2. Quake in 13 Kilobytes (2021) (js13kgames.com)
3. How Amsterdam invented the fire department (worksinprogress.co)
Two Dutch brothers invented a system that transformed a city previously ravaged by fires
4. GitHub is proud to announce that you can now obtain your public repo on CD-ROM (forms.cloud.microsoft)
5. Mystery identity of 'Green Boots' climber is finally solved after DNA test (www.dailymail.com)
For almost 30 years, the body of the climber became a macabre landmark for thousands attempting to reach the summit.
6. America, 1926: What a Forgotten 100-Year-Old Report Says About Who We Are (www.derekthompson.org)
7. A Cali. farmer is giving away tons of nectarines that he's not allowed to sell (apnews.com)
A California farmer has been giving away free nectarines this week amid a legal dispute with a food market and distributing company claiming exclusive rights over the variety of white nectarine he grows.
8. Flexible metaprogramming with Rhombus (lwn.net)
Lisp-like languages have historically led the world in metaprogramming and flexibility. While [...]
9. The Life and Times of Maxis, Part 1: SimEverything (www.filfre.net)
11. FoundationDB's Flow β Bringing Actor-Based Concurrency to C++11 (apple.github.io)
12. My Dad Helped Build North America's Oat Supply Chain: Can It Be Remade? (ambrook.com)
In the wake of headlines about the βOat Mafiaβ attempting to disrupt Americaβs oat infrastructure, one writer shares some lessons from the recent past.
13. Software, from First Principles (fazamhd.com)
How electrons flowing through billions of microscopic switches etched into silicon become arithmetic, memory, and the software you use every day.
14. How working with a blind client revealed invisible accessibility gaps (iinteractive.com)
How working with a blind client on a Power Automate project revealed the invisible accessibility gaps baked into the platforms we build on every day.
15. A Special Wireless-Free Nikon Camera Is Publicly Available for the First Time (petapixel.com)
Where'd this new Nikon Z6 III come from?
17. Apricot Computers: An underrated British brand (dfarq.homeip.net)
18. 14Γ faster embeddings: how we rebuilt the ONNX path in Manticore (manticoresearch.com)
Released in Manticore Search 27.1.5, the new ONNX Runtime backend makes auto-embeddings ~14Γ faster on average than the previous SentenceTransformers/Candle path on the same hardware, same model, same weights β and the margin holds whether you run 1 client thread or 32.
19. Best Simple System for Now (dannorth.net)
You can have your cake and eat it, as long as you bake it carefully.
βWe can do this the quick way and pay later, or the thorough way and pay now.β This seems to be a fundamental dichotomy in software development, between βperfectionismβ and βpragmatismβ, but I do not think it has to be a trade-off at all.
βWe can do this the quick way and pay later, or the thorough way and pay now.β This seems to be a fundamental dichotomy in software development, between βperfectionismβ and βpragmatismβ, but I do not think it has to be a trade-off at all.
20. Give Smart People the Tools to Do Smart Things (superuserdone.com)
Rather than telling them you will replace them with a clanker
21. Hackers shoveled snow for company, were rewarded with network admin access (www.theregister.com)
Fortunately, they were professional red teamers. Unfortunately, they pwned the network
22. US residents angry datacenters 'shoved down our throats' are recalling officials (www.theguardian.com)
People across the country are pushing for moratoriums, and electeds who approve projects are being punished
23. Show HN: Mcpsnoop β Wireshark for MCP (transparent proxy and live TUI) (github.com)
Wireshark for MCP. A transparent proxy that shows every real tool call between your AI client and your MCP servers, live in your terminal. - kerlenton/mcpsnoop
24. Show HN: Pieces β Social network for people (try.piecesof.me)
A social network for people, not brands. Bring your posts, galleries, docs and stories into one home.
25. Instead of banning AI, I made a classroom contract with my students (www.science.org)
26. Commodore 64 Basic for PostgreSQL (thombrown.blogspot.com)
28. Gemini Code Assist will be shut down on July 17 (docs.cloud.google.com)
Review pull requests using Gemini Code Assist.
29. Kagi Changelog (July 2): Heads, tails, and an AI toggle (kagi.com)
Better search results with no ads. Welcome to Kagi (pronounced kah-gee), a paid search engine that gives power back to the user.
30. Program-as-Weights: A Programming Paradigm for Fuzzy Functions (arxiv.org)
Many everyday programming tasks resist clean rule-based implementation, such as alerting on important log lines, repairing malformed JSON, or ranking search results by intent, and are increasingly outsourced to large language model APIs at the cost of locality, reproducibility, and price. We propose fuzzy-function programming: compiling such a function from a natural-language specification into a compact, locally-executable neural artifact. We instantiate this paradigm with Program-as-Weights (PAW), in which a 4B compiler trained on FuzzyBench, a 10M-example dataset we release, emits parameter-efficient adapters for a frozen, lightweight interpreter. A 0.6B Qwen3 interpreter executing PAW programs matches the performance of direct prompting of Qwen3-32B, while using roughly one fiftieth of the inference memory and running at 30 tokens/s on a MacBook M3. PAW reframes the foundation model from a per-input problem solver into a tool builder: invoked once per function definition, it produces a small reusable artifact whose subsequent calls per function application are cheap and offline.