Best tech stories for 2026-06-16
A crawlable daily archive of important technology stories, discussions, and launches surfaced by Birbla.
Running local models is good now
vickiboykis.com · 676 points · 315 comments
U.S. pulling ocean sensors a 'shock' for Canadian research as El Niño nears
timescolonist.com · 4 points · 0 comments
SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B
reuters.com · 618 points · 1031 comments
TIL: You can make HTTP requests without curl using Bash /dev/TCP
mareksuppa.com · 122 points · 67 comments
Apple is about to make Hide My Email useless
arseniyshestakov.com · 13 points · 0 comments
Calvin and Hobbes and the price of integrity
therepublicofletters.substack.com · 77 points · 21 comments
Mechanical Watch (2022)
ciechanow.ski · 229 points · 29 comments
GPT‑NL: a sovereign language model for the Netherlands
tno.nl · 45 points · 32 comments
Claude: Elevated errors across many models
status.claude.com · 144 points · 125 comments
But yak shaving is fun
parksb.github.io · 122 points · 33 comments
Apple's weird anti-nausea dots cured my car sickness
theverge.com · 295 points · 96 comments
10Gb/s Ethernet: switching to a Broadcom SFP+ module
gilesthomas.com · 29 points · 26 comments
Making ast.walk 220x Faster
reflex.dev · 52 points · 10 comments
John Carmack on Fabrice Bellard
twitter.com · 485 points · 247 comments
Correlated randomness in Slay the Spire 2
tck.mn · 75 points · 29 comments
Stop Using JWTs
gist.github.com · 76 points · 38 comments
SubQ 1.1 Small
subq.ai · 81 points · 37 comments
The time the x86 emulator team found code so bad they fixed it during emulation
devblogs.microsoft.com · 375 points · 108 comments
Why is Meta destroying its engineering organization?
newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com · 218 points · 141 comments
The Web We Know Is Going to Disappear
minid.net · 8 points · 1 comments
Qwen-Robot Suite: A Foundation Model Suite for Physical World Intelligence
qwen.ai · 67 points · 7 comments
Formal Methods and the Future of Programming
blog.janestreet.com · 35 points · 1 comments
An interview with an Apple emoji designer
shadycharacters.co.uk · 6 points · 1 comments
Sabela – A Reactive Notebook for Haskell
sabela.datahaskell.com · 9 points · 0 comments
Cooling at the Speed of Light
cacm.acm.org · 13 points · 2 comments
'Ghost jobs' could soon be illegal in New York
fastcompany.com · 81 points · 42 comments
Getting Creative with Perlin Noise Fields
sighack.com · 75 points · 15 comments
Specs Augmented Reality Glasses
newsroom.snap.com · 33 points · 19 comments
Unicorn – The Ultimate CPU Emulator
unicorn-engine.org · 11 points · 0 comments
Garden of Flowers – an archive of pictorial typography before ASCII art
garden-of-flowers.heikkilotvonen.com · 136 points · 24 comments
Azure DevOps TUI Management Style
github.com · 2 points · 0 comments
Pen and paper resource development game with an emergent world
jameshylands.co.uk · 5 points · 0 comments
I hacked into the worst e-bike and fixed it [video]
youtube.com · 128 points · 61 comments
Color Photos of Stalin-Era Soviet Union Taken by a US Diplomat
rarehistoricalphotos.com · 67 points · 17 comments
Feds freaked over Fable 5 after simple 'fix this code' prompt, not jailbreak
theregister.com · 230 points · 131 comments
A backdoor in a LinkedIn job offer
roman.pt · 1353 points · 256 comments
New way of making espresso with ultrasound
unsw.edu.au · 37 points · 47 comments
After AI Takes Everything
ursb.me · 74 points · 78 comments
Flip TABLE: storing arbitrary data in iNaturalist
exclav.es · 5 points · 0 comments
Understanding the rationale behind a rule when trying to circumvent it
devblogs.microsoft.com · 66 points · 20 comments
Nearly a million passports and photo IDs were unprotected on the public internet
theverge.com · 13 points · 2 comments
Reservations are open for XREAL AURA
xreal.com · 3 points · 1 comments
GateGPT: 56k tokens per second Transformer (KV cache) on FPGA at 80 MHz
twitter.com · 32 points · 11 comments
I Love the Computer
michaelenger.com · 273 points · 152 comments
The octopus architecture for AI agents
blog.goodman.dev · 14 points · 2 comments
Users cry foul after AMD stripped memory crypto from its consumer CPUs
arstechnica.com · 17 points · 4 comments
KDE Plasma 6.7 Released
lwn.net · 14 points · 1 comments
Trinket.io shutting down, so we saved it and hosted it a trinket.strivemath.org
trinket.strivemath.org · 63 points · 9 comments
The history of butterfly swimming
swimming.org · 27 points · 28 comments
Peopleless economy? Not technically impossible
gmalandrakis.com · 242 points · 453 comments
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