Monthly Highlights
1711.
Space: 1999 – Special Effects Techniques (catacombs.space1999.net)
1712.
Mom and daughter find stranger in trunk of Waymo (abc7.com)
1713.
America's Dirtiest Carbon Polluters, Mapped to Ridiculous Precision (gizmodo.com)
1714.
OpenAI needs to raise $207B by 2030 so it can continue to lose money (ft.com)
1715.
Notes on the Troubleshooting and Repair of Computer and Video Monitors (repairfaq.org)
1716.
Generative Optogenetics (darpa.mil)
1717.
Practical Intro to Operational Transformation (archive.casouri.cc)
1718.
Claude Status – Elevated error rates on the API (status.claude.com)
1719.
EU household real income per capita up 22% since 2004 (ec.europa.eu)
1720.
Duplication Isn't Always an Anti-Pattern (medium.com)
1721.
KDE going all-in on a Wayland future (blogs.kde.org)
1722.
Launch HN: Mentat (YC F24) – Controlling LLMs with Runtime Intervention
1723.
Africa's forests have switched from absorbing to emitting carbon (phys.org)
1724.
Show HN: Claude Code Plugin to play music when waiting on user input (github.com)
1725.
Client-side GPU load balancing with Redis and Lua (galileo.ai)
1726.
ELF Crimes: Program Interpreter Fun (nytpu.com)
1727.
Memtest86+ v8.00 Released (github.com)
1728.
Voyager 1 approaches one light day from Earth (newatlas.com)
1729.
PatchworkOS: An OS for x86_64, built from scratch in C and assembly (github.com)
1730.
Big Tech are the new Soviets (unherd.com)
1731.
AI is bringing old nuclear plants out of retirement (wbur.org)
1732.
Slashdot effect (en.wikipedia.org)
1733.
Jack Ma's family shifted wealth to UK after years-long 'disappearance' (source-material.org)
1734.
A looming 'insect apocalypse' could endanger global food supplies (livescience.com)
1735.
A giant ball will help this man survive a year on an iceberg (outsideonline.com)
1736.
Inmates at a Mississippi jail were ordered to do the guards' bidding (nytimes.com)
1737.
Google tells employees it must double capacity every 6 months to meet AI demand (arstechnica.com)
1738.
Maybe that's not liquid water on Mars after all (phys.org)
1739.
SPhotonix – 360TB into 5-inch glass disc with femtosecond laser (tomshardware.com)
1740.
Sunsetting Supermaven (supermaven.com)