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1. Ministry of Justice orders deletion of the UK's largest court reporting database
2. Running My Own XMPP Server
Notes from setting up Prosody in Docker for federated messaging, with file sharing, voice calls, and end-to-end encryption.
3. Ghidra by NSA
Ghidra is a software reverse engineering (SRE) framework - NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra
4. MessageFormat: Unicode standard for localizable message strings
Developing a standard for localizable message strings - unicode-org/message-format-wg
5. Qwen3.5: Towards Native Multimodal Agents
Qwen Chat offers comprehensive functionality spanning chatbot, image and video understanding, image generation, document processing, web search integration, tool utilization, and artifacts.
6. I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?
Attached: 4 images Q: I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive? What do you think the LLM output was? Please; review the output. #ai #LLM #ai
7. OpenClaw, OpenAI and the Future
I'm joining OpenAI to work on bringing agents to everyone. OpenClaw will move to a foundation and stay open and independent.
8. Rolling your own serverless OCR in 40 lines of code
Parsing a statistics textbook with Deepseek OCR on Modal
9. Anthropic tries to hide Claude's AI actions. Devs hate it
10. Modern CSS Code Snippets: Stop writing CSS like it's 2015
A collection of modern CSS code snippets. Every old CSS hack next to its clean, native replacement, side by side.
11. Magnus Carlsen Wins the Freestyle (Chess960) World Championship
12. Vim-pencil: Rethinking Vim as a tool for writing
Rethinking Vim as a tool for writing. Contribute to preservim/vim-pencil development by creating an account on GitHub.
13. Expensively Quadratic: The LLM Agent Cost Curve
Cache reads are quadratic and dominate your long agentic conversations.
14. The Israeli spyware firm that accidentally just exposed itself
The Billion-Dollar Surveillance Pipeline: From Occupation Technology to Global Control
15. 1,300-year-old world chronicle unearthed in Sinai
A newly identified Christian world chronicle dating to the early 8th century is shedding fresh light on the political and religious upheavals that marked the transition from late antiquity to the rise of Islam.
16. LT6502: A 6502-based homebrew laptop
A 6502 based laptop design. Contribute to TechPaula/LT6502 development by creating an account on GitHub.
17. Audio is the one area small labs are winning
The story of Gradium, the anatomy of audio AI models, and why smaller labs continue to edge out larger ones when it comes to voice.
18. Arm wants a bigger slice of the chip business
19. Lost Soviet Moon Lander May Have Been Found
20. Show HN: Microgpt is a GPT you can visualize in the browser
a visualization of a very small gpt model, running in the browser
21. Thanks a lot, AI: Hard drives are sold out for the year, says WD
Western Digital says its all sold out of hard drives for 2026, less than two months into the year.
22. I Gave Claude Access to My Pen Plotter
I gave Claude Code access to my pen plotter. Not directly. I was the interface between the two machines. Claude Code produced SVG files that I plotted with my pen plotter. With my smartphone I captured photos that I pasted into the Claude Code session, asking Claude what it thought about the
23. JavaScript-heavy approaches are not compatible with long-term performance goals
I’m Sérgio, and I work with Web frontend code. Sometimes I write about it here.
24. picol: A Tcl interpreter in 500 lines of code
A Tcl interpreter in 500 lines of code. Contribute to antirez/picol development by creating an account on GitHub.
25. EU bans the destruction of unsold apparel, clothing, accessories and footwear
The measures under the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation will allow businesses to benefit from a more circular economy.
26. Building SQLite with a small swarm
27. Gwtar: A static efficient single-file HTML format
Gwtar is a new polyglot HTML archival format which provides a single, self-contained, HTML file which still can be efficiently lazy-loaded by a web browser. This is done by a header’s JavaScript making HTTP range requests. It is used on Gwern.net to serve large HTML archives.
28. Hard problems in social media archiving
Preserving social media is easier said than done. What makes it so difficult for institutions to back up the Internet?
29. Real-time PathTracing with global illumination in WebGL
Real-time PathTracing with global illumination and progressive rendering, all on top of the Three.js WebGL framework. Click here for Live Demo: https://erichlof.github.io/THREE.js-PathTracing-Renderer/Geometry_Showcase.html
30. Designing a 36-key custom keyboard layout (2021)