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Links for the intellectually curious, ranked by readers.

• Low-Level Optimization with Zig
• The FAIR Package Manager: Decentralized WordPress infrastructure
• Researchers develop ‘transparent paper’ as alternative to plastics
• The time bomb in the tax code that's fueling mass tech layoffs
• Falsehoods programmers believe about aviation
• A year of funded FreeBSD development
• How we decreased GitLab repo backup times from 48 hours to 41 minutes
• Why are smokestacks so tall?
• Sharing everything I could understand about gradient noise
• The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Limitations of Reasoning LLMs [pdf]
• Highly efficient matrix transpose in Mojo
• Medieval Africans had a unique process for purifying gold with glass (2019)
• Ziina (YC W21) the Series A fintech is hiring product engineers
• Sandia turns on brain-like storage-free supercomputer
• I Read All of Cloudflare's Claude-Generated Commits
• Getting Past Procrastination
• A masochist's guide to web development
• Show HN: AI game animation sprite generator
• NASA delays next flight of Boeing's alternative to SpaceX Dragon
• Odyc.js – A tiny JavaScript library for narrative games
• Smalltalk, Haskell and Lisp
• Workhorse LLMs: Why Open Source Models Dominate Closed Source for Batch Tasks
• Wendelstein 7-X sets new fusion record
• Too Many Open Files
• Curate your shell history
• Series C and scale
• What you need to know about EMP weapons
• Reverse Engineering Cursor's LLM Client
• Meta: Shut down your invasive AI Discover feed
• Windows 10 spies on your use of System Settings (2021)