Monthly Highlights
601.
Eliminating JavaScript cold starts on AWS Lambda (goose.icu)
602.
Japan's largest paper, Yomiuri Shimbun, sues Perplexity for copyright violations (niemanlab.org)
603.
An Update on Pytype (github.com)
604.
Qwen3-4B-Thinking-2507 (huggingface.co)
605.
Privately-Owned Rail Cars (amtrak.com)
606.
Why was Apache Kafka created? (bigdata.2minutestreaming.com)
607.
Jan – Ollama alternative with local UI (github.com)
608.
Show HN: I replaced vector databases with Git for AI memory (PoC) (github.com)
609.
Did California's fast food minimum wage reduce employment? (nber.org)
610.
How to rig elections [video] (media.ccc.de)
611.
The value of institutional memory (timharford.com)
612.
Programmers aren’t so humble anymore, maybe because nobody codes in Perl (wired.com)
613.
French firm Gouach is pitching an Infinite Battery with replaceable cells (arstechnica.com)
614.
Linux address space isolation revived after lowering performance hit (phoronix.com)
615.
Faster substring search with SIMD in Zig (aarol.dev)
616.
Newsmax agrees to pay $67M in defamation case over bogus 2020 election claims (apnews.com)
617.
I hacked Monster Energy (bobdahacker.com)
618.
LLMs and coding agents are a security nightmare (garymarcus.substack.com)
619.
AI doesn't lighten the burden of mastery (playtechnique.io)
620.
A small change to improve browsers for keyboard navigation (b.43z.one)
621.
Court records reveal Sig Sauer knew of pistol risks for years (smokinggun.org)
622.
Scientists No Longer Find X Professionally Useful, and Have Switched to Bluesky (academic.oup.com)
623.
Introduction to AT Protocol (mackuba.eu)
624.
Japan's Creepiest Station (tokyocowboy.co)
625.
Create personal illustrated storybooks in the Gemini app (blog.google)
626.
The Onion brought back its print edition and the gamble is paying off (wsj.com)
627.
SIMD within a register: How I doubled hash table lookup performance (maltsev.space)
628.
Kitten TTS: 25MB CPU-Only, Open-Source Voice Model (algogist.com)
629.
AGI is an engineering problem, not a model training problem (vincirufus.com)
630.
It’s not wrong that "\u{1F926}\u{1F3FC}\u200D\u2642\uFE0F".length == 7 (2019) (hsivonen.fi)