Articles by CharlesW
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TikTok disproportionately served anti-Democratic videos during the 2024 election (psypost.org)

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AI as a Design Medium (harvarddesignmagazine.org)

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Microsoft to stop sending SMS codes for personal accounts (support.microsoft.com)

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A Technical Deep Dive into the New Raycast (raycast.com)

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App Store stopped $2.2B in potentially fraudulent transactions in 2025 (apple.com)

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Everything You Do Is Being Recorded: Is there any way of fighting back? (theatlantic.com)

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Confessions of a Gasoline Huffer (thestranger.com)

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The Morse Code Hack That Made an AI Agent Spend $200k [video] (youtube.com)

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What were scanners like in the 80s? – 1988 IBM PageScanner 3119 [video] (youtube.com)

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How Rockstar fit an entire city into PlayStation 2 memory [video] (youtube.com)

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The Hidden Reason Screwdriver Handles Look Like This [video] (youtube.com)

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Superintelligent Retrieval Agent: The Next Frontier of Information Retrieval (arxiv.org)

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Claude Code's creator is sick of the phrase 'vibe coding.' (businessinsider.com)

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Nobody understands the point of hybrid cars [video] (youtube.com)

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'Microshifting' puts a new spin on 9-to-5 schedules (apnews.com)

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2 Letters from Steve (2013) (davidgelphman.wordpress.com)

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The tortoise and the hare live on (aresluna.org)

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Tech is in turmoil–but the rest of corporate America isn't. One CEO knows why (fortune.com)

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The Impact of AI-Generated Text on the Internet (ai-on-the-internet.github.io)

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Arcade Games: Source Code Collection (mrcook.uk)

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Tiny 1000bhp 13Kg Motor Cuts 200kg From EVs [video] (youtube.com)

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New Apple support doc: "If you're asked to confirm that you're an adult" (support.apple.com)

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Your Name in Landsat (nasa.gov)

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AI Model and 'MAGA' Influencer Emily Hart Unmasked as Indian Man (mandatory.com)

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It's all about the angle: Your photos, re-composed (research.google)

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This Slug Can Survive on Photosynthesis [video] (youtube.com)

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Apple's Cal AI crackdown signals it's still policing the App Store (techcrunch.com)

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Sendspin: Open standard for synchronized music across multiple devices and rooms (sendspin-audio.com)

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They Built the 'Cursor for Hardware.' Now, Anthropic Wants In (wired.com)

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DanceUI: ByteDance's open source SwiftUI reimplmementation (github.com/bytedance)

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Panic says the Playdate Catalog won't accept games made with generative AI (engadget.com)

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The Greatest Documentary You've Never Heard Of – Tie Xi Qu《铁西区》 by Wang Bing [video] (youtube.com)

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"Should be no trouble at all for a driver to understand." (aresluna.org)

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U+237C ⍼ Right angle with downwards Zig-zag arrow (ionathan.ch)

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Users lose $9.5M to fake Ledger wallet app on the Apple App Store (web3isgoinggreat.com)

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Large or bright satellite constellations: Effects on observations (arxiv.org)

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Ultimate Online "Phreak Box" (Enhanced Blue Box) (phreaknet.org)

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Amazon acquires Apple's satellite partner (sixcolors.com)

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The impact of AI on software engineers in 2026: key trends (pragmaticengineer.com)

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I Restored the 35mm Negative to the Greatest Music Video of All Time (youtube.com)

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Interview: John Calhoun on the Origins of Glider (2010) (macscene.net)

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Apple Reportedly Testing AI Glasses in Several Frame Styles (cnet.com)

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I Built an Autonomous Flying Umbrella [video] (youtube.com)

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Oilfield Units: a Measurement System so Cursed it made me Change Career [video] (youtube.com)

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John Deere to pay $99M in right-to-repair settlement (thedrive.com)

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DHH's new way of writing code: Agent-first (pragmaticengineer.com)

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SCOTUS overturns 5th Circuit ruling that told ISP to kick pirates off Internet (arstechnica.com)

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NMS Ceefax: Remember teletext? This is the same (nmsceefax.co.uk)

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QuickTime: The mad dash to build the future of multimedia (theverge.com)

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First lab-grown T-Rex leather handbag unveiled in Amsterdam could fetch €575,000 (nltimes.nl)

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New York hospital leaders weigh regulatory shift to replace some doctors with AI (crainsnewyork.com)

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Multiple Nuclear Reactors Are on the Road to Restarts (neutronbytes.com)

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Chernobyl Fungus Seems to Have Evolved the Ability to Harness Radiation (sciencealert.com)

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How Apple became Apple: The definitive oral history of company's earliest days (fastcompany.com)

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Anthropic: "During peak hours you'll move through session limits faster" (reddit.com)

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Cloudflare's new Dynamic Workers ditch containers, run AI agent code 100x faster (venturebeat.com)

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2026 Will Prowse Approved Solar Products: Which Ones Survived? [video] (youtube.com)

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Apple Wanted to Buy Halide to Boost Camera App–Now There's a Lawsuit (macrumors.com)

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Loom: An LLM agent framework for Go (github.com/teradata-labs)

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"Malus": Is Copyleft Dead? (heathermeeker.com)

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ITC: Apple's redesigned blood oxygen feature doesn't infringe Masimo patents (9to5mac.com)

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Playable CSS-Only Super Mario Bros Game (codepen.io)

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Mac Neo and my afternoon of reflection and melancholy (twitter.com/stevesi)

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Black hole simulation (blackhole-simulation.vercel.app)

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Sam Altman admits AI is killing the labor-capital balance (yahoo.com)

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Evan You shows VOID: Vite-native deployment platform [video] (youtube.com)

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Halide cofounder Sebastiaan de With joins Apple's design team (9to5mac.com)

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[dupe] Hisense TVs force owners to watch intrusive ads (tomshardware.com)

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X-Plane Is Coming to Apple Vision Pro with Nvidia CloudXR (x-plane.com)

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Tim Sweeney signed away his right to criticize Google's app store until 2032 (theverge.com)

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Constraints and the Lost Art of Optimization (denodell.com)

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When Video Games Were Brown (youtube.com)

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"The Candy Factory": Life Inside a Singular Artists' Enclave in Brooklyn [video] (youtube.com)

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I Ejected Myself Off a Truck at 80 km/h [video] (youtube.com)

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Permissioned Data Diary 1: To Encrypt or Not to Encrypt (leaflet.pub)

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Robert Kaye, MetaBrainz Founder and Executive Director, Has Died (metabrainz.org)

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James Webb Telescope Takes a First Peek Inside Uranus (extremetech.com)

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MediaFM: The Multimodal AI Foundation for Media Understanding at Netflix (netflixtechblog.com)

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MetaFilter Shifting to Volunteer Moderation (metafilter.com)

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Open source IoT board with 400 MHz dual-core RISC-V chip and lots of I/O for $29 (liliputing.com)

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Ferret-UI Lite: Lessons from Building Small On-Device GUI Agents (machinelearning.apple.com)

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Claude Code creator predicts software engineering title will start to 'go away' (businessinsider.com)

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Generative and Agentic AI Shift Concern from Technical Debt to Cognitive Debt (margaretstorey.com)

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Dolt is a version controlled database. Dolt is Git for Data (dolthub.com)

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How Nintendo Became the Most Fun Video Game Company (nytimes.com)

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Molly Guard in Reverse (aresluna.org)

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Age of Empires: 25 years of pathfinding problems with C++ [video] (youtube.com)

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WebMCP is available for early preview (chrome.com)

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Show HN: TagLib-WASM – Read/write audio metadata with all JavaScript runtimes

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Show HN: TabLib-WASM – Read/write audio metadata with all JavaScript runtimes

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Deepfaking Orson Welles's Mangled Masterpiece (newyorker.com)

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How thick is a sharpie mark? (2016) [video] (youtube.com)

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Unlocking the Codex harness: how we built the App Server (openai.com)

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John Romero: Making Catacomb 3-D [video] (youtube.com)

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Swift in the Browser with ElementaryUI (Swift FOSDEM 2026 Talk) [video] (youtube.com)

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I have no mouth and I must scream at Black people: Scott Adams, 1957-2026 (tcj.com)

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Former astronaut on lunar spacesuits: "I don't think they're great " (arstechnica.com)

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A Poem That Behaves Like a Machine (medium.com/darwingosal)

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Yes, It's Fascism (theatlantic.com)

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SVT-AV1 4.0 (gitlab.com/aomediacodec)