DeepSeek’s founder is threatening US dominance in AI race
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-05-13/deepseek-races-after-chatgpt-as-china-s-ai-industry-soars
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-05-13/deepseek-races-after-chatgpt-as-china-s-ai-industry-soars
Bloomberg.com
DeepSeek’s ‘Tech Madman’ Founder Is Threatening US Dominance in AI Race
The company’s sudden emergence illustrates how China’s industry is thriving despite Washington’s efforts to slow it down.
Replicube: A puzzle game about writing code to create shapes
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3401490/Replicube/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3401490/Replicube/
Steampowered
Replicube on Steam
Replicube is an open-ended programming puzzle game/toy about writing code to replicate 3D voxel-based objects. Solve puzzles, pursue leaderboard glory, or just make art to share with the in-game community.
You can no longer browse open source code on GitHub without logging in first
https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/159123
https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/159123
GitHub
"Error 429: Too Many Requests When Accessing Repository Files Without Login" · community · Discussion #159123
Select Topic Area Question Body "I'm experiencing an issue when trying to access files from a GitHub repository without logging in. After 3 attempts, I receive an Error 429 (Too Many Reque...
How to Build a Smartwatch: Picking a Chip
https://ericmigi.com/blog/how-to-build-a-smartwatch-picking-a-chip/
https://ericmigi.com/blog/how-to-build-a-smartwatch-picking-a-chip/
Ericmigi
How To Build A Smartwatch: Picking A Chip
Databricks to Buy Startup Neon for $1B
https://www.wsj.com/articles/databricks-to-buy-startup-neon-for-1-billion-fdded971
https://www.wsj.com/articles/databricks-to-buy-startup-neon-for-1-billion-fdded971
WSJ
Exclusive | Databricks to Buy Startup Neon for $1 Billion
The deal is aimed at making it easier for businesses to build artificial intelligence agents with their own data, Databricks CEO says.
The Future Is Too Expensive – A New Theory on Collapsing Birth Rates
https://medium.com/@hectorchu1/the-future-is-too-expensive-a-new-theory-of-why-people-arent-having-kids-c3eca581c491
https://medium.com/@hectorchu1/the-future-is-too-expensive-a-new-theory-of-why-people-arent-having-kids-c3eca581c491
Medium
The Future Is Too Expensive: A New Theory of Why People Aren’t Having Kids
Why birth rates are collapsing — and why it’s not about selfishness, but survival.
E-COM: The time the USPS spent $40M subsidizing junk (e)mail
https://buttondown.com/blog/the-e-com-story
https://buttondown.com/blog/the-e-com-story
Buttondown
E-COM: The $40 million USPS project to send email on paper
The USPS offered to print your email for you. Only spammers said yes.
The A.I. Radiologist Will Not Be with You Soon
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/technology/ai-jobs-radiologists-mayo-clinic.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/technology/ai-jobs-radiologists-mayo-clinic.html
NY Times
A.I. Was Coming for Radiologists’ Jobs. So Far, They’re Just More Efficient.
Experts predicted that artificial intelligence would steal radiology jobs. But at the Mayo Clinic, the technology has been more friend than foe.
"Google wanted that": Nextcloud decries Android permissions as "gatekeeping"
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/05/nextcloud-accuses-google-of-big-tech-gatekeeping-over-android-app-permissions/
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/05/nextcloud-accuses-google-of-big-tech-gatekeeping-over-android-app-permissions/
Ars Technica
Google restores Nextcloud user’s file access on Android
Nextcloud’s public story of Play Store problems seems to have helped.
SMS 2FA is not just insecure, it's also hostile to mountain people
https://blog.stillgreenmoss.net/sms-2fa-is-not-just-insecure-its-also-hostile-to-mountain-people
https://blog.stillgreenmoss.net/sms-2fa-is-not-just-insecure-its-also-hostile-to-mountain-people
stillgreenmoss
SMS 2FA is not just insecure, it's also hostile to mountain people — stillgreenmoss
i have a friend -- she's an old lady born and raised here in the western north carolina mountains. she hates computers, yes, but she's be...
Ask HN: How are you cleaning and transforming data before imports/uploads?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43986417
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43986417
Artie (YC S23) Is Hiring a Senior Product Marketing Manager (SF)
https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/artie/jobs/sOFeWnv-senior-product-marketing-manager
https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/artie/jobs/sOFeWnv-senior-product-marketing-manager
Y Combinator
Senior Product Marketing Manager at Artie
We’re looking for our first marketing hire to stand up our product marketing function and own the messaging and storytelling around our product’s value. This is an opportunity to make a significant impact in a growing company and build out our marketing function…
Smalltalk-78 Xerox NoteTaker in-browser emulator
https://smalltalkzoo.thechm.org/users/bert/Smalltalk-78.html
https://smalltalkzoo.thechm.org/users/bert/Smalltalk-78.html
Beyond the Wrist: Debugging RSI
https://www.debugyourpain.org/docs/main_posts/understand/debugging_rsi/
https://www.debugyourpain.org/docs/main_posts/understand/debugging_rsi/
www.debugyourpain.org
Beyond the Wrist: Debugging RSI
Beyond the Wrist: Debugging RSI # This is a personal essay about a period of major suffering from chronic pain I went through, and how I acquired the knowledge and skill to eventually lift me out of it.
A fire burning # I am about to give up. My eyes are…
A fire burning # I am about to give up. My eyes are…
The Pigeon Whistle: A Defining Sound of Old Beijing (2019)
http://www.chinatoday.com.cn/ctenglish/2018/cs/201911/t20191129_800186426.html
http://www.chinatoday.com.cn/ctenglish/2018/cs/201911/t20191129_800186426.html
China Today
The Pigeon Whistle: A Defining Sound of Old Beijing
IF you have ever watched a movie that featured old Beijing, there is a good possibility that it contained a scene with a flock of pigeons flying over quadrangular dwellings (siheyuan), giving off a uniquely harmonic buzzing sound as they flew by. That sound…