Best tech stories this week

Best tech stories this week

Running local models is good now

SpaceX to buy Cursor AI coding agent operator Anysphere for $60B

TIL: You can make HTTP requests without curl using Bash /dev/TCP

Calvin and Hobbes and the price of integrity

Mechanical Watch (2022)

GPT‑NL: a sovereign language model for the Netherlands

Stop Using JWTs

Claude: Elevated errors across many models

But yak shaving is fun

Apple is about to make Hide My Email useless

Apple's weird anti-nausea dots cured my car sickness

Making ast.walk 220x Faster

Has AI already killed self-help nonfiction books?

John Carmack on Fabrice Bellard

10Gb/s Ethernet: switching to a Broadcom SFP+ module

Correlated randomness in Slay the Spire 2

U.S. pulling ocean sensors a 'shock' for Canadian research as El Niño nears

SubQ 1.1 Small

Why is Meta destroying its engineering organization?

The time the x86 emulator team found code so bad they fixed it during emulation

Qwen-Robot Suite: A Foundation Model Suite for Physical World Intelligence

Formal Methods and the Future of Programming

Sabela – A Reactive Notebook for Haskell

An interview with an Apple emoji designer

The Web We Know Is Going to Disappear

Cooling at the Speed of Light

'Ghost jobs' could soon be illegal in New York

Getting Creative with Perlin Noise Fields

Unicorn – The Ultimate CPU Emulator

Garden of Flowers – an archive of pictorial typography before ASCII art

Specs Augmented Reality Glasses

Pen and paper resource development game with an emergent world

I hacked into the worst e-bike and fixed it [video]

Color Photos of Stalin-Era Soviet Union Taken by a US Diplomat

Feds freaked over Fable 5 after simple 'fix this code' prompt, not jailbreak

A backdoor in a LinkedIn job offer

New way of making espresso with ultrasound

Flip TABLE: storing arbitrary data in iNaturalist

After AI Takes Everything

Nearly a million passports and photo IDs were unprotected on the public internet

Understanding the rationale behind a rule when trying to circumvent it

GateGPT: 56k tokens per second Transformer (KV cache) on FPGA at 80 MHz

I Love the Computer

Users cry foul after AMD stripped memory crypto from its consumer CPUs

The octopus architecture for AI agents

KDE Plasma 6.7 Released

The history of butterfly swimming

Trinket.io shutting down, so we saved it and hosted it a trinket.strivemath.org

Peopleless economy? Not technically impossible

Iroh 1.0

SpaceX to acquire Cursor for $60B in stock, days after blockbuster IPO

Why I email complete strangers

Has anyone replaced Claude/GPT with a local model for daily coding?

Google Chrome update will close the door on ad blockers

Banned Book Library in a Wi-Fi Smart Light Bulb

What job interviews taught me about Kubernetes

TinyWind: A pixel pirate sailing game with real wind physics (380k+ kms sailed)

Humanity isn't ready for the coming intelligence explosion

Cohere's First Model for Developers

How TimescaleDB compresses time-series data

Game Engine White Papers: Commander Keen

Claude Corps

Dalus (YC W25) Is Hiring a Senior Software Engineer in Germany

'Wow, it really worked ': 70s TV show causing worldwide panic today

What every coder should know about gamma (2016)

Swish – Jupyter-like computational notebook for SWI-Prolog

Fata – Spaced repetition to fight skill rot from AI coding

How we run Firecracker VMs inside EC2 and start browsers in <1s

Launch HN: Drafted (YC P26) – Models for residential architecture

British Colombia, Time Zones, and Postgres

Making glass-to-metal seals for home­made vacuum tubes

Veterinarian turned founder, AI lawn diagnosis

Openrouter Fusion API

Hetzner Price Adjustment

A 1969 camera operators' strike created Upstairs Downstairs multiverse

US battery manufacturing output continues to break records

Boot Naked Linux

CJEU: Social networks are the 'publishers' of algorithmically-altered feeds

How memory safety CVEs differ between Rust and C/C++

Making glass-to-metal seals for homemade vacuum tubes