news, !paper 2025-05-16

621 A critical look at MCP / raz.sh / 335

589 Business books are entertainment, not strategic tools / theorthagonist.substack.com / 255

550 Vision Now Available in Llama.cpp / github.com/ggml-org / 103

537 A simple 16x16 dot animation from simple math rules / tixy.land / 99

485 Ground control to Major Trial / virtualize.sh / 185

465 Thoughts on thinking / dcurt.is / 300

459 Observations from people-watching / skincontact.substack.com / 227

436 A Research Preview of Codex / openai.com / 371

412 US vs. Google amicus curiae brief of Y Combinator in support of plaintiffs [pdf] / storage.courtlistener.com / 945

360 Getting AI to write good SQL / cloud.google.com / 184

345 Ollama's new engine for multimodal models / ollama.com / 83

339 Material 3 Expressive / design.google / 527

336 Gmail to SQLite / github.com/marcboeker / 114

335 After months of coding with LLMs, I'm going back to using my brain / albertofortin.com / 205

330 BuyMeACoffee silently dropped support for many countries (2024) / zverok.space / 295

314 MIT asks arXiv to withdraw preprint of paper on AI and scientific discovery / economics.mit.edu / 165

282 The Deathbed Fallacy (2018) / hjorthjort.xyz / 148

273 The first year of free-threaded Python / labs.quansight.org / 268

262 Sci-Net / sci-hub.se / 115

256 Address of Pope Leo XIV to the College of Cardinals / vatican.va / 219

250 For $595, you get what nobody else can give you for twice the price (1982) [pdf] / s3data.computerhistory.org / 148

249 Show HN: KVSplit – Run 2-3x longer contexts on Apple Silicon / github.com/dipampaul17 / 36

247 Moody’s strips U.S. of triple-A credit rating / ft.com / 202

226 Show HN: Visual flow-based programming for Erlang, inspired by Node-RED / github.com/gorenje / 94

221 I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney, who does work for YC and startups. AMA / news.ycombinator.com / 378

220 WebGL Water (2010) / madebyevan.com / 63

217 Sierpiński Triangle? In My Bitwise and? / lcamtuf.substack.com / 60

216 LTXVideo 13B AI video generation / ltxv.video / 64

215 Java at 30: Interview with James Gosling / thenewstack.io / 308

214 Fandom sells gaming media brand Giant Bomb to long-term staff / about.fandom.com / 134

210 Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during meetings / bleepingcomputer.com / 343

202 Dotless Domains / lab.avl.la / 152

201 Continuous glucose monitors reveal variable glucose responses to the same meals / examine.com / 125

191 Brandon's Semiconductor Simulator / brandonli.net / 28

189 The Awful German Language (1880) / faculty.georgetown.edu / 447

189 Ollama violating llama.cpp license for over a year / github.com/ollama / 66

186 Failed Soviet Venus lander Kosmos 482 crashes to Earth after 53 years in orbit / space.com / 133

185 What’s new in Swift 6.2 / hackingwithswift.com / 247

184 Embracer Games Archive is preserving 75000 video games and needs contributions / embracergamesarchive.com / 89

179 X X^t can be faster / arxiv.org / 53

175 Windsurf SWE-1: Our First Frontier Models / windsurf.com / 57

170 Slow software for a burning world / bonfirenetworks.org / 94

170 Reverse engineering the 386 processor's prefetch queue circuitry / righto.com / 51

164 'It cannot provide nuance': UK experts warn AI therapy chatbots are not safe / theguardian.com / 204

161 Fleurs du Mal / fleursdumal.org / 59

160 ClojureScript 1.12.42 / clojurescript.org / 29

154 A Typical Workday at a Japanese Hardware Tool Store [video] / youtube.com / 75

149 Náhuatl and Mayan Language Renaissance Occurring in Mexico / yucatanmagazine.com / 65

144 Evolution of Rust Compiler Errors / kobzol.github.io / 32

142 Comparison of C/POSIX standard library implementations for Linux / etalabs.net / 56

139 The History and Legacy of Visual Basic / retool.com / 129

136 Why the Apple II Didn't Support Lowercase Letters (2020) / vintagecomputing.com / 72

132 Show HN: Xenolab – Rasp Pi monitor for my pet carnivourus plants / github.com/blackrabbit17 / 55

125 Not a three-year-old chimney sweep (2022) / fakehistoryhunter.net / 69

124 React Three Ecosystem / react-three.org / 55

124 Wow@Home – Network of Amateur Radio Telescopes / phl.upr.edu / 8

118 Leeks and Leaks / daniel.haxx.se / 13

117 Rustls Server-Side Performance / memorysafety.org / 32

117 XTool – Cross-platform Xcode replacement / github.com/xtool-org / 31

117 Show HN: Code Claude Code / github.com/RVCA212 / 25

115 The average workday increased during the pandemic’s early weeks (2020) / library.hbs.edu / 110

114 Apple Blocks Fortnite's Return to iOS App Store, Epic Claims / macrumors.com / 109

113 EM-LLM: Human-Inspired Episodic Memory for Infinite Context LLMs / github.com/em-llm / 10

111 Coding agent in 94 lines of Ruby / radanskoric.com / 53

111 Ed Smylie, Who Saved the Apollo 13 Crew with Duct Tape, Dies at 95 / nytimes.com / 34

108 Intel: Winning and Losing / abortretry.fail / 105

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