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  1. Reinventing the Pencil Sharpener [video] (youtube.com)

  2. Switzerland. Block by block. At 1:1 scale (blocks.manifold3d.ch)

  3. Running Qwen3.8-Flash-Next NVFP4 at 184 tok/s on a single RTX 6000 Pro (meshapplied.com)

  4. Firefox 159 (firefox.com)

  5. Microsoft offers to buy out a quarter of its workforce (arstechnica.com)

  6. Partyline: A group voice application for Reticulum, built on LXST (github.com)

  7. F-Zero X on Nintendo 3DS (hypnotize.works)

  8. Show HN: TitleArt – Make text like it's 1997 (titleart.dvy.io)

  9. Prisoner loses challenge to an Australian state’s ban on inmates eating Vegemite (cnn.com)

  10. “AI Skills” are worthless in 2026 (fishbowl.pastiche.org)

  11. Where the Romans Fought (interactive map) (iosiflazaridis.github.io)

  12. Neuron Explorer for Qwen3.5-4B: See every neuron at work, make targeted edits (github.com)

  13. Anthropic's Disproof of the ETH (hexagonmath.org)

  14. Magic state cultivation on a superconducting quantum processor (arxiv.org)

  15. AI didn't cause the tech jobs bust, but it explains why there's no recovery (vithushansylvester.com)

  16. Overgrown, when plants invade your abandoned tabs (charliegerard.dev)

  17. Greg Abbott Took $9M from Data-Center Donors. Now He Regulates Them (gadgetreview.com)

  18. A 2^O(n) Time Algorithm for 3-SAT (github.com)

  19. Elon Musk Just Dumped Another $76M into the Midterms (wired.com)

  20. Tailscale SSH: Investigation and remediation update (tailscale.com)

  21. eMudhra are now blocking access to their certificate revocation list (bugzilla.mozilla.org)

  22. OpenAI and Anthropic cut their LLM prices by up to 80% within a few months. Why? (minimaxir.com)

  23. The 'Buy, Borrow and Die' Wealth Strategy Has Become a $5T Market (wsj.com)

  24. Anthropic model accessed voter information (axios.com)

  25. Tasks as Code: Move Your Tickets into the Repository (typemill.net)

  26. I refuse to accept a censored Internet. Join Me at FOSDEM 27 (talkweb.eu)

  27. Making the Buddha Head from Merv Whole Again (getty.edu)

  28. Oregon Police Are Charging a Local News Outlet $2.5M for Records About One Cop (theintercept.com)

  29. Steal My Bitcoin CTF PoC (github.com)

  30. What goes into making an animated film? (disneyanimation.com)