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Electrolysis can solve one of our biggest contamination problems
ethz.ch

ETH Zurich researchers have developed a process that can be used on site to render environmental toxins such as DDT and lindane harmless and convert them into valuable chemicals – a breakthrough for the remediation of contaminated sites and a sustainable circular economy. 

Toro: Deploy Applications as Unikernels
github.com/torokernel

This repository contains the source code of toro unikernel - torokernel/torokernel

Show HN: 22 GB of Hacker News in SQLite
hackerbook.dosaygo.com
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Ask HN: Any example of successful vibe-coded product?
news.ycombinator.com
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What Happened to Abit Motherboards
dfarq.homeip.net

Dave Farquhar - Capacitor plague and bad accounting practices were a lethal one-two punch

The Legacy of Undersea Cables
blog.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk

Former assistant curator trainee Jasmin Taylor explores how the history and unheard voices behind the undersea telegraph cable are replicated in modern communication technology.

The 70% AI productivity myth: why most companies aren't seeing the gains
sderosiaux.substack.com

Stephane Derosiaux - "I've never felt this much behind as a programmer." That's Andrej Karpathy, OpenAI co-founder and one of the most respected AI researchers alive, writing in December 2025

Public Sans – A strong, neutral typeface
public-sans.digital.gov

A strong, neutral, open source typeface for text or display.

Win32 is the stable Linux ABI
loss32.org
No strcpy either
daniel.haxx.se

Some time ago I mentioned that we went through the curl source code and eventually got rid of all strncpy() calls. strncpy() is a weird function with a crappy API. It might not null terminate the destination and it pads the target buffer with zeroes. Quite frankly, most code bases are probably better off completely … Continue reading no strcpy either →

The British empire's resilient subsea telegraph network
subseacables.blogspot.com

subsea cables, internet infrastructure, telecom infrastructure, 2Africa, new subsea cable projects, layer 1 pricing on key international routes,

Approachable Swift Concurrency
fuckingapproachableswiftconcurrency.com

Fucking Approachable Swift Concurrency - A no-bullshit guide to Swift concurrency. Learn async/await, actors, Sendable, and MainActor with simple mental models. No jargon, just clear explanations.

Times New American: A Tale of Two Fonts
hsu.cy

A less romantic truth is that aesthetic standards rarely travel alone; power tends to follow in their wake. An episode at the U.S. State Department this month makes exactly this point.

Groq investor sounds alarm on data centers
axios.com
Singapore Study Links Heavy Infant Screen Time to Teen Anxiety
bloomberg.com
Non-Zero-Sum Games
nonzerosum.games

NonZeroSumJames - ~ a world-help site ~

Nicolas Guillou, French ICC judge sanctioned by the US and “debanked”
lemonde.fr

Six judges and three prosecutors at the International Criminal Court have been sanctioned by the Trump administration. In an interview with Le Monde, Guillou discusses the impact of these measures on his work and daily life.

Netflix Open Content
opencontent.netflix.com

At Netflix, we are always exploring ways to make our content look and sound even better. To provide a common reference for prototyping bleeding-edge technologies within entertainment, technology and academic circles without compromising the security of our original and licensed programming, we've

HSBC blocks its app due to F-Droid-installed Bitwarden
mastodon.neilzone.co.uk

Attached: 1 image HSBC has chosen to block its mobile app on my phone because *checks notes* I've got a password manager, Bitwarden, installed via F-Droid. Its solution is for me to remove Bitwarden. My solution is to stop using HSBC's app.

You Need to Ditch VS Code
jrswab.com

Learn how breaking free from GUIbased IDEs can level up your programming skills and make you a more capable developer.

Go away Python
lorentz.app

The personal website of Lorentz Kinde, a Cloud Engineer.

Still using Firefox – but not because of its vision
blog.kulman.sk

Igor Kulman - For years I have been using Firefox as my primary browser. Not out of ideology or nostalgia, but because it did the job well enough and stayed out of the way. Lately, however, I have been increasingly uncomfortable with where Firefox is heading — and yet I am still using it. This post is about why. Firefox’s new direction In December 2025, Mozilla made it clear that Firefox is entering an “AI browser” phase.

Charm Ruby – Glamorous Terminal Libraries for Ruby
charm-ruby.dev

Marco Roth - Ruby ports of the beloved Charm terminal libraries. Build glamorous TUIs, style terminal output, create beautiful forms, and make your Ruby CLIs sparkle.

Hacking Washing Machines [video]
media.ccc.de

Hajo Noerenberg - Almost everyone has a household appliance at home, whether it's a washing machine, dishwasher, or dryer. Despite their ubiquity, little i...

Outside, Dungeon, Town: Integrating the Three Places in Videogames (2024)
keithburgun.net

Videogames, at least the kind I’m talking about (RPGs, adventure kinds of somewhat narrative videogames, Zelda games, Elden Ring, etc), have essentially three “places”: Outside &#…

MongoDB Server Security Update, December 2025
mongodb.com

The following is an update on the security vulnerability identified in December 2025.

Stranger Things creator says turn off "garbage" settings
screenrant.com

Stranger Things creator tells fans to turn off "garbage" controls.

I migrated to an almost all-EU stack and saved 500€ per year
zeitgeistofbytes.com

Max - “Bye bye bye.” It took some time, and a serious amount of research, but I have finally crossed the finish line. I have officially migrated my digital life to pure, EU-hosted solutions.

Parsing Advances
matklad.github.io
Geology of the Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary
pubs.usgs.gov
Show HN: Stop Claude Code from forgetting everything
github.com/mutable-state-inc
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Contribute to mutable-state-inc/ensue-skill development by creating an account on GitHub.

AI employees don't pay taxes
alec.is
ManusAI Joins Meta
manus.im

Manus is joining Meta, and we’ll continue delivering our current services while accelerating product improvements to bring more powerful, reliable general AI agent capabilities to more users and businesses.

USPS announces changes to the postmark date system
nstp.org
Why the Internet Is Bad for Democracy (2005)
dl.acm.org
Google is dead. Where do we go now?
circusscientist.com

tomjuggler - It’s anecdotal, I know, but my main entertainment business revenue is down 50% over the past 3 months. Our main paid source of leads was Google Ads, which have served us well over the past 10 years or so – I think I know what I am doing in adwords by now. Once per month … Continue reading "Google is dead. Where do we go now?"

Binance's Trust Wallet extension hacked; users lose $7M
web3isgoinggreat.com

Molly White - The Trust Wallet Chrome extension was compromised in an apparent supply chain attack. People who used the non-custodial wallet extension after it updated to version 2.68 lost funds after malicious code was introduced to exfiltrate wallet seed phrases so that the attackers could then drain the wallets. Victims have lost a combined $7 million due to the compromise.Binance founder Changpeng Zhao — who supposedly has no

Which Humans? (2023)
osf.io
Meta's ads tools started switching out top-performing ads with AI-generated ones
businessinsider.com

Lara O'Reilly - What do a granny, a contorted leg, and a flying car have in common? They're all bizarre ads recently whipped up by Meta's generative AI.

Russian Ghost Ship Sank Smuggling Nuclear Reactor Parts Likely Bound for N Korea
united24media.com

The Ursa Major, a Russian cargo ship that sank off Cartagena, was found to carry unlisted nuclear reactor components bound for North Korea.

When someone says they hate your product
getflack.com

Lulu Cheng Meservey - How to reset the thermostat, and CodeRabbit as a case study

All Delisted Steam Games
delistedgames.com

This page gives you direct access to all delisted Steam titles on the site. Below each title are the companies it relates to. An * in the title denotes a placeholder page that contains basic details.

The future of software development is software developers
codemanship.wordpress.com

I’ve been a computer programmer all-told for 43 years. That’s more than half the entire history of electronic programmable computers. In that time, I’ve seen a lot of things chang…

Left Behind: Futurist Fetishists, Prepping and the Abandonment of Earth (2019)
boundary2.org

Sarah T. Roberts and Mél Hogan This essay has been peer-reviewed by "The New Extremism" special issue editors (Adrienne Massanari and David Golumbia), and the b2o: An Online Journal editorial board. "You know, I hear all these rich guys, for some reason they love space. So they're rich. I said, 'let them send the rockets...

AI is forcing us to write good code
bits.logic.inc

Steve Krenzel - When Best Practices Are Best

Loss32: Let's Build a Win32/Linux
loss32.org
LLMs Are Not Fun
orib.dev
The Silicon Valley Stack Doesn't Work Here: Why Africa Will Lead the Post-Bloat
paulallies.medium.com
List of domains censored by German ISPs
cuiiliste.de

Die CUII Liste zeigt dir, welche Domains von der CUII gesperrt sind und wie du die Zensur umgehen kannst.

A production bug that made me care about undefined behavior
gaultier.github.io
Tesla's 4680 battery supply chain collapses as partner writes down deal by 99%
electrek.co

Fred Lambert - A major link in Tesla’s 4680 battery supply chain has just snapped. South Korean battery material supplier L&F Co. announced...

Nvidia takes $5B stake in Intel under September agreement
reuters.com
Show HN: Evidex – AI Clinical Search (RAG over PubMed/OpenAlex and SOAP Notes)
getevidex.com
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Free AI-powered evidence-based medicine tools for medical education

Five Years of Tinygrad
geohot.github.io

The first commit to tinygrad was October 17, 2020. It’s been almost three years since we raised money. The company is 6 people now. The codebase is 18,935 lines not including tests.

GOG is getting acquired by its original co-founder
gog.com

Hey everyone, GOG Team here.

US Confirms Strike on 'Big Facility' Inside Venezuela
bloomberg.com
Static Allocation with Zig
nickmonad.blog

Introducing kv, a statically allocated key/value server.

Swapping SIM cards used to be easy, and then came eSIM
arstechnica.com

Swapping SIM cards used to be easy, and then came eSIM.

Libgodc: Write Go Programs for Sega Dreamcast
github.com/drpaneas

Go runtime for Dreamcast using gccgo and KOS. Contribute to drpaneas/libgodc development by creating an account on GitHub.

Show HN: Vibe coding a bookshelf with Claude Code
balajmarius.com
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I’m a UI engineer turned founder with a background in startups. I co-founded QED in 2021, grew it, and eventually sold it to The Sandbox. Now, I’m focused on building in AI.

UK accounting body to halt remote exams amid AI cheating
theguardian.com

Candidates will have to sit assessments in person unless there are exceptional circumstances, says ACCA

Kidnapped by Deutsche Bahn
theocharis.dev

Jeremy Theocharis - A Christmas Eve journey. Deutsche Bahn. 35 kilometers.

Linux DAW: Help Linux musicians to quickly and easily find the tools they need
linuxdaw.org

Quality audio software for Linux Audio Production such as LV2, VST2, VST3, and CLAP effects, synthesizers and sampler plugins.

Show HN: See what readers who loved your favorite book/author also loved to read
shepherd.com
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Every book is from a reader's top 3 picks for 2025. Vote for your 3 favorite reads.

Kubernetes egress control with squid proxy
interlaye.red
Market design can feed the poor
worksinprogress.co

America's food banks had a broken distribution system. University of Chicago economists fixed it.

Feynman's Hughes Lectures: 950 pages of notes
thehugheslectures.info
EU to build no-fee payments service like Visa/Mastercard and Apple/Google Pay
independent.ie

It’s January 1, 2029, the first day of the digital euro. You are in a shop buying milk and bread, and decide to pay with this new money. How exactly will it work?

Asking Gemini 3 to generate Brainfuck code results in an infinite loop
teodordyakov.github.io
You can't design software you don't work on
seangoedecke.com

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Staying ahead of censors in 2025
forum.torproject.org

by meskio and shelikhoo | December 3, 2025 From internet blackouts in Iran to Russia's evolving censorship tactics, 2025 has tested Tor's anti-censorship tools like never before. These are the moments where the work of Tor's anti-censorship team is more important than ever, to fulfill our mission of preserving connectivity between users in affected regions and the rest of the world. In this blog post, we want t

Show HN: Z80-μLM, a 'Conversational AI' That Fits in 40KB
github.com/HarryR
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Z80-μLM is a 2-bit quantized language model small enough to run on an 8-bit Z80 processor. Train conversational models in Python, export them as CP/M .COM binaries, and chat with your vintage compu...

Huge Binaries
fzakaria.com

A problem I experienced when pursuing my PhD and submitting academic articles was that I had built solutions to problems that required dramatic scale to be effective and worthwhile. Responses to my publication submissions often claimed such problems did not exist; however, I had observed them during my time within industry, such as at Google, but I couldn’t cite it!

Panoramas of Star Trek Sets
mijofr.github.io

MiJoFr - 360° of Star Trek

Show HN: My not-for-profit search engine with no ads, no AI, & all DDG bangs
nilch.org
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John Simpson: 'I've reported on 40 wars but I've never seen a year like 2025'
bbc.com

2025 has been a year of multiple major conflicts and it is becoming clear that one of them has geopolitical implications of unparalleled importance.

My First Meshtastic Network
rickcarlino.com
China launches live-fire drills encircling Taiwan
theguardian.com

Taipei condemns exercise that Chinese army calls ‘a stern warning against “Taiwan independence” separatist forces and external interference forces’

Why I think Valve’s retiring the Steam Deck LCD
gardinerbryant.com

The secret motivations for killing off the LCD model... (it's not the Steam Deck 2)

Fast GPU Interconnect over Radio
spectrum.ieee.org

Can radio cables outshine copper in data centers? Discover how startups are pushing the limits of connectivity with innovative radio-based solutions.

CIA Star Gate Project: An Overview (1993) [pdf]
cia.gov
You can make up HTML tags
maurycyz.com
Self-hosting is being enshittified
troubled.engineer

Self-hosting got harder in 2025. Here's what changed.

Private equity is killing private ownership: first it was housing, now it's PCs
reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace
Rich Hickey: Thanks AI
gist.github.com

Thanks AI! GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

Ask HN: Loneliness at 19, how to cope?
news.ycombinator.com
ask
My app just won best iOS Japanese learning tool of 2025 award (blog)
skerritt.blog

Welcome to the award show everyone! Hosted by your favourite bee... Bee! 🥳 I wanted to summarise the best tools etc out there in 2025, and what better way then to put on a fake award show! And like all true award shows and Christmas themed events, let's get into the

Fast CVVDP implementation in C
github.com/halidecx

Fast CVVDP implementation in C. Contribute to halidecx/fcvvdp development by creating an account on GitHub.

How to complain (2024)
outerproduct.net
CEOs are hugely expensive. Why not automate them? (2021)
newstatesman.com

Will Dunn - If a single role is as expensive as thousands of workers, it is surely the prime candidate for robot-induced redundancy.

Spherical Cow
lib.rs
Slaughtering Competition Problems with Quantifier Elimination (2021)
grossack.site

Anytime I see questions on mse that ask something “simple”, I feel a powerful urge to chime in with “a computer can do this for you!”. Obviously if you’re a researching mathematician you shouldn’t waste your time with something a computer can do for you, but when you’re still learning techniques (or, as is frequently the case on mse, solving homework problems), it’s not a particularly useful comment (so I usually abs

62 years in the making: NYC's newest water tunnel nears the finish line
ny1.com

NY1 visited a NYC water tunnel nearly 800 feet below ground.

As AI gobbles up chips, prices for devices may rise
npr.org

Demand for memory chips currently exceeds supply and there's very little chance of that changing any time soon. More chips for AI means less available for other products such as computers and phones and that could drive up those prices too.

What an unprocessed photo looks like
maurycyz.com
Researchers discover molecular difference in autistic brains
medicine.yale.edu

Isabella Backman - Brains of autistic individuals have fewer of a specific kind of glutamate receptor, supporting an idea that autism is driven by a signaling imbalance.

KDE – Highlights from 2025
pointieststick.com

It’s been a few years since I did an end-of-year “highlights in KDE” post, but hopefully better late than never! 2025 was a big year for KDE — bigger than me or any of us individu…

Keep the Robots Out of the Gym
danielmiessler.com

We have to be very careful about what we ask AI to help us with

Dolphin Progress Report: Release 2512
dolphin-emu.org

With the holiday season reaching its apex, we have a few surprises for those of you that have been patiently waiting. The latest release of Dolphin is stuffed with treats. Our first present is presentation - frame presentation, that is. Two new options have arrived and will help users both…

Why I Disappeared – My week with minimal internet in a remote island chain
kenklippenstein.com

Ken Klippenstein - My week with minimal internet in a remote island chain

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