1. Life and work is not meant to be spent in isolation (46elks.com)
Many legends of software development, like John Carmack or Chris Lattner, are very approachable. Check out their projects and go talk to them!
2. Bots have now passed human traffic online for the first time (radar.cloudflare.com)
4. Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics (leidendeclaration.ai)
This declaration calls for action to address the challenges posed by the use of artificial intelligence within mathematics research.
5. 4K years ago, Mohenjo-daro grew more equal over time (archaeologymag.com)
Study of ancient Mohenjo-daro finds inequality declined as the Indus city expanded and improved public infrastructure.
6. Words of Type (wiki.wordsoftype.com)
Multilingual encyclopedia of typographic terms.
8. Journey to JPEG XL: open-source experiments shaped the future of image coding (opensource.googleblog.com)
9. Capstone – multi-platform, multi-architecture disassembly framework (www.capstone-engine.org)
The Ultimate Disassembler
10. Self-hosted dev sandboxes with preview URLs (Docker, Go, no K8s) (github.com)
Self-hosted dev sandboxes with preview URLs. One command. No Kubernetes, perfect for coding ag - tastyeffectco/sandboxes
11. Shopify Is Down (www.shopifystatus.com)
Welcome to Shopify's home for real-time and historical data on system performance.
12. Angular v22 (blog.angular.dev)
13. A Mathematician's Lament – Paul Lockhart (2002) [pdf] (worrydream.com)
14. Paseo – Beautiful open-source coding agent interface (desktop, mobile, CLI) (github.com)
Coding agents from your phone, desktop and CLI. Contribute to getpaseo/paseo development by creating an account on GitHub.
15. Turkey Hacked the Hair Transplant Industry (www.wired.com)
From specialized motors to the use of machine learning algorithms, Turkey’s billion-dollar hair-transplant industry is the result of a constant process of innovation.
16. New Texas Instruments 5532 chips are not the 5532's we've used for decades (groupdiy.com)
Saw this today on Wayne Kirkwood's site:
EDIT! Ian came up with a workaround to get to Wayne's site:
https://tinyurl.com/5epdzbxv
One link he posted is really interesting....first post showing major differences.
https://www.diyaudio.com/community/threads/a-new-ne5532-by-december-2025.437381/...
EDIT! Ian came up with a workaround to get to Wayne's site:
https://tinyurl.com/5epdzbxv
One link he posted is really interesting....first post showing major differences.
https://www.diyaudio.com/community/threads/a-new-ne5532-by-december-2025.437381/...
17. What I've learned about the trombone (bryanhu.com)
Including a little dive into the physics behind it
18. My Students Can't Read (www.chronicle.com)
The generational collapse in literacy is measurable, persistent, and likely to get worse.
20. Embryos shape their limbs: a key discovery of "genetic brakes" (nouvelles.umontreal.ca)
In mice, medical professor Marie Kmita and her team at the IRCM discover how certain proteins switch off the right genes at the right time, allowing others to take over and complete development.
21. More than 6 out of 10 people turn to AI for psychological support (www.axa.com)
Mental health: although screens can play a negative role, more than 6 out of 10 people turn to artificial intelligence for psychological support.
22. DIY Bipedal Robot Used Pneumatic "Air-Muscles" Instead of Motors (spectrum.ieee.org)
Shadow Walker’s creators went on to found a pioneering robotics company
23. Show HN: Mnemo – local-first AI memory layer for any LLM (Rust, SQLite,petgraph) (github.com)
Local-first AI memory layer for any LLM. Persistent knowledge graph, entity extraction, semantic retrieval. Works with Ollama, OpenAI, Anthropic, or any OpenAI-compatible backend. - zaydmulani09/mnemo
24. I Don't Want My Search Engine to Think for Me (searchzee.com)
AI search summaries feel like progress. They aren
25. The American Missile Crisis (research.contrary.com)
A deep dive from Contrary Research.
26. Writing Portable ARM64 Assembly (ariadne.space)
An unfortunate side effect of the rising popularity of Apple's ARM-based computers is an increase in unportable assembly code which targets the 64-bit ARM ISA. This is because developers are writing these bits of assembly code to speed up their programs when run on Apple's ARM-based computers, without considering the other 64-bit ARM devices out there, such as SBCs and servers running Linux or BSD.
The good news is that it is very easy to write assembly which targets Apple's computers as well as the other 64-bit ARM devices running operating systems other than Darwin.
The good news is that it is very easy to write assembly which targets Apple's computers as well as the other 64-bit ARM devices running operating systems other than Darwin.
27. Fluid Simulation for Dummies (www.mikeash.com)
28. GoPro warned it may not survive (thenextweb.com)
Memory prices rose 80-115%. Revenue fell 26%. GoPro warned of "substantial doubt" about its ability to continue. It's exploring a sale or pivot to defence.
29. LLMs are not the black box you were promised (www.jay.ai)
Mechanistic interpretability has made major strides. A tour through Anthropic's "On the Biology of a Large Language Model."
30. Are blue zones real? Answering that question is harder then ever (www.statnews.com)
"Blue zones" as a concept have strayed far and wide from their humble roots, write Shelley Wood and Eric Topol.