Monthly Highlights
181.
The surprise deprecation of GPT-4o for ChatGPT consumers (simonwillison.net)
182.
It's a DE9, not a DB9 (but we know what you mean) (news.sparkfun.com)
183.
RIP Shunsaku Tamiya, the man who made plastic model kits a global obsession (JapaneseNostalgicCar.com)
184.
Try the Mosquito Bucket of Death (energyvanguard.com)
185.
F-Droid build servers can't build modern Android apps due to outdated CPUs
186.
“Dynamic programming” is not referring to “computer programming” (vidarholen.net)
187.
Scientific fraud has become an 'industry,' analysis finds (science.org)
188.
Debian switches to 64-bit time for everything (theregister.com)
189.
More than you wanted to know about how Game Boy cartridges work (abc.decontextualize.com)
190.
LLM architecture comparison (magazine.sebastianraschka.com)
191.
Facial recognition vans to be rolled out across police forces in England (news.sky.com)
192.
Windows XP Professional (win32.run)
193.
The bewildering phenomenon of declining quality (english.elpais.com)
194.
TODOs aren't for doing (sophiebits.com)
195.
I drank every cocktail (aaronson.org)
196.
GLM-4.5: Agentic, Reasoning, and Coding (ARC) Foundation Models [pdf] (arxiv.org)
197.
Return of wolves to Yellowstone has led to a surge in aspen trees (livescience.com)
198.
The Math Is Haunted (overreacted.io)
199.
Persona vectors: Monitoring and controlling character traits in language models (anthropic.com)
200.
Unsafe and Unpredictable: My Volvo EX90 Experience (myvolvoex90.com)
201.
Anthropic tightens usage limits for Claude Code without telling users (techcrunch.com)
202.
So you want to parse a PDF? (eliot-jones.com)
203.
FFmpeg devs boast of another 100x leap thanks to handwritten assembly code (tomshardware.com)
204.
MCP overlooks hard-won lessons from distributed systems (julsimon.medium.com)
205.
Altermagnets: The first new type of magnet in nearly a century (newscientist.com)
206.
Scientists may have found a way to eliminate chromosome linked to Down syndrome (academic.oup.com)
207.
Tor: How a military project became a lifeline for privacy (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
208.
The Promised LAN (tpl.house)
209.
PixiEditor 2.0 – A FOSS universal 2D graphics editor (pixieditor.net)
210.
OpenAI's new open-source model is basically Phi-5 (seangoedecke.com)