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Bill to Eliminate H-1B Visa Program Introduced in Congress
newsweek.com

The bill introduced by Marjorie Taylor Greene would amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to eliminate the H-1B visa program.

On the slow death of scaling
papers.ssrn.com
Microsoft probably killed my Snapdragon Dev Kit
jasoneckert.github.io
White House Posts False Jan. 6 Narrative on Riot's 5th Anniversary
nytimes.com
The data center boom is concentrated in the U.S.
spectrum.ieee.org

The U.S. is set to dominate the global data center landscape, but can the power grid handle the surge?

Most websites don't need cookie consent banners
block81.com

Learn why most websites don't need cookie consent banners and how privacy-first design can improve user experience while simplifying compliance with GDPR…

PassSeeds – hijacking Passkeys to unlock new cryptographic use cases
backalleycoder.com

Daniel Buchner - An exploration in using Passkeys as generalized cryptographic seed material to address new use cases, while inheriting the benefits of cross-device synced keys with native biomentric UX.

We recreated Steve Jobs's 1975 Atari horoscope program
blog.adafruit.com
Electronic nose for indoor mold detection and identification
advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Show HN: SMTP Tunnel – A SOCKS5 proxy disguised as email traffic to bypass DPI
github.com/x011
show

A high-speed covert tunnel that disguises TCP traffic as SMTP email communication to bypass Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) firewalls. - x011/smtp-tunnel-proxy

Why the trans flag emoji is the 5-codepoint sequence it is
hecate.pink

a tale about a young transgender intern

Ruby Array Pack Bleed
nastystereo.com
Hyundai Introduces Its Next-Gen Atlas Robot at CES 2026 [video]
youtube.com
Are we tired of social media? (2025)
danielbrendel.com

Daniel Brendel - I've been asking this question to myself a few times now. When ...

US discussing options to get Greenland, incl use of military, says White House
bbc.co.uk

It came as European allies rallied behind Denmark after renewed US insistence it must have Greenland.

CES 2026: Taking the Lids Off AMD's Venice and MI400 SoCs
chipsandcheese.com

George Cozma - Here at CES 2026, AMD showed off their upcoming Venice series of server CPUs and their upcoming MI400 series of datacenter accelerators.

Tesla's full 2025 data from Europe is in, and it is a total bloodbath
electrek.co

Fred Lambert - The data is in for Tesla’s full year 2025 in Europe, and frankly, it’s a bloodbath across most major markets....

U.S. Attack to Seize Greenland Would End NATO, Danish Prime Minister Says
nytimes.com
Comparing AI agents to cybersecurity professionals in real-world pen testing
arxiv.org

We present the first comprehensive evaluation of AI agents against human cybersecurity professionals in a live enterprise environment. We evaluate ten cybersecurity professionals alongside six existing AI agents and ARTEMIS, our new agent scaffold, on a large university network consisting of ~8,000 hosts across 12 subnets. ARTEMIS is a multi-agent framework featuring dynamic prompt generation, arbitrary sub-agents, a

Oral microbiome sequencing after taking probiotics
blog.booleanbiotech.com
A 30B Qwen model walks into a Raspberry Pi and runs in real time
byteshape.com

ByteShape's device-optimized release showing superior TPS-quality tradeoffs across edge and datacenter hardware.

White House unveils webpage saying Democrats 'staged the real insurrection'
thehill.com
Calling All Hackers: How money works (2024)
phrack.org

Click to read the article on phrack

How to Be Less Awkward
experimental-history.com

Adam Mastroianni - a three-part treatment for a near-universal affliction

Self hosting my media library with Jellyfin and Wireguard on Hetzner
layandreas.github.io

Andreas Lay - Self hosting my media library with Jellyfin & Wireguard on Hetzner

Stop Doom Scrolling, Start Doom Coding: Build via the terminal from your phone
github.com/rberg27

A guide for how to use your smartphone to code anywhere at anytime. - GitHub - rberg27/doom-coding: A guide for how to use your smartphone to code anywhere at anytime.

High-Performance DBMSs with io_uring: When and How to use it
arxiv.org

We study how modern database systems can leverage the Linux io_uring interface for efficient, low-overhead I/O. io_uring is an asynchronous system call batching interface that unifies storage and network operations, addressing limitations of existing Linux I/O interfaces. However, naively replacing traditional I/O interfaces with io_uring does not necessarily yield performance benefits. To demonstrate when io_uring d

Google will now only release Android source code twice a year
androidauthority.com

Instead of four times a year, Google will now only release Android source code to AOSP twice a year, once in Q2 and again in Q4.

Video Game Websites in the early 00s
webdesignmuseum.org
Show HN: Jax-JS, array library in JavaScript targeting WebGPU
ss.ekzhang.com
show

Eric - JAX in pure JavaScript, as a flexible machine learning library and compiler.

Passing of Joe Mancuso
github.com/MasoniteFramework

Good morning Masonite community, I regret to inform you all that @josephmancuso has passed away due to health complications. Please keep his family in your thoughts during this time. I had the priv...

Creating a bespoke data diode for air‑gapped networks
nelop.com

Neil - Learn how we developed a data diode using Raspberry Pi and opto couplers to extract syslog information from air-gapped networks.

Hierarchical Autoregressive Modeling for Memory-Efficient Language Generation
arxiv.org

Transformers operate as horizontal token-by-token scanners; at each generation step, the model attends to an ever-growing sequence of token-level states. This access pattern increases prefill latency and makes long-context decoding increasingly memory-bound, as KV-cache reads and writes dominate inference throughput rather than arithmetic computation. We propose Parallel Hierarchical Operation for Top-down Networks (

Locating a Photo of a Vehicle in 30 Seconds with GeoSpy
geospy.ai

This is just a short description for your post which you can edit depending on your needs via the Framer CMS.

Dude, where's my supersonic jet?
rationaloptimistsociety.substack.com

Stephen McBride - 3 innovators reimagining how we fly

Launch HN: Tamarind Bio (YC W24) – AI Inference Provider for Drug Discovery
news.ycombinator.com
launch
Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far
burkeholland.github.io

Three months ago I would have dismissed claims that AI could replace developers. Today, after using Claude Opus 4.5, I believe AI coding agents can absolutely replace developers.

Co-founder Joe Lonsdale: Palantir was founded to kill communists
twitter.com
Volkswagen Brings Back Physical Buttons
caranddriver.com

The new ID. Polo's interior is full of buttons on the steering wheel and dash, previewing a return to physical switchgear for future Volkswagens.

Show HN: Stash – Sync Markdown Files with Apple Notes via CLI
github.com/shakedlokits
show

Bidirectionally sync Markdown files with Apple Notes. - shakedlokits/stash

Why Big Companies Keep Failing: The Stack Fallacy (2016)
techcrunch.com

Anshu Sharma - Stack fallacy has caused many companies to attempt to capture new markets and fail spectacularly. When you see a database company thinking apps are easy, or a VM company thinking big data is easy  -- they are suffering from stack fallacy. Stack fallacy is the mistaken belief that it is trivial to build the layer above yours.

Loongarch Improvements with Box64
box86.org

Happy new year, and happy new release of Box64! The new version brings a ton of new enhancements and fixes to all 3 supported platforms, with Steam running not only on Arm64, but also on RiSC-V and on Loongarch! And this is the Linux version of Steam, not the Windows one (but the Windows one...

Raspberry Pi and mini PC home lab prices hit parity as DRAM costs skyrocket
tomshardware.com

Building your own homelab has just become more expensive

Why is the Gmail app 700 MB?
akr.am

Mohamed Akram - The current state of app bloat.

Vietnam bans unskippable ads
saigoneer.com

If things go our way, YouTube’s notorious unskippable ads might be a thing of the past come this February. ...

Ask HN: Any Microsoft employees/devs here? What's happening to Microsoft?
news.ycombinator.com
ask
Heavy Truck Sales Collapsed in Q4; Down 32.5% Year-over-Year in December
calculatedriskblog.com

This graph shows heavy truck sales since 1967 using data from the BEA. The dashed line is the December 2025 seasonally adjusted annual sales...

The big regression
world.hey.com

My folks are in town visiting us for a couple months so we rented them a house nearby. It’s new construction. No one has lived in it yet. It’s amped up with state of the art systems. You know, the ones with touchscreens of various sizes, IoT appliances, and interfaces that try too hard. And it’s terrible. What a regression. The lights ...

State of the Fin 2026-01-06
jellyfin.org

Happy New Year and welcome to the State of the Fin!

Mamdani Targets Junk Fees and Hidden Charges in Two Executive Orders
nytimes.com
The skill of the future is not 'AI', but 'Focus' (2025)
carette.xyz

Don't let AI erode your focus.

New Lego smart-play system
lego.com

Introducing the LEGO® SMART Play™ system – made with the creativity of kids in mind. Discover this endlessly responsive evolution to LEGO® play! Find out more here

Gnome and Mozilla Discuss Proposal to Disable Middle Mouse Paste on Linux
linuxiac.com

A long-standing Linux behavior is under threat as GNOME and Mozilla review a proposal to disable middle-mouse paste.

65% of Hacker News posts have negative sentiment, and they outperform
philippdubach.com

Philipp D. Dubach - Analysis of 32,000 HN posts and 340K comments reveals negativity bias correlates with higher engagement. Data, methodology, and full paper available.

High-performance header-only container library for C++23 on x86-64
github.com/kressler

Performance focused header-only container library. Currently primarily contains a fast B+Tree implementation. - kressler/fast-containers

Gemini Protocol Deployment Statistics
obsessivefacts.com
Show HN: Mantic.sh – A structural code search engine for AI agents
github.com/marcoaapfortes
show

The reference implementation of cognitive code search. Zero-read, deterministic context retrieval for AI agents. - marcoaapfortes/Mantic.sh

Why German Strings Are Everywhere?
cedardb.com
Portland's gas-powered leaf blower ban goes into effect
oregonlive.com

For the first two years, gas leaf blowers will be prohibited for nine months out of the year, with the year-round ban starting on Jan. 2028.

Show HN: DDL to Data – Generate realistic test data from SQL schemas
news.ycombinator.com
show
C Is Best (2025)
sqlite.org
Show HN: Prism.Tools – Free and privacy-focused developer utilities
blgardner.github.io
show

BLGardner - Prism.Tools: Standalone web tools for developers. Client-side Formatters, CSS, Security, and Generators. No-install, privacy-focused utilities.

System: Control your Mac from anywhere using natural language
system.surf
AWS raises GPU prices 15% on a Saturday, hopes you weren't paying attention
theregister.com

: An anomaly or the beginning of a new trend? My bet's on the latter

SCiZE's Classic Warez Collection
scenelist.org
Tube trains could navigate the Underground using the rules of Quantum Physics
ianvisits.co.uk

Tube trains of the future may soon know exactly where they are underground -- even in places where GPS is blind -- by tapping into the strange rules of the quantum world.

Mapping Protests in Iran
fdd.org
enclose.horse
enclose.horse

A puzzle game about enclosing horses.

Hacktivist deletes white supremacist websites live onstage during conference
techcrunch.com

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai - A hacker known as Martha Root broke in and deleted three white supremacist websites at the end of a talk during the annual hacker conference Chaos Communication Congress in Germany.

The Post-American Internet
pluralistic.net
A prediction market user made $436k betting on Maduro's downfall
bbc.com

The account placed a $32,000 wager just before Trump announced the Venezuelan leader was in US custody.

Intel Core Ultra Series 3 Debut as First Built on Intel 18A
newsroom.intel.com

Daniela Morescalchi - Intel ushers in the next generation of AI PCs with exceptional performance, graphics and battery life; available this month

Amazon Prime AI overviews can't even get the basics right
news.ycombinator.com
ask
GBC Boot Animation 88×31 Web Button
zakhary.dev
Why agents matter more than other AI
substack.com

Substack - Seven advantages that AI agents have over human employees, and what that means for the future of knowledge work.

I/O is no longer the bottleneck? (2022)
stoppels.ch
LocalFirst: You Keep Using That Word
deobald.ca

If you’ve been following the local-first scene over the past few years, you already know a good definition for the term “local-first” is hard to pin down. Part of the reason is that most people write software for money … and true local-first software is harder to capitalize. “Local-first” is a direct attack on vendor lock-in of all forms: data, formats, protocols, apps, services, and even environments. But the fact y

Pink Power Ranger takes down white supremacist dating sites
thecanary.co

Skwawkbox - The hacker dressed as a Power Ranger - the pink one - deleted 'WhiteDate', which has been nicknamed 'Tinder for Nazis'

Strange.website
strange.website
US-based multinational companies will be exempt from global tax deal
apnews.com

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development has finalized a deal exempting U.S. multinational corporations from paying more corporate taxes overseas.

Donut Lab’s all-solid-state battery delivers 400 Wh/kg of energy density
donutlab.com

The Future of Powering Electric Vehicles Is Here Today with Donut Lab Introducing New High-Performance Solid State Donut Batteries Ready for OEM Use Now and Powering All 2026 Model Verge Motorcycles On the Road in Q1 2026. Always innovating and delivering new forms of electrification, Donut Lab shapes the future of mobility by relentlessly pushing ... Read more

Why didn't AI “join the workforce” in 2025?
calnewport.com

Study Hacks - Exactly one year ago, Sam Altman ​made a bold prediction​: “We believe that, in 2025, we may see the first AI agents ‘join the workforce’ ... Read more

Migrating cells and the new science of microchimerism
nature.com

A tiny population of cells that are passed across the placenta between mother and baby challenge basic tenets of human immunology.

Google broke my heart
perishablepress.com
Keeping Syria connected during war: Surviving ISIS and Intelligence
syriauntold.com
Scientific production in the era of large language models [pdf]
gwern.net
Serious = Suspicious, Shooting with Phone vs. Shooting with Camera
photoni.st
Trump serious about wanting to take over Greenland, says Danish prime minister
theguardian.com

Mette Frederiksen says Denmark and Greenland have made it clear they reject US president’s statements

Boston Dynamics and DeepMind form new AI partnership
bostondynamics.com

A new robotics partnership aims to combine Boston Dynamics’ athletic intelligence with Google DeepMind’s foundational capabilities

There were BGP anomalies during the Venezuela blackout
loworbitsecurity.com

The Low Orbit Security Radar is a weekly security newsletter from an offensive practitioner's perspective. One idea, curated news, and links worth your time. News: There Were BGP Anomalies During The Venezuela Blackout When watching the situation in Venezuela unfold, the phrase "It was dark, the lights of Caracas were

Getting off US tech: a guide
disconnect.blog

I’m in the process of dropping US tech services. Here’s how I did it, and options you should consider.

A year of clean energy milestones
e360.yale.edu
Pentagon moves to punish Democratic senator over 'seditious video'
bbc.com

Arizona Senator and former Navy captain Mark Kelly had urged service members to refuse unlawful orders following US strikes on alleged drug-trafficking boats.

Novo Nordisk launches Wegovy weight-loss pill in US, triggering price war
theguardian.com

First and only GLP-1 pill on the market costs significantly less than injectable versions

That viral Reddit post about food delivery apps was an AI scam
theverge.com

Elissa Welle - AI slop comes for Reddit.

Refactoring – Not on the backlog (2014)
ronjeffries.com
All of Apple's services are abysmal
coryd.dev

Cory Dransfeldt - All of them. Seriously. Except iMessage. Everything else? They range from mediocre to outright unusable and none of them are reliable. [I've written about Apple Music.](/posts/2022/apple-music-a-tale-of-woe/) That one launched and cost me a phone battery. Duplicate tracks, halting playback and heat.

X blames users for Grok-generated CSAM; no fixes announced
arstechnica.com

Critics call for App Store ban after Grok sexualized images of minors.

Pipe Dreams – The life and times of Yahoo Pipes (2023)
retool.com

In 2007, a small team at Yahoo! briefly changed how we program the internet. This is their story.

Gatekeepers of Law: Inside the Westlaw and LexisNexis Duopoly
thebignewsletter.com

Tom Blakely - Ever since a spate of mergers in the 1990s, Westlaw and LexisNexis have dominated legal research. And that might be why searching legal cases is so costly, even in the age of AI.

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