2. How the Fifth Lateran Council unlocked financial theory (sebastiangarren.com)
Advances in medieval economic theory had greater real-world consequences than many know. Among economists, Joseph Schumpeter’s economic history mostly starts economic theory with the Salamanc…
3. AI has already killed academia as we know it (truths-and-loves.ghost.io)
No AI was used in writing this post.
If academia was a game, I've won it. Tenure, an endowed research chair, awards, leadership positions, an international journal I helped to found and now serve as the Editor-in-Chief, students I have supervised to their own successes, a good
If academia was a game, I've won it. Tenure, an endowed research chair, awards, leadership positions, an international journal I helped to found and now serve as the Editor-in-Chief, students I have supervised to their own successes, a good
4. François Englert (1932 – 2026) (home.cern)
5. CAPTCHAs have failed for 20 years (www.browserbase.com)
Browserbase is the complete platform to build and deploy agents that browse and interact with the web like humans.
6. Vector Graphics in Lil (beyondloom.com)
7. Show HN: FastUbu – An Ultrafast Video Archive (fastubu.com)
An ultra-fast mirror of UbuWeb. 3,205 avant-garde films and videos, free to stream.
8. The Teensy Executable Revisited (www.muppetlabs.com)
9. Wolves are reconquering Europe. Can people learn to live with them? (www.science.org)
11. Prairieland Defendants Sentenced Today to Prison Terms Ranging from 30-100 Years (prairielanddefendants.com)
Family Members, Faith and Community Leaders, Rally in Support of Defendants, Vow to Continue Fight for Freedom, Justice for Loved Ones
12. QSOE: QNX-inspired OS with dual-kernel architecture (qsoe-dev.blogspot.com)
13. Texas man sentenced to 30 years for transporting pamphlets (freedom.press)
Draconian sentence threatens journalists and news consumers
14. Zero-Downtime Deployments with Docker Compose – No Kubernetes Required (statusdude.com)
We tried Traefik for zero-downtime deploys. It dropped requests, returned 404s, and couldn
15. Let's say you're hungry for a sandwich (beige.party)
16. DiffusionBench: Towards Holistic Evaluation of Generative Diffusion Transformers (github.com)
Towards Holistic evaluation of Generative Diffusion Transformers! - End2End-Diffusion/diffusion-bench
17. How to burst the AI bubble: Strike at its roots (arstechnica.com)
Sci-fi author/tech journalist Cory Doctorow on his new book, The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI.
18. Journalism is rearranging the deckchairs. It needs to reinvent itself (werd.io)
"In philosophy, we have a term for this: a logical fallacy. And right now, journalism is full of them."
19. Edsger Dijkstra's Library (Housed and Archived in Leuven, Belgium) (www.dijkstrascry.com)
20. Show HN: Y – A malleable coding-agent desktop app built with Electron (github.com)
Malleable software for coding agents. Use Claude Code and Codex to build your projects and reshape the app itself live. - y-times-y/y
21. GTA 6 will cost $80 (www.bbc.com)
Rockstar has said physical copies of the game will contain a code for a digital download for the game.
22. Lithp.py (~2008) (fogus.me)
23. Robotics Teams Are Rebuilding the Data Stack from Scratch (rerun.io)
Robotics teams are trying to scale end-to-end learning without the mature data infrastructure that made it work for LLMs. This post is a map of where the tax comes from, walking backwards from evaluation to collection.
24. Show HN: RLM-based local debugger for AI agent traces (github.com)
Hierarchal Agent Loop Optimizer. Contribute to context-labs/HALO development by creating an account on GitHub.
25. The Art of Kite Flying (1430–1929) (publicdomainreview.org)
26. Hunting Million-Digit Primes from My Loft (primecrunch.com)
A distributed computing project searching for large Riesel primes of the form k·2ⁿ−1. Contribute your idle CPU time to help find the next record-breaking prime.
27. Mark Zuckerberg wants Meta to launch its own prediction market (techcrunch.com)
The app would be independent of Meta's other social media offerings, although sources told the NYT that those social sites could direct users to engagement with the app.
28. Systems optimization should be part of CI/CD (ucbskyadrs.github.io)
Algorithmic discovery frameworks like OpenEvolve and GEPA have shown that AI-Driven Research for Systems (ADRS) can produce strong algorithms. But today's frameworks are too expensive for where ADRS should go next. LEVI is a framework built around lowering the cost of algorithmic discovery, getting stronger ADRS results at roughly 3–7× cheaper than baselines.
29. The frontier is open-source today (www.southbridge.ai)
GLM-5.2 - open weights - single-shot our AI-resistant backend take-home to a higher level than Opus 4.8, and built offmute-v2: state-of-the-art timestamp-accurate diarization. A head-to-head with no detail glossed over.
30. Show HN: Graphical SQL Builder and Debugger (github.com)
Sql Joiner - Graphical SQL builder and debugger. Contribute to webofmarius/SQLJoiner development by creating an account on GitHub.