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What birdsong and back ends can teach us about magic
https://digitalseams.com/blog/what-birdsong-and-backends-can-teach-us-about-magic
FFmpeg devs boast of another 100x leap thanks to handwritten assembly code
https://www.tomshardware.com/software/the-biggest-speedup-ive-seen-so-far-ffmpeg-devs-boast-of-another-100x-leap-thanks-to-handwritten-assembly-code
Is DeepSeek a New Voice Among LLMs in Public Opinion Simulation?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21587
Leaders are using appeals to nostalgia, nationalism to attack higher education
https://theconversation.com/leaders-in-india-hungary-and-the-us-are-using-appeals-to-nostalgia-and-nationalism-to-attack-higher-education-258975
Ccusage: A CLI tool for analyzing Claude Code usage from local JSONL files
https://github.com/ryoppippi/ccusage
Silence Is a Commons by Ivan Illich (1983)
http://www.davidtinapple.com/illich/1983_silence_commons.html
Multiplatform Matrix Multiplication Kernels
https://burn.dev/blog/sota-multiplatform-matmul/
Show HN: I built library management app for those who outgrew spreadsheets
https://www.librari.io/
Mango Health (YC W24) Is Hiring
https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/mango-health/jobs/3bjIHus-founding-engineer
Third patient dies from acute liver failure caused by a Sarepta gene therapy
https://www.biocentury.com/article/656520/third-death-from-a-sarepta-gene-therapy
DuckDuckGo now lets you hide AI-generated images in search results
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/18/duckduckgo-now-lets-you-hide-ai-generated-images-in-search-results/
Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to delist certain adult games
https://www.pcgamer.com/software/platforms/valve-confirms-credit-card-companies-pressured-it-to-delist-certain-adult-games-from-steam/
Britain is lowering the voting age to 16. It's getting a mixed reaction
https://apnews.com/article/uk-voting-age-16-criticism-debate-f85d8675acbf4bd9ceece51135c369e5
rockorager.dev/lsr"> lsr: ls with io_uring
rockorager.dev/lsr" rel="nofollow">https://tangled.sh/@rockorager.dev/lsr
The Genius Device That Rocked F1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhmLb2DhNYM
Australia Wants to See Your Papers Before You Press Play
https://reclaimthenet.org/australia-wants-to-see-your-papers-before-you-press-play
Staying Cool Without Refrigerants: Samsung Is Pioneering Peltier Cooling
https://news.samsung.com/global/interview-staying-cool-without-refrigerants-how-samsung-is-pioneering-next-generation-peltier-cooling
Subreply – an open source text-only social network
https://github.com/lucianmarin/subreply
Hacking a Toniebox
https://www.schafe-sind-bessere-rasenmaeher.de/tech/hack-all-the-things-toniebox/
EPA says it will eliminate its scientific reseach arm
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/climate/epa-firings-scientific-research.html
Exhausted man defeats AI model in world coding championship
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/07/exhausted-man-defeats-ai-model-in-world-coding-championship/
Broadcom to discontinue free Bitnami Helm charts
https://github.com/bitnami/charts/issues/35164
Everything You Need to Know About Grok 4
https://forgecode.dev/blog/grok-4-initial-impression/
How I keep up with AI progress (and why you must too)
https://blog.nilenso.com/blog/2025/06/23/how-i-keep-up-with-ai-progress/
Meta says it wont sign Europe AI agreement, calling it growth stunting overreach
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/18/meta-europe-ai-code.html
Gmail's backup codes are useless to access account
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44606671
The Number go up rule: Why America refuses to fix anything
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/the-number-go-up-rule-why-america
French villages have no more drinking water. The reason? PFAS pollution
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/environment/article/2025/07/18/these-french-villages-have-no-more-drinking-water-the-reason-pfas-pollution_6743479_114.html
Fair software licensing group brands Microsoft EU concessions 'stalling tactic'
https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/18/cispe_microsoft_concessions/