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241. EPA Advances Farmers' Right to Repair
Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) advanced American farmers and equipment owners’ lawful right to repair their farm and other nonroad diesel equipment.
242. Waymo Seeking About $16B Near $110B Valuation
243. Guix System First Impressions as a Nix User
244. What I learned building an opinionated and minimal coding agent
Lessons I learned while building my own coding agent from scratch.
245. Build Your Own Insect Drone
When Mother Nature Goes Metal
246. Mouthbreathing Machiavellis Dream of a Silicon Reich (2014)
Meet the neo-reactionaries who influenced the rightward drift of Silicon Valley.
247. List animals until failure
hot new brain workout
248. Chrome rolling out WebGPU for Linux, starting with support for Intel Gen12 GPUs
249. "time to GPT-2", down to 2.91 hours
250. Apple's MacBook Pro DFU port documentation is wrong
251. Many people have no mental imagery. What's going on in their brains?
People with aphantasia are offering a window into consciousness. People with aphantasia are offering a window into consciousness.
252. Leaked Chats Expose the Daily Life of a Scam Compound's Enslaved Workforce
A whistleblower trapped inside a “pig butchering” scam compound gave WIRED a vast trove of its internal materials—including 4,200 pages of messages that lay out its operations in unprecedented detail.
253. The Vanilla Web Is Wonderful
I've been working on a new website using only vanilla HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. It's been a fun challenge to build something without any frameworks or libraries.
254. Nvidia shares are down after report that its OpenAI investment stalled
Nvidia's Jensen Huang criticized OpenAI's business strategy as the chip giant plans to invest up to $100 billion into the AI startup, per reports.
255. uLauncher
A distraction-free, minimal homescreen for Android. - jrpie/launcher
256. Billy Bass Nelson, Original Bassist for Funkadelic, Dies at 75
257. Common Bacteria Discovered in the Eye Linked to Cognitive Decline
A Cedars-Sinai study finds a common bacterium in the eye linked to Alzheimer’s severity, pointing to new approaches to detect and treat the disease.
258. GitHub discusses giving maintainers control to disable PRs
Exploring Solutions to Tackle Low-Quality Contributions on GitHub
259. Why This Computer Scientist Says All Cryptocurrency Should "Die in a Fire"
UC-Berkeley’s Nicholas Weaver has been studying cryptocurrency for years. He thinks it’s a terrible idea that will end in disaster.
260. Western Digital doubles the performance of hard drives with dual-actuator
Tailoring HDDs for applications.
261. JetBrains drops X11 for Wayland as default in IntelliJ-based IDEs
262. Portugal ruling party MPs seek social media ban for teens
International, MNA | Portugal followed France and Australia by seeking to ban social media for children in a proposal submitted by ruling party lawmakers to parliament on Monday.
263. CIA ends publication of its popular World Factbook reference tool
WASHINGTON — Close the cover on the CIA World Factbook: The spy agency announced Wednesday that after more than 60 years, it is shuttering the popular reference manual
264. Petition for Recognition of Work on Open-Source as Volunteering in Germany
Open-Source-Software builds the foundations of digital infrastructure in big parts - in administration, economy, science and daily life. Even the current coalition agreement of the Federal Government mentions Open-Source-Software as a fundamental building block for the achievement of digital sovereignty. However, the work done by thousands of volunteers for this goal is not recognised as volunteering, neither fiscally nor in terms of funding. This imbalance between societal importance and legal
265. Noctia: A sleek and minimal desktop shell thoughtfully crafted for Wayland
A sleek and minimal desktop shell thoughtfully crafted for Wayland. - noctalia-dev/noctalia-shell
266. English professors double down on requiring printed copies of readings
267. Show HN: Apate API mocking/prototyping server and Rust unit test library
API prototyping/mocking server & rust unit tests library to mimic external 3rd party API endpoints with Rhai scripting capabilities - rustrum/apate
268. Time Machine-style Backups with rsync (2018)
Sam Hewitt, Human Interface Designer
269. Anthropic AI Tool Sparks Selloff from Software to Broader Market
270. Court orders restart of all US offshore wind power construction
Trump admin's "it's classified" ploy put on hold in five different cases.