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Stopping the Unstoppable — Practical Engineering (practical.engineering)
Wisconsin cops used Flock to track a veteran after he recorded a traffic stop (reason.com)
Netherlands pulls its gold out of the US and Canada amid fears of 'geopolitical unrest' (abc.net.au)
How the Tobacco Industry Drove Rise of Ultra-Processed Foods (vcresearch.berkeley.edu)
How the Planet-Altering Disaster of “Forever Chemicals” Was Kept Secret (propublica.org)
Bob and Van – Marco.org (marco.org)
Wikimedia Foundation Workers Overwhelmingly Vote to Form Union with CWA (wikiworkersunited.org)
How the Tobacco Industry Drove Rise of Ultra-Processed Foods (vcresearch.berkeley.edu)
Information Systems (sgtrains.com)
Rebuilding a 1995 GPS Time Server so I don't get Telstra'd (jeffgeerling.com)
The 1930 poetry book that Anthropic tried to censor – Cool Tools (kk.org)
How the Planet-Altering Disaster of “Forever Chemicals” Was Kept Secret (propublica.org)
There's No Limit to How Bad Code Can Get (zachkehs.com)
.gitignore everything by default (packagemain.tech)
Claude’s new system prompt really doesn’t want to reproduce song lyrics (simonwillison.net)
A Million Falcons Went Missing. Here’s How They Were Found (nationalgeographic.com)
Meet the 2026 Ig Nobel Prize winners (arstechnica.com)
A bizarre Commodore 64 peripheral, a mime, and some pretty bad ads (buttondown.com)
Meet the 2026 Ig Nobel Prize winners (arstechnica.com)
The “$60 Gaming PC” – AMD BC-250 – DevQuasar (devquasar.com)
Pentagon rescinds new testosterone screening policy without explanation (arstechnica.com)
‘Fakers’ by Rory Cormac review (historytoday.com)
Netherlands pulls its gold out of the US and Canada amid fears of 'geopolitical unrest' (abc.net.au)
Instances (codeberg.org)
Pushin.eu — Git hosting that never leaves Europe (pushin.eu)
Pointing at the error: compiler-style diagnostics in uutils coreutils (uutils.org)
The highest point in the Netherlands (ipv6.hanazo.no)
Kale: A Transformation-Safe Spreadsheet System (arxiv.org)
Ask HN: Resources to get good at soldering?
Announcing Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.2 (artificialanalysis.ai)
Portal by Spotify cut my Claude Code token usage by 90% | Spotify Engineering (engineering.atspotify.com)
Git Submodules as a Package Manager (nesbitt.io)
GPT-6 Astra in code review: Gains, privacy, and cost (coderabbit.ai)
AI handles incidents, engineers lose touch with their systems (sylvainkalache.com)
Decompiler Explorer (dogbolt.org)
Can Guitar Frets Perform Multiplication? (charlespetzold.com)
How To Create a Tor Exit Node (madpsy.uk)
Without new landers or rovers, it's helicopters or bust for NASA's Mars program (arstechnica.com)
Record-High 89% in U.S. Say Government Corruption Widespread (news.gallup.com)
statichost.eu - 100% European static site hosting (statichost.eu)
Digital Sovereignty Is Written in PHP (thephp.foundation)
Updates on HEIR, the homomorphic encryption compiler project (jeremykun.com)
Some more thoughts on random_page_cost (vondra.me)
Icons as a Service | [nravic] (nravic.com)
Fomu (crowdsupply.com)
Wormhole Hall of Shame (rznicolet.com)
FLT: Anthropic has beaten me to it (xenaproject.wordpress.com)
Letter to America (ceu.su)
statichost.eu - 100% European static site hosting (statichost.eu)
How To Create a Tor Exit Node (madpsy.uk)
Star Elevator Wins Elevator of the Year Award | Excellence in Modernization — Star Elevator (starelevator.com)
Stop Thinking of LLMs as Next-Token Predictors (gmcgoldr.github.io)
GitHub - anthropics/fermats-last-theorem (github.com)
Quad9 | A public and free DNS service for a better security and privacy (quad9.net)
Enjoying the Pretence – Photoni.st (photoni.st)
Can AI design circuit boards yet? (eebench.org)
Government Rails Site Hit Hours After CVE Patch (rietta.com)
Resources to Get Good at Soldering?
Shutting down our public encrypted DNS servers and sponsoring Quad9 instead (mullvad.net)
Shutting down our public encrypted DNS servers and sponsoring Quad9 instead (mullvad.net)
Stop Thinking of LLMs as Next-Token Predictors (gmcgoldr.github.io)
Formalizing Fermat's Last Theorem (anthropic.com)
React Now Rusted All The Way Out (blog.master.dev)
Arrested for a Late Manuscript: Seicho Matsumoto’s ‘Tokyo Express’ (millersbookreview.com)
Hayes AT command set (en.wikipedia.org)
People that worked on the same idea for decades — Nitya's Notes (nityasnotes.com)
Nobody Is Saying Why OpenAI and Anthropic Had Outages Today (wired.com)
NPC-Forge/docs/development.md at main · gioblu/NPC-Forge (github.com)
OpenTrailPaper (opentrailpaper.com)
Adult Film Producer Unmasks Prolific ‘John Doe’ Torrent Pirate as Meta Executive (torrentfreak.com)