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Wednesday, May 7, 2025

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Ty: A fast Python type checker and language server (github.com)

Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor (zed.dev)

CLion Is Now Free for Non-Commercial Use (blog.jetbrains.com)

Unity’s Open-Source Double Standard: the ban of VLC (mfkl.github.io)

Waiting for Postgres 18: Accelerating Disk Reads with Asynchronous I/O (pganalyze.com)

So Much Blood (dynomight.net)

Mistral ships Le Chat – enterprise AI assistant that can run on prem (mistral.ai)

My quest to make motorcycle riding that tad bit safer (gill.net.in)

Open source Google Analytics replacement (github.com)

EPA Plans to Shut Down the Energy Star Program (www.nytimes.com)

Jury orders NSO to pay $167M for hacking WhatsApp users (arstechnica.com)

Web search on the Anthropic API (www.anthropic.com)

Show HN: eInk optimized manga with Kindle Comic Converter (+Kobo/ReMarkable) (github.com)

Create and edit images with Gemini 2.0 in preview (developers.googleblog.com)

Mac Themes Garden (damien.zone)

Three Chapters at Cloudflare: Programmer to CTO to Board of Directors (blog.cloudflare.com)

Getting Older Isn't What You Think (www.katycowan.co.uk)

OpenAI for Countries (openai.com)

June Huh dropped out to become a poet, now he’s won a Fields Medal (2022) (www.quantamagazine.org)

'I paid for the whole GPU, I am going to use the whole GPU' (modal.com)

Yggdrasil is an experimental compact routing scheme that is fully decentralised (yggdrasil-network.github.io)

Samsung is paying $350M for audio brands B&W, Denon, Marantz and Polk (www.engadget.com)

Vagus Nerve Stimulation Erases PTSD: Study (neurosciencenews.com)

OpenSearch 3.0 Released (opensearch.org)

Mississippi Can't Possibly Have Good Schools (www.educationdaly.us)

Richest 10 Percent Responsible for Two-Thirds of Warming (e360.yale.edu)

Pakistani firm shipped fentanyl analogs, scams to us (krebsonsecurity.com)

Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College (nymag.com)

Foundation DB Record Layer SQL API (foundationdb.github.io)

Ghost students are creating problems for California colleges (www.sfgate.com)