2. Linux on the Sega 32X. Who needs hardware synchronization primitives anyway? (cakehonolulu.github.io)
How wanting more is not always better
3. An Infuriating Goodbye to Photoshop (anderegg.ca)
I’ve been using Photoshop since the mid-90s. First at school, with Photoshop 3, then through work. I bought my first boxed copy of CS2 in 2005, then upgraded to CS5 in 2010. I subscribed to Photoshop Creative Cloud on day one. Today, I uninstalled it. I hope I never have to use Adobe software ever again.
4. Ancient Roman Board Game (ludus-coriovalli.web.app)
A lost ancient Roman strategy game rediscovered through AI-driven simulations. 4 Hounds try to block 2 Hares on a board carved into limestone 1,800 years ago. Play free online.
5. Benchmarking 15 "E-Waste" GPUs with Modern Workloads (esologic.com)
Decommissioned enterprise tesla GPUs are widely available and extremely cheap. In this post, I benchmark tesla GPUs to see if they are useful
6. Claude is just Mr. Meeseeks (github.com)
Claude Code plugin that plays a Mr. Meeseeks voice line whenever Claude is waiting for you. - thephw/claude-meseeks
7. Show HN: I implemented a neural network in SQL (github.com)
An experiment to query Xarray datasets with SQL. Contribute to xqlsystems/xarray-sql development by creating an account on GitHub.
8. The 'absolute magic' of Morse code that still connects people globally (www.bbc.com)
Clubs of amateur radio fanatics can contact people thousands of miles away, without a phone.
9. Show HN: YouTube Guitar Tab Parser (github.com)
CLI that turns a YouTube guitar-lesson video into a PDF of the guitar tab. - marcelpanse/youtube-guitar-tab-parser
10. Linux 0.11 rewritten in idiomatic Rust, boots in QEMU (github.com)
Linux 0.11 rewritten in idiomatic Rust: kernel, std-style user library, and 60+ coreutils — boots on i386 in QEMU. - Poseidon-fan/linux-0.11-rs
11. Show HN: Jacquard, a programming language for AI-written, human-reviewed code (github.com)
Jacquard is a small programming language designed for a regime in which most code is written by machine-learning models and reviewed by people. - jbwinters/jacquard-lang
13. xAI's Grok Build CLI Uploads Git Repositories to a Google Cloud Bucket (www.internationalcyberdigest.com)
A wire-level analysis showed xAI's coding agent uploading full Git repositories, private code and unredacted secrets included, to a company cloud bucket. A day later the uploads silently stopped. xAI has said nothing about scope, retention, or deletion.
14. Beavis Ultrasound PnP ISA Sound Card Replica (github.com)
Open source clone of the Gravis Ultrasound PnP. Contribute to schlae/BeavisUltrasound development by creating an account on GitHub.
15. Wikipedia escapes Category 1 designation under the UK Online Safety Act for now (en.wikipedia.org)
16. A Second-Grade Teacher Revived a Beloved Video Game (www.nytimes.com)
17. Logseq 2.0 Beta (DB version) is here (github.com)
A privacy-first, open-source platform for knowledge management and collaboration. Download link: http://github.com/logseq/logseq/releases. roadmap: https://logseq.io/p/NX4mc_ggEV - logseq/logseq
18. TFTP Honey Pot Results (bruceediger.com)
19. Quadrupling code performance with a "useless" if (purplesyringa.moe)
20. Cursed circuits #6: reverse avalanche oscillator (lcamtuf.substack.com)
21. Frieve Vinyl Explained – Microscopic stylus/groove physics simulation (frieve-a.github.io)
A real-time microscopic physics simulation of a record stylus tracing a vinyl groove.
22. Show HN: BillAI Bass, an AI-Powered Big Mouth Billy Bass Using Strands Agents (github.com)
Turn a Big Mouth Billy Bass into a real-time voice assistant powered by Strands BidiAgent + Amazon Nova 2 Sonic on a Raspberry Pi 5 - morganwilliscloud/billai-bass
23. Berkshire's $397B Bet Against an Overheated Market (www.disruptionbanking.com)
Berkshire Hathaway just reported a record $397.4 billion in cash and T-bills, 59% of its investable portfolio. After fourteen straight quarters of net Berkshire Hathaway is sitting on a record $397.4 billion in cash after fourteen straight quarters of net stock selling, a streak that has only continued since Greg Abel took over as CEO. Behind the hoard sit warning signs from the Buffett Indicator, a stretched Shiller P/E, a struggling insurance division, and a stock that has lagged the market since its namesake stepped down.
24. Leak of San Francisco Police Drone Footage Exposes Reality of Urban Surveillance (www.wired.com)
The SFPD’s exposure of hours of videos from drone platform Skydio reveals how broadly it’s watching the city from above—and how the results can spill online.
25. Show HN: Hackney – Compare Uber, Lyft, Waymo, and Robotaxi Prices (hackney.app)
The ultimate ride app. See prices from Uber and Lyft.
26. Billion Dollar PDFs (billiondollarpdf.com)
Documents that crystallized a narrative and moved billions of dollars of capital.
27. Guy took Jupiter photo with Game Boy Camera, giant telescope, publishes tutorial (www.engadget.com)
The latest adventure for the kooky camera looks skyward.
28. MacKenzie Scott's Giving, in Quality-Adjusted Life Years (QALYs) (maxghenis.com)
An interactive, GiveWell-style cost-effectiveness model estimating the health impact — in quality-adjusted life-years — of MacKenzie Scott
29. Are you telling me a readonly property is wrecking my performance? (shub.club)
A little story from debugging performance issues lately
30. AI Is a Bad Tool (bytecode.news)
Reader Hideki Idoru argues that AI is a decent information distiller and a bad tool for nearly everything else in software, because no one can cheaply verify that generated code is correct. The deeper claim is that most programming was already trivial, unabstracted busywork, and AI has only torn the mask off. It's worth reading and thinking about.