1. Gun Mistakes in Fiction Writing: Handgun Edition (www.swiftsilentdeadly.com)
I recently finished a book by Steven Pressfield, 36 Righteous Men . Pressfield is one of my favorite fiction authors; if you haven
2. The Demoralization of the White-Collar Worker (nooneshappy.com)
The implicit contract — work hard, stay employed, build a life — is broken.
3. Goodbye, Forever, Probably (whitep4nth3r.com)
I’m leaving developer relations and developer education. Rather than disappear completely unannounced, I wanted to tell you why.
4. AI saves about 3% of your hours, and almost none of it reaches the money (okaneland.com)
The real ROI of AI for knowledge work: the task-level gains (Noy-Zhang, Brynjolfsson), the jagged frontier (BCG-Harvard), the 2.8% real-world time saving and no earnings effect (Humlum), 95% of enterprise pilots with no P&L return (MIT), and how to capture what is real.
5. AI is 'not smart' so what's next in artificial intelligence? (www.bbc.com)
Leading AI researcher Yan LeCun has a start-up which is developing a more flexible AI system.
6. Pet projects are getting too big to pet (www.nnehdi.me)
7. It Still Can't Do My Job: Four Years of Moving Goalposts (2022–2026) (publicznyprofil.github.io)
8. Show HN: I made a tool that prevents websites from tracking you (github.com)
Lightweight, local-only MV3 Chrome extension for reducing common third-party web tracking. - alex-w-developer/GetBlocked
9. Local Reasoning for Global Properties (tratt.net)
10. Ed Zitron on CNBC: GenAI Doesn't Work, and Big Tech Is Out of Hypergrowth Ideas (www.youtube.com)
Ed Zitron joins ‘Squawk on the Street’ to discuss OpenAI, Anthropic and more.
11. Perform DFU Restores on Apple Silicon Macs with Macvdmtool (2021) (www.bkurtz.io)
I am a Client Platform Engineer. I like to use golang, config management, and open-source management tools. Views are my own.
12. Anatomy of Persistent Memory's 3 Layers: Comparing ContextNest, Mem0 and Zep (promptowl.ai)
Building production AI agents requires a multi-tiered persistent memory architecture. Learn how Zep, Mem0, and ContextNest work together to create a complete, governed memory stack.
13. Q&A with Micron's VP and GM of Memory (morethanmoore.substack.com)
15. "An AI Job Apocalypse?" – Goldman Sachs Report [pdf] (www.goldmansachs.com)
16. AI First: How the Federal Government Is Prioritizing AI over People and Planet (stopgreedbuildgreen.climateandcommunity.org)
The data center boom shows that world-altering infrastructure can rapidly expand when the interests of state and capital are aligned.
17. AI Data Centers Use More Water Than Most Tech Giants Report (www.wsj.com)
18. Cowboys, Frontiersmen, Settlers, Townspeople, Cityfolk (huntersoftwareconsulting.com)
“What got you here won’t get you there” applies not only to founders, but to the organizations they build. An underappreciated aspect of this is risk and chaos, and how it appeals to discrete personalities. I consider most of these archteype to respond mostly to certain levels of organizational chaos - and as such, there are areas where they thrive, and areas where they are out of their depth. I’ll hearken back partially to Wardley’s Pioneers, Settlers, Town Planners as part of this.
19. Oak: Git for Agents (oak.space)
Oak is the agentic substrate for software development: the version-control and storage layer autonomous coding agents build on. Mount large repos without a full clone, branch per task, snapshot up to 95% faster than git, and bring your own agent: Claude Code, Codex, Cursor.
20. Show HN: GeoSpoof – your VPN hides your IP, but the browser leaks your location (geospoof.com)
GeoSpoof overrides your browser's geolocation, timezone, and WebRTC APIs so websites see exactly where you want them to. Free, open-source, and available on every major browser.
21. The Beauty of Tautologies (scottsumner.substack.com)
22. Show HN: ContextCodeCache in Rust (github.com)
ContextCodeCache generator. Contribute to colwill/ccc development by creating an account on GitHub.
23. Show HN: Opbox – CRDT based sync for text files on disk (www.opbox.dev)
opbox is an experimental open-source daemon that syncs directories of plain text files between machines in real time — CRDT merges, any editor, end-to-end encrypted, offline-friendly.
26. ClawdMojis – A Clawd for Every Occasion (github.com)
Pixel-art Slack emoji of Clawd 🦀 — a growing cast of animated variants, generated entirely with Python + math. PRs welcome! - afspies/ClawdMoji
27. Amazon has enough satellites to launch its Starlink competitor (www.theverge.com)
Starlink launched with twice as many and still had problems.
28. Elevating Privileges from Firefox to Android Root (rootme.nebusec.ai)
29. Show HN: How clanker are you? A reverse Turing test (howclankerareyou.com)
A reverse Turing test: finish a few sentences and we measure how surprising your writing is to the machines. Find out how much clanker is in you.