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Stories from 2026-07-10

1. QuadRF can spot drones and see WiFi through my wall (jeffgeerling.com)

2. Good Tools Are Invisible (gingerbill.org)

3. Train sim created by just one person is being called the best ever made (kotaku.com)

4. New York City to ban deceptive subscription practices (theguardian.com)

5. Late Bronze Age Collapse (acoup.blog)

6. GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra produces proof of the Cycle Double Cover Conjecture [pdf] (cdn.openai.com)

7. Lost city discovered beneath Egypt's desert with ancient church (dailymail.com)

8. Snails' teeth beats spider silk as nature's strongest material (2015) (smithsonianmag.com)

9. Computation as a universal and fundamental concept (ergo.org)

10. The tech of 'Terminator 2' – an oral history (2017) (vfxblog.com)

11. Combustion engine web-based simulator (combustionlab.net)

12. A love letter to flashcards (lesleylai.info)

13. After 7 years in production, Scarf has reluctantly moved away from Haskell (avi.press)

14. An update on residential proxies and the scraper situation (lwn.net)

15. In Emacs, everything looks like a service (yummymelon.com)

16. War Atlas: An interactive cartography of every named war in human history (waratlas.org)

17. Apple Silicon Exec Explains Mac Mini AI Demand and On-Device Future (macrumors.com)

18. Successful companies go blind (ianreppel.org)

19. Building a real-time AI tutor for 5-year-olds (ello.com)

20. Inference Optimization for MiMo v2.5: Pushing Hybrid SWA Efficiency to the Limit (xiaomi.com)

21. Write code like a human will maintain it (unstack.io)

22. EU Commission: addictive design Instagram and Facebook in breach of the DSA (europa.eu)

23. My Story of 3D Realms / Apogee Part I (2020) (joesiegler.blog)

24. AI-generated videos to maximally drive a target brain region (epfl.ch)

25. How the terrorist group Boko Haram uses frontier AI (casp.ac)

26. The mathematical secrets of Barcelona's Sagrada Familia (mappingignorance.org)

27. Parental device use and the adolescent-caregiver attachment bond (frontiersin.org)

28. Triple Dragon Fractal (2020) (paulbourke.net)

29. Show HN: Wyrm – Solve algebra by touch, built on an open-source soundness engine (github.com/dicroce)

30. Life with Hazard Ratios (dynomight.net)

31. GhostLock, a stack-UAF that has existed in ALL Linux distributions for 15 years (nebusec.ai)

32. Ditching Vagrant: VMs with KVM and Virsh on Debian (benjamintoll.com)

33. Common prefix skipping, adaptive sort (smalldatum.blogspot.com)

34. Build your own vulnerability harness (cloudflare.com)

35. Cache-Conscious Data Layout in Rust: Field Zoning, False Sharing, 128-Byte Rule (debasishg.github.io)

37. Show HN: Reviving my 2001 college band with AI (fadingmaize.com)

38. Show HN: Frugon – Find which LLM calls a cheaper model could handle (local, MIT) (github.com/rodiun)

39. Show HN: Runloom – Go-style coroutines for Python free-threaded (github.com/robertsdotpm)

40. Harman and Dr. Sean Olive are reshaping headphone sound (2025) (crutchfield.com)

42. The Clouds of Hiroshima (doomsdaymachines.net)

43. Hands-On with the AMD Ryzen AI Halo (microcenter.com)

44. Punk, or why I don't stream anymore (geohot.github.io)

45. How RCA Victor sold Sound Service to classrooms in 1939 (pncnmnp.github.io)

46. Ben Bernanke Joins Anthropic Oversight Trust (anthropic.com)

47. The Annotated JEPA (elonlit.com)

48. Focus (boz.com)

49. Please don't discontinue Gemini 2.5 Flash (ai.google.dev)

50. Unified Memory, Explained: Why Mini PCs Can Run 70B Models a Big GPU Can't (vettedconsumer.com)

51. ActivityPub over ATProto (2023) (berjon.com)

52. GPT-5.6, Grok 4.5, Claude, and Muse Spark build the same 4 apps (tryai.dev)

53. 45% of Enthusiasts 'Seriously Considering' Leaving Sony for PC (pushsquare.com)

54. Ancient Coins: What About Spartan Coins? (coinweek.com)

55. Star Just Ate a Planet, and It's Not Done Yet (nytimes.com)

56. Materials innovation has a scale-up problem, not discovery (atomscale.ai)

57. Proton AG Services is currently experiencing some issues (proton.me)

58. Damaged Earth Catalog (bleu255.com)

59. Europe's Largest Unions Demand Right to Cancel Work on Days Above 30C (novaramedia.com)

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