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HERMES.md in commit messages causes requests to route to extra usage billing

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/5...

In Kannauj, perfumers have been making monsoon-infused mitti attar for centuries

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/smell-of-rai...

Maryland becomes first state to ban surveillance pricing in grocery stores

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/29...

The Rotary Un-Smartphone (2023)

https://skysedge.com/telecom/RUSP/index.html

At Protocol: Building the Social Internet

https://atproto.com/

Manual Until It Hurts

https://indieweb.org/manual_until_it_hurts

HardenedBSD Is Now Officially on Radicle

https://hardenedbsd.org/article/shawn-webb/2026-04...

I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it

https://ca98am79.medium.com/i-bought-friendster-fo...

A statement about why RightsCon 2026 will not take place in Zambia

https://www.rightscon.org/rc26-statement/

Notes on a non-profit indicted for bank fraud

https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/nonprofit-i...

Mo RAM, Mo Problems (2025)

https://fabiensanglard.net/curse/

The end of "Just ask Sarah"

https://simme.dev/posts/the-end-of-just-ask-sarah/

The Abstraction Fallacy: Why AI can simulate but not instantiate consciousness

https://deepmind.google/research/publications/2319...

The Shadow Glass

https://morrigan-tech.com/blog/the-shadow-glass/

Online age verification is the hill to die on

https://x.com/GlennMeder/status/204908849816321656...

WASM is not quite a stack machine

https://purplesyringa.moe/blog/wasm-is-not-quite-a...

Improving ICU handovers by learning from Scuderia Ferrari F1 team

https://healthmanagement.org/c/icu/IssueArticle/im...

DeepSeek v4

https://api-docs.deepseek.com/news/news260424

The Prompt API

https://developer.chrome.com/docs/ai/prompt-api

CJIT: C, Just in Time

https://dyne.org/cjit/

Warm Burnout: editor and terminal color scheme

https://warmburnout.com/

Mistral Medium 3.5

https://mistral.ai/news/vibe-remote-agents-mistral...

Pgrx: Build Postgres Extensions with Rust

https://github.com/pgcentralfoundation/pgrx

Because It Doesn't Have To

https://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2026/04/b...

The AI Race Is Charged by the Fear of Being Left Behind

https://thewalrus.ca/the-ai-race-is-charged-by-the...

Becoming a father shrinks your cerebrum (2022)

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2...

GPT-5.5

https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-5/

NHS Goes to War Against Open Source

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/05/nhs-goes-to-war-a...

Withnail's Coat and I

https://ontherow.substack.com/p/withnails-coat-and...

Why I still reach for Lisp and Scheme instead of Haskell

https://jointhefreeworld.org/blog/articles/lisps/w...