1. Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons (www.drive.com.au)
Another brand backflips and admits that touch-sensitive buttons for frequently used controls were a mistake.
2. Statue of a man blinded by a flag put up by Banksy in central London (www.smithsonianmag.com)
The artwork was installed under the cloak of night this week, less than two months after a journalism investigation into Banksy’s true identity was published
3. OpenAI's o1 correctly diagnosed 67% of ER patients vs. 50-55% by triage doctors (www.theguardian.com)
Researchers say results mark a really ‘profound change in technology that will reshape medicine’
4. BYOMesh – New LoRa mesh radio offers 100x the bandwidth (partyon.xyz)
5. A Desktop Made for One (isene.org)
Philosophy - Sciences - Geekery - Art - Life - Coaching - Fun < Simplify Everything
6. A Couple Million Lines of Haskell: Production Engineering at Mercury (blog.haskell.org)
What it takes to run 2 million lines of Haskell in production at a fintech company serving 300,000 businesses.
7. Why TUIs Are Back (wiki.alcidesfonseca.com)
8. Kimi K2.6 just beat Claude, GPT-5.5, and Gemini in a coding challenge (thinkpol.ca)
By Rohana Rezel I’m running the ongoing AI Coding Contest where I pit major language models against each other in real-time programming tasks with objective scoring. Day 12 was the Word Gem Puzzle. Ten models entered. The results were not what most people would have predicted. Kimi K2.6, an open-weights model from Chinese startup Moonshot
9. Denuvo has been cracked in all single-player games it previously protected (www.tomshardware.com)
Temporary success for the red team elicits a collective cheer.
10. Southwest Headquarters Tour (katherinemichel.github.io)
Table of Contents: Intro, Morning- Flight Attendant Training, Pilot Training., Lunch- Southwest Store, Social Media Serendipity., Afternoon- Network Operations Center, TechOps Hangar, Herb and Coll...
11. Metal Gear Solid 2's Source Code Has Been Leaked on 4Chan (www.thegamer.com)
The HD version, specifically its Vita port, has been busted wide open all these years later.
12. Specsmaxxing – On overcoming AI psychosis, and why I write specs in YAML (acai.sh)
The toolkit for spec-driven development. Write feature specs, not prompts. Ship better software with AI agents that understand your requirements.
13. Tesla owner won $10k in court for Tesla's FSD lies. Tesla is still fighting him (electrek.co)
Ben Gawiser paid $10,000 for FSD in 2021. He sued Tesla for his money back 5 years later, and won. Tesla is trying to delay paying him back.
14. Maryland Is First to Ban A.I.-Driven Price Increases in Grocery Stores (www.nytimes.com)
15. Utah to hold websites liable for users who mask their location with VPNs (www.tomshardware.com)
Senate Bill 73 holds websites liable for users who mask their location.
16. For thirty years I programmed with Phish on, every day (christophermeiklejohn.com)
For thirty years I programmed with Phish on, every day. In 2026, the music is out of phase with the work.
17. I built my own hair electrolysis machine (www.scd31.com)
19. Bad Connection: Global telecom exploitation by covert surveillance actors (citizenlab.ca)
Our investigation uncovers two sophisticated telecom surveillance campaigns and, for the first time, links real-world attack traffic to mobile operator signalling infrastructure. The findings expose how suspected commercial surveillance vendors (CSVs) exploit the global telecom interconnect ecosystem, leverage private operator networks, and conduct covert location tracking operations that can persist undetected for years.
20. Show HN: Apple's Sharp Running in the Browser via ONNX Runtime Web (github.com)
Web playground to create Gaussian Splats using Apple's ml-sharp model. - bring-shrubbery/ml-sharp-web
21. Open Source Does Not Imply Open Community (blog.feld.me)
Open source software has existed long before the invention of the (D)VCS. The author likely hosted a barebones HTML webpage or a txt file describing the project. There definitely was an FTP server somewhere with tarballs. The author may have been reachable by email. If you were really lucky …
22. Clandestine network smuggling Starlink tech into Iran to beat internet blackout (www.bbc.com)
Sahand tells the BBC World Service he sends satellite internet terminals into Iran to help show "the real picture".
23. What Chromium versions are major browsers are on? (chromium-drift.pages.dev)
24. Security Through Obscurity Is Not Bad (mobeigi.com)
Why security through obscurity still matters: not as your only defence, but as a practical layer that raises attacker cost.
25. Text-to-CAD (github.com)
An open source harness for generating CAD models. Contribute to earthtojake/text-to-cad development by creating an account on GitHub.
26. Windows quality update: Progress we've made since March (blogs.windows.com)
Hello Windows Insiders
I’ve now spent the past two months in this expanded role leading the Windows Insider Program. Two themes hav
I’ve now spent the past two months in this expanded role leading the Windows Insider Program. Two themes hav
27. Embedded Rust or C Firmware? Lessons from an Industrial Microcontroller Use Case (arxiv.org)
As Rust gains traction for developing safer systems software, a reality check for the microcontroller hardware segment becomes necessary. How ready is the Rust ecosystem for this segment? Can Rust compete with C in practice? This paper reports on an IoT industrial case study that contributes to answering these questions. Two teams concurrently developing the same functionality (one in C, one in Rust) are analyzed over a period of several months. A comparative analysis of their approaches, results, and iterative efforts is provided. The analysis and measurements on hardware indicate no strong reason to prefer C over Rust for microcontroller firmware on the basis of memory footprint or execution speed. Furthermore, Ariel OS is shown to provide an efficient and portable system runtime in Rust whose footprint is smaller than that of the state-of-the-art bare-metal C stack traditionally used in this context. It is concluded that Rust is a sound choice today for firmware development in this domain.
28. Show HN: Ableton Live MCP (github.com)
General-purpose MCP bridge for Ableton Live. Contribute to bschoepke/ableton-live-mcp development by creating an account on GitHub.
29. I Recreated the Apple Lisa Computer Inside an FPGA – The LisaFPGA Project (www.youtube.com)
This is a project that I’ve been working on for the past eight months now, and I’m finally just about done! It’s a fully-functional Apple Lisa computer insid...
30. What Is Z-Angle Memory and Why Is Intel Developing It? (www.hpcwire.com)
Intel announced this week that it’s working with SoftBank subsidiary SAIMEMORY to commercialize Z-Angle Memory (ZAM), an advanced type of DRAM that stacks memory modules vertically. While ZAM chips aren’t expected to become available for at least three years, they could eventually replace the high-bandwidth memory (HBM) that is in such high demand today thanks […]