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121. Being sane in insane places (1973) [pdf]
122. French streamer unbanked by Qonto after criticizing Palantir and Peter Thiel
123. Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle
124. FlashAttention-T: Towards Tensorized Attention
125. Epstein Financed German AI Researcher Joscha Bach
Ein deutscher KI-Forscher hat laut ZDF-Recherchen über eine Million Dollar von Epstein erhalten. Für den Forscher hat das bis heute Folgen.
126. DMA enforced an option to sort Ig/FB feeds chronologically
7,588 likes, 183 comments - europeancommission on February 3, 2026: "Your digital life, your own rules.  Before, Big Tech algorithms decided what you saw. Now you can opt out of the ‘personalised’ feed or make it chronological! Ads must be transparent, deceptive designs are banned. All thanks to our Digital Services Act. We’re putting the power back in your hands.".
127. AdBoost: A Browser Extension That Adds Ads To Every Webpage
AdBoost is the only browser extension that adds ads to web pages! - surprisetalk/AdBoost
128. UK Government Launches Fuel Forecourt Price API
129. Technocracy 2.0
As Alex Karp, the CEO of Palantir, says outright, the only lasting future for the United States is the merging of tech and the state. He cites the Manhattan Project as a precedent: a model that is now to be applied to virtually every lever of power. While Karp may not know it, this idea has deep roots in American political culture.
130. My (very) fast zero-allocation webserver using OxCaml
Building httpz, a high-performance HTTP/1.1 parser with zero heap allocation using OxCaml's unboxed types, local allocations, and mutable local variables.
131. Heritability of intrinsic human life span is about 50%
132. The largest number representable in 64 bits
133. Build Your Own Insect Drone
When Mother Nature Goes Metal
134. Does AI have human-level intelligence? The evidence is clear
The vision of human-level machine intelligence laid out by Alan Turing in the 1950s is now a reality. Eyes unclouded by dread or hype will help us to prepare for what comes next. The vision of human-level machine intelligence laid out by Alan Turing in the 1950s is now a reality. Eyes unclouded by dread or hype will help us to prepare for what comes next.
135. Julia
An aphasic space station monitors an anomalous object, while keeping the last two humans alive.
136. Professors Are Being Watched: 'We've Never Seen This Much Surveillance'
137. Another London: Excavating the disenchanted city
Excavating the disenchanted city
138. Distance Marching for Generative Modeling
Abstract page for arXiv paper 2602.02928: Distance Marching for Generative Modeling
139. Speculative Sampling Explained
Speculative Sampling The idea of speculative sampling is to use a draft sampling to achieve the same sampling result as the target sampling. We have a target sampling distribution $p(x)$ and a draft sampling distribution $q(x)$.
140. Defining Safe Hardware Design [pdf]
141. Underrated ways to change the world, part II
OR: why you should sell onions on the internet
142. Mick Jagger "Memo from Turner" (1970) [video]
From 1970 film, Performance, dir. Nicolas Roeg.
143. Mouthbreathing Machiavellis Dream of a Silicon Reich (2014)
Meet the neo-reactionaries who influenced the rightward drift of Silicon Valley.
144. Microsoft Has Killed Widgets Six Times. Here's Why They Keep Coming Back
30 years of Windows widgets - from Active Desktop to the Widget Board. Six implementations, six deaths, and the scar tissue that shapes the platform you'd build on today.
145. Study: Older Cannabis Users Have Larger Brains, Better Cognition
New research found, contrary to assumptions, cannabis usage by middle age and older adults led to better cognition and larger brain volumes.
146. Pretty soon, heat pumps will be able to store and distribute heat as needed
Researchers have developed a heat storage unit that takes up less space than a regular hot water tank. It charges when electricity is cheap and releases heat when needed.
147. Library of Juggling
148. Billy Bass Nelson, Original Bassist for Funkadelic, Dies at 75
149. Advancing AI Benchmarking with Game Arena
We’re expanding Game Arena with Poker and Werewolf, while Gemini 3 Pro and Flash top our chess leaderboard.
150. Hacking Moltbook: The AI Social Network Any Human Can Control
Learn how a misconfigured Supabase database at Moltbook exposed 1.5M API keys, private messages, and user emails, enabling full AI agent takeover.