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A website to destroy all websites
henry.codes

How to win the war for the soul of the internet, and build the Web We Want.

Linux is good now
pcgamer.com

Now if you don't mind I'm going to delete the root folder and see what happens.

Dell's version of the DGX Spark fixes pain points
jeffgeerling.com
Finland detains ship and its crew after critical undersea cable damaged
cnn.com

Ivana Kottasová - Finland has detained a ship and its crew after a critical undersea telecommunication cable connecting the country to Estonia was damaged Wednesday, Finnish authorities said.

Building an internal agent: Code-driven vs. LLM-driven workflows
lethain.com

When I started this project, I knew deep in my heart that we could get an LLM plus tool-usage to solve arbitrarily complex workflows. I still believe this is possible, but I’m no longer convinced this is actually a good solution. Some problems are just vastly simpler, cheaper, and faster to solve with software. This post talks about our approach to supporting both code and LLM-driven workflows, and why we decided it

Gemini 3.0 Deciphered the Mystery of a Nuremberg Chronicle Leaf's
blog.gdeltproject.org
Memory Subsystem Optimizations
johnnysswlab.com

In this blog I wrote 18 blog posts about memory subsystem optimizations. By memory subsystem optimizations, I mean optimizations that aim at making software faster by better using the memory subsystem. Most of them are applicable to software that works with large datasets; but some of them are applicable to software that works with any… Read

Cameras and Lenses (2020)
ciechanow.ski

Bartosz Ciechanowski - Interactive article explaining how cameras and lenses work.

Autism hasn't increased
marginalrevolution.com

Alex Tabarrok - Autism diagnoses have increased but only because of progressively weaker standards for what counts as autism. The autistic community is a large, growing, and heterogeneous population, and there is a need for improved methods to describe their diverse needs. Measures of adaptive functioning collected through public health surveillance may provide valuable information on functioning and […]

European Space Agency hit again as cybercriminals claim 200 GB data up for sale
theregister.com

: As in past incidents, ESA says the impact was limited to external systems

DHS Says DHS-Certified Real IDs Too Unreliable to Confirm U.S. Citizenship
reason.com

C.J. Ciaramella - It's the punch line to a bad joke that started 20 years ago when Congress passed the REAL ID Act.

Sony PS5 ROM keys leaked – jailbreaking could be made easier with BootROM codes
tomshardware.com

You still won't get a jailbroken PlayStation 5 with this leak, but it will make it easier for hackers to compromise the console's bootloader.

BYD Sells 4.6M Vehicles in 2025, Meets Revised Sales Goal
bloomberg.com
Implementing HNSW (Hierarchical Navigable Small World) Vector Search in PHP
centamori.com
Common Lisp SDK for the Datastar Hypermedia Framework
github.com/fsmunoz

Datastar Common Lisp SDK. Contribute to fsmunoz/datastar-cl development by creating an account on GitHub.

50% of U.S. vinyl buyers don't own a record player
lightcapai.medium.com
Heap Overflow in FFmpeg EXIF
bugs.pwno.io
ACM Is Now Open Access
acm.org
Show HN: OpenWorkers – Self-hosted Cloudflare workers in Rust
openworkers.com
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Build a Deep Learning Library
zekcrates.quarto.pub
iPhone driving macOS 15.6, with native M4 driver partially patched for A18
twitter.com
Python numbers every programmer should know
mkennedy.codes

A cheat sheet of real-world timing and memory numbers to guide performance-sensitive decisions.

2025 Letter
danwang.co

Dan Wang - Corgis, compute, Cold War; Ecclesiastes; ties; Stendhal; humor; Pascal's Wager; deep infrastructure; Germanic obedience; Texas State Fair

iOS allows alternative browser engines in Japan
developer.apple.com
Meta made scam ads harder to find instead of removing them
sherwood.news

Scam ads are big business for Meta....

Bulgaria joins euro area from 1 January
ec.europa.eu

On 1 January 2026, Bulgaria will adopt the euro as its currency, marking an important milestone for the country, for the history of the euro, and for the EU as a whole.

Windows 11 Outperforming Linux on an Intel Arrow Lake H Laptop
phoronix.com
Bluetooth Headphone Jacking: A Key to Your Phone [video]
media.ccc.de

Frieder Steinmetz - Bluetooth headphones and earbuds are everywhere, and we were wondering what attackers could abuse them for. Sure, they can probably do th...

I rebooted my social life
takes.jamesomalley.co.uk

James O'Malley - Some self-help for the New Year

Rust--: Rust without the borrow checker
github.com/buyukakyuz

Rust without the borrow checker. Contribute to buyukakyuz/rustmm development by creating an account on GitHub.

Worlds largest electric ship launched by Tasmanian boatbuilder
theguardian.com

Manufacturer Incat built Hull 096 to run between Buenos Aires and Uruguay, dubbing it the ‘most complex’ project it has ever undertaken

Children and Helical Time
moultano.wordpress.com

If childhood is half of our subjective life, how should that change how we live?

Flow5 released to open source
flow5.tech
Judge to Texas: You Can't Age-Gate the Internet Without Evidence
techdirt.com

Over the summer, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority upended decades of traditional First Amendment standards to say that Texas could put in place an age verification law if that law was inte…

Pixar's True Story
computerhistory.org

hhackford - The true story of Pixar's IPO and the Silicon Valley investment bankers who took a chance on Steve Jobs' passion project.

Nerd: A language for LLMs, not humans
nerd-lang.org
Show HN: BusterMQ, Thread-per-core NATS server in Zig with io_uring
bustermq.sh
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The Delete Act
privacy.ca.gov

State of California - Learn more about DROP. This includes the California Consumer Privacy Act and the Delete Act.

2025: The Year in LLMs
simonwillison.net

Simon Willison - This is the third in my annual series reviewing everything that happened in the LLM space over the past 12 months. For previous years see Stuff we figured out about …

Resistance training load does not determine hypertrophy
physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Scientists unlock brain's natural clean-up system for new treatments for stroke
monash.edu
Warren Buffett steps down as Berkshire Hathaway CEO after six decades
latimes.com

Greg Abel faces the challenge of taking over Berkshire Hathaway from the legendary Warren Buffett this week.

Love your customers
bcantrill.dtrace.org

Note: This was originally published as a LinkedIn post on December 20, 2025. There were many reasons why I left Oracle shortly after it acquired Sun, but first among them: I could not stomach the disdain that Oracle had for its own customers. Sun — for all of its (many!) other faults — loved its customers. I bring this up because I was recently contacted by a former Sun colleague, who had some technical questions abo

All-optical synthesis chip for large-scale intelligent semantic vision
science.org
PyPI in 2025: A Year in Review
blog.pypi.org

A look back at the major changes to PyPI in 2025 and related statistics.

On privacy and control
toidiu.com
Meta created 'playbook' to fend off pressure to crack down on scammers
reuters.com
I canceled my book deal
austinhenley.com

Austin Z. Henley - I've always wanted to write a book, and I was close, but not this time.

Court report detailing ChatGPT's involvement with a recent murder suicide [pdf]
storage.courtlistener.com
Tesla publishes analyst forecasts suggesting sales set to fall
theguardian.com

Tesla endured tough year in part thanks to some consumers’ distaste for Elon Musk’s embrace of rightwing politics

Web Browsers have stopped blocking pop-ups
smokingonabike.com
Stewart Cheifet, creator of The Computer Chronicles, has died
obits.goldsteinsfuneral.com

View Stewart Cheifet's obituary, find service dates, and sign the guestbook.

The Economics of Duke University
dontaylor13.substack.com

Don Taylor - is a hedge fund with a health system, a huge research enterprise & a hobby of college

2025 was a disaster for Windows 11
windowscentral.com

Windows 11 is having its worst year yet, with nonstop bugs, broken updates, and unwanted features pushing users to the breaking point.

2026: The Year of Java in the Terminal?
xam.dk
Scaffolding to Superhuman: How Curriculum Learning Solved 2048 and Tetris
kywch.github.io
The compiler is your best friend
blog.daniel-beskin.com

Daniel Beskin - The compiler is a powerful tool, yet many developers have a painful relationship with it. Can we do better?

PS5 ROM Keys
psdevwiki.com
The HSBC app refuses to work if "Bitwarden" is installed on user's Android phone
twitter.com
Stardew Valley developer made a $125k donation to the FOSS C# framework MonoGame
monogame.net

One framework for creating powerful cross-platform games

France targets Australia-style social media ban for children next year
theguardian.com

Draft bill to be submitted for legal checks as France aims to follow Australia’s world-first ban on platforms including Facebook, Snapchat and YouTube

Drugmakers raise US prices on 350 medicines despite pressure
reuters.com
Zero-Code Instrumentation of an Envoy TCP Proxy Using eBPF
sergiocipriano.com
OpenAI is paying employees more than any major tech startup in history
wsj.com
Iron Beam: Israel's first operational anti drone laser system
mod.gov.il

Portal website of the Ministry of Defense

Efficient method to capture carbon dioxide from the atmosphere
helsinki.fi

The method is based on a recyclable filtration fluid consisting of a superbase-alcohol compound. One gram of the new compound can absorb 156 milligrams of carbon dioxide.

How AI labs are solving the power problem
newsletter.semianalysis.com

Ajey Pandey - Bring Your Own Generation, Sayonara Electric Grid, Turbines vs. Recips. vs. Fuel Cells, Why Not Build More CCGTs?, Onsite Power TCO

When square pixels aren't square
alexwlchan.net

When you want to get the dimensions of a video file, you probably want the display aspect ratio. Using the dimensions of a stored frame may result in a stretched or squashed video.

Claude wrote a functional NES emulator using my engine's API
carimbo.games
Tell HN: Happy New Year
news.ycombinator.com
ask
Nvidia GB10's Memory Subsystem, from the CPU Side
chipsandcheese.com

Chester Lam - GB10 is a collaboration between Nvidia and Mediatek that brings Nvidia’s Blackwell architecture into an integrated GPU.

The most famous transcendental numbers
sprott.physics.wisc.edu
Who invented the transistor?
people.idsia.ch
Show HN: I built a universal clipboard that syncs realtime on multiple devices
quickclip.space
show

QuickClip Team - A cross-device clipboard manager that syncs copied text, links, and images instantly.

AI-generated videos showing young and attractive women promote Poland's EU exit
euronews.com

They are beautiful, eloquent — and do not exist. AI-generated girls from the 'Prawilne_Polki' profile called for Polexit and preached right-wing views. The TikTok account has been deleted, but disinformation and propaganda in Poland persist.

Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design (2011) [pdf]
ece.uvic.ca
The rise of industrial software
chrisloy.dev

> _**Industrial**_ > > _adj. (sense 3a)_ > > Of or relating to productive work, trade, or manufacture, esp.

UK company sends factory with 1,000C furnace into space
bbc.co.uk

A factory in space has been switched on and has reached temperatures of about 1,000C.

Show HN: Use Claude Code to Query 600 GB Indexes over Hacker News, ArXiv, etc.
exopriors.com
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Why C++ programmers keep growing fast despite competition, safety, and AI
herbsutter.com

2025 was another great year for C++. It shows in the numbers Before we dive into the data below, let’s put the most important question up front: Why have C++ and Rust been the fastest-growing major…

Google Opal
opal.google
LLVM AI tool policy: human in the loop
discourse.llvm.org

Hey folks, I got a lot of feedback from various meetings on the proposed LLVM AI contribution policy, and I made some significant changes based on that feedback. The current draft proposal focuses on the idea of requiring a human in the loop who understands their contribution well enough to answer questions about it during review. The idea here is that contributors are not allowed to offload the work of validating LL

Readings in Database Systems (5th Edition) (2015)
redbook.io
S&P500 Priced in Gold
pricedingold.com
Quality of drinking water varies significantly by airline
foodmedcenter.org

Charles Platkin, PhD, JD, MPH - A 2026 Airline Water Study released today by the Center for Food as Medicine and Longevity reveals that the quality of drinking water varies significantly by airline, and many airlines…

Project ideas to appreciate the art of programming
codecrafters.io

Curated list of project ideas for programmers who aren't sure what to build. We chose 73 projects that teach a lot and are fun to build.

NYC Mayoral Inauguration bans Raspberry Pi and Flipper Zero alongside explosives
blog.adafruit.com
Psilocybin triggers activity-dependent rewiring of large-scale cortical networks
cell.com
Honey's Dieselgate: Detecting and tricking testers
vptdigital.com

Ben Edelman, Chief Scientist, VPT - MegaLag’s December 2024 video introduced 18 million viewers to serious questions about Honey, the widely-used browser shopping plug-in—in particular, whether Honey abides by the rules set by affiliate networks and merchants, and whether Honey takes commissions that should flow to other affiliates. I wrote in January that I thought Honey was out of line. In

OpenAI's cash burn will be one of the big bubble questions of 2026
economist.com
U.S. cybersecurity experts plead guilty for ransomware attacks
tomshardware.com

Two former cybersecurity experts pled guilty to conspiracy to obstruct commerce by extortion. The perpetrators are facing 20 years in prison each.

Humans May Be Able to Grow New Teeth Within Just 4 Years
popularmechanics.com

Scientists are on the verge of a dental miracle.

Sabotaging Bitcoin
blog.dshr.org

Source I find myself in the unusual position of defending Bitcoin from its critics, if only reluctantly. In 2024 Soroush Farokhnia & Amir...

Professional software developers don't vibe, they control
arxiv.org

The rise of AI agents is transforming how software can be built. The promise of agents is that developers might write code quicker, delegate multiple tasks to different agents, and even write a full piece of software purely out of natural language. In reality, what roles agents play in professional software development remains in question. This paper investigates how experienced developers use agents in building soft

Everything as code: How we manage our company in one monorepo
kasava.dev

Kasava - Kasava is the AI-native platform purpose-built for product development. Plan, build, and monitor with AI-powered workflows.

The sword-wielding man hired to kick squatters out of empty Oakland homes
oaklandside.org

Natalie Orenstein - A squatter removal cottage industry has grown out of California’s housing crisis, catering to property owners who don’t want to go to court.

Zpdf: PDF text extraction in Zig
github.com/Lulzx

Zero-copy PDF text extraction library written in Zig. High-performance, memory-mapped parsing with SIMD acceleration. - Lulzx/zpdf

Foreign tech workers are avoiding travel to the US
computerworld.com

It's not just the Trump Administration’s H-1B visa overhaul that’s keeping people away from jobs and conferences in the US.

FediMeteo: A €4 FreeBSD VPS Became a Global Weather Service
it-notes.dragas.net

Stefano Marinelli - How a simple idea turned into an international weather service on the Fediverse.

Escaping containment: A security analysis of FreeBSD jails [video]
media.ccc.de

Michael Smith - FreeBSD’s jail mechanism promises strong isolation—but how strong is it really? In this talk, we explore what it takes to escape a compro...

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