politicalwire.com/2025/07/28/republicans-say-apple-update-will-hurt-fundraising/
Another piece from Hitler scholar Timothy Ryback that is uncomfortably resonant today: What Happened When Hitler Took On Germany’s Central Banker.
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• Molly White
The Trump administration’s regulatory whiplash has left prosecutors scrambling with misattributed chat messages and questionable victim testimony
From MinuteEarth, a quick tour of all the different kinds of dogs in the world, wild & domesticated, and how they are related to each other.
Great Danes are the tallest dogs in the world. Standing on his hind legs, the Great Dane Zeus was taller than Shaq. He could drink directly from the kitchen sink.
Watch this: Chinese EV maker BYD built a driverless car that can *jump over potholes*, has a top speed of 243mph, and can charge from 30% to 80% battery in 10 minutes. It’s a Mario Kart World kart IRL — hold ZR to Charge Jump!
“Two leading human rights organisations based in Israel, B’Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights, say Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza and the country’s western allies have a legal and moral duty to stop it.”
Is this the beginning of the end of HIV/AIDS? Lenacapavir “offers 100% protection” against contracting HIV and there are already 6 generic manufacturers lined up to produce the drug under royalty-free licensing agreements.
The Atlas Obscura Podcast
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In 2006 a massive haul of Doritos was shipwrecked on Hatteras Island on the Outer Banks, leaving its mark on the town forever. All this week, the Atlas Obscura Podcast is hitting the sand, and taking a tour of the world’s most unusual beaches.
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The many, many, many JavaScript runtimes of the last decade
Extraordinary piece of writing by Jamie Birch who spent over a year putting together this comprehensive reference to JavaScript runtimes. It covers everything from Node.js, Deno, Electron, AWS Lambda, Cloudflare Workers and Bun all the way to much smaller projects idea like dukluv and txiki.js.Via Hacker News
Tags: javascript, nodejs, deno
.add_note(message: str) method to the BaseException class, which means you can add one or more extra notes to any Python exception and they'll be displayed in the stacktrace!
Here's PEP 678 – Enriching Exceptions with Notes by Zac Hatfield-Dodds proposing the new feature back in 2021.
Via Lobste.rs
Enough AI copilots! We need AI HUDs
Geoffrey Litt compares Copilots - AI assistants that you engage in dialog with and work with you to complete a task - with HUDs, Head-Up Displays, which enhance your working environment in less intrusive ways.He uses spellcheck as an obvious example, providing underlines for incorrectly spelt words, and then suggests his AI-implemented custom debugging UI as a more ambitious implementation of that pattern.
Plenty of people have expressed interest in LLM-backed interfaces that go beyond chat or editor autocomplete. I think HUDs offer a really interesting way to frame one approach to that design challenge.
Tags: design, design-patterns, ai, generative-ai, llms, geoffrey-litt
theverge.com/cyber-security/707116/iceblock-data-privacy-security-android-version
Back in 2021 a young engineering student named Ken Pillonel modified his own iPhone X to replace the Lightning port with USB-C, which became a small viral sensation. He’s back at it, with a far more ambitious project: iPhone cases with USB-C ports for the last five or so years of models with Lightning ports. He’s produced three batches of cases so far, but is currently sold out.
Even if you’re not interested in buying one of these cases, Pillonel’s video documenting how he brought the concept to fruition is quite clever and fun.
Carlos Greaves, writing for McSweeney’s:
“The president remained steadfast in his novel interpretation of constitutional law.”
“Faced with the choice between clinging to the letter of the law and marching to the beat of his own legal drum, the president chose the latter.”