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Links for the intellectually curious, ranked by readers.

• A Navajo weaving of an integrated circuit: the 555 timer
• Show HN: I recreated Windows XP as my portfolio
• How the “Kim” dump exposed North Korea's credential theft playbook
• The math of shuffling cards almost brought down an online poker empire
• Show HN: I'm making an open-source platform for learning Japanese
• Shipping textures as PNGs is suboptimal
• C++26: Erroneous behaviour
• Braincraft challenge – 1000 neurons, 100 seconds, 10 runs, 2 choices, no reward
• A history of metaphorical brain talk in psychiatry
• The maths you need to start understanding LLMs
• Qwen3 30B A3B Hits 13 token/s on 4xRaspberry Pi 5
• We hacked Burger King: How auth bypass led to drive-thru audio surveillance
• Show HN: Send kind and aspirational words to a stranger who needs it
• The World War Two bomber that cost more than the atomic bomb
• Stop writing CLI validation. Parse it right the first time
• Oldest recorded transaction
• Game launcher installs Root CA certificate on your machine (2024)
• What to do with an old iPad
• Anonymous recursive functions in Racket
• Cape Station, future home of an enhanced geothermal power plant, in Utah
• Over 80% of sunscreen performed below their labelled efficacy (2020)
• Why language models hallucinate
• Blogs used to be different
• GigaByte CXL memory expansion card with up to 512GB DRAM
• Rust tool for generating random fractals
• Troubleshooting ZFS – Common Issues and How to Fix Them
• Kruci: Post-mortem of a UI library
• Gloria funicular derailment initial findings report (EN) [pdf]
• Microsoft Azure: "Multiple international subsea cables were cut in the Red Sea"
• Being good isn't enough