news, !paper 2025-07-21

802 Global hack on Microsoft Sharepoint hits U.S., state agencies, researchers say / washingtonpost.com / 428

606 TrackWeight: Turn your MacBook's trackpad into a digital weighing scale / github.com/KrishKrosh / 146

549 UK backing down on Apple encryption backdoor after pressure from US / arstechnica.com / 421

526 Gemini with Deep Think achieves gold-medal standard at the IMO / deepmind.google / 242

524 AccountingBench: Evaluating LLMs on real long-horizon business tasks / accounting.penrose.com / 148

506 Uv: Running a script with dependencies / docs.astral.sh / 171

501 What went wrong inside recalled Anker PowerCore 10000 power banks? / lumafield.com / 293

420 “Dynamic programming” is not referring to “computer programming” / vidarholen.net / 211

379 Jujutsu for busy devs / maddie.wtf / 536

327 Don't bother parsing: Just use images for RAG / morphik.ai / 72

292 The daily life of a medieval king / medievalists.net / 165

276 Writing is thinking / nature.com / 117

271 FCC to eliminate gigabit speed goal and scrap analysis of broadband prices / arstechnica.com / 203

260 AI comes up with bizarre physics experiments, but they work / quantamagazine.org / 164

246 We made Postgres writes faster, but it broke replication / paradedb.com / 52

243 New records on Wendelstein 7-X / iter.org / 108

239 I wasted weeks hand optimizing assembly because I benchmarked on random data / vidarholen.net / 71

238 I've launched 37 products in 5 years and not doing that again / indiehackers.com / 211

194 Occasionally USPS sends me pictures of other people's mail / the418.substack.com / 188

190 Erlang 28 on GRiSP Nano using only 16 MB / grisp.org / 25

187 Solar-plus-storage technology is improving quickly / volts.wtf / 296

185 LetsEncrypt Outage / letsencrypt.status.io / 107

178 Australian anti-porn group claims responsibility for Steams new censorship rules / pcgamer.com / 162

178 Shale Drillers Turn on Each Other as Toxic Water Leaks Hit Biggest US Oil Field / bloomberg.com / 66

174 Man wearing metallic necklace dies after being sucked into MRI machine / bbc.com / 539

173 What will become of the CIA? / newyorker.com / 303

161 12ft.io Taken Down / newsmediaalliance.org / 155

159 Jqfmt like gofmt, but for jq / github.com/noperator / 49

153 What happens when housing prices go down? / clmarohn.substack.com / 331

151 ESP32-Faikin: ESP32 based module to control Daikin aircon units / github.com/revk / 67

150 The Game Genie Generation / tedium.co / 65

144 A conceptual overview of asyncio / github.com/anordin95 / 29

136 SecretSpec: Declarative Secrets Management / devenv.sh / 36

135 Mwm – The smallest usable X11 window manager / github.com/lslvr / 57

130 If writing is thinking then what happens if AI is doing the writing and reading? / hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com / 111

130 Scarcity, Inventory, and Inequity: A Deep Dive into Airline Fare Buckets / blog.getjetback.com / 53

122 How to handle people dismissing io_uring as insecure? (2024) / github.com/axboe / 106

118 Losing language features: some stories about disjoint unions / graydon2.dreamwidth.org / 74

116 India: Income Tax Bill allows officials to forcibly access social media, email / thehindu.com / 76

108 Modern Debian-based Window Maker distribution / wmlive.sourceforge.net / 51

104 My favourite German word / vurt.org / 88

102 Amazon and the “Profitless Business Model” Fallacy / eugenewei.com / 36

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