May 2025 Archive
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Apple violated antitrust ruling, judge finds (wsj.com)
2.
Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Windows startup (pcworld.com)
3.
108B Pixel Scan of Johannes Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring (hirox-europe.com)
4.
Julia Parsons, U.S. Navy Code Breaker During World War II, Dies at 104 (nytimes.com)
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Wyze pays $255k of tariffs on $167k of floodlights (twitter.com)
6.
Phi-4 Reasoning Models (azure.microsoft.com)
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Company built its own rail terminal in NYC to avoid relying on trucks (fastcompany.com)
8.
A faster way to copy SQLite databases between computers (alexwlchan.net)
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Milwaukee police considering trading mugshots for facial recognition tech (jsonline.com)
10.
The one interview question that will protect you from North Korean fake workers (theregister.com)
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Microsoft gets twitchy over talk of Europe's tech independence (theregister.com)
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RFK Jr.'S HHS Orders Lab Studying Deadly Infectious Diseases to Stop Research (wired.com)
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A competing theory to 'dark energy' suggests universe has different time zones (cbc.ca)
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Tesla Board Opened Search for a CEO to Succeed Elon Musk (wsj.com)
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Judge Rules Apple Executive Lied Under Oath, Makes Criminal Contempt Referral (thebignewsletter.com)
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Switzerland suspends Deutsche Bahn trains due to chronic delays (thelocal.de)
17.
Stockhausen: Sounds in Space (stockhausenspace.blogspot.com)
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Show HN: Convert Large CSV/XLSX to JSON or XML in Browser (csvforge.com)
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Dropbox will require App Indicator support on Linux (help.dropbox.com)
20.
Ask HN: 3rd Week at FAANG and feeling imposter syndrome
21.
The Brief Origins of May Day (archive.iww.org)
22.
Strings Just Got Faster (inside.java)
23.
The Fantasy of a Nonprofit Dating App (theatlantic.com)
24.
How to vibe code for free: Running Qwen3 on your Mac, using MLX (localforge.dev)
25.
Doge Is Building a Surveillance State (nytimes.com)
26.
The kerning on the pope's tomb is a travesty (fastcompany.com)
27.
Ask HN: Why are Americans on this site acting in an anti-free speech way?
28.
Show HN: Got laid off. Got sick of ghost jobs. Built something (app.ghostjobs.io)
29.
US Economy Contracts for First Time Since 2022 on Imports Surge (bloomberg.com)
30.
Chris Krebs kicked off CBP's Global Entry program (cnn.com)