1. How to Read a Painting (sheets.works)
Fifty famous paintings, read the way art historians read them: one detail at a time, with the camera doing the pointing. Then a wall of 881 more.
2. When Is NVLink Worth It? (platform-fools.com)
3. Critical Minerals: Reducing U.S. Import Reliance with Substitution and Recycling (www.gao.gov)
The U.S. relies on imports for many critical minerals that are essential to the battery and semiconductor industries. But their supply chains are...
4. Recreating the math behind the first stealth aircraft (www.pramit.gg)
recreating how soviet math led to the first empirically stealth-optimized aircraft
5. Show HN: Yorishiro – a macOS terminal where AI agents live (github.com)
A terminal that gives AI a body and a living space. - sktkkoo/Yorishiro
Yorishiro transforms the traditional macOS terminal into an interactive space where AI agents take on the form of anime characters. This open-source project aims to make communication with AI more engaging by giving these agents a physical presence and a more relatable environment.
6. OpenAI Presence (openai.com)
7. Pico W firmware creates driverless USB WiFi bridge (Layer-2) (www.cnx-software.com)
pico-usb-wifi is an open-source firmware project that converts the Raspberry Pi Pico W into a driverless USB WiFi adapter that works with Windows, Linux,
8. Which streaming service was that on again (www.timwehrle.de)
Words from me as developer, student and human.
9. AMD Ryzen 7 7700X3D Review: 3D V-Cache Gaming Performance for Less – HotHardware (hothardware.com)
The new AMD Ryzen 7 7700X3D is similar to the existing 8-core Ryzen 7 7800X3D, but with lower base and boost clocks and a lower price.
10. A flaky test exposed a Redis client use-after-free (buildkite.engineering)
A handful of flaky tests turned out to be a use-after-free in the Redis client
11. Codeberg bans vibe coded projects (codeberg.org)
12. Drake Anthony Recreates the Mechanical Bulb First Seen in 1675 – TechEBlog (www.techeblog.com)
Drake Anthony spends a lot of time in the workshop, continually pushing the boundaries of what you can produce with basic materials. His recent video on the styro pyro 2 channel attempts to replicate a phenomenon discovered over three centuries ago. The ultimate result is a glass flask that emits visible light when shaken, eliminating the need for batteries, wiring, or other external power sources. The story begins in 1675, with French astronomer Jean Picard out on the streets of Paris on a dark, clear night. He's carrying a mercury barometer, and as he moves, a small glow begins to
13. Codeberg: ToU extension to prohibit LLM-extrusions (codeberg.org)
15. An Engineer's Guide to USB Type-C [pdf] (www.ti.com)
16. How an AI Anime Is Created (www.aventos.dev)
How a Korean manhwa becomes an animated short at Aventos: adaptation, directing, animation, and post production, start to finish.
17. Beaver who escaped to find mate welcomes first kit (www.bbc.com)
Steve settles into fatherhood in Wales after escaping three times to find love.
18. I graded 36 popular MCP servers on agent usability. A third got a D or F (tengli.dev)
Your MCP server can be 100% spec-compliant and still be unusable by an agent. I built mcpgrade to measure the difference — then pointed it at 36 popular servers.
19. I Built a Private Genomics Study with Stoffel MPC (vishakh.blog)
Most genomic studies begin by asking participants to upload one of the most identifying and irrevocable pieces of data they own, their DNA. I continue to investigate whether multi-party computation…
20. Show HN: An MCP server that turns async-work practices into tools (github.com)
Model Context Protocol server for the book Open and Async — async-first method tools plus the book's outline, taglines, and summaries. Ships the method, never the manuscript. - open-and-async/mcp
21. I tried to record music onto a cassette tape using modern tech (swiftrocks.com)
I found a 1978 Panasonic shoebox cassette recorder on a second-hand store, and this led me to yet another tech rabbit hole.
22. Show HN: Agent in 9 Lines Python (gist.github.com)
agent in 9 lines python. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
23. Ten ways a check passes while the thing it checks is broken (phronesis.world)
Ten ways a check stays green while wrong, and the moves that actually found things.
24. Tesla Balance Bike (shop.tesla.com)
26. Why do we love music? (2018) (pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
While the human brain is hardwired to feel pleasure for basic survival necessities, such as eating and sex, music—although obviously pleasurable—doesn’t offer the same evolutionary advantages. So why do we respond to patterns of sounds that ...
27. Overload and insight look identical from the outside (pilgrima.ge)
On a bowl of granola eaten too slowly, the sage who said no, and the difference between being locked out and being underbuilt.
28. Six questions before you add an LLM (cameronmpalmer.medium.com)
A six-question framework for deciding where language models actually belong.
30. The Miso That Went to Space (ambrook.com)
Artist and researcher Maggie Coblentz fermented miso in orbit, chasing a deeper question: What makes a miso a miso—or a person a person—away from Earth?