Plants monitor the integrity of their barrier by sensing gas diffusion https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09223-4
Nature
Plants monitor the integrity of their barrier by sensing gas diffusion
Nature - A study using Arabidopsis shows that plants can monitor the integrity of their outer barriers by sensing gas diffusion, enabling them to initiate wound repair to prevent water loss and...
Show HN: A rain Pomodoro with brown noise, ASMR, and Middle Eastern music https://forgetoolz.com/rain-pomodoro
ForgeToolz
Rain Pomodoro Timer with Brown Noise, Ambient Music & ASMR | ForgeToolz
Elevate deep focus with the world's most beautiful Pomodoro timer. Immerse in rain, brown noise, ambient music, Middle Eastern sounds & ASMR. No signup. No clutter. Just pure flow.
Bulgaria to join euro area on 1 January 2026 https://www.ecb.europa.eu//press/pr/date/2025/html/ecb.pr250708~b9676a9fa8.en.html
European Central Bank
Bulgaria to join euro area on 1 January 2026
The European Central Bank (ECB) is the central bank of the European Union countries which have adopted the euro. Our main task is to maintain price stability in the euro area and so preserve the purchasing power of the single currency.
Rules of good writing (2007) https://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2007/06/the_day_you_bec.html
The Dilbert Blog
The Day You Became A Better Writer
I went from being a bad writer to a good writer after taking a one-day course in “business writing.” I couldn’t believe how simple it was. I’ll tell you the main tricks here so you don’t have to waste a...
US court strikes down 'click-to-cancel' rule designed to make unsubscribing easy https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/08/court-click-to-cancel-ruling
the Guardian
US court strikes down ‘click-to-cancel’ rule designed to make unsubscribing easier
Rule would have kept businesses from forcing customers through lengthy chats or other barriers to cancellation
Ceramic: A cross-platform and open-source 2D framework in Haxe https://ceramic-engine.com/
Ceramic Engine
Home - Ceramic
A cross-platform & open-source 2D framework
The Tradeoffs of SSMs and Transformers https://goombalab.github.io/blog/2025/tradeoffs/
goombalab.github.io
On the Tradeoffs of SSMs and Transformers | Goomba Lab
(or - tokens are bs)
Frame of preference A history of Mac settings, 1984–2004 https://aresluna.org/frame-of-preference/
aresluna.org
Frame of preference
A story of early Mac settings told by 10 emulators.
RapidRAW: A non-destructive and GPU-accelerated RAW image editor https://github.com/CyberTimon/RapidRAW
GitHub
GitHub - CyberTimon/RapidRAW: A beautiful, non-destructive, and GPU-accelerated RAW image editor built with performance in mind.
A beautiful, non-destructive, and GPU-accelerated RAW image editor built with performance in mind. - CyberTimon/RapidRAW
Phrase origin: Why do we "call" functions? https://quuxplusone.github.io/blog/2025/04/04/etymology-of-call/
Arthur O’Dwyer
Phrase origin: Why do we “call” functions?
On StackExchange,
someone asks why programmers talk about “calling” a function. Several possible allusions spring to mind:
Calling a function is like calling on a friend — we go, we stay a while, we come back.
Calling a function is like calling for…
someone asks why programmers talk about “calling” a function. Several possible allusions spring to mind:
Calling a function is like calling on a friend — we go, we stay a while, we come back.
Calling a function is like calling for…
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Xenharmlib: A music theory library that supports non-western harmonic systems https://xenharmlib.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
xenharmlib
Welcome to xenharmlib’s documentation!
Xenharmonic (adj.): Pertaining to music which sounds unlike that composed in the familiar 12 tone equal-tempered scale. Ivor Darreg, Xenharmlib is a generalized music theory library that supports t...
US Court nullifies FTC requirement for click-to-cancel https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/07/us-court-cancels-ftc-rule-that-would-have-made-canceling-subscriptions-easier/
Ars Technica
Court nullifies “click-to-cancel” rule that required easy methods of cancellation
FTC failed to follow rulemaking process required by US law, judges rule.
Helm local code execution via a malicious chart https://github.com/helm/helm/security/advisories/GHSA-557j-xg8c-q2mm
GitHub
Chart Dependency Updating With Malicious Chart.yaml Content And Symlink
A Helm contributor discovered that a specially crafted `Chart.yaml` file along with a specially linked `Chart.lock` file can lead to local code execution when dependencies are updated.
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Where can I see Hokusai's Great Wave today? https://greatwavetoday.com/
Greatwavetoday
Great Wave Today
Where can I see Hokusai's Great Wave today?
7-Zip for Windows can now use more than 64 CPU threads for compression https://www.7-zip.org/history.txt
Most RESTful APIs aren't really RESTful https://florian-kraemer.net//software-architecture/2025/07/07/Most-RESTful-APIs-are-not-really-RESTful.html
Florian Krämer
Most RESTful APIs aren’t really RESTful
When talking about REST, it is worth reading the dissertation of Roy Thomas Fielding. The original paper that describes RESTful web, “Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-based Software Architectures” Roy T. Fielding (2000), introduces the Representational…
Libpostal: C library for parsing/normalizing street addresses around the world https://github.com/openvenues/libpostal
GitHub
GitHub - openvenues/libpostal: A C library for parsing/normalizing street addresses around the world. Powered by statistical NLP…
A C library for parsing/normalizing street addresses around the world. Powered by statistical NLP and open geo data. - openvenues/libpostal
Springer Nature book on machine learning is full of made-up citations https://retractionwatch.com/2025/06/30/springer-nature-book-on-machine-learning-is-full-of-made-up-citations/
Retraction Watch
Springer Nature book on machine learning is full of made-up citations
Would you pay $169 for an introductory ebook on machine learning with citations that appear to be made up? If not, you might want to pass on purchasing Mastering Machine Learning: From Basics to Ad…
SUSE launches new European digital sovereignty service to meet surging demand https://www.zdnet.com/article/suse-launches-new-european-digital-sovereignty-support-service-to-meet-surging-demand/
ZDNET
SUSE launches new European digital sovereignty support service to meet surging demand
With SUSE's help, European companies and governments can ensure their IT support, software, and data assets are safe.