Abusing copyright strings to trick SW into thinking it's running competitor's PC (devblogs.microsoft.com)

A really likeable person. GEB was highly regarded in my peer group. I should have read it more naively myself. But this interview makes me want to read "I am a strange loop".

https://www.ams.org/notices/200707/tx070700852p.pdf

(too bad that I don't like the word "mysterian", otherwise I would join the club)

Using the internet without IPv4 connectivity (jamesmcm.github.io)

Did lead poisoning create a generation of serial killers? (newyorker.com)

The Unsustainability of Moore's Law (bzolang.blog)

JavaScript Trademark Update (deno.com)

Sequence and first differences together list all positive numbers exactly once (oeis.org)

More on Apple's Trust-Eroding 'F1 the Movie' Wallet Ad (daringfireball.net)

Abusing copyright strings to trick SW into thinking it's running competitor's PC (devblogs.microsoft.com)

MCP: An (Accidentally) Universal Plugin System (worksonmymachine.substack.com)

Solving `Passport Application` with Haskell (jameshaydon.github.io)

Shenzhou-20 astronauts complete second spacewalk to enhance Tiangong station (spacenews.com)

Engineered Addictions (masonyarbrough.substack.com)

The Perils of 'Design Thinking' (theatlantic.com)

The Death of the Middle-Class Musician (thewalrus.ca)

What UI first distinguished radio buttons from checkboxes with circles/squares? (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)

Blackwell: Nvidia's GPU (chipsandcheese.com)

Improving River Simulation (undiscoveredworlds.blogspot.com)

We ran a Unix-like OS on our home-built CPU with a home-built C compiler (2020) (fuel.edby.coffee)

BusyBeaver(6) Is Quite Large (scottaaronson.blog)

Show HN: A different kind of AI Video generation

Schizophrenia is the price we pay for minds poised near the edge of a cliff (psychiatrymargins.com)

Magnetic Tape Storage Technology: usage, history, and future outlook (dl.acm.org)

Group of investors represented by YouTuber Perifractic buys Commodore (amiga-news.de)

Community Is Motivation on Tap (alanwu.xyz)

Life of an inference request (vLLM V1): How LLMs are served efficiently at scale (ubicloud.com)

2025 ARRL Field Day (arrl.org)

An Indoor Beehive in My Bedroom Wall (keepingbackyardbees.com)

The European wood pigeon helped me appreciate its omnipresent city cousins (nytimes.com)

Is being bilingual good for your brain? (economist.com)

Bazzite would shut down if Fedora goes ahead with removing 32-bit (gamingonlinux.com)

Sirius: A GPU-native SQL engine (github.com)

Parsing JSON in Forty Lines of Awk (akr.am)

Tennis Scorigami (tennis-scorigami.com)

Finding Peter Putnam (nautil.us)

Show HN: AGL a toy language that compiles to Go (github.com)

Memory Safe Languages: Reducing Vulnerabilities in Modern Software Development [pdf] (media.defense.gov)

Gradient Descent Visualiser (uclaacm.github.io)

Show HN: Vet – A tool for safely running remote shell scripts (getvet.sh)

Universal pre-training by iterated random computation (arxiv.org)

Refurb weekend: Gremlin Blasto arcade board (oldvcr.blogspot.com)

Brighton and Rottingdean Seashore Electric Railway (en.wikipedia.org)

It's Known as 'The List'–and It's a Secret File of AI Geniuses (wsj.com)

Lago (Open-Source Usage Based Billing) is hiring for ten roles (ycombinator.com)

IDF officers ordered to fire at unarmed crowds near Gaza food distribution sites (haaretz.com)

The Great Illusion: When We Believed BeOS Would Save the World (desktoponfire.com)

Douglas Hofstadter on Loops, Beauty, Free Will, AI, God, Utopia and Gaza (johnhorgan.org)

Exploring Trichromacy through Maxwell's Color Experiment (2023) (maxwell.kohterai.com)

Show HN: I'm an airline pilot – I built interactive graphs/globes of my flights (jameshard.ing)

After successfully entering Earth's atmosphere, a European spacecraft is lost (arstechnica.com)

Experimental X11 Compatibility Layer (github.com)

Unheard works by Erik Satie to premiere 100 years after his death (theguardian.com)

Douglas Hofstadter on Loops, Beauty, Free Will, AI, God, Utopia and Gaza

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