Reading Log ForMay 18, 2026 (#172)
This week it's a bunch of articles on AI, some economics on the gas tax, some new exoplanet discoveries, and more.
The Internet
- Own Your Web – Issue 18: Curators - Matthias Ott
Technology
- 25 years later, is it time for a new iPod? - Janko Roettgers
AI
- Your AI Use Is Breaking My Brain - Jason Koebler
- The Hottest AI Coding Skill In 2026? Coding Without AI - Jason Gorman
- An Engineer’s Post Protesting Laptop Surveillance Is Going Viral Inside Meta - Paresh Dave
- The UX Designer’s Nightmare: When “Production-Ready” Becomes A Design Deliverable - Carrie Webster
- Software Eats Its Own - Om Malik
- Google’s Prompt AI - Mat Marquis
- 10,000-watt GPU meet 40-watt lump of meat - Dave Rupert
Space
- Astronomers find over ten thousand potential new exoplanets - Philip Plait
- Psyche peeks at Mars before a gravitational rendezvous - Philip Plait
Economics
- Why suspending the gas tax won’t help consumers - Janet Nguyen
Politics
- Trump Wants to Double Production of New Nuclear Weapon Cores - Matthew Gault