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Can someone please explain whether Cloudflare blackmailed Canonical?

https://www.flyingpenguin.com/can-someone-please-e...

Temu is advertising filet mignon on X

https://twitter.com/shoptemu/status/20530922006326...

Forking the Web

https://dillo-browser.org/lab/web-fork/

Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent

https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-silent-...

Phel v0.36.0 – Lisp on PHP, now with numeric tower and first-class Vars

https://github.com/phel-lang/phel-lang/releases/ta...

Idempotency is easy until the second request is different

https://blog.dochia.dev/blog/idempotency/

I returned to AWS and was reminded why I left

http://fourlightyears.blogspot.com/2026/05/i-retur...

Rotten Dot Com

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2026/05/06/rot...

Toxicity on Social Media

https://thenoisyroom.com

First tunnel element of the Fehmarnbelt Tunnel immersed

https://www.arup.com/en-us/news/first-fehmarnbelt-...

Show HN: Building a web server in assembly to give my life (a lack of) meaning

https://github.com/imtomt/ymawky

Appearing productive in the workplace

https://nooneshappy.com/article/appearing-producti...

Using Claude Code: The unreasonable effectiveness of HTML

https://twitter.com/trq212/status/2052809885763747...

Guy Goma's Accidental BBC Interview Lives on After 20 Years

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/06/business/media/...

Task Paralysis and AI

https://g5t.de/articles/20260510-task-paralysis-an...

Show HN: TRUST – Coding Rust like it's 1989

https://github.com/wojtczyk/trust

RSS feeds send me more traffic than Google

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/05/rss-feeds-send-me...

Building a Memory Allocator from Scratch in C

https://0xkiire.com/memory-allocators/

OpenAI’s WebRTC problem

https://moq.dev/blog/webrtc-is-the-problem/

Natural-language messages between LLM agents are an architectural anti-pattern

https://novaberg.de/papers/clipboard-pattern.html

The map that keeps Burning Man honest

https://www.not-ship.com/burning-man-moop/

A consistent pattern of lying': trial exposes what insiders think of Sam Altman

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/11/mu...

Distributing Mac software is increasing my cortisol levels

https://blog.kronis.dev/blog/apple-is-increasing-m...

LLMorphism: When humans come to see themselves as language models

https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.05419

Microsoft's LinkedIn Is Cutting Jobs in Latest Industry Cull

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-13...

Dirty Frag: Universal Linux LPE

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/0...

Casio S100X Japanese Lacquer Edition (JP Page Only)

https://www.casio.com/jp/basic-calculators/premium...

The first microcomputer: The transfluxor-powered Arma Micro Computer from 1962

https://www.righto.com/2024/02/the-first-microcomp...

Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit

https://xeiaso.net/blog/2026/abstain-from-install/

Shunting-Yard Animation

https://somethingorotherwhatever.com/shunting-yard...