95
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I wrote a book called "Crap Towns". It seemed funny at the time
https://samj.substack.com/p/that-joke-isnt-funny-any-more
3 hours ago
63
45
Your phone isn't secretly listening to you, but the truth is more disturbing
https://newatlas.com/computers/smartphone-listening-conversations-ads-facebook/
53
2
Berkeley Humanoid Lite – Open-source robot
https://lite.berkeley-humanoid.org/
30
1
Mathematicians just solved a 125-year-old problem, uniting 3 theories in physics
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/lofty-math-problem-called-hilberts-sixth-closer-to-being-solved/
2 hours ago
27
5
Reading RSS content is a skilled activity
https://www.doliver.org/articles/rss-as-a-skill
4 hours ago
22
M5 Stack no longer shipping to US
https://shop.m5stack.com/
20
Tech Workers are just like the rest of us: miserable at work
https://www.wsj.com/tech/tech-careers-job-market-changes-bfe36c1f
14
6
Mike Lindell's lawyers used AI to write brief–judge finds nearly 30 mistakes
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/04/mypillow-ceos-lawyers-used-ai-in-brief-citing-fictional-cases-judge-says/
13
0
Virginia Giuffre, prominent Jeffrey Epstein accuser, dies by suicide
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cql67qk0dd3o
12
4
PhD Timeline
https://xkcd.com/3081/
9
7
Linus Torvalds Expresses His Hatred for Case-Insensitive File-Systems
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linus-Torvalds-Anti-Case-Fold
Bankruptcy as Implicit Health Insurance
https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/aer.20131408
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Colossal Cave Adventure (1976)
https://github.com/wh0am1-dev/adventure
FBI offers $10M for information about Salt Typhoon members
https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/04/fbi-offers-10-million-for-information-about-salt-typhoon-members/
Star ChatGPT researcher denied green card, enraging tech community
https://sfstandard.com/2025/04/25/key-chatgpt-researcher-denied-green-card-enraging-tech-community/
Frustrated at Young Programmers
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43800553
an hour ago
Chinese Manufacturers Make Appeals to Americans: Buy Direct
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/technology/chinese-factories-tiktok-trade-war.html
Old Nerds, New Nerds
https://retconnedone.substack.com/p/old-nerds-new-nerds
Sydney woman who sold a cartoon cat T-shirt told to pay $100K in copyright case
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/apr/26/sydney-woman-who-sold-a-cartoon-cat-t-shirt-told-to-pay-us100000-in-grumpy-cat-copyright-case