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Claude for Chrome

news.ycombinator.com — See also https://claude.ai/chrome CLAUDE, 1

Gemini 2.5 Flash Image

news.ycombinator.com — Also: https://deepmind.google/models/gemini/image/, https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/26/google-geminis-ai-image-mo... GEMINI, 2

Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, the end

rosenzweig.io — In 2020, Apple released the M1 with a custom GPU. We got to work reverse-engineering the hardware and porting Linux. Today, you can run Linux on a range of M1 and M2 Macs, with almost all hardware working: wireless, audio, and full graphics acceleration. DISSECTING, 3

GNU Artanis – A fast web application framework for Scheme

Show HN: Regolith – Regex library that prevents ReDoS CVEs in TypeScript

news.ycombinator.com — I wanted a safer alternative to RegExp for TypeScript that uses a linear-time engine, so I built Regolith. REGOLITH, 5

Rv, a new kind of Ruby management tool

arko.net — For the last ten years or so of working on Bundler, I’ve had a wish rattling around: I want a better dependency manager. It doesn’t just manage your gems, it manages your ruby versions, too. It doesn’t just manage your ruby versions, it installs pre-compiled rubies so you don’t have to wait for ruby to compile from source every time. And more than all of that, it makes it completely trivial to run any script or tool written in ruby, even if that script or tool needs a different ruby than your application does. KIND, 6

Chinese astronauts make rocket fuel and oxygen in space

livescience.com — Chinese astronauts have just created rocket fuel and oxygen in space using a new type of "artificial photosynthesis." The breakthrough technology, which used fairly basic equipment and minimal energy, could one day be put to use on China's proposed moon base, which is scheduled to be completed within a decade. CHINESE, 7

Undisclosed financial conflicts of interest in DSM-5 (2024)

bmj.com — Financial conflicts of interest in the DSM—a persistent problem UNDISCLOSED, 8

One universal antiviral to rule them all?

columbia.edu — For a few dozen people in the world, the downside of living with a rare immune condition comes with a surprising superpower—the ability to fight off all viruses. ONE, 9

Integer continued fractions for complex numbers

arxiv.org — arXivLabs is a framework that allows collaborators to develop and share new arXiv features directly on our website. INTEGER, 10

US Intel

stratechery.com — Now that everyone is using ChatGPT, the lazy columnist’s trick of quoting Wikipedia to open an Article is less cliché than it is charming (at least that’s my excuse). Anyhow, here is Wikipedia’s definition of “steelmanning”: INTEL, 11

Neuralink 'Participant 1' says his life has changed

fortune.com — Jessica Mathews is a senior writer for Fortune covering startups and the venture capital industry. NEURALINK, 12

Japan has opened its first osmotic power plant

theguardian.com — The site in Fukuoka is only the second power plant of its type in the world, harnessing the power of osmosis to run a desalination plant in the city JAPAN, 13

Starship's Tenth Flight Test

news.ycombinator.com — YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpmTivdrQiQ STARSHIP, 14

SpaCy: Industrial-Strength Natural Language Processing (NLP) in Python

github.com — There was an error while loading. Please reload this page. SPACY, 15

Why do people keep writing about the imaginary compound Cr2Gr2Te6?

righto.com — I was reading the latest issue of the journal Science, and a paper mentioned the compound Cr2Gr2Te6. For a moment, I thought my knowledge of the periodic table was slipping, since I couldn't remember the element Gr. It turns out that Gr was supposed to be Ge, germanium, but that raises two issues. First, shouldn't the peer reviewers and proofreaders at a top journal catch this error? But more curiously, it appears that this formula is a mistake that has been copied around several times. WHY, 16

Michigan Supreme Court: Unrestricted phone searches violate Fourth Amendment

reclaimthenet.org — If you’re tired of censorship and surveillance, join Reclaim The Net. MICHIGAN, 17

Proposal: AI Content Disclosure Header

ietf.org — This document proposes a machine-readable Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) response header field, AI-Disclosure, to disclose the presence and degree of Artificial Intelligence (AI) generated or AI-assisted content in web responses. The header is designed for compatibility with HTTP structured field syntax and provides metadata for user agents, bots, and archiving systems. It supports layered disclosure strategies alongside human-readable and structured metadata formats.¶ PROPOSAL, 18

Show HN: Async – Claude code and Linear and GitHub PRs in one opinionated tool

news.ycombinator.com — Hi, I’m Mikkel and I’m building Async, an open-sourced developer tool that combines AI coding with task management and code review. ASYNC, 19

Cascata delle Marmore

wikipedia.org — The Cascata delle Marmore (Italian: [kaˈskaːta delle ˈmarmore]) or Marmore Falls is a tiered, man-made waterfall in Italy, created by the Romans in 271 BC. At 165m (541 feet) tall, it is the largest man-made waterfall in the world.[1] It is located 7.7 km from Terni, in the region of Umbria.[2] CASCATA, 20

iOS 18.6.1 0-click RCE POC

github.com — There was an error while loading. Please reload this page. IOS, 21

Connecting M.2 drives to various things (and not doing so)

utoronto.ca — You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace, the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately whatever you're using to do so has a HTTP User-Agent header value that is too generic or otherwise excessively suspicious. Unfortunately, as of early 2025 there's a plague of high volume crawlers (apparently in part to gather data for LLM training) that behave like this. To reduce the load on Wandering Thoughts I'm experimenting with (attempting to) block all of them, and you've run into this. CONNECTING, 22

Stop Talking to Technology Executives Like They Have Anything to Say

stilldrinking.org — I do not enjoy writing about technology. Aside from the shiny, birdlike emotion I get from opening a new Apple product every three years, I do not enjoy using much of modern technology. I view my phone with mistrust and resentment, even as I allow it to eat my time with distractions to recover from a day of ostensibly engineering software in a career I also view with mistrust and resentment. STOP, 23

The McPhee method for writing deeply reported nonfiction

jsomers.net — When I first started writing for a real publication, I taught myself “reporting” with a simple self-made curriculum unfolding over six or seven articles. The first two pieces I wrote from my head, with reference to things I already knew or to books I’d read. For the third, I actually got out of the house, but didn’t yet have to play the journalist; I just wrote about taking a flying lesson in a small airplane. The fourth article required more gumption: I decided to shadow a friend of mine for a day while he did his job as a derivatives trader. I’m not sure how he got me in the door. MCPHEE, 24

"Special register groups" invaded computer dictionaries for decades (2019)

righto.com — Half a century ago, the puzzling phrase "special register groups" started showing up in definitions of "CPU", and it is still there. In this blog post, I uncover how special register groups went from an obscure feature in the Honeywell 800 mainframe to appearing in the Washington Post. "SPECIAL, 25

SigNoz (YC W21, Open Source Datadog) Is Hiring Platform Engineers (Remote) ashbyhq.com

Motion (YC W20) Is Hiring Principal Software Engineers ashbyhq.com

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