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Domenic Denicola argues that spaced-repetition software has become much better, largely because newer scheduling algorithms such as FSRS are reducing wasted reviews and making learning less frustrating.
Read report »A short note by matklad says code is often easier to reason about when precondition checks move to the caller and batch processing becomes the natural base case.
Read report »Vates alleges that a space company repeatedly abused Xen Orchestra Appliance trials, and says it may tighten limits to stop the pattern.
Read report »DeepMind says AlphaEvolve combines Gemini models with automated evaluators and an evolutionary loop to improve code, math and compute systems across Google.
Read report »The titanium-encased lander made an uncontrolled re-entry, with Russian authorities placing its descent over the Indian Ocean.
Read report »A retrospective blog post says a brief 1991 alias forwarding mistake at NeXT ended with one of Steve Jobs’s shortest and most memorable responses.
Read report »The Rust-based editor says its new Agent Panel can inspect code, edit files and run tools while keeping the product open source.
Read report »A developer essay argues that once you learn to fix things, software stops looking finished and starts looking like a list of obligations.
Read report »A long essay by a teacher says LLM prose has become easy to spot, hard to defend, and poor at saying anything memorable.
Read report »A long Substack essay drew Hacker News attention by arguing that people can live a more intellectually rich life by reducing epistemic anxiety and seeking diverse ideas.
Read report »A post on jayd.ml describes a YouTube homepage redesign that leaves only a handful of videos visible on a large desktop display, intensifying criticism that the platform is trading usability for monetization.
Read report »Electricity returned across both countries after an outage disrupted transport, schools, hospitals and businesses, while national and European inquiries began examining the cause.
Read report »A security researcher says a legacy Apple notification API could be abused from inside a sandboxed app to force an iPhone into a reboot loop until the user manually restarts it.
Read report »An essay on yarchive.net revisits a mechanical theory that links varicocele, benign prostatic hyperplasia, prostate cancer, and infertility through impaired venous drainage, arguing that a simple vascular fix might prevent several common male health problems.
Read report »Slate Auto is preparing a $20,000 class electric pickup with a single trim, a single color, and no paint shop, aiming to cut manufacturing complexity while offering buyers a highly customizable base vehicle.
Read report »A review of Sarah Wynn-Williams’s memoir says Meta’s attempt to suppress the book only helped turn it into a sharper portrait of Facebook’s internal culture.
Read report »Three astronauts headed to China’s space station for maintenance, debris-protection work and experiments spanning physics and medical science.
Read report »A security architect alleges that new DOGE accounts were granted high-level access to NLRB systems and that unusual data transfers and login attempts followed.
Read report »The creator of Spegel says Microsoft’s Peerd project closely resembled his own P2P image-sharing code and left users confused about the relationship.
Read report »Google has released int4 quantized Gemma 3 variants tuned with Quantization Aware Training, positioning the models as a way to run stronger AI on consumer graphics cards.
Read report »A report cited by ServeTheHome says Synology plans to restrict features in upcoming 2025 Plus NAS models to its own branded hard drives, a move critics say deepens lock-in.
Read report »An open-source project called Backdooms compresses a browser game into a QR code, using decompression in the browser to turn a scan into a playable game.
Read report »Google says Gemini 2.5 Flash is in preview and designed to improve reasoning while keeping speed and cost efficiency at the center for developers.
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