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I'm Done with Coding
neelc.org
How Flash Games Shaped the Video Game Industry
flashgamehistory.com

Flash is dead. But the influence of Flash games on modern gameplay is inescapable.

Trump's EV Rollback Could Cost Taxpayers $1B
thedrive.com

Nico DeMattia - The federal government will lose $225 million just from the depreciation hit of selling 25,000 government-owned EVs.

The American Weather Forecast Is in Trouble
theatlantic.com

Zoë Schlanger - Layoffs at NOAA will only make weather reports less reliable.

A Letter to the American People
18f.org
Federal spending is stable over time
lbo-news.com

Among the leading fantasies of the moment are that federal employment and spending are “out of control,” so drastic action is needed to put things back in order. These are lies. Some people who utt…

Why can't we screenshot frames from DRM-protected video on Apple devices?
daringfireball.net

This “feature” accomplishes nothing of value for anyone, including the streaming services, but imposes a massive (and for most people, confusing and frustrating) hindrance on honest people simply trying to easily capture high-quality (as opposed to, say, using their damn phone to take a photograph of their reflective laptop display) screenshots of the shows and movies they’re watching.

Norwegian fuel supplier refuses U.S. warships over Ukraine
ukdefencejournal.org.uk

George Allison - Haltbakk Bunkers will cease supplying fuel to U.S. forces in Norway and American ships docking in Norwegian ports, citing dissatisfaction with recent U.S. policy towards Ukraine.

Show HN: Berlin Swapfest – Electronics flea market
swapfest.berlin
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The Berlin Swapfest is a place for people to buy, sell, and swap electronics, computer equipment, and tools.

China advises citizens specializing in AI to avoid traveling to America
saba.ye

The Chinese authorities have issued instructions to its citizens specializing in the field of artificial intelligence to avoid traveling to the United States for safety reasons, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Microsoft Copilot continues to expose private GitHub repositories
developer-tech.com

Ryan Daws - A recent post alleged that ChatGPT (and, by association, Microsoft Copilot) was capable of accessing data from private GitHub repositories.

Nearly 25 years later, Terminator 2 is getting a new video game
gizmodo.com

Justin Carter - If you've ever wanted to play a Terminator 2 game on modern consoles, No Fate may be the side-scroller you've been hoping for.

Xcode constantly phones home
lapcatsoftware.com
18F GitHub Repositories
github.com/18f

18F builds effective, user-centric digital services focused on the interaction between government & the people it serves. Provided by GSA. - 18F

GLP-1 drugs: An economic disruptor? (2024)
wildfirelabs.substack.com

Todd Gagne - While Silicon Valley obsesses over AI, a weight-loss drug is quietly becoming the biggest economic disruptor since the internet. Here's why your job, investments, and future depend on understanding it

Abusing C to implement JSON parsing with struct methods
xnacly.me

Json parsing in C using function pointers attached to a struct

Musk ally is moving to close office behind free tax filing program at IRS
theguardian.com

Program is apparently being closed according to email from former Tesla engineer installed in GSA

FAA targeting Verizon contract in favor of SpaceX
washingtonpost.com
Efabless – Shutdown Notice
efabless.com
Making o1, o3, and Sonnet 3.7 hallucinate for everyone
bengarcia.dev
'We stand with Ukraine for as long as it may take' – Keir Starmer tells Zelensky
bbc.com

The meeting comes a day after Zelensky's meeting with Donald Trump was cut short following a heated exchange in the Oval Office.

The most unhinged video wall, made out of Chromebooks
varun.ch

Web developer and cybersecurity researcher

Why so many children in America have ADHD
economist.com

Not for the reasons espoused by Robert F. Kennedy junior

GSA Eliminates 18F
nextgov.com

The latest workforce action at the General Services Administration includes the elimination of an entire tech team of around 90 employees.

Open AI in Trouble
garymarcus.substack.com

Gary Marcus - Maybe burning money isn’t the answer

Copilot for Everything: Training your AI replacement one keystroke at a time
substack.com

Substack - Our employers have all the data they need to train AI models to replace us. How long will it be until this actually happens?

Become a sponsor to Servo
github.com/sponsors

Servo aims to empower developers with a lightweight, high-performance alternative for embedding web technologies in applications. For more details on fees, go to https://servo.org/sponsorship/#donation-fees

Your Next Two Zeroes
taylor.town

Taylor Troesh - Exceed yourself; become a novice again, again and again.

The AI Code Review Disconnect: Why Your Tools Aren't Solving Your Real Problem
avikalpg.github.io
Cuts to US national parks and forests met with backlash
bbc.com

Employees who maintained America's most wild places say they are concerned for public safety and for wildlife.

China tells its AI leaders to avoid U.S. travel over security concerns
wsj.com
Zapier says someone broke into its code repositories and may have customer data
theverge.com

Jay Peters - The breach stemmed from a 2FA “misconfiguration.”

OpenGL to WASM, learning from my mistakes
uds5501.github.io

Uddeshya Singh - Introduction

Intel delays $28B Ohio chip fabs to 2030
reuters.com
GrapheneOS blocked exploitation of 3 Android zero-days used by Cellebrite
grapheneos.social

https://securitylab.amnesty.org/latest/2025/02/cellebrite-zero-day-exploit-used-to-target-phone-of-serbian-student-activist/ Amnesty International’s Security Lab has a post about 3 vulnerabilities exploited by Cellebrite to extract data from locked Android devices. GrapheneOS blocked exploiting these vulnerabilities in multiple different ways. We also patched them much earlier.

JavaScript Fatigue Strikes Back
allenpike.com

The new frameworks will continue until morale improves.

18F Has Been Eliminated
news.ycombinator.com
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What is vibe coding? How creators are building software with no coding knowledge
alitu.com

Vibe coding is an AI-assisted approach where you describe your software idea in plain language and the AI writes the code for you. It's that simple, and this guide will show you how.

A DOGE staffer appears to be posting DOGE work on his public GitHub
twitter.com
Yes, Claude Code can decompile itself. Here's the source code
ghuntley.com

Hello fellow blue-teamers and masters of "tradecraft", the AI revolution in software engineering has been called - here's what you should know. Whilst I haven't been active since 1995 (I was 13 and was deported from Hong Kong) it's a small world out there and what follows are notes I

Emacs Tree-sitter custom highlighting
amitp.blogspot.com

A few years ago I blogged about custom tree-sitter-based syntax highlighting in emacs . I started out with highlighting certain keywords in...

Zen 5's AVX-512 Frequency Behavior
chipsandcheese.com

Chester Lam - Zen 5 is AMD's first core to use full-width AVX-512 datapaths.

When eBPF pt_regs reads return garbage on the latest Linux kernels, blame Fred
tanelpoder.com

TLDR; Starting from Linux kernel version 6.9 on x86_64, there’s a new config option CONFIG_X86_FRED enabled and it adds 16 bytes to the bottom of a task’s kernel stack area, so you’ll need to account for this extra padding in your “raw” kernel stack & pt_regs lookup code. Introduction I’ve been using Ubuntu 24.04 as my main eBPF development and testing platform without issues since its release. It is shipped with

Self-Hosting a Firefox Sync Server
blog.diego.dev

Diego Siqueira - After switching from Firefox to LibreWolf, I became interested in the idea of self-hosting my own Firefox Sync server. Although I had seen this was possible before, I had never really looked into it—until now. I embarked on a journey to set this up, and while it wasn’t completely smooth sailing, I eventually got it working. Here’s how it went. Finding the Right Sync Server Initial Search: Mozilla’s Sync Server Repo I

The housing theory of everything (2021)
worksinprogress.co

Western housing shortages do not just prevent many from ever affording their own home. They also drive inequality, climate change, low productivity growth, obesity, and even falling fertility rates.

An update on Mozilla's terms of use for Firefox
blog.mozilla.org

On Wednesday we shared that we’re introducing a new Terms of Use (TOU) and Privacy Notice for Firefox. Since then, we’ve been listening to some of our

It Was an Ambush
theatlantic.com

Tom Nichols - Today marked one of the grimmest days in the history of American diplomacy.

European leaders show support for Zelenskiy after Trump clash
reuters.com
Inheriting is becoming nearly as important as working
economist.com

More wealth means more money for baby-boomers to pass on. That is dangerous for capitalism and society

Show HN: Torii – a framework agnostic authentication library for Rust
github.com/cmackenzie1
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Torii is a powerful authentication framework for Rust applications that gives you complete control over your users' data. - GitHub - cmackenzie1/torii-rs: Torii is a powerful authentication fr...

Why it's so hard to build a jet engine
construction-physics.com

Brian Potter - Civilization's toughest technical challenges are those that require extraordinary (and constantly improving) performance to be delivered at a low cost.

Political Bias on X before the 2025 German Federal Election
ucd.ie
Google's Sergey Brin: Engineers Should Work 60-Hour Weeks in Office to Build AI
gizmodo.com

Thomas Maxwell - The Google co-founder says 60-hours a week is the productivity sweet spot for AI engineers.

Brian Krebs: This Administration Is Completely Compromised
infosec.exchange

How much more proof do we need that this administration is completely compromised? There is zero reason for the US to relax any offensive digital actions against Russia. If anything, we should be applying more. Martin Matishak over at The Record writes that the former Fox news host turned Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth last week ordered U.S. Cyber Command to stand down from all planning against Russia, including off

How to gain code execution on hundreds of millions of people and popular apps
kibty.town

how to gain code execution on millions of people and hundreds of popular apps

"No, we are absolutely not prepared to [fork Firefox]"
codeberg.org

librewolf - Given the [immense]([url](https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/mozilla-responds-to-backlash-over-new-terms-saying-it-s-not-using-people-s-data-for-ai/ar-AA1A07gz)) fallout [from]([url](https://www.androidauthority.com/firefox-data-sharing-change-3530771/)) the [Mozilla TOS adjustments]([url]...

Japanese Toshiba Typewriter Model BW-2112 (2020) [video]
youtube.com
400 reasons to not use Microsoft Azure
azsh.it
Show HN: Betting game puzzle (Hamming neighbor sum in linear time)
news.ycombinator.com
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Hegseth orders Cyber Command to stand down on Russia planning
therecord.media

The secretary of Defense has ordered U.S. Cyber Command to stand down from all planning against Russia, including offensive digital actions, sources tell Recorded Future News.

Trump and Vance Loudly Berate Zelensky in Oval Office
nytimes.com
Merlion: A Machine Learning Framework for Time Series Intelligence
github.com/salesforce

Merlion: A Machine Learning Framework for Time Series Intelligence - salesforce/Merlion

Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting
bbc.com

A joint news conference is cancelled after the US president calls his Ukrainian counterpart "disrespectful" and says "make a deal or we're out".

Show HN: Globstar – Open-source static analysis toolkit
news.ycombinator.com
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3,200% CPU Utilization
josephmate.github.io

Joseph Mate - A while back my machine was so messed up that I could barely ssh onto it. 3,200% CPU utilization - all 32 cores on the host were fully utilized! Compare that to my last bug where it only used 1 core, 100% Fortunately, it was using Java 17 runtime which...

The full force of this administration's destruction is about to hit
thehandbasket.co

Marisa from The Handbasket - Once social security checks stop showing up, millions of Americans will finally understand the scope.

Hundreds in US climate agency fired in latest cuts
bbc.com

Around 880 workers - including weather forecasters - are reported to have lost their jobs.

Farmers sue over purge of climate data needed for agricultural decisions
thehill.com

Farmers and green groups sued the U.S. Department of Agriculture on Monday for an “unlawful purge” of climate data from its website.  “This lawsuit challenges the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s u…

Violence alters human genes for generations, researchers discover
news.ufl.edu
AI is killing some companies, yet others are thriving – let's look at the data
elenaverna.com

Elena Verna - Traffic trends from WebMD, Quora, Stack Overflow, Chegg, G2, CNET, Reddit, Wikipedia, and Substack!

Write to Escape Your Default Setting
kupajo.com
Hydrogen becomes a superfluid at nanoscale, confirming 50-year-old prediction
phys.org

Hydrogen nano-clusters at low temperatures display 'superfluidity'—a quantum state of frictionless flow only previously observed in helium.

Towards an AI Co-Scientist
arxiv.org

Scientific discovery relies on scientists generating novel hypotheses that undergo rigorous experimental validation. To augment this process, we introduce an AI co-scientist, a multi-agent system built on Gemini 2.0. The AI co-scientist is intended to help uncover new, original knowledge and to formulate demonstrably novel research hypotheses and proposals, building upon prior evidence and aligned to scientist-provid

May 5, Microsoft's Skype will shut down for good
arstechnica.com

Skype users will be able to move into Teams with their existing accounts.

Starlink to take over $2.4B contract to overhaul air traffic control comms
theverge.com

Andrew J. Hawkins - Cronyism, anyone?

AMD RDNA 4 – AMD Radeon RX 9000 Series Graphics Cards
amd.com
Waterfox: Fast and Private Web Browser
waterfox.net

Waterfox is the privacy-focused web browser engineered to give you speed, control, and peace of mind on the internet.

SEC Declares Memecoins Are Not Subject to Oversight
nytimes.com
Netboot Windows 11 with iSCSI and iPXE
terinstock.com

Terin Stock - Notes on installing and netbooting Windows 11 over iSCSI

The Dino, the Llama, and the Whale (Deno and Jupyter for Local AI Experiments)
deno.com

Did you know you can run a large language model with Deno and Jupyter Notebooks? Here's how.

WebShield – A new wide-spectrum content blocker for Safari
github.com/arjpar

A new wide-spectrum content blocker for Safari designed to be performant, efficient, and effective. - arjpar/WebShield

A Comment on Mozilla's Policy Changes
waterfox.net

A short commentary on Mozilla's policy changes and how they affect the user community.

Meta apologises over flood of gore, violence and dead bodies on Instagram
theguardian.com

Users of Reels report feeds dominated by violent and graphic footage after apparent algorithm malfunction

Drone captures narwhals using their tusks to explore, forage and play
phys.org

The narwhal (Monodon monoceros), an iconic whale of remote Arctic waters, is widely known for its long, spiral tusk, which is really an elongated tooth. The tusk, which is predominantly found in males and can grow up to 10 feet long, is one of the most fascinating traits in nature and the inspiration for myths such as the unicorn. It is believed to play a role in competition for mates, including mating displays. The

Hot take: GPT 4.5 is a nothing burger
garymarcus.substack.com

Gary Marcus - Pure scaling in shambles

All Tuberculosis programs funded by the U.S. Gov were officially terminated
bsky.app/profile/johngreensbluesky.bsky.social

Essentially ALL TB programs funded by the U.S. Government were officially terminated last night. Horrifyingly, that includes the Global Drug Facility that coordinates the vast majority of TB treatment and tests purchased globally. Shuttering the GDF will stop TB treatment for the entire planet....

Github scam investigation: Thousands of “mods” and “cracks” stealing data
timsh.org

While looking through the articles on a "social engineering" themed forum I discovered a relatively new scam scheme that shocked me. People create thousands of GitHub repositories with all sorts of things - from Roblox and Fortnite mods to "cracked" FL Studio and Photoshop. As soon as you download and

Mozilla deletes promise to never sell Firefox data
twitter.com
Boris Spassky: 1937–2025
en.chessbase.com

Boris Spassky, the tenth World Chess Champion, was a chess prodigy who became a grandmaster at the young age of 18. He won the World Chess Championship in 1969, and held the title until 1972, when he lost to Bobby Fischer in the famous "Match of the Century". Boris passed on Thursday at the age of 88. He was a decades-long personal friend of the author. | Photo Frederic Friedel, taken in June 2007

WASM Wayland Web (WWW)
joeyh.name
Microsoft is killing Skype
windowscentral.com

Skype's days appear to be numbered, as a hidden string in the latest Skype for Windows preview suggests Microsoft will shutter the service in May.

Microsoft begins turning off uBlock Origin and other extensions in Edge
neowin.net

Microsoft is now in the process of turning off Manifest V2-based extensions in Edge, such as uBlock Origin. However, not everything is lost at this point.

Mozilla introduces a Terms of Use agreement for Firefox
connect.mozilla.org

For the first time, we’re introducing a Terms of Use for Firefox, alongside an updated Privacy Notice. Earlier today, we published a blog post explaining why we’re making this change and what it means for you. Now, we want to hear from you. We’re committed to engaging with our community and keeping ...

Musk Takes $2.4B Contract from Verizon to Give It to Starlink
jalopnik.com

Sorry, Verizon, this completely normal and not-at-all ethically-unusual business decision unexpectedly favors Elon Musk.

US authorities can see more than ever, with Big Tech as their eyes
proton.me

Big Tech companies - Apple, Google, and Meta - have built a mass surveillance machine that the government can easily tap into.

Google's Sergey Brin Asks Workers to Spend More Time in the Office
nytimes.com
Surgery implants tooth material in eye as scaffolding for lens
cbc.ca

When Brent Chapman’s doctor first pitched him on the idea of having one of his own teeth surgically embedded in his eye to restore his sight, he says he felt “a little apprehensive.”

macOS Tips and Tricks (2022)
saurabhs.org
Hydrogen cyanide and acetylene detected in a brown dwarf
phys.org

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international team of astronomers has explored the atmosphere of a nearby brown dwarf binary designated WISE J045853.90+643451.9. As a result, they detected hydrogen cyanide and acetylene in the atmosphere of this binary, marking the first time these two species have been identified in the atmosphere of a brown dwarf. The finding was reported Feb. 19 on the arXiv pre-pr

Putting Andrew Ng's OCR models to the test
runpulse.com

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