Weekly Best
1.
Steam Machine launches today
(store.steampowered.com)
2.
An entire Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time
(scrollprize.org)
3.
Om Malik has died
(om.co)
4.
U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6
(washingtonpost.com)
5.
The 'papers, please' era of the internet will decimate your privacy
(expression.fire.org)
6.
Previewing GPT‑5.6 Sol: a next-generation model
(openai.com)
7.
GLM 5.2 beats Claude in our benchmarks
(semgrep.dev)
8.
What we call "age verification" is actually mass surveillance
(pluralistic.net)
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10.
We’re making Bunny DNS free
(bunny.net)
11.
Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads
(reuters.com)
12.
OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom
(techcrunch.com)
13.
14.
Show HN: I made Google Trends for Hacker News by indexing 18 years of comments
(hackernewstrends.com)
15.
OpenRA
(openra.net)
16.
17.
Zuckerberg's war on whistleblowers
(pluralistic.net)
18.
Fired by Google for creating the Google workspace CLI
(twitter.com)
19.
FUTO Swipe – A new swipe typing model
(swipe.futo.tech)
21.
EU to legislate about Chat Control behind closed doors
(patrick-breyer.de)
22.
Half-Life 2 in a Browser
(hl2.slqnt.dev)
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24.
F3
(github.com)
26.
Fintech Engineering Handbook
(w.pitula.me)
27.
Ford AI hiccups push carmaker to rehire ‘gray beard’ inspectors
(bloomberg.com)
28.
GLM-5.2 – How to Run Locally
(unsloth.ai)