The Amazon tax | 147

seths.blog
The Amazon tax | Seth's Blog
Seth Godin's Blog on marketing, tribes and respect
AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read) | 113

rickmanelius.com
AI;DR (AI; Didn’t Read) - Rick Manelius's Newsletter
I'm about as pro-AI as you can be, but this is becoming a pet peeve of mine (and I'm not alone). That's why I love the AI;DR acronym as my new solution for ignoring the walls of slop.
Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots | 74

responsiblestatecraft.org
Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots | Responsible Statecraft
In just over a week, the Hanover Institute has published at least 100 articles that appear tailor-made to influence chatbots
Universal health coverage could save $1T and 114k lives a year: study | 84
ysph.yale.edu
Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1 Trillion and 114,000 Lives Every Year, Yale Study Projects | Yale School of Public Health
A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it
Incident with Github.com | 2

githubstatus.com
GitHub Status - Incident with GitHub.com
GitHub's Status Page - Incident with GitHub.com.
A Preview of DuckDB v2.0 | 52
duckdb.org
A Preview of DuckDB v2.0 – DuckDB
DuckDB v2.0 is coming this fall. In this post, we preview its headline features: DuckDB as a server, triggers, the VARIANT type, asynchronous I/O, a new SQL parser, a new storage format, and much more.
How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots | 73
timmarinin.net
How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots
The secret is humble UITextField.
Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub 134
news.ycombinator.com
Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub
Github has been down consistently over the last few months - does it make sense to switch to alternatives?
OpenLogi | 47

openlogi.org
OpenLogi
A native, local-first alternative to Logitech Options+, written in Rust. Remap buttons, drive DPI and SmartShift over HID++ — no account, no telemetry.
GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50% on OpenRouter | 61
openrouter.ai
GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50% on OpenRouter
Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months | 62

tomshardware.com
Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months, up to 10x the lowest ever tracked prices — 128GB of DDR5 now $3,399 | Tom's Hardware
Analysis of historical price data trends indicates that the memory crisis has driven RAM prices to never-before-seen heights.
Google has acquired the data of failed US airline Spirit | 52

theregister.com
Google buys crashed airline Spirit’s data at auction, because AI
$10 million buys over 100 million emails, 30 million recorded phone calls, reams of stuff from Teams, Oracle, and SAP
Incident with Github.com [resolved] | 181

githubstatus.com
GitHub Status - Incident with GitHub.com
GitHub's Status Page - Incident with GitHub.com.
Beware Management Consultants | 33
about.iceland.co.uk
Beware management consultants – About Iceland
Linux 7.3 improves performance when running out of vRAM | 25
pixelcluster.dev
VRAM Management Part 2: Beyond the Limits of Physical VRAM | pixelcluster's GPU blog
Quake Shareware, a CD-ROM just a little too full | 36
fabiensanglard.net
Quake Shareware, a CD-ROM just a little too full
Using the railway network as a flatbed scanner | 41
philo.gay
Using the railway network as a flatbed scanner
AI-Generated GitHub Copilot “Autofix” Allowed Compromise of Snowflake's Jira | 34
wiz.io
AI-Generated GitHub Copilot “Autofix” Allowed Compromise of Snowflake's Jira
Fixing a bricked Framework laptop | 48
quantum5.ca
Fixing a bricked AMD 7040 series Framework 13” laptop with $20 tools | Quantum
My experience fixing my Framework 13” laptop with AMD 7060 series that was bricked due to a failed BIOS update with US$20 worth of tools, instead of replacing the motherboard as suggested by Framework support.
Fairphone is now officially available in the United States | 24
fairphone.com
The Fairphone (Gen. 6+) is all about giving you more
The Fairphone (Gen. 6+) is here. With more power under the hood, a brand-new color, and more software features, it's everything you love about Fairphone. Plus more.
Qwen3.8 27B scores 52 on Artificial Analysis | 39
artificialanalysis.ai
Qwen3.8 27B - Intelligence, Performance & Price Analysis
Analysis of Alibaba's Qwen3.8 27B and comparison to other AI models across key metrics including quality, price, performance (tokens per second & time to first token), context window & more.
GPT 5.6 Sol is the best "vision" model OpenAI ever released | 62

blog.roboflow.com
GPT 5.6 Sol is the best "vision" model OpenAI ever released
GPT-5.6 Sol is OpenAI’s strongest vision model yet. We tested Sol, Terra, and Luna across detection, counting, OCR, and extraction, then compared their results, speed, and cost with leading VLMs.
Sticky wage norms and the real wage cost of unexpected inflation 29
bfi.uchicago.edu
Sticky wage norms and the real wage cost of unexpected inflation
How does IKEA come up with names for its products? | 49
ikea.com
How does IKEA come up with names for its products? - IKEA Sweden
Sweden - The product names of IKEA may sound strange even to us Swedish speakers. In other parts of the world, they are basically incomprehensible, but fun! He
And then the men with guns tell you to do it anyway | 34

shkspr.mobi
And then the men with guns tell you to do it anyway – Terence Eden’s Blog
In early February 2011 Egypt was in the middle of a political revolution. One morning, everyone's phones suddenly pinged with an alert. The Armed Forces asks Egypt's honest and loyal men to confront the traitors and criminals and protect our people and honour and our precious Egypt. A series of messages arrived all ostensibly from the network provider Vodafone. All pro-regime and all with the…
An update on leaving Gmail for Fastmail | 68

moddedbear.com
An Update on Leaving Gmail for Fastmail | moddedbear.com
It's been a few months since my post on leaving Gmail which sparked a lot of discussion on Hacker News. Here's an update on how things have been going after my move to Fastmail.
