How far back in time can you understand English? https://www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-back-in-time-understand-english
Deadlanguagesociety
How far back in time can you understand English?
An experiment in language change
CXMT has been offering DDR4 chips at about half the prevailing market rate https://www.koreaherald.com/article/10679206
The Korea Herald
China’s cut-rate DRAM tests Samsung, SK in HBM4 race
Samsung Electronics and SK hynix are locked in a race to mass-produce sixth-generation high-bandwidth memory, but Chinese rivals are making gains elsewhere — fl
Claws are now a new layer on top of LLM agents https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/2024987174077432126
X (formerly Twitter)
Andrej Karpathy (@karpathy) on X
Bought a new Mac mini to properly tinker with claws over the weekend. The apple store person told me they are selling like hotcakes and everyone is confused :)
I'm definitely a bit sus'd to run OpenClaw specifically - giving my private data/keys to 400K…
I'm definitely a bit sus'd to run OpenClaw specifically - giving my private data/keys to 400K…
Man accidentally gains control of 7k robot vacuums https://www.popsci.com/technology/robot-vacuum-army/
Popular Science
Man accidentally gains control of 7,000 robot vacuums
Sammy Azdoufal just wanted to steer his DJI Romo with a gaming controller.
Hetzner Prices increase 30-40% https://docs.hetzner.com/general/infrastructure-and-availability/price-adjustment/
The Age Verification Trap: Verifying age undermines everyone's data protection https://spectrum.ieee.org/age-verification
IEEE Spectrum
The Age-Verification Trap
Platforms are caught in a dilemma: enforce age restrictions or protect user privacy. How are they navigating this tricky terrain?
IDF killed Gaza aid workers at point blank range in 2025 massacre: Report https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/israeli-soldiers-tel-sultan-gaza-red-crescent-civil-defense-massacre-report-forensic-architecture-earshot
Dropsitenews
Israeli Soldiers Killed Gaza Aid Workers at Point Blank Range in 2025 Massacre: Report
A minute-by-minute reconstruction of the massacre by Earshot and Forensic Architecture found Israeli soldiers fired over 900 bullets at the aid workers, killing 15.
I pitched a roller coaster to Disneyland at age 10 in 1978 https://wordglyph.xyz/one-piece-at-a-time
wordglyph.xyz
I pitched a roller coaster to Disneyland at age 10 in 1978
A story about Disneyland's Space Mountain and a 10-year-old inventor.
Bus stop balancing is fast, cheap, and effective https://worksinprogress.co/issue/the-united-states-needs-fewer-bus-stops/
worksinprogress.co
The United States needs fewer bus stops - Works in Progress Magazine
Bus stop balancing is fast, cheap, and effective. It can turn a service people tolerate into one they’re happy to use.
AirSnitch: Demystifying and breaking client isolation in Wi-Fi networks [pdf] https://www.ndss-symposium.org/wp-content/uploads/2026-f1282-paper.pdf
Can you reverse engineer our neural network? https://blog.janestreet.com/can-you-reverse-engineer-our-neural-network/
Jane Street Blog
Can you reverse engineer our neural network?
A lot of “capture-the-flag” style ML puzzles give you a black box neural net, and your job is to figure out what it does. When we were thinking of creating o...
A new California law says all operating systems need to have age verification https://www.pcgamer.com/software/operating-systems/a-new-california-law-says-all-operating-systems-including-linux-need-to-have-some-form-of-age-verification-at-account-setup/
PC Gamer
A new California law says all operating systems, including Linux, need to have some form of age verification at account setup
I wonder how the government of California plans to enforce it?
The Eternal Promise: A History of Attempts to Eliminate Programmers https://www.ivanturkovic.com/2026/01/22/history-software-simplification-cobol-ai-hype/
Signal Through the Noise
The Eternal Promise: A History of Attempts to Eliminate Programmers
From COBOL in the 1960s to AI in the 2020s, every generation promises to eliminate programmers. Explore the recurring cycles of software simplification hype.
Obsidian Sync now has a headless client https://help.obsidian.md/sync/headless
Obsidian Help
Headless Sync - Obsidian Help
Obsidian Sync offers a headless client to sync vaults without using the desktop app. Useful for CI pipelines, agents, and automated workflows. Sync the latest changes or keep files continuously up to date.
MCP server that reduces Claude Code context consumption by 98% https://mksg.lu/blog/context-mode
mksg.lu
Stop Burning Your Context Window — We Built Context Mode
MCP server that reduces Claude Code context consumption by 98%. 315 KB becomes 5.4 KB.