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1.A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro (gowers.wordpress.com)
614 points by _alternator_ 1 day ago | 442 comments
2.OpenAI’s WebRTC problem (moq.dev)
474 points by atgctg 2 days ago | 141 comments
3.Mythical Man Month (martinfowler.com)
362 points by ingve 2 days ago | 195 comments
4.Using Claude Code: The unreasonable effectiveness of HTML (twitter.com/trq212)
429 points by pretext 23 hours ago | 244 comments
5.Wi is Fi: Understanding Wi-Fi 4/5/6/6E/7/8 (802.11 n/AC/ax/be/bn) (wiisfi.com)
381 points by homebrewer 3 days ago | 97 comments
6.Internet Archive Switzerland (blog.archive.org)
562 points by hggh 16 hours ago | 87 comments
7.LLMs corrupt your documents when you delegate (arxiv.org)
372 points by rbanffy 19 hours ago | 144 comments
8.The React2Shell Story (lachlan.nz)
214 points by mufeedvh 1 day ago | 46 comments
9.America's carpet capital: an empire and its toxic legacy (apnews.com)
163 points by rawgabbit 3 days ago | 102 comments
10.What causes lightning? The answer keeps getting more interesting (quantamagazine.org)
198 points by Tomte 3 days ago | 44 comments
11.Bun's experimental Rust rewrite hits 99.8% test compatibility on Linux x64 glibc (twitter.com/jarredsumner)
463 points by heldrida 17 hours ago | 444 comments
12.Meta Shuts Down End-to-End Encryption for Instagram Messaging (pcmag.com)
317 points by tcp_handshaker 1 day ago | 216 comments
13.EU Parliamentary Research Service calls VPNs "a loophole that needs closing" (cyberinsider.com)
437 points by muse900 22 hours ago | 286 comments
14.Teaching Claude Why (anthropic.com)
251 points by pretext 1 day ago | 138 comments
15.The hypocrisy of cyberlibertarianism (matduggan.com)
285 points by ColinWright 14 hours ago | 249 comments
16.Can LLMs model real-world systems in TLA+? (sigops.org)
118 points by mad 1 day ago | 31 comments
17.Light without electricity? Glowing algae could make it possible (colorado.edu)
103 points by geox 3 days ago | 35 comments
18.I’ve banned query strings (chrismorgan.info)
305 points by susam 11 hours ago | 179 comments
19.Meta's embrace of AI is making its employees miserable (nytimes.com)
334 points by JumpCrisscross 9 hours ago | 330 comments
20.Distributing Mac software is increasing my cortisol levels (kronis.dev)
230 points by LorenDB 13 hours ago | 158 comments
21.GrapheneOS fixes Android VPN leak Google refused to patch (cyberinsider.com)
275 points by Georgelemental 13 hours ago | 105 comments
22.How LEDs are made (2014) (sparkfun.com)
129 points by smig0 2 days ago | 21 comments
23.PipeDream on the Acorn Archimedes (stonetools.ghost.io)
78 points by msephton 13 hours ago | 36 comments
24.When is your birthday? The math behind hash collisions (0xkrt26.github.io)
64 points by denismenace 1 day ago | 17 comments
25.Zed Editor Theme-Builder (zed.dev)
173 points by cuechan 10 hours ago | 49 comments
26.CPanel's Black Week: 3 New Vulnerabilities Patched After Attack on 44k Servers (copahost.com)
114 points by ggallas 11 hours ago | 63 comments
27.Bitter Lessons from the ISSpresso (mceglowski.substack.com)
127 points by zdw 3 days ago | 39 comments
28.Forking the Web (dillo-browser.org)
119 points by wrxd 16 hours ago | 119 comments
29.Reviving the IBM Selectric Composer Fonts (2023) (kutilek.de)
70 points by tangus 3 days ago | 6 comments
30.The soul of maintaining a new machine (worksinprogress.co)
89 points by akkartik 4 days ago | 8 comments

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