xAI has acquired X, xAI now valued at $80B(twitter.com)
734 points by rvz | 1072 comments
Elon Musk's post announcing xAI acquired X in an all-stock deal valuing xAI at $80 billion and X at $33 billion.
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We hacked Gemini's Python sandbox and leaked its source code (at least some)(landh.tech)
627 points by topsycatt | 127 comments
Lupin & Holmes blog post describing how researchers probed Google Gemini's Python code-execution sandbox and extracted parts of its internal source code.
I asked police to send me their public surveillance footage of my car(cardinalnews.org)
601 points by bookofjoe | 471 comments
Cardinal News opinion piece by a writer who drove 300 miles in rural Virginia and requested police license plate reader surveillance records of their own car.
How to write blog posts that developers read(refactoringenglish.com)
533 points by rbanffy | 148 comments
A chapter from Michael Lynch's Refactoring English offering advice on writing blog posts that software developers will actually read.
Architecture Patterns with Python(cosmicpython.com)
405 points by asicsp | 96 comments
Preface of the free online book Architecture Patterns with Python (Cosmic Python), covering DDD, event-driven architecture and related patterns in Python.
Xee: A Modern XPath and XSLT Engine in Rust(blog.startifact.com)
361 points by robin_reala | 211 comments
Blog post by Martijn Faassen introducing Xee, an XML Execution Engine written in Rust that implements modern versions of XPath and XSLT.
How Kerala got rich(aeon.co)
360 points by lordleft | 270 comments
Aeon essay on how Kerala went from one of India's poorest states fifty years ago to one of its richest.
A note on the USB-to-PS/2 mouse adapter that came with Microsoft mouse devices(devblogs.microsoft.com)
349 points by luu | 122 comments
Raymond Chen's The Old New Thing post explaining how the passive USB-to-PS/2 adapter bundled with Microsoft mice worked, with the mouse handling both protocols.
Things I would have told myself before building an autorouter(blog.autorouting.com)
345 points by seveibar | 99 comments
Blog post by Seve listing 13 lessons learned from a year of building a fast PCB autorouter for tscircuit, an open-source TypeScript electronics CAD kernel.
Claim for a missing tooth(tf230.matteason.co.uk)
329 points by lukecarr | 71 comments
A parody government-style web service, styled like GOV.UK, for claiming reimbursement from the Tooth Fairy for a lost tooth.
Excitable cells(jenevoldsen.com)
295 points by johannes_ne | 48 comments
Digital Echoes and Unquiet Minds(chrbutler.com)
158 points by delaugust | 77 comments
2025 Tariff Impacts at Puget Systems(pugetsystems.com)
143 points by zdw | 92 comments
The Real Book (2021)(99percentinvisible.org)
139 points by Tomte | 32 comments
Swiftly 1.0(swift.org)
137 points by todsacerdoti | 47 comments
Superhyperbola(johndcook.com)
58 points by jihadjihad | 18 comments
Talkin’ about a Revolution(drb.ie)
51 points by pepys | 208 comments
On Tyranny [book](timothysnyder.org)
41 points by pabs3 | 10 comments