Price of rice in Japan falls below ¥4k per 5kg https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/06/24/japan/japan-rice-price-falls-below-4000/
The Japan Times
Price of rice in Japan falls below ¥4,000 per 5 kilograms
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba had aimed to push down rice prices to the ¥3,000-¥4,000 range by as early as mid-June.
Melbourne man discovers extensive model train network underneath house https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/i-was-shocked-melbourne-mans-unbelievable-find-after-buying-house/m4sksfer8
SBS News
'I was shocked': Melbourne man's 'unbelievable' find after buying house
Daniel Xu has loved trains since he was a child. In a surprising twist of fate, he now lives above an extensive hobby train network set.
Why email startups fail https://forwardemail.net/en/blog/docs/email-startup-graveyard-why-80-percent-email-companies-fail
Forward Email
The Email Startup Graveyard: Why 80%+ of Email Companies Fail
Comprehensive analysis of email startup failures. Why 80%+ of email companies fail, burn millions in VC funding, and shut down. Learn what actually works.
YouTube No Translation https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/youtube-no-translation/
addons.mozilla.org
YouTube No Translation – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-GB)
Download YouTube No Translation for Firefox. Keeps titles, descriptions and audio tracks in their original language on YouTube.
Virtue garnish: A mental hack to short-circuit bad habits https://ledgeroflife.blog/virtue-garnishes-the-3-second-mental-hack-that-short-circuits-bad-habits/
So you want to serialize some DER? https://alexgaynor.net/2025/jun/20/serialize-some-der/
Small language models are the future of agentic AI https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02153
arXiv.org
Small Language Models are the Future of Agentic AI
Large language models (LLMs) are often praised for exhibiting near-human performance on a wide range of tasks and valued for their ability to hold a general conversation. The rise of agentic AI...
Aging-related inflammation is not universal across human populations https://www.publichealth.columbia.edu/news/aging-related-inflammation-not-universal-across-human-populations
Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
Aging-related Inflammation Is Not Universal Across Human Populations
Inflammation may not be a universal human experience, but a byproduct of industrialized lifestyles.
The original LZEXE (A.K.A. Kosinski) compressor source code has been released https://clownacy.wordpress.com/2025/05/24/the-original-lzexe-a-k-a-kosinski-compressor-source-code-has-been-released/
Clownacy's Corner
The Original LZEXE (A.K.A. Kosinski) Compressor Source Code Has Been Released
Last year, I discovered that the Kosinski compression format is actually LZEXE, which was used for compressing DOS executables back in the 90s and the late 80s. Its developer catalogues three versi…
Restoring a ZX Spectrum+ Toastrack https://celso.io/posts/2025/06/28/toastrack/
celso.io
Restoring a ZX Spectrum+ Toastrack
I talk a lot about Commodore machines in this blog; they left a bigger dent in me growing up, but like most kids of my generation living in Portugal in the 80s, the first computers I played with were actually Sinclairs—first my friend’s ZX81 and then a ZX…
Show HN: A continuation of IRS Direct File that can be self-hosted https://github.com/openfiletax/openfile
GitHub
GitHub - openfiletax/openfile: A free tax tool based on IRS Direct File
A free tax tool based on IRS Direct File. Contribute to openfiletax/openfile development by creating an account on GitHub.
Cloudflare to introduce pay-per-crawl for AI bots https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-pay-per-crawl/
The Cloudflare Blog
Introducing Pay per crawl- enabling content owners to charge AI crawlers for access
Pay per crawl is a new feature to allow content creators to charge AI crawlers for access to their content.
I built something that changed my friend group's social fabric https://blog.danpetrolito.xyz/i-built-something-that-changed-my-friend-gro-social-fabric/
Dan Petrolito
I built something that changed my friend group's social fabric
This is a story that started back in 2022, but I think its a perfect time to reflect on the impact that it has had on my friend group still to this day.
A year or so before COVID, our friend group dispersed across the world - I moved to
A year or so before COVID, our friend group dispersed across the world - I moved to
GPEmu: A GPU emulator for rapid, low-cost deep learning prototyping [pdf] https://vldb.org/pvldb/vol18/p1919-wang.pdf
OpenFLOW – Quickly make beautiful infrastructure diagrams local to your machine https://github.com/stan-smith/OpenFLOW
GitHub
GitHub - stan-smith/OpenFLOW: Make beautiful isometric infrastructure diagrams
Make beautiful isometric infrastructure diagrams. Contribute to stan-smith/OpenFLOW development by creating an account on GitHub.
Pluto is a unique dialect of Lua with a focus on general-purpose programming https://github.com/PlutoLang/Pluto
GitHub
GitHub - PlutoLang/Pluto: A superset of Lua 5.4 with a focus on general-purpose programming.
A superset of Lua 5.4 with a focus on general-purpose programming. - PlutoLang/Pluto