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241. CSS Optical Illusions
A collection of 50+ optical illusions coded with CSS and HTML. :: Blog post at Alvaro Montoro's Personal Website.
242. Environmentalists worry Google behind bid to control Oregon town's water
243. Alarm overload is undermining safety at sea as crews face thousands of alerts
Analysis of more than 40 million alarm-related events shows most alarms offer little operational value, disrupt rest and push crews toward risky workarounds.
244. Many Small Queries Are Efficient in SQLite
245. Video Games as Art
Video games are art, but a strange art: their essence is transformation of the player, not description to the player. This makes meaningful criticism nearly impossible—you can point at the moon, but it’s not the moon, and once someone sees it, they no longer need the pointing.
246. US Government wants DNA and social media from visitors
Yesterday the Trump Administration announced a proposed change in policy for travellers to the U.S. It applies to the powers of data collection by the Customs and Border Police (CBP).
247. Transfering Files with gRPC
Is transfering files with gRPC a good idea? Or should you still use REST? This blogpost compares the two technologies.
248. Poland's energy grid was targeted by never-before-seen wiper malware
Destructive payload unleashed on tenth anniversary of Russia's attack on Ukraine's grid.
249. I was banned from Claude for scaffolding a Claude.md file
250. AI Lazyslop and Personal Responsibility
A love letter on owning AI generated code and the importance of personal accountability in code reviews
251. Postmortem: Our first VLEO satellite mission (with imagery and flight data)
252. European Alternatives
We help you find European alternatives for digital service and products, like cloud services and SaaS products.
253. Replacing Protobuf with Rust to go 5 times faster
254. Booting a PC from a Vinyl Record
255. Joel Spolsky: Painless Software Schedules (2000)
Last October, the Northeast US was plastered with ads for something called Acela, a new express train running from Boston to Washington. With TV ads, billboards, and posters everywhere, you'd think that it would have created some demand for Amtrak's new express service. Well, maybe. Amtrak didn't get a chance to find out. Acela was…
256. Washington State Bill Seeks to Add Firearms Detection to 3D Printers
257. Uber launches an 'AV Labs' division to gather driving data for robotaxi partners
Uber is not developing its own robotaxis again; instead it plans to collect and offer data. It's a bet that more volume will help autonomous vehicle partners solve the weirdest edge cases.
258. Gas Town's Agent Patterns, Design Bottlenecks, and Vibecoding at Scale
On agent orchestration patterns, why design and critical thinking are the new bottlenecks, and whether we should let go of looking at code
259. Recent discoveries on the acquisition of the highest levels of human performance
260. ICE Using Palantir Tool That Feeds on Medicaid Data
ICE is using a Palantir tool that uses Medicaid and other government data to stalk people for arrest. This is exactly the kind of data privacy abuse that EFF has been warning about.
261. Why does SSH send 100 packets per keystroke?
I made my next game twice as fast by forking go's crypto library
262. Open-source self-driving for 325 car models from 27 brands
263. Proton Spam and the AI Consent Problem
The one where I get very annoyed with my email provider
264. Nobody likes lag: How to make low-latency dev sandboxes
How to make low-latency development sandboxes
265. Amazon inadvertently announces cloud unit layoffs in email to employees
Amazon sent a notice out to staffers in an apparent error acknowledging "organizational changes" at the company.
266. The future of work when work is meaningless
Money, AI, jobs and specifically, what the future may hold for creatives
267. I built a light that reacts to radio waves [video]
Spectrum Slit, rootkid (2026)About: https://rootkid.me/works/spectrum-slitMusic: Uranium - Radioactive Man
268. Capital One to acquire Brex for $5.15B
269. Wine-Staging 11.1 Adds Patches for Enabling Recent Photoshop Versions on Linux
Following yesterday's release of Wine 11.1 for kicking off the new post-11.0 development cycle, Wine-Staging 11.1 is now available for this experimental/testing version of Wine that present is around 254 patches over the upstream Wine state.
270. Intel's Panther Lake Chip is its biggest win in years
I’ve tested two new laptops powered by Panther Lake—pitting them head-to-head against laptops with Apple Silicon—and Intel has finally scored a much-needed win with the Core Ultra Series 3.