1. Reverse-Engineering Claude Web's MicroVM: Uncovering Anthropic's Hidden Antspace (aprilnea.me)
Full stack developer, open sourceror, serial entrepreneur.
2. Flawed Routers Flood University of Wisconsin Internet Time Server (2003) (pages.cs.wisc.edu)
3. Romania soccer introduces black card to 'combat abusive behaviour' from parents (www.nytimes.com)
The card can be used to permanently cancel the match if they “observe inappropriate behaviour from spectators or parents".
4. Vintage Scientific Papers with LaTeX (github.com)
Twenty LuaLaTeX and MetaPost (fiziko) examples of the old scientific-paper aesthetic: engraved plates, star charts, computed log tables, knots, telescopes - Foadsf/vintage-latex
5. US Customs supervisor busted for stealing hardware from Homeland Security PCs (www.tomshardware.com)
Silicon heist at the border
6. Sean Carroll explains the biggest ideas in the universe – Full Interview [video] (www.youtube.com)
“I like to say that physics is hard because physics is easy, by which I mean we actually think about physics as students.”Subscribe to Big Think on YouTube ►...
7. Key symbols we lost to time, pt. 1: The PC side (unsung.aresluna.org)
A blog about software craft and quality
8. AgentsDock: An IDE designed for agentic AI research (agentsdock.net)
A dock for all your agents. AgentsDock is a self-hosted workspace for Claude Code and Codex, with persistent chats, rich media, scheduled jobs, and terminals.
9. TailTalk: A modern async user space AppleTalk stack with Rust and Tokio (github.com)
A modern async user space AppleTalk stack with Rust + Tokio - FeralFirmware/TailTalk
10. Alan's Random Insult Generator (1999) (alanbellows.com)
11. There Is No AI (It's Just People) with Jaron Lanier (singjupost.com)
Editor's Note: In this special edition episode of StarTalk, host Neil deGrasse Tyson, co-host Gary O'Reilly, and comedian Negin Farsad sit down with computer scientist and "father of virtual reality" Jaron Lanier. Together, they explore
12. Libraries Run Rust Inside Python (With PyO3) (belderbos.dev)
Build a Rust JSON parser into a module Python can import with PyO3, then see what the return trip costs when Rust data becomes Python dicts and lists.
13. Base84 deserves a place in file names (00f.net)
The TurboCrypt file encryption tool was originally designed for Unix systems.
14. From Git to Fossil (lucio.albenga.es)
16. A wandering black hole caught feeding on the run (phys.org)
17. Cpak – OCI application package format for Linux desktops, servers and devices (cpak.it)
Build, distribute and run Linux applications as OCI packages with explicit permissions, native desktop integration and shared storage.
18. AI recursive self-improvement might not come so quickly after all (August 2026) (www.technologyreview.com)
19. No Atlantic hurricanes by Sept. 12 breaks a 60-year record (www.accuweather.com)
It's unusual to not have a hurricane form by September 10, the peak historical average date. With nothing on the horizon this weekend, the records are piling up.
20. Paul A. M. Dirac, Interview by Friedrich Hund (1982) [video] (www.youtube.com)
Interview with Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac (1902–1984), Nobel Prize in Physics 1933, "for the discovery of new productive forms of atomic theory". Topics discu...
21. Houthis Used Claude Code to Develop Missile Guidance Software: Anthropic (clashreport.com)
Anthropic says operators in northern Yemen ran parallel Claude Code instances to design guidance software, simulate trajectories, and analyze a failed rocket t…
22. The Succession Crisis That Tore England Apart (www.historytoday.com)
Following the death of Henry I, medieval England was plunged into a civil war that reduced the country to a charred ruin. With the barons split between rival claimants, the people suffered.
23. Killing with a car costs $1.6M, California requires drivers to carry $30K (maxmautner.com)
24. On Binary Translation and Its Consequences (chipsandcheese.com)
25. Don't call yourself an artisanal programmer (purplesyringa.moe)
26. StarCraft returns in 2030 as an open-world shooter (www.theverge.com)
10 years after the last StarCraft II expansion pack the series is finally being brought back to life.
27. Operation Smart Kettle – Börzels Blog (blog.boerzel.de)
Börzels Blog, IT, Security, Making...
28. Durable execution without history replay (trigora.dev)
Most durable execution systems recover by replaying retained history. TCC checkpoints the program continuation instead, so recovery need not reconstruct the present from the past.
29. AI models don't kill people – people kill people (www.theregister.com)
AI fearmongers forget we could just jail tech execs until morale and model safety improve