Google workers seek 'red lines' on military A.I., echoing Anthropic

Palm OS User Interface Guidelines (2003) [pdf]

AirSnitch: Demystifying and breaking client isolation in Wi-Fi networks [pdf]

Hydroph0bia – fixed SecureBoot bypass for UEFI firmware from Insyde H2O (2025)

Museum of Plugs and Sockets

Annotated display of 1000 domestic electrical plugs and sockets from all over the world, including classic and obsolete types.

An Introduction to the Codex Seraphinianus, the Strangest Book Ever Published

Imagine you could talk to Hieronymus Bosch, the authors of the Book of Revelation, or of the Voynich Manuscript—a bizarre 15th century text written in an uncrackable code; that you could solve centuries-old mysteries by asking them, “what were you thinking?” You might be disappointed to hear them say, as does Luigi Serafini, author and illustrator of the Codex Seraphinianus, “At the end of the day [it’s] similar to the Rorschach inkblot test. Open Culture, openculture.com

Launch HN: Cardboard (YC W26) – Agentic video editor

A fast, collaborative, and agentic video editor that runs in your browser. Create, cut, and compose videos with AI — no installs, no downloads.

OsmAnd’s Faster Offline Navigation (2025)

Offline navigation is a lifeline for travelers, adventurers, and everyday commuters. We demand speed, accuracy, and the flexibility to tailor routes to our specific needs. For years, OsmAnd has championed powerful, feature-rich offline maps that fit in your pocket. But as maps grew more detailed and user demands for complex routing increased, our trusty A algorithm, despite its flexibility, started hitting a performance wall. How could we deliver a 100x speed boost without bloating map sizes or sacrificing the deep customization our users love?

Smartphone market forecast to decline this year due to memory shortage

Worldwide smartphone shipments are forecast to decline 12.9% year-on-year in 2026.

What Claude Code chooses

A systematic survey of 2,430 Claude Code responses across 3 models, 4 project types, and 20 tool categories.

LiteLLM (YC W23): Founding Reliability Engineer – $200K-$270K and 0.5-1.0% equity

TLDR LiteLLM is an open-source AI gateway (36K+ GitHub stars) that routes hundreds of millions of LLM API calls daily for companies like NASA, Adobe, Netflix, Stripe, and Nvidia. We're at $7M ARR, 10 people, YC W23. When LiteLLM goes down, our customers' entire AI stack goes down. We need someone who makes sure that doesn't happen. You'd be the first dedicated reliability hire. You'll own reliability, performance, and production stability end-to-end. Nobody will tell you how to do it What this job actually is We'll be straight with you: this role is roughly 60% operational reliability and 40% deep performance engineering. On any given week you might be: Hunting a memory leak in our async streaming handler that causes OOMs after 4 hours unde

The Hunt for Dark Breakfast

With a theoretical model of breakfast, can we derive the existence of “dark breakfasts,” breakfasts that we know must exist, but have never observed?

A Nationwide Book Ban Bill Has Been Introduced in the House of Representatives

Hours after the State of the Union address, House republicans introduced legislation banning LGBTQ+ books from public schools nationwide.

Will vibe coding end like the maker movement?

Is your vibe-coded app a Crapject or a Gift?

Layoffs at Block

I baked a pie every day for a year

Vickie Hardin Woods was worried she would lose her identity when she retired. Instead, she came up with a plan that made her feel more creative, connected and valued than ever

Move tests to closed source repo

Move the test suite out of the open source tldraw/tldraw repo and into the closed source repo. Context The tldraw monorepo currently contains ~327 test files across unit, integration, and e2e tests: packages/tldraw: ~148 unit/integration...

Parakeet.cpp – Parakeet ASR inference in pure C++ with Metal GPU acceleration

Ultra fast and portable Parakeet implementation for on-device inference in C++ using Axiom with MPS+Unified Memory - Frikallo/parakeet.cpp

Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War

A statement from our CEO on national security uses of AI

What does " 2>&1 " mean?

To combine stderr and stdout into the stdout stream, we append this to a command: 2>&1 For example, the following command shows the first few errors from compiling main.cpp: g++ main.cpp 2&...