A Look Back at Recent Car Carrier Fires
https://gcaptain.com/a-brief-look-back-at-recent-car-carrier-fires/
https://gcaptain.com/a-brief-look-back-at-recent-car-carrier-fires/
gCaptain
A Look Back at Recent Car Carrier Fires
The fire aboard the car carrier Morning Midas in the North Pacific Ocean marks the latest significant incident in the maritime industry’s ongoing challenges involving fires on vehicle carriers. The UK-owned, Liberia-flagged...
How big tech monopolies made the internet worse
https://www.cascadepbs.org/news/2025/06/how-big-tech-monopolies-made-internet-worse
https://www.cascadepbs.org/news/2025/06/how-big-tech-monopolies-made-internet-worse
Cascade PBS
How big tech monopolies made the internet worse
In an interview with the On the Media podcast, writer Cory Doctorow explains how a noncompetitive market has deteriorated the user experience.
Show HN: I made a 3D SVG Renderer that projects textures without rasterization
https://seve.blog/p/i-made-a-3d-svg-renderer-that-projects
https://seve.blog/p/i-made-a-3d-svg-renderer-that-projects
seve.blog
I made a 3D SVG Renderer that projects textures without rasterization
How can you make affine transformations (the only ones SVGs are capable of) resemble perspective transformations?
Differences in link hallucination and source comprehension across different LLM
https://mikecaulfield.substack.com/p/differences-in-link-hallucination
https://mikecaulfield.substack.com/p/differences-in-link-hallucination
Substack
Differences in link hallucination and source comprehension across different large language models
I've been waiting for someone else to talk about this, but I guess it will be me
Want to Model a Land Value Tax Shift in Your City?
https://progressandpoverty.substack.com/p/want-to-model-a-land-value-tax-shift
https://progressandpoverty.substack.com/p/want-to-model-a-land-value-tax-shift
Substack
Want to Model a Land Value Tax Shift in Your City? Here's How.
A step-by-step guide on modeling land value taxes. Launching an open-source library to make LVT modeling more accessible.
Engineer Fixes and Re-Installs Old Payphones, Provides Free Calls to the Public
https://www.core77.com/posts/137183/Engineer-Fixes-and-Re-Installs-Old-Payphones-Provides-Free-Calls-to-the-Public
https://www.core77.com/posts/137183/Engineer-Fixes-and-Re-Installs-Old-Payphones-Provides-Free-Calls-to-the-Public
Core77
Engineer Fixes and Re-Installs Old Payphones, Provides Free Calls to the Public
Payphones "were the only things that were built to last for decades and be out in the elements," says electrical engineer Patrick Schlott. He should know; as a hobby, he buys secondhand payphones, rewires them, then asks local businesses in rural Vermont…
End of an Era: Landsat 7 Decommissioned After 25 Years of Earth Observation
https://www.usgs.gov/news/national-news-release/end-era-landsat-7-decommissioned-after-25-years-earth-observation
https://www.usgs.gov/news/national-news-release/end-era-landsat-7-decommissioned-after-25-years-earth-observation
Air Lab – A portable and open air quality measuring device
https://networkedartifacts.com/airlab/simulator
https://networkedartifacts.com/airlab/simulator
From Tokens to Thoughts: How LLMs and Humans Trade Compression for Meaning
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.17117
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.17117
arXiv.org
From Tokens to Thoughts: How LLMs and Humans Trade Compression for Meaning
Humans organize knowledge into compact categories through semantic compression by mapping diverse instances to abstract representations while preserving meaning (e.g., robin and blue jay are both...
Phptop: Simple PHP ressource profiler, safe and useful for production sites
https://github.com/bearstech/phptop
https://github.com/bearstech/phptop
GitHub
GitHub - bearstech/phptop: PHP basic ressource profiler (CPU/memory), safe and useful for production sites
PHP basic ressource profiler (CPU/memory), safe and useful for production sites - bearstech/phptop
Apple Notes Will Gain Markdown Export at WWDC, and, I Have Thoughts
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/06/04/apple-notes-markdown
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/06/04/apple-notes-markdown
Daring Fireball
9to5Mac Reports Apple Notes Will Gain Markdown Export at WWDC, and, You’ll Be Unsurprised to Know, I Have Thoughts
Link to: https://9to5mac.com/2025/06/03/exclusive-ios-26-messages-carplay-more/
The impossible predicament of the death newts
https://crookedtimber.org/2025/06/05/occasional-paper-the-impossible-predicament-of-the-death-newts/
https://crookedtimber.org/2025/06/05/occasional-paper-the-impossible-predicament-of-the-death-newts/
Extreme Super-Resolution via Scale Autoregression and Preference Alignment
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.18600
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.18600
arXiv.org
Chain-of-Zoom: Extreme Super-Resolution via Scale Autoregression...
Modern single-image super-resolution (SISR) models deliver photo-realistic results at the scale factors on which they are trained, but collapse when asked to magnify far beyond that regime. We...
Cysteine depletion triggers adipose tissue thermogenesis and weight loss
https://www.nature.com/articles/s42255-025-01297-8
https://www.nature.com/articles/s42255-025-01297-8
Nature
Cysteine depletion triggers adipose tissue thermogenesis and weight loss
Nature Metabolism - The authors describe how reduced dietary availability and systemic loss of cysteine leads to adipose tissue browning and rapid weight loss in mice and humans.
CircuitHub (YC W12) Hiring Full-Stack Robotics Engineers – The Grid
https://www.workatastartup.com/jobs/76919
https://www.workatastartup.com/jobs/76919
Y Combinator's Work at a Startup
Full-Stack Robotics Engineer – The Grid at CircuitHub
### **About CircuitHub**
CircuitHub is reshaping electronics manufacturing with **The Grid** —a factory-scale robotics platform designed to make small-batch, high-mix electronics assembly radically more efficient. Think semiconductor-fab levels of precision…
CircuitHub is reshaping electronics manufacturing with **The Grid** —a factory-scale robotics platform designed to make small-batch, high-mix electronics assembly radically more efficient. Think semiconductor-fab levels of precision…
Why does Apple make a minority of developers finance the entire App Store?
https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2025/6/1.html
https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2025/6/1.html
AI Weather Model Is More Accurate, Less Expensive Than Traditional Forecasting
https://www.extremetech.com/computing/microsofts-ai-weather-model-is-more-accurate-cheaper-than-traditional-forecasting
https://www.extremetech.com/computing/microsofts-ai-weather-model-is-more-accurate-cheaper-than-traditional-forecasting
ExtremeTech
Microsoft's AI Weather Model Is More Accurate, Less Expensive Than Traditional Forecasting
That's according to a research paper written largely by Microsoft employees, at least.