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31. AI is destroying Open Source, and it's not even good yet
Over the weekend Ars Technica retracted an article because the AI a writer used hallucinated quotes from an open source library maintainer. The irony here is the maintainer in question, Scott Shambaugh, was harassed by someone's AI agent over not merging it's AI slop code. It's likely the bot was running through someone's local 'agentic AI' instance (likely using OpenClaw). The guy who built OpenClaw was just hired by OpenAI to "work on bringing agents to everyone." You'll have to forgive me if I'm not enthusastic about that.
32. How to take a photo with scotch tape (lensless imaging) [video]
Let’s take a photo using a piece of tape.0:00 Intro to coded apertures1:10 The point is the point spread function1:50 2D convolution for optical systems2:39 ...
33. History of AT&T Long Lines
34. Why Affordability and the Vibecession Are Real Economic Problems
There are many ways inflation makes people worse off even when real incomes recover, especially for essentials.
35. PascalABC.net
The new generation Pascal programming language that combines simplicity of classic Pascal, a great number of modern extensions and broad capabilities of Microsoft .NET Framework
36. Show HN: Simple org-mode web adapter
A simple view into your org roam notes with editing, backlinks, and rendered math. - SpaceTurth/Org-Web-Adapter
37. WebMCP Proposal
38. 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.
39. An AI CEO said something honest: ExperiencedDevs
40. 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.
41. planckforth: Bootstrapping a Forth interpreter from hand-written tiny ELF binary
Bootstrapping a Forth interpreter from hand-written tiny ELF binary. Just for fun. - GitHub - nineties/planckforth: Bootstrapping a Forth interpreter from hand-written tiny ELF binary. Just for fun.
42. Rolling your own serverless OCR in 40 lines of code
Parsing a statistics textbook with Deepseek OCR on Modal
43. Programming Is Free
You don't need to break the bank to learn programming and deploy your first project. All the tools are free, you just need the right approach to find them.
44. Chiplets Get Physical: The Days of Mix-and-Match Silicon Draw Nigh
45. MessageFormat: Unicode standard for localizable message strings
Developing a standard for localizable message strings - unicode-org/message-format-wg
46. 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.
47. Resist and Unsubscribe (Scott Galloway)
48. Looks: A Halide Mark III Preview
Today launched a public preview of Halide Mark III, the next generation of our flagship photography app. It's still a work in progress, but we're ready to start sharing what we've worked on for the past year through a series of app updates alongside posts like this. Today, we're diving into Looks.
49. Ministry of Justice orders deletion of the UK's largest court reporting database
50. The AI Trilemma
How to regulate a revolutionary technology.
51. 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.
52. UK Discord users were part of a Peter Thiel-linked data collection experiment
Discord have belatedly confirmed that they're working with Persona, an identity detection firm backed by a fund directed by Palantir chairman Peter Thiel.
53. Use Protocols, Not Services
The Internet is almost anonymous and privacy-preserving by design. I mean, unless some administrator actively tries to track you, there is no built-in...
54. Long-term unemployment is becoming 'a status quo' in today's job market
Long-term job seekers say they're lowering their expectations, taking on gig work and reconsidering what to do with their careers.
55. The End of the Office
I write this filled with sadness.
56. Anthropic tries to hide Claude's AI actions. Devs hate it
57. 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.
58. STM32G431 Analogue TV Transmitter
59. More macOS 26.3 Finder column view silliness
60. 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