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The $15 fix for USB-C's identical-cable problem: test them yourself
USB-C promised one connector for everything, but it created a new headache: cables that look identical can differ wildly on the inside. A freebie that shipped w
US pays RWE $1.2B to walk away from its offshore wind leases
German utility RWE has agreed to abandon its US offshore wind developments in exchange for a $1.2bn payout from the Trump administration's Department of the Int
When Code Is Nearly Free, Taste Becomes the Only Scarce Skill
The essay argues that code-generating AI has erased the old barrier of software: the hours of typing, manual-reading, and API-wrangling that used to stand betwe
A Botanist's Reading List — and a Blunt Endorsement of Sci-Hub and Libgen
This is a self-education guide for aspiring botanists, not a technology story. The author argues that anyone can learn plant identification without formal acade
AI Is a Steak Machine, Not a Chef: Why Judgment Still Separates Good Software
Using an extended cooking metaphor, this piece argues that AI has made producing software trivially easy while doing nothing to guarantee it's any good. Anyone
Artificial Analysis Agentic Index cited for a new Qwen 'Max' top ranking — unverified from source
A Hacker News post points to Artificial Analysis, an independent AI benchmarking site, claiming a Qwen 'Max' model has taken the top spot on its Agentic Index.
Blade Runner's Title Cards and the Last 10% That Separates Good From Great
Michael Lopp (Rands) uses the opening title sequence of Blade Runner to argue that typography never merely conveys information—it always conveys feeling, and th
Branchless Rust: Killing One If Statement Makes a Filter 4x Faster
A simple Rust filter that keeps values above a threshold turns out to be slowest not when it copies the most data, but when its keep/skip decision is hardest to
Building a New Nintendo 64 Game in 2026 with a Homebrew Toolchain
Developer Dominic Szablewski built Xibalba 64, a Wolfenstein 3D-style FPS, as a physical launch title for Modretro's M64 console clone — reportedly only the sec
Cloudflare open-sources 'Cloudflare OS,' an agent workspace for the whole company
Cloudflare has open-sourced Cloudflare OS, a platform that gives every employee — not just developers — an AI agent and workspace grounded in their organization
DeepMind Paper: LLMs Can Prove Theorems but Can't Invent the Premises
A position paper by Tom Zahavy of Google DeepMind, presented at ICML 2026, argues that today's language models are missing the specific cognitive move that prod
DeepMind's Hassabis trades CEO title for chairman as Jeff Dean exits Google
Demis Hassabis is stepping back from running Google DeepMind day-to-day, becoming Chair of the unit and taking a new title as Chief Scientist of Alphabet. The m