Why I Stopped Arguing with People

I am a software engineer, and I used to enjoy arguing with people for technical correctness. Code reviews, design meetings, mailing-list threads, dinner tables. If someone was wrong, I wanted them to know it, and I wanted them to know exactly why. I collected counterarguments the way I collected patches. I believed that if I just laid out the logic clearly enough, the other person would have no choice but to come around. Truth would win.

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Announcing Box3D :: Box2D

I’m happy to announce the release of Box3D, an open source 3D physics engine. It is now available on GitHub. Box3D repository You can think of Box3D as a fork of Box2D, extended with many features needed for 3D games. Some additions: Triangle mesh collision Height-field collision Baked compound collision The core architecture of Box3D remains almost identical to Box2D. C API All library source is C17 Sub-stepping solver Continuous collision Graph coloring for large islands Wide SIMD contact solver Multi-threading hooks Optional internal scheduler Large world support with doubles for position Recording and replay If you want to see Box3D in action, watch this video:

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SpudCell: The first synthetic cell with a complete cell cycle

SpudCell and Biotic — announcement and media factsheet.

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Newly discovered spider builds spring loaded snare to catch ants

An international team of researchers has discovered a remarkable new spider species in the rainforest of North Queensland that spins an ingenious and powerful spring-actuated snare to catch a single species of ant—one ant at a time—in what they describe as "the ultimate specialization.",Credit: Current Biology (2026). DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2026.04.066,Credit: Current Biology (2026). DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2026.04.066

Sony Deletes 551 Movies PlayStation Owners Paid For

Ownership is slowly moving onto servers a few companies control, and the storefront hasn't admitted it yet.

Manufact (YC S25) Is Hiring a Developer Advocate in SF

About us Manufact is Vercel for MCP. We are building the MCP cloud platform to get any product ready for Claude Connectors marketplace, ChatGPT App Store and any AI agent that supports MCP. Manufact Cloud usage is more than doubling every month. We're the team behind mcp-use SDK (next.js for MCP), the open-source framework for building MCP Apps with 10k Github stars and 8M+ downloads across python and typescript. Used by 20% of US 500 like NASA, SAP, NVIDIA and more than 5,000 companies. We raised $6.3M seed in 4 days before YC demo day. Our lead investor is PeakXV (best dev-tools VC out there), and we have the best angels, including the founders of Supabase. Our focus: capture a significant share of global AI tool calls that flow thro

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For First Time, a Cell Built from Scratch Grows and Divides

Scientists built a synthetic cell that combines more lifelike properties than ever before — proof of concept that it’s possible to bring nonliving materials to life, or something close to it, in the lab.

Single Dose of Frog-Derived Gut Bacterium Eradicates 100% of Tumors in Mice

A single intravenous dose of Ewingella americana achieved complete tumor elimination in 100% of treated animals, with no detectable toxicity—outperforming chemotherapy and immunotherapy.

Nintendo has raised its employees base salary by 10%

Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa has stated to shareholders that the Kyoto-based company has now raised its base salary for employees by 10% in a move to…

Monetization Gateway

We're opening the waitlist for our Monetization Gateway, which will allow you to charge for any web page, dataset, API, or MCP tool behind Cloudflare. The charges will settle in stablecoins over the x402 open protocol, with no payments stack of your own to build.

The Anti-Palantir Manifesto

Nym CEO Harry Halpin responds to Palantir manifesto with one that defends human freedom and privacy against techno-fascism.

Godot will no longer accept AI-authored code contributions

At risk of drowning in AI slop code, Godot is firming up its contribution requirements.

Obfuscation: Building the final boss of cryptography (Part I)

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