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Around 1,500 soldiers on standby for deployment to Minneapolis
bbc.co.uk

The troops are an option should Donald Trump decide to use them to quell anti-ICE protests in the city, an official tells CBS News.

America is slow-walking into a Polymarket disaster
msn.com
Flux 2 Klein pure C inference
github.com/antirez

Flux 2 image generation model pure C inference. Contribute to antirez/flux2.c development by creating an account on GitHub.

Show HN: Lume 0.2 – Build and Run macOS VMs with unattended setup
cua.ai
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Cua - Introduction to Lume - the macOS VM CLI and framework

Gaussian Splatting – A$AP Rocky "Helicopter" music video
radiancefields.com

This is actually not the first time A$AP has used Radiance Fields in a music video.

How the Lobsters front page works
atharvaraykar.com

Lobsters is a computing-focused community centered around link aggregation and discussion. The code is open source, so I had a look at how the front page algorithm works. This is it: $$\textbf{hotness} = -1 \times (\text{base} + \text{order} \times \text{sign} + \text{age})$$ $$\text{hotness} \downarrow \implies \text{rank}

Statement by Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, UK
bundesregierung.de
Sins of the Children (Adrian Tchaikovsky)
asteriskmag.com

The circle of life on Chelicer 14d.

The Nobel Prize and the Laureate Are Inseparable
nobelpeaceprize.org

The medal and the diploma are the physical symbols confirming that an individual or organisation has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. The prize itself – the honour and recognition – remains inseparably linked to the person or organisation designated as the laureate by the Norwegian Nobel Committee.

Stop using MySQL in 2026, it is not true open source
optimizedbyotto.com

If you care about supporting open source software, and still use MySQL in 2026, you should switch to MariaDB like so many others have already done.\n

Statement by Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands,Norway,Sweden,UK
presidentti.fi

esyrja - As members of NATO, we are committed to strengthening Arctic security as a shared transatlantic interest. The pre-coordinated Danish exercise ”Arctic Endurance” conducted with Allies, responds to this necessity. It poses no threat to anyone. We stand in full solidarity with the Kingdom of Denmark and the people of Greenland. Building on the process begun […]

Purdue blocks admission of many Chinese grad students in unwritten policy
science.org
AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage
theguardian.com

AI is asbestos in the walls of our tech society, stuffed there by monopolists run amok. A serious fight against it must strike at its roots

Predicting OpenAI's ad strategy
ossa-ma.github.io

Had to crunch the ad revenue projection numbers for OpenAI real quick, had enough of the fearmongering and nonsense takes. AGI... now funded by 5x60 second unskippable ads!

What is Plan 9?
fqa.9front.org
Software engineers can no longer neglect their soft skills
qu8n.com

The bottleneck has shifted from implementation to specification.

Iran report says 16,500 dead in 'genocide under digital darkness'
thetimes.com

Christina Lamb, Chief Foreign Correspondent - Witnesses tell of the brutality inflicted on those taking part in anti-regime protests

The guide to real-world EV battery health
geotab.com

Analysis of electric vehicle battery health of 22K+ EVs reveals a 2.3% average battery degradation rate. High-power DC fast charging is the top risk factor.

Starting from scratch: Training a 30M Topological Transformer
tuned.org.uk
Overlapping Markup
en.wikipedia.org
EU and Mercosur countries sign landmark free trade deal
dw.com

The agreement took 25 years to negotiate and will create one of the world's largest free trade zones. The deal was signed, despite opposition from some European farmers.

A free and open-source rootkit for Linux
lwn.net

While there are several rootkits that target Linux, they have so far not fully embraced the op [...]

Consent-O-Matic
github.com/cavi-au

Browser extension that automatically fills out cookie popups based on your preferences - cavi-au/Consent-O-Matic

Pentagon readies 1,500 troops to possibly deploy to Minnesota, US media say
reuters.com
Command-line Tools can be 235x Faster than your Hadoop Cluster (2014)
adamdrake.com

Adam Drake is an advisor to scale-up tech companies. He writes about ML/AI/data, leadership, and building tech teams.

The Walls Are Closing in on Tesla
planetearthandbeyond.co

Will Lockett - Musk has destroyed every path forward.

A Social Filesystem
overreacted.io

Formats over apps.

Launching the Handmade Software Foundation
handmade.network

Hello Handmade Network, and happy new year! 2025 was a relatively quiet year for us where we focus…

Iconify: Library of Open Source Icons
icon-sets.iconify.design

Iconify OÜ - Open source vector icons from all popular icon sets

Show HN: GibRAM an in-memory ephemeral GraphRAG runtime for retrieval
github.com/gibram-io
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Contribute to gibram-io/gibram development by creating an account on GitHub.

ThinkNext Design
thinknextdesign.com
Show HN: Figma-use – CLI to control Figma for AI agents
github.com/dannote
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Control Figma from the command line. Full read/write access for AI agents — create shapes, text, components, set styles, export images. 100+ commands. - dannote/figma-use

jQuery 4
blog.jquery.com
U.S. Court Order Against Anna's Archive Spells More Trouble for the Site
torrentfreak.com
The longest Greek word
en.wikipedia.org
Erdos 281 solved with ChatGPT 5.2 Pro
twitter.com
How scientists are using Claude to accelerate research and discovery
anthropic.com

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

Profession by Isaac Asimov (1957)
abelard.org
Dark Mode vs. Light Mode: Which Is Better?
nngroup.com

In people with normal vision (or corrected-to-normal vision), visual performance tends to be better with light mode, whereas some people with cataract and related disorders may perform better with dark mode. On the flip side, long-term reading in light mode may be associated with myopia.

How do I stop participating?
geohot.github.io

This one is for the complainers and whiners.

Computer Systems Security 6.566 / Spring 2024
css.csail.mit.edu
IRISC: An ARMv7 assembly interpreter and computer architecture simulator
polysoftit.co.uk
OpenAI could reportedly run out of cash by mid-2027
tomshardware.com

The circular economy might spiral into Sam Altman's garrote.

If you put Apple icons in reverse it looks like someone getting good at design
mastodon.social/@heliographe_studio

If you put the Apple icons in reverse it looks like the portfolio of someone getting really really good at icon design

No knives, only cook knives
kellykozakandjoshdonald.substack.com

A Box of Old Knives - Changing perceptions of value and a rude encounter with Ichabod Crane and Xavier Cugat at the flea market --by Josh Donald

Texas A&M university is banning Plato, citing his "gender ideology"
lithub.com

Today, Texas A&M resumes classes for the spring semester—but a number of canonized texts will not be welcomed back to school. The public research university has lately been caught in the crossf…

Light Mode InFFFFFFlation
willhbr.net
Congress wants to hand your parenting to big tech
eff.org

Joe Mullin - Lawmakers in Washington are once again focusing on kids, screens, and mental health. But according to Congress, Big Tech is somehow both the problem and the solution. The Senate Commerce Committee held a hearing today on “examining the effect of technology on America’s youth.” Witnesses warned...

Show HN: Speed Miners – A tiny RTS resource mini-game
speedminers.fun
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11% of vibe-coded apps are leaking Supabase keys
supaexplorer.com

We scanned 20,000+ indie launch URLs and found that 11% expose Supabase credentials in their frontend.

Netflix Wants Movies to Restate the Plot Three or Four Times in the Dialogue
variety.com

Jack Dunn - Matt Damon says Netflix wants movies to restate 'the plot three or four times in the dialogue' to account for viewers using their phones.

Show HN: ChunkHound, a local-first tool for understanding large codebases
github.com/chunkhound
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Local first codebase intelligence. Contribute to chunkhound/chunkhound development by creating an account on GitHub.

Kip: A programming language based on grammatical cases of Turkish
github.com/kip-dili

A programming language based on grammatical cases of Turkish. - kip-dili/kip

Docker.how – Docker command cheat sheet
docker.how

Docker Cheat Sheet - Comprehensive Docker CLI reference with commands for containers, images, volumes, networks, Compose, and Dockerfile.

Show HN: Minikv – Distributed key-value and object store in Rust (Raft, S3 API)
github.com/whispem
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A production-ready distributed key-value store with Raft consensus. - whispem/minikv

OpenAI to test ads in ChatGPT as it burns through billions
arstechnica.com

Ads coming to free tier and new $8/month ChatGPT Go plan in US.

Canada's deal with China signals it is serious about shift from US
bbc.com

Carney says Canada's relationship with China has become "more predictable" than that with the US, as his country searches for trade certainty.

What twenty years of DevOps has failed to do
honeycomb.io

Let’s start with a question. What is DevOps all about?

The thing that brought me joy
stephenlewis.me

The code is not the point, but what if it’s the reason?

Raising money fucked me up
blog.yakkomajuri.com
Earth is warming faster. Scientists are closing in on why (2024)
economist.com
For me, Hacker News is probably the best community on the internet
news.ycombinator.com
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Show HN: What if your menu bar was a keyboard-controlled command center?
extrabar.app
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ExtraBar is a customizable bar for macOS with deep links, quick actions, and app-specific shortcuts. Take control of your Mac workflow.

2025 was the third hottest year on record
economist.com
NATO members face tariffs increasing to 25% until Greenland purchase deal struck
cnbc.com
Trump to impose tariffs on European nations over Greenland
dw.com

Denmark, Germany, Norway, Sweden, France, the UK, the Netherlands and Finland to face a 10% tariff beginning February 1. Trump said tariffs will be in place until "a deal is reached" on Greenland.

Eight European countries face 10% tariff for opposing US control of Greenland
apnews.com

President Donald Trump says he'll charge a 10% import tax starting in February on goods from eight European countries because of opposition to U.S. control of Greenland.

An Elizabethan mansion's secrets for staying warm
bbc.com

In a deadly cold period known as the Little Ice Age, clever Elizabethan designs kept a magnificent stately home unusually warm – with lessons for how we can heat our own homes better.

The Resonant Computing Manifesto
resonantcomputing.org

Technology should bring out the best in humanity, not the worst—a manifesto for resonant computing built on five principles that reject hyper-scale extraction for human flourishing.

There's no single best way to store information
quantamagazine.org

The math of data structures helps us understand how different storage systems come with different trade-offs between resources such as time and memory.

Escaping the trap of US tech dependence
disconnect.blog

Canada needs real digital sovereignty, not our own digital colonizers

The recurring dream of replacing developers
caimito.net

Every decade brings new promises: this time, we'll finally make software development simple enough that we won't need so many developers. From COBOL to AI, the pattern repeats. Business leaders gro...

What life is like in Minneapolis now
donmoynihan.substack.com

Don Moynihan - What life is like in Minneapolis now

Italy investigates Activision Blizzard for pushing in-game purchases
techcrunch.com

Ram Iyer - Italy has launched two investigations into Microsoft's Activision Blizzard, alleging the company has engaged in "misleading and aggressive" sales practices for two of its most popular smartphone games.

Whistleblower drops 'largest ever' ICE leak to unmask agents
vechron.com

A Department of Homeland Security whistleblower has released the identities of about 4,500 ICE and Border Patrol employees Tuesday in what has been called

The Risks of AI in Schools Outweigh the Benefits, Report Says
npr.org

A new report warns that AI poses a serious threat to children's cognitive development and emotional well-being.

The 600-year-old origins of the word 'hello'
bbc.com

It's 200 years since the word "hello" was first used in print - though its roots date back to the 15th Century. How has the language of greetings evolved - and what does it tell us?

Architecture for Disposable Systems
tuananh.net

As coding agents make software cheaper and lower quality, we're moving toward disposable software, and that changes everything about how we architect systems.

ASCII characters are not pixels: a deep dive into ASCII rendering
alexharri.com

A look at how I used shape vectors to achieve sharp, high-quality ASCII rendering.

Gut micro-organisms associated with health, nutrition and dietary intervention
nature.com

Comprehensive large-scale studies of multi-national populations identified microbiome species consistently associated with favourable and unfavourable health markers, informing future studies of the human gut microbiome and its association with diet and cardiometabolic conditions.

AV1 Image File Format Specification Gets an Upgrade with AVIF v1.2.0
aomedia.org

AVIF v1.2.0 includes support for sample transforms

PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch
theregister.com

: Microsoft claims it's a Secure Launch bug

After 25 years, Wikipedia has proved that news doesn't need to look like news
niemanlab.org

It's not a news site. But there's a lot to learn from how Wikipedia constructs shared knowledge about what’s happening in the world.

US electricity demand surged in 2025 – solar handled 61% of it
electrek.co

Michelle Lewis - Solar supplied 61% of US electricity demand growth in 2025, as rising power needs were met largely by record solar and batteries.

Map To Poster – Create Art of your favourite city
github.com/originalankur

Transform your favorite cities into beautiful, minimalist designs. MapToPoster lets you create and export visually striking map posters with code. - originalankur/maptoposter

Show HN: I built a tool to assist AI agents to know when a PR is good to go
dsifry.github.io
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Deterministic PR readiness detection for AI coding agents

ClickHouse acquires Langfuse
langfuse.com

Our goal continues to be building the best LLM engineering platform

Office app has changed to copilot and now I can't open files
reddit.com/r/Office365
Show HN: Streaming gigabyte medical images from S3 without downloading them
github.com/PABannier
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WSI Streamer is a tile server for Whole Slide Images (WSI) stored in S3-compatible object storage. It serves tiles on-demand using HTTP range requests, so you never have to download or mount multi-...

You have three minutes to escape the perpetual underclass
geohot.github.io

I had a dream last night I went to work at Amazon. Joining the Bezos neofeudal empire. This post is directed at anyone with talent who works at a tech company ushering in this future.

Every data centre is a U.S. military base
policyalternatives.ca

Paris Marx - Understanding how the United States uses its tech companies to serve empire

The 'untouchable hacker god' behind Finland's biggest crime
theguardian.com

How would you feel if your therapist’s notes – your darkest thoughts and deepest feelings – were exposed to the world? For 33,000 Finnish people, that became a terrifying reality, with deadly consequences

Counterfactual evaluation for recommendation systems
eugeneyan.com

Eugene Yan - Thinking about recsys as interventional vs. observational, and inverse propensity scoring.

Germany's shut down of nuclear plants a 'huge mistake', says Merz
brusselssignal.eu

Germany’s decision to shut down all its nuclear power plants was a “huge mistake” and has come at a high cost to the economy, Chancellor Friedrich Merz said yesterday, speaking to the German Chamber…

A Calif. teen trusted ChatGPT's drug advice. He died from an overdose
sfgate.com
Crypto grifters are recruiting open-source AI developers
seangoedecke.com

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Drone Hacking Part 1: Dumping Firmware and Bruteforcing ECC
neodyme.io

Desoldering a drone's flash chip and reconstructing the firmware from broken data.

Plunging US Birth Rate Leaves Too Many Colleges with Too Few Kids
bloomberg.com
Ask HN: Is it still worth pursuing a software startup?
news.ycombinator.com
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Justice Dept. launches criminal investigation of Minnesota governor
washingtonpost.com

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