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151. MIT Technology Review has confirmed that posts on Moltbook were fake
The viral social network for bots reveals more about our own current mania for AI as it does about the future of agents.
152. Three Cache Layers Between Select and Disk
153. Competition is not market validation
How to not fall into the fallacy of seeing competition as a proof of Product-Market Fit
154. Nobody knows how the whole system works
One of the surprising (at least to me) consequences of the fall of Twitter is the rise of LinkedIn as a social media site. I saw some interesting posts I wanted to call attention to: First, Simon Wardley on building things without understanding how they work: Here's Adam Jacob in response: And here's Bruce Perens,…
155. Exposure Simulator
156. Waymo is asking DoorDash drivers to shut the doors of its self-driving cars
If a passenger accidentally leaves a Waymo door open, the vehicle can get stuck in place.
157. UEFI Bindings for JavaScript
promethee - UEFI Bindings for JavaScript (Proof of Concept)
158. Thoughts on Generating C
wingolog: article: six thoughts on generating c
159. Clean-room implementation of Half-Life 2 on the Quake 1 engine
hl2 - Rad-Therapy II - port of Half-Life 2 to Nuclide.
160. The Problem with LLMs
161. Show HN: JavaScript-first, open-source WYSIWYG DOCX editor
WYSIWYG js DOCX editor. Contribute to eigenpal/docx-js-editor development by creating an account on GitHub.
162. Apple patches decade-old iOS zero-day, possibly exploited by commercial spyware
163. Sekka Zusetsu: A Book of Snowflakes (1832)
Observations of “snow flowers” made by microscope in Edo-era Japan.
164. Deobfuscation and Analysis of Ring-1.io
As part of this research, we partially deobfuscated multiple Themida-protected binaries used by ring-1.io, including its UEFI bootloader implant. Several critical functions were recovered to enable static analysis of the implant’s behavior. This work provides visibility into mechanisms that are intentionally designed to resist inspection, including virtualization-assisted hooks, execution redirection, and kernel manipulation techniques.
165. Is Particle Physics Dead, Dying, or Just Hard?
Columnist Natalie Wolchover checks in with particle physicists more than a decade after the field entered a profound crisis.
166. A brief history of oral peptides
Semaglutide is a peptide. Your stomach’s entire job is to destroy peptides.
167. Chrome extensions spying on 37M users' browsing data
Summary
168. A Cosmic Miracle: A Remarkably Luminous Galaxy at z=14.44 Confirmed with JWST
By Rohan P. Naidu, Pascal A. Oesch & 44 more. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has discovered a bright galaxy, MoM-z14, located 280 million years post-Big Bang, challenging previous models and suggesting a rising star-formation history.
169. Vouch
170. Why Is the Sky Blue?
171. Oxide raises $200M Series C
Raising our Series C round of financing
172. IBM triples US entry-level hiring for roles AI was predicted to replace
173. Upcoming changes to Let's Encrypt and how they affect XMPP server operators
174. Qwen-Image-2.0: Professional infographics, exquisite photorealism
Qwen Chat offers comprehensive functionality spanning chatbot, image and video understanding, image generation, document processing, web search integration, tool utilization, and artifacts.
175. We Mourn Our Craft
I didn't ask for this and neither did you. I didn't ask for a robot to consume every blog post and piece of code I ever wrote and parrot it back so that some hack could make money off of it. I didn't ask for the role of a programmer to be reduced to that…
176. Amazon gets FCC approval to launch 4,500 Leo internet satellites
The new tranche would bring Amazon's planned constellation to roughly 7,700 satellites.
177. What 1.4M emails reveal about America's most notorious sex offender
178. I Started Programming When I Was 7. I'm 50 Now and the Thing I Loved Has Changed
I still love developing but the shifts that AI have brought are tectonic and are forcing me to re-evaluate my own relationship to building things
179. Meta Plans 'Name Tag' Facial Recognition for Ray-Ban Smart Glasses
Meta plans to add a facial recognition feature to its Ray-Ban smart glasses as soon as this year, reports The New York Times ($). According to people involved in the plans who spoke to the publication, the feature is internally called "Name Tag," and would let wearers identify people and get information about them via Meta's artificial intelligence assistant. Mark Zuckerberg reportedly wants the feature to differentiate the devices and to make the AI assistant in the glasses more useful.
180. New Nick Bostrom Paper: Optimal Timing for Superintelligence [pdf]