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Much of the 'Microplastics in Your Blood' Panic May Be a Measurement Error
Environmental chemist Cassandra Rauert argues that a lot of what the public thinks it knows about microplastics inside the human body rests on shaky measurement
Netherlands' €50M Tulp Fund lures 34 top researchers, 29 tied to the US
The Dutch government's newly created Tulp Fund has awarded its first grants, bringing 34 senior researchers to Dutch institutions. Of those, 29 currently come f
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna go public Thursday after US lifts curbs
OpenAI is opening its GPT-5.6 model family to the public on Thursday, July 9, ending a roughly two-week period in which access was restricted to about 20 vetted
PgDog: A Rust Postgres pooler that stops connection pooling from breaking your app
Connection poolers like PgBouncer, RDS Proxy, and Pgpool-II let many clients share a database without blowing past its connection limit, but they impose a hidde
Rowboat: a local-first, open-source AI desktop that keeps a persistent memory of your work
Rowboat is an open-source desktop AI assistant pitched as an alternative to Claude Desktop, built around persistent memory rather than on-demand retrieval. Inst
Skip TrueNAS: A Bare-Bones ZFS NAS With Just zpool and Samba
For anyone who wants network storage without the overhead of appliance software like Synology, QNAP, or TrueNAS, this walkthrough shows that a functional NAS is
That obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt is a Peace-for-All Easter egg
A shopper noticed an alphanumeric block printed on the back of a Uniqlo t-shirt and recognized it as a base64-encoded bash script—complete with a shebang—piped
This TrueType Font Turns Bracketed Text Into Scannable QR Codes
Jim Paris has built an experimental OpenType font that renders any text wrapped in square brackets as a live QR code, while leaving the surrounding characters a
Why '98% browser support' still leaves 150 million people staring at a broken page
A high percentage only reads as impressive when the stakes are trivial. Winning the lottery or acing exams 98% of the time is remarkable, but a restaurant that
16-Year-Old KVM Use-After-Free Lets Guests Escape to Cloud Hosts on Intel and AMD
Researcher Hyunwoo Kim disclosed Januscape (CVE-2026-53359), a use-after-free bug in the shadow MMU emulation of KVM/x86. A guest can corrupt the host kernel's
30papers.com Repackages Ilya Sutskever's ML Reading List for Newcomers
A new site, 30papers.com, collects the roughly 30 machine learning papers that Ilya Sutskever, the OpenAI co-founder and prominent deep learning researcher, has
A Developer's Case Against Anthropic: Lock-In, Surprise Billing, and Vibe-Coding
In an opinion piece that gained traction on Hacker News, developer Raheel Junaid argues that Anthropic has burned through developer goodwill via vendor lock-in