news, !paper 2025-05-15

1223 Baby is healed with first personalized gene-editing treatment / nytimes.com / 519

482 I don't like NumPy / dynomight.net / 205

439 The unreasonable effectiveness of an LLM agent loop with tool use / sketch.dev / 315

424 A leap year check in three instructions / hueffner.de / 162

414 Coinbase says hackers bribed staff to steal customer data, demanding $20M ransom / cnbc.com / 492

373 Malicious compliance by booking an available meeting room / clientserver.dev / 366

339 NASA keeps ancient Voyager 1 spacecraft alive with Hail Mary thruster fix / theregister.com / 86

260 A Tiny Boltzmann Machine / eoinmurray.info / 47

226 EU ruling: tracking-based advertising [...] across Europe has no legal basis / iccl.ie / 170

226 Teal – A statically-typed dialect of Lua / teal-language.org / 167

193 Harvard Law paid $27 for a copy of Magna Carta. It's an original / nytimes.com / 143

187 Initialization in C++ is bonkers (2017) / blog.tartanllama.xyz / 248

184 California sent residents' personal health data to LinkedIn / themarkup.org / 111

176 Show HN: Min.js style compression of tech docs for LLM context / github.com/marv1nnnnn / 52

174 In Memoriam: John L. Young, Cryptome Co-Founder / eff.org / 17

170 Tek – A music making program for 24-bit Unicode terminals / codeberg.org / 23

155 Pathfinding / juhrjuhr.itch.io / 46

143 Launch HN: Tinfoil (YC X25): Verifiable Privacy for Cloud AI / news.ycombinator.com / 100

143 Show HN: Real-Time Gaussian Splatting / github.com/axbycc / 51

140 The current state of TLA⁺ development / ahelwer.ca / 37

132 I was a Theranos whistleblower. Here's what I think Elizabeth Holmes is up to / statnews.com / 91

130 Stack Overflow is almost dead / blog.pragmaticengineer.com / 257

125 “The Mind in the Wheel” lays out a new foundation for the science of mind / experimental-history.com / 87

122 My Engineering Craft Regressed / lemmy.ml / 73

115 Show HN: Undetectag, track stolen items with AirTag / undetectag.com / 98

114 In the US, a rotating detonation rocket engine takes flight / arstechnica.com / 73

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