1. Domain Expertise Has Always Been the Real Moat (www.brethorsting.com)
Personal website for Aaron Brethorst - Seattleite, technology leader, photographer, transit enthusiast, erstwhile non-runner.
2. What Is a Dickover? (daringfireball.net)
dickover — a modal panel, popover, or curtain presented by a website or app, deliberately obscuring its own content to frustrate the user with an unwanted, unnecessary, mandatory interaction; e.g. asking the user to accept “cookies”, subscribe to a newsletter, install the website’s mobile app, agree to terms of service, or anything else that the user couldn’t give two shits about.
3. Openrsync: An implementation of rsync, by the OpenBSD team (github.com)
BSD-licensed implementation of rsync. Contribute to kristapsdz/openrsync development by creating an account on GitHub.
4. Danish pension fund excludes SpaceX citing governance and valuation (www.reuters.com)
5. OpenRouter raises $113M Series B (openrouter.ai)
OpenRouter has raised a $113M Series B led by CapitalG, with participation from NVentures, ServiceNow Ventures, MongoDB Ventures, Snowflake Ventures, Databricks
6. Pandoc Templates (pandoc-templates.org)
Pandoc templates for PDF, LaTeX, HTML and Word. Easily convert documents with customizable templates for reports, articles, and more.
7. Anthropic surpasses OpenAI to become most valuable AI startup (qazinform.com)
Anthropic has become the most valuable artificial intelligence startup in the world, surpassing OpenAI in market valuation. Following a new funding round, the valuation of the developer behind the Claude AI assistant has approached the $1 trillion mark, reports a Qazinform News Agency correspondent.
8. I found a seashell in the middle of the desert (github.com)
Contribute to Hawzen/I-found-a-seashell-in-the-middle-of-the-desert development by creating an account on GitHub.
9. MCP Is Dead (www.quandri.io)
10. Zig: Build System Reworked (ziglang.org)
11. Ernst & Young published cybersecurity report full of hallucinations (gptzero.me)
An investigation into fabricated citations and broken references in EY's "Points of Attack" cybersecurity report on loyalty system fraud.
12. Downdetector and Speedtest sold to Accenture for $1.2B (www.theverge.com)
Downdetector and Speedtest will soon be under new ownership.
13. Proposed new US funding rules: We can cancel any grant at any time (arstechnica.com)
Peer review now optional, political staff would screen grants for forbidden topics.
14. Voxel Space (s-macke.github.io)
Terrain rendering algorithm in less than 20 lines of code
15. WH proposes rules giving political appointees final approval on research grants (www.scientificamerican.com)
These proposed Office of Management and Budget regulations would render the federal research grant review process opaque
16. Snowboard Kids 2 is 100% Decompiled (blog.chrislewis.au)
Snowboard Kids 2 for the Nintendo 64 has reached 100% matching decompilation. A brief note on what that means, how we got here, and what comes next.
17. Leo's first encyclical attacks technological messianism (www.economist.com)
18. Zig ELF Linker Improvements Devlog (ziglang.org)
19. Navier-Stokes fluid simulation explained with Godot game engine (myzopotamia.dev)
When I first stumbled upon fluid simulations in game dev I was amazed on how good the effect could be. I really wan...
20. What Happened to the Locusts? (explosion-scratch.github.io)
21. Hormuz crisis side effect: a sharp rise in container shipping rates (www.lloydslist.com)
Spot container freight rates continue their ascent as ocean carriers pass along much higher fuel costs resulting from the effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz. If the strait doesn’t reopen soon, the impact on container market could intensify
22. AI Job Grief: The Unnamed Psychological Crisis Hitting Tech Workers (jackmaguire.org)
Across hundreds of Reddit threads and a small body of clinical literature, AI-driven displacement is producing an emotional category that most closely resembles grief, and the institutions causing it have no language for it.
23. IXI's autofocusing lenses are almost ready to replace multifocal glasses (www.engadget.com)
IXI
25. Naphtha Shortages Having a Growing Impact in Japan (www.nippon.com)
The leading Japanese snack-food manufacturer Calbee has made headlines through its announced switch to black-and-white packaging for some of its products due to naphtha shortages, which are having a growing impact on a wide range of industries.
26. Show HN: Helios – what plug-in solar could generate for any address in Britain (helios.southlondonscientific.com)
Address-specific yield estimates for plug-in solar in Great Britain. Built by South London Scientific.
27. Memory decline after menopause linked to loss of estrogen production in brain (news.northwestern.edu)
A largely overlooked space between cells in women’s brains may hold the key to understanding memory loss tied to estrogen decline after menopause, reports a new preclinical Northwestern Medicine study.
28. Microcode inside the Intel 8087 floating-point chip: register exchange (www.righto.com)
29. Parallel Reconstruction of Lawful TLS Wiretapping (remyhax.xyz)
Transport Layer Security (TLS) is the protocol involved in getting the lock icon to appear in your browser next to the URL. Under the hood it uses a bunch of really cool numbers for encryption. Some numbers are considered private and need securing; some are considered public and are fine for sharing. You can mix your numbers with other people’s numbers in such a way that you can verify a chain of trust. Ultimately, at the top of this chain there has to be an entity or entities that are implied to be trustworthy, so that the links further down the chain of numbers can inherit that trust. This is the role of a root Certificate Authority (CA) at the top (root) of the chain.
30. Jef Raskin, the Visionary Behind the Mac (lowendmac.com)
Jef Raskin founded the Macintosh project at Apple, which led to the development of the Apple Mac and the popularisation of the graphical user-interface. He was Apple employee #31 and left the Macintosh team in mid-1981 after Steve Jobs took over the project. Jason Walsh: Before the Mac you were a professor of music. As […]