1. Kimi K3 is now live (www.kimi.com)
Try Kimi K3 to build playable multiplayer and 3D games, create consulting grade slides, and run parallel tasks with Swarm and Goal to get more work done.
2. The lost joy of music piracy (www.pigeonsandplanes.com)
What.CD, Oink, and the banalities of streaming.
3. Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source (opensource.microsoft.com)
Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source. Explore the IRC client that turned conversations into comics and helped introduce Comic Sans to the world.
4. Decoy Font (www.mixfont.com)
Decoy Font combines every letter with a decoy, making it harder for AI to read what you type. Type a message to try it out or download the TTF directly.
5. Sony Deletes a Bunch More Movies from the Accounts of People Who 'Bought' Them (www.techdirt.com)
In all of our discussions about how the digital revolution has created a system in which people don’t actually own the things they think they’re buying, I get particularly frustrated by…
6. OnePlus halts operations in USA and Europe (community.oneplus.com)
Introducing our new OnePlus Community experience, with a completely revamped structure, built from the ground-up.
7. How Our Rust-to-Zig Rewrite Is Going (rtfeldman.com)
8. $100 AI Music Video: Claude Fable 5 vs. GPT-5.6 Sol (www.tryai.dev)
We gave Claude Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol the same song, a budget, web search, and local ffmpeg, then let each autonomously direct a music video.
9. NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook (blog.google)
NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook: the same standalone product with deeper Google integration and a secure cloud computer.
10. LM Studio Bionic: the AI agent for open models (lmstudio.ai)
The AI agent made for open models, built to get things done.
11. SpaceX stock erases all its gains and slides below IPO price in intraday trading (www.latimes.com)
SpaceX shares dipped below their IPO price of $135 on Wednesday morning for the first time since listing, signaling dwindling hype around the Elon Musk company.
12. Where are YC founders now? OpenAI and Anthropic, mostly (joinedanthropic.com)
A chronological ledger of 105 YC founders connected to OpenAI or Anthropic, from their earliest YC batches to where they went next.
13. The LLM Critics Are Right. I Use LLMs Anyway (www.theocharis.dev)
I almost agree with all of the LLM critics, yet I still use LLMs a lot. I know this sounds like I am delusional, but I don
14. Immersive Linear Algebra Book with Interactive Figures (immersivemath.com)
16. Ente – Opening Our Books (ente.com)
17. 1,300 Beautiful Wildlife Illustrations from the 19th Century Now Restored (www.openculture.com)
Today, if you want to know about any of the flora or fauna that surround us, you have only to look it up online.
19. Detecting LLM-Generated Texts with "Classical" Machine Learning (blog.lyc8503.net)
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20. Mathematics of Data Science (arxiv.org)
This book is about the mathematical foundations of data science.
1. Introduction
2. Curses, Blessings, and Surprises in High Dimensions
3. Singular Value Decomposition and Principal Component Analysis
4. Linear Regression and Regularization
5. Graphs, Networks, and Clustering
6. Nonlinear Dimension Reduction and Diffusion Maps
7. Linear Dimension Reduction via Random Projections
8. Optimization for Data Science
9. Classification
10. A Mathematical Introduction to Deep Learning
11. Large Sample Limit of Graph Laplacians
12. Community
13. Concentration of Measure and Gaussian Analysis
14. Matrix Concentration Inequalities
15. Compressive Sensing and Sparsity
16. Low-Rank Matrix Recovery
1. Introduction
2. Curses, Blessings, and Surprises in High Dimensions
3. Singular Value Decomposition and Principal Component Analysis
4. Linear Regression and Regularization
5. Graphs, Networks, and Clustering
6. Nonlinear Dimension Reduction and Diffusion Maps
7. Linear Dimension Reduction via Random Projections
8. Optimization for Data Science
9. Classification
10. A Mathematical Introduction to Deep Learning
11. Large Sample Limit of Graph Laplacians
12. Community
13. Concentration of Measure and Gaussian Analysis
14. Matrix Concentration Inequalities
15. Compressive Sensing and Sparsity
16. Low-Rank Matrix Recovery
21. The Little Book of Reinforcement Learning (github.com)
The Little Book of Reinforcement Learning. Contribute to alxndrTL/little-book-rl development by creating an account on GitHub.
22. Guerrilla London Bus Ads Mock Kylie Jenner's Meta Glasses Campaign (hyperallergic.com)
“Billionaires could fund cures for cancer — so why are they funding glasses for perverts instead?" asked the protest group Everyone Hates Elon.
23. Teardown: A Generic 7-Port USB 3.0 Hub That Wasn't (goughlui.com)
The recent end-of-financial-year sales were rather interesting – I found myself spending a lot more time browsing AliExpress than I did Amazon or eBay this year which is something I wouldn…
24. CD Sales Growth Outpaced Vinyl in the First Half of 2026 (consequence.net)
Vinyl may still dominate the conversation, but CDs are making the biggest gains.
25. Goes-19 weather satellite enters Safe Hold mode (www.spaceweather.gov)
26. Bluesky Trademarks ATProto (atproto.com)
Bluesky now owns the AT Protocol trademark to help make sure it can be used as widely and responsibly as possible.
27. How to Train a Gen AI Kick Drum Model on Your Old Linux Desktop with 6GB VRAM (www.zhinit.dev)
28. Making 768 servers look like 1 (planetscale.com)
How to make 768 distinct Postgres servers look like 1 to your applications.
29. Helium escaping from atmosphere of nearby rocky exoplanet in a habitable zone (www.science.org)
30. Reynard: A real Firefox web browser for iOS 13 or later (github.com)
An experimental Gecko-based web browser for iOS 13+. - minh-ton/reynard-browser