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Netflix’s AV1 Journey: From Android to TVs and Beyond (netflixtechblog.com)
Stabilizing the Obra Dinn 1-bit dithering process (2017) (forums.tigsource.com)
The movie mistake mystery from "Revenge of the Sith" (fxrant.blogspot.com)
Burner Phone 101 (rebeccawilliams.info)
Lossless LLM compression for efficient GPU inference via dynamic-length float (arxiv.org)
The UK is still trying to backdoor encryption for Apple users (eff.org)
Tesla kills Autopilot, locks lane-keeping behind $99/month fee (arstechnica.com)
Electrobun: Cross-platform desktop applications written in TypeScript (electrobun.dev)
Building a Medieval Castle from Scratch (guedelon.fr)
I live my life a quarter century at a time (tla.systems)
FBI Agents Visit Anti-ICE Protester: "Your name was brought up." (kenklippenstein.com)
All clickwheel iPod games have now been preserved for posterity (arstechnica.com)
FCC abandons efforts to make U.S. broadband fast and affordable (techdirt.com)
AV1@Scale: Film Grain Synthesis, The Awakening (netflixtechblog.com)
Google releases its new Google Sans Flex font as open source (omgubuntu.co.uk)
Scientists say X has lost its professional edge and Bluesky is taking its place (psypost.org)
Elite on the 6502: The original 6502 assembly source, heavily commented (elite.bbcelite.com)
DJ With Apple Music launches to enable subscribers to mix their own sets (musicweek.com)
X-ray scans reveal the hidden risks of cheap batteries (theverge.com)
SRCL: Open-source React project to build web apps with terminal aesthetics (sacred.computer)
Python: The Documentary – An origin story [video] (youtube.com)
Age of Empires: 25 years of pathfinding problems with C++ [video] (youtube.com)
Everyone is wrong about that Slack flowchart (sophiebits.com)
The death of industrial design and the era of dull electronics (hackaday.com)
Bad UX World Cup 2025 (badux.lol)
HowStuffWorks founder Marshall Brain sent final email before sudden death (arstechnica.com)
The MP3.com Rescue Barge Barge (blog.somnolescent.net)
Fixing E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial for the Atari 2600 (2013) (neocomputer.org)
Vibe coding has turned senior devs into 'AI babysitters' (techcrunch.com)
Hiding secret codes in light protects against fake videos (news.cornell.edu)