2. The Lottery – Shirley Jackson (1948) (www.newyorker.com)
Fiction, from 1948: “The people had done it so many times that they only half listened to the directions; most of them were quiet, wetting their lips, not looking around.”
3. 'Incredible' milestone reached as Sweden becomes a smoke-free country (www.thelocal.se)
Sweden has reached its target of fewer than five percent of the population smoking regularly – and is consequently considered "smoke-free".
4. Germany news: Childfree adults to pay more for elder care (www.dw.com)
5. Stockholm poised to become leading European geospatial intel player (www.intelligenceonline.com)
Europe
6. Xiaomi MiMo-v2.5 Series API Permanent Price Reduction Up to 99% (platform.xiaomimimo.com)
One-time purchase unlocks both MiMo-V2-Pro and Omni flagship models, plus TTS model free across all tiers for a limited time. Unleash powerful productivity with Xiaomi MiMo
7. Show HN: skills-for-humanity – 171 structured reasoning skills for Claude Code (github.com)
Structured reasoning methodologies from history's most rigorous thinkers, packaged as Claude Code skills. - human-avatar/skills-for-humanity
8. Mathematical Patterns in African American HAIRSTYLEs (math.buffalo.edu)
9. Ferrari shares fall after launch of first EV as Jony Ive design proves divisive (www.theguardian.com)
Some analysts question whether design of Luce, starting at $640,000, lives up to sportscar car brand’s heritage
10. The Skeuomorphism Nobody Talks About [video] (www.youtube.com)
Join or Subscribe to "Interface Studies" to help me make more videos. Your support keeps new content coming. Thank you 🙏 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC...
11. A reality check on the AI jobs hysteria (www.technologyreview.com)
12. Why the Smart Home Bubble Popped (hackaday.com)
Circa 2015 or so, it seemed like you couldn’t move a finger without being bombarded with ads and articles about ‘smart homes’ and the ‘internet of things’ — all …
13. Logseq Doctor: heal your flat old Markdown files before importing to Logseq (github.com)
Heal your Markdown files: convert to outline, list tasks and more tools to come - andreoliwa/logseq-doctor
14. Show HN: Rapel – chunked resumable downloads in unstable networks (github.com)
chunked resumable downloads in unstable networks. Contribute to redraw/rapel development by creating an account on GitHub.
15. Agentic Patterns (veso.ai)
The universal architecture emerging across all frontier agentic systems.
16. There are now more ETFs than stocks in the US (www.apollo.com)
The number of publicly listed companies keeps declining, and there are now more ways to trade the market than there are stocks in the market, see chart below. Subscribe for daily updates.
17. Designing for and against the manufactured normalcy field (2012) (www.urbanhonking.com)
19. Every Frontier AI Is INTJ (zonted.com)
Six frontier models, one hundred OEJTS administrations each, 597/600 INTJ. The convergence isn
20. You Only Use 10% of Printf() – Here Are Things They Didn't Teach You [video] (www.youtube.com)
Dave explains printf and how to take advantage of its most powerful features. Check out an episode of ShopTalk on Dave's Attic where we answer the best user...
21. Show HN: I built a tool to auto-accept AI slop and bigtech devs loves it (github.com)
Contribute to Alcray/SlopeAutoAcceptor development by creating an account on GitHub.
22. Extending MySQL with VillageSQL (maxdemarzi.com)
One of the things that made me fall head over heals for Neo4j so many years ago was just how extensible it was. If the database engineering team was busy rebuilding the clustering feature for the t…
23. A Comma and a Question Mark (www.thetypicalset.com)
I’ve been using a terminal for more than two decades now, building muscle memory for find flags and git commands.
24. Show HN: Cross-agent messaging and shared memory over the local filesystem (oacp.dev)
A file-based protocol for multi-agent AI workflows. Cross-agent communication and persistent shared memory — across runtimes, projects, and machines. No daemons, no central server.
25. Trying to preserve other peoples code (github.com)
CRC Generator is a command-line application that generates Verilog or VHDL code for CRC of any data width between 1 and 1024 and polynomial width between 1 and 1024. The code is written in C and is...
26. Show HN: TUI to keep track of local GSD (get-shit-done) projects (github.com)
TUI command center for managing multiple GSD projects from a single terminal - bitcreed/gsd-meta-manager
27. Citing Gandalf, Pope Leo says we must "disarm" AI (arstechnica.com)
In an age of AI, Pope looks for "artisans of hope."
28. China vs. Taiwan: The Geography of an Unfinished War (jstribune.com)
Essays – Why the Taiwan Strait is not only a political dispute, but a structural fault line in the Indo-Pacific balance of power The conflict between China and
29. Our Warming Planet Is a Petri Dish for New and Deadly Microbes (www.newyorker.com)
“Flesh-eating” bacteria is spreading. Infectious fungi are emerging. Microbiomes may never be the same. Are we ready?
30. Tidy PSU – PD-64 C64 PSU Brings USB PD to Commodore 64 (theoasisbbs.com)
Side Project’s Lab shows the PD-64 C64 PSU, a compact USB PD supply with 5V DC, isolated 9V AC, and built-in safeguards for C64 users.