Neanderthals ran 'fat factories' 125,000 years ago
https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2025/07/neanderthals-ran-fat-factories-125000-years-ago
https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2025/07/neanderthals-ran-fat-factories-125000-years-ago
Leiden University
Neanderthals ran ‘fat factories’ 125,000 years ago
Fat is a very valuable food component, packed with calories, especially important when other resources might be scarce. Our earliest ancestors in Africa already cracked open bones to extract the fatty marrow from bone cavities. But now a new study published…
Show HN: State of the Art of Coding Models, According to Hacker News Commenters
https://hnup.date/hn-sota
https://hnup.date/hn-sota
hnup.date
HN SOTA — Model popularity | HN Update
LLM model popularity from Hacker News: how we detect models from the OpenRouter catalog and score sentiment from discussions.
Clojurists Together – Q2 2026 Open Source Funding Announcement
https://www.clojuriststogether.org/news/q2-2026-funding-announcement/
https://www.clojuriststogether.org/news/q2-2026-funding-announcement/
www.clojuriststogether.org
Q2 2026 Funding Announcement
5 projects are awarded a total of $31K
Voice-AI-for-Beginners – A curated learning path for developers
https://github.com/mahimairaja/voiceai
https://github.com/mahimairaja/voiceai
GitHub
GitHub - mahimairaja/voiceai: Set of 📝 with 🔗 to help those building Voice AI agents 🎙️🤖
Set of 📝 with 🔗 to help those building Voice AI agents 🎙️🤖 - mahimairaja/voiceai
Waymo Drives Off with South Bay Man's Luggage
https://sfist.com/2026/05/01/waymo-drives-off-with-south-bay-mans-luggage-after-trunk-fails-to-open/
https://sfist.com/2026/05/01/waymo-drives-off-with-south-bay-mans-luggage-after-trunk-fails-to-open/
SFiST
Waymo Drives Off With South Bay Man’s Luggage After Trunk Fails to Open
A Sunnyvale man says the Waymo that took him to the airport neglected to open the trunk for him to retrieve his luggage before driving off. The company wants him to pay for shipping, or take two complimentary Waymo rides to the depot in SF to retrieve it.
A Couple Million Lines of Haskell: Production Engineering at Mercury
https://blog.haskell.org/a-couple-million-lines-of-haskell/
https://blog.haskell.org/a-couple-million-lines-of-haskell/
The Haskell Programming Language's blog
A Couple Million Lines of Haskell: Production Engineering at Mercury | The Haskell Programming Language's blog
What it takes to run 2 million lines of Haskell in production at a fintech company serving 300,000 businesses.
Maryland Is First to Ban A.I.-Driven Price Increases in Grocery Stores
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/01/business/surveillance-pricing-groceries-maryland.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/01/business/surveillance-pricing-groceries-maryland.html
Nytimes
Maryland Is First to Ban A.I.-Driven Price Increases in Grocery Stores
A state law that goes into effect in October prohibits grocery stores and third-party delivery services from using consumer data to boost prices.
Open Source Does Not Imply Open Community
https://blog.feld.me/posts/2026/04/open-source-does-not-imply-open-community/
https://blog.feld.me/posts/2026/04/open-source-does-not-imply-open-community/
Makefile.feld
Open Source Does Not Imply Open Community
Open source software has existed long before the invention of the (D)VCS. The author likely hosted a barebones HTML webpage or a txt file describing the project. There definitely was an FTP server somewhere with tarballs. The author may have been reachable…
Windows API Is Successful Cross-Platform API
https://retrocoding.net/windows-api-is-successful-cross-platform-api
https://retrocoding.net/windows-api-is-successful-cross-platform-api
Kimi K2.6 just beat Claude, GPT-5.5, and Gemini in a coding challenge
https://thinkpol.ca/2026/04/30/an-open-weights-chinese-model-just-beat-claude-gpt-5-5-and-gemini-in-a-programming-challenge/
https://thinkpol.ca/2026/04/30/an-open-weights-chinese-model-just-beat-claude-gpt-5-5-and-gemini-in-a-programming-challenge/
ThinkPol
An open-weights Chinese model just beat Claude, GPT-5.5, and Gemini in a programming challenge
By Rohana Rezel I'm running the ongoing AI Coding Contest where I pit major …
The Reality of Being a Man in Your 50s in South Korea
https://indignified.com/the-hidden-realities-of-midlife-masculinity-in-south-korea/
https://indignified.com/the-hidden-realities-of-midlife-masculinity-in-south-korea/
INDIGNIFIED
The Hidden Realities of Midlife Masculinity in South Korea
In South Korea, turning 50 often marks a quiet but profound turning point for men—both native and foreign. For Korean men, it frequently signals the end of a lifetime defined by relentless work…
Specsmaxxing – On overcoming AI psychosis, and why I write specs in YAML
https://acai.sh/blog/specsmaxxing
https://acai.sh/blog/specsmaxxing
acai.sh
acai.sh — Spec-Driven Development Toolkit
The toolkit for spec-driven development. Write feature specs, not prompts. Ship better software with AI agents that understand your requirements.
Executable installer will stop being released with Python 3.16
https://www.python.org/downloads/release/pymanager-261/
https://www.python.org/downloads/release/pymanager-261/
Python.org
Python Release Python install manager 26.1
The official home of the Python Programming Language
Investors pile into clean energy as Iran war drives push for energy security
https://www.ft.com/content/9921f2b5-c910-4cec-a50f-cad453935a1a
https://www.ft.com/content/9921f2b5-c910-4cec-a50f-cad453935a1a
Systemd-manager-TUI: A TUI application for managing systemd services
https://github.com/Matheus-git/systemd-manager-tui
https://github.com/Matheus-git/systemd-manager-tui
GitHub
GitHub - matheus-git/systemd-manager-tui: A TUI application for managing systemd services.
A TUI application for managing systemd services. Contribute to matheus-git/systemd-manager-tui development by creating an account on GitHub.
Redistricting and the Supreme Court have cut voters out of US House races
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/how-redistricting-supreme-court-have-cut-voters-out-us-house-races-2026-05-03/
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/how-redistricting-supreme-court-have-cut-voters-out-us-house-races-2026-05-03/
Reuters
How redistricting and the Supreme Court have cut voters out of US House races
The lack of competitive races means that control of the House of Representatives will likely be determined in November's midterm election by fewer than 10% of Americans, with the winners in most districts all but assured before a single ballot is cast.