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Friday, June 26, 2026

• 🚴‍♀ Wear a helmet! - Bits by Bino bits.gobino.be EN An eyewitness recounts a severe bicycle crash and urges always wearing a helmet.
  Safety Cycling helmet accident injury bystander
• Founding a Company in Germany: €9,600, 152 Days, and I Still Can't Send an Invoice paolino.me EN The author describes the arduous and expensive process of founding a company in Germany, which delays invoicing.
  Startups business law Germany incorporation bureaucracy taxation invoicing

Tuesday, June 23, 2026

• What If Your Browser Could Just Ask for Markdown? · blog | sven kanoldt d34dl0ck.me EN Proposal to let browsers request Markdown via HTTP for cleaner, consistent reading.
  Web Browser Content markdown browser accessibility

Monday, June 22, 2026

• Jobs and Software is Fucked – On Games And Design urflow.bearblog.dev EN A software engineer vents frustration about the brutal job market, layoffs, and degrading coding interviews.
  Artificial Intelligence Software Engineering AI

Thursday, June 18, 2026

• A New Era of Midjourney www.midjourney.com EN-US Midjourney announces a spa-like ultrasonic scanner for frequent health imaging.
  Technology AI Healthcare Wellness Midjourney ultrasound spa health

Wednesday, June 17, 2026

• Daring Fireball: What Is a Dickover? daringfireball.net EN The article defines 'dickover' as an obstructive modal popup used by websites to annoy users with unwanted interactions.
  Technology User Experience dickover ux modal popup

Saturday, June 13, 2026

• Statement on the US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 \ Anthropic www.anthropic.com EN Anthropic announces compliance with a US government order suspending access to its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models.
  Technology Cybersecurity Policy Anthropic Jailbreak

Friday, June 12, 2026

• Next 100 Days: XBOX Reset - XBOX Wire news.xbox.com EN-US Xbox outlines its next 100‑day reset plan addressing hardware shortages, content investment, and community engagement.
  Gaming Technology Business Xbox Hardware Gaming

Wednesday, June 10, 2026

• Anthropic's Model Naming, Extrapolated · Sam Wilkinson samwilkinson.io EN A satirical post extrapolates Anthropic's Claude model naming into a literary franchise hierarchy.
  Technology AI Claude Anthropic Model Naming

Monday, June 8, 2026

• A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Massive Data Center Instead www.404media.co EN A Texas city sold land originally deeded for a park and is allowing a private data center to be built despite community and legal objections.
  Legal Environment News datacenter
• 1worldflag 1worldflag.com EN-US A project promoting global unity through a proposed One World Flag and related workshops and exhibitions.
  Art Activism flag unity workshops exhibitions

Sunday, June 7, 2026

• Replies to comments on my "LLMs are eroding my career" post | the human in the loop human-in-the-loop.bearblog.dev EN An engineer describes how LLMs, agents, and prompting are automating domain expertise, reshaping software work, and threatening jobs.
  Technology AI Careers AI agents automation LLMs fintech
• LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do | the human in the loop human-in-the-loop.bearblog.dev EN A software engineer explains how LLMs are eroding their specialized skills and threatening their career prospects.
  Technology AI Career AI LLMs debugging architecture career
• How's Linear so fast? A technical breakdown performance.dev EN Explains how Linear achieves snappy UX via a local-first sync engine, aggressive code splitting, and UI performance optimizations.
  Web Development Performance Frontend IndexedDB MobX OptimisticUpdates ServiceWorker

Thursday, June 4, 2026

• I built a vulnerable app and spent $1,500 seeing if LLMs could hack it kasra.blog EN A security research post testing whether LLMs could exploit a vulnerable React Native app and backend.
  Security vulnerability AI LLM pentesting

Sunday, May 31, 2026

• the solution might be cancelling my AI subscription thoughts.hmmz.org The author argues that AI and other digital tools increase shallow tasks and distractions, undermining deep work and meaningful outcomes.
  Technology Productivity AI productivity

Friday, May 29, 2026

• Someone used my open source project to phish 14,000 people andrej.sh EN An open-source project's hosted cloud was abused to send 14,000 phishing emails, prompting the maintainer to revoke keys and harden signup flows.
  Security Open Source Cloud Phishing abuse DKIM
• I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit simonwillison.net EN-GB OpenAI and Anthropic have likely found product-market fit as enterprise adoption of coding agents and pricing shifts drive substantial revenue.
  Technology Business agents pricing enterprise revenue

Wednesday, May 27, 2026

• An Update on Composer & Packagist Supply Chain Security blog.packagist.com EN Packagist and Composer announce multiple supply chain security improvements including transparency logs, MFA, malware detection, version immutability, and provenance plans.
  Security Package Management Composer Packagist MFA Immutability
• I’m tired of talking to AI orchidfiles.com EN The author expresses frustration with AI-generated answers replacing real human interaction.
  Technology Society AI automation misinformation authenticity

Sunday, May 24, 2026

• Ad Infinitum · Matthias Ott matthiasott.com EN Google's move to generative search embeds ads into AI-generated answers, threatening the web's link economy and user privacy.
  Privacy Technology Business advertising search generative privacy

Friday, May 22, 2026

• ✱ Kagi's Small Web is Wonderful - Defiant Sloth defiantsloth.com EN Kagi's Small Web is an ad-free, open-source curated index that randomly surfaces independent blogs for easy discovery.
  Technology Internet Kagi Kagi curation discovery blogs search

Monday, May 18, 2026

• Froot Loops and a graphics card · Daniel May danielmay.co.uk EN A developer recounts building a VB6 parser for Siemens 9005 PBX dumps, receiving Froot Loops and a graphics card as payment, and reflecting on engineering lessons and nostalgia.
  Software Personal parser PBX ETL nostalgia
• Local agentic workflows are getting crazy good tonisagrista.com EN New local LLMs like Qwen 3.6 and MoE models enable powerful, efficient agentic workflows that rival frontier models for many everyday tasks.
  Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning Qwen local

Friday, May 15, 2026

• RTX 5090 + M4 MacBook Air: Can it Game? | Scott's Blog scottjg.com EN A technical walkthrough of using an RTX 5090 eGPU with an M4 MacBook Air via Thunderbolt and a Linux VM for gaming and AI.
  Gaming Hardware AI Software eGPU

Thursday, May 14, 2026

• How fast is autonomous AI cyber capability advancing? | AISI Work www.aisi.gov.uk EN AISI finds autonomous AI cyber capabilities are rapidly accelerating, with task-completion time horizons doubling in months.
  AI Cybersecurity benchmarks autonomy vulnerabilities

Tuesday, May 12, 2026

• I Let AI Build a Tool to Help Me Figure Out What Was Waking Me Up at Night martin.sh EN A developer used AI to build a home system that links audio and sensor data to identify what wakes them at night.
  Technology Health AI audio sleep sensors

Monday, May 11, 2026

• Datatype — variable font that turns text into charts franktisellano.github.io EN A variable OpenType font that turns text expressions into inline charts without JavaScript.
  Design Typography font charts sparklines OpenType

Thursday, May 7, 2026

• AI Assistance Reduces Persistence ai-project-website.github.io AI assistance improved in-session performance but reduced independent test performance and persistence, especially when users sought direct answers.
  Research Education Human-computer interaction AI assistance learning persistence

Tuesday, May 5, 2026

• Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent. At a billion-device scale the climate costs are insane. — That Privacy Guy! www.thatprivacyguy.com EN Google Chrome silently downloads a 4 GB Gemini Nano model without user consent, raising privacy, legal, and environmental concerns.
  Privacy Regulation Environment gdpr Chrome consent climate

Sunday, May 3, 2026

• A Personal AI That Reads My Bills mdelapenya.xyz EN A first-person account of building a self-hosted AI on a Synology NAS that parses emailed PDFs to make bills queryable.
  AI Selfhosting Personal Assistant Nanoclaw
• The Listening Museum · sheets.works sheets.works EN An interactive listening museum showcasing curated recordings of 36 mechanical keyboards and switches.
  Technology Audio keyboards audio

Thursday, April 30, 2026

• Where the goblins came from | OpenAI openai.com OpenAI traced and reduced an unintended increase in goblin metaphors caused by reward signals during personality-focused training.
  AI Research goblins reward personality audit

Wednesday, April 22, 2026

• How The Heck Does GPS Work? (An Interactive Exploration) perthirtysix.com EN Explains how GPS uses satellite timing, geometry, and relativistic corrections to compute precise positions.
  Technology Science Navigation GPS satellites

Sunday, April 19, 2026

• Why Japan has such good railways - Works in Progress Magazine worksinprogress.co EN-US Japan's excellent railways result from privatized, vertically integrated operators, liberal zoning, and targeted public policy rather than culture.
  Transportation railways privatization transit zoning

Friday, April 17, 2026

• The creative software industry has declared war on Adobe | The Verge www.theverge.com EN-US Competitors are undermining Adobe with free and cheaper alternatives to its Creative Cloud.
  Technology Business Software Adobe Alternatives Subscription Free
• Installing every* Firefox extension jack.cab EN A walkthrough of scraping, installing, and analyzing tens of thousands of Firefox extensions with security and performance observations.
  Security Technology Research Phishing Firefox extensions scraping
• Discourse is Not Going Closed Source blog.discourse.org EN Discourse will remain open source, arguing AI-driven defenses and transparency are better than closing source for security.
  Security Technology AI opensource security saas

Wednesday, April 15, 2026

• My adventure in designing API keys vjay15.github.io EN A developer's exploration of API key design, hashing choices, and shard routing performance.
  Databases Backend performance api

Tuesday, April 14, 2026

• Can Claude Fly a Plane? so.long.thanks.fish EN A user tests Claude flying a Cessna in X-Plane and finds it fails due to latency and control issues.
  Technology Claude

Monday, April 13, 2026

• Indexmieten in Berlin: Mieter wehren sich erfolgreich – doch die Trickserei geht weiter | taz.de taz.de DE Der Artikel berichtet, wie der Konzern Heimstaden in Berlin Indexmieten nutzt und Mieter sich dagegen wehren.
  Wohnungsmarkt Mietrecht Indexmiete Heimstaden Mieterhöhung Mieterschutz

Sunday, April 12, 2026

• Erinnerung an NS-Opfer: Wo Hape Kerkeling mal ganz ernst wird | taz.de taz.de DE Hape Kerkeling warnte beim Gedenken in Buchenwald vor Vergessen und Instrumentalisierung.
  Politik Gedenken Erinnerungskultur
• Buchenwald: Die unverzichtbaren Worte des Hape Kerkeling - DER SPIEGEL www.spiegel.de DE Hape Kerkeling hielt in Buchenwald eine eindringliche Rede über Verantwortung und Erinnerungskultur.
  Politik Kultur Gedenken Weimer Holocaust

Wednesday, April 8, 2026

• How many products does Microsoft have named ‘Copilot’? I mapped every one | Tey Bannerman teybannerman.com EN An interactive map documenting the many Microsoft products and features named 'Copilot'.
  Technology AI Analysis Copilot Microsoft Mapping Visualization
• Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that outsmarts even smart headphones - Škoda Storyboard www.skoda-storyboard.com EN-GB Škoda developed DuoBell, a bicycle bell tuned to penetrate ANC headphones and improve pedestrian and cyclist safety.
  Technology Transportation Safety bicycle headphones

Friday, April 3, 2026

• Don't Let AI Write For You alexhwoods.com EN The author warns that using LLMs to write for you undermines thinking and credibility.
  Technology Writing Ethics AI LLM

Monday, March 30, 2026

• ChatGPT Won't Let You Type Until Cloudflare Reads Your React State. I Decrypted the Program That Does It. www.buchodi.com EN The author decrypted Cloudflare Turnstile bytecode and found it fingerprints browsers and ChatGPT's React state to create access tokens that detect bots.
  Security Privacy Technology Web AI OpenAI ChatGPT Cloudflare fingerprinting React OpenAI ChatGPT
• notes: copilot edited an ad into my pr notes.zachmanson.com EN A GitHub Copilot edit inserted an advertisement for itself and Raycast into the author's pull request description.
  Technology Software Copilot Advertisement Ethics

Thursday, March 26, 2026

• Don’t trust, verify | daniel.haxx.se daniel.haxx.se EN-US The author urges verifying curl releases and source to defend against supply-chain and CI-based attacks.
  Security Software Engineering Open Source
• Im Namen der Sicherheit: Berliner Senat beschneidet Informationsfreiheit netzpolitik.org DE Berlin's government rushed a reform that weakens freedom of information by expanding exceptions and surveillance under security pretexts.
  Politics Law transparency surveillance legislation infrastructure
• Podsync - I finally built my podcast track syncer - Kaushik Gopal's Website kau.sh EN Podsync is a Rust CLI that automatically aligns multitrack podcast recordings using speech detection and fingerprinting.
  Podcasting Software

Wednesday, March 25, 2026

• cq: Stack Overflow for Agents blog.mozilla.ai EN An open-source proposal for a shared knowledge commons where AI agents exchange, validate, and reuse operational learnings to avoid repeated mistakes.
  Artificial Intelligence Software Engineering Open Source AI AI agents knowledge trust collaboration

Tuesday, March 24, 2026

• "Made in EU" - it was harder than I thought. www.coinerella.com EN A founder's account of building a startup on European infrastructure, detailing provider choices, self-hosting trade-offs, and unavoidable US dependencies.
  Technology Infrastructure Startups gdpr cloud kubernetes authentication
• Migrating to the EU - rz01.org rz01.org EN-US A personal report on moving online services to EU-based providers for better data protection and privacy.
  Privacy Technology Hosting migration email nextcloud vpn
• The Death of Character in Game Console Interfaces | Vale.Rocks vale.rocks EN Modern console interfaces have lost the character and charm that earlier systems like the Wii and GameCube once provided.
  Gaming Technology Design Console interfaces design skeuomorphism

Monday, March 23, 2026

• PC Gamer Recommends RSS Readers in a 37MB Article That Just Keeps Downloading — Stuart Breckenridge stuartbreckenridge.net EN A critique of PC Gamer's ad-heavy 37MB article that continually downloads more content.
  Technology Web performance ads popups rss

Friday, March 20, 2026

• I’m OK being left behind, thanks! – Terence Eden’s Blog shkspr.mobi EN-GB The author argues it's fine to avoid being an early adopter of technologies like crypto and AI until they prove useful.
  Technology Opinion crypto AI FOMO hype

Wednesday, March 18, 2026

• JPEG compression www.sophielwang.com EN Overview of how JPEG compresses images using color-space conversion, chroma subsampling, DCT, quantization, and entropy coding.
  Image processing Compression JPEG DCT Quantization Chroma

Monday, March 16, 2026

• Two Steam games release with the same name and avoid disaster by 'acting like human beings' www.polygon.com EN Two indie games with the same name launched on Steam the same week and the teams cooperated to bundle and promote both without conflict.
  Gaming Business Steam indie
• Kevin Boone: The “small web” is bigger than you might think kevinboone.me EN The author finds the non-commercial "small web" larger and more active than expected, making comprehensive feed aggregation impractical.
  Technology Internet Gemini feeds aggregator Kagi
• The 49MB Web Page | thatshubham thatshubham.com EN An analysis of how ad-driven bloat and tracking make news websites slow, hostile, and privacy-invasive.
  Privacy Web Design performance advertising tracking bloat

Friday, March 13, 2026

• upper-up/meta-lobbying-and-other-findings github.com EN OSINT investigation linking Meta to a multi-channel campaign to shift age-verification burdens onto app stores.
  Politics Technology Investigative journalism lobbying

Thursday, March 12, 2026

• Big Data on the Cheapest MacBook – DuckDB duckdb.org EN Benchmarks show DuckDB on the entry-level MacBook Neo can handle many big-data workloads but is limited by 8 GB RAM and modest SSD speeds.
  Databases Hardware Benchmarks DuckDB MacBook Benchmark TPCDS
• Everything we know about Project Helix, the next Xbox www.polygon.com EN Overview of leaks and reports about Project Helix, Microsoft's next high-end Xbox console including price, specs, and release timing.
  Gaming Technology Xbox Helix Console AMD

Monday, March 9, 2026

• Smartphones: Fake News auf Xiaomi-Handys | Stiftung Warentest www.test.de DE Vorinstallierte MiBrowser-Push-Mitteilungen auf Xiaomi-Handys verlinken auf gefälschte Webseiten und ermöglichen Phishing.
  Smartphones Sicherheit Verbraucherschutz fake news Xiaomi Phishing Falschmeldung fake news

Sunday, March 8, 2026

• VoxRay Games Pushes Major Update To Voxile: "The Builder's Update" elbowgreasegames.substack.com EN
  Gaming Technology voxel raytracing gamedev Lobster

Thursday, March 5, 2026

• Will Iranians Rise Up? Here Are the Odds. - POLITICO www.politico.com EN
  Politics International Relations Middle East Iran uprising regime airstrikes

Tuesday, March 3, 2026

• Disable Your SSH Access With This One Simple Trick sny.sh EN scp can change target directory permissions to match the source, causing sshd to reject key authentication.
  Security Systems scp sshd permissions OpenSSH
• USA: Wie ich Donald Trump am ersten Kriegstag in Mar-a-Lago erlebte - DER SPIEGEL www.spiegel.de DE Ein Reporter schildert ein Dinner in Mar-a-Lago, bei dem Trump, Kriegsentscheidungen und elitäre Stimmung zusammentreffen.
  Politik Gesellschaft Trump Iran Eliten Reportage

Friday, February 27, 2026

• I found a Vulnerability. They found a Lawyer. | Blog | Yannick Dixken dixken.de EN A researcher describes responsibly disclosing a trivial account vulnerability that exposed personal data and receiving legal threats instead of cooperation.
  Security Privacy Legal vulnerability disclosure gdpr lawyer