Gridfinity: The modular, open-source grid storage system https://gridfinity.xyz/
Gridfinity
Gridfinity :: Unofficial wiki
The modular, open-source grid storage system.
A glob of 99M-year-old amber trapped a zombie fungus erupting from a fly https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/24/science/amber-insect-zombie-fungi-fossil
CNN
Stunning amber fossil reveals ‘Last of Us’-type fungus likely lived alongside dinosaurs
Paleontologists studying insects trapped in amber from 99 million years ago have made a remarkable discovery: an ant and a fly with parasitic fungi bursting from their bodies.
New proof dramatically compresses space needed for computation https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-proof-dramatically-compresses-space-needed-for-computation/
Scientific American
New Proof Dramatically Compresses Space Needed for Computation
Surprising new work bucks 50 years of assumptions about the trade-offs between computation space and time
The provenance memory model for C https://gustedt.wordpress.com/2025/06/30/the-provenance-memory-model-for-c/
Jens Gustedt's Blog
The provenance memory model for C
[The wordpress markdown inclusion does a very bad job, it seems, there have been some idiotic formatting errors. I hope that these are fixed, now.] A years-long effort led by Kayvan Memarian and Pe…
Show HN: TokenDagger – A tokenizer faster than OpenAI's Tiktoken https://github.com/M4THYOU/TokenDagger
GitHub
GitHub - M4THYOU/TokenDagger: High-Performance Implementation of OpenAI's TikToken.
High-Performance Implementation of OpenAI's TikToken. - M4THYOU/TokenDagger
The Plot of the Phantom, a text adventure that took 40 years to finish https://scottandrew.com/blog/2025/06/you-can-now-play-plot-of-the-phantom-the-text-adventure-game/
Scott Andrew
You can now play "The Plot of the Phantom," the text adventure game that took me 40 years to finish | Scott Andrew
Gnarled JavaScript warlock, musician, cartoonist, dilettante.
Donkey Kong Country 2 and Open Bus https://jsgroth.dev/blog/posts/dkc2-open-bus/
jsgroth.dev
Donkey Kong Country 2 and Open Bus | jsgroth's blog
Donkey Kong Country 2 has a pretty well-known bug in the old SNES emulator ZSNES where some stages have spinning barrels that don’t work properly. One of the earliest pictured here, in the first stage of Krem Quay (third world):
After you jump into the barrel…
After you jump into the barrel…
There are no new ideas in AI, only new datasets https://blog.jxmo.io/p/there-are-no-new-ideas-in-ai-only
blog.jxmo.io
There Are No New Ideas in AI… Only New Datasets
LLMs were invented in four major developments... all of which were datasets
I write type-safe generic data structures in C https://danielchasehooper.com/posts/typechecked-generic-c-data-structures/
Danielchasehooper
I Write Type Safe Generic Data Structures in C
I write type safe generic data structures in C using a technique that I haven’t seen elsewhere1. It uses unions to associate type information with a generic data structure, but we’ll get to that. My approach works for any type of data structure: maps, arrays…
Printegrated Circuits: Merging 3D Printing and Electronics https://spectrum.ieee.org/3d-printing-smart-objects
IEEE Spectrum
“Printegrated Circuits” Bring the Smarts to 3D Printing
How can hobbyists make their 3D printed objects smarter? Discover the printegrated circuits that embed microcontrollers seamlessly.
Proton joins suit against Apple for practices that harm developers and consumers https://proton.me/blog/apple-lawsuit
Proton
Proton joins suit against Apple for predatory practices that harm developers and consumers | Proton
Apple's anti-competitive App Store policies are gouging consumers, enabling censorship, and harming privacy-focused developers. We're joining a lawsuit to restore internet freedom.
Show HN: Open-Source International Space Station Tracker ESP32/Arduino for $20 https://github.com/GuitarML/SpaceStationTracker
GitHub
GitHub - GuitarML/SpaceStationTracker: Simple app to display the current location of the International Space Station on a ESP32…
Simple app to display the current location of the International Space Station on a ESP32 CYD (Cheap Yellow Display) - GuitarML/SpaceStationTracker
Auth for B2B SaaS: it's not like auth for consumer software https://tesseral.com/blog/b2b-auth-isnt-that-similar-to-b2c-auth
Tesseral
Auth for B2B SaaS: it's not like auth for consumer software | Tesseral Blog
Auth for business software (B2B) shouldn’t look the same as auth for consumer software (B2C). In many cases, it actually can’t work the same way.
Apple Weighs Using Anthropic or OpenAI to Power Siri in Major Reversal https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-30/apple-weighs-replacing-siri-s-ai-llms-with-anthropic-claude-or-openai-chatgpt
Bloomberg.com
Apple Weighs Using Anthropic or OpenAI to Power Siri in Major Reversal
Apple Inc. is considering using artificial intelligence technology from Anthropic PBC or OpenAI to power a new version of Siri, sidelining its own in-house models in a potentially blockbuster move aimed at turning around its flailing AI effort.
Datadog's $65M/year customer mystery solved https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/datadog-65m-year-customer-mystery/
The Pragmatic Engineer
Datadog’s $65M/year customer mystery solved
The internet has been speculating the past few days on which crypto company spent $65M on Datadog in 2022. I confirmed it was Coinbase, and here are the details of what happened.
The hidden JTAG in a Qualcomm/Snapdragon device’s USB port https://www.linaro.org/blog/hidden-jtag-qualcomm-snapdragon-usb/
www.linaro.org
The hidden JTAG in your Qualcomm/Snapdragon device’s USB port | Blog | Linaro
Learn about JTAG and EUD...
A CarFax for Used PCs; Hewlett Packard wants to give old laptops new life https://spectrum.ieee.org/carmax-used-pcs
IEEE Spectrum
A CarFax for Used PCs
Could a PCFax report change how we buy used PCs? Dive into HP's innovative approach to tackling e-waste and boosting device longevity.
Xfinity using WiFi signals in your house to detect motion https://www.xfinity.com/support/articles/wifi-motion