Fingers wrinkle the same way every time they’re in the water too long https://www.binghamton.edu/news/story/5547/do-your-fingers-wrinkle-the-same-way-every-time-youre-in-the-water-too-long-new-research-says-yes
Airbnb is in midlife crisis mode https://www.wired.com/story/airbnb-is-in-midlife-crisis-mode-reinvention-app-services/
WIRED
Brian Chesky Lost His Mind One Night—and Now He's Relaunching Airbnb as an Everything App
Airbnb's CEO is spending hundreds of millions to relaunch his travel company as an all-purpose service app. Fitness! Food! Microdermabrasion? A WIRED exclusive.
Garbage collection of object storage at scale https://www.warpstream.com/blog/taking-out-the-trash-garbage-collection-of-object-storage-at-massive-scale
Warpstream
Taking out the Trash: Garbage Collection of Object Storage at Massive Scale
Distributed systems built on object storage all have one common problem: removing files that have been logically deleted either due to data expiry or compaction. We review the pros and cons of five ways to solve this problem.
I failed a take-home assignment from Kagi Search https://bloggeroo.dev/articles/202504031434
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
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.
Coffee for people who don't like coffee https://ostwilkens.se/blog/coffee
ostwilkens.se
Carl Öst Wilkens´ Blog - Coffee for people who don't like coffee
A place for me to vent about my current obsessions.
Show HN: I’ve built an IoT device to let my family know when I’m in a meeting https://nullonerror.org/2025/05/11/i-have-built-an-iot-device-to-let-my-family-know-when-i-am-in-a-meeting/
NULL on error
I’ve built an IoT device to let my family know when I’m in a meeting
Introducing the IoT device Tabajara: “I’m in a meeting.”
Bus stops here: Shanghai lets riders design their own routes https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1017072
SIXTH TONE
Bus Stops Here: Shanghai Lets Riders Design Their Own Routes
A new crowd-sourced transit platform allows riders to propose, vote on, and activate new bus lines in as little as three days.
Using obscure graph theory to solve programming languages problems https://reasonablypolymorphic.com/blog/solving-lcsa/
Wise refuses to let us access our $60k AUD https://hey.paris/posts/wise/
hey.paris
Don't use Wise
Wise has stolen more than $60,000 AUD from us, and refuses to let us access it.
We’ve had a Wise account for around 5 years (since they were called TransferWise). It’s been a really useful way to transact in foreign currencies, and pay for things when we’re…
We’ve had a Wise account for around 5 years (since they were called TransferWise). It’s been a really useful way to transact in foreign currencies, and pay for things when we’re…
Replicube: A puzzle game about writing code to create shapes 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.
EM-LLM: Human-Inspired Episodic Memory for Infinite Context LLMs https://github.com/em-llm/EM-LLM-model
GitHub
GitHub - em-llm/EM-LLM-model
Contribute to em-llm/EM-LLM-model development by creating an account on GitHub.
Ash Framework – Model your domain, derive the rest https://ash-hq.org/
Ash HQ
Ash Framework
Model your domain, derive the rest.
Mipmap selection in too much detail https://pema.dev/2025/05/09/mipmaps-too-much-detail/
pema.dev
Mipmap selection in too much detail
In this post, I want to shed some light on something I’ve been wondering about for a while: How exactly are mipmap levels selected when sampling textures on the GPU? If you already know what mipmapping is, why we use it, and what pixel derivatives (ddx()…
Writing that changed how I think about programming languages https://bernsteinbear.com/blog/pl-writing/
Max Bernstein
Writing that changed how I think about PL
Every so often I come across a paper, blog post, or (occasionally) video that completely changes how I think about a topic in programming languages and compilers. For some of these posts, I can’t even remember how I thought about the idea before reading it—it…
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
The recently lost file upload feature in the Nextcloud app for Android https://nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-android-file-upload-issue-google/
Nextcloud
Unhappy with the recently lost file upload feature in the Nextcloud app for Android? So are we. Let us explain. - Nextcloud
Discover why Nextcloud file uploads for Android app are not working properly, and how Google’s app store rules are hurting Nextcloud users.