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Sixty-two percent of U.S. commercial honey bee colonies died between June 2024 and January 2025.

USDA researchers detected virus-carrying varroa mites in nearly all the dead colonies.

Every mite tested showed resistance to amitraz, the only remaining effective miticide.

Spegel is a proof-of-concept terminal web browser that fetches HTML and uses an LLM to convert it into markdown for terminal display.

Users can define custom views and prompts to personalize content, such as extracting recipes or simplifying text.

Spegel supports live adjustment of prompts and views during browsing sessions.

OpenFile is a free open source tax tool forked from IRS Direct File.

It runs using Docker and can be launched with a single docker compose command.

The client interface is accessible at localhost:3000/df/file.

Cloudflare has introduced Pay Per Crawl to allow content owners to charge AI crawlers for content access.

Pay Per Crawl uses HTTP 402 responses and integrates with existing web infrastructure for payment-based access.

Publishers can set domain-wide flat pricing and choose to allow, charge, or block specific crawlers.

Rust's static, strong type system enables robust command line interfaces.

The clap crate provides a builder API to parse and validate CLI arguments.

clap's derive feature lets developers declare CLI arguments through Rust types.

Fabrice Bellard has released the original 1990 source code for LZEXE v0.91 under the MIT license.

LZEXE is a DOS executable compressor with its core logic in x86 assembly and a Pascal frontend.

The newly released source can be compared to existing compressor binaries to match the behavior seen in Sonic game data.

More than 80% of email startups fail or get shut down after acquisition.

Email works well with universal, decentralized, battle-tested protocols.

Strong network effects and high switching costs hinder new email apps.

The average rice price in about 1,000 Japanese supermarkets fell to ¥3,920 per 5 kilograms in the week through June 15.

This marks the first time prices have dipped below ¥4,000 since early March and the fourth consecutive weekly decline.

The drop of ¥256 from the previous week is the largest weekly fall since March 2022.

Chris Crawford pursued computer games as genuine art, beginning with the simple social game Gossip and later focusing on Arthurian themes.

He created interactive storytelling platforms—Erasmatron, Storytron, and Siboot—but none attracted users due to their complexity and steep learning curve.

His final self-directed project, Le Morte d’Arthur, succeeded as interactive art but reached only a small audience.

Hooks allow users to run custom shell commands at defined points in Claude Code’s lifecycle.

Common use cases include notifications, code formatting, logging, feedback, and permission enforcement.

Hooks are defined in JSON settings files using matchers to target specific tool events and shell commands to execute.