Monthly Highlights
1171.
Bcachefs creator insists his custom LLM is female and 'fully conscious' (theregister.com)
1172.
How not to answer the salary question (adatosystems.com)
1173.
Testing Postgres race conditions with synchronization barriers (lirbank.com)
1174.
Cameras built to police Iranians became the regime's Achilles' heel (royapakzad.substack.com)
1175.
Cards Against Humanity Statement and Form for Tariff Refunds (getyourfuckingmoneyback.com)
1176.
"That Shape Had None" – A Horror of Substrate Independence (Short Fiction) (starlightconvenience.net)
1177.
Meta to retire messenger desktop app and messenger.com in April 2026 (dzrh.com.ph)
1178.
The Slow Death of the Power User (fireborn.mataroa.blog)
1179.
The stagnancy of publishing and the disappearance of the midlist (honest-broker.com)
1180.
Mark Zuckerberg creating new Applied AI engineering company, reorganises teams (timesofindia.indiatimes.com)
1181.
How OpenAI, the US government and Persona built an identity surveillance machine (vmfunc.re)
1182.
An Introduction to the Codex Seraphinianus, the Strangest Book Ever Published (openculture.com)
1183.
Old School Visual Effects: The Cloud Tank (2010) (singlemindedmovieblog.blogspot.com)
1184.
Whistleblower claims ex-DOGE member says he took Social Security data to new job (washingtonpost.com)
1185.
An Unbothered Jimmy Wales Calls Grokipedia a 'Cartoon Imitation' of Wikipedia (gizmodo.com)
1186.
Phil Spencer is exiting Microsoft as AI executive takes over Xbox (neowin.net)
1187.
The Pleasures and Pains of Coffee (1830) (quod.lib.umich.edu)
1188.
Block spent $68M on a company offsite in September 2025 (twitter.com)
1189.
More cows, more wives (worksinprogress.news)
1190.
Revealed: UK's multibillion AI drive is built on 'phantom investments' (theguardian.com)
1191.
Neural Boids (campedersen.com)
1192.
Show HN: Claude-File-Recovery, recover files from your ~/.claude sessions (github.com)
1193.
Algolia Hacker News Search GitHub Project Archived (github.com)
1194.
What if the Apple ][ had run on Field-Sequential? (nicole.express)
1195.
Understanding the Go Runtime: The Memory Allocator (internals-for-interns.com)
1196.
Analytic Fog Rendering with Volumetric Primitives (2025) (matejlou.blog)
1197.
Kimi Claw (kimi.com)
1198.
Show HN: VS Code Agent Kanban: Task Management for the AI-Assisted Developer (appsoftware.com)
1199.
Tuna: A new, modern, modal launcher for macOS (tunaformac.com)
1200.
US blindsides states with surprise settlement in Live Nation/Ticketmaster trial (arstechnica.com)