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Monday, July 13, 2026

• Apple's New Speech API vs Whisper: The First Real Benchmark get-inscribe.com EN Apple's new SpeechAnalyzer engine outperforms Whisper Small in accuracy and speed on English LibriSpeech benchmarks.
  Technology Speech Recognition Benchmark Apple SpeechAnalyzer Whisper LibriSpeech

Wednesday, July 8, 2026

• Tris Sherliker tris.sherliker.net EN An obfuscated bash script printed on a Uniqlo t‑shirt displays an animated Peace for All Easter egg.
  Technology Fashion Marketing bash obfuscation EasterEgg Uniqlo Akamai
• Windows 98 on a Thinkpad T41 - 82MHz 82mhz.net EN Installing Windows 98 on a Thinkpad T41 for a portable retro gaming experience.
  Technology Retro Computing Windows 98 Retro Tech

Thursday, June 18, 2026

• A New Era of Midjourney www.midjourney.com EN-US Midjourney announces a spa-like ultrasonic scanner for frequent health imaging.
  Technology AI Healthcare Wellness Midjourney ultrasound spa health

Wednesday, June 17, 2026

• Daring Fireball: What Is a Dickover? daringfireball.net EN The article defines 'dickover' as an obstructive modal popup used by websites to annoy users with unwanted interactions.
  Technology User Experience dickover ux modal popup

Saturday, June 13, 2026

• Statement on the US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 \ Anthropic www.anthropic.com EN Anthropic announces compliance with a US government order suspending access to its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models.
  Technology Cybersecurity Policy Anthropic Jailbreak

Friday, June 12, 2026

• Next 100 Days: XBOX Reset - XBOX Wire news.xbox.com EN-US Xbox outlines its next 100‑day reset plan addressing hardware shortages, content investment, and community engagement.
  Gaming Technology Business Xbox Hardware Gaming

Wednesday, June 10, 2026

• Anthropic's Model Naming, Extrapolated · Sam Wilkinson samwilkinson.io EN A satirical post extrapolates Anthropic's Claude model naming into a literary franchise hierarchy.
  Technology AI Claude Anthropic Model Naming

Sunday, June 7, 2026

• Replies to comments on my "LLMs are eroding my career" post | the human in the loop human-in-the-loop.bearblog.dev EN An engineer describes how LLMs, agents, and prompting are automating domain expertise, reshaping software work, and threatening jobs.
  Technology AI Careers AI agents automation LLMs fintech
• LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do | the human in the loop human-in-the-loop.bearblog.dev EN A software engineer explains how LLMs are eroding their specialized skills and threatening their career prospects.
  Technology AI Career AI LLMs debugging architecture career

Sunday, May 31, 2026

• the solution might be cancelling my AI subscription thoughts.hmmz.org The author argues that AI and other digital tools increase shallow tasks and distractions, undermining deep work and meaningful outcomes.
  Technology Productivity AI productivity

Friday, May 29, 2026

• I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit simonwillison.net EN-GB OpenAI and Anthropic have likely found product-market fit as enterprise adoption of coding agents and pricing shifts drive substantial revenue.
  Technology Business agents pricing enterprise revenue

Wednesday, May 27, 2026

• I’m tired of talking to AI orchidfiles.com EN The author expresses frustration with AI-generated answers replacing real human interaction.
  Technology Society AI automation misinformation authenticity

Sunday, May 24, 2026

• Ad Infinitum · Matthias Ott matthiasott.com EN Google's move to generative search embeds ads into AI-generated answers, threatening the web's link economy and user privacy.
  Privacy Technology Business advertising search generative privacy

Friday, May 22, 2026

• ✱ Kagi's Small Web is Wonderful - Defiant Sloth defiantsloth.com EN Kagi's Small Web is an ad-free, open-source curated index that randomly surfaces independent blogs for easy discovery.
  Technology Internet Kagi Kagi curation discovery blogs search

Tuesday, May 12, 2026

• I Let AI Build a Tool to Help Me Figure Out What Was Waking Me Up at Night martin.sh EN A developer used AI to build a home system that links audio and sensor data to identify what wakes them at night.
  Technology Health AI audio sleep sensors

Sunday, May 3, 2026

• The Listening Museum · sheets.works sheets.works EN An interactive listening museum showcasing curated recordings of 36 mechanical keyboards and switches.
  Technology Audio keyboards audio

Wednesday, April 22, 2026

• How The Heck Does GPS Work? (An Interactive Exploration) perthirtysix.com EN Explains how GPS uses satellite timing, geometry, and relativistic corrections to compute precise positions.
  Technology Science Navigation GPS satellites

Friday, April 17, 2026

• The creative software industry has declared war on Adobe | The Verge www.theverge.com EN-US Competitors are undermining Adobe with free and cheaper alternatives to its Creative Cloud.
  Technology Business Software Adobe Alternatives Subscription Free
• Installing every* Firefox extension jack.cab EN A walkthrough of scraping, installing, and analyzing tens of thousands of Firefox extensions with security and performance observations.
  Security Technology Research Phishing Firefox extensions scraping
• Discourse is Not Going Closed Source blog.discourse.org EN Discourse will remain open source, arguing AI-driven defenses and transparency are better than closing source for security.
  Security Technology AI opensource security saas

Tuesday, April 14, 2026

• Can Claude Fly a Plane? so.long.thanks.fish EN A user tests Claude flying a Cessna in X-Plane and finds it fails due to latency and control issues.
  Technology Claude

Wednesday, April 8, 2026

• How many products does Microsoft have named ‘Copilot’? I mapped every one | Tey Bannerman teybannerman.com EN An interactive map documenting the many Microsoft products and features named 'Copilot'.
  Technology AI Analysis Copilot Microsoft Mapping Visualization
• Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that outsmarts even smart headphones - Škoda Storyboard www.skoda-storyboard.com EN-GB Škoda developed DuoBell, a bicycle bell tuned to penetrate ANC headphones and improve pedestrian and cyclist safety.
  Technology Transportation Safety bicycle headphones

Friday, April 3, 2026

• Don't Let AI Write For You alexhwoods.com EN The author warns that using LLMs to write for you undermines thinking and credibility.
  Technology Writing Ethics AI LLM

Monday, March 30, 2026

• ChatGPT Won't Let You Type Until Cloudflare Reads Your React State. I Decrypted the Program That Does It. www.buchodi.com EN The author decrypted Cloudflare Turnstile bytecode and found it fingerprints browsers and ChatGPT's React state to create access tokens that detect bots.
  Security Privacy Technology Web AI OpenAI ChatGPT Cloudflare fingerprinting React OpenAI ChatGPT
• notes: copilot edited an ad into my pr notes.zachmanson.com EN A GitHub Copilot edit inserted an advertisement for itself and Raycast into the author's pull request description.
  Technology Software Copilot Advertisement Ethics

Tuesday, March 24, 2026

• "Made in EU" - it was harder than I thought. www.coinerella.com EN A founder's account of building a startup on European infrastructure, detailing provider choices, self-hosting trade-offs, and unavoidable US dependencies.
  Technology Infrastructure Startups gdpr cloud kubernetes authentication
• Migrating to the EU - rz01.org rz01.org EN-US A personal report on moving online services to EU-based providers for better data protection and privacy.
  Privacy Technology Hosting migration email nextcloud vpn
• The Death of Character in Game Console Interfaces | Vale.Rocks vale.rocks EN Modern console interfaces have lost the character and charm that earlier systems like the Wii and GameCube once provided.
  Gaming Technology Design Console interfaces design skeuomorphism

Monday, March 23, 2026

• PC Gamer Recommends RSS Readers in a 37MB Article That Just Keeps Downloading — Stuart Breckenridge stuartbreckenridge.net EN A critique of PC Gamer's ad-heavy 37MB article that continually downloads more content.
  Technology Web performance ads popups rss

Friday, March 20, 2026

• I’m OK being left behind, thanks! – Terence Eden’s Blog shkspr.mobi EN-GB The author argues it's fine to avoid being an early adopter of technologies like crypto and AI until they prove useful.
  Technology Opinion crypto AI FOMO hype

Monday, March 16, 2026

• Kevin Boone: The “small web” is bigger than you might think kevinboone.me EN The author finds the non-commercial "small web" larger and more active than expected, making comprehensive feed aggregation impractical.
  Technology Internet Gemini feeds aggregator Kagi

Friday, March 13, 2026

• upper-up/meta-lobbying-and-other-findings github.com EN OSINT investigation linking Meta to a multi-channel campaign to shift age-verification burdens onto app stores.
  Politics Technology Investigative journalism lobbying

Thursday, March 12, 2026

• Everything we know about Project Helix, the next Xbox www.polygon.com EN Overview of leaks and reports about Project Helix, Microsoft's next high-end Xbox console including price, specs, and release timing.
  Gaming Technology Xbox Helix Console AMD

Sunday, March 8, 2026

• VoxRay Games Pushes Major Update To Voxile: "The Builder's Update" elbowgreasegames.substack.com EN
  Gaming Technology voxel raytracing gamedev Lobster