Suspect killed after opening fire on Secret Service agents near White House
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c5y09vpe713t
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c5y09vpe713t
BBC News
Shooting near White House: Suspect killed after opening fire on Secret Service agents
The gunshots were fired at around 18:00 (23:00 BST), and the White House was placed under lockdown for around an hour.
Microsoft open-sources "the earliest DOS source code discovered to date"
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/04/microsoft-open-sources-the-earliest-dos-source-code-discovered-to-date/
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/04/microsoft-open-sources-the-earliest-dos-source-code-discovered-to-date/
Ars Technica
Microsoft open-sources "the earliest DOS source code discovered to date"
Old 86-DOS source code dates back to the time before Microsoft bought it.
The day my ping took countermeasures
https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-day-my-ping-took-countermeasures/
https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-day-my-ping-took-countermeasures/
The Cloudflare Blog
The day my ping took countermeasures
Ping developers clearly put some thought into that. I wondered how far they went. Did they handle clock changes in both directions? Are the bad measurements excluded from the final statistics? How do they test the software?
'Fuck you, Bambu': How one private message could change the face of 3D printing
https://www.theverge.com/tech/931532/bambu-agpl-pawel-jarczak-open-source-threat-dmca-github
https://www.theverge.com/tech/931532/bambu-agpl-pawel-jarczak-open-source-threat-dmca-github
The Verge
‘Fuck you, Bambu’: How one private message could change the face of 3D printing
Thousands are daring Bambu to take legal action.
Greg Brockman: Inside the 72 Hours That Almost Killed OpenAI
https://fs.blog/knowledge-project-podcast/greg-brockman/
https://fs.blog/knowledge-project-podcast/greg-brockman/
Farnam Street
Greg Brockman: Inside the 72 Hours That Almost Killed OpenAI
The AI race, the future of AGI, and the inside story of OpenAI. Greg Brockman is the co-founder and President of OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT and GPT-5. He was the first engineer at Stripe before leaving in 2015 to help start OpenAI. In this rare conversation…
Constraint Decay: The Fragility of LLM Agents in Back End Code Generation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.06445
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.06445
arXiv.org
Constraint Decay: The Fragility of LLM Agents in Backend Code Generation
Large Language Model (LLM) agents demonstrate strong performance in autonomous code generation under loose specifications. However, production-grade software requires strict adherence to...
DeepSeek reasonix, DeepSeek native coding agent with high caching and low cost
https://esengine.github.io/DeepSeek-Reasonix/
https://esengine.github.io/DeepSeek-Reasonix/
Reasonix
Reasonix — DeepSeek-native AI coding agent
Open-source AI coding agent for your terminal. Engineered around DeepSeek's prefix-cache.
The seed oil panic is hurting my cardiac patients
https://www.statnews.com/2026/05/22/seed-oils-healthy-fats-tallow-fact-check-cardiac-health/
https://www.statnews.com/2026/05/22/seed-oils-healthy-fats-tallow-fact-check-cardiac-health/
STAT
The seed oil panic is hurting my cardiac patients
“My patients are replacing olive oil with beef tallow, even if they don't tell me during cardiac rehab,” writes a clinical dietitian.
When (if ever) it's appropriate to make jokes before the US Supreme Court
https://www.scotusblog.com/2026/05/when-if-ever-its-appropriate-to-make-jokes-take-selfies-or-curse-before-the-court/
https://www.scotusblog.com/2026/05/when-if-ever-its-appropriate-to-make-jokes-take-selfies-or-curse-before-the-court/
Scotusblog
When (if ever) it’s appropriate to make jokes, take selfies, or curse before the court
FreeBSD Foundation Executive Director Tries Daily Driving FreeBSD on Laptop
https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-On-Laptop-Driver
https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-On-Laptop-Driver
Phoronix
FreeBSD Foundation Executive Director Tries Daily Driving FreeBSD On Laptop
With FreeBSD having worked on improving its laptop support over the past two years with some big changes and ongoing efforts for making a nice KDE desktop experience on FreeBSD, FreeBSD Foundation's Executive Director has been trying to daily drive FreeBSD…
Flick (YC F25) Is Hiring Front End Engineer to Build Figma for AI Filmmaking
https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/flick/jobs/Tdu6FH6-senior-frontend-engineer
https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/flick/jobs/Tdu6FH6-senior-frontend-engineer
Y Combinator
Senior Frontend Engineer at Flick | Y Combinator
About Us
Flick is defining the future interface for AI native filmmaking. Think Figma and Cursor, but for creating AI films.
- Founded by Engineer who built Instagram Stories + Award winning filmmaker, we are a team of Tech + Artist.
- Well-funded by…
Flick is defining the future interface for AI native filmmaking. Think Figma and Cursor, but for creating AI films.
- Founded by Engineer who built Instagram Stories + Award winning filmmaker, we are a team of Tech + Artist.
- Well-funded by…
Claude Is Not Your Architect. Stop Letting It Pretend
https://www.hollandtech.net/claude-is-not-your-architect/
https://www.hollandtech.net/claude-is-not-your-architect/
HollandTech
Claude Is Not Your Architect. Stop Letting It Pretend.
Somewhere between 'ask Claude for a quick opinion' and 'Claude is writing our Jira tickets,' we lost the plot. AI agents are brilliant implementers. They're also confidently wrong about every decision that matters. And when it all falls over, they won't be…
San Francisco immigration court shuts down after purge of judges
https://apnews.com/article/san-francisco-immigration-court-closed-asylum-8a0946a7cd4bcc9bd925d075cabef44a
https://apnews.com/article/san-francisco-immigration-court-closed-asylum-8a0946a7cd4bcc9bd925d075cabef44a
AP News
San Francisco immigration court shuts down after purge of judges, leaving asylum cases in chaos
San Francisco's main immigration court has closed, leaving chaos and dysfunction in a region long known for its friendliness to asylum seekers.
The Eternal Sloptember
https://geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll/update/2026/05/24/the-eternal-sloptember.html
https://geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll/update/2026/05/24/the-eternal-sloptember.html
the singularity is nearer
The Eternal Sloptember
I’m calling it now, the adoption of AI agents into software development will be one of the most costly mistakes in the field’s history. Agents cannot program, and it’s taking longer and longer to realize that they can’t. They are a highly sophisticated statistical…
Why Do We Sleep Under Blankets, Even on the Hottest Nights? (2017)
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/blankets-summer-hot
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/blankets-summer-hot
Atlas Obscura
Why Do We Sleep Under Blankets, Even on the Hottest Nights?
There's great comfort in being covered.