1. American Express: Cell-Based Architecture for Resilient Payment Systems (americanexpress.io)
How American Express uses cell-based architecture to deliver resilient, low-latency payments at global scale.
2. Notes from Tired Egyptian Whose Job Is Explaining That Humans Built the Pyramids (www.mcsweeneys.net)
A traveler asked: “How could ancient people possibly understand mathematics?”
Excellent question. We accidentally invented geometry while trying to avoid car...
Excellent question. We accidentally invented geometry while trying to avoid car...
3. Emacs, how it all started (for me) (xvw.lol)
A presentation of why, and how, I started using Emacs
4. The Korean telecom giant at the center of Anthropic's Mythos controversy (www.wired.com)
Days before Anthropic took its most advanced AI models offline, the White House ordered the company to revoke SK Telecom’s access to Claude Mythos over claims of alleged ties to China.
5. The Australian Government to Require SMS/MMS Sender ID Registraion (www.acma.gov.au)
Find out about new rules for branded text messages from businesses and organisations
6. Launch HN: TesterArmy (YC P26) – Agents that test web and mobile apps (tester.army)
TesterArmy runs real tests against your site or mobile app. Get screenshots, recordings, and bug reports - no test scripts to maintain.
7. I need your clothes, your boots, and your motorcycle (rbelmont.mameworld.info)
9. Wages in America Are Too Low for the 30% Rule to Work for Renters Anymore (www.realtor.com)
The 30% rent rule may not work in today's economy. Here's why experts say cash flow matters more than a decades-old guideline.
10. The Token Compression Illusion: Why I'm Skeptical of RTK (mroczek.dev)
RTK promises dramatic token savings for coding agents, but raw terminal compression is not the same as cheaper, safer, or more accurate software engineering.
11. Migrate from OpenClaw (hermes-agent.nousresearch.com)
13. TerraPower in Deal with Meta for Eight Natrium 345 MW Advanced Nuclear Plants (neutronbytes.com)
TerraPower in Mega Deal with Meta for Eight 345 MW Natrium Advanced Nuclear Plants DOE Awards $2.7 Billion for Uranium Enrichment Oklo, Meta Plan 1.2 GW Nuclear Energy Development in Southern Ohio …
14. We built a persistent agent memory layer on Elasticsearch with 0.89 recall (www.elastic.co)
Persistent agent memory on Elasticsearch: three-index architecture, hybrid retrieval, supersession and DLS isolation. R@10 0.89, zero cross-tenant leaks.
15. Zork name origin got an update on Wikipedia (www.dpolakovic.space)
personal website and git server
16. Vinyl Cache and Varnish Cache (vinyl-cache.org)
17. The AI Hate Progression (www.xodium.net)
19. Seven Perfect Shuffles Randomize a Deck of Cards. But How Many Sloppy Ones? (www.quantamagazine.org)
A decades-old proof showed that seven shuffles are enough to mix up a deck of cards. But it requires you to cut the deck with the precision of a professional magician. A new proof gets around that obstacle.
20. Apple boss Tim Cook says prices to rise due to memory chip costs (www.bbc.com)
The firm's outgoing boss Tim Cook did not say when prices will rise or which products will be affected.
21. Agentic Resource Discovery Specification (agenticresourcediscovery.org)
A protocol for discovering agentic resources — tools, Skills, MCP servers, APIs, workflows, and agents — for AI clients
22. Sogen – High-performance Windows and Linux userspace emulator (sogen.dev)
A high-performance Windows user space emulator.
23. The Harajuku Moment (tim.blog)
Most people have an insufficient reason for action. The pain isn’t painful enough. It’s a nice-to-have, not a must-have. There has been no “Harajuku Moment.”
24. Nim Conf 2026 (Online, Sat June 20) (conf.nim-lang.org)
NimConf 2026 will take place on June 20th at 11am UTC. Streamed live and for free from YouTube.
25. The 2-Year Apartment Rule (tadaima.bearblog.dev)
My friend and I have a theory that when you rent an apartment, it starts going downhill after two years. Everything usually starts off well (the building is ...
26. Midjourney Ultrasonic CT Scanner (www.midjourney.com)
27. Everything Is BOM: Bill of Materials Encyclopedia (bomwiki.com)
BOMwiki explodes any of 4,879 products into its full bill of materials, 30,390,912 parts mapped, down to individual screws, bearings, and cells. Everything is BOM.