Monthly Highlights
3991.
Welcome to the Wasteland: A Thousand Gas Towns (steve-yegge.medium.com)
3992.
Viral Doomsday Report Lays Bare Wall Street's Deep Anxiety About AI Future (wsj.com)
3993.
Why are so many statues naked? An art historian explains its ancient roots (theconversation.com)
3994.
Can the shingles vaccine slow ageing? The evidence is surprisingly strong (economist.com)
3995.
Iran fires missile at Turkey, a NATO member (reuters.com)
3996.
Show HN: Zap Code – AI code generator that teaches kids real HTML/CSS/JS (zapcode.dev)
3997.
Influencers are promoting peptides for better health. What does the science say? (npr.org)
3998.
There Are No Psychopaths (aeon.co)
3999.
Lindsey Graham on US war on Iran:'We're going to make a tonne of money' (aljazeera.com)
4000.
Elite Russian squad targeting enemies abroad was exposed throug Google Translate (meduza.io)
4001.
How Predictable Are the Oscars? (futuresearch.ai)
4002.
Qatar warns war will force Gulf to stop energy exports 'within days' (ft.com)
4003.
A Technology for a Low-Trust Society (theatlantic.com)
4004.
In contrast with Trump's America, Europe's 100 gigawatt clean energy hub (cnn.com)
4005.
Reddit fined £14M by UK data watchdog over age check failings (bbc.co.uk)
4006.
MAHA Moms Turn Against Trump: 'Women Feel Like They Were Lied To' (nytimes.com)
4007.
Xkcd: Change in Slope (xkcd.com)
4008.
Mirfield man's tears of joy after lost voicemail of wife retrieved (2015) (bbc.co.uk)
4009.
A new era for choice and openness (android-developers.googleblog.com)
4010.
I used Claude to match 200 Clinical Trials to 700 PubMed Papers (everyrow.io)
4011.
Qwen 3.5 397B and Qwen 3.5 Plus released (chat.qwen.ai)
4012.
Show HN: Scrappy – Open-source browser scraper written in Go (github.com)
4013.
Unity Asset Store de-listing assets originating from China (cdn.mc-weblink.sg-mktg.com)
4014.
Trump: U.S. hit military sites on Iranian Kharg island (iranintl.com)
4015.
OpenAI CEO reduces childhood to a power bill (bsky.app)
4016.
Show HN: isometric.nyc/snow (isometric.nyc)
4017.
EEmicroGPT: 19,000× faster microgpt training on a laptop CPU (loss vs. time) (entrpi.github.io)
4018.
Apple debuts M5 Pro and M5 Max to supercharge the most demanding pro workflows (apple.com)
4019.
Show HN: I built a 55K-word email marketing knowledge base and Claude Code skill (emailmarketingskill.com)
4020.
Charged in $20M Bay Area luxury car tax evasion scheme, incl McLaren Porsche (oag.ca.gov)