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Links for the intellectually curious, ranked by readers.

• A website for debloated open source alternatives
• I spent $266 and four AI models to own my tablet. GLM-5.3 finished it in a day
• How I Find Problems to Solve as a Staff Engineer
• Why Sal Khan't: On Learning by Making but Teaching by Telling
• How Complex Systems Fail (1998)
• Malware infects Android-based automotive head unit firmware
• My favorite nonfiction books about cults, scams, and schemes
• Coconut Oil Jet Fuel Matches Kerosene's Efficiency in Engine Tests
• What Is a Harness?
• Fable and the End of the Free Lunch
• The Vibe Tax
• Explain it to me like I'm ten
• Slovakia finds Russian backdoor in traffic speed cameras
• Over 170k Nonprofits Lost All Their Data. Is Microsoft to Blame?
• To become a better writer, read as much as you can
• 'The Nerd Reich' tracks the 'unmasking of Silicon Valley's true politics'
• Say It Four Times (In Your System Prompt)
• Wi-Fi 8 is the first wireless upgrade in years that isn't chasing speed
• My agent.md to improve LLM-assisted code quality
• The End of an Athlon
• Etched Sohu vs. Nvidia: Transformer ASIC vs. GPU (2026) – Spheron Blog
• Erik Brynjolfsson says an AI "job apocalypse" is unlikely
• Anthropic's best AI model struggles to attract users as cheaper tools thrive
• AI and Infrastructure Engineering
• Predicting AI model release dates with stats
• I turned Unix talk from 1983 into the interface for my AI
• From Front Panel to Program: Thinking Like a PDP-8
• Things I want in a modern relational query language
• Powerful extensions do not need powerful code
• MartyPC is a cross-platform emulator of early PCs written in Rust