1. Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract (www.jeffgeerling.com)
Last year I said I
2. Googlebook: Designed for Gemini Intelligence – Coming Fall 2026 – Googlebook (googlebook.google)
Meet Googlebook: A new kind of laptop designed for Gemini Intelligence. Built with heavyweight power and perfectly in sync with your Android phone. Sign up for updates and stay in the know.
3. Why senior developers fail to communicate their expertise (www.nair.sh)
Why senior developers talk in terms of complexity while the rest of the business is worried about uncertainty — and what to do about it now that AI is in the picture.
4. Show HN: Needle: We Distilled Gemini Tool Calling into a 26M Model (github.com)
26m function call model that runs on incredibly small devices - cactus-compute/needle
5. Screenshots of Old Desktop OSes (www.typewritten.org)
6. Restore full BambuNetwork support for Bambu Lab printers (github.com)
Contribute to FULU-Foundation/OrcaSlicer-bambulab development by creating an account on GitHub.
7. Learning Software Architecture (matklad.github.io)
In reply to an email asking about learning software design skills as a researcher physicist:
8. They Live (1988) inspired Adblocker (github.com)
Replace Ads with They Live style slogans. Contribute to davmlaw/they_live_adblocker development by creating an account on GitHub.
9. Rendering the Sky, Sunsets, and Planets (blog.maximeheckel.com)
This article explores how to render realistic skies and atmospheres in real time in the browser with shaders, from simple sky domes, to entire planets using shaders, raymarching, Rayleigh and Mie scattering, and ozone absorption.
10. EU to crack down on TikTok, Instagram's 'addictive design' targeting kids (www.cnbc.com)
"We are investigating platforms that allow children to go down "rabbit holes" of harmful content," EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said Tuesday.
11. How to make your text look futuristic (typesetinthefuture.com)
We’ve already seen how Eurostile Bold Extended is spectacularly effective at establishing a movie’s timeframe. But if Eurostile isn’t enough, there’s more you can do to clarify yo…
12. The Future of Obsidian Plugins (obsidian.md)
Introducing the new Obsidian Community site and developer dashboard.
13. Operation: Epic Furious (www.epicfurious.com)
Play Epic Furious, from The Secret Handshake.
14. Quack: The DuckDB Client-Server Protocol (duckdb.org)
DuckDB instances can now talk to each other using the Quack remote protocol. This lets you run DuckDB in a client-server setup with multiple concurrent writers. In DuckDB's spirit, Quack is simple to set up and builds on proven technologies such as HTTP. It's also fast, which allows it to support workloads ranging from bulk operations to small transactions.
15. Canada's Bill C-22 Is a Repackaged Version of Last Year's Surveillance Nightmare (www.eff.org)
Last year, the Canadian government pushed Bill C-2, which would erode Canadian digital rights in the name of “border security.” The bill was so bad it didn’t even make it to committee because of the backlash from the privacy community. Now, the spring’s worst sequel, Bill C-22, aka The Lawful Access Act, is trying it again.
16. CERT is releasing six CVEs for serious security vulnerabilities in dnsmasq (lists.thekelleys.org.uk)
17. Instructure pays ransom to Canvas hackers (www.insidehighered.com)
Although the monetary value of the deal is unknown, Instructure says the cybercriminals have returned the hacked personal data and offered assurance “that no Instructure customers will be extorted as a result of this incident.”
18. US inflation jumps to 3.8% as energy costs surge from Iran war (www.bbc.com)
The key measure of US inflation rises its highest level since May 2023 as consumers feel the impact of the Iran war.
19. Reimagining the mouse pointer for the AI era (deepmind.google)
20. Amazon employees are "tokenmaxxing" due to pressure to use AI tools (arstechnica.com)
Workers are using an internal AI tool to automate non-essential tasks.
21. eBay Rejects GameStop's $56B Takeover as Not Credible (www.bloomberg.com)
22. Claude Platform on AWS (claude.com)
23. Extremely Low Frequencies (computer.rip)
25. Coursera and Udemy are now one company (blog.coursera.org)
Today, I’m excited to share that we have completed the Coursera-Udemy combination, bringing together two mission-driven companies to create one of the world’s most comprehensive skills development platforms.
26. When life gives you lemons, write better error messages (wix-ux.com)
28. Is this why science advances one funeral at a time? (nautil.us)
Is This Why Science Advances One Funeral at a Time? As researchers age, they produce less disruptive work.
29. Show HN: Statewright – Visual state machines that make AI agents reliable (github.com)
State machine guardrails for AI agents. Contribute to statewright/statewright development by creating an account on GitHub.
30. Show HN: A modern Music Player Daemon based on Rockbox firmware (github.com)
A modern Music Player Daemon based on Rockbox firmware https://rockboxzig.mintlify.app/ - tsirysndr/rockbox-zig