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Open letter from more than 60 CEOs of Minnesota-based companies
mnchamber.com
Over 36,500 killed in Iran's deadliest massacre, documents reveal
iranintl.com

Iran International's Editorial Board - More than 36,500 Iranians were killed by security forces during the January 8-9 crackdown on nationwide protests, making it the deadliest two-day protest massacre in history, according to documents reviewed by Iran International's Editorial Board.

Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant
github.com/clawdbot

Your own personal AI assistant. Any OS. Any Platform. The lobster way. 🦞 - GitHub - clawdbot/clawdbot: Your own personal AI assistant. Any OS. Any Platform. The lobster way. 🦞

Scientists identify brain waves that define the limits of 'you'
sciencealert.com

Michael Irving - At what point do "you" end and the outside world begins? It might feel like a weird question with an obvious answer, but your brain has to work surprisingly hard to judge that boundary.

Show HN: A small programming language where everything is pass-by-value
github.com/Jcparkyn
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A simple interpreted programming language where everything is a value - Jcparkyn/herd

Case study: Creative math – How AI fakes proofs
tomaszmachnik.pl
LED lighting undermines visual performance unless supplemented by wider spectra
nature.com

Life evolved under broad spectrum sunlight, from ultraviolet to infrared (300–2500 nm). This spectrally balanced light sculpted life’s physiology and metabolism. But modern lighting has recently become dominated by restricted spectrum light emitting diodes (350–650 nm LEDs). Absence of longer wavelengths in LEDs and their short wavelength dominance impacts physiology, undermining normal mitochondrial respiration that

The '3.5% rule': How a small minority can change the world (2019)
bbc.com

Nonviolent protests are twice as likely to succeed as armed conflicts – and those engaging a threshold of 3.5% of the population have never failed to bring about change.

Canada
jenn.site

I've been visiting the US a lot these days: for work, for conferences, and simply to see friends. Commensurately, I've been also thinking more about what Can...

AI Tribalism
nolanlawson.com

“Heartbreaking: The Worst Person You Know Just Made a Great Point” – ClickHole “When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?” – John Maynard Keynes, paraphr…

Oneplus phone update introduces hardware anti-rollback
consumerrights.wiki
Vimeo's Slow Fade: An Engineer's Front-Row Seat to the Fall of a Web Icon
ben1777.substack.com

Ben - I worked as a staff software engineer for almost three years (2022-2024) at this fallen (but once loved) bedrock of creative online culture. What went wrong?

Yes, It's Fascism
theatlantic.com

Jonathan Rauch - Until recently, I thought it a term best avoided. But now, the resemblances are too many and too strong to deny.

Data Leak Exposes 149M Logins, Including Gmail, Facebook
techrepublic.com

Aminu Abdullahi - A massive unsecured database exposed 149 million logins, raising concerns over infostealer malware and credential theft.

I was right about ATProto key management
notes.nora.codes
The behavioral cost of personalized pricing
digitalseams.com

Recently my wife and I needed to call a car, so out came the apps to compare rideshare prices. There’s always a bit of variation here, but this time was striking. My wife’s Uber app quoted her $28, while mine gave me $47. Same app, time, and place - but two wildly-different prices.  Who k

Spanish track was fractured before high-speed train disaster, report finds
bbc.com

The preliminary report into the crash that left 45 people dead finds evidence of a fracture more than two hours earlier.

First, make me care
gwern.net

Gwern - Writing advice: some nonfiction fails because it opens with background instead of a hook—readers leave before reaching the good material. Find the single anomaly or question that makes your topic interesting, lead with that, and let the background follow once you’ve earned attention.

Show HN: An interactive map of US lighthouses and navigational aids
lighthouses.app
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Isaac Dontje Lindell - Interactive map of 54,000+ active US Coast Guard lighthouses and navigational aids with animated light patterns.

ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data
eff.org

Josh Richman - ICE is using a Palantir tool that uses Medicaid and other government data to stalk people for arrest. This is exactly the kind of data privacy abuse that EFF has been warning about.

FAA institutes nationwide drone no-fly zones around ICE operations
aerotime.aero

Stephen Pope - The FAA has created nationwide moving drone no-fly zones around ICE vehicles and convoys, with criminal penalties for violating the restricted airspace.

White House alters arrest photo of ICE protester, says "the memes will continue"
arstechnica.com

Lawyer calls it "outrageous that the White House would make up stories."

Wall Street Grapples with New Risk: A European Buyers' Strike
bloomberg.com
Using PostgreSQL as a Dead Letter Queue for Event-Driven Systems
diljitpr.net

Diljit - Learn how to use PostgreSQL as a Dead Letter Queue (DLQ) for event-driven systems. Case study from Wayfair showing how to handle failures in Kafka consumers with PostgreSQL.

A macOS app that blurs your screen when you slouch
github.com/tldev

A macOS app that blurs your screen when you slouch. Uses Vision framework for real-time posture detection. - tldev/posturr

Show HN: Netfence – Like Envoy for eBPF Filters
github.com/danthegoodman1
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Contribute to danthegoodman1/netfence development by creating an account on GitHub.

UN declares that the world has entered an era of 'global water bankruptcy'
smithsonianmag.com

Sara Hashemi - We're living beyond our hydrological means and need to focus on long-term recovery, according to a new report

Wine-Staging 11.1 Adds Patches for Enabling Recent Photoshop Versions on Linux
phoronix.com
Iran Protest Death Toll Could Top 30k, According to Local Health Officials
time.com

Kay Armin Serjoie, Roxana Saberi, and Fatemeh Jamalpour  - At least 30,000 people were killed on Jan. 8 and 9 alone, senior officials of the country’s Ministry of Health tell TIME.

Web-based image editor modeled after Deluxe Paint
github.com/steffest

Webbased image editor, modeled after the legendary Deluxe Paint with a focus on retro Amiga file formats: read and write Amiga icon files and IFF ILBM images - steffest/DPaint-js

Alarm overload is undermining safety at sea as crews face thousands of alerts
lr.org

Analysis of more than 40 million alarm-related events shows most alarms offer little operational value, disrupt rest and push crews toward risky workarounds.

Doom has been ported to an earbud
doombuds.com
'Amelia': the AI-generated British schoolgirl, a far-right social media star
theguardian.com

The avatar, created to deter young people from extremism, has been subverted and is breaking out of niche online silos

Show HN: Bonsplit – Tabs and splits for native macOS apps
bonsplit.alasdairmonk.com
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A native macOS tab bar library with split pane support for SwiftUI. 120fps animations, drag-and-drop, keyboard navigation.

Wall Street braced for a private credit meltdown. The risk of one is rising
cnbc.com
Show HN: TUI for managing XDG default applications
github.com/mitjafelicijan
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TUI for managing XDG default applications. Contribute to mitjafelicijan/xdgctl development by creating an account on GitHub.

150k lines of vibe coded Elixir: The good, the bad and the ugly
getboothiq.com

150,000 lines of production Elixir, written entirely by AI. Here's what worked and what didn't.

Video contradicts Trump's claim man killed in Minneapolis was a 'gunman'
theguardian.com

Video evidence reviewed by Guardian shows Alex Pretti, killed by agents in Minneapolis, held a phone, not a gun

Jurassic Park - Tablet device on Nedry's desk? (2012)
therpf.com

What looks like a tablet/ PDA device can be seen on the lefthand side of Nedry's desk. My closest guess is that it is a Motorola Envoy PDA. But, according to Wikipedia, the Motorola Envoy was not released until 1994. Does anyone else have any additional info on what this device is? Maybe it's...

A flawed paper in management science has been cited more than 6k times
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu
German economists push for gold repatriation from U.S. vaults
seekingalpha.com

Germany faces calls to repatriate gold from the Fed as Trump-era uncertainty and geopolitics grow.

The coming war on car ownership?
geohot.github.io

But George, surely you’ll still be allowed to own a car. They aren’t going to make that illegal. Of course they won’t, but they didn’t make general computation illegal either. And yet, who has root on the computer you are reading this on?

Sony Data Discman
huguesjohnson.com
Deutsche Telekom is throttling the internet
netzbremse.de

If you are a customer of Deutsche Telekom and some websites just won't load, then we might have the solution to your problem!

Like digging 'your own grave': The translators grappling with losing work to AI
cnn.com

Lianne Kolirin - While workers worldwide ponder how artificial intelligence might affect their livelihoods, there’s one sector where that question is no longer hypothetical. Machine translation has reduced the amount of work available to human translators and interpreters, and depressed their earnings.

Introduction to PostgreSQL Indexes
dlt.github.io
Hands-On with Two Apple Network Server Prototype ROMs
oldvcr.blogspot.com

Grateful acknowledgement made to the several former Apple employees who materially contributed to this entry. This article wouldn't have bee...

Show HN: AutoShorts – Local, GPU-accelerated AI video pipeline for creators
github.com/divyaprakash0426
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Contribute to divyaprakash0426/autoshorts development by creating an account on GitHub.

World’s most powerful literary critic is on TikTok
newstatesman.com

George Monaghan - Jack Edwards shapes the online world’s reading habits from BookTok. But can he handle his success?

Palantir has no place in UK public services
opendemocracy.net

From ICE to Gaza, Palantir is complicit in violent US hegemony. Why do we keep giving it contracts?

Trump Family's $6.8B Fortune Is Increasingly Tied to Crypto
bloomberg.com
TikTok is officially US-owned for American users, here's what's changing
9to5mac.com

Ryan Christoffel - TikTok’s future in the US has reached a major milestone today, as the new US-owned spinoff for American users has officially launched.

Why is it legal and ok when big corp. straight tries to scam a user?
news.ycombinator.com
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The Responsibility of Intellectuals (1967)
nybooks.com

Noam Chomsky - TWENTY-YEARS AGO, Dwight Macdonald published a series of articles in Politics on the responsibility of peoples and, specifically, the responsibility of

Alex Honnold completes Taipei 101 skyscraper climb without ropes or safety net
cnn.com

Xiaoqian Lin - American climber Alex Honnold summited Taipei 101 with no ropes or safety net. Follow for live updates.

Show HN: VM-curator – a TUI alternative to libvirt and virt-manager
github.com/mroboff
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vm-curator is a fast and friendly TUI to build and manage QEMU/KVM virtual machines in Linux. It does not rely on libvirt, which means 3D acceleration (para-virtualized, not pass-through) works for...

Nvidia-smi hangs indefinitely after ~66 days
github.com/NVIDIA

NVIDIA Open GPU Kernel Modules Version [root@A11-R42-I61-42-5504045 ~]# cat /proc/driver/nvidia/params ResmanDebugLevel: 4294967295 RmLogonRC: 1 ModifyDeviceFiles: 1 DeviceFileUID: 0 DeviceFileGID:...

Second Win11 emergency out of band update to address disastrous Patch Tuesday
windowscentral.com

Another out of band update has been issued to Windows 11 users to address a major bug that caused Outlook to become inoperable after January's disastrous Patch Tuesday updates.

Challenges and Research Directions for Large Language Model Inference Hardware
arxiv.org

Large Language Model (LLM) inference is hard. The autoregressive Decode phase of the underlying Transformer model makes LLM inference fundamentally different from training. Exacerbated by recent AI trends, the primary challenges are memory and interconnect rather than compute. To address these challenges, we highlight four architecture research opportunities: High Bandwidth Flash for 10X memory capacity with HBM-like

OpenAI's GPT-5.2 model cites Grokipedia
engadget.com

A report from the Guardian showed GPT-5.2 citing Grokipedia for very specific and controversial topics.

mRNA cancer vaccine shows protection at 5-year follow-up, Moderna and Merck say
arstechnica.com

The vaccines are tailor-made to target each patient's unique cancer.

Vortex Support in DuckDB
duckdb.org

Guillermo Sanchez, SpiralDB Team - Vortex is a new columnar file format with a very promising design. SpiralDB and DuckDB Labs have partnered to give you a very fast experience while reading and writing Vortex files!

National Guard activated in Minneapolis after Border Patrol agent kills man
apnews.com

Gov. Tim Walz has activated the National Guard after 37-year-old Alex Jeffrey Pretti was shot and killed by a federal officer in Minneapolis, drawing hundreds of protesters.

Stabilized and Slow-Motion Video of the Murder of Alex Pretti
reddit.com/r/evilwhenthe
Two Weeks Until Tapeout
essenceia.github.io

Julia Desmazes - Chronicles of a bad idea. Or how I designed a systolic array with in-silicon debug infrastructure from scratch in under two weeks, and taped it out on Global Foundry 180 nm though a Tiny Tapeout experimental shuttle.

Stochastic Terrorism
en.wikipedia.org
Tesla unsupervised Robotaxis are nowhere to be found
lightbrd.com
Show HN: C From Scratch – Learn safety-critical C with prove-first methodology
github.com/SpeyTech
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Learn to build safety-critical systems in C. Prove first, code second. - SpeyTech/c-from-scratch

Adoption of EVs tied to real-world reductions in air pollution: study
keck.usc.edu

sheilaro - Related News Sweeping review reveals latest evidence on the diagnosis, treatment, and monitoring of ADHD March 25, 2024 Fluoride exposure during pregnancy linked to increased risk of childhood neurobehavioral problems, […]

We X-Rayed a Suspicious FTDI USB Cable
eclypsium.com

Chris Garland - That cheapo cable you bought online? Probably a counterfeit. We x-rayed a suspicious cable to show you exactly what that means, and why counterfeits work worse and wear out faster.

Europe wants to end its dangerous reliance on US internet technology
theconversation.com

Johan Linåker - As the US increases political pressure on Europe, it’s possible to imagine the continent losing access to key computing services.

Amazon braces for another major round of layoffs, 14,000 jobs at risk
mynorthwest.com

MyNorthwest Staff - Amazon is expected to undergo another round of layoffs next week, according to an exclusive report from Reuters.

ICE Releases RFI for User Tracking Tools
wired.com

Caroline Haskins - A new federal filing from ICE demonstrates how commercial tools are increasingly being considered by the government for law enforcement and surveillance.

I don't write code anymore – I sculpt it
jerpint.io

how I'm using ai tools in 2026

We didn't ask for 'smart' cars – so why are we getting them?
autocar.co.uk

Modern car tech does a lots of different things, and not all of them are good

Poland's energy grid was targeted by never-before-seen wiper malware
arstechnica.com

Destructive payload unleashed on 10-year anniversary of Russia's attack on Ukraine's grid.

I added a Bluesky comment section to my blog
micahcantor.com

How I embedded replies from Bluesky directly on my site.

Postmortem: Our first VLEO satellite mission (with imagery and flight data)
albedo.com
Bye Bye Gmail
m24tom.com
Show HN: StormWatch – Weather emergency dashboard with prep checklists
jeisey.github.io
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Agent orchestration for the timid
substack.com

Substack - An exploration of AI agent orchestrators

ICE has killed another person in Minneapolis
theverge.com

Terrence O'Brien - ICE has killed another person in Minneapolis. Footage showing agents shoving a man to the ground and shooting him multiple times is quickly circulating online.

JSON-render: LLM-based JSON-to-UI tool
json-render.dev

Vercel Labs - Let users generate dashboards, widgets, apps, and data visualizations from prompts — safely constrained to components you define.

The Concatative Language XY
nsl.com
BirdyChat becomes first European chat app that is interoperable with WhatsApp
birdy.chat

We are excited to share that BirdyChat is the first chat app in Europe that can exchange messages with WhatsApp under the Digital Markets Act. This is a big step forward for anyone using BirdyChat for work.

Understanding Rust Closures
antoine.vandecreme.net
US Vaccine Panel Chair Says Polio and Other Shots Should Be Optional
nytimes.com
Federal Agents Kill Another Person in Minneapolis Immigration Crackdown
time.com

Rebecca Schneid - The shooting comes two weeks after the killing of Renee Good by an immigration agent in the city, which sparked protests

Raspberry Pi Drag Race: Pi 1 to Pi 5 – Performance Comparison
the-diy-life.com
Gmail Spam Detection Down
google.com
December in Servo: multiple windows, proxy support, better caching, and more
servo.org

The Servo Project Developers - Come along and meet us at FOSDEM 2026 – we’re speaking there too!

Tao Te Ching – Translated by Ursula K. Le Guin
github.com/nrrb

Some English interpretations of Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching. - nrrb/tao-te-ching

US science after a year of Trump: what has been lost and what remains
nature.com

A series of graphics reveals how the Trump administration has sought historic cuts to science and the research workforce.

The future of work when work is meaningless
letters.thedankoe.com

DAN KOE - Money, AI, jobs and specifically, what the future may hold for creatives

ollama launch
ollama.com

ollama launch is a new command which sets up and runs coding tools like Claude Code, OpenCode, and Codex with local or cloud models. No environment variables or config files needed.

Man shot and killed by federal agents in south Minneapolis this morning
startribune.com

Star Tribune staff - A video appears to shows federal agents wrestling a man to the ground then shooting him.

Are we all plagiarists now?
economist.com
Minneapolis Authorities Respond to Shooting Involving ICE Agents
nytimes.com
Ask HN: Gmail spam filtering suddenly marking everything as spam?
news.ycombinator.com
ask
Memory layout in Zig with formulas
raymondtana.github.io

I was recently encouraged to watch A Practical Guide to Applying Data Oriented Design (DoD) by Andrew Kelley, the creator of Zig1. Just 10 minutes into the talk, I was confronted with a skill I had never formally learned… the arithmetic behind memory layout of types. Zig is a modern, C-like programming language which offers a safer, more memory-explicit experience for systems programming, without sacr

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