshots (interblah.net)
A blog by James Adam, of lazyatom.com fame.
8. Pgbackrest is no longer being maintained (github.com)
Reliable PostgreSQL Backup & Restore. Contribute to pgbackrest/pgbackrest development by creating an account on GitHub.
9. China blocks Meta's acquisition of AI startup Manus (www.cnbc.com)
China said Monday it has decided to block Meta's $2 billion acquisition of Manus, a Singaporean AI startup with Chinese roots.
10. Show HN: OSS Agent I built topped the TerminalBench on Gemini-3-flash-preview (github.com)
Coding Agent singularly focused efficiency and context curation. Reduces API costs by 50-80% vs other agent AND improves the code quality at the same time. Uses Hash Anchored edits, massively paral...
11. Dutch central bank dithces AWS and chooses Lidl for European Cloud (www.techzine.eu)
De Nederlandsche Bank will sign a major contract tomorrow with Schwarz Digits, the IT arm of Lidl owner Schwarz Group. DNB aims to reduce its dependence
12. Quarkdown – Markdown with Superpowers (quarkdown.com)
Quarkdown is a modern, open-source, Markdown-based typesetting system for creating papers, presentations, knowledge bases and static websites.
14. Super ZSNES – GPU Powered SNES Emulator (zsnes.com)
A GPU-powered SNES emulator rewritten from scratch with hi-res Mode 7, per-game enhancements, and a modernized classic UI.
15. GitHub is having issues now (www.githubstatus.com)
Welcome to GitHub's home for real-time and historical data on system performance.
16. Fully Featured Audio DSP Firmware for the Raspberry Pi Pico (github.com)
A fully featured audio DSP firmware for the Raspberry Pi Pico (RP2040) and Pico 2 (RP2350). - WeebLabs/DSPi
17. "Why not just use Lean?" (lawrencecpaulson.github.io)
18. TurboQuant: A First-Principles Walkthrough (arkaung.github.io)
19. The Prompt API (developer.chrome.com)
Discover the infinite possibilities of the Prompt API.
20. The Woes of Sanitizing SVGs (muffin.ink)
21. Apple is dropping AFP/TimeCapsule support in macOS 27 (eclecticlight.co)
We are under warning that macOS 27 is likely to remove support for AFP, and lately some additional requirements for connection to certain servers. This explains how these could affect you.
22. FDA Approves First-Ever Gene Therapy for Treatment of Genetic Hearing Loss (www.fda.gov)
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved Otarmeni (lunsotogene parvec-cwha), the first-ever dual adeno-associated virus (AAV) vector-based gene therapy.
23. US Supreme Court Reviews Police Use of Cell Location Data to Find Criminals (www.nytimes.com)
24. Open-Source KiCad PCBs for Common Arduino, ESP32, RP2040 Boards (github.com)
Easily dive into different PCB KiCad designs of the most popular microcontroller devboards - Hanqaqa/Easyduino
25. The Quiet Resurgence of RF Engineering (atempleton.bearblog.dev)
I've worked in the aerospace industry for the past 8 years, and for most of that time I felt like I could confidently say that RF engineering felt like it wa...
26. Three men are facing 44 charges in Toronto SMS Blaster Arrests (www.tps.ca)
27. United Wizards of the Coast (unitedwizardsofthecoast.com)
MTG Arena workers announce unionization as United Wizards of the Coast-CWA, calling on WOTC to voluntarily recognize their union and begin collective bargaining.
28. It's OK to abandon your side-project (robbowen.digital)
In an industry that pressures developers to always be shipping side-projects, it can be helpful to be retrospective with the projects that don
29. France's Mistral Built a $14B AI Empire by Not Being American (www.forbes.com)
Paris-based Mistral wanted to develop a top-tier AI model to rival OpenAI and Anthropic. That didn’t work out. But it turns out lots of folks don’t care if the AI is bleeding edge – as long as it wasn’t made in America or China.
30. When the cheap one is the cool one (arun.is)
Apple and Porsche both figured out the same secret that the cheapest product in the lineup can be the most exciting. It just takes a little intention.