Daily
One fun fact, a quick word scramble, headline picks, and top memes from the last 12 hours.
Today's fact
The shortest war in history lasted 38 minutes.
Quick reads
Headline picks from Hacker News and public RSS feeds.
Tech · Hacker News
- Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust
developer.nvidia.com
- Training a 4B model to produce 81% faster query plans than Postgres
rohanbansal.com
- Breaking the 1.58-bit Barrier for Ternary LLMs
arxiv.org
- Xiaomi Mimo 2.6 live post-training dashboard
mimo.xiaomi.com
- Backups Aren't Simple
filipovski.net
- Small programming tricks
will-keleher.com
- The engineering behind the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve
johnjwang.com
- OpenSpec – A lightweight and configurable AI spec framework
openspec.dev
- Reversing Factorio's RNG
gegell.github.io
- Performance Improvements in .NET 11
devblogs.microsoft.com
- HarnessTax: How Much Does the Harness Matter for Coding Agents?
harnesstax.github.io
- AWS says it can't restore some data from mideast facilities struck by Iran
wsj.com
World headlines
- US interest rates raised for first time in three years
BBC News · bbc.co.uk
- Snapchat 'willing to implement' daily time limits for teens, boss tells BBC
BBC News · bbc.co.uk
- Photos show widespread damage at US sites from Iranian attacks
BBC News · bbc.co.uk
- EU chief backs plan for Canada to become 'associate member'
BBC News · bbc.co.uk
- US House votes to hold billionaire Epstein associate Leon Black in contempt
BBC News · bbc.co.uk
- Eight children among 21 killed after war-damaged Gaza building collapses, rescuers say
BBC News · bbc.co.uk
- ‘We are prey’: discovery of seven women’s bodies fuels anger over femicide in South Africa
The Guardian · theguardian.com
- US to bar some South Africans over claims of anti-white discrimination
The Guardian · theguardian.com
- Al-Qaida and IS-linked violence in Africa’s Sahel belt set to hit record levels this year
The Guardian · theguardian.com
- Slave-trade wealth was embedded in Britain’s financial system, research finds
The Guardian · theguardian.com
- ‘I believed the hype’: the white South Africans denied refugee status in the US
The Guardian · theguardian.com
- Battle of Chile director Patricio Guzmán dies aged 85
The Guardian · theguardian.com