https://life-notes-1po.pages.dev/feed.html Curated news across topics I follow. https://pythonspeed.com/articles/branchless-binary-search/ https://lobste.rs/s/czbhmr Tue, 14 Jul 2026 11:31:30 GMT Comments https://fabiensanglard.net/jurrasic_park_computers/index.html https://lobste.rs/s/xv8dix Tue, 14 Jul 2026 09:24:36 GMT Comments https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/14/pinwheel-launches-a-retro-inspired-landline-phone-for-kids/ https://techcrunch.com/?p=3141758 Tue, 14 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMT Kid-friendly tech company Pinwheel announced the launch of a new landline phone designed to let children stay connected without the distractions of a smartphone. https://github.com/tummychow/git-absorb https://lobste.rs/s/nprldj Tue, 14 Jul 2026 08:45:13 GMT Comments https://typesanitizer.com/blog/job-queues.html https://lobste.rs/s/k3frwc Tue, 14 Jul 2026 07:49:04 GMT Comments https://stackoverflow.blog/2026/07/14/your-ai-is-only-as-responsible-as-you-are/ d81860b7-7b72-4ba5-8ad5-3b77fd9a8e9b Tue, 14 Jul 2026 07:40:00 GMT Recorded at Microsoft Build, Ryan welcomes Sarah Bird, Microsoft’s Chief Product Officer for Responsible AI, about how we can build and use AI responsibly with the NIST approach, why most irresponsible AI comes from experimentation without thought of impact, and how Microsoft is researching thoughtf https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/13/already-rich-already-successful-why-the-last-wave-of-tech-winners-is-grinding-again/ https://techcrunch.com/?p=3141909 Tue, 14 Jul 2026 02:46:42 GMT They're rolling up their sleeves again, seemingly out of fear of missing AI's defining moment and, presumably, the irresistible allure of making even more money -- potentially a lot more. https://tech.supercarblondie.com/japan-recovers-up-to-90-of-lithium-from-used-ev-batteries/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48901569 Tue, 14 Jul 2026 02:27:20 GMT Article URL: https://tech.supercarblondie.com/japan-recovers-up-to-90-of-lithium-from-used-ev-batteries/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48901569 Points: 534 # Comments: 133 https://lalitm.com/post/git-history/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48901010 Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:57:11 GMT Article URL: https://lalitm.com/post/git-history/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48901010 Points: 327 # Comments: 189 https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/14/uvx-github-actions-cache/#atom-everything https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/14/uvx-github-actions-cache/#atom-everything Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:56:20 GMT https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/13/ubers-product-chief-on-hotels-robotaxis-and-why-the-company-doesnt-want-to-be-everything-for-everyone/ https://techcrunch.com/?p=3141573 Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:45:00 GMT Uber Chief Product Officer Sachin Kansal walks TechCrunch through the company's financial-services ambitions, its increasingly complicated relationship with Waymo, its new AV Labs data operation, and how AI is starting to show up in ways riders and drivers will actually notice. https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/13/video-generation-startup-pixverse-raises-439m-valuation-soars-past-2b/ https://techcrunch.com/?p=3141426 Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Singapore-based video generation startup PixVerse closed a Series C extension on the strength of 15 million monthly active users, it said. https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/13/x-just-tweaked-its-algorithm-to-make-it-more-friendly-less-battleground/ https://techcrunch.com/?p=3141807 Mon, 13 Jul 2026 23:58:27 GMT The social media site says it will amplify posts made by users' mutual followers' to give the feed more of a communal feel. https://blog.jse.li/posts/smith9street/ https://lobste.rs/s/rtegvw Mon, 13 Jul 2026 23:43:15 GMT Comments https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/13/hermes-agent-maker-nous-research-in-talks-for-new-funding-at-1-5b-valuation/ https://techcrunch.com/?p=3141670 Mon, 13 Jul 2026 23:31:18 GMT The company is raising at least $75 million, led by Robot, with significant participation from USV and other prominent investors. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm2drrv6q54o https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48900191 Mon, 13 Jul 2026 23:12:22 GMT Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm2drrv6q54o Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48900191 Points: 165 # Comments: 51 https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/13/doomql/#atom-everything https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/13/doomql/#atom-everything Mon, 13 Jul 2026 22:34:41 GMT https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/13/datasette-code-frequency/#atom-everything https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/13/datasette-code-frequency/#atom-everything Mon, 13 Jul 2026 21:45:27 GMT https://www.inngest.com/blog/adding-a-second-middleware-broke-our-typescript-types https://lobste.rs/s/opbq6q Mon, 13 Jul 2026 21:28:36 GMT Comments https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/13/satya-nadella-has-issued-a-shocking-warning-to-companies-using-ai/ https://techcrunch.com/?p=3141632 Mon, 13 Jul 2026 20:59:00 GMT Of all the debates raging about the potential downsides of AI, there is one worry causing the most hand-wringing among AI enthusiasts in Silicon Valley — that the giant AI labs that sell proprietary models are somehow acting like Trojan horses. https://bruceediger.com/posts/tftp-honeypot-results/ https://lobste.rs/s/048t8w Mon, 13 Jul 2026 20:47:40 GMT Comments https://lobste.rs/s/ko1ji1/lobste_rs_is_now_running_on_sqlite https://lobste.rs/s/ko1ji1 Mon, 13 Jul 2026 20:03:24 GMT This past Saturday, @pushcx and I deployed the SQLite pull request to production. We were waiting till this morning to see how it would react to the Monday traffic spike before making this post. Needless to say, SQLite seems to have passed with flying colors: cpu usage is down, memory usage is down, https://neow.in/cWsyMTV3 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48897991 Mon, 13 Jul 2026 20:01:43 GMT Article URL: https://neow.in/cWsyMTV3 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48897991 Points: 187 # Comments: 52 https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/13/apple-says-former-employee-exploited-rare-bug-to-download-confidential-files-after-leaving-for-openai/ https://techcrunch.com/?p=3141708 Mon, 13 Jul 2026 20:00:17 GMT Apple would not comment on the "security breach," which allegedly allowed a former employee to download sensitive files from Apple's network long after he departed the company for rival OpenAI. https://werd.io/climate-gov-was-destroyed-open-data-saved-it/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48897945 Mon, 13 Jul 2026 19:57:55 GMT Article URL: https://werd.io/climate-gov-was-destroyed-open-data-saved-it/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48897945 Points: 335 # Comments: 135 https://www.whois.com/whois/t.me https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48897878 Mon, 13 Jul 2026 19:52:25 GMT Article URL: https://www.whois.com/whois/t.me Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48897878 Points: 195 # Comments: 108 https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/13/the-wildest-allegations-in-apples-trade-secrets-lawsuit-against-openai/ https://techcrunch.com/?p=3141608 Mon, 13 Jul 2026 18:22:10 GMT Apple’s trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI contains allegations that range from employees joking about unauthorized access to Apple’s systems to claims that job candidates were asked to bring Apple hardware to interviews. Here are the complaint’s most eye-catching claims. https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/13/ubers-robotaxi-lobbying-effort-has-put-it-on-a-collision-course-with-waymo/ https://techcrunch.com/?p=3141417 Mon, 13 Jul 2026 12:30:00 GMT Washington D.C. has become a battleground for Uber and Waymo's competing views. https://blog.rust-lang.org/2026/07/13/crates-io-development-update/ https://lobste.rs/s/posxmd Mon, 13 Jul 2026 11:33:27 GMT Comments https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HLZoeFREFo https://lobste.rs/s/bovmc5 Mon, 13 Jul 2026 10:58:00 GMT Comments https://lobste.rs/s/ozcrd0/what_are_you_doing_this_week https://lobste.rs/s/ozcrd0 Mon, 13 Jul 2026 09:44:13 GMT What are you doing this week? Feel free to share! Keep in mind it’s OK to do nothing at all, too. https://raymyers.org/post/zed-creator-calls-spade-a-spade/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48889637 Mon, 13 Jul 2026 08:39:39 GMT Article URL: https://raymyers.org/post/zed-creator-calls-spade-a-spade/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48889637 Points: 535 # Comments: 254 https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jul/13/sam-neill-death-actor-dies-aged-78 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48888468 Mon, 13 Jul 2026 06:02:11 GMT Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jul/13/sam-neill-death-actor-dies-aged-78 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48888468 Points: 241 # Comments: 52 https://www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/the-graph-that-should-be-front-page-news https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48888331 Mon, 13 Jul 2026 05:35:27 GMT Article URL: https://www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/the-graph-that-should-be-front-page-news Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48888331 Points: 192 # Comments: 127 https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/12/directly-responsible-individuals/#atom-everything https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/12/directly-responsible-individuals/#atom-everything Sun, 12 Jul 2026 23:57:14 GMT https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/12/shot-scraper/#atom-everything https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/12/shot-scraper/#atom-everything Sun, 12 Jul 2026 23:46:52 GMT https://thelastpsion.com/posts/make-it-right-next-steps-with-ctran/ https://lobste.rs/s/x1a86b Sun, 12 Jul 2026 22:51:30 GMT Comments https://medium.com/bits-and-behavior/know-thine-enemy-a-critical-engagement-with-ai-assisted-software-development-e41d9b058ab1 https://lobste.rs/s/7ke9cs Sun, 12 Jul 2026 22:12:06 GMT Comments https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/12/bump/#atom-everything https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/12/bump/#atom-everything Sun, 12 Jul 2026 21:20:07 GMT https://xandergos.github.io/terrain-diffusion/ https://lobste.rs/s/ncsslp Sun, 12 Jul 2026 19:56:07 GMT Comments https://geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll/update/2026/07/12/i-love-llms.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48883343 Sun, 12 Jul 2026 18:31:56 GMT Article URL: https://geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll/update/2026/07/12/i-love-llms.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48883343 Points: 258 # Comments: 142 https://systima.ai/blog/claude-code-vs-opencode-token-overhead https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48883275 Sun, 12 Jul 2026 18:25:51 GMT This started based off of a hunch. We usually use OpenCode, but were 'forced' to use Claude Code for a while due to issues with Meridian. In that time, we saw the usage meter rise much, much more quickly than when using OpenCode. This was the initial anecdotal evidence, but we undertook this small s https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/12/techcrunch-mobility-a-robotaxi-ultimatum/ https://techcrunch.com/?p=3141278 Sun, 12 Jul 2026 16:07:00 GMT Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, how AI is playing a part. https://scotto.me/blog/2026-07-12-how-to-read-more-books/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48882056 Sun, 12 Jul 2026 15:47:16 GMT Article URL: https://scotto.me/blog/2026-07-12-how-to-read-more-books/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48882056 Points: 226 # Comments: 128 https://projectdiscovery.io/blog/hacking-apple-with-sql-injection https://lobste.rs/s/axamxi Sun, 12 Jul 2026 10:50:03 GMT Comments https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUm5eW_XGMU https://lobste.rs/s/ksmsg3 Sun, 12 Jul 2026 09:24:30 GMT Comments https://entropicthoughts.com/sicp-2-4-data-directed-programming-in-haskell https://lobste.rs/s/shajxh Sun, 12 Jul 2026 09:07:07 GMT Comments https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/11/reed-jobs-would-rather-talk-about-curing-cancer-than-his-last-name/ https://techcrunch.com/?p=3141407 Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:16:06 GMT When we last sat down with Jobs at TechCrunch Disrupt nearly three years ago, his firm Yosemite was brand new and biotech was still reeling from its post-pandemic crash. Now, the venture outfit has a team of 17; a cluster of blockbuster drugs are all losing patent protection in roughly the same wind https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/11/sqlite-utils/#atom-everything https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/11/sqlite-utils/#atom-everything Sat, 11 Jul 2026 23:50:20 GMT https://www.iroh.computer/blog/mesh-llm https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48876505 Sat, 11 Jul 2026 22:38:57 GMT Article URL: https://www.iroh.computer/blog/mesh-llm Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48876505 Points: 266 # Comments: 59