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ASRock launches new AMD motherboards at Computex 2025

tomshardware.com — ASRock just unveiled its new motherboard lineup at Computex 2025, showing off the latest versions of its flagship Taichi OCF and Taichi Creator AM5. It also has several mid-range and entry-level models on display, ensuring that it has a solution for everyone, no matter what their needs and budget are. What’s interesting, though, is that there weren’t any new Intel motherboards at ASRock’s booth. ASROCK, 1

NeoUMG – A Visual Modular Framework for Composable AI Thinking

github.com — There was an error while loading. Please reload this page. NEOUMG, 2

Authoritarianism of Code

zedshaw.com — It's my belief that authoritarianism is so ingrained in the fabric of software development that it has been internalized to such a degree that even the most anti-authoritarian people cannot avoid being authoritarian. This essay is an attempt to outline a framework for evaluating software development practices, organizations, and communities on the basis of authoritarian and totalitarian policies and behaviors. AUTHORITARIANISM, 3

The Future of Cloud Database Systems by Viktor Leis (Dijkstra Award 2024) [video]

Telegram 'surprised' as Vietnam orders messaging app to be blocked

reuters.com — Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker TELEGRAM, 5

Build AI Code Generator from Scratch

substack.com — Enable JavaScript and cookies to continue BUILD, 6

Vital for Bone Health, Vitamin D May Also Slow Aging at the Cellular Level

discovermagazine.com — The anti-aging supplement industry is valued at many billions of dollars, with North America offering the largest market worldwide. Through clever marketing, many such supplements have promised consumers everything from halting to reversing the aging process — often without clear scientific evidence to back it up. VITAL, 7

Scientific conferences are leaving the US amid border fears

nature.com — You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar SCIENTIFIC, 8

Show HN: Created a brain entrainment app – didn't expect growth

news.ycombinator.com — I used to work as an audio engineer and have been meditating for ~17 years. A few years back I started digging into brainwave entrainment — reading older research, patent filings, and papers (like those from the Monroe Institute), and experimenting with tone layering and sound design. CREATED, 9

What AI Thinks It Knows About You

theatlantic.com — What happens when people can see what assumptions a large language model is making about them? WHAT, 10

Gosniffer

github.com — Web Crawler written in golang GOSNIFFER, 11

'Adulting 101' programs are helping Gen Z catch up on key life skills

cbc.ca — ADULTING, 12

Ultra Fast Colab I Just Deleted Pip from a Colab Notebook, and IT Still Worked

github.com — I just DELETED pip dependencies, then the requirements.txt, PIP ITSELF, **EVEN THE PROGRAM ITSELF**, TAKING INSTALL TIME FROM 17:15 MINUTES DOWN TO 2:30 MINUTES, **AND IT STILL WORKED!!!** This is an ULTRA fast installation script for Google Colab that installs in TWO MINUTES! No Pip install, no requirements.txt file, no waiting half an hour! ULTRA, 13

Vsdk – Hacky, educational voice SDK

github.com — There was an error while loading. Please reload this page. VSDK, 14

"So Long, and Thanks for all the Fish" Pocket shuts down but open web remains

wallabag.org — Mozilla's recent announcement about the shutdown of its Pocket service has taken many users by surprise. We wanted to share some thoughts as a farewell message to Pocket and to talk about the available options for Pocket users looking for a new platform. "SO, 15

CD / Blur [video]

Why old games never die, but new ones do

wordpress.com — It’s well known that video games today are disposable pieces of slop. Modern multiplayer games tend to fall into one of two categories: they’re abandoned after a while and the servers are pulled (sometimes comically fast, like with Concord), while other games are endlessly changing “live service” games where they get endless updates and free content at the expense of having microtransactions in all their predatory varieties. Just like how arcade gaming died in favor of “redemption games” that act as gambling for kids minus the regulations of casinos, video games have fallen victim to endless microtransactions and FOMO events designed to keep people coming back to play for another week or so. They’re designed to maximize money at the expense of the core experience. WHY, 17

Using the Apple ][+ with the RetroTink-5X

nicole.express — May 24, 2025 USING, 18

VSCode extension that lets you copy code to share (or prompt with)

visualstudio.com — Copy files or folder trees into your clipboard as Markdown—ready to paste into chats, docs, or code reviews. VSCODE, 19

Good Writing

paulgraham.com — May 2025There are two senses in which writing can be good: it can sound good, and the ideas can be right. It can have nice, flowing sentences, and it can draw correct conclusions about important things. It might seem as if these two kinds of good would be unrelated, like the speed of a car and the color it's painted. And yet I don't think they are. I think writing that sounds good is more likely to be right.So here we have the most exciting kind of idea: one that seems both preposterous and true. Let's examine it. How can this possibly be true?I know it's true from writing. You can't simultaneously optimize two unrelated things; when you push one far enough, you always end up sacrificing the other. And yet no matter how hard I push, I never find myself having to choose between... GOOD, 20

They Were Every Student's Worst Nightmare. Now Blue Books Are Back

wsj.com — Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker THEY, 21

Some basic helpers when using with CodeIgniter 3

github.com — CodeIgniter - Basic Helper - Maintain by @nguyenanhung SOME, 22

Anisotropy

wikipedia.org — Anisotropy (/ˌænaɪˈsɒtrəpi, ˌænɪ-/) is the structural property of non-uniformity in different directions, as opposed to isotropy. An anisotropic object or pattern has properties that differ according to direction of measurement. For example, many materials exhibit very different physical or mechanical properties when measured along different axes, e.g. absorbance, refractive index, conductivity, and tensile strength. ANISOTROPY, 23

Alabama paid a law firm that used AI and turned in fake citations

theguardian.com — Butler Snow faces sanctions after lawyer cites false case law defending against inmate who says he was stabbed 20 times ALABAMA, 24

Sharp X68000

wikipedia.org — The X68000 (Japanese: エックスろくまんはっせん, Hepburn: Ekkusu Rokuman Hassen) is a home computer created by Sharp Corporation. It was first released in 1987 and sold only in Japan. SHARP, 25

Bluesky Is Plotting a Total Takeover of the Social Internet

wired.com — as i waited to meet with Jay Graber, the CEO of Bluesky, on the 25th floor of an office building in downtown Seattle, I stared out at the city’s waterfront and thought: God fucking damn it. Stretching in every direction was a wall of dense, gray, tragically boring fog. And here I was about to interview the head of a social platform named after good weather. On camera, no less. BLUESKY, 26

Sorcerer (YC S24) Is Hiring a Lead Hardware Design Engineer

Harper (YC W25) Is Hiring Applied AI / AI Context Engineers and Data Scientist

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