Daily Top Stories
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Prefer strict tables in SQLite
(evanhahn.com)
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What xAI's Grok Build CLI Actually Sends to xAI
(gist.github.com)
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Ghost Font: A font that humans can read but AI cannot
(mixfont.com)
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We scaled PgBouncer to 4x throughput
(clickhouse.com)
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AI 2040 and the cult of intelligence
(geohot.github.io)
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Networking and the Internet, from First Principles
(fazamhd.com)
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Mesh LLM: distributed AI computing on iroh
(iroh.computer)
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Leaded gas was a known poison the day it was invented (2016)
(smithsonianmag.com)
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Modern decor may be straining people's brains
(studyfinds.com)
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Stop Telling Me to Ask an LLM
(blog.yaelwrites.com)
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UPI: Anatomy of a Payment Transaction
(timeseriesofindia.com)
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Show HN: Learn by rebuilding Redis, Git, a database from scratch
(shipthatcode.com)
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Doctors die. It's not like the rest of us, but it should be (2016)
(archive.cancerworld.net)
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Your code is fast if you're lucky
(tiki.li)
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FCC approves test of space mirror to light night sky
(theconversation.com)
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How to hide from killer drones
(economist.com)
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Why it's so difficult to produce American-made medical gloves
(bloomberg.com)
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The early History of the Singular Value Decomposition (1993) [pdf]
(math.ucdavis.edu)
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Reverse centaurs are the answer to the AI paradox (2025)
(pluralistic.net)
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Long Covid May Physically Damage the Nerves That Control the Stomach
(ijidonline.com)
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Speculations Concerning the First Ultraintelligent Machine (1965) [pdf]
(languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu)
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We Know Simple Fluids Can Flow. Turns Out, Some Can Fracture
(quantamagazine.org)
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Why are US consumers so angry? It's not just high prices
(theguardian.com)
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A pure scheme web programming tool
(goeteia.dev)
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ZeroFS vs. Amazon S3 Files
(zerofs.net)