popular bookmarks generated Sun Nov 16 06:17:16 2025 UTC
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Nano Banana can be prompt engineered for extremely nuanced AI image generation | Max Woolf's Blog
[https://minimaxir.com/2025/11/nano-banana-prompts/]
Pretty fascinating write-up.
2025-11-16T05:47:01Z 
{llm genai images nanobanana interesting}


Language Design
[https://cs.lmu.edu/~ray/notes/languagedesignnotes/]
2025-11-16T05:47:01Z 
{compilers reference language}


Disrupting the first reported AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign Anthropic
[https://www.anthropic.com/news/disrupting-AI-espionage]
2025-11-16T05:47:01Z 
{anthropic claude agents AI hacking security prompts MCP llm generative automation}


You misunderstand what it means to be poor - Dom Corriveau
[https://blog.ctms.me/posts/2025-11-14-being-poor-or-being-broke/]
2025-11-16T05:47:01Z 


Open Source Power
[https://blog.muni.town/open-source-power/]
2025-11-16T05:47:01Z 
{open-source capitalism why-things-are-like-this}


Marble: A Multimodal World Model
[https://www.worldlabs.ai/blog/marble-world-model]
Spatial intelligence is the next frontier in AI, demanding powerful world models to realize its full potential. World models should reconstruct, generate, and simulate 3D worlds; and allow both humans and agents to interact with them. Spatially intelligent world models will transform a wide variety of industries over the coming years.Two months ago we shared a preview of Marble, our World Model that creates 3D worlds from image or text prompts. Since then, Marble has been available to an early set of beta users to create 3D worlds for themselves.Today we are making Marble, a first-in-class generative multimodal world model, generally available for anyone to use. We have also drastically expanded Marble's capabilities, and are excited to highlight them here:Multimodal Marble: Marble is now massively multimodal. Marble can create 3D worlds from text, images, video, or coarse 3D layouts; Marble also lets you interactively edit, expand, and combine worlds. Once generated, 3D worlds can be exported as Gaussian splats, meshes, or videos. These new capabilities let users create and edit worlds with fine-grained control; and makes those worlds more useful than ever before.
2025-11-16T05:47:01Z 
{XDN Foundation-Models}


Generate Mozilla Security Recommended Web Server Configuration Files
[https://ssl-config.mozilla.org/]
2025-11-16T05:47:01Z 
{configuration apache ssl security}


fi-le.net
[https://fi-le.net/margin/]
Divide a company's income by its revenue, and you get the operating margin. For some volume of sales that comes into the business, it gives an idea of what percentage is left as cash in the end. Barring some accounting shenanigans regarding where the bottom line is.
2025-11-16T05:47:01Z 
{accounting finance investing margin explainer}


Spec-Driven Development: The Waterfall Strikes Back
[https://marmelab.com/blog/2025/11/12/spec-driven-development-waterfall-strikes-back.html]
Kiro, Spec-kit, Bmad, Tessl, and other SDD frameworks turn business analysts into Markdown reviewers. Isn't there a more agile way to use Coding Agents?
2025-11-16T05:47:01Z 


A Brutal Look at Balanced Parentheses, Computing Machines, and Pushdown Automata
[https://raganwald.com/2019/02/14/i-love-programming-and-programmers.html]
2025-11-16T05:47:01Z 
{programming automata}


AI World Clocks
[https://clocks.brianmoore.com/]
The current time as rendered by 9 different AI models
2025-11-16T05:47:01Z 
{AI}


Main
[https://stickertop.art/main/]
2025-11-16T05:47:01Z 
{stickers}


ory/kratos: Never build user login, user registration, 2fa, profile management ever again! Works on any cloud, with any programming language, user interface, and user exerpience! Written in Go.
[https://github.com/ory/kratos]
Never build user login, user registration, 2fa, profile management ever again! Works on any cloud, with any programming language, user interface, and user exerpience! Written in Go. - ory/kratos
2025-11-16T05:47:01Z 
{golang auth login registration}


LINE Seed
[https://seed.line.me/index_en.html]
2025-11-16T05:47:01Z 


Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort
[https://www.404media.co/google-has-chosen-a-side-in-trumps-mass-deportation-effort/]
ICE-spotting app developers tell 404 Media the decision to host CBP’s new app, and Google’s description of ICE officials as a vulnerable group in need of protection, shows that Google has made a choice on which side to support during the Trump administration’s violent mass deportation effort.
2025-11-16T05:47:01Z 
{google policy}


Needy Programs @ tonsky.me
[https://tonsky.me/blog/needy-programs/]
2025-11-16T05:47:01Z 
{software-bloat rant}


SIMA 2: A Gemini-Powered AI Agent for 3D Virtual Worlds - Google DeepMind
[https://deepmind.google/blog/sima-2-an-agent-that-plays-reasons-and-learns-with-you-in-virtual-3d-worlds/]
Last year, we introduced SIMA (Scalable Instructable Multiworld Agent), a generalist AI that could follow basic instructions across a wide range of virtual environments. SIMA was a crucial first step in teaching AI to translate language into meaningful action in rich, 3D worlds.

Today we’re introducing SIMA 2, the next milestone in our research creating general and helpful AI agents. By integrating the advanced capabilities of our Gemini models, SIMA is evolving from an instruction-follower into an interactive gaming companion. Not only can SIMA 2 follow human-language instructions in virtual worlds, it can now also think about its goals, converse with users, and improve itself over time.

This is a significant step in the direction of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), with important implications for the future of robotics and AI-embodiment in general.

...

For example, after initially learning from human demonstrations, SIMA 2 can transition to learning in new games exclusively through self-directed play, developing its skills in previously unseen worlds without additional human-generated data. In subsequent training, SIMA 2’s own experience data can then be used to train the next, even more capable version of the agent. We were even able to leverage SIMA 2’s capacity for self-improvement in newly created Genie environments – a major milestone toward training general agents across diverse, generated worlds.


This virtuous cycle of iterative improvement paves the way for a future where agents can learn and grow with minimal human intervention, becoming open-ended learners in embodied AI.
Slide 1 of 2
2025-11-16T05:47:01Z 
{XDN Robotics}


Lawmakers Want to Ban VPNs—And They Have No Idea What They're Doing | Electronic Frontier Foundation
[https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/11/lawmakers-want-ban-vpns-and-they-have-no-idea-what-theyre-doing]
2025-11-16T05:47:01Z 
{virtual-private-network age-verification}


Kristi Noem-Tied Firm Secretly Got Piece of $220 Million DHS Campaign — ProPublica
[https://www.propublica.org/article/kristi-noem-dhs-ad-campaign-strategy-group]
2025-11-16T05:47:01Z 
{sec-noem dt-admin-corruption gop-grift&graft}


https://github.com/toon-format/toon 
[https://github.com/toon-format/toon]
2025-11-16T05:47:01Z 
{json token}


AWK technical notes | Volodymyr Gubarkov
[https://maximullaris.com/awk_tech_notes.html]
2025-11-16T05:47:01Z 
{awk}


Handy
[https://handy.computer/]
Handy is a cross platform, open-source, speech-to-text application for your computer
2025-11-16T05:47:01Z 
{local apps recognition speech awesome tools}


Software Development in the Time of Strange New Angels
[https://davegriffith.substack.com/p/software-development-in-the-time]
2025-11-16T05:47:01Z 


Personal Business | Are.na Editorial
[https://www.are.na/editorial/personal-business]
“Whatever else anything is, it ought to begin by being personal.”
2025-11-16T05:47:01Z 
{business internet youvegotmail}


Use Cases | Claude
[https://claude.com/resources/use-cases]
2025-11-16T05:47:01Z 
{claude ai llm}


The /llms.txt file - proposal to standardise on using an /llms.txt file to provide information to help LLMs use a website at inference time
[https://llmstxt.org/]
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41439983
2025-11-16T05:47:01Z 
{llm ai webdesign data reference interesting}


Marble: View and create 3D worlds
[https://marble.worldlabs.ai/]
2025-11-16T05:47:01Z 
{3D generative AI models visualization virtualreality}


Mozilla announces an AI ‘window’ for Firefox | The Verge
[https://www.theverge.com/news/820196/mozilla-firefox-ai-window-browser]
via The Verge https://ift.tt/9X7ksnO
2025-11-16T05:47:01Z 


Running Your Own ISP at Home Part.5 - How to Get a North Korea / Antarctica VPS (New Concept: Light Up the Globe)
[https://blog.lyc8503.net/en/post/asn-5-worldwide-servers/]
2025-11-16T05:47:01Z 
{networking}


raise, call, fold - spqr - Suits (US TV 2011) [Archive of Our Own]
[https://archiveofourown.org/works/73957106]
It takes Mike forever to notice, but in his defense Harvey hides it insanely well.
2025-11-16T05:47:01Z 
{suits}


AGI fantasy is a blocker to actual engineering | Tom Phillips
[https://www.tomwphillips.co.uk/2025/11/agi-fantasy-is-a-blocker-to-actual-engineering/]
2025-11-16T05:47:01Z 


650GB of Data (Delta Lake on S3). Polars vs DuckDB vs Daft vs Spark.
[https://dataengineeringcentral.substack.com/p/650gb-of-data-delta-lake-on-s3-polars]
2025-11-16T05:47:01Z 


2 Years of ML vs. 1 Month of Prompting
[https://www.levs.fyi/blog/2-years-of-ml-vs-1-month-of-prompting/]
2025-11-16T05:47:01Z 


Protecting our Merchants: Standing up to Extortion
[https://www.checkout.com/blog/protecting-our-merchants-standing-up-to-extortion]
"Instead, we are turning this attack into an investment in security for our entire industry. We will be donating the ransom amount to Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Oxford Cyber Security Center (OXCIS) to support their research in the fight against cybercrime."
2025-11-16T05:47:01Z 
{security}


What If AI Is a Bubble?
[https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/2025/11/ai-bubble-us-economy/684906/]
America’s economic fate looks tied to AI—for better or worse.
2025-11-16T05:47:01Z 
{podepisode ai economics usa}


writerDeck.org | writerDeck
[https://www.writerdeck.org/]
2025-11-16T05:47:01Z 
{cyberdeck writing hardware diy}


[no title]
[https://www.derekthompson.org/p/the-monks-in-the-casino]
2025-11-16T05:47:01Z 


Behind the complaints: Our investigation into the suspicious pressure on Archive.today
[https://adguard-dns.io/en/blog/archive-today-adguard-dns-block-demand.html]
2025-11-16T05:47:01Z 
{internet politics}


Zed Is Our Office — Zed's Blog
[https://zed.dev/blog/zed-is-our-office]
2025-11-16T05:47:01Z 
{zed editor}


Understanding neural networks through sparse circuits | OpenAI
[https://openai.com/index/understanding-neural-networks-through-sparse-circuits/]
2025-11-16T05:47:01Z 


the terminal of the future
[https://jyn.dev/the-terminal-of-the-future]
2025-11-16T05:47:01Z 
{terminal}


GitHub - upstash/context7: Context7 MCP Server -- Up-to-date documentation for LLMs and AI code editors
[https://github.com/upstash/context7]
ff6347 starred upstash/context7
2025-11-16T05:47:01Z 
{github stars}


Google Online Security Blog: Rust in Android: move fast and fix things
[https://security.googleblog.com/2025/11/rust-in-android-move-fast-fix-things.html?m=1]
2025-11-16T05:47:01Z 


Zed is our office | Hacker News
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45916196]
2025-11-16T05:47:01Z 
{zed}


AI startup Cursor raises $2.3 billion round at $29.3 billion valuation
[https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/13/cursor-ai-startup-funding-round-valuation.html]
2025-11-16T05:47:01Z 


AI Agents, Productivity, and Higher-Order Thinking: Early Evidence From Software Development by Suproteem K. Sarkar :: SSRN
[https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5713646]
2025-11-16T05:47:01Z 
{blogme}


Visual Types
[https://types.kitlangton.com/]
2025-11-16T05:47:01Z 
{typescript types explanation}


Improving frontend design through Skills | Claude
[https://www.claude.com/blog/improving-frontend-design-through-skills]
2025-11-16T05:47:01Z 
{prompt}


The (lazy) Git UI You Didn't Know You Need - @bwplotka
[https://www.bwplotka.dev/2025/lazygit/]
2025-11-16T05:47:01Z 


How Private Equity Killed the Media Industry - TPM – Talking Points Memo
[https://talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/private-equity-killed-media]
2025-11-16T05:47:01Z 
{internet blogging business}


In Common With
[https://www.incommonwith.com/]
2025-11-16T05:47:01Z 
{inspiration}


How Amps Work
[https://robrobinette.com/How_Amps_Work.htm]
2025-11-16T05:47:01Z 
{guitar amplifiers amps electronics}


Kash Patel Waived Polygraph Screening for Dan Bongino, Senior Staff — ProPublica
[https://www.propublica.org/article/fbi-kash-patel-dan-bongino-waived-polygraph]
As the FBI’s deputy director, Bongino receives some of the country’s most sensitive secrets, including the President’s Daily Brief. His ascent to that position without passing a standard bureau background check is unprecedented, insiders say.
2025-11-16T05:47:01Z 
{kash-patel bongino FBI dt-appointments-unqualified national-security}


Feed the Beast | Derek Larson
[https://www.dtlarson.com/feed-the-beast]
Explore Derek Larson's artistic evolution, focusing on his unique approach to digital painting and animation. Gain insights into his creative process and the tools he uses to blend traditional and digital media.
2025-11-16T05:47:01Z 
{minecraft modpacks ftb feed-the-beast server-setup java-gaming}


OpenMANET
[https://openmanet.net/]
Open-source Raspberry Pi–based MANET radio using Wi-Fi HaLow (Morse Micro).
2025-11-16T05:47:01Z 
{opensource mesh decentralized halow wifi ham-radio}


Pikaday
[https://pikaday.dbushell.com/]
2025-11-16T05:47:01Z 
{javascript date input masked}


Itiner-e
[https://itiner-e.org/]
2025-11-16T05:47:01Z 
{maps digitalhumanities ancientworld history newtestament}


GitHub - ComposioHQ/awesome-claude-skills: A curated list of awesome Claude Skills, resources, and tools for customizing Claude AI workflows
[https://github.com/ComposioHQ/awesome-claude-skills]
2025-11-16T05:47:01Z 
{llm skills}


Just a moment...
[https://clip.cafe/demolition-man-1993/lately-i-just-dont-feel-like-theres-anything-special-about-me/]
from Daring Fireball Via a DF reader, here’s a 20-second clip from the 1993 classic* Demolition Man that exemplifies how today’s overly effusive, ever-affirming AI chatbots were presented as elements of a profoundly dystopic future by sci-fi writers just a few decades ago.*Not actually a classic. ★ 
2025-11-16T05:47:01Z 
{ifttt daringfireball}


isomap
[https://alechelbling.com/UnderstandingIsomap/]
via Leland mcinnes
2025-11-16T05:47:01Z 
{clustering umap infovis awesome}


Has Google Quietly Solved Two of AI’s Oldest Problems?
[https://generativehistory.substack.com/p/has-google-quietly-solved-two-of]
2025-11-16T05:47:01Z 


What the rise of CoreWeave tells us about the AI bubble | The Verge
[https://www.theverge.com/podcast/819612/coreweave-ai-bubble-nvidia-openai-data-centers]
via The Verge https://ift.tt/9X7ksnO
2025-11-16T05:47:01Z 


10 Smart Performance Hacks For Faster Python Code | The PyCharm Blog
[https://blog.jetbrains.com/pycharm/2025/11/10-smart-performance-hacks-for-faster-python-code/]
Learn practical optimization hacks, from data structures to built-in modules, that boost speed, reduce overhead, and keep your Python code clean.
2025-11-16T05:47:01Z 
{python performance}


OpenAI Tries to Shift Responsibility to Users • Buttondown
[https://buttondown.com/maiht3k/archive/openai-tries-to-shift-responsibility-to-users/]
Late last month, OpenAI quietly updated its “usage policies”, writing in a statement that users should not use ChatGPT for “tailored advice that requires a license, such as legal or medical advice, without appropriate involvement by a licensed professional.” A flurry of social media posts then bemoaned the possibility that they’d no longer be able to use the chatbot for medical and legal questions. Karan Singhal, OpenAI’s head of safety, took to X/Twitter to clarify the situation, writing: “Despite speculation, this is not a new change to our terms. Model behavior remains unchanged. ChatGPT has never been a substitute for professional advice, but it will continue to be a great resource to help people understand legal and health information.” The reality is that the medical and legal language that these chatbots spit out sounds convincing and, simultaneously, the tech bros are going around saying that their synthetic text extruding machines are going to replace doctors and lawyers any day now, or at least in the near enough future to goose stock prices today. OpenAI seems to want to have it both ways: protect themselves from liability if their tools offer extremely bad legal or medical advice, but keep making money from people seeking out the information.That OpenAI is "clarifying" their usage policies about this at least suggests that they are getting nervous about the liability. Let's work towards actually holding them accountable.
2025-11-16T05:47:01Z 
{ai}


sminez.dev
[https://www.sminez.dev/match-it-again-sam/]
2025-11-16T05:47:01Z 
{regular-expressions rust}


Simple One-Time Passcode Inputs
[https://cloudfour.com/thinks/simple-one-time-passcode-inputs/]
2025-11-16T05:47:01Z 
{html css}


Google Online Security Blog: Rust in Android: move fast and fix things
[https://security.googleblog.com/2025/11/rust-in-android-move-fast-fix-things.html]
2025-11-16T05:47:01Z 


Fovea detector
[https://www.shadertoy.com/view/4dsXzM]
Look at any specific point and you should clearly see the extent of your fovea (the stars only seem to be rotating in a small circle at the center of your vision). Move your head back and forth to see it grow/shrink. Works better in full screen mode.
2025-11-16T05:47:01Z 
{illusion shadertoy}


bitchat
[https://bitchat.free/]
2025-11-16T05:47:01Z 
{chat Bluetooth}


IBM Patented Euler's 200 year old Math Technique
[https://leetarxiv.substack.com/p/ibm-patented-eulers-fractions]
IBM got a patent on continued fractions (under a different name, with buzzwords about machine learning attached).
2025-11-16T05:47:01Z 
{law ip-law patent patentabuse machinelearning via:HackerNews}


BentoPDF - The Privacy First PDF Toolkit
[https://bentopdf.com/]
2025-11-16T05:47:01Z 
{pdf tools}


Code Wiki: Gemini-generated documentation, always up-to-date.
[https://codewiki.google/]
2025-11-16T05:47:01Z 
{development AI generative q&a wikis documentation opensource webtools gemini summarization}


Just a moment...
[https://appleinsider.com/articles/25/11/13/tesla-may-be-looking-to-apple-carplay-to-boost-flagging-sales]
via AppleInsider News https://appleinsider.com/rss/news
2025-11-16T05:47:01Z 


The Beast in Me review – Claire Danes’s astonishing new thriller is instant top–tier TV | Television & radio | The Guardian
[https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/nov/13/the-beast-in-me-review-claire-danes-thriller-netflix]
2025-11-16T05:47:01Z 


Just Spent 3 Weeks in Egypt. I’m Never Coming Back. Here’s Why. : travel
[https://www.reddit.com/r/travel/comments/1oxp6va/just_spent_3_weeks_in_egypt_im_never_coming_back/]
2025-11-16T05:47:01Z 
{reddit /r/travel egypt tourism scams harassment airport}


Tweeks - Browser extension to deshittify the web
[https://www.tweeks.io/onboarding]
*** https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45916525
2025-11-16T05:47:01Z 
{browser extension adblocking customization}


Google will let users call stores, browse products, and check out using AI | The Verge
[https://www.theverge.com/news/819431/google-shopping-ai-gemini-agentic-checkout-calling]
via The Verge https://ift.tt/9X7ksnO
2025-11-16T05:47:01Z 


Bitchat for Gaza – messaging without internet | Hacker News
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45929358]
2025-11-16T05:47:01Z 
{mesh internet messaging}


Spotify’s new audiobook recap feature uses AI to remind you of the story so far | The Verge
[https://www.theverge.com/news/819476/spotify-audiobook-ai-recaps-short-summary]
via The Verge https://ift.tt/9X7ksnO
2025-11-16T05:47:01Z 


Inside Harvey: How a first-year legal associate built one of Silicon Valley's hottest startups | TechCrunch
[https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/14/inside-harvey-how-a-first-year-legal-associate-built-one-of-silicon-valleys-hottest-startups/]
2025-11-16T05:47:01Z 


The Case That A.I. Is Thinking
[https://archive.ph/rEgHT]
ChatGPT does not have an inner life. Yet it seems to know what it’s talking about.
2025-11-16T05:47:01Z 
{language ai articles .senttokindle}


iPhone Pocket Now Available to Order, But Already Selling Out - MacRumors
[https://www.macrumors.com/2025/11/14/iphone-pocket-already-selling-out/]
via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/ZVShlRe
2025-11-16T05:47:01Z 


Our Position - Women's Sports Policy Working Group
[https://womenssportspolicy.org/the-resolution/]
2025-11-16T05:47:01Z 
{gendercritical}


Mergiraf: syntax-aware merging for Git [LWN.net]
[https://lwn.net/Articles/1042355/]
Mergiraf is a merge-conflict resolver that uses a generic algorithm plus a small amount of language-specific knowledge to solve conflicts that Git's default strategy cannot
2025-11-16T05:47:01Z 
{dev tools git source-control vcs}


Code like a surgeon
[https://www.geoffreylitt.com/2025/10/24/code-like-a-surgeon.html]
Code like a surgeon by Geoffrey Litt via Geoffrey Litt --  -- https://geoffreylitt.com/2025/10/24/code-like-a-surgeon.html
2025-11-16T05:47:01Z 
{IFTTT NewsBlur}


AI nei giocattoli: test PIRG scoprono istruzioni pericolose per bambini
[https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-toys-danger]
Un rapporto del US PIRG mostra che tre giocattoli con chatbot (tra cui il teddy Kumma basato su GPT‑4o) possono, in conversazioni prolungate, fornire istruzioni pericolose — dove trovare coltelli, come accendere fiammiferi — e contenuti sessuali inappropriati. Le protezioni si indeboliscono col tempo, sollevando seri dubbi su sicurezza infantile, impatto sullo sviluppo e urgente necessità di regolamentazione.
2025-11-16T05:47:01Z 
{42 #ci N8N #TechPolicy POLICY TW2025-46}


Justice Department sues to block California US House map | AP News
[https://apnews.com/article/california-redistricting-justice-department-lawsuit-025b00f0b3490a5fa8219c4376bcb9d2]
2025-11-16T05:47:01Z 
{trump2025 prop50 post}


Archives | Israel Exposed
[https://watermeloncrimes.com/archives]
2025-11-16T05:47:01Z 
{archive gaza israel palestine data genocide}


40 Bogus Rationales for Allowing Males into Female Sports
[https://strongerwomen.substack.com/p/40-bogus-rationales-for-allowing-1b7?r=12wpv0&triedRedirect=true]
2025-11-16T05:47:01Z 
{gendercritical}


Inside One of the Most Advanced Phone Factories in the World - YouTube
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SF5Y2JovNPQ]
Few people. Highly automated.
SMT line. Pick and place. Components so small, they fit in the groove of your fingerprint. 
...
Trump administration wanted Americans to do that.
2025-11-16T05:47:01Z 
{manufacturing China robotics automation IT PCB}


The last-ever US penny was minted today in Philadelphia
[https://edition.cnn.com/2025/11/12/business/last-penny-minted]
2025-11-16T05:47:01Z 
{usa money cash}


An Interview With Alison Beshai of Resource Library | Are.na Editorial
[https://www.are.na/editorial/an-interview-with-alison-beshai-of-resource-library]
Resource Library is a library of design books. It’s also a lending library that’s not associated with any institution, which is not something you hear about often. While over the last seven years Resource has had iterations as a popup and a reading room, the collection is now split between locations at Lichen and the Herman Miller on Park, both of which can be visited during store hours. Anyone can browse the catalog, become a member, take out books. Soon, Resource will start offering a research fellowship to support an artist making work from the library’s database. Last month, Resource hosted Reading Hours at the Judd Foundation in New York....I pitched the idea of a “design library” to a developer in DC who's known for doing a lot of pop-ups in vacant spaces. They said they would give me the space, but that I’d need to get more money for the build out. So I found a fiscal and build out sponsor, the architecture firm Gensler, and in September of 2018 we opened a popup library at Union Market in DC. It was supposed to be a five week pop-up, but halfway through, the developer gave me some money so we could extend it to be a 10 week popup. It was always meant to be temporary, but the 10 weeks was a much better length for it than five would've been...Well, the popup was a combination of donations that I received for the library — either from individuals or from publishers — and books loaned by the DC Public Library. In 2018 their Mies van der Rohe building was under construction and they had all these books sitting in storage that no one was going to touch for years. I got to go and pick out hundreds of books from their collection. The librarians were very excited that they were going to be out in people's hands.Those books went back after the popup. The ones that were donated, I put into storage. When I officially moved to New York and packed up all my stuff in DC, I decided to bring some of the library’s books out of storage with me. I started talking to friends and friends-of-friends about doing another iteration of the library in New York, but this time I wanted it to be a lending library. With the popup, it was much more of a reading room in that you couldn’t take the books with you...Later I would start working at Lichen, too, but at first I didn’t work there yet so I would kind of stop by to take care of it. And then some of the team, mostly Eric, collaborated with me on an inventory, membership, and lending log spreadsheet. When Lichen moved to Ridgewood, the library went with it. Slowly, we got more official shelving for it. We also received a big donation from Warby Parker, which refreshed the library with some newer print and also grew it — almost doubled it, to be honest. About a year after that, a friend of mine, Amanda Figueroa, who's a web developer, built a backend catalog and user system for me....So in terms of making it a lending library, I think there are two parts to it: If you lead with trust, people will feel trusted and want to live up to that. The other side is that things inherently go missing, and then you just have to figure out how you want to use membership dues or other ways to either replace that book or get a different one. Not leading with the fear of losing your books creates a better ecosystem, or it has for me so far. We've lost some books in the library for sure, but never to the point where it felt threatening....When I went to the developer in DC it was because we needed a space for free. Naturally, you have to think about the other side — what’s the value for the developer? What do they want to see? A lot of the time it’s foot traffic. They want physical bodies in a space, especially in the digital world that we live in. Other times it's press, “cool factor,” or whatever. Sometimes you just need to ask them.
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{libraries art_books little_libraries popups lending}


The Internet is Cool. Thank you, TCP
[https://cefboud.com/posts/tcp-deep-dive-internals/]
An exploration of TCP, the workhorse of the internet. This deep dive includes detailed examples and a step-by-step walkthrough.
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Context Engineering: Sessions & Memory
[https://www.kaggle.com/whitepaper-context-engineering-sessions-and-memory]
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'BBC Bias' Memo Was Authored by Lobbyist Tied to Pro-Trump Tech Giants – Byline Times
[https://bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/bbc-bias-memo-lobbyist-trump-tech-giants/]
2025-11-16T05:47:01Z 
{política politics uk bbc}


Bitchat for Gaza - messaging without internet
[https://updates.techforpalestine.org/bitchat-for-gaza-messaging-without-internet/]
2025-11-16T05:47:01Z 
{activism opensource privacy}


Hooked on Sonics: Experimenting with Sound in 19th-Century Popular Science — The Public Domain Review
[https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/science-of-sound/]
2025-11-16T05:47:01Z 
{art}


The Authoritarian Stack: How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic US
[https://www.authoritarian-stack.info/]
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45796607
2025-11-16T05:47:01Z 
{authoritarianism technology worldview economics politics reference visualization interesting}


RaphGL | How to write generics in C
[https://raphgl.github.io/blog/generics-in-c.html]
2025-11-16T05:47:01Z 
{c code dev clang tip generic style ds}


I can't recommend Grafana anymore
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45934940]
2025-11-16T05:47:01Z