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.
The 'papers, please' era of the internet will decimate your privacy
(expression.fire.org)
5.
Deno Desktop
(docs.deno.com)
6.
U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6
(washingtonpost.com)
7.
Previewing GPT‑5.6 Sol: a next-generation model
(openai.com)
8.
What we call "age verification" is actually mass surveillance
(pluralistic.net)
9.
We’re making Bunny DNS free
(bunny.net)
10.
Identity verification on Claude
(support.claude.com)
11.
Did my old job only exist because of fraud?
(david.newgas.net)
12.
Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads
(reuters.com)
13.
OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom
(techcrunch.com)
14.
Pledging another $400k to the Zig software foundation
(mitchellh.com)
15.
16.
Show HN: I made Google Trends for Hacker News by indexing 18 years of comments
(hackernewstrends.com)
17.
Never Give Them Your Face
(nevergivethemyourface.com)
18.
Fired by Google for creating the Google workspace CLI
(twitter.com)
19.
FUTO Swipe – A new swipe typing model
(swipe.futo.tech)
20.
Half-Life 2 in a Browser
(hl2.slqnt.dev)
21.
F3
(github.com)
23.
GLM-5.2 – How to Run Locally
(unsloth.ai)
24.
In memory of the man who put red and green squiggles under words
(devblogs.microsoft.com)
26.
Ford AI hiccups push carmaker to rehire ‘gray beard’ inspectors
(bloomberg.com)
29.
Jerry's Map
(jerrysmap.com)