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Big Tech are the new Soviets
unherd.com
Stop Breaking TLS
markround.com

Mark Dastmalchi-Round - Rant ahead: I hate TLS “Inspection” software with a burning passion and I wish we collectively as an industry would just knock it the fuck off and stop pretending it’s some great security benefit. Every time I encounter it, in whatever form, it’s a gigantic headache that makes everyone’s life worse off and as far as I am concerned offers next to zero tangible benefits.

Revisiting "Let's Build a Compiler"
eli.thegreenplace.net
Are the Three Musketeers allergic to muskets? (2014)
ox.ac.uk
Dependable C
dependablec.org
'Source available' is not open source, and that's okay
dri.es

Dries is the Founder and Project Lead of Drupal and the Co-founder and CTO of Acquia.

Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental
lwn.net

The topic of the Rust experiment was just discussed at the annual Maintainers Summit. The cons [...]

NYC congestion pricing cuts air pollution by a fifth in six months
airqualitynews.com

Paul Day - In its first six months, New York City’s controversial congestion pricing scheme has reduced air pollution by 22% in Manhattan’s toll zone, while improving air quality across the entire metropolitan region, according to new research. The Cornell University study analysed data from 42 air quality monitors throughout the New York area between January 2024 and […]

Atomic time source failure at NIST Gaithersburg campus
groups.google.com
Making macOS Bearable
seg6.space
Cloudflare error page generator
github.com/donlon

Cloudflare error page generator. Contribute to donlon/cloudflare-error-page development by creating an account on GitHub.

The AI-Education Death Spiral a.k.a. Let the Kids Cheat
anandsanwal.me

Anand Sanwal - Your kid is cheating with AI. And that's great. Here’s why we should let it burn.

Post-transformer inference: 224× compression of Llama-70B with improved accuracy
zenodo.org

This paper introduces the first verified method to eliminate transformers from inference while preserving, and in many cases improving, downstream accuracy. We show that a frozen 70-billion-parameter Llama-3.3-70B model can be replaced by a 256-dimensional meaning field extracted from seven internal activation layers. A lightweight compressor (AN1) reduces these fields by 224× with an average +1.81 percentage point g

Rubio Deletes Calibri as the State Department's Official Typeface
nytimes.com
Rubio stages font coup: Times New Roman ousts Calibri
reuters.com
OpenEvolve: Teaching LLMs to Discover Algorithms Through Evolution
algorithmicsuperintelligence.ai
Linux CVEs, more than you ever wanted to know
kroah.com

Greg K-H - It’s been almost 2 full years since Linux became a CNA (Certificate Numbering Authority) which meant that we (i.e. the kernel.org community) are now responsible for issuing all CVEs for the Linux kernel. During this time, we’ve become one of the largest creators of CVEs by quantity, going from nothing to number 3 in 2024 to number 1 in 2025. Naturally, this has caused some questions about how we are both doing all

Qt, Linux and everything: Debugging Qt WebAssembly
qtandeverything.blogspot.com

  One of the most tedious tasks a developer will do is debugging a nagging bug. It's worse when it's a web app, and even worse when its a we...

Go Proposal: Secret Mode
antonz.org

Anton Zhiyanov - Automatically erase memory to prevent secret leaks.

OpenAI Staffers Quit, Alleging Economic Research Is Drifting Into AI Advocacy
wired.com

Maxwell Zeff - Four sources close to the situation claim OpenAI has become hesitant to publish research on the negative impact of AI. The company says it has only expanded the economic research team’s scope.

Django: what’s new in 6.0
adamj.eu
We Need to Die
willllliam.com
Agentic AI Foundation
block.xyz

Block, Anthropic, and OpenAI have launched the Agentic AI Foundation (AAF). Learn about this new non-profit organization dedicated to making agentic AI safe, accessible, and beneficial for everyone.

The Big Vitamin D Mistake [pdf] (2017)
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Australian teens lose access to social media as ban takes effect
bbc.com

The social media accounts of millions of Australians aged under-16 must be deactivated, with companies potentially facing fines for not complying.

10 Years of Let's Encrypt
letsencrypt.org

On September 14, 2015, our first publicly-trusted certificate went live. We were proud that we had issued a certificate that a significant majority of clients could accept, and had done it using automated software. Of course, in retrospect this was just the first of billions of certificates. Today, Let’s Encrypt is the largest certificate authority in the world in terms of certificates issued, the ACME protocol we he

So you want to speak at software conferences?
dylanbeattie.net

An article from dylanbeattie.net

Former Twitter Attorney Files for 'Twitter' Trademark
gerbenlaw.com

Josh Gerben, Esq. - A former Twitter attorney is challenging X Corp.’s “Twitter” and “Tweet” trademarks. This article analyzes the filings and the legal stakes of possible abandonment.

The stack circuitry of the Intel 8087 floating point chip, reverse-engineered
righto.com

Early microprocessors were very slow when operating with floating-point numbers. But in 1980, Intel introduced the 8087 floating-point copro...

Please Don't
hn.algolia.com

Hacker News Search, millions articles and comments at your fingertips.

“The Matilda Effect”: Pioneering Women Scientists Written Out of Science History
openculture.com

Photo via Wikimedia Commons The history of science, like most every history we learn, comes to us as a procession of great, almost exclusively white, men, unbroken but for the occasional token woman—well-deserving of her honors but seemingly anomalous nonetheless. “If you believe the history books,” notes the Timeline series The Matilda Effect, “science is a guy thing.

Show HN: Detail, a Bug Finder
detail.dev
show

Deep scans of your codebase that find bugs you’ll be glad to know about. Security vulnerabilities, data loss, billing mistakes.

How private equity is changing housing
theatlantic.com

Annie Lowrey - In some communities, corporations control more than 20 percent of properties.

If you're going to vibe code, why not do it in C?
stephenramsay.net
PeerTube is recognized as a digital public good by Digital Public Goods Alliance
digitalpublicgoods.net

PeerTube is a tool for hosting, managing, and sharing videos or live streams.

Donating the Model Context Protocol and establishing the Agentic AI Foundation
anthropic.com

Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

Tempo's Testnet Is Live
tempo.xyz

Rachel, Veena, Matt, Veit, Devin, Nick - Today, with the launch of the public testnet, anyone can start building on Tempo.

Launch HN: Mentat (YC F24) – Controlling LLMs with Runtime Intervention
news.ycombinator.com
launch
Bruno Simon – 3D Portfolio
bruno-simon.com

Bruno Simon's creative portfolio

Ask HN: Should "I asked $AI, and it said" replies be forbidden in HN guidelines?
news.ycombinator.com
ask
A supersonic engine core makes the perfect power turbine
boomsupersonic.com

Boom Supersonic - Today, we’re announcing Superpower, our new 42 MW natural gas turbine, along with a $300M funding round and Crusoe as our launch customer.

EU investigates Google over AI-generated summaries in search results
bbc.com

It is examining whether the tech giant did not offer "appropriate compensation" to web publishers.

Apple's slow AI pace becomes a strength as market grows weary of spending
finance.yahoo.com

Through the first six months of 2025, Apple was the second-worst performer among the Magnificent Seven tech giants, as its shares tumbled 18% through the end of June. “It is remarkable how they have kept their heads and are in control of spending, when all of their peers have gone the other direction,” said John Barr, portfolio manager of the Needham Aggressive Growth Fund, which owns Apple shares.

Pebble Index 01 – External memory for your brain
repebble.com

Meet Pebble Index 01 - External Memory For Your Brain

Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 hallucinates the HN front page 10 years from now
dosaygo-studio.github.io
show
Kaiju – General purpose 3D/2D game engine in Go and Vulkan with built in editor
github.com/KaijuEngine

General purpose 3D and 2D game engine using Go (golang) and Vulkan with built in editor - KaijuEngine/kaiju

My favourite small hash table
corsix.org
Mistral releases Devstral2 and Mistral Vibe CLI
mistral.ai

State-of-the-art, open-source agentic coding models and CLI agent.

Rahm Emanuel says U.S. should follow Australia's youth social media ban
politico.com
Oliver Sacks Put Himself into His Case Studies. What Was the Cost?
newyorker.com

Rachel Aviv - The scientist was famous for linking healing with storytelling. Sometimes that meant reshaping patients’ reality.

JetBrains Cancels Fleet
blog.jetbrains.com

TL;DR Fleet started as our attempt to explore a new generation of JetBrains IDEs, developed in parallel with those based on the IntelliJ Platform. Over time, we learned that having two general-purpose

Mazda suitcase car, a portable three-wheeled vehicle that fits in the luggage
designboom.com

matthew burgos I designboom -  

America Has Become a Digital Narco-State
paulkrugman.substack.com

Paul Krugman - Social media giants have bought our government, and are trying to bully Europe

Where are you supposed to go if you don't care about growth?
ramones.dev

If it wasn't clear, I throw up legalese every night

After the Bubble
tbray.org
Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
forever-wars.com

Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison

Brent's Encapsulated C Programming Rules (2020)
retroscience.net

Brent Farris - A bunch of tips and rules I’ve created for myself for developing programs in the C programming language

Richard Stallman on ChatGPT
stallman.org
Show HN: AlgoDrill – Interactive drills to stop forgetting LeetCode patterns
algodrill.io
show

Master the NeetCode 150 and more with guided pattern blueprints and line-by-line active recall drills.

ZX Spectrum Next on the Internet: Xberry Pi ESP01 and Pi Zero Upgrades
retrogamecoders.com

Chris Garrett - ZX Spectrum Next on Wifi/Internet, plus Pi Zero AcceleratorGetting my ZX Spectrum Next onto Wifi and the Internet, plus Pi Zero Accelerator

Google Maps allocates survival across London's restaurants
laurenleek.substack.com

Lauren Leek - I wanted a dinner recommendation and got a research agenda instead. Using 13000+ restaurants, I rebuild its ratings with machine learning and map how algorithmic visibility actually distributes power.

The Joy of Playing Grandia, on Sega Saturn
segasaturnshiro.com

The Renaissance Period We are living through a Saturn renaissance. Buckets of titles previously locked away in Japan are seeing new audiences, thanks to the herculean efforts of small but dedicated…

30 Year Anniversary of WarCraft II: Tides of Darkness
jorsys.org
The closer we look at time, the stranger it gets
sciencefocus.com

Ling Thomas - The closer we look at time, the stranger it gets

Modern Walkmans
walkman.land

List of modern, post-mp3, current Walkmans cassette players

$30M military wreath charity buys solely from its founders' farm (2023)
militarytimes.com

About 60,000 volunteers are expected at Arlington National Cemetery on Saturday for this year’s wreath layings.

The Lost Machine Automats and Self-Service Cafeterias of NYC (2023)
untappedcities.com

Revisit the lost automats and cafeterias of New York City, self service restaurants that offered New Yorkers a place to socialize and eat!

Scientific and Technical Amateur Radio
destevez.net
Horses: AI progress is steady. Human equivalence is sudden
andyljones.com

Andy Jones - AI progress is steady. Human equivalence is sudden.

The Military Almost Got the Right to Repair. Lawmakers Just Took It Away
wired.com

Boone Ashworth - The final language of the annual bill that funds the US military is in. It removes provisions that would have helped ensure service members’ ability to fix their own equipment.

The universal weight subspace hypothesis
arxiv.org

We show that deep neural networks trained across diverse tasks exhibit remarkably similar low-dimensional parametric subspaces. We provide the first large-scale empirical evidence that demonstrates that neural networks systematically converge to shared spectral subspaces regardless of initialization, task, or domain. Through mode-wise spectral analysis of over 1100 models - including 500 Mistral-7B LoRAs, 500 Vision

Manual: Spaces
type.today
Kroger acknowledges that its bet on robotics went too far
grocerydive.com

The retailer’s decision to close three automated fulfillment centers reflects the stark changes in grocery e-commerce that have taken place in the years since it launched its partnership with Ocado.

It's ~2026 –. ChatGPT still doesn't allow email change
help.openai.com
Show HN: I built a system for active note-taking in regular meetings like 1-1s
withdocket.com
show
Doctors' estimates of the feasibility of preserving the dying for future revival
medrxiv.org

Importance: Terminally ill patients sometimes inquire about preservation procedures (e.g. cryopreservation, aldehyde-based fixation) as end-of-life treatment options, yet physician perspectives on feasibility and ethical acceptability remain uncharacterized. Objective: To assess US physicians' estimates of preservation feasibility, views on interventions to improve outcomes, and positions on ethical and legal framewo

Running on Empty: Copper
thehonestsorcerer.substack.com

The Honest Sorcerer - How peak copper arrived and went completely unnoticed

Tesla Optimus robot takes a suspicious tumble in new demo
electrek.co

Fred Lambert - A new video surfacing from a Tesla demonstration in Miami this weekend shows the Optimus humanoid robot taking a nasty...

Delivery robots take over Chicago sidewalks
blockclubchicago.org

Alec Karam - As companies dispatch more of the app-based food delivery robots into neighborhoods, some Chicagoans are sounding the alarm, citing safety and accessibility concerns.

Nearly 60% of Last Year's Graduates Still Haven't Landed Their First Job
finance.yahoo.com
Washington state Medicare users could soon have claims denied by AI
kuow.org

Starting Jan. 1, traditional Medicare recipients in Washington state will face a new hurdle to get certain procedures covered — private AI companies that get paid based on how many claims they deny.

Europe Is Under Siege
noahpinion.blog

Noah Smith - Menaced by Russia and China, abandoned by America.

Google Tells Advertisers It'll Bring Ads to Gemini in 2026
adweek.com

The discussions mark the first time advertisers have heard directly from Google about monetizing its Gemini AI chatbot

GitHub no longer uses Toasts
primer.style

GitHub no longer uses toasts because of their accessibility and usability issues.

Icons in Menus Everywhere – Send Help
blog.jim-nielsen.com
Cancer is surging, bringing a debate about whether to look for it
nytimes.com
Tech elites are starting their own for-profit cities
ft.com

They want to escape from regulation and ‘failing’ democracy — but are they more opportunistic than libertarian?

Trials avoid high risk patients and underestimate drug harms
nber.org
Has the cost of building software dropped 90%?
martinalderson.com

Agentic coding tools are dramatically reducing software development costs. Here's why 2026 is going to catch a lot of people off guard.

Texas traffic stop reveals pitfalls of police surveillance Intel
houstonchronicle.com
Jepsen: NATS 2.12.1
jepsen.io
NVIDIA frenemy relation with OpenAI and Oracle
philippeoger.com
Quanta to publish popular math and physics books by Terence Tao and David Tong
simonsfoundation.org

New offerings from Quanta Books will invite readers on a tour of transformational ideas that have shaped our modern understanding of the universe.

AI should only run as fast as we can catch up
higashi.blog
We collected 10k hours of neuro-language data in our basement
condu.it
Indexing 100M vectors in 20 minutes on PostgreSQL with 12GB RAM
blog.vectorchord.ai
Show HN: DuckDB for Kafka Stream Processing
sql-flow.com
show

Create a stream processor that reads data from Kafka in less than 5 minutes.

Launch HN: Nia (YC S25) – Give better context to coding agents
trynia.ai
launch
Microsoft has a problem: lack of demand for its AI products
windowscentral.com

A new report details how Microsoft has cut some internal goals for AI sales, why? Nobody wants to use its weak products.

A series of tricks and techniques I learned doing tiny GLSL demos
blog.pkh.me

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