Weekly Best
1.
Everyone knows all the apps on your phone (peabee.substack.com)
2.
How each pillar of the First Amendment is under attack (krebsonsecurity.com)
3.
Tracing the thoughts of a large language model (anthropic.com)
4.
Apple needs a Snow Sequoia (reviews.ofb.biz)
5.
FBI raids home of prominent computer scientist who has gone incommunicado (arstechnica.com)
6.
Blender releases their Oscar winning version tool (blender.org)
7.
OpenAI adds MCP support to Agents SDK (openai.github.io)
8.
xAI has acquired X, xAI now valued at $80B (twitter.com)
9.
Electron band structure in germanium, my ass (2001) (pages.cs.wisc.edu)
10.
Debian bookworm live images now reproducible (lwn.net)
11.
The average college student today (hilariusbookbinder.substack.com)
12.
I genuinely don't understand why some people are still bullish about LLMs (twitter.com)
13.
A love letter to the CSV format (github.com)
14.
Show HN: Nue – Apps lighter than a React button (nuejs.org)
15.
We hacked Gemini's Python sandbox and leaked its source code (at least some) (landh.tech)
16.
I asked police to send me their public surveillance footage of my car (cardinalnews.org)
17.
Honey has now lost 4M Chrome users after shady tactics were revealed (9to5google.com)
18.
How to Use Em Dashes (–), En Dashes (–), and Hyphens (-) (merriam-webster.com)
19.
The demoscene as a UNESCO heritage in Sweden (goto80.com)
20.
Oracle attempt to hide cybersecurity incident from customers? (doublepulsar.com)
21.
I tried making artificial sunlight at home (victorpoughon.fr)
22.
The Guardian flourishes without a paywall (nymag.com)
23.
How to write blog posts that developers read (refactoringenglish.com)
24.
Why Apple's Severance gets edited over remote desktop software (tedium.co)
25.
Blue95: a desktop for your childhood home's computer room (github.com)
26.
Utah becomes first US state to ban fluoride in its water (bbc.com)
27.
The <select> element can now be customized with CSS (developer.chrome.com)
28.
Architecture Patterns with Python (cosmicpython.com)
29.
The Website Hacker News Is Afraid to Discuss (daringfireball.net)
30.
The April Fools joke that might have got me fired (oldvcr.blogspot.com)