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CDC staff 'blindsided' as child vaccine schedule unilaterally overhauled
unmc.edu

Washington Post The Trump administration took unprecedented steps to recommend fewer vaccines for children without extensive consultations with career scientists. Vaccine experts at the Centers for…

Oh My Zsh adds bloat
rushter.com

Artem Golubin - Why you might not need Oh My Zsh for your Zsh configuration.

OLED, Not for Me
nuxx.net
Caltrain shows why every region should be moving toward regional rail
hsrail.org
See it with your lying ears
lcamtuf.substack.com

lcamtuf - This blog has a history of answering questions that no one should be asking. Today, we continue that proud legacy.

Washington National Opera Is Leaving the Kennedy Center
nytimes.com
“Erdos problem #728 was solved more or less autonomously by AI”
mathstodon.xyz

Recently, the application of AI tools to Erdos problems passed a milestone: an Erdos problem (#728 https://www.erdosproblems.com/728) was solved more or less autonomously by AI (after some feedback from an initial attempt), in the spirit of the problem (as reconstructed by the Erdos problem website community), with the result (to the best of our knowledge) not replicated in existing literature (although similar resul

Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are cowards
theverge.com

Elizabeth Lopatto - Once you’ve traded your principles for proximity to power, do you even run your own company?

Start your meetings at 5 minutes past
philipotoole.com
Deno has made its PyPI distribution official
github.com/denoland

https://pypi.org/project/deno/ https://github.com/manzt/denop deno is being distributed on pypi for use in python projects. i think this is a really amazing thing that allows deno to be used in mor...

Video filmed by ICE agent who shot Minneapolis woman emerges
bbc.com

The clip shows the chaotic moments before gunfire rang out on a Minneapolis street.

Iran's complete Internet shutdown reaches 24 hours
mastodon.social/@netblocks

Attached: 1 image ⚠️ Update: It has now been 24 hours since #Iran implemented a nationwide internet shutdown, with connectivity flatlining at 1% of ordinary levels. The ongoing digital blackout violates the fundamental rights and liberties of Iranians while masking regime violence ⏱

QtNat – Open you port with Qt UPnP
renaudguezennec.eu
RTX 5090 and Raspberry Pi: Can it game?
scottjg.com

It turns out, you can attach an external GPU to a Raspberry Pi 5. So my natural first question is, can I game on it? Let’s try it out and compare it with some similar computers. For the showdown of crappy gaming computers, we’ll see which of these handles gaming best: Beelink MINI-S13 CPU: 4-core Intel N150 @ 3.6GHz RAM: 16GB DDR4 PCIe: M.2 Gen3 x4 More powerful than the Raspberry Pi 5, but at a similar price point.

Show HN: Rocket Launch and Orbit Simulator
donutthejedi.com
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Code and Let Live
fly.io

How we learned to stop worrying and love writeable root filesystems.

Show HN: EuConform – Offline-first EU AI Act compliance tool (open source)
github.com/Hiepler
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EU AI Act Compliance Tool - Risk classification and bias testing - Hiepler/EuConform

JavaScript Demos in 140 Characters
beta.dwitter.net
Turn a single image into a navigable 3D Gaussian Splat with depth
lab.revelium.studio
Exercise can be nearly as effective as therapy for depression
sciencedaily.com

A large review of studies suggests that exercise can ease depression about as effectively as psychological therapy. Compared with antidepressants, exercise showed similar benefits, though the evidence was less certain. Researchers found that light to moderate activity over multiple sessions worked best, with few side effects. While it’s not a cure-all, exercise may be a powerful and accessible tool for many people.

My article on why AI is great (or terrible) or how to use it
matthewrocklin.com

Matthew Rocklin - Senior engineers are best positioned to benefit from AI. We're good enough to avoid slop, and there's so much we can accomplish. I wouldn't go back.

Show HN: Scroll Wikipedia like TikTok
quack.sdan.io
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Scroll Wikipedia like TikTok.

73% People Detained by ICE Have No Convictions
cato.org
U.S. mandates more foreign travelers to pay $15,000 visa bond deposits
washingtonpost.com
How Markdown took over the world
anildash.com

Anil Dash - A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

Show HN: I made a memory game to teach you to play piano by ear
lend-me-your-ears.specr.net
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Mordenstar - A Simon-style musical ear training game. Listen to melodies and play them back on piano. Practice mode with sheet music notation or play-by-ear mode. MIDI keyboard support.

The Vietnam government has banned rooted phones from using any banking app
xdaforums.com

The purpose of this current thread is to offer a place where people can freely opine, editorialize, complain, and rant about the cat-and-mouse game between Google and those of us who are trying to bypass their PlayIntegrity checks ... and about...

Flock Hardcoded the Password for America's Surveillance Infrastructure 53 Times
nexanet.ai
Cloudflare CEO on the Italy fines
twitter.com
SendGrid isn’t emailing about ICE or BLM – it’s a phishing attack
fredbenenson.com

For the past several months, I’ve been receiving and then ignoring a steady stream of concerning emails from Sendgrid, the popular email delivery service owned by Twilio that I use for sendin…

Latest SteamOS Beta Now Includes Ntsync Kernel Driver
phoronix.com
Cloudspecs: Cloud Hardware Evolution Through the Looking Glass
muratbuffalo.blogspot.com

This paper (CIDR'26) presents a comprehensive analysis of cloud hardware trends from 2015 to 2025, focusing on AWS and comparing it with ot...

DHS Invokes Immigration Enforcement to Justify Gathering Americans' DNA
reason.com

J.D. Tuccille - A proposed rule change would allow the government to routinely gather people's biometric data without a warrant.

Amiga Pointer Archive
heckmeck.de
How to store a chess position in 26 bytes (2022)
ezzeriesa.notion.site

A tool that connects everyday work into one space. It gives you and your teams AI tools—search, writing, note-taking—inside an all-in-one, flexible workspace.

London–Calcutta bus service
en.wikipedia.org
"They Saw a Protest": Cognitive Illiberalism and the Speech-Conduct Distinction [pdf] (2012)
stanfordlawreview.org
Iran vows regime will "not back down" as web blackout continues
cbsnews.com
Kagi releases alpha version of Orion for Linux
help.kagi.com
"If Starmer is successful in banning X in Britain, I will move forward in . . ."
twitter.com
MCP is a fad
tombedor.dev

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Surveillance Watch – A map that shows connections between surveillance companies
surveillancewatch.io

Surveillance Watch is an interactive map revealing the intricate connections between surveillance companies, their funding sources and affiliations.

Grok turns off image generator for most after outcry over sexualised AI imagery
theguardian.com

X to limit editing function to paying subscribers after platform threatened with fines and regulatory action

What happened to WebAssembly
emnudge.dev
European Commission issues call for evidence on open source
lwn.net

The European Commission has opened a 'call for evidence' to help shape its European Open Digita [...]

Mathematics for Computer Science (2018) [pdf]
courses.csail.mit.edu
Do not mistake a resilient global economy for populist success
economist.com
Agonist-Antagonist Myoneural Interface
media.mit.edu

Humans can accurately sense the position, speed, and torque of their limbs, even with their eyes shut. This sense, known as proprioception, allows humans to pr…

The No Fakes Act has a “fingerprinting” trap that kills open source?
reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA
Anthropic blocks third-party use of Claude Code subscriptions
github.com/anomalyco

Description As of a few moments ago, usage of claude max stopped with the following error: I did try to reconnect, but got the same error. Plugins No response OpenCode version 1.1.8 Steps to reprod...

Videos Contradict Trump Administration Account of ICE Shooting in Minneapolis
nytimes.com

An analysis of footage from three camera angles show that the vehicle appears to be turning away from a federal officer as he opened fire.

Show HN: Executable Markdown files with Unix pipes
news.ycombinator.com
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Show HN: Various shape regularization algorithms
github.com/nickponline
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Various shape regularization algorithms. Contribute to nickponline/shreg development by creating an account on GitHub.

Logistics Is Dying; Or – Dude, Where's My Mail?
lagomor.ph

↳ Pony Express Rider, oil painting possibly by Lloyd Branson (1853-1925) In March 1860, William H. Russell established the Overland Express Route, colloquially called the Pony Express, to carry express mail between St. Joseph, Missouri, and California; an area with no colonialist settlements between. Russell failed repeatedly to get funding from the Senate Post Office for the project, as most considered year-round tr

Why I left iNaturalist
kueda.net

Ken-ichi Ueda - After almost 18 years, I left iNaturalist, the product and organization I helped create. I left because I don’t believe the current Leadership team is pointing the product in the right direction, and I don’t think they are managing their talented staff in an empathetic or effective way. If you’d like me to continue working on natural history software, support me on Patreon.

Tumblr removed from Apple App Store over abuse images (2018)
bbc.com

The app was removed from Apple's store after images showing child sexual abuse were discovered.

Why Are Grok and X Still Available in App Stores?
wired.com

Caroline Haskins - Elon Musk’s chatbot has been used to generate thousands of sexualized images of adults and apparent minors. Apple and Google have removed other “nudify” apps—but continue to host X and Grok.

How Hackers Are Fighting Back Against ICE
eff.org

Cooper Quintin - A few enterprising hackers have started projects to do counter surveillance against ICE, and hopefully protect their communities through clever use of technology.

Scientists discover oldest poison, on 60k-year-old arrows
nytimes.com
Embassy: Modern embedded framework, using Rust and async
github.com/embassy-rs

Modern embedded framework, using Rust and async. Contribute to embassy-rs/embassy development by creating an account on GitHub.

Monero Replaced Bitcoin on the Internet's Underground
darknetbible.info
Let's call a murder a murder
daringfireball.net

Caitlin Callenson’s courage in the face of insane danger is just remarkable.

Flint Confirms Biodegradable Paper Batteries Are Now in Production
audioxpress.com

Flint, the Singapore-based company that developed sustainable, cellulose-based, biodegradable, PFAS-free batteries, announced that its technology has entered production and will be available to select strategic partners. Paper batteries are a promising lower-carbon alternative that will benefit most consumer electronics applications. Following the transition from lab-scale development to manufactured cells ready for

Iran Protest Map
pouyaii.github.io
Landline phones cut in parts of Iran, eyewitnesses say
iranintl.com
Richard D. James aka Aphex Twin speaks to Tatsuya Takahashi (2017)
web.archive.org

Richard D. James and Tatsuya Takahashi discuss their collaboration on the Monologue, microtuning, geometry and dreams.

How Terminals Work
how-terminals-work.vercel.app

Learn how terminal emulators and TUIs work through interactive demos. Explore the grid model, escape sequences, keyboard input, and more.

SQL Studio
sql.studio

Modern, fast, and easy to use SQL Client. Enjoy a new era of SQL.

Show HN: A geofence-based social network app 6 years in development
localvideoapp.com
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A new way to connect with the world

Texas court blocks Samsung from tracking TV viewing, then vacates order
bleepingcomputer.com

The State of Texas obtained a short-lived, temporary restraining order (TRO) against Samsung that prohibited the South Korean company from collecting audio and visual data about what Texas consumers are watching on their TVs.

Texas first state to end American bar association oversight of law schools
keranews.org

The Texas Supreme Court on Tuesday finalized a tentative opinion issued in September that no longer requires soon-to-be lawyers to attend a law school accredited by the American Bar Association. The power to approve those law schools now rests with the state's highest civil court.

Memoir by Steve Jobs’ eldest daughter describes ways he was cruel to her (2018)
finance.yahoo.com

It has been well established that the Apple cofounder Steve Jobs often acted like a jerk. The new anecdotes add color to the many stories of how Jobs was mean or rude to employees and business partners. The net effect is that Jobs looks like a truly terrible person.

Sopro TTS: A 169M model with zero-shot voice cloning that runs on the CPU
github.com/samuel-vitorino

A lightweight text-to-speech model with zero-shot voice cloning - samuel-vitorino/sopro

X faces global investigations for deepfake porn of women and minors
boingboing.net

Ellsworth Toohey - X faces investigations in EU, India, France after Grok AI generated explicit deepfakes including images of minors.

How to code Claude Code in 200 lines of code
mihaileric.com
Task-free intelligence testing of LLMs
marble.onl
Google AI Studio is now sponsoring Tailwind CSS
twitter.com
Claude keeps nagging about "Help improve Claude" inspite of previous decline
news.ycombinator.com
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The unreasonable effectiveness of the Fourier transform
joshuawise.com
Ask HN: Is it time for HN to implement a form of captcha?
news.ycombinator.com
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The Trump Administration Says It's Illegal to Record Videos of ICE
reason.com

C.J. Ciaramella - "Violence is anything that threatens them and their safety, so it is doxing them, it's videotaping them where they're at when they're out on operations," Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said.

Fixing a Buffer Overflow in Unix v4 Like It's 1973
sigma-star.at

This blog post shows how to fix a buffer overflow in the su progam of UNIX v4

Show HN: macOS menu bar app to track Claude usage in real time
github.com/richhickson
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Contribute to richhickson/claudecodeusage development by creating an account on GitHub.

IBM AI ('Bob') Downloads and Executes Malware
promptarmor.com

IBM's AI coding agent 'Bob' has been found vulnerable to downloading and executing malware without human approval through command validation bypasses exploited using indirect prompt injection.

Replit founder Amjad Masad isn’t afraid of Silicon Valley
sfstandard.com

“I must apologize to — absolutely nobody”: Replit founder Amjad Masad isn’t afraid of Silicon Valley.

Supernova Remnant Video from NASA's Chandra Is Decades in Making
nasa.gov

A new video shows the evolution of Kepler’s Supernova Remnant using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory captured over more than two and a half decades.

Nvidia Kicks Off the Next Generation of AI with Rubin
nvidianews.nvidia.com

NVIDIA today kickstarted the next generation of AI with the launch of the NVIDIA Rubin platform, comprising six new chips designed to deliver one incredible AI supercomputer.

Chinese AI models have lagged the US frontier by 7 months on average since 2023
epoch.ai

Luke Emberson - Since 2023, every model at the frontier of AI capabilities, as measured by the Epoch Capabilities Index, has been developed in the United States. Over that same period, Chinese models have trailed US capabilities by an average of seven months, with a minimum gap of four months and a maximum gap of 14.

China starts UHV power line: The new 700 km UHV line will transmit 8M kW
switchgear-magazine.com

The new 700 km UHV line will transmit 8 million kilowatts of renewable energy from Inner Mongolia to Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei by 2027.

Ubisoft Shuts Assassin's Creed Developer Studio Just Weeks After It Unionized
ign.com

Ubisoft has shut down its Halifax Studio, just one month after 61 of its 71 workers voted to unionize.

Minnesota officials say they can't access evidence after fatal ICE shooting
pbs.org

An unidentified ICE officer fatally shot a 37-year-old woman in the head on Wednesday while she was in her car in a residential neighborhood south of downtown Minneapolis.

ICE's Tool to Monitor Phones in Neighborhoods
404media.co

404 Media has obtained material that explains how Tangles and Webloc, two surveillance systems ICE recently purchased, work. Webloc can track phones without a warrant and follow their owners home or to their employer.

The Waymo Ojai Will Soon Offer Autonomous Rides Around the U.S.
caranddriver.com

Waymo is gearing up to start adding its new self-driving van, built by Chinese automaker Zeekr, to its fleet of robotaxis in the United States.

Dynamic Large Concept Models: Latent Reasoning in an Adaptive Semantic Space
arxiv.org

Large Language Models (LLMs) apply uniform computation to all tokens, despite language exhibiting highly non-uniform information density. This token-uniform regime wastes capacity on locally predictable spans while under-allocating computation to semantically critical transitions. We propose $\textbf{Dynamic Large Concept Models (DLCM)}$, a hierarchical language modeling framework that learns semantic boundaries from

Digital Red Queen: Adversarial Program Evolution in Core War with LLMs
sakana.ai

Sakana AI - Digital Red Queen: Adversarial Program Evolution in Core War with LLMs

Iran Goes Into IPv6 Blackout
radar.cloudflare.com
An Honest Review of Go (2025)
benraz.dev
Our Changing Planet, as Seen from Space
e360.yale.edu
AI coding assistants are getting worse?
spectrum.ieee.org

One AI coding assistant power user says the tools are hitting a plateau, and some are even declining. What's causing this unexpected twist in tech?

Japanese electronics store pleads for old PCs amid ongoing hardware shortage
tomshardware.com

Old becomes gold in Akihabara Electric Town.

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