Reid Hoffman says SpaceX 'not an AI company', xAI 'complete train wreck'
https://fortune.com/2026/06/24/reid-hoffman-spacex-musk-openai-anthropic-gen-z-mistake/
https://fortune.com/2026/06/24/reid-hoffman-spacex-musk-openai-anthropic-gen-z-mistake/
Fortune
Reid Hoffman says SpaceX ‘isn’t an AI company,’ xAI is ‘a complete train wreck’—and there’s room for both OpenAI and Anthropic…
The LinkedIn cofounder and investor in both Anthropic and OpenAI offers his most pointed public assessment yet of Elon Musk’s AI ambitions.
Founding a company in Germany: €9600, 152 days and I still can't send an invoice
https://paolino.me/founding-a-company-in-germany/
https://paolino.me/founding-a-company-in-germany/
Carmine Paolino
Founding a Company in Germany: €9,600, 152 Days, and I Still Can’t Send an Invoice
I started a company in Germany in late January. By late June I had spent 9,600 euros, registered two companies, and still cannot issue a single invoice of my...
Running Windows Games on a Hobby OS with Wine
https://astral-os.org/posts/2026/04/03/wine-on-astral.html
https://astral-os.org/posts/2026/04/03/wine-on-astral.html
Boffin claims Microsoft's "quantum leap" is invalid due to "basic Python errors"
https://www.theregister.com/research/2026/06/24/boffin-claims-microsofts-supposed-quantum-leap-does-not-compute-due-to-basic-python-errors/5260489
https://www.theregister.com/research/2026/06/24/boffin-claims-microsofts-supposed-quantum-leap-does-not-compute-due-to-basic-python-errors/5260489
theregister
Boffin claims Microsoft's supposed quantum leap does not compute due to 'basic Python errors'
Nature paper argues researchers cherry-picked data. Redmond insists its work is sound
Quebec town recognizes trees as living beings with rights
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/terrasse-vaudreil-quebec-tree-rights-9.7243634
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/terrasse-vaudreil-quebec-tree-rights-9.7243634
CBC
Quebec town recognizes trees as living beings with rights | CBC News
A small town west of Montreal has decided to officially recognize trees as living beings with rights of their own, in what an environmental organization describes as a first in Quebec and Canada.
OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/24/openai-unveils-its-first-custom-chip-built-by-broadcom/
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/24/openai-unveils-its-first-custom-chip-built-by-broadcom/
TechCrunch
OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom | TechCrunch
Named Jalapeño, the new processor was designed specifically for the unique needs of OpenAI's inference systems.
I rewrote PostHog's SQL parser, 70x faster, while barely looking at the code
https://posthog.com/blog/sql-parser
https://posthog.com/blog/sql-parser
Posthog
I wrote a 70x faster SQL parser while barely looking at the code - PostHog
After the success of using agents to improve query performance through autoresearch , I wanted to try something more ambitious. I rewrote PostHog's…
Wikipedia Workers to Seek Union Recognition
https://www.cwu.org/press_release/wikipedia-workers-to-seek-union-recognition/
https://www.cwu.org/press_release/wikipedia-workers-to-seek-union-recognition/
CWU
WIKIPEDIA WORKERS TO SEEK UNION RECOGNITION
COMMUNICATION WORKERS UNION
24/06/2026
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Wikipedia workers in Britain are setting a “global first” by becoming the first body of workers at the online encyclopaedia to seek union recognition.
British-based employees at the…
24/06/2026
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Wikipedia workers in Britain are setting a “global first” by becoming the first body of workers at the online encyclopaedia to seek union recognition.
British-based employees at the…
Thomann takes legal action against Fender
https://www.thomann.de/blog/en/inside/thomann-takes-legal-action-against-fender/
https://www.thomann.de/blog/en/inside/thomann-takes-legal-action-against-fender/
Thomann Blog
Thomann takes legal action against Fender - Thomann Blog
For brand diversity and innovation: Why we are taking legal action against Fender's cease and desist demand.
GitHub shouldn't be a dependency for publishing Rust on crates.io
https://infosec.exchange/@mttaggart/116806641273303255
https://infosec.exchange/@mttaggart/116806641273303255
Infosec Exchange
Taggart :ifin: (@mttaggart@infosec.exchange)
I just think it's pretty messed up that crates[.]io still requires a GitHub account to login, therefore to publish Rust packages. GitHub shouldn't be a shadow dependency of the language ecosystem.
Zero-Downtime Deployments with Docker Compose – No Kubernetes Required
https://statusdude.com/blog/zero-downtime-docker-compose
https://statusdude.com/blog/zero-downtime-docker-compose
StatusDude
Zero-Downtime Deployments with Docker Compose — No Kubernetes Required | StatusDude
We tried Traefik for zero-downtime deploys. It dropped requests, returned 404s, and couldn't retry on a different backend. HAProxy fixed everything in 60 lines of config.
Blogging Can Just Be Stating the Obvious
https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/blogging-stating-the-obvious/
https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/blogging-stating-the-obvious/
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Blogging Can Just Be Stating The Obvious
John Gruber writes about those annoying popups every website seems to have now and while he does a great job tearing into these ubiquitous, user-hostile patterns, one of the things that stood out to me about his piece was this meta commentary on blogging.…