Daily Top Stories
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Anonymous request-token comparisons from Opus 4.6 and Opus 4.7 (tokens.billchambers.me)
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The electromechanical angle computer inside the B-52 bomber's star tracker (righto.com)
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NIST scientists create 'any wavelength' lasers (nist.gov)
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College instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work (sentinelcolorado.com)
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Thoughts and feelings around Claude Design (samhenri.gold)
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Traders placed over $1B in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war (theguardian.com)
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NASA Shuts Off Instrument on Voyager 1 to Keep Spacecraft Operating (science.nasa.gov)
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Dad brains: How fatherhood rewires the male mind (bbc.com)
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Amazon is discontinuing Kindle for PC on June 30th (goodereader.com)
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PgQue: Zero-Bloat Postgres Queue (github.com)
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Show HN: MDV – a Markdown superset for docs, dashboards, and slides with data (github.com)
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Keep Pushing: We Get 10 More Days to Reform Section 702 (eff.org)
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The world in which IPv6 was a good design (2017) (apenwarr.ca)
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Optimizing Ruby Path Methods (byroot.github.io)
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Ask HN: How did you land your first projects as a solo engineer/consultant?
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Fuzix OS (fuzix.org)
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The seven programming ur-languages (2022) (madhadron.com)
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Zero-Copy GPU Inference from WebAssembly on Apple Silicon (abacusnoir.com)
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Graphs that explain the state of AI in 2026 (spectrum.ieee.org)
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SPEAKE(a)R: Turn Speakers to Microphones for Fun and Profit [pdf] (2017) (usenix.org)
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Amazon won't release Fire Sticks that support sideloading anymore (arstechnica.com)
22.
The USDA's gardening zones have shifted. (Interactive app and map) (2024) (apps.npr.org)
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Airline worker arrested after sharing photos of bomb damage in WhatsApp group (lbc.co.uk)
24.
America will come to regret its war on taxes (economist.com)
25.
Changes in the system prompt between Claude Opus 4.6 and 4.7 (simonwillison.net)
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The RAM shortage could last years (theverge.com)
27.
4-bit floating point FP4 (johndcook.com)
28.
My first impressions on ROCm and Strix Halo (blog.marcoinacio.com)
29.
Young sons of U.S. marshal ride horseback from Oklahoma to New York (2018) (texascooppower.com)
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Why Zip drives dominated the 90s, then vanished almost overnight (xda-developers.com)