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Could a Crash Halve Stock Prices? (nakedcapitalism.com)

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1,500 Curl Authors (haxx.se)

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Lessons Learned Building High-Performance Rust Profiler (hotpath.rs)

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To read more, pick up a book not your phone, no wait (disassociated.com)

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The Bliss of Graphene (srikanthperinkulam.com)

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Emacs Dedicate Windows with toggle-window-dedicated (emacsredux.com)

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A system prompt to get AI to stop pretending to be human (swiftrocks.com)

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Re: I Stopped "Creating Content" (unattributed.cc)

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Wind turbine is being used to produce zero-carbon "green ammonia" fertilizer (energiesmedia.com)

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Should you upgrade to macOS and iOS public betas? (no) (wholelottanothing.org)

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Privacy Is Not a Soundbite (mendhak.com)

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Download Everything (dasrecht.net)

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Australia's huntsman fastest spider recorded in new study (abc.net.au)

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Accessibility Rant: Reader Mode (unattributed.cc)

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The Dark Arts of Web Automation. OpenAI threatened to ban my account (gallon.me)

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Transform any binary file into sound and MIDI, right in the browser, free (cdm.link)

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I got into YC Startup School by hacking it (obaid.wtf)

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PlayStation Network outage leaves players dreading all-digital future (polygon.com)

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Building a DynamoDB Conformance Suite (martinhicks.dev)

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The Kids' Guide to Piracy (friendo.monster)

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The small, real, original web (spacetimetech.wordpress.com)

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Open Source Vacuum Avoids Cloud (hackaday.com)

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The Tool Is Not the Author (poppastring.com)

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Metadata in WordPerfect 1994: Ada and WCAG 2.1 Compliance (rietta.com)

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Cloning Mifare Classic Cards via Proxmark3 (muffn.io)

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Sweden eases mining permits to cut China minerals reliance (dw.com)

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Telstar: Narrowing transatlantic divide to size of TV screen (newsguy.substack.com)

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Hacking my Keyboard to do Less (duckrowing.com)

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Adopting Standard.site (vivsha.ws)

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Marc Andreessen, venture capitalist, married to wait, what? (tyrandus.dev)

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Watch: 'Human refrigerator' debuts in Japan amid rising temperatures (upi.com)

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I'm Running a Programming Contest (eieio.games)

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The Fediverse Was Right (lvmbdv.dev)

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Writing and Editing Stack (lukicdejan.com)

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The Value of Domain Knowledge in Software (gustavwengel.dk)

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Researchers used electric stoves to treat asthma. It worked (climatecoloredgoggles.com)

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Glm5.2.jsonl · HuggingFace/forensic-refusal at main (huggingface.co)

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Cross-stitch prep for math nerds (posh.wiki)

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Setting up a remote environment for agentic coding on a VPS (ma.ttias.be)

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Programming language file extensions that match ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country codes (bruh.ltd)

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Do It by Hand First: Method for Keeping Critical Thinking Alive in the Age of AI (parentsguidetoai.ca)

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There isn't a single consumer Wi-Fi router that is 100% American-made (engadget.com)

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Guaranteed Wins (christopherburg.com)

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Terry Tao on how university students should control AI diet (beyonddream.me)

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Simplicity Doesn't Sell (and I'm Tired of Being Called Lazy for It) (joshkaramuth.com)

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Mourning Dan Williams (lwn.net)

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Bipartite Perfect Matching in Deterministic NC (computationalcomplexity.org)

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Bryan Johnson says he's 'cloned himself as a baby' to harvest its organs (independent.co.uk)

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LinkedIn Slop (olly.world)

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AI Casino (selfprompt.dev)

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Rotation Key Census, July 2026 (leaflet.pub)

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Building on ATProto (lukekanies.com)

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Why Sony can't bring back its classic Walkman models (obsoletesony.substack.com)

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Turn off fans when it's too hot – but how hot is too hot? (newscientist.com)

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Naive design is better than AI design (alexwennerberg.com)

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Report from the March to Stop the AI Race (robinsloan.com)

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The Big Smoke – a living atlas of London (levels.fyi)

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We Stopped Going to the Movies (statsignificant.com)

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I Built a FreeBSD Cloud to Use with FreeBSD (interfacecraft.online)

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Signed into NYTimes.com Cooking website – got signed up for three newsletters (clintmcmahon.com)

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The Build Step Nobody Ordered (vivianvoss.net)

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Rust service hardening and production checklist (kerkour.com)

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Static Website Envy (zylstra.org)

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Free Copilot is turning into a demo as Microsoft shifts real features to paid (windowscentral.com)

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"No such thing as too fast" (aresluna.org)

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Agentic coding makes strict static analysis non-negotiable (pocketarc.com)

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I Believe in Files (gregwolanski.com)

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Japanese Parody Religion Exists Only to Give Believers a Reason to Say 'No' (odditycentral.com)

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Securing Services with Rootless Containers (coderspirit.xyz)

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The case of the slow-to-get-going Ethernet port (blog.yuo.be)

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A Simple Website Blocker (orgnizedmess.net)

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Full Disclosure: A project is publishing full analyses of AI-discovered 0-days (seclists.org)

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Google now lets you sign in to your account using a selfie video (theverge.com)

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Build a 3 Month Food Supply: Family Guide (preparednessmama.com)

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I host my own AIM server (veronicaexplains.net)

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State Champs (seths.blog)

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Every .ru Domain Now Needs Government ID (webhosting.today)

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Fairphone 6 with /e/OS 4.0 – Results, results, results (dedoimedo.com)

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Oh My God, Stop Asking What I Do for Work (absurdpirate.com)

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I got tired of writing `yarn workspace ` (zubach.com)

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If you pay a hacker's ransom, chances are that they'll come back for more (techcrunch.com)

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A Rhino from the Arctic (nature.ca)

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Pushing 4.7M Commits an Hour (mattrickard.com)

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Apple Services Price Hikes 2026 (mjtsai.com)

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Linux kernel team publishes 432 CVEs in two days (theregister.com)

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Smartphone use on the toilet and the risk of hemorrhoids (2025) (plos.org)

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'.ai' websites are booming – and making millions for this tiny Caribbean nation (techradar.com)

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Magnolias Are So Old That They're Pollinated by Beetles, Not Bees (mymodernmet.com)

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The Internet Is Starting to Card Everyone. Startups Are Making Millions from It (inc.com)

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Neanderthal Dentistry Was a Total Horror Show, Research Shows (gizmodo.com)

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Irregular bedtime linked to higher risk of cardiac events (oulu.fi)

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Scientists discover over 1,100 new marine species in landmark Ocean Census (oceancensus.org)

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Fujifilm X100 vs. Leica Q vs. Ricoh GR (simonsarris.com)

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Physical Media vs. Digital Media (itsjustchronicallyoffline.bearblog.dev)

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Rescuing satellites is harder than it looks (theconversation.com)

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Jitter (omegalogic.neocities.org)

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A Fine balance between curiosity and digital hoarding (libraryofpotential.com)

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How to setup Calibre to remove DRM from ebooks on Linux (michaelharley.net)

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I Own My Books (michaelharley.net)

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The joy of rediscovering a 12-year-old camera (dmpop.xyz)