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OneDrive just deleted all of my files
twitter.com
North Dakota law lists fake critical minerals based on coal lawyers' names
bismarcktribune.com

JACOB ORLEDGE North Dakota Monitor - A landmark North Dakota law approved last year accidentally lumped in two fake names in a list of critical minerals that appear to be inspired by coal company lawyers who

Eurostar AI vulnerability: When a chatbot goes off the rails
pentestpartners.com

Alex Wallace -   TL;DR  Introduction  I first encountered the chatbot as a normal Eurostar customer while planning a trip. When it opened, it clearly told me that “the answers in this chatbot are generated by AI”, which is good disclosure but immediately raised my curiosity about how it worked and what its limits were. Eurostar publishes a […]

Why does a least squares fit appear to have a bias when applied to simple data?
stats.stackexchange.com

I used python to generate a correlated data set for testing, and then plotted a basic linear least-squares fit. The result looked a bit strange to me, because the line doesn't really seem to pass &...

Show HN: Terminal UI for AWS
github.com/huseyinbabal
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Terminal UI for AWS (taws) - A terminal-based AWS resource viewer and manager - huseyinbabal/taws

I changed my personality in six weeks
bbc.com

Based on emerging research showing people can shift their core personality traits, Laurie Clarke tried tweaking hers. Here's what happened.

Server-rendered multiplayer games with Lua (no client code)
cleoselene.com
Claude Code On-the-Go
granda.org

Ideas and notes

Agentic Patterns
github.com/nibzard

A curated catalogue of awesome agentic AI patterns - nibzard/awesome-agentic-patterns

Stop Forwarding Errors, Start Designing Them
fast.github.io

We develop fast Rust crates and release them fast.

NSFW Acronyms for Programmers (Free eBook)
github.com/fristovic

Programming books don’t have to be boring. Or polite. - fristovic/naughty-words-every-programmer-should-know

"Microslop" trends on social media
windowscentral.com

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella penned an AI-heavy blog post to close out 2025, leading to widespread mockery and a brand new moniker for the big M.

Venezuela's interim government says it is united behind Maduro
reuters.com
Ripple, a puzzle game about 2nd and 3rd order effects
ripplegame.app

Ripple Game - Trace the domino effect of historical events. Test your knowledge and predict what happened next. New puzzle every day!

Microsoft CEO resorts to blogging in defense of AI
gamesradar.com

Surely it works this time

Lessons from 14 Years at Google
addyosmani.com

Addy Osmani - Lessons learned from 14 years of engineering at Google, focusing on what truly matters beyond just writing great code.

Anti-aging injection regrows knee cartilage and prevents arthritis
scitechdaily.com

A treatment that blocks an age-related protein restored cartilage in aging and injured joints by reprogramming existing cells rather than using stem cells. Researchers at Stanford Medicine report that blocking a protein linked to aging can restore cartilage that naturally wears away in the knees

How I archived 10 years of memories using Spotify
notes.xdavidhu.me

David Schütz - David's notes.

Neurodivergent Brains Build Better Systems (2025)
blog.drjoshcsimmons.com

Dr. Josh C. Simmons - A former manager once described me as a “purist”.

Show HN: An interactive guide to how browsers work
howbrowserswork.com
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Web development is fun again
ma.ttias.be

Mattias Geniar - AI tools brought me back to levels of productivity I haven't felt in years. Web development is fun again.

AI sycophancy panic
github.com/firasd

Conversational AI benchmark. Contribute to firasd/vibesbench development by creating an account on GitHub.

The Unbearable Joy of Sitting Alone in a Café
candost.blog

Hunting timeless insights into humans and software and helping others on the way.

Street Fighter II, the World Warrier (2021)
fabiensanglard.net
Cold-blooded software (2023)
dubroy.com
Using Hinge as a Command and Control Server
mattwie.se

Matt Wiese - A proof of concept demonstrating how to use the Hinge dating app as a C2.

Understanding the bin, sbin, usr/bin, usr/sbin split (2010)
lists.busybox.net
Nike's Crisis and the Economics of Brand Decay
philippdubach.com

Philipp D. Dubach - Economic analysis of Nike's crisis: how complementary assets, path dependency, and strategic misalignment destroyed competitive advantage.

Jeffgeerling.com has been migrated to Hugo
jeffgeerling.com

Since 2009, this website has run on Drupal. Starting with Drupal 6, and progressing through major site upgrades and migrations to 7, 8, 9, and 10, I used the site as a way to dogfood the same CMS (Content Management System) I used in my day job for over a decade. But as time progressed—especially after completing a grueling upgrade from Drupal 7 to 8—my enthusiasm for maintaining what's now a more enterprise-focused

Moiré Explorer
play.ertdfgcvb.xyz
US attack on Venezuela raises fears of future Greenland takeover
theguardian.com

Danish ambassador posts ‘friendly reminder’ about defence ties after provocative Maga post over territory

YouTube Playlist Downloader
github.com/Linuxmaster14

A simple, powerful Bash script to batch download and organize YouTube playlists by channel name. - Linuxmaster14/yt-playlist-downloader

Nightshade: Make images unsuitable for model training
nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu
FreeBSD Home NAS, part 3: WireGuard VPN, routing, and Linux peers
rtfm.co.ua

setevoy - Setting up WireGuard VPN on FreeBSD 14.3: PF firewall, routing between networks, and peer-to-peer VPN between FreeBSD and Arch Linux

OpenTTD 15.0
openttd.org
JavaScript engines zoo – Compare every JavaScript engine
zoo.js.org
Maybe comments should explain 'what' (2017)
hillelwayne.com

People say “Comments should explain why, not what.” I feel like starting a flame war today so I’m going to argue that comments should explain ‘what’ too. Please don’t use this as justification to write bad code, okay? Okay. First of all, why shouldn’t comments explain ‘what’? If you need comments to explain what’s going on, it suggests your code is unclear. If I write //weight, radius, price w = 10, r = 9, p = 1 Tha

Was it a billion dollar mistake?
gingerbill.org
VW is bringing physical buttons back to the dashboard with the ID. Polo EV
engadget.com

The ID. Polo and its tactile interior will make its debut in European markets later this year.

The PGP problem (2019)
latacora.com

The PGP problem

The Gentle Seduction (1989)
skyhunter.com
Can I start using Wayland in 2026?
michael.stapelberg.ch

Michael Stapelberg - Wayland is the successor to the X server (X11, Xorg) to implement the graphics stack on Linux. The Wayland project was actually started in 2008, a year before I created the i3 tiling window manager for X11 in 2009 — but for the last 18 years (!), Wayland was never usable on my computers. I don’t want to be stuck on deprecated software, so I try to start using Wayland each year, and this articles outlines what keeps m

Pixoo Sign Client for Ruby
github.com/tenderlove

Pixoo client for Ruby. Contribute to tenderlove/pixoo-rb development by creating an account on GitHub.

Corundum – open-source FPGA-based NIC and platform for in-network compute
github.com/corundum

Open source FPGA-based NIC and platform for in-network compute - corundum/corundum

Neural Networks: Zero to Hero
karpathy.ai
Show HN: Claude Reflect – Auto-turn Claude corrections into project config
github.com/BayramAnnakov
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A self-learning system for Claude Code that captures corrections, positive feedback, and preferences — then syncs them to CLAUDE.md and AGENTS.md. - BayramAnnakov/claude-reflect

Gershwin-desktop: OS X-like Desktop Environment based on GNUStep
github.com/gershwin-desktop

OS X-like Desktop Environment based on GNUstep. Contribute to gershwin-desktop/gershwin-desktop development by creating an account on GitHub.

Software Craftsmanship Is Dead
pcloadletter.dev
How Thomas Mann Wrote the Magic Mountain
theguardian.com

A vivid account of the creation of one of literary modernism’s greatest achievements

Ask HN: Reading list for being a better engineer?
news.ycombinator.com
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Developing a BLAS Library for the AMD AI Engine [pdf]
uni.tlaan.nl
MyTorch – Minimalist autograd in 450 lines of Python
github.com/obround

Automatic differentiation implemented in python, inspired by Pytorch (easily extensible) - obround/mytorch

The Great Gatsby is the most misunderstood novel (2021)
bbc.com

F Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby is synonymous with glitz and glamour but this is just one of many myths that have surrounded the book since its first publication in April 1925.

SQLNet A social network that looks like Twitter but you write SQL to do anything
sqlnet.cc
Corroded: Illegal Rust
github.com/buyukakyuz

Illegal rust. Contribute to buyukakyuz/corroded development by creating an account on GitHub.

KDE onboarding is good now
rabbitictranslator.com
Pickle 1 AR Glasses (YC W25) May Be Fraudulent
twitter.com
Finance Industry Eyes Investment Opportunities in Venezuela
wsj.com
Swift on Android: Full Native App Development Now Possible
docs.swifdroid.com
The suck is why we're here
nik.art

Nik - On a catchup call, I told my friend Nick Wignall how someone had trained an AI model to write blog posts in my style. It was a pure research exercise on their part. The idea was to train the tool on my past work, then give it the headlines and opening paragraphs of my 2025 […]

China DRAM Maker CXMT Targets $4.2B IPO as It Takes on Samsung, SK Hynix, Micron
ic-pcb.com
The Riven Diffs – Seeing Riven (1997) Differently
glthr.com
Advanced Rail Energy Storage of North America
aresnorthamerica.com

The Power of Gravity on ARES North America…

Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time
data.stackexchange.com
Take One Small Step
thinkhuman.com

James Gill - Think smaller–then act.

Scaling Latent Reasoning via Looped Language Models
arxiv.org

Modern LLMs are trained to "think" primarily via explicit text generation, such as chain-of-thought (CoT), which defers reasoning to post-training and under-leverages pre-training data. We present and open-source Ouro, named after the recursive Ouroboros, a family of pre-trained Looped Language Models (LoopLM) that instead build reasoning into the pre-training phase through (i) iterative computation in latent space,

Busy Is the New Stupid
cisotradecraft.com

"Busy is the New Stupid" is an interactive dashboard applying the MITRE ATT&CK framework to productivity. It treats cognitive drains like meeting overload as threats across phases like Initial Access and Impact, offering tactical defense strategies to combat busyness and restore strategic focus.

Show HN: Vibe Coding a static site on a $25 Walmart Phone
stetsonblake.com
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$25 Walmart Phone for Hackers - Stetson Blake.md

As deep-sea mining race ramps up, mission will assess whether ecosystems recover
science.org
Report: Microsoft kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 without internet
neowin.net
Bluesky is not the good place
ms.now

Zeeshan Aleem - The social media site that many sought as an alternative to X fosters groupthink and pointless activism.

Xr0 verifier, guarantee the safety of C programs at compile time
xr0.dev
The C3 Programming Language
c3-lang.org

C3 is a programming language that builds on the syntax and semantics of the C language, with the goal of evolving it while still retaining familiarity for C programmers.

Cardiovascular disease is a solved problem
totalhealthoptimization.com
The Most Popular Blogs of Hacker News in 2025
refactoringenglish.com

Who were the most popular personal bloggers of 2025, and what made them successful on Hacker News?

Show HN: Offline tiles and routing and geocoding in one Docker Compose stack
corviont.com
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Corviont runs MapLibre UI, vector tiles, Valhalla routing, and SQLite geocoding entirely offline on edge or on-prem devices - with a local map updater shipping next.

Google engineer says Claude Code built in one hour what her team spent a year on
the-decoder.com

Matthias Bastian - A senior Google engineer publicly praises Anthropic's Claude Code: the tool built in one hour what her team spent a year developing. The quality and efficiency gains exceed anything anyone could have imagined, she says. Plus: Claude Code's creator shares his best workflow tips.

X-Clacks-Overhead
hleb.dev

A small HTTP-header tribute to Sir Terry Pratchett

Recursive Language Models
arxiv.org

We study allowing large language models (LLMs) to process arbitrarily long prompts through the lens of inference-time scaling. We propose Recursive Language Models (RLMs), a general inference strategy that treats long prompts as part of an external environment and allows the LLM to programmatically examine, decompose, and recursively call itself over snippets of the prompt. We find that RLMs successfully handle input

Not for human consumption
vectorculture.substack.com

Somewhere - Grey market peptides have built a parallel pharmaceutical infrastructure under the thinnest regulatory pretense. The data reveals a cultural contradiction that extends far beyond weight loss.

Profiling with Ctrl-C (2024)
yosefk.com
Tally – A tool to help agents classify your bank transactions
tallyai.money

Tally - Automatically categorize bank transactions with AI. Works with Claude, Copilot, and Codex. Open source, local-first, no cloud required.

Trump says U.S. operation captured Venezuela's president Nicolas Maduro
cnbc.com
Late night pizzeria nearby The Pentagon has suddenly surged in traffic
twitter.com
How to Win Friends and Influence People: Unrevised Version
socialskillswisdom.com

Unrevised edition of How to Win Friends And Influence People by Dale Carnegie. Book and audiobook that you can read online. Improve your social skills, negotiation skills, and business dealings. Red pill social skills.

Trump Says Maduro Captured After US Airstrikes Hit Venezuela
bloomberg.com
AI results can be manipulated
ahrefs.com

Mateusz Makosiewicz - I built a fake brand and tricked 8 AI search engines for 2 months. The results show how any real brand can be poisoned, and how to fight back.

Explosions reported in Venezuelan capital Caracas
theguardian.com

Loud noises and low-flying aircraft heard in the Venezuelan capital and a southern part of the city was without power

At least 7 explosions and low-flying aircraft are heard in Venezuela's Caracas
apnews.com

At least seven explosions and low-flying aircraft are heard in Venezuela’s capital, Caracas. It was not immediately clear what was behind the explosions.

Multiple explosions in Venezuela's capital Caracas
cnn.com

A CNN team witnessed several explosions on Saturday night in Caracas, and reported that some areas of the city were without electricity.

Google Skills
skills.google

Google Skills - Learn and earn with Google Skills, a platform that provides free training and certifications for Google Cloud partners and beginners. Explore now.

Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes
reuters.com
Japan joining growing global trend of declining democracy
asahi.com

What is the current status of democracy in the world?

Show HN: uvx ptn, scan a QR, get a terminal in your phone
github.com/lyehe
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Quick n' dirty web terminal tunneling your phone & pc - lyehe/porterminal

IQuest-Coder: A new open-source code model beats Claude Sonnet 4.5 and GPT 5.1 [pdf]
github.com/IQuestLab
Adventure 751 (1980)
bluerenga.blog

COME WITH ME TO COLOSSAL CAVE. WHERE MAGIC ABOUNDS AND TREASURES ARE FOUND. BID YOUR FINGERS FOLLOW YOUR COMMANDS AND I WILL BE YOUR EYES AND HANDS. YET BEWARE THE FIERY DRAGON, FOR HE KNOWS NOT WH…

The Kimwolf Botnet Is Stalking Your Local Network
krebsonsecurity.com
Einstein Probe detects an X-ray flare from nearby star
phys.org
A Basic Just-In-Time Compiler (2015)
nullprogram.com
Proving Liveness with TLA
roscidus.com

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