Yearly Favorites
1741.
Calvin and Hobbes and the price of integrity
(therepublicofletters.substack.com)
1742.
You’re a slow thinker. Now what?
(chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com)
1743.
The Website Specification
(specification.website)
1744.
Cybersecurity looks like proof of work now
(dbreunig.com)
1745.
What Is a Dickover?
(daringfireball.net)
1746.
How to Draw a Space Invader
(muffinman.io)
1747.
1748.
Wanted to spy on my dog, ended up spying on TP-Link
(kennedn.com)
1749.
CS336: Language Modeling from Scratch
(cs336.stanford.edu)
1750.
GPT-5.1: A smarter, more conversational ChatGPT
(openai.com)
1751.
Who owns the code Claude Code wrote?
(legallayer.substack.com)
1752.
1753.
MiMo Code is now released and open-source
(mimo.xiaomi.com)
1754.
The Tower Keeps Rising
(lucumr.pocoo.org)
1755.
FFmpeg has issued a DMCA takedown on GitHub
(twitter.com)
1756.
Don’t Look Up: Sensitive internal links in the clear on GEO satellites [pdf]
(satcom.sysnet.ucsd.edu)
1757.
Ars Technica makes up quotes from Matplotlib maintainer; pulls story
(infosec.exchange)
1758.
Roc Camera
(roc.camera)
1759.
Meta acquires Moltbook
(axios.com)
1761.
AI is making me dumb
(jpain.io)
1762.
Protect your right to run local AI
(righttointelligence.org)
1763.
The Hunt for Dark Breakfast
(moultano.wordpress.com)
1765.
1766.
Hetzner Prices increase 30-40%
(docs.hetzner.com)
1768.
A new Google model is nearly perfect on automated handwriting recognition
(generativehistory.substack.com)
1769.
Building and shipping Mac and iOS apps without opening Xcode
(scottwillsey.com)
1770.
Inkjet printer with DRM-free ink will be launched via a crowdfunding campaign
(notebookcheck.net)