Daily Top Stories
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College instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work (sentinelcolorado.com)
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NIST scientists create 'any wavelength' lasers (nist.gov)
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Thoughts and feelings around Claude Design (samhenri.gold)
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Traders placed over $1B in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war (theguardian.com)
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NASA Shuts Off Instrument on Voyager 1 to Keep Spacecraft Operating (science.nasa.gov)
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Vercel April 2026 security incident (vercel.com)
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Ask HN: How did you land your first projects as a solo engineer/consultant?
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Airline worker arrested after sharing photos of bomb damage in WhatsApp group (lbc.co.uk)
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Dad brains: How fatherhood rewires the male mind (bbc.com)
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The seven programming ur-languages (2022) (madhadron.com)
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Keep Pushing: We Get 10 More Days to Reform Section 702 (eff.org)
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The world in which IPv6 was a good design (2017) (apenwarr.ca)
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SPEAKE(a)R: Turn Speakers to Microphones for Fun and Profit [pdf] (2017) (usenix.org)
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Optimizing Ruby Path Methods (byroot.github.io)
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Vercel Says Internal Systems Hit in Breach (decipher.sc)
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Zero-Copy GPU Inference from WebAssembly on Apple Silicon (abacusnoir.com)
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Graphs that explain the state of AI in 2026 (spectrum.ieee.org)
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The creative software industry has declared war on Adobe (theverge.com)
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America will come to regret its war on taxes (economist.com)
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Changes in the system prompt between Claude Opus 4.6 and 4.7 (simonwillison.net)
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Notion leaks email addresses of all editors of any public page (twitter.com)
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The RAM shortage could last years (theverge.com)
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Why Zip drives dominated the 90s, then vanished almost overnight (xda-developers.com)
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Notes from the SF Peptide Scene (12gramsofcarbon.com)
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4-bit floating point FP4 (johndcook.com)
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My first impressions on ROCm and Strix Halo (blog.marcoinacio.com)
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Young sons of U.S. marshal ride horseback from Oklahoma to New York (2018) (texascooppower.com)
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PM Carney declares U.S. ties now a 'weakness' in address to Canadians (ctvnews.ca)
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When moving fast, talking is the first thing to break (daverupert.com)
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Apple TV's Upcoming Cyberpunk Series Will Be the Matrix Meets Blade Runner (screenrant.com)