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151. NewPipe: YouTube client without vertical videos and algorithmic feed
152. Carl Sagan's Baloney Detection Kit: Tools for Thinking Critically (2025)
Though he died too young, Carl Sagan left behind an impressively large body of work, including more than 600 scientific papers and more than 20 books. Open Culture, openculture.com
153. 4chan for Clankers
what your clawkers are really thinking
154. Apocalypse no: how almost everything we thought we knew about the Maya is wrong
For many years the prevailing debate about the Maya centred upon why their civilisation collapsed. Now, many scholars are asking: how did the Maya survive?
155. The Spy Who Found T. Rex
The Spy Who Found T. Rex: Pioneering paleontologist Barnum Brown took on some curious gigs outside of his digs.
156. The EU moves to kill infinite scrolling
Brussels is going head-to-head with social media platforms to change addictive design.
157. You can't trust the internet anymore
I like things that are strange and a bit obscure. It’s a habit of mine, and a lot of this blog is to document things I haven’t heard of before, because I wan...
158. Launching Interop 2026
Interop 2025 brought a bunch of new web platform features & fixes, but here's what's coming in 2026…
159. MinIO repository is no longer maintained
MinIO is a high-performance, S3 compatible object store, open sourced under GNU AGPLv3 license. - update README.md format and clarify state of the project · minio/minio@7aac2a2
160. Soviet Tektronix 7000-series oscilloscope copies
Back in 1970, Tektronix introduced their '7000' series of oscilloscopes. Their clever plug-in architecture offered unmatched performance and flexibility, and they quickly became an industry standard. They were ubiquitous in well-heeled electronics labs in the 1970s, 1980s and into the 1990s, at least in the US and UK. I've still got three examples in regular…
161. Alibaba Unveils Major AI Model Upgrade Ahead of DeepSeek Release
162. Why does aluminum foil have one shiny side and one with a matte finish?
163. OpenAI president becomes top Trump donor with $25M gift
164. I cannot curl https://example.com (on some distros)
Cloudflare - is it you (again)?
165. An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me
166. OpenAI Acquires OpenClaw
167. D Programming Language
D is a general-purpose programming language with static typing, systems-level access, and C-like syntax.
168. Warcraft III Peon Voice Notifications for Claude Code
Warcraft III Peon voice notifications (+ more!) for Claude Code, Codex, and other IDEs. Stop babysitting your terminal. - PeonPing/peon-ping
169. Why I'm not worried about AI job loss
We're not in a February 2020 moment, and ordinary people will be fine
170. Skip the Tips: A game to select "No Tip" but dark patterns try to stop you
Press 'No Tip' while dark patterns trick you into tipping. A free browser game about guilt-tripping, hidden buttons, and manipulative design.
171. The "Crown of Nobles" Noble Gas Tube Display
172. A Programmer's Loss of Identity
173. A Brief History of Sega Enterprises
Sega does what Nintendon't
174. Defer Available in GCC and Clang
About a year ago I posted about defer and that it would be available for everyone using gcc and/or clang soon. So it is probably time for an update. Two things have happened in the mean time: A technical specification (TS 25755) edited by JeanHeyd Meneide is now complete and moves through ISO's complicated publication…
175. Google warns EU against 'erecting walls' in tech sovereignty push
176. Safe YOLO Mode: Running LLM agents in vms with Libvirt and Virsh
Give LLM agents shell access without risking your host system. A practical libvirt guide covering VM creation, snapshots for safe experimentation, and remote access options.
177. The heavy reality of Venezuela's oil
Why Venezuela’s massive oil reserves are difficult to extract.
178. Ralph Giles Passed Away (Xiph.org| Rust@Mozilla | Ghostscript)
179. GLM5 Released on Z.ai Platform
Meet Z.ai, your free AI-powered assistant. Build websites, create slides, analyze data, and get instant answers. Fast, smart, and reliable, powered by GLM-5.
180. Fluxer: Free, open source instant messaging and VoIP platform
A free and open source instant messaging and VoIP platform built for friends, groups, and communities. - fluxerapp/fluxer