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31. X hit with $140M EU fine for breaching content rules
32. Trump administration orders enhanced vetting for applicants of H-1B visa
Under a new State Department memo, people who keep online spaces safe are now ineligible for H-1B visas.
33. The Age-Gated Internet Is Sweeping the US. Activists Are Fighting Back
Half of the country now requires age verification to watch porn or access “harmful” content. Digital rights advocates are pushing back against legislation they say will make the internet less safe.
34. Reframing Impact
A foundational examination of "impact" for AI alignment, exploring why some actions matter more and how to formalize these intuitions.
35. At IT School with Apple Lisa
Let’s continue our marvelous trip into GUI Wonderland, where we’ll learn 80s computing alongside our trusty Apple Lisa, the first personal computer with a GUI!
36. CUDA-L2: Surpassing cuBLAS Performance for Matrix Multiplication Through RL
CUDA-L2: Surpassing cuBLAS Performance for Matrix Multiplication through Reinforcement Learning - deepreinforce-ai/CUDA-L2
37. Why Are 38 Percent of Stanford Students Saying They're Disabled?
If you get into an elite college, you probably don't have a learning disability.
38. I ignore the spotlight as a staff engineer
Lately I’ve been reading Sean Goedecke’s essays on being a Staff+ engineer. His work (particularly Software engineering under the spotlight and It’s Not Your Codebase) is razor-sharp and feels painfully familiar to anyone in Big Tech. On paper, I fit the mold he describes: I’m a Senior Staff engineer at Google. Yet, reading his work left me with a lingering sense of unease. At first, I dismissed this as cynicism. After reflecting, however, I realized the problem wasn’t Sean’s writing but my reading. Sean isn’t being bleak; he is accurately describing how to deal with a world where engineers are fungible assets and priorities shift quarterly. But my job looks nothing like that and I know deep down that if I tried to operate in that environment or in the way he described I’d burn out within months. Instead I’ve followed an alternate path, one that optimizes for systems over spotlights, and stewardship over fungibility.
39. FDA proposes impossible standards for vaccines that could curtail access
40. Blogging in 2025: Screaming into the Void
41. Uncloud - Tool for deploying containerised apps across servers without k8s
Take your Docker Compose apps to production with zero-downtime deployments, automatic HTTPS, and cross-machine scaling. Self-hosting made reliable without the complexity.
42. Thoughts on Go vs. Rust vs. Zig
43. Tunnl.gg
Instant public URLs for your local web server. No installation required, just use SSH. Secure, fast, and developer-friendly reverse tunneling.
44. Fast trigram based code search
Fast trigram based code search . Contribute to sourcegraph/zoekt development by creating an account on GitHub.
45. Ghostty Is Now Non-Profit
46. Steam Machine today, Steam Phones tomorrow (Windows Gaming on Arm)
Valve tells The Verge it’s funding Fex, a key technology that’s letting Arm devices like phones play Windows games.
47. The Differences Between an IndyCar and a F1 Car
Discover the key differences between IndyCar and Formula 1 cars and engines — from chassis, downforce, and tires to engines, brakes and lap times
48. PyTogether: Collaborative lightweight real-time Python IDE for teachers/learners
📄🐍 Google Docs for Python. A fully browser-based collaborative IDE with real-time editing, live drawing, and voice chat. - SJRiz/pytogether
49. Django 6 Released
50. The US polluters that are rewriting the EU's human rights and climate law
51. The Ofcom Files, Part 4: Ofcom Rides Again
This is a continuation of the Ofcom Files, a series of First Amendment-protected public disclosures designed to inform the American and British public about correspondence that the UK's censorship agency, Ofcom, should prefer to keep secret. See Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3. We heard from Ofcom again today. The agency writes: The full…
52. Autism should not be treated as a single condition
53. Brussels writes so many laws
Explaining Europe’s extraordinary legal productivity
54. State of AI: An Empirical 100T Token Study with OpenRouter
An empirical study analyzing over 100 trillion tokens of real-world LLM interactions across tasks, geographies, and time.
55. Functional Quadtrees
A Quadtree is a tree data structure, which is useful for giving more focus/detail to certain regions of your data, while saving resources elsewhere. I could only find a couple tutorials/guides and both were imperative, so I figured it'd be fun to do a functional version in Clojure which runs in the browser.
56. A lost Amazon world just reappeared in Bolivia
Researchers exploring Bolivia’s Great Tectonic Lakes discovered a landscape transformed over centuries by sophisticated engineering and diverse agricultural traditions. Excavations show how Indigenous societies adapted to dynamic wetlands through raised fields, canals, and mixed livelihoods. Today’s local communities preserve this biocultural continuity, guiding research and conservation.
57. Feynman vs. Computer
58. Microsoft drops AI sales targets in half after salespeople miss their quotas
Report: Microsoft declared “the era of AI agents” in May, but enterprise customers aren’t buying.
59. What is better: a lookup table or an enum type?
60. RAM is so expensive, Samsung won't even sell it to Samsung
Due to rising prices from the "AI" bubble, Samsung Semiconductor reportedly refused a RAM order for new Galaxy phones from Samsung Electronics.