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Jurassic Park - Tablet device on Nedry's desk? (2012)
therpf.com

What looks like a tablet/ PDA device can be seen on the lefthand side of Nedry's desk. My closest guess is that it is a Motorola Envoy PDA. But, according to Wikipedia, the Motorola Envoy was not released until 1994. Does anyone else have any additional info on what this device is? Maybe it's...

This paper has been cited more than 6k times. It's fatally flawed.
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu
German economists push for gold repatriation from U.S. vaults
seekingalpha.com

Germany faces calls to repatriate gold from the Fed as Trump-era uncertainty and geopolitics grow.

The coming war on Car Ownership
geohot.github.io

But George, surely you’ll still be allowed to own a car. They aren’t going to make that illegal. Of course they won’t, but they didn’t make general computation illegal either. And yet, who has root on the computer you are reading this on?

Deutsche Telekom is violating Net Neutrality
netzbremse.de

If you are a customer of Deutsche Telekom and some websites just won't load, then we might have the solution to your problem!

Like digging 'your own grave': The translators grappling with losing work to AI
cnn.com

Lianne Kolirin - While workers worldwide ponder how artificial intelligence might affect their livelihoods, there’s one sector where that question is no longer hypothetical. Machine translation has reduced the amount of work available to human translators and interpreters, and depressed their earnings.

Introduction to PostgreSQL Indexes
dlt.github.io
Show HN: AutoShorts – Local, GPU-accelerated AI video pipeline for creators
github.com/divyaprakash0426
show

Contribute to divyaprakash0426/autoshorts development by creating an account on GitHub.

Palantir has no place in UK public services
opendemocracy.net

From ICE to Gaza, Palantir is complicit in violent US hegemony. Why do we keep giving it contracts?

TikTok is officially US-owned for American users, here's what's changing
9to5mac.com

Ryan Christoffel - TikTok’s future in the US has reached a major milestone today, as the new US-owned spinoff for American users has officially launched.

Why is it legal and ok when big corp. straight tries to scam a user?
news.ycombinator.com
ask
The Responsibility of Intellectuals (1967)
nybooks.com

Noam Chomsky - TWENTY-YEARS AGO, Dwight Macdonald published a series of articles in Politics on the responsibility of peoples and, specifically, the responsibility of

Alex Honnold completes Taipei 101 skyscraper climb without ropes or safety net
cnn.com

Xiaoqian Lin - American climber Alex Honnold summited Taipei 101 with no ropes or safety net. Follow for live updates.

Nvidia-smi hangs indefinitely after ~66 days
github.com/NVIDIA

NVIDIA Open GPU Kernel Modules Version [root@A11-R42-I61-42-5504045 ~]# cat /proc/driver/nvidia/params ResmanDebugLevel: 4294967295 RmLogonRC: 1 ModifyDeviceFiles: 1 DeviceFileUID: 0 DeviceFileGID:...

Second Win11 emergency out of band update to address disastrous Patch Tuesday
windowscentral.com

Another out of band update has been issued to Windows 11 users to address a major bug that caused Outlook to become inoperable after January's disastrous Patch Tuesday updates.

David Patterson: Challenges and Research Directions for LLM Inference Hardware
arxiv.org

Large Language Model (LLM) inference is hard. The autoregressive Decode phase of the underlying Transformer model makes LLM inference fundamentally different from training. Exacerbated by recent AI trends, the primary challenges are memory and interconnect rather than compute. To address these challenges, we highlight four architecture research opportunities: High Bandwidth Flash for 10X memory capacity with HBM-like

OpenAI's GPT-5.2 model cites Grokipedia
engadget.com

A report from the Guardian showed GPT-5.2 citing Grokipedia for very specific and controversial topics.

mRNA cancer vaccine shows protection at 5-year follow-up, Moderna and Merck say
arstechnica.com

The vaccines are tailor-made to target each patient's unique cancer.

National Guard activated in Minneapolis after Border Patrol agent kills man
apnews.com

Gov. Tim Walz has activated the National Guard after 37-year-old Alex Jeffrey Pretti was shot and killed by a federal officer in Minneapolis, drawing hundreds of protesters.

Stabilized and Slow-Motion Video of the Murder of Alex Pretti
reddit.com/r/evilwhenthe
Two Weeks Until Tapeout
essenceia.github.io

Julia Desmazes - Chronicles of a bad idea. Or how I designed a systolic array with in-silicon debug infrastructure from scratch in under two weeks, and taped it out on Global Foundry 180 nm though a Tiny Tapeout experimental shuttle.

Stochastic Terrorism
en.wikipedia.org
Tesla unsupervised Robotaxis are nowhere to be found
lightbrd.com
Adoption of EVs tied to real-world reductions in air pollution: study
keck.usc.edu

sheilaro - Related News Sweeping review reveals latest evidence on the diagnosis, treatment, and monitoring of ADHD March 25, 2024 Fluoride exposure during pregnancy linked to increased risk of childhood neurobehavioral problems, […]

We X-Rayed a Suspicious FTDI USB Cable
eclypsium.com

Chris Garland - That cheapo cable you bought online? Probably a counterfeit. We x-rayed a suspicious cable to show you exactly what that means, and why counterfeits work worse and wear out faster.

Europe wants to end its dangerous reliance on US internet technology
theconversation.com

Johan Linåker - As the US increases political pressure on Europe, it’s possible to imagine the continent losing access to key computing services.

Amazon braces for another major round of layoffs, 14,000 jobs at risk
mynorthwest.com

MyNorthwest Staff - Amazon is expected to undergo another round of layoffs next week, according to an exclusive report from Reuters.

ICE Releases RFI for User Tracking Tools
wired.com

Caroline Haskins - A new federal filing from ICE demonstrates how commercial tools are increasingly being considered by the government for law enforcement and surveillance.

I don't write code anymore – I sculpt it
jerpint.io

how I'm using ai tools in 2026

We didn't ask for 'smart' cars – so why are we getting them?
autocar.co.uk

Modern car tech does a lots of different things, and not all of them are good

Poland's energy grid was targeted by never-before-seen wiper malware
arstechnica.com

Destructive payload unleashed on 10-year anniversary of Russia's attack on Ukraine's grid.

I added a Bluesky comment section to my blog
micahcantor.com

How I embedded replies from Bluesky directly on my site.

Postmortem: Our first VLEO satellite mission (with imagery and flight data)
albedo.com
Bye Bye Gmail
m24tom.com
Show HN: StormWatch – Weather emergency dashboard with prep checklists
jeisey.github.io
show
Agent orchestration for the timid
substack.com

Substack - An exploration of AI agent orchestrators

ICE has killed another person in Minneapolis
theverge.com

Terrence O'Brien - ICE has killed another person in Minneapolis. Footage showing agents shoving a man to the ground and shooting him multiple times is quickly circulating online.

JSON-render: LLM-based JSON-to-UI tool
json-render.dev

Vercel Labs - Let users generate dashboards, widgets, apps, and data visualizations from prompts — safely constrained to components you define.

The Concatative Language XY
nsl.com
BirdyChat becomes first European chat app that is interoperable with WhatsApp
birdy.chat

We are excited to share that BirdyChat is the first chat app in Europe that can exchange messages with WhatsApp under the Digital Markets Act. This is a big step forward for anyone using BirdyChat for work.

Understanding Rust Closures
antoine.vandecreme.net
US Vaccine Panel Chair Says Polio and Other Shots Should Be Optional
nytimes.com
Federal Agents Kill Another Person in Minneapolis Immigration Crackdown
time.com

Rebecca Schneid - The shooting comes two weeks after the killing of Renee Good by an immigration agent in the city, which sparked protests

Raspberry Pi Drag Race: Pi 1 to Pi 5 – Performance Comparison
the-diy-life.com
Gmail Spam Detection Down
google.com
December in Servo: multiple windows, proxy support, better caching, and more
servo.org

The Servo Project Developers - Come along and meet us at FOSDEM 2026 – we’re speaking there too!

Tao Te Ching – Translated by Ursula K. Le Guin
github.com/nrrb

Some English interpretations of Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching. - nrrb/tao-te-ching

US science after a year of Trump: what has been lost and what remains
nature.com

A series of graphics reveals how the Trump administration has sought historic cuts to science and the research workforce.

ollama launch
ollama.com

ollama launch is a new command which sets up and runs coding tools like Claude Code, OpenCode, and Codex with local or cloud models. No environment variables or config files needed.

Man shot and killed by federal agents in south Minneapolis this morning
startribune.com

Star Tribune staff - A video appears to shows federal agents wrestling a man to the ground then shooting him.

Are we all plagiarists now?
economist.com
Minneapolis Authorities Respond to Shooting Involving ICE Agents
nytimes.com
Ask HN: Gmail spam filtering suddenly marking everything as spam?
news.ycombinator.com
ask
Memory layout in Zig with formulas
raymondtana.github.io

I was recently encouraged to watch A Practical Guide to Applying Data Oriented Design (DoD) by Andrew Kelley, the creator of Zig1. Just 10 minutes into the talk, I was confronted with a skill I had never formally learned… the arithmetic behind memory layout of types. Zig is a modern, C-like programming language which offers a safer, more memory-explicit experience for systems programming, without sacr

After two years of vibecoding, I'm back to writing by hand [video]
youtube.com
The Kept and the Killed (2022)
publicdomainreview.org

Of the 270,000 photographs commissioned by the US Farm Security Administration to document the Great Depression, more than a third were “killed”. Erica X Eisen examines the history behind this hole-punched archive and the unknowable void at its center.

Claude Code's new hidden feature: Swarms
twitter.com
FOSS "just fork it" delusion
hamishcampbell.com
XHTML Club
xhtml.club
Microsoft will give the FBI a Windows PC data encryption key if ordered
windowscentral.com

Microsoft says it will provide the FBI with BitLocker encryption keys if requested for PCs that upload their key to the cloud via your Microsoft Account.

You can't pay me to prompt
dbushell.com

David Bushell - The one where I set the record straight on my AI usage

JVIC: New web-based Commodore VIC 20 emulator
vic20.games
Many Small Queries Are Efficient in SQLite
sqlite.org
I Like GitLab
whileforloop.com

Łukasz Klim - I've been using GitLab for years for all my private projects. Some thoughts on why it stuck.

How I estimate work
seangoedecke.com
Doing gigabit Ethernet over my British phone wires
thehftguy.com

Disclaimer: None of this is written by AI, I’m still a real person writing my own blog like its 1999 I finally figured out how to do Gigabit Ethernet over my existing phone wires. Powerline adapter…

Show HN: I built a space travel calculator using Vanilla JavaScript
cosmic-odometer.vercel.app
show

I have traveled billions of kilometers since birth. Check your cosmic stats here.

Repatriate the gold': German economists advise withdrawal from US vaults
theguardian.com

Shift in relations and unpredictability of Donald Trump make it ‘risky to store so much gold in the US’, say experts

How Debt Bankrupted the British Empire, and Why America Is Walking the Same Path
nitishastra.substack.com

Navroop Singh - Empires rarely fall in dramatic moments of realization.

Modetc: Move your dotfiles from kernel space
maxwell.eurofusion.eu
Shared Claude: A website controlled by the public
sharedclaude.com

A website controlled by the public via AI. Text (628) 867-7187 to make changes. Watch live at sharedclaude.com and monitor.sharedclaude.com

80386 Multiplication and Division
nand2mario.github.io
Show HN: Open-source Figma design to code
github.com/vibeflowing-inc
show

Figma to React Converter. Contribute to vibeflowing-inc/vibe_figma development by creating an account on GitHub.

“Let people help” – Advice that made a big difference to a grieving widow
npr.org

Connie Sherburne lost her husband to a plane accident in 2020. A small bit of advice she got from an insurance company employee made a huge difference in her life for years after that.

SEC obtains final consent judgments against former FTX and Alameda executives
sec.gov
AI can 10x developers in creating tech debt
stackoverflow.blog
The Internet Doesn't Suck: Blame Big Tech, Not the Internet
riverseeber.net
Comma openpilot – Open source driver-assistance
comma.ai

An AI upgrade for your car

Minnesota activist releases arrest video after manipulated White House version
apnews.com

A Minnesota activist who was charged for her role in an anti-immigration enforcement protest at a church has released her own video of her arrest, after the White House posted a manipulated image online.

TikTok is now collecting more data about its users
wired.com

Reece Rogers - According to its new privacy policy, TikTok now collects more data on its users, including their precise location, after majority ownership officially switched to a group based in the US.

Wilson Lin on FastRender: a browser built by parallel agents
simonwillison.net

Simon Willison - Last week Cursor published Scaling long-running autonomous coding, an article describing their research efforts into coordinating large numbers of autonomous coding agents. One of the projects mentioned in the article …

Mental Models (2018)
fs.blog

The smartest people in the world use mental models to make intelligent decisions, avoid stupidity, and increase productivity. Let's take a look at how ...

Neko: History of a Software Pet (2022)
eliotakira.com
Unrolling the Codex agent loop
openai.com
Banned C++ features in Chromium
chromium.googlesource.com
Maze Algorithms (2017)
jamisbuck.org
Iran Govt Fakes Traffic to Mimic Internet Restoration
mastodon.social/@netblocks

Attached: 1 image ⚠️ Update: #Iran remains in the midst of a national internet blackout in its third week at hour 348 with only a slight rise in overall connectivity and tunneled users. There are indications of an attempt to generate false traffic and manufacture narratives of a wider restoration.

Tesla kills Autopilot, locks lane-keeping behind $99/month fee
arstechnica.com

With falling sales and shrinking profits, the recurring revenue will be most welcome.

Auto-compact not triggering on Claude.ai despite being marked as fixed
github.com/anthropics

Preflight Checklist I have searched existing issues and this hasn't been reported yet This is a single bug report (please file separate reports for different bugs) I am using the latest version of ...

House vote keeps federal "kill switch" vehicle mandate
reclaimthenet.org
New YC homepage
ycombinator.com

Y Combinator created a new model for funding early stage startups. Four times a year we invest in a large number of startups.

Zotero 8
zotero.org
Microsoft gave FBI set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops
techcrunch.com

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai - The FBI served Microsoft a warrant requesting encryption recovery keys to decrypt the hard drives of people involved in an alleged fraud case in Guam.

Proof of Corn
proofofcorn.com

Seth Goldstein - @fredwilson challenged @seth: AI can write code, but it can't affect the physical world. This is our response.

Route leak incident on January 22, 2026
blog.cloudflare.com

An automated routing policy configuration error caused us to leak some Border Gateway Protocol prefixes unintentionally from a router at our Miami data center. We discuss the impact and the changes we are implementing as a result.

Doubting U.S. resolve, Europe looks to bolster its own nuclear arsenal
nbcnews.com

The discussions have taken on new urgency as President Trump escalates his criticism of Europe. Germany and Poland already have suggested France’s nuclear weapons could be expanded to defend their countries.

Killing the ISP Appliance: An eBPF/XDP Approach to Distributed BNG
markgascoyne.co.uk

An open-source, eBPF-accelerated BNG that runs directly on OLT hardware - eliminating expensive centralised appliances

Nobody likes lag: How to make low-latency dev sandboxes
compyle.ai

How to make low-latency development sandboxes

Notes on the Intel 8086 processor's arithmetic-logic unit
righto.com

In 1978, Intel introduced the 8086 processor, a revolutionary chip that led to the modern x86 architecture. Unlike modern 64-bit processors,...

My review of the Nüborn Baby at 3 months
joshcollinsworth.com

My Nüborn Baby arrived in October, and now that I've had a few months to get used to it, I thought I'd write up a review, in case you were thinking of getting one for yourself.

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