Summary #1 for 2025-04-30

Hey Alex, it’s 6:54:02 AM!

Time to kick off the day right! Get that exercise in!

• Your 1hr Run at 07:00 is looking great – no rain expected and it’ll be light enough to see where you’re going.
• Don’t forget your Swim later at 17:00.
• You also have a Lanza Camp (Other) training session on the schedule.

Work-wise, you’ve got a few calls:

• Artis retrospective & project check-in at 10:00
• Backend stand-up (Slack #engineering) at 10:30
• Frontend stand-up (Slack #engineering) at 10:45 (Hope Tara’s managed to lift that huge workload from yesterday!)

Wrap up the day with DINNER at 19:00.

Here’s a quick look at some other happenings:

News

• US president celebrates 100 days in office by touting record and blasting foes
• Chris Mason: A wildly unpredictable local elections
• Pakistan claims ‘credible intelligence’ India is planning an imminent military strike
• William and Kate celebrate wedding anniversary on Scottish island
• Harvard head apologises as scathing reports on campus prejudice released
• Five things you need to make it through a power cut
• The Papers: Net zero ‘doomed’ and royals ‘on love island’

Hacker News

• LibreLingo – FOSS Alternative to Duolingo
• Firefox tab groups are here
• I use zip bombs to protect my server
• Only Teslas exempt from new auto tariffs thanks to 85% domestic content rule
• Chain of Recursive Thoughts: Make AI think harder by making it argue with itself
• O3 beats a master-level GeoGuessr player, even with fake EXIF data
• Indian court orders blocking of Proton Mail

Reddit

• World News
  • Canada’s conservative leader Pierre Poilievre loses his own seat in election collapse
  • ‘Our old relationship of integration with the US is now over’: Canadian Prime Minister
  • Canada will ‘never’ yield to Trump’s threats as Prime Minister Carney declares election victory
  • Almost 90% of Ukrainians don’t trust Trump, poll shows
  • Russia rejects Trump’s proposed peace deal
  • Russia has lost over 950,000 soldiers since February 2022
• Technology
  • U.S. Loses $60 Million Fighter Jet After It Slips Off Moving Aircraft Carrier | Pete Hegseth’s headaches continue.
  • White House blasts Amazon over tariff cost report: ‘Hostile and political act’
  • These 4 tech billionaires who attended or donated to Trump’s inauguration lost $194 billion in his first 100 days
  • Tesla won’t have to report as many Level 2 crashes after Trump’s rule change | Tesla represents the bulk of the Level 2 automated crashes to the federal government.
  • Amazon denies it considered listing tariff cost, which prompted WH backlash
  • AI was used to write the California bar exam. The law community is outraged.
• Science
  • High Cannabis Use Linked to Increased Mortality in Colon Cancer Patients
  • AI model predicts adult ADHD using virtual reality and eye movement data. Study found that their machine learning model could distinguish adults with ADHD from those without the condition 81% of the time when tested on an independent sample.
  • Abortion laws after Dobbs decision may accelerate ideological migration in the US. Following the Supreme Court’s decision, people living in states expected to adopt policies contrary to their beliefs reported a lower sense of belonging and greater desire to move to states aligned with their values.
  • Plants and Vegetables Can Breathe In Microplastics Through Their Leaves and It Is Already in the Food We Eat | Leaves absorb airborne microplastics, offering a new route into the food chain.
  • Joint Subreddit Statement: The Attack on U.S. Research Infrastructure
  • America’s Cornfields Could Power the Future—With Solar Panels, Not Ethanol | Small solar farms could deliver big ecological and energy benefits, researchers find.
  • New study has found that news outlets that took part in engagement journalism training reduced their “horse race” political coverage about who is winning or losing elections and produced more substantive work that can help better inform citizens and reduce polarization.
• Uplifting News
  • John Waters Says Trump Will ‘Never Get Rid of Drag’
  • Black female WWII unit Six Triple Eight will receive congressional honor
  • Cycling in City of London rises by more than 50%
  • Power restored in Spain after massive blackout leaves millions stranded
  • The first giant 15 MW turbine is up at Germany’s largest offshore wind farm
  • Pandemic-born charity grows to 1,500+ enlisted volunteers, helping people in need with free lawn care across the U.S.
  • tortoise found a mile from home nine months after going missing