Daily Top Stories
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ASCII characters are not pixels: a deep dive into ASCII rendering (alexharri.com)
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US electricity demand surged in 2025 – solar handled 61% of it (electrek.co)
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The recurring dream of replacing developers (caimito.net)
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If you put Apple icons in reverse it looks like someone getting good at design (mastodon.social)
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PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch (theregister.com)
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Map To Poster – Create Art of your favourite city (github.com)
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ClickHouse acquires Langfuse (langfuse.com)
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After 25 years, Wikipedia has proved that news doesn't need to look like news (niemanlab.org)
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2025 was the third hottest year on record (economist.com)
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Eight European countries face 10% tariff for opposing US control of Greenland (apnews.com)
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What life is like in Minneapolis now (donmoynihan.substack.com)
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Light Mode InFFFFFFlation (willhbr.net)
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Raising money fucked me up (blog.yakkomajuri.com)
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Canada's deal with China signals it is serious about shift from US (bbc.com)
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The 'untouchable hacker god' behind Finland's biggest crime (theguardian.com)
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Show HN: Streaming gigabyte medical images from S3 without downloading them (github.com)
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You have three minutes to escape the perpetual underclass (geohot.github.io)
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A programming language based on grammatical cases of Turkish (github.com)
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An Elizabethan mansion's secrets for staying warm (bbc.com)
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Earth is warming faster. Scientists are closing in on why (2024) (economist.com)
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Italy investigates Activision Blizzard for pushing in-game purchases (techcrunch.com)
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The 600-year-old origins of the word 'hello' (bbc.com)
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Germany's shut down of nuclear plants a 'huge mistake', says Merz (brusselssignal.eu)
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The Risks of AI in Schools Outweigh the Benefits, Report Says (npr.org)
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Every data centre is a U.S. military base (policyalternatives.ca)
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There's no single best way to store information (quantamagazine.org)
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OpenAI to test ads in ChatGPT as it burns through billions (arstechnica.com)
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Escaping the trap of US tech dependence (disconnect.blog)
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Congress wants to hand your parenting to big tech (eff.org)
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OpenAI could reportedly run out of cash by mid-2027 (tomshardware.com)