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First time in a Briefing. Two or more votes in the last 24 hours.

Culture

  1. The 100,000 whys of AI (lcamtuf’s thing)
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    One of the most painful arguments I keep having with fellow techies is the question of whether you can distinguish between human-written and AI-generated text.

Life

  1. prettiest girl today (Imperfect)
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    Earlier this month, I discovered more Bear blogs that I haven't seen before via the platform's Random blog link feature. Compared to those found via the Random…

  2. Week 25 (Happily Imperfect)
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    📝 Life Notes 📚 Books 📰 Articles 📺 Media 🎧 Music 🫀 Health 🗓️ Next WeekThanks for reading and keeping RSS alive. Visit my site for more.

  3. My blogger archetype (Robert Birming)
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    I took James' cool little Blogger Archetype Quiz. I expected to get some cheeky reply like: "Your dreams are made of markdown and your laptop has enough…

  4. A Day of Rest for Me (Forking Mad+)
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    Hello follower(s?), I'm just checking into say I have been crazy busy for several days -- hardly a moment on the information super highway. I've been away a…

Tech

  1. Too much Friction on the Internet (Forking Mad+)
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    I'm old enough to have seen the Internet become a thing. From the early days of simple emails and web pages, and squealing dial-up modems connecting to the…

  2. eipi.boo: confessions over ssh (pwnwriter.me)
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    Made an anonymous confession board that lives in your terminal. Go ahead and post your confession 🫶🏼 $ ssh eipi.boo

  3. Nominations for Tiny Awards, for personal web projects, open now (disassociated.com)
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    Nominations for the 2026 Tiny Awards, are being accpted until the end of the month, June. Entry is open to websites of a non-commercial and/or personal nature,…

  4. Development dependencies considered harmful (Henri Bergius)
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    Time is a precious resource for open source maintainers, especially if you aren’t doing it as part of paid work. The constant churn of changing development…

  5. QWeuRTY: the truly pan-European QWERTY layout (Z1NZ0L1N)
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    If you don’t speak French, you might never have heard of the AZERTY keyboard — the weird cousin of QWERTY with its shifted number row and a scattering of…

Writing

  1. Horror and Romance as mirror genres (Tracy Durnell's Mind Garden)
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    I’ve been thinking about genre again, pondering Romance and horror as two sides of a coin. I compared notes* with a friend who reads a lot of horror, and we…

  2. Fairfly (ege's weblog)
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    Yesterday we saw the new play by our comrades in Antrakt7: Fairfly. It’s a play written by the Catalan author Joan Yago which tells the story of four…

Still Bubbling

Already featured in a Briefing before. Two or more votes in the last 24 hours.

  1. “Outlaw Billionaires” (Multiline Comment)
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  2. Small E-Ink Reader That Changed My Reading Habit (Matthew Bogart)
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  3. The rot is deep at Microsoft (§kuthus)
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  4. 20 steps to living silly-ly (Khoa's Space)
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  5. I wanted Bear Blog, but for my photos (Peter Gombos)
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  6. How to roll dice with cards (Lonely Star)
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  7. Getting away from the algorithm (Antonio Santos)
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  8. Burst: a free (no ads) bubble shooter game for iPhone (Mijndert Stuij)
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  9. Hi Hackernews (Happily Imperfect)
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  10. the girly wellness aesthetic as a white supremacist dog whistle (ava's blog)
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  11. Where to Find the Colors Your Screen Can’t Show You (Ryan Moulton)
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  12. Totoro Hand-Carved Eraser Stamp (Evermore Stud.io)
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  13. Handwritten blog (V.H. Belvadi)
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  14. MBook -- a proposal for a new, simple e-book format based on Markdown (Kevin Boone)
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  15. Nobody clicks your share buttons (Ankur Sethi's Lab Notebook)
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  16. Appreciation for the small web (jola.dev)
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Tiny Bubbles

Fresh posts with exactly one vote in the last 24 hours.