1. Don't hijack my mouse pointer (ruky.me)
With vibe-coding, more and more websites I am visiting are changing my mouse pointer
2. Snowflake Postgres, Lakebase, HorizonDB: Picking the Lock-In You Want (thebuild.com)
Three major cloud platforms just shipped Postgres with custom storage engines and scale-out architectures.
3. Optimize for change not application performance (www.echooff.dev)
Optimizing developer experience often has a bigger long-term impact than optimizing rendering benchmarks or bundle size. Faster engineers build better software.
4. Why Everyone's Picking Up a PSP Again in 2026 (gardinerbryant.com)
Over the past few months, I've spotted something a little odd and unexpected happening to Sony's old PlayStation Portable. There's been no corporate push, no announcement of the truly portable Sony handheld we used to hope for (sorry, Portal). Instead, through something far less predictable, considering it's 2026, people are
5. Music has scales / raagas. What about storytelling in movies and prestige shows? (arc.quanten.co)
Explore 15 narrative archetypes derived from 405 films, each defined by five structural parameters drawn from Hindustani classical music theory.
6. GM just laid off IT workers to hire those with stronger AI skills (techcrunch.com)
Some of the positions focus on AI-native development, data engineering and analytics, cloud-based engineering, and agent and model development as well as prompt engineering and new AI workflows.
7. Through the looking glass of benchmark hacking (poolside.ai)
Outlining some of the reward hacks we’ve encountered and what strategies we are exploring to resolve them.
9. The Moth Story Map (themoth.org)
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10. Show HN: Doomscroll the Goverment's UFO Files as One Gigantic Microfilm (hypergrid.systems)
12. Show HN: Safe-install – safer NPM installs with trusted build dependencies (www.npmjs.com)
13. Can we code our way out of gentrification? (www.freerange.city)
14. A Preview of the Future (unsung.aresluna.org)
A blog about software craft and quality
15. When Semiconductor Materials Misbehave (semiengineering.com)
The gap between lab performance and fab reality is growing wider as packages grow more complex.
16. New Jersey residents say they can't even wash their clothes due to data centers (www.thecooldown.com)
A massive new AI data center in Vineland, New Jersey, is facing growing backlash from residents who say the project’s nonstop noise and enormous energy demands are making everyday life harder.
17. Unauthorized Anthropic stock sales and investment scams (support.claude.com)
22. Show HN: One-shot NAT traversal library (warpgate.io)
24. US in closely-guarded talks to open 3 new bases in Greenland (www.bbc.com)
It is seeking to open three bases in the south of the Arctic territory, according to multiple officials familiar with the talks.
25. Yabasic (Yet Another Basic) (en.wikipedia.org)
26. Show HN: Grunden – Frontier AI inference hosted in Sweden, OpenAI-compatible (grunden.ai)
GLM 5.1 via ett OpenAI-kompatibelt API. Drift på egen hårdvara i Sverige.
27. Show HN: Music visualizers that react to audio in real time (vizz.fm)
Launch the vizz.fm visualizer: pick a 3D scene, plug in Spotify, YouTube, a mic, or system audio, tweak controls live, and export FFT-synced video.