Monthly Highlights
1.
Tell HN: Help restore the tax deduction for software dev in the US (Section 174)
2.
My AI skeptic friends are all nuts (fly.io)
3.
Claude 4 (anthropic.com)
4.
Self-hosting your own media considered harmful according to YouTube (jeffgeerling.com)
5.
Bill Atkinson has died (daringfireball.net)
6.
The time bomb in the tax code that's fueling mass tech layoffs (qz.com)
7.
GCP Outage (status.cloud.google.com)
8.
Honda conducts successful launch and landing of experimental reusable rocket (global.honda)
9.
Frequent reauth doesn't make you more secure (tailscale.com)
10.
A receipt printer cured my procrastination (laurieherault.com)
11.
Andrej Karpathy: Software in the era of AI [video] (youtube.com)
12.
Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot (support.mozilla.org)
13.
CSS Minecraft (benjaminaster.com)
14.
OpenAI slams court order to save all ChatGPT logs, including deleted chats (arstechnica.com)
15.
Photos taken inside musical instruments (dpreview.com)
16.
Watching AI drive Microsoft employees insane (old.reddit.com)
17.
The Grug Brained Developer (2022) (grugbrain.dev)
18.
Postgres IDE in VS Code (techcommunity.microsoft.com)
19.
The last six months in LLMs, illustrated by pelicans on bicycles (simonwillison.net)
20.
Magistral — the first reasoning model by Mistral AI (mistral.ai)
21.
If the moon were only 1 pixel: A tediously accurate solar system model (2014) (joshworth.com)
22.
Trump administration halts Harvard's ability to enroll international students (nytimes.com)
23.
Gemini Diffusion (simonwillison.net)
24.
Cloudlflare builds OAuth with Claude and publishes all the prompts (github.com)
25.
FFmpeg merges WebRTC support (git.ffmpeg.org)
26.
Apple announces Foundation Models and Containerization frameworks, etc (apple.com)
27.
If you are useful, it doesn't mean you are valued (betterthanrandom.substack.com)
28.
Working on databases from prison (turso.tech)
29.
Root shell on a credit card terminal (stefan-gloor.ch)
30.
Veo 3 and Imagen 4, and a new tool for filmmaking called Flow (blog.google)