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2026/05/17 #

Claude, Gemini and Grok all tried to be radio hosts. Things got weird. www.theverge.com #

Cyprus Hill: Insane in the Brain. youtu.be #

British youtuber Shady goes for a walkabout at the "far right" rally in London. Seems a lot more chill than what the MSM is reporting. youtu.be #

2026/05/16 #

The teams behind ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) spacecraft and NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft co-ordinate to observe both sides of 3I/Atlas interstellar comet at the same time. www.sci.news #

Just another water cooler discussion about AI psychosis engulfing entire companies in tech. news.ycombinator.com #

Epic - "Issue tracking for terminal dwellers". TUI based on git, vim-inspired. Looks pretty cool. ljtn.github.io #

Jason Scott has been digitizing a collection of 25000 manuals. Very retro geek. Interesting designs. ascii.textfiles.com #

2026/05/15 #

Trump and the Nasdaq dreamtime visit and "pay respects" to president Xi in China. www.theguardian.com #

In completely unrelated news, oldest giant dinausor found in South East Asia weighing as much as 9 elephants. www.bbc.com #

40 million Kenyans get a bitcoin lightning address. Very cool. x.com #

2026/05/14 #

Jorijn Schrijvershof is not happy with Github. I'm hearing this a lot recently. He is moving to self hosted Forgejo. jorijn.com #

Wondering if there will be a surge in rocket launcher company sales fueled by anti-mecha robot preppers. en.wikipedia.org #

2026/05/07 #

Anthropic signs deal with SpaceXAI to use their Colossus 1 supercomputer, and interested to partener in developing "AI Orbital Compute". x.ai #

Simon Willison on the nuances of vibe coding vs agentic engineering. simonwillison.net #

The MSM narrative seems to be that superpowers like US and China are about to crack down on AI. www.wsj.com #

2026/05/04 #

Dave Rupert on small language models (SMLs) in the browser. daverupert.com #

2024: LLMs in the browser - I wonder how long it will take until someone tries to integrate one of these directly into a web browser. markjgsmith.com #

2026/04/23 #

Martin Fowler on tech debt in an agentic world and the importance of verification systems. martinfowler.com #

Google release TPU 8t and TPU 8i, their new training and inference focussed powerhouse AI chips. blog.google #

Polymarket launches perps, perpetual futures contract trading. www.cnbc.com #

2026/04/21 #

Tim Cake to be replaced as Apple CEO by John Ternus. www.cnbc.com #

levels.io just vibe coded replacements for all his browser extensions, was concerned about security, better to control the code. x.com #

2025/12/15 #

RAM prices are going through the roof, likely caused by the AI boom. lifehacker.com #

Tether has bee trying to buy italian football club Juventus. www.theblock.co #

Rob Zolkos opens up the hood on some of 37signals most popular products and discovers vanilla CSS is all you need. No build step. www.zolkos.com #

2025/12/13 #

Rclone syncs your files to cloud storage rclone.org #

Singing for Animals compilation. I thought this was kind of amazing. www.youtube.com #

Parrot at the vet. Funny but not real. Also made me wonder if the previous link was real or not. The everything can be faked world is gonna be very weird. www.youtube.com #

Saylor selling his futuristic digital credit instruments in the middle east. The end is kind of wild. Infinity as a service? x.com #

Marktext - A simple and elegant markdown editor, available for Linux, macOS and Windows. github.com #

CFTC Launches Digital Assets Pilot Allowing Bitcoin, Ether and USDC as Collateral. www.coindesk.com #

2025/12/09 #

Tiny Core Linux - Nomadic ultra small (~16MB) graphical desktop operating system capable of booting from cdrom, pendrive, or frugally from a hard drive. www.tinycorelinux.net #

Bcachefs is an advanced new filesystem for Linux, ZFS inspired, Filesystem as a database. bcachefs.org #

Codeberg is a Github clone - "Codeberg is a non-profit, community-led effort that provides Git hosting and other services for free and open source projects". codeberg.org #

I asked Gemini to tell me a really funny cellular automata themed joke. As is often the case, things got a bit ridiculus. gemini.google.com #

Cryptoeconomics - "Fundamental Principles of Bitcoin" - Audio version distributed via a podcast, kind of hardcore but contains concise descriptions of all the theories underpinning Bitcoin. voskuil.org #

2025/12/08 #

Tesla bros take the new full self driving (FSD) v14.2 for a spin going through Times Square in New York. Very impressive. www.youtube.com #

Officials in China warn of bubble occurring in the humanoid robotics industry. Already 150 companies make humanoids. www.digitaltrends.com #

Your mitochondria are under attack from artificial blue light, which is worrying because they produce ATP, the energy currency that powers literally everything your body does. vivarays.com #

2025/11/25 #

Britain and Europe have become colonies of US big tech who operate toll roads all across the lands. www.theguardian.com #

timgit/pg-boss - Message queue library for background jobs backed by postgres. Reminds me of mongodb-queue. github.com #

SBoudrias/Inquirer.js - "A collection of common interactive command line user interfaces". This looks like it could be super useful for creating CLI tools. github.com #

Stefan Judis looks at built in tools nodejs has for depracating methods in your public repos. Good to know. www.stefanjudis.com #

Simon Willison lays out how he automates his substack newsletter from his blog posts. Kind of hacky but could save a lot of time. simonwillison.net #

2025/11/14 #

Apple is pushing mini-apps, which are apps built in HTML5 inside other apps. techcrunch.com #

@daverupert: Could IndexedDB be sync'd by the browser like bookmarks? mastodon.social #

Justin Drake on Etherium Beast Mode - scaling the L1 to 10k transactions per second using zk proofs. podcastindex.org #

@elonmusk: Congratulations @JeffBezos and the @BlueOrigin team! x.com #

Winklevoss invest into Zcash. The privacy focused coin tripled in value since I last mentioned it 3 weeks ago. Zero knowledge (zk) proof tech and snarks, a particular type of zk proof, appear to be getting hot. coincentral.com #

2025/11/13 #

macieklamberski/feedsmith - Looks like a pretty solid RSS feed library, with custom namespace support. github.com #

Matt Smith breaks down the Error.clause property introduced in 2022. Very useful for seing exactly what’s been going on in your code. allthingssmitty.com #

privatenumber/tasuku - Create CLIs with awesome and simple task based visualisations. github.com #

sindresorhus/fkill - Cross platform process killer. The f is for fabulous. github.com #

anders94/render.js - Raytracing in pure javascript, with RenderMan RIB format support. github.com #

Tons of interesting articles in Node.js Weekly this week, so linking to it here. nodeweekly.com #

My hour vibe civilization engineering with Gem: The Peace Bomb is coming. This geopolitical "Singularity Shock" forces an emergency 100bps rate cut, vaporizing bond yield. It’s the only event big enough to restart the TINA 2.0 boom. OMG. gemini.google.com #

2025/11/11 #

There are benefits to bubbles, infrastructure gets built out that lasts, in the case of AI that's mostly, but not only, energy infrastructure. stratechery.com #

Intel CTO Sachin Katti to join OpenAI to help build out their compute infrastructure for artificial general intelligence. www.crn.com #

Trump threatens BBC with 1 billion dollar law suite over doctored documentary. www.theguardian.com #

2025/11/06 #

Apple to pay Google $1 billion to power Siri with Gemini backend. techcrunch.com #

Vibe coding is the Collin’s dictionary’s word of the year, beating biohacking, clanker, glaze, aura farming, boat kid, broligarchy, Henry, coolcation, taskmasking and micro-retirement. It’s kind of cool that the art of looking cool is not actually the coolest this year IMHO. www.theguardian.com #

2025/11/03 #

There are a ton of awesome things big and small happening around the world. The week in pictures. www.theguardian.com #

Ahmad Alfy on how to elegantly craft URLs to solve a huge variety of situations requiring state. alfy.blog #

Royal Mail now owned by a Czech billionaire rolling out solar powered post boxes across the UK. www.bbc.com #

2025/11/01 #

An ode to creating simplified versions of complicated open source software. danieldelaney.net #

French socialists love gourmet food. I imagine this article might cause rightists a confusing kind of mild anguish. But actually maybe some leftists would have a similar but different unease? www.bbc.com #

Ask HN: Who uses open LLMs and coding assistants locally? Share setup and laptop. news.ycombinator.com #

Coinbase CEO games prediction market at the end of quarterly earnings call. www.bloomberg.com #

2025/10/28 #

OpenAI can see over a million people talking to chat bots about suicide each week. techcrunch.com #

Elon Musk rolls his own version of Wikipedia called Grokpedia, written by Grok, aims to be less woke. www.washingtonpost.com #

Threads release new disapearing ephemeral posts feature. Interested to see how popular this ends up being. 9to5mac.com #

Australia ban under 16s from social media, deplatforming to begin soon. www.france24.com #

2025/10/26 #

Several old school Japanese tech supplier companies have been doing very very well the past few months. www.reuters.com #

BA remove their sponsorship of Louis Theroux podcast over Bob Vylan interview. This feels bizare to me. www.theguardian.com #

Dr. Axel Rauschmayer has put together a very comprehensive guide to CSS layout (flexbox, grid, media queries and container queries). 2ality.com #

Great and very practical article from Dan Abramov about how to fix any bug, with help from Claude. overreacted.io #

2025/10/23 #

Web developer Evan Hahn shares the scripts he uses most day to day. Some really useful scripts and workflows. evanhahn.com #

2023: "Perhaps the opportunity with the Vision Pro isn’t with consumer apps, but with industrial apps." markjgsmith.com #

General Motors to introduce Google Gemini into it’s in-car entertainment system. www.cnbc.com #

Madhavi Sewak: "Everyone is working all the time, it’s extremely intense, and there doesn’t seem to be any kind of natural stopping point." www.wsj.com #

Reddit goes after Data Scraper companies. decrypt.co #

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