SFO Quiet Airport (2025)
https://viewfromthewing.com/san-francisco-airport-removed-90-minutes-of-daily-noise-travelers-say-it-changed-everything/
https://viewfromthewing.com/san-francisco-airport-removed-90-minutes-of-daily-noise-travelers-say-it-changed-everything/
View from the Wing
San Francisco Airport Removed 90 Minutes of Daily Noise — Travelers Say It Changed Everything - View from the Wing
The airport targeted gate announcements, overlapping PA messages, and tenant music. Instead of blasting departure calls terminal-wide, messages are limited to each gate and their immediate surroundings. In 2020, they worked with airlines to centralize and…
TIPSv2: Advancing Vision-Language Pretraining with Enhanced Patch-Text Alignment
https://gdm-tipsv2.github.io/
https://gdm-tipsv2.github.io/
gdm-tipsv2.github.io
TIPSv2: Advancing Vision-Language Pretraining with Enhanced Patch-Text Alignment
TIPSv2: Advancing Vision-Language Pretraining with Enhanced Patch-Text Alignment. A new family of image-text encoder models with strong dense patch-text alignment, evaluated across 9 tasks and 20 datasets.
Google to invest up to $40B in Anthropic in cash and compute
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/24/google-to-invest-up-to-40b-in-anthropic-in-cash-and-compute/
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/24/google-to-invest-up-to-40b-in-anthropic-in-cash-and-compute/
TechCrunch
Google to invest up to $40B in Anthropic in cash and compute | TechCrunch
Google plans up to $40B investment in Anthropic as AI rivals race to secure massive compute capacity, following the limited release of its powerful, cybersecurity-focused Mythos model.
FusionCore: ROS 2 sensor fusion (IMU and GPS and encoders)
https://github.com/manankharwar/fusioncore
https://github.com/manankharwar/fusioncore
GitHub
GitHub - manankharwar/fusioncore: ROS 2 sensor fusion SDK: UKF, 3D native, proper GNSS, zero manual tuning. Apache 2.0.
ROS 2 sensor fusion SDK: UKF, 3D native, proper GNSS, zero manual tuning. Apache 2.0. - manankharwar/fusioncore
Education must go beyond the mere production of words
https://www.ncregister.com/commentaries/schnell-repairing-the-ruins
https://www.ncregister.com/commentaries/schnell-repairing-the-ruins
National Catholic Register
Repairing the Ruins: Why AI Can’t Replace Education
COMMENTARY: In an era when AI can write anything, authentic education must go beyond the mere production of words.
"Plain text has been around for decades and it's here to stay." – Unsung
https://unsung.aresluna.org/plain-text-has-been-around-for-decades-and-its-here-to-stay/
https://unsung.aresluna.org/plain-text-has-been-around-for-decades-and-its-here-to-stay/
unsung.aresluna.org
“Plain text has been around for decades and it’s here to stay.” – Unsung
A blog about software craft and quality
Show HN: VT Code – Rust TUI coding agent with multi-provider support
https://github.com/vinhnx/VTCode
https://github.com/vinhnx/VTCode
GitHub
GitHub - vinhnx/VTCode: VT Code is an open-source Rust terminal coding agent.
VT Code is an open-source Rust terminal coding agent. - vinhnx/VTCode
New 10 GbE USB adapters are cooler, smaller, cheaper
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/new-10-gbe-usb-adapters-cooler-smaller-cheaper/
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/new-10-gbe-usb-adapters-cooler-smaller-cheaper/
Jeff Geerling
New 10 GbE USB adapters are cooler, smaller, cheaper
For years, the best way to get 10 gigabit networking on laptops was to buy an expensive, large, and hot 10 GbE Thunderbolt adapter. With new RTL8159-based 10G USB 3.2 adapters coming onto the market, the bulky adapters might be a thing of the past. Just look…
Show HN: A Karpathy-style LLM wiki your agents maintain (Markdown and Git)
https://github.com/nex-crm/wuphf
https://github.com/nex-crm/wuphf
GitHub
GitHub - najmuzzaman-mohammad/wuphf: WUPHF lets you spin up your personal office of AI teammates who collaborate over shared context.…
WUPHF lets you spin up your personal office of AI teammates who collaborate over shared context. Supports Claude Code, Codex, OpenClaw, OpenCode, local LLMs. - najmuzzaman-mohammad/wuphf
Jumping into cold water can stop your heart
https://jorgenmelau.substack.com/p/the-first-sixty-seconds
https://jorgenmelau.substack.com/p/the-first-sixty-seconds
Substack
The First Sixty Seconds
Why Jumping Into Cold Water Can Stop Your Heart
What's Missing in the 'Agentic' Story
https://www.mnot.net/blog/2026/04/24/agents_as_collective_bargains
https://www.mnot.net/blog/2026/04/24/agents_as_collective_bargains
Mark Nottingham
What's Missing in the ‘Agentic’ Story
Every online interaction is a lopsided negotiation. For AI to truly work for us, we need more than just safety -- we need to start building true agency as a form of collective bargaining.
Niri 26.04 was just released (scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor)
https://github.com/niri-wm/niri/releases/tag/v26.04
https://github.com/niri-wm/niri/releases/tag/v26.04
GitHub
Release v26.04 · niri-wm/niri
Niri is a scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor. Windows are arranged in columns on an infinite strip going to the right. Opening a new window never causes existing windows to resize.
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