Monthly Highlights
1.
Tell HN: Help restore the tax deduction for software dev in the US (Section 174)
2.
My AI skeptic friends are all nuts (fly.io)
3.
Claude 4 (anthropic.com)
4.
Self-hosting your own media considered harmful according to YouTube (jeffgeerling.com)
5.
The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source (blogs.windows.com)
6.
Bill Atkinson has died (daringfireball.net)
7.
The time bomb in the tax code that's fueling mass tech layoffs (qz.com)
8.
GCP Outage (status.cloud.google.com)
9.
Baby is healed with first personalized gene-editing treatment (nytimes.com)
10.
Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot (support.mozilla.org)
11.
CSS Minecraft (benjaminaster.com)
12.
Frequent reauth doesn't make you more secure (tailscale.com)
13.
A receipt printer cured my procrastination (laurieherault.com)
14.
OpenAI slams court order to save all ChatGPT logs, including deleted chats (arstechnica.com)
15.
Photos taken inside musical instruments (dpreview.com)
16.
Watching AI drive Microsoft employees insane (old.reddit.com)
17.
Postgres IDE in VS Code (techcommunity.microsoft.com)
18.
AlphaEvolve: A Gemini-powered coding agent for designing advanced algorithms (deepmind.google)
19.
Spaced repetition systems have gotten better (domenic.me)
20.
Coding without a laptop: Two weeks with AR glasses and Linux on Android (holdtherobot.com)
21.
The last six months in LLMs, illustrated by pelicans on bicycles (simonwillison.net)
22.
Magistral — the first reasoning model by Mistral AI (mistral.ai)
23.
Trump administration halts Harvard's ability to enroll international students (nytimes.com)
24.
Gemini Diffusion (simonwillison.net)
25.
Cloudlflare builds OAuth with Claude and publishes all the prompts (github.com)
26.
Have I Been Pwned 2.0 (troyhunt.com)
27.
FFmpeg merges WebRTC support (git.ffmpeg.org)
28.
Apple announces Foundation Models and Containerization frameworks, etc (apple.com)
29.
If you are useful, it doesn't mean you are valued (betterthanrandom.substack.com)
30.
Root shell on a credit card terminal (stefan-gloor.ch)