1. Zig Creator Calls Spade a Spade, Anthropic Blows Smoke (raymyers.org)
Programming language drama ensues as tech bros oversell the end of software engineering.
3. The Graph That Should Be Front-Page News (www.lyrebirddreaming.com)
Every so often the Earth produces a signal that is impossible to ignore. This graph is one of them. It shows sea-surface temperatures in the Niño 3.4 region of the equatorial Pacific, one of the most important parts of the Earth
4. Apple's new SpeechAnalyzer API, benchmarked against Whisper and its predecessor (get-inscribe.com)
SpeechAnalyzer vs SFSpeechRecognizer vs Whisper on 5,559 LibriSpeech utterances. Apple never published accuracy numbers. Here they are, with raw transcripts you can rescore.
5. Climate.gov was destroyed. Open data saved it (werd.io)
"After losing their jobs at NOAA, Rebecca Lindsey, her sister and another colleague teamed up to rebuild a pivotal resource the Trump administration took offline."
6. Building and Shipping Mac and iOS Apps Without Ever Opening Xcode (scottwillsey.com)
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7. Grok uploaded my user directory to xAI's servers (twitter.com)
@XBToshi Okay, grok has uploaded my entire user directory to xAI's servers. It contains my SSH keys, my password manager database, my documents, photos, videos, everything...
8. LAPD lets contract with surveillance giant Flock expire (techcrunch.com)
The LAPD, one of Flock's biggest government customers, is ending its contract with the company citing civil liberties concerns.
9. Sam Neill has died (www.theguardian.com)
New Zealand actor built career as dashing romantic leads and charismatic villains across film and television
10. Grok CLI uploaded the whole home directory to GCS (twitter.com)
@XBToshi Okay, grok has uploaded my entire user directory to xAI's servers. It contains my SSH keys, my password manager database, my documents, photos, videos, everything...
11. Show HN: Super Dario (superdario.pawb.de)
12. GhostLock, a stack-UAF that has existed in all Linux distributions for 15 years (nebusec.ai)
GhostLock (CVE-2026-43499) is a Linux kernel vulnerability found by VEGA that exists in every major distribution since 2011. Triggering the bug does not require any special kernel config or privilege. By turning it into a 97% stable privilege escalation and container escape, Google has rewarded us $92,337 in kernelCTF. This writeup covers the technical details of the exploit.
13. A voxel Tokyo in real Japan time – ride the Yamanote line and study Japanese (jivx.com)
Ride the Yamanote line through a voxel Tokyo synced to Japan's real clock, weather, and seasons. A lofi bed plays while N5 sentences are read aloud and drift by as subtitles — an ambient Japanese study room you just press play into.
16. Count Binface (countbinface.com)
17. DOGE is done. What happened to its records? (www.ms.now)
Lauren Harper: If the DOGE playbook becomes a blueprint, there’s no telling how many future shadow agencies might follow — and how many government decisions taxpayers could be locked out of.
18. Cyberpunk Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels (shellzine.net)
20. The art and engineering of Sega CD Silpheed (fabiensanglard.net)
21. Show HN: Clawk – Give coding agents a disposable Linux VM, not your laptop (github.com)
Disposable, network-restricted Linux VMs for AI coding agents - clawkwork/clawk
22. The infinite scroll may become endangered if controversial Calif. law passes (www.sfgate.com)
Behemoths like Meta and Reddit might have to create teen-friendly versions.
23. Control the Ideas, Not the Code (antirez.com)
24. Precursor (blog.cloudflare.com)
Precursor, our new continuous behavioral validation engine for bot management, offers visibility into how humans and bots actually interact across the full user journey. By turning session-level behavior into bot detection signals, it identifies advanced automation with higher precision — while reducing friction for legitimate users.
25. Interrail: 6,379Km and 13 Countries over 7 weeks (shkspr.mobi)
26. Show HN: DOM-docx – HTML to native, editable Word docs (MIT) (github.com)
Convert semantic HTML fragments to native, editable Word documents (OOXML) - floodtide/dom-docx
27. Designing and assembling my first PCB (vilkeliskis.com)
28. The social physics of conversation: Communication patterns matter (andiroberts.com)
Discover how communication patterns shape team performance, innovation, and collective intelligence. Learn why idea flow matters more than talent alone.
29. The real prices of frontier models. Tokens * Price, right? (playcode.io)
If you build with an AI coding agent, your workload is basically TypeScript - and that's exactly where the model tokenizer gap is widest. The same TypeScript file becomes 1,178 tokens on Claude's newest tokenizer versus 681 on GPT-5.x's o200k: 1.73x more, before a cent of price difference. We measured every frontier tokenizer to show why $/Mtok is not a comparable price.