Weekly Best
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Claude Code is steganographically marking requests
(thereallo.dev)
2.
An entire Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time
(scrollprize.org)
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Om Malik has died
(om.co)
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Claude Sonnet 5
(anthropic.com)
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U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6
(washingtonpost.com)
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Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development
(quesma.com)
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The 'papers, please' era of the internet will decimate your privacy
(expression.fire.org)
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Previewing GPT‑5.6 Sol: a next-generation model
(openai.com)
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GLM 5.2 beats Claude in our benchmarks
(semgrep.dev)
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Pollen tried to remove my article and Google is assisting with it
(blog.pragmaticengineer.com)
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Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads
(reuters.com)
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OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom
(techcrunch.com)
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Show HN: I made Google Trends for Hacker News by indexing 18 years of comments
(hackernewstrends.com)
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OpenRA
(openra.net)
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Zuckerberg's war on whistleblowers
(pluralistic.net)
22.
EU to legislate about Chat Control behind closed doors
(patrick-breyer.de)
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30-year sentence for transporting zines is a five-alarm fire for free speech
(theintercept.com)
25.
Half-Life 2 in a Browser
(hl2.slqnt.dev)
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The US ambassador had Belgian police stop our reporting
(europeancorrespondent.com)
28.
Free the Icons
(weblog.rogueamoeba.com)
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.self: A new top-level domain designed to support self-hosting
(hccf.onmy.cloud)
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