2025-04-05
Thousands Attend ‘Hands Off’ Protests Across U.S. — and Europe — to Oppose Trump’s Agenda
Terrific photos and summary coverage from The Guardian. Additional coverage from The New York Times, Washington Post, and CNN. There’s something so bizarrely asymmetrical about Trump’s political support. We saw...
The WSJ Estimates the Effect of Trump’s Tariffs on the iPhone
Joanna Stern, Adrienne Tong, and Nicole Nguyen, writing for The Wall Street Journal (News+): Take a look at this iPhone 16 Pro. Your cost, for the 256GB version, is $1,100....
The Pricing Stability of the iMac
Dan Moren, writing at Six Colors: In his piece, Gruber particularly calls out the trashcan Mac Pro sticking at $2999 throughout its existence, but I think an even more striking...
Perhaps the E.U. Took Mercy on Apple and Meta (and Investors) This Week
Barbara Moens and Henry Foy, reporting from Brussels for the Financial Times last Friday, March 28: The EU is set to impose minimal fines on Apple and Facebook owner Meta...
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I checked Perplexity and it sets the bar high for me ;) "In essence, Postreads.co expands the concept of traditional RSS readers by incorporating broader content types, AI-powered personalization, and...
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postreads.co - finally had some capacity to think of making changes. Less than I had hoped for but still. I fixed a long lasting issue with caching of the main...
A Guide on How to Legally Web Scrape EU Data
Scraping has long existed in a legally gray area, so journalists and other researchers tend to approach it cautiously.
Season Three Trailer for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
I am still stinge watching my way through the second season of Strange New Worlds, but the third season of the show premieres sometime this summer, so I’d better finish...
Gemini 2.5 Pro: Google's New AI King Takes the Crown?
Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro is designed for complex reasoning tasks and excels in understanding and generating content across various formats. It can process up to 1 million tokens in a...
The Hot Stove Effect: Why AI Learns to Be a Pessimist
Why learning algorithms are pessimistic: Hot Stove Effect shows negativity bias persists in Bayesian & sampling-based learning.
You Built It. Now Get Paid. Ethereum’s Devansh Mehta on Fixing Open Source Funding
Devansh Mehta, AI x Public Goods Governance Lead at the Ethereum Foundation, shares how his journey from grant writing burnout led to reimagining public goods funding through web3 and AI....
What Can Defects Tell Us About Magnetic Materials? TM-CNN's Defect Whisperer Approach
Defect dynamics unveiled! TM-CNN quantifies junctions/terminals in magnetic films, linking structure to material properties.
Codeless Test Automation is Beneficial, but Not a Complete Replacement for All Testing
If you're a marketer, product manager, or QA specialist without deep programming skills, you've probably thought of an easier way to test your or your client's website.
Solana Needs to Fix Its MEV Problem
MEV bots are a major issue for the Solana blockchain, leading to sandwich attacks and losses on swaps. Projects like Titan, Ellipsis Labs and Jito are working on solutions to...
Build Your Own BEP-20 Token in a Single Afternoon—No Prior Experience Needed
Build, deploy, and trade your custom cryptocurrency token in one afternoon: Write a BEP-20 contract in Remix, connect MetaMask to BSC testnet, deploy your code, verify for transparency, then create...
Stop Buffering: Stream JSON to S3 in CSV Format Using Node.js and Axios
Stream large JSON API responses in Node.js without loading everything into memory. Learn how to use Axios, @json2csv/node, and AWS S3 to convert JSON to CSV on the fly and...
Why TM-CNN Is a Material Scientist's New Best Friend
Revolutionize defect analysis with TM-CNN! Spot tiny flaws in magnetic structures. Automates annotations for faster results.
I Built an App to Hack My Health Using Data from My Garmin, and It Changed Everything
TL;DR: I built Echo to solve a problem most wearables ignore—connecting daily behaviors to real results. Using no-code tools, I created a system to track goals, run self-experiments, and analyze...
Tim Sweeney’s Praise for Microsoft
Epic CEO Tim Sweeney, yesterday: Thanks to Microsoft for 50 years of being awesome to developers! Some years the software was great. Some years the software sucked. Every year the...
Microsoft’s 50th Birthday Was Interrupted, Twice, by Employees Protesting Against Israel
Tom Warren, reporting for The Verge: Microsoft held a special 50th anniversary event at its headquarters earlier today. During Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman’s presentation, a Microsoft employee interrupted the...
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