Monthly Highlights
181.
Crossing the uncanny valley of conversational voice (sesame.com)
182.
Botswana launches first satellite BOTSAT-1 aboard SpaceX Falcon 9 (spaceinafrica.com)
183.
Gemini 2.5 Pro vs. Claude 3.7 Sonnet: Coding Comparison (composio.dev)
184.
Things I would have told myself before building an autorouter (blog.autorouting.com)
185.
Public health data disappeared. RestoredCDC.org is bringing it back (RestoredCDC.org)
186.
The Golden Age of Japanese Pencils (2022) (notes.stlartsupply.com)
187.
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2025)
188.
New tools for building agents (openai.com)
189.
Has the decline of knowledge work begun? (nytimes.com)
190.
GLP-1 drugs: An economic disruptor? (2024) (wildfirelabs.substack.com)
191.
Ask HN: Any insider takes on Yann LeCun's push against current architectures?
192.
Feds Link Cyberheist to 2022 LastPass Hacks (krebsonsecurity.com)
193.
How Kerala got rich (aeon.co)
194.
A note on the USB-to-PS/2 mouse adapter that came with Microsoft mouse devices (devblogs.microsoft.com)
195.
Writing an LLM from scratch, part 8 – trainable self-attention (gilesthomas.com)
196.
Xee: A Modern XPath and XSLT Engine in Rust (blog.startifact.com)
197.
Kagi Is Bringing Orion Web Browser to Linux (omgubuntu.co.uk)
198.
Postgres Just Cracked the Top Fastest Databases for Analytics (mooncake.dev)
199.
NCSC, GCHQ, UK Gov't expunge advice to “use Apple encryption” (alecmuffett.com)
200.
The earliest versions of the first C compiler known to exist (github.com)
201.
The Pentium contains a complicated circuit to multiply by three (righto.com)
202.
Mark Cuban offers to fund former 18F employees (techcrunch.com)
203.
Undocumented backdoor found in Bluetooth chip used by a billion devices (bleepingcomputer.com)
204.
A DOGE staffer appears to be posting DOGE work on his public GitHub (twitter.com)
205.
Hallucinations in code are the least dangerous form of LLM mistakes (simonwillison.net)
206.
My TV started playing a video in full screen by itself. What happened? (support.vizio.com)
207.
Most promoted and blocked domains on Kagi (kagi.com)
208.
Our interfaces have lost their senses (wattenberger.com)
209.
Bispecific antibodies potently neutralize SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern (science.org)
210.
Ladder: Self-improving LLMs through recursive problem decomposition (arxiv.org)