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151. Cancer Is Surging, Bringing a Debate About Whether to Look for It
152. An Interactive Guide to the Fourier Transform
153. Americans Mess Up Their Taxes. A New Law Will Help
How bipartisan lawmakers (and “your voice at the IRS”) helped improve the tax system.
154. What even is "literate programming"?
155. The programmers who live in Flatland
In the book Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, a two-dimensional world called “Flatland” is inhabited by polygonal creatures like triangles, squares, and circles. The protaganist, a square, is visited by a sphere from the third dimension. He struggles to comprehend the existence of another dimension even as the sphere demonstrates impossible things. It’s a…
156. $30M military wreath charity buys solely from its founders' farm
About 60,000 volunteers are expected at Arlington National Cemetery on Saturday for this year’s wreath layings.
157. Why frozen test fixtures are a problem on large projects and how to avoid them
Tests grow to thousands All make their claim on fixtures Frozen by demands
158. Optimize for Momentum
159. The past was not that cute
160. The Anatomy of a macOS App
How Mac applications evolved from a multitude of resources to a bundle formed from a standard layout of directories, and how they have come to be largely self-contained in macOS 26.
161. At least 50 hallucinated citations found in ICLR 2026 submissions
GPTZero used our Citation Check tool to find 50+ Hallucinations under review at ICLR, each of which were missed by 3-5 peer reviewers.
162. Tesla Optimus robot takes a suspicious tumble in new demo
163. Mechanical power generation using Earth's ambient radiation
164. Microsoft has a problem: nobody wants to buy or use its shoddy AI products
A new report details how Microsoft has cut some internal goals for its AI sales people, why? Nobody wants to use its weak products.
165. Screenshots from developers: 2002 vs. 2015 (2015)
Same people, 13 years later.
166. Berkshire Hathaway Announces Leadership Appointments [pdf]
167. Zebra-Llama: Towards Efficient Hybrid Models
Abstract page for arXiv paper 2505.17272: Zebra-Llama: Towards Extremely Efficient Hybrid Models
168. Tiny Core Linux: a 23 MB Linux distro with graphical desktop
Welcome - Tiny Core Linux
169. Estimates are difficult for developers and product owners
Product Owner: Hey, how long do you believe Feature F will take? Developer: Idk. We haven’t even started working on it and it’s bound to stir up some old issues.
170. United States Antarctic Program Field Manual (2024) [pdf]
171. EU launches antitrust probe into Google's use of online content for AI purposes
The European Commission has opened a formal antitrust investigation to assess whether Google has breached EU competition rules by using the content of web publishers, as well as content uploaded on th
172. The f*** off contact page
How to get people to NOT contact you
173. Ziglings: Learn the Zig programming language by fixing tiny broken programs
exercises - Learn the ⚡Zig programming language by fixing tiny broken programs.
174. Self-hosting my photos with Immich
For every cloud service I use, I want to have a local copy of my data for backup purposes and independence. Unfortunately, the gphotos-sync tool stopped working in March 2025 when Google restricted the OAuth scopes, so I needed an alternative for my existing Google Photos setup. In this post, I describe how I have set up Immich, a self-hostable photo manager.
175. Recreating the lost SDK for a 42-year-old operating system: VisiCorp Visi On
176. Google hit with EU antitrust investigation over use of online content for AI
It's the latest in a string of actions the European Commission has taken against U.S. big tech companies.
177. Weather radars used to count flying insects in the skies over the US
178. Vanity Activities
Vanity Activities A few weeks ago, I came across a ~4,000-word guide to something called “credit card churning”. The essay had gone viral. Plenty of...
179. Perl's Decline Was Cultural
180. Palantir Could Be the Most Overvalued Company That Ever Existed