1. "They're made out of weights" (maxleiter.com)
with apologies to Terry Bisson
2. Failing grades soar with AI usage, dwindling math skills in Berkeley CS classes (www.dailycal.org)
The percentage of failing grades in multiple UC Berkeley computer science classes in spring 2026 is significantly higher than past semesters and marks a departure from the department's grading guidelines.
3. VoidZero Is Joining Cloudflare (blog.cloudflare.com)
VoidZero, the team behind Vite, Vitest, Rolldown, Oxc, and Vite+, is joining Cloudflare. Vite stays open source, vendor-agnostic, and built for everyone.
5. Ian's Secure Shoelace Knot (www.fieggen.com)
6. Anthropic's open-source framework for AI-powered vulnerability discovery (github.com)
Skills for threat modeling, scanning, triage, patching, plus an autonomous scanning harness you can /customize - anthropics/defending-code-reference-harness
7. When AI Builds Itself: Our progress toward recursive self-improvement (www.anthropic.com)
Our progress toward recursive self-improvement, and its implications.
8. French-Iranian author Marjane Satrapi, author of 'Persepolis', dies at 56 (www.france24.com)
French-Iranian author and illustrator Marjane Satrapi, best known for the book and film “Persopolis”, has died of "sadness", members of her entourage said Thursday. She was 56.
9. In a first, wind and solar generated more power than gas globally in April 2026 (electrek.co)
Wind and solar generated more electricity than gas globally for the first time ever in April 2026, according to new Ember data.
10. I built a vulnerable app and spent $1,500 seeing if LLMs could hack it (kasra.blog)
As a part of my work I do security research for various apps and websites. I wanted to see if LLMs could reproduce a common class of exploits I
11. The Desperation of NYTimes (rozumem.xyz)
13. Retro-Tech Parenting (havenweb.org)
14. Meta's ships facial recognition on smart glasses (www.buchodi.com)
Stella is the companion app for Meta's smart glasses. Inspecting version 273.0.0.21 of the Android build (com.facebook.stella), I found the entire computational and storage stack for on-device facial recognition: three face models, a local database schema, a cosine-similarity vector index dimensioned to match the models,
15. I'm skeptical about efforts to revolutionize schooling (www.scotthyoung.com)
A brief explanation of my pessimism about efforts to radically improve education.
16. Learn SQL Once, Use It for 30 Years (fagnerbrack.com)
17. Show HN: Uruky (EU-based Kagi alternative) now has Image Search and URL Rewrites (uruky.com)
Search privately and without ads using Uruky, the private search engine.
18. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Bay Model (en.wikipedia.org)
19. The ways we contain Claude across products (www.anthropic.com)
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
22. Gaussian Point Splatting (momentsingraphics.de)
23. Samurai City (worksinprogress.co)
For three hundred years, Japan enjoyed enviable stability and peace. All it took was locking up its warlike samurai elite in the world’s least efficient city.
24. Under Notre Dame, a 'dig of the century' unearths 1,700 years of history (apnews.com)
Archaeologists are digging beneath Notre Dame cathedral to explore as far back as Roman Paris from 2,000 years ago.
25. Meteor Explodes over Massachusetts (www.nbcboston.com)
NASA shared new details on the size and path of the meteor on Monday, upgrading the size of the object and revealing how far it flew before exploding.
26. KVarN: Native vLLM KV-cache quantization back end by Huawei (github.com)
KVarN is a native vLLM KV-cache quantization backend for your agents: 3-5x more context, throughput above FP16, and FP16-level accuracy. Calibration-free, one flag. - huawei-csl/KVarN
28. Google Employees Internally Share Memes About How Its AI Sucks (www.404media.co)
Google’s CEO says 75% of the company’s code is AI-generated. The people who write that code say the AI they’re using is overhyped.
29. Patching my guitar amp's firmware (mforney.org)
30. IPv6 zones in URLs are a mistake (xeiaso.net)
Run away while you still can, it's not too late for you to avoid the curse of knowledge.