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Links for the intellectually curious, ranked by readers.

• A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro
• Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users
• Using Claude Code: The unreasonable effectiveness of HTML
• OpenAI’s WebRTC problem
• Mythical Man Month
• Making Julia as Fast as C++
• David Attenborough's 100th Birthday
• What causes lightning? The answer keeps getting more interesting
• Wi is Fi: Understanding Wi-Fi 4/5/6/6E/7/8 (802.11 n/AC/ax/be/bn)
• AI is breaking two vulnerability cultures
• AWS North Virginia data center outage – resolved
• Cartoon Network Flash Games
• America's carpet capital: an empire and its toxic legacy
• The React2Shell Story
• An Introduction to Meshtastic
• You gave me a u32. I gave you root. (io_uring ZCRX freelist LPE)
• Teaching Claude Why
• Can LLMs model real-world systems in TLA+?
• Serving a website on a Raspberry Pi Zero running in RAM
• Mojo 1.0 Beta
• Light without electricity? Glowing algae could make it possible
• The soul of maintaining a new machine
• PortalVR Motion – use any VR content in 2D with 3D tracked Joy-Cons
• Roadside Attraction
• How to Optimize MongoDB Query Performance with Indexes
• US Government releases first batch of UAP documents and videos
• Bitter Lessons from the ISSpresso
• All means are fair except solving the problem
• EU calls VPNs "a loophole that needs closing" in age verification push
• When is your birthday? The math behind hash collisions