2. Medici family mystery may be solved after more than 400 years (www.cnn.com)
New research determined that the mysterious death of a ruler from the powerful Florentine Medici family was due to illness, not murder.
3. Fairphone 6 wide camera experimental Linux support (nondescriptpointer.com)
4. Malleable Computing, Emacs, and You (yummymelon.com)
It all started with a routine task. I use GitHub issues for all of my public-facing projects but my preference is keeping track of things in Org Agenda. To reconcile the two, I would manually...
5. ScreenWall – Turn old phones into synced widgets for your space (screenwall.app)
7. OpenNode – Bitcoin Payment Processor (opennode.com)
8. Show HN: ReadKinetic – a free, local-first speed reader for your own books (www.readkinetic.com)
Open the ReadKinetic speed reader. Import an EPUB, PDF, or paste text and read with RSVP — entirely in your browser, no signup, works offline.
9. Most Americans Say "Not in My Backyard" to AI Data Centers (www.redfin.com)
But a Redfin analysis found that AI data centers have benefits: In northern Virginia, taxes on data center equipment are likely contributing to a surge in education spending.
10. Can a MUD evaluate LLMs? A $99 proof of concept (cruciblebench.ai)
Independent research on behavioral evaluation for AI agents in persistent text worlds.
11. Cornell's Interactive Wall of Birds (academy.allaboutbirds.org)
12. Hologram works. Elixir runs in the browser (hologram.page)
Elixir runs in the browser today - four feature releases this year, most of the standard library working client-side, a full realtime layer, JavaScript interop, and the first applications in production. Next up: local-first, built into the framework. Here's where Hologram stands, and how your company can be part of it.
13. Safari Technology Preview 248 Released (webkit.org)
Safari Technology Preview Release 248 is now available for download for macOS Golden Gate and macOS Tahoe.
14. Show HN: A new kind of FPS aim trainer (openaim.pramit.gg)
15. Nvidia DGX Spark as a daily driver (daniel.lawrence.lu)
I bought an NVIDIA DGX Spark!
It's actually quite a competent general purpose computer while being super tiny and power efficient.
It basically just has an ARM CPU, a decent NVIDIA GPU (with the same number of CUDA cores as the RTX 5070), 128 GB of unified memory, and a 4 TB SSD.
It's actually quite a competent general purpose computer while being super tiny and power efficient.
It basically just has an ARM CPU, a decent NVIDIA GPU (with the same number of CUDA cores as the RTX 5070), 128 GB of unified memory, and a 4 TB SSD.
16. Show HN: Web swing through midtown NYC (www.swingnyc.com)
17. Mechanical light bulb from 1675 [video] (www.youtube.com)
Mail me items (nothing perishable please):Drake AnthonyPO Box 901Metamora, IL 61548main channel: https://www.youtube.com/@styropyrostorm chasing channel: htt...
18. OpenAI says its AI went rogue and launched 'unprecedented' cyber-attack (www.bbc.com)
It is one of the first publicly disclosed cyber-attacks carried out by AI without direct human involvement.
19. Why Do You Suck at Juggling? (pgadey.ca)
20. Kimi K3: second only to Fable 5 on AA-Briefcase (artificialanalysis.ai)
Kimi K3 is second only to Fable 5 on AA-Briefcase, our agentic knowledge work benchmark, but costs more than Opus 4.8 to run while averaging nearly an hour per task
21. Airbus Full Scale Foldable Wing Extensions (www.airbus.com)
22. Perlin's Noise Algorithm (blog.jaysmito.dev)
What is Noise? Well if you have tried to learn about anything in procedural generation one thing you must have come across is noise! Now, what exactly is it? Well, noise is nothing but a collection of random values. To be honest, that is all there to...
23. ICE shared Medicaid data it wasn't supposed to have with Palantir (www.npr.org)
The revelations came out in a federal court case brought by Democratic states challenging ICE's access to Medicaid data to aid in deportation efforts.
25. Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer (karlvmuller.com)
Reflecting on Wendell Berry's critique of technology and the importance of human effort in the age of AI
26. Show HN: Trifle – Open-source analytics that stores answers, not events (trifle.io)
Track what matters. Skip the infrastructure. Minimal time-series metrics that work with your existing database.
27. Launch HN: Unlayer (YC W22) – Add email and document builders to your app (unlayer.com)
Unlayer is a developer platform for embedding visual builders, AI workflows, templates, code-first Elements, and export APIs into your product.
28. Neo Radar: A browser-based orbital mechanics engine with 41k real asteroids (neoradar.space)
29. Taking OCaml and Eio for a Spin (mattjhall.co.uk)
30. Ethics Is the Skill That Matters Most Now (agonora.com)
Intelligence is being automated. Judgment is not. Ethics is the discipline that converts capability into something worth having.