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Vitamin D Skeptics May Have Overcorrected, Argues a Closer Read of the Evidence
The fashionable view among careful thinkers is that vitamin D supplements do nothing unless you're severely deficient: blood levels correlate with nearly every
Why Agentic Loops Nail Throwaway Code but Fail at Code Meant to Last
A new pattern is taking over agentic engineering: the harness-level loop. Instead of prompting a coding agent directly, developers wrap it in an outer loop that
Why Copying a Rival's Design Pixel-by-Pixel Made a Better Product
A Kibu engineer makes the case for deliberate imitation as a working method, framed around Virgil Abloh's "3% approach": when redesigning the Air Force 1, Abloh
A Decade-Old Euler Solution Shows How Much Cleverness AI Has Quietly Replaced
Revisiting a 10-year-old Project Euler repository, the author finds a solution to Problem 15 (counting lattice paths through an n×n grid) stored not as code but
A Laid-Off Engineer's Lament on the AI-Wrecked Tech Job Market
A software engineer with roughly a decade of experience—seven years of it at Blizzard before a June 2025 layoff—vents about six months of fruitless job hunting
Age Verification Is Identity Surveillance in Disguise — Refuse the Face Scan
A wave of "age assurance" laws now advancing across three continents is, in practice, a mandate for universal identity verification. The argument is straightfor
Benchmarking Anthropic's Secretive 'Mythos' Bug-Finder Against Rival Models
Anthropic has restricted access to Mythos, a model it claims is exceptionally good at finding security vulnerabilities, ostensibly because the capability is too
Canada bets on nuclear: up to 10 new reactors and doubled uranium exports by 2040
Canada's energy minister Tim Hodgson unveiled a national strategy to build up to 10 new nuclear reactors over 15 years, expand exports of Canadian-made Candu re
Chevron locks in 20-year power deal to fuel Microsoft's West Texas data center
Chevron has agreed to supply power to a Microsoft data center in West Texas under a 20-year contract. The length of the commitment signals how long-term and cap
Cyberdecks go mainstream as makers reject the corporate internet
A countercurrent is forming against the flattened, enshittified "corpo-internet": people quitting social media, dusting off MP3 players, returning to pirated an
Developer ditches ad-funded puzzle sites, builds his own free logic-game daily
A Hacker News "Show HN" post introduces Puzzle Lair, a hobby project built by a developer who grew tired of ad-laden puzzle websites and decided to roll his own
FDA panel votes 9–0 for Moderna's mRNA flu shot despite earlier block attempt
An independent FDA advisory committee (VRBPAC) voted unanimously to recommend approval of Moderna's seasonal mRNA flu vaccine, mRNA-1010, marketed as mFlusiva.