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Saturday, August 2, 2025

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All Stories from Today

Telo MT1 (www.telotrucks.com)

This Month in Ladybird (ladybird.org)

We may not like what we become if A.I. solves loneliness (www.newyorker.com)

Terence Tao on the suspension of UCLA grants (mathstodon.xyz)

Why Exercise Is a Miracle Drug (www.derekthompson.org)

The Art of Multiprocessor Programming 2nd Edition Book Club (eatonphil.com)

A.I. researchers are negotiating $250M pay packages (www.nytimes.com)

Compressing Icelandic name declension patterns into a 3.27 kB trie (alexharri.com)

Anandtech.com now redirects to its forums (forums.anandtech.com)

Microsoft is open sourcing Windows 11's UI framework (www.neowin.net)

ThinkPad designer David Hill on unreleased models (www.theregister.com)

Lina Khan points to Figma IPO as vindication of M&A scrutiny (techcrunch.com)

6 Weeks of Claude Code (blog.puzzmo.com)

AWS deleted my 10-year account and all data without warning (www.seuros.com)

Browser extension and local backend that automatically archives YouTube videos (github.com)

Hardening mode for the compiler (discourse.llvm.org)

The /o in Ruby regex stands for "oh the humanity " (jpcamara.com)

Financial lessons from my family's experience with long-term care insurance (www.whitecoatinvestor.com)

At a Loss for Words: A flawed idea is teaching kids to be poor readers (2019) (www.apmreports.org)

HTML-in-Canvas (github.com)

Show HN: WebGPU enables local LLM in the browser – demo site with AI chat (andreinwald.github.io)

Hiding secret codes in light protects against fake videos (news.cornell.edu)

North Korea sent him abroad to be a secret IT worker (www.bbc.com)

The Rubik's Cube Perfect Scramble (2024) (www.solutionslookingforproblems.com)

Tesla owes small businesses millions in unpaid bills [video] (www.cnn.com)

Robert Wilson has died (www.theartnewspaper.com)

The Rickover Corpus: A digital archive of Admiral Rickover's speeches and memos (rickovercorpus.org)

Peak Energy just shipped the US's first grid-scale sodium-ion battery (electrek.co)

Meta violated privacy law, jury says in menstrual data fight (www.courthousenews.com)

The case for having roommates even when you can afford to live alone (supernuclear.substack.com)