Yearly Favorites
1981.
KDE Connect: Enabling communication between all your devices (community.kde.org)
1982.
Zigbook Is Plagiarizing the Zigtools Playground (zigtools.org)
1983.
108B Pixel Scan of Johannes Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring (hirox-europe.com)
1984.
Nobel Prize in Physics 2025 (nobelprize.org)
1985.
OkCupid gave 3M dating-app photos to facial recognition firm, FTC says (arstechnica.com)
1986.
12-factor Agents: Patterns of reliable LLM applications (github.com)
1987.
Proof of Corn (proofofcorn.com)
1988.
Japan Post launches 'digital address' system (japantimes.co.jp)
1989.
The Illusion of Thinking: Strengths and limitations of reasoning models [pdf] (ml-site.cdn-apple.com)
1990.
D4D4 (nmichaels.org)
1991.
Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is killed in Israeli strike, ending 36-year rule (npr.org)
1992.
I bought the cheapest EV, a used Nissan Leaf (jeffgeerling.com)
1993.
Sunny days are warm: why LinkedIn rewards mediocrity (elliotcsmith.com)
1994.
Google can now read your WhatsApp messages (neowin.net)
1995.
Sj.h: A tiny little JSON parsing library in ~150 lines of C99 (github.com)
1996.
Open Source Projects Receive Funding to Reclaim the Public Internet (nlnet.nl)
1997.
Ripgrep 15.0 (github.com)
1998.
Denmark to raise retirement age to 70 (telegraph.co.uk)
1999.
Porsche sold more electrified cars in Europe in 2025 than pure gas-powered cars (newsroom.porsche.com)
2000.
OpenAI and Nvidia announce partnership to deploy 10GW of Nvidia systems (openai.com)
2001.
In New York City, congestion pricing leads to marked drop in pollution (e360.yale.edu)
2002.
How the US defense secretary circumvents official DoD communications equipment (electrospaces.net)
2003.
Washington Post's Privacy Tip: Stop Using Chrome, Delete Meta Apps (and Yandex) (tech.slashdot.org)
2004.
Apple randomly closes bug reports unless you "verify" the bug remains unfixed (lapcatsoftware.com)
2005.
Get Shit Done: A meta-prompting, context engineering and spec-driven dev system (github.com)
2006.
Chrome extensions spying on users' browsing data (qcontinuum.substack.com)
2007.
Unreal Tournament 2004 is back (old.reddit.com)
2008.
At 17, Hannah Cairo solved a major math mystery (quantamagazine.org)
2009.
Ditching Obsidian and building my own (amberwilliams.io)
2010.
Britain's railway privatization was an abject failure (rosalux.de)