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Formatting a 25M-line codebase overnight

https://stripe.dev/blog/formatting-an-entire-25-mi...

Copyfail2

https://github.com/0xdeadbeefnetwork/Copy_Fail2-El...

Batteries Not Included, or Required, for These Smart Home Sensors

https://coe.gatech.edu/news/2026/04/batteries-not-...

Young people explicitly banned from openSUSE – urgent call for reversal

https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/project@l...

Do We Think Too Much About the Future?

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/open-questions/d...

Telus Uses AI to Alter Call-Agent Accents

https://letsdatascience.com/news/telus-uses-ai-to-...

Why Don't Lowercase Letters Come Right After Uppercase Letters in ASCII?

https://tylerhillery.com/blog/why-dont-lowercase-c...

Let's talk about LLMs

https://www.b-list.org/weblog/2026/apr/09/llms/

Discord Incident – Resolved

https://discordstatus.com

IBM didn't want Microsoft to use the Tab key to move between dialog fields

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/2026050...

The Traveling Salesdog Problem

https://www.wespiser.com/posts/2026-05-04-travelin...

U.S. Schools Face a Crisis as the Number of Children Drops

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/08/upshot/public-s...

Notes on the xAI/Anthropic data center deal

https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/7/xai-anthropic...

AI's Circular Psychosis

https://www.wheresyoured.at/premium-ais-circular-p...

I am worried about Bun

https://wwj.dev/posts/i-am-worried-about-bun/

Microsoft Edge stores all passwords in memory in clear text, even when unused

https://twitter.com/L1v1ng0ffTh3L4N/status/2051308...

Molecular quantum nanosensors functioning in living cells

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aeb5422

Google tools for customizing searches

https://cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/google-h...

A new era for memory-management maintainership

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1070994/9b6713c0c4d...

Async Rust never left the MVP state

https://tweedegolf.nl/en/blog/237/async-rust-never...

New anti-tank round punches through high-tech explosive armor

https://newatlas.com/military/saab-anti-tank-round...

Modula-2 and Oberon [pdf]

https://people.inf.ethz.ch/wirth/Articles/Modula-O...

I completed 100 Days of Java over 5 years and mapped the journey as a graph

https://mohibulsblog.netlify.app/java/100daysofjav...

I'm scared about biological computing

https://kuber.studio/blog/Reflections/I%27m-Scared...

Evaluating Geekbench 6

https://chipsandcheese.com/p/evaluating-geekbench-...

The Tax of Living in a Low-Trust Society: How Collapsed Trust Costs You

https://yourbrainonmoney.substack.com/p/low-trust-...

Empty Screenings – Finds AMC movie screenings with few or no tickets sold

https://walzr.com/empty-screenings

Underwater robot tracks sperm whale conversations in real time

https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/under...

Show HN: AnamDB – An AI-native, differentiable Datalog engine written in Rust

https://github.com/jam5991/anam

Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters

https://war.gov/UFO