Talking to strangers at the gym(thienantran.com)
1429 points by thitran | 696 comments
A personal blog post by Thienan Tran describing an experiment of talking to 35 strangers at the gym to make friends after college.
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GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay(bbc.co.uk)
668 points by n1b0m | 642 comments
BBC News article reporting that GameStop has made a $55.5bn takeover offer for eBay.
Microsoft Edge stores all passwords in memory in clear text, even when unused(twitter.com)
551 points by cft | 193 comments
A tweet claiming Microsoft Edge keeps all saved passwords in process memory in clear text, even when they are not being used.
The bottleneck was never the code(thetypicalset.com)
538 points by Anon84 | 349 comments
Blog post reflecting on how coding agents like Codex quickly built a long-postponed structured-generation experiment, arguing code was never the real bottleneck.
Trademark violation: Fake Notepad++ for Mac(notepad-plus-plus.org)
532 points by maxloh | 237 comments
Notepad++ news post warning that notepad-plus-plus-mac.org is an unauthorized site misusing the Notepad++ trademark to offer a fake macOS version.
Removable batteries in smartphones will be mandatory in the EU starting in 2027(ecopv-eu.com)
517 points by rdeboo | 443 comments
Blog post explaining the EU regulation that will require user-replaceable batteries in smartphones starting in 2027.
I am worried about Bun(wwj.dev)
487 points by remote-dev | 317 comments
A blog post by William Johnston explaining why, despite liking Bun as a fast Node.js alternative, he is now worried about its direction.
How OpenAI delivers low-latency voice AI at scale(openai.com)
480 points by Sean-Der | 141 comments
OpenAI engineering blog post explaining how the company delivers low-latency voice AI conversations at scale.
US healthcare marketplaces shared citizenship and race data with ad tech giants(techcrunch.com)
464 points by ZeidJ | 153 comments
TechCrunch brief reporting that US healthcare insurance marketplaces shared users' citizenship and race data with ad tech companies.
CARA 2.0 – “I Built a Better Robot Dog”(aaedmusa.com)
443 points by hakonjdjohnsen | 54 comments
Aaed Musa's project page for CARA 2.0, a homemade quadruped robot dog that uses rope-based capstan speed reducers.
GitHub Is Down(githubstatus.com)
404 points by gen220 | 235 comments
GitHub status page incident report titled "Incident with Issues and Webhooks" describing a service disruption.
Agent Skills(addyosmani.com)
343 points by BOOSTERHIDROGEN | 168 comments
Addy Osmani's blog post introducing Agent Skills, an attempt to make AI coding agents follow senior-engineer practices like specs, tests, reviews, and scope discipline.
Does Employment Slow Cognitive Decline? Evidence from Labor Market Shocks(nber.org)
327 points by littlexsparkee | 341 comments
NBER working paper by Kouchekinia, Neumark, and Bruckner examining whether employment slows cognitive decline using labor market shocks as evidence.
PyInfra 3.8.0(github.com)
283 points by wowi42 | 94 comments
Formatting a 25M-line codebase overnight(stripe.dev)
185 points by r00k | 91 comments
Let's talk about LLMs(b-list.org)
161 points by cdrnsf | 142 comments
Humanoid Robot Actuators(firgelli.com)
158 points by ofrzeta | 72 comments
Dithering with CSS(ikesau.co)
104 points by speckx | 29 comments
Sierra Raises $950M at $15B Valuation(sierra.ai)
101 points by doppp | 128 comments
When networking doesn't work(os2museum.com)
81 points by kencausey | 14 comments
Pulitzer Prize Winners 2026(pulitzer.org)
77 points by brightbeige | 27 comments
The Visible Zorker: Zork 3(eblong.com)
62 points by zarlez | 6 comments
DAG Workflow Engine(github.com)
54 points by blobmty | 39 comments
