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Rise of the Forward Deployed Engineer

https://www.hfsresearch.com/research/fde-optional-...

China blocks Meta's acquisition of AI startup Manus

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/27/meta-manus-china-b...

Electrostatics and High Voltage Links

http://amasci.com/static/electrostatic1.html

USB Cheat Sheet (2022)

https://fabiensanglard.net/usbcheat/index.html

20 years of serial mouse cloning fails in 58th generation

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-69765-7

Lessons on Building MCP Servers

https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2026/04/29/2341

Why Law Is Law-Shaped

https://lawvm.org/why-law-is-law-shaped/

We Consciousness Researchers Have Failed You

https://www.theintrinsicperspective.com/p/we-consc...

Discret 11, the French TV encryption of the 80s (2020)

https://fabiensanglard.net/discret11/

Cybersec is a thankless job: expanding workload and shrinking pay packet

https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/27/from_a_mass...

Agentic AI systems violate the implicit assumptions of database design

https://arpitbhayani.me/blogs/defensive-databases/

California high-speed rail price tag jumps to $231B, nearly 7x 2008 estimate

https://kmph.com/news/local/california-high-speed-...

"People who don't use AI will be left behind"

https://migrainebrain.bearblog.dev/people-who-dont...

Building a Hamiltonian Path Puzzle

https://www.4rknova.com//blog/2026/04/24/number-tr...

Tendril – a self-extending agent that builds and registers its own tools

https://github.com/serverless-dna/tendril

Bankruptcies increase 11.9 percent

https://www.uscourts.gov/data-news/judiciary-news/...

Should we just skip code review now?

https://xata.io/blog/ai-codes-humans-engineer

Vehicle-to-Everything

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle-to-everythin...

Using Rust to Build a $1 Handheld Gaming Console

https://chrisdell.info/using-rust-to-build-a-1-dol...

Back Up and Running

https://blog.tindie.com/2026/04/back-up-and-runnin...

Age verification vendor Persona left front end exposed, researchers say

https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2026/02/age...

Quirks of Human Anatomy

https://www.sdbonline.org/sites/fly/lewheldquirk/f...

Kon-Tiki Set Sail 79 Years Ago Today

https://nautil.us/kon-tiki-set-sail-79-years-ago-t...

US special forces soldier arrested after allegedly winning $400k on Maduro raid

https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/23/politics/us-special...

QNX on the Commodore 900 – Raiders of the lost hard drive [video] (2025)

https://archive.fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fos...

KDE's 30th Anniversary

https://kde.org/anniversaries/30/

Vegas 2026: The DOJ's Developer Exemptions

https://www.therage.co/blanche-vegas/

Using coding assistance tools to revive projects you never were going to finish

https://blog.matthewbrunelle.com/its-ok-to-use-cod...

Exposing Floating Point – Bartosz Ciechanowski (2019)

https://ciechanow.ski/exposing-floating-point/

How Did REST Come to Mean the Opposite of REST?

https://htmx.org/essays/how-did-rest-come-to-mean-...