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Goodbye, Microsoft: Schleswig-Holstein Relies on Open Source and Saves Millions
heise.de

Stefan Krempl - Schleswig-Holstein saves 15 million euros in license costs by migrating from Microsoft to free software. The conversion is significantly cheaper.

I wasted years of my life in crypto
twitter.com
Google Titans architecture, helping AI have long-term memory
research.google
Java Hello World, LLVM Edition
javaadvent.com
Discovering the indieweb with calm tech
alexsci.com

Blog Quest and StreetPass help you discover the independent web

Z2 – Lithographically fabricated IC in a garage fab
sam.zeloof.xyz
Eurydice: a Rust to C compiler (yes)
jonathan.protzenko.fr

Perhaps the greatest surprise of the last two years was, for me, the realization that people not only care about compiling C to Rust (for obvious reasons, such as, ahem, memory safety) – they also care about compiling Rust to C! Wait, what?

Using LLMs at Oxide
rfd.shared.oxide.computer
Trains cancelled over fake bridge collapse image
bbc.com

Rail services were cancelled after a 'hoax' picture of a damaged bridge appeared on social media

Kilauea erupts, destroying webcam [video]
youtube.com
Kenyans lured by lucrative job offers and sent to fight for Russia
bbc.com

Kenyan families whose sons have been duped into fighting for Russia demand they be brought home.

PatchworkOS: An OS for x86_64, built from scratch in C and assembly
github.com/KaiNorberg

A modular, non-POSIX operating system for x86_64, built from scratch in C and assembly. Intended to be an educational and experimental project that rigorously follows a Plan9-style "everything...

Saving Japan's exceptionally rare 'snow monsters'
bbc.com

A unique natural wonder is being eroded. Can Japan bring its breathtaking "juhyo" back from the brink?

Wave of (Open Street Map) Vandalism in South Korea
openstreetmap.org

About a week ago, vandals began defacing the map in South Korea. Over the course of that week, I rolled back hundreds of changes, and with the help of the sites moderators, I banned over 50 malicious accounts.

United States Antarctic Program Field Manual (2024) [pdf]
usap.gov
Catala – Law to Code
catala-lang.org

The official website of the Catala domain-specific programming language for translating law into code.

Chernobyl protective shield can no longer confine radiation after drone strike
cnn.com

Kara Fox - The protective shield built around the Chernobyl nuclear disaster site in Ukraine can no longer do its job to confine radioactive waste as a result of a drone strike earlier this year, according to the IAEA.

How the 'hypnagogic state' of drowsiness could enhance your creativity
theconversation.com

Steve Taylor - Many artists and scientists have had breakthrough while in this drowsy state between sleep and waking.

Screenshots from developers: 2002 vs. 2015 (2015)
anders.unix.se
Copy-Item is slower than File Explorer
til.andrew-quinn.me

1 2 3 4 5 File Explorer drag & drop ########## (112 MBps) Copy-Item ####### (82 MBps) Built in SFTP client ###### (70 MBps) Built in robocopy ## (25 MBps) WSL 2 rsync # (13 MBps) In table form: Tool Speed (MBps) Difference Drag and drop ~112

The past was not that cute
juliawise.net

julia.d.wise - Aesthetics are not history.

Coffee linked to slower biological ageing among those with severe mental illness
kcl.ac.uk

King's College London - New research from King’s College London finds that coffee consumption within the NHS recommended limit is linked to longer telomere lengths – a marker of biological ageing – among people with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. The effect is comparable to roughly five years younger biological age.

Show HN: Tascli, a command line based (human) task and record manager
github.com/Aperocky
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A simple, fast, local task and record manager in CLI. - Aperocky/tascli

Zebra-Llama – Towards efficient hybrid models
arxiv.org

With the growing demand for deploying large language models (LLMs) across diverse applications, improving their inference efficiency is crucial for sustainable and democratized access. However, retraining LLMs to meet new user-specific requirements is prohibitively expensive and environmentally unsustainable. In this work, we propose a practical and scalable alternative: composing efficient hybrid language models fro

CATL Expects Oceanic Electric Ships in 3 Years
cleantechnica.com

Christopher Arcus - Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. News in batteries and electrification has been coming fast and furious lately. Recently, Su Yi, the head of CATL’s marine division, stated, “CATL’s marine business already covers inland rivers, lakes, and coastal waters, and is now advancing toward ocean-going applications.” ... [continued]

The general who refused to crush Tiananmen's protesters
economist.com
Germany votes to bring in voluntary military service programme for 18-year-olds
bbc.com

The shift in its approach to its military follows a push to create Europe's strongest conventional army.

OMSCS Open Courseware
sites.gatech.edu
Running Claude Code in a loop to mirror human development practices
anandchowdhary.com

Anand Chowdhary - This all started because I was contractually obligated to write unit tests for a codebase with hundreds of thousands of lines of code and go from 0% to 80%+ coverage in the next few weeks - seems like something Claude should do. So I built Continuous Claude, a CLI tool to run Claude Code in a loop that maintains a persistent context across multiple iterations.

Perl's decline was cultural
beatworm.co.uk
Ireland's Inability to Defend Itself
irishpoliticsnewsletter.ie

The Irish Politics Newsletter - Unable to defend itself.

How to Get Hired in 2025
tonsky.me

Nikita Prokopov - A collection of red flags in software engineers' test assignments

HTML as an Accessible Format for Papers (2023)
info.arxiv.org
Tiny Core Linux: a 23 MB Linux distro with graphical desktop
tinycorelinux.net
GrapheneOS is the only Android OS providing full security patches
grapheneos.social

GrapheneOS is the only Android-based OS providing the full security preview patches. Samsung ships a small subset of their flagship devices. Pixel stock OS gets a portion of it early but we aren't sure exactly how much since they don't follow their guidelines for listing patches.

How I discovered a hidden microphone on a Chinese NanoKVM
telefoncek.si
Why Speed Matters
lemire.me

The one constant that I have observed in my professional life is that people underestimate the need to move fast. Of course, doing good work takes time. I once spent six months writing a URL parser. But the fact that it took so long is not a feature, it is not a positive, it is … Continue reading Why speed matters

Physicists prove the Universe isn't a simulation after all
sciencedaily.com

New research from UBC Okanagan mathematically demonstrates that the universe cannot be simulated. Using Gödel’s incompleteness theorem, scientists found that reality requires “non-algorithmic understanding,” something no computation can replicate. This discovery challenges the simulation hypothesis and reveals that the universe’s foundations exist beyond any algorithmic system.

Touching the Elephant – TPUs
considerthebulldog.com

Understanding the Tensor Processing Unit

'Life being stressful is not an illness' – GPs on mental health over-diagnosis
bbc.com

Hundreds of GPs in England tell the BBC they are also worried about a lack of help for patients.

Autism's confusing cousins
psychiatrymargins.com

Awais Aftab - A differential diagnosis for the weird and the awkward

Berlin: Police can secretly enter homes for state trojan installation
heise.de

Stefan Krempl - To collect data from IT systems, investigators in Berlin can secretly search suspects' rooms. This is in a Police Act amendment.

How America's "truck-driver shortage"
freightwaves.com

Craig Fuller, CEO at FreightWaves - Over the past few months, I’ve spoken with hundreds of senior executives at America’s largest trucking companies. Nearly all say they only recently

Linux Instal Fest Belgrade
dmz.rs
Ask HN: How many people got VPNs in response to laws like UK Online Safety Act?
news.ycombinator.com
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Schizophrenia sufferer mistakes smart fridge ad for psychotic episode
reddit.com/r/LegalAdviceUK
Wolfram Compute Services
writings.stephenwolfram.com

Wolfram releases the Wolfram Compute Services system--a fully programmable, streamlined way to scale up Wolfram Language computations. For large volumes of data, extensive iterations, large-scale parallelism and more.

Nook Browser
browsewithnook.com

Fast, focused, and open — a modern WebKit browser for Mac.

PalmOS on FisherPrice Pixter Toy
dmitry.gr

Dmitry.GR - Dmitry.GR: PalmOS on new hardware!

Have I been Flocked? – Check if your license plate is being watched
haveibeenflocked.com

Have I Been Flocked? - Check if your license plate has been searched in the Flock mass surveillance database

I cracked a $200 software protection with xcopy
ud2.rip

reverse engineering a $200 commercial protection system, only to discover they protected the installer instead of the software. the crack is copying files.

EU hits X with €120M fine for breaching the Digital Services Act
dw.com

The European Commission has accused X of misleadingly authenticating user accounts with blue ticks, withholding data from researchers and not transparently signposting advertisements.

Without evidence, RFK Jr.'s vaccine panel tosses hep B vaccine recommendation
arstechnica.com

There is no data supporting a delay and no evidence of harm from a birth dose.

YouTube caught making AI-edits to videos and adding misleading AI summaries
ynetnews.com

YouTube is now using AI to alter people's videos without permission. (There are threads about this at https://mastodon.content.town/@operationpuppet/115640694705318541 & https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/@strypey/115598837629003478 etc) This is really disturbing and dangerous. It's more insidious than censorship because viewers cannot tell a video has been altered. If you post to YouTube, I'd strongly recommend you sta

Advent of Code 2025: The AI Edition – By Peter Norvig
github.com/norvig

Python programs, usually short, of considerable difficulty, to perfect particular skills. - norvig/pytudes

Extra Instructions Of The 65XX Series CPU (1996)
ffd2.com
Sam Altman’s DRAM Deal
mooreslawisdead.com

Or: How the AI Bubble, Panic, and Unpreparedness Stole ChristmasWritten by Tom of Moore’s Law Is DeadSpecial Assistance by KarbinCry & kari-no-sugataBased on this Video: https://youtu.be/BORRBce5TGwIntroduction — The Day the RAM Market SnappedAt the beginning of November, I ordered a 32GB DDR5 kit for pairing with a Minisforum BD790i X3D motherboard, and three weeks later those very same sticks of DDR5 are now li

Google 'Looking into' Gmail Hack Locking Users Out with No Recovery
forbes.com

Davey Winder - Google is 'looking into' a devastating Gmail attack that locks users out of their accounts with no way to recover.

Anna's Archive finished releasing all obtained Chinese books
annas-archive.li

We have finally finished the Chinese release which we started 2 years ago. We look at all the work involved.

Adenosine on the common path of rapid antidepressant action: The coffee paradox
genomicpress.kglmeridian.com

Yue, Luo, and colleagues discovered that adenosine signalling is the common underlying mechanism of rapid acting antidepressant therapies, unifying the effects of ketamine, ECT and acute intermittent hypoxia. They use genetically encoded sensors, along with extensive mechanistic dissection, to show that all three induce adenosine surges in mood-regulatory circuits via A1 and A2A receptor activation. The mechanism of

Frank Gehry has died
bbc.co.uk

Frank Gehry was acclaimed for his love of jagged angles and use of industrial materials.

A $20 drug in Europe requires a prescription and $800 in the U.S.
statnews.com

David Maris - A month’s supply of Miebo requires $800 and a prescription in the U.S. In Europe, it’s over-the-counter and $20.

Leaving Intel
brendangregg.com
Perpetual futures, explained
bitsaboutmoney.com

Crypto’s most popular product offers capital efficiency for professionals, leveraged exposure for the masses, rich yields for market makers — and a poorly understood failure mode.

The missing standard library for multithreading in JavaScript
github.com/W4G1

The missing standard library for multithreading in JavaScript (Works in Node.js, Deno, Bun, Web browser) - W4G1/multithreading

Judge Signals Win for Software Freedom Conservancy in Vizio GPL Case
fossforce.com

Christine Hall - A California judge has tentatively sided with SFC in its GPL case over Vizio’s SmartCast TVs, but the final outcome is still pending.

Advertising as a major source of human dissatisfaction (2019) [pdf]
andrewoswald.com
Fizz Buzz in CSS
susam.net
Framework Sponsors CachyOS
discuss.cachyos.org

Hey CachyOS Community, We have some massive news to share today. Framework, the company behind the modular and repairable laptop revolution, is now sponsoring CachyOS. For an open-source project like ours, finding hardware partners who genuinely care about Linux is rare. Framework has not only provided us with a Framework Laptop 16 to help us optimize our kernel and packages on modern hardware, but they have also c

SpaceX in Talks for Share Sale That Would Boost Valuation to $800B
wsj.com
Why we built Lightpanda in Zig
lightpanda.io

We chose Zig over C++ and Rust because we wanted a simple, modern systems language. Here's what we learned building a browser with it.

Wall Street races to protect itself from AI bubble
rollingout.com

Wall Street lends billions to AI companies while using credit derivatives and sophisticated bonds to hedge against potential bubble risks.

WikiFlix: Full Movies Hosted on Wikimedia Commons
commons.wikimedia.org
The effect of shingles vaccination at different stages of dementia
cell.com
Detainees at 'Alligator Alcatraz' facing 'harrowing human right violations'
theguardian.com

Amnesty International finds immigrants at Florida facility were shackled and left outside in metal cage for up to a day

The AI Backlash Is Here: Why Public Patience with Tech Giants Is Running Out
newsweek.com

Welcome to the slop era.

Jony Ive's OpenAI Device Barred From Using 'io' Name
macrumors.com

A U.S. appeals court has upheld a temporary restraining order that prevents OpenAI and Jony Ive's new hardware venture from using the name "io" for products similar to those planned by AI audio startup iyO, Bloomberg Law reports. iyO sued OpenAI earlier this year after the latter announced its partnership with Ive's new firm, arguing that OpenAI's planned "io" branding was too close to its own name and related to sim

X hit with $140M EU fine for breaching content rules
reuters.com
Synadia and TigerBeetle Pledge $512k to the Zig Software Foundation
tigerbeetle.com
Patterns for Defensive Programming in Rust
corrode.dev

Corrode Rust Consulting - I have a hobby. Whenever I see the comment // this should never happen in code, I try to find out the exact conditions under which it could happen. And in 90% of cases, I find a way to do just that. More often than not…

Zellij: A terminal workspace with batteries included
zellij.dev

A terminal workspace with batteries included

Gemini 3 Pro: the frontier of vision AI
blog.google

Build with Gemini 3 Pro, the best model in the world for multimodal capabilities.

I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
news.ycombinator.com
ask
FDA proposes impossible standards for vaccines that could curtail access
cidrap.umn.edu
Framework Laptop 13 gets ARM processor with 12 cores via upgrade kit
notebookcheck.net

The Framework Laptop 13 has a replaceable mainboard, which means that the processor can be easily upgraded after purchase. While Framework itself only offers Intel and AMD CPUs, a mainboard with a high-performance ARM processor from a third-party manufacturer has now launched.

Cloudflare outage on December 5, 2025
blog.cloudflare.com

Cloudflare experienced a significant traffic outage on December 5, 2025, starting approximately at 8:47 UTC. The incident lasted approximately 25 minutes before resolution. We are sorry for the impact that it caused to our customers and the Internet. The incident was not caused by an attack and was due to configuration changes being applied to attempt to mitigate a recent industry-wide vulnerability impacting React

Jolla Phone Pre-Order
commerce.jolla.com

The independent European Do It Together (DIT) Linux phone, shaped by the people who use it.

Covid-19 mRNA Vaccination and 4-Year All-Cause Mortality
jamanetwork.com
Influential study on glyphosate safety retracted 25 years after publication
lemonde.fr

A 2000 study that concluded the well-known herbicide glyphosate was safe, widely cited since then, has just been officially disavowed by the journal that published it. The scientists are suspected of having signed a text actually prepared by Monsanto.

Show HN: Pbnj – A minimal, self-hosted pastebin you can deploy in 60 seconds
pbnj.sh
show

A minimal pastebin for code snippets

Most technical problems are people problems
blog.joeschrag.com

  I once worked at a company which had an enormous amount of technical debt - millions of lines of code, no unit tests, based on frameworks ...

Making RSS More Fun
matduggan.com

I wrote a browser extension to try and make finding random, independent websites more fun.

Linus Torvalds thinks Elon Musk is 'too stupid' to be working at a tech company
neowin.net
Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros
about.netflix.com
Sugars, Gum, Stardust Found in NASA's Asteroid Bennu Samples
nasa.gov

The asteroid Bennu continues to provide new clues to scientists’ biggest questions about the formation of the early solar system and the origins of life. As

Why we can’t quit Excel
bloomberg.com
The US polluters that are rewriting the EU's human rights and climate law
somo.nl

laura - Leaked documents reveal how a secretive alliance of eleven large multinational enterprises has worked to tear down the EU’s flagship human rights and climate law, the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD). The mostly US-based coalition, which calls itself the Competitiveness Roundtable, has targeted all EU institutions, governments in Europe’s capitals, as well as the […]

Kenyan court declares law banning seed sharing unconstitutional
apnews.com

A high court in Kenya has declared unconstitutional sections of a seed law that prevented farmers from sharing and selling indigenous seeds in what food campaigners have called a landmark win for food security.

Cloudflare Is Down
cloudflare.com
Cloudflare Down Again – and DownDetector Is Also Down
news.ycombinator.com
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