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Orion 1.0 – Browse Beyond
blog.kagi.com
Roblox is a problem – but it's a symptom of something worse
platformer.news

What is the role of tech journalism in a world where CEOs no longer feel shame?

FLUX.2: Frontier Visual Intelligence
bfl.ai

Today, we release FLUX.2, our most capable model to date.

Voyager 1 approaches one light day from Earth
newatlas.com

As it heads out of the solar system never to return, the deep space probe Voyager 1 is headed for yet another cosmic milestone. In late 2026, it will become the first spacecraft to travel so far that a radio signal from Earth takes 24 hours, or one light day, to reach it.

Launch HN: Onyx (YC W24) – The open-source chat UI
news.ycombinator.com
launch
Apt Rust requirement raises questions
lwn.net

It is rarely newsworthy when a project or package picks up a new dependency. However, changes i [...]

Brain has five 'eras' with adult mode not starting until early 30s
theguardian.com

Study suggests brain development has four pivotal ‘turning points’ at around the ages of nine, 32, 66 and 83

Trillions Spent and Big Software Projects Are Still Failing
spectrum.ieee.org

Why do software failures persist despite soaring IT budgets? Dive into the complexities that keep success elusive.

Making Crash Bandicoot (2011)
all-things-andy-gavin.com

As one of the co-creators of Crash Bandicoot, I have been (slowly) writing a long series of posts on the making of everyone’s favorite orange marsupial. You can find them all below, so enjoy.…

What you can get for the price of a Netflix subscription
nmil.dev

nmil.dev - A couple of weeks ago, I decided to do away with my Netflix subscription. I simply was barely using it, and whenever I did it was more ou...

Most Stable Raspberry Pi? Better NTP with Thermal Management
austinsnerdythings.com

Austin - I’ve written before about building microsecond-accurate NTP servers with Raspberry Pi and GPS PPS, and more recently about revisiting the setup in 2025. Both posts focused on the hardware setup and basic configuration to achieve sub-microsecond time synchronization using GPS Pulse Per Second (PPS) signals. But there was a problem. Despite having a stable PPS […]

Human brains are preconfigured with instructions for understanding the world
news.ucsc.edu

Emily Cerf - Assistant Professor of Biomolecular Engineering Tal Sharf's lab used organoids to make fundamental discoveries about human brain development.

Why I (Still) Love Linux ?
it-notes.dragas.net

Stefano Marinelli - I usually publish articles about how much I love the BSDs or illumos distributions, but today I want to talk about Linux (or, better, GNU/Linux) and why, despite everything, it still holds a place in my heart.

Windows GUI – Good, Bad and Pretty Ugly (2023)
creolened.com
Microsoft doesn't understand the dislike for Windows' new direction
xda-developers.com

You don't need to ask them twice.

EPA just approved new 'forever chemical' pesticides for use on food
washingtonpost.com
DoGE "cut muscle, not fat"; 26K experts rehired after brutal cuts
arstechnica.com

Government brain drain will haunt US after DOGE abruptly terminated.

Fifteen Years
xkcd.com
New report calls for end to child marriage in the US
womensmediacenter.com

While the United States has pledged to eliminate forced and child marriage by the year 2030, there are still 34 states where child marriage is still permitted.

AI has a deep understanding of how this code works
github.com/ocaml

DWARF v5 Debugging Support for OCaml Native Compiler This PR adds DWARF v5 debug information to the OCaml native compiler, allowing proper source-level debugging in GDB and LLDB. What's Impleme...

PRC Elites Voice AI-Skepticism
jamestown.org
PS5 now costs less than 64GB of DDR5 memory. RAM jumps to $600 due to shortage
tomshardware.com

You can spend $50 more to get an entire PS5 Pro.

Unpowered SSDs slowly lose data
xda-developers.com

SSDs aren't ideal for long-term data storage

Claude Advanced Tool Use
anthropic.com

Claude can now discover, learn, and execute tools dynamically to enable agents that take action in the real world. Here’s how.

Claude Opus 4.5
anthropic.com

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

Pebble Watch software is now open source
ericmigi.com

Eric Migicovsky - Pebble Watch Software Is Now 100% Open Source + Tick Talk #4 - PT2 Demos!

Google's new 'Aluminium OS' project brings Android to PC
androidauthority.com

Goodbye ChromeOS, hello Aluminium OS: Here's everything we know about Google's plans to bring Android to PCs!

GrapheneOS migrates server infrastructure from France
privacyguides.org

The GrapheneOS project has announced on X that they are ceasing all operations in France, asserting that the country is no longer safe for "open source projects"

Is your Android TV streaming box part of a botnet?
krebsonsecurity.com
Launch HN: Karumi (YC F25) – Personalized, agentic product demos
karumi.ai
launch

Karumi is an AI-powered product expert that joins your video calls to deliver live product demos, answer questions, and guide customers in real time. Transform sales, support, and internal training with intelligent, interactive AI assistance.

The Bitter Lesson of LLM Extensions
sawyerhood.com
TSMC Arizona outage saw fab halt, Apple wafers scrapped
culpium.com

Tim Culpan - [Exclusive] Supply of industrial gases used for chipmaking was interrupted when power at a vendor's facilities was cut.

Mind-reading devices can now predict preconscious thoughts
nature.com

Ethicists say AI-powered advances will threaten the privacy and autonomy of people who use neurotechnology.

Show HN: I built an interactive HN Simulator
news.ysimulator.run
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Cool-retro-term: terminal emulator which mimics look and feel of CRTs
github.com/Swordfish90

A good looking terminal emulator which mimics the old cathode display... - Swordfish90/cool-retro-term

Implications of AI to schools
twitter.com
In wake of Windows 10 retirement, over 780K Windows users skip Win 11 for Linux
tomshardware.com

Windows-like Linux distribution claims over a million downloads in the past month for its latest build.

France threatens GrapheneOS with arrests / server seizure for refusing backdoors
mamot.fr

Attached: 1 image Deux articles du Parisien hier, suivis aujourd'hui d'un article du Figaro, ont lancé une offensive honteuse contre GrapheneOS, un système d'exploitation open-source pour téléphones, gratuit et accessible à toutes et tous. À La Quadrature, c'est un des outils que nous privilégions et recommandons régulièrement pour se protéger du tracking publicitaire ou des spywares. https://archive.is/2025111908

Britain is one of the richest countries. So why do children live in poverty?
cnn.com

Issy Ronald - Child poverty has reached a record high in the United Kingdom as the country’s cost of living soars and its social security safety net falters following years of government austerity.

A New Raspberry Pi Imager
raspberrypi.com
France threatens GrapheneOS with arrests / server seizure for refusing backdoors
mamot.fr
X Just Accidentally Exposed a Covert Influence Network Targeting Americans
weaponizedspaces.substack.com

Caroline Orr Bueno, PhD - How a new X feature led to the most sweeping public exposure of covert foreign activity on a major platform since 2016.

Shai Hulud launches second supply-chain attack
aikido.dev

The threat actor behind “Shai Hulud 2.0” launched a new malware campaign compromising the supply chain of Zapier, ENS Domains and more — exposing secrets, injecting malicious code, and enabling widespread developer-environment takeover.

Booking.com cancels $4K hotel reservation, offers same rooms again for $17K
cbc.ca

When an Ontario woman made a $4,300 hotel reservation on Booking.com, she never expected the website would cancel it, then offer her the same accommodations for quadruple the price. A digital rights lawyer says such cases show how weak consumer protections allow online platforms to shift risk and costs onto travellers.

US 'Homeland Security' Twitter account seemingly run from Israel
thecanary.co

Willem Moore - Elon Musk's latest Twitter location data update seemed to reveal that something very strange is going on with the US and Israel

Show HN: Cynthia – Reliably play MIDI music files – MIT / Portable / Windows
blaizenterprises.com
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Fast Lua runtime written in Rust
astra.arkforge.net

🔥 Blazingly Fast 🔥 lua runtime

Jimmy Cliff has died
theguardian.com

Star of The Harder They Come had hits including You Can Get It If You Really Want and I Can See Clearly Now

Trade Chaos Causes Businesses to Rethink Their Relationship with the U.S.
nytimes.com
Bureau of Meteorology's new boss asked to examine $96M bill for website redesign
abc.net.au

Federal Environment Minister Murray Watt has asked the weather agency's new boss to examine how the website's cost and redesign went so wrong.

Chrome Jpegxl Issue Reopened
issues.chromium.org
NSA and IETF, part 3: Dodging the issues at hand
blog.cr.yp.to
I put a real search engine into a Lambda, so you only pay when you search
nixiesearch.substack.com

Roman Grebennikov - How we compiled a Lucene-based JVM search engine into native code, moved the index to S3+EFS, and managed to cold-start it in 600 milliseconds, and still failed to make the setup reasonably fast.

Shai-Hulud Returns: Over 300 NPM Packages Infected
helixguard.ai

Supply chain security, vulnerability intelligence, and malware detection.

General principles for the use of AI at CERN
home.web.cern.ch

Artificial intelligence (AI) can be found at CERN in many contexts: embedded in devices, software products and cloud services procured by CERN, brought on-site by individuals or developed in-house. Following the approval of a CERN-wide AI strategy, these general principles are designed to promote the responsible and ethical use, development and deployment (collectively “use”) of AI at CERN. They are technology neutra

Posthog NPM packages are compromised
twitter.com
A fast EDN (Extensible Data Notation) reader written in C11 with SIMD boost
github.com/DotFox

A fast, zero-copy EDN (Extensible Data Notation) reader written in C11 with SIMD acceleration. - DotFox/edn.c

Fifty Shades of OOP
lesleylai.info

Lesley Lai - This post talks about the many different aspects under the umbrella term OOP

Build a Compiler in Five Projects
kmicinski.com
A One-Minute ADHD Test
psychotechnology.substack.com

Sasha Putilin - I'm writing 30 posts in 30 days at Inkhaven. This is number 23.

Git 3.0 will use main as the default branch
thoughtbot.com

A quiet but important milestone for Git.

What OpenAI did when ChatGPT users lost touch with reality
nytimes.com
The feds want to make it illegal to even possess an anarchist zine
theintercept.com

Seth Stern - Daniel Sanchez is facing federal charges for what free speech advocates say is a clear attack on the First Amendment.

Lambda Calculus – Animated Beta Reduction of Lambda Diagrams
cruzgodar.com
Build desktop applications using Go and Web Technologies
github.com/wailsapp

Create beautiful applications using Go. Contribute to wailsapp/wails development by creating an account on GitHub.

Insurers retreat from AI cover as risk of multibillion-dollar claims mounts
ft.com

AIG, Great American and WR Berkley seek permission to limit liability from AI agents and chatbots

RuBee
computer.rip
Japan's gamble to turn island of Hokkaido into global chip hub
bbc.com

The country once led the world in semiconductors and electronics, but over the years it fell behind Taiwan, South Korea and China.

The Cloudflare outage might be a good thing
gist.github.com

The CloudFlare outage was a good thing. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

Show HN: Stun LLMs with thousands of invisible Unicode characters
gibberifier.com
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McMaster Carr – The Smartest Website You Haven't Heard Of (2022)
bedelstein.com

lessons in UI design from an industrial supply company.

We stopped roadmap work for a week and fixed bugs
lalitm.com

Lalit Maganti - It’s Friday at 4pm. I’ve just closed my 12th bug of the week. My brain is completely fried. And I’m staring at the bug leaderboard, genuinely sad that Monday means going back to regular work. Which is weird because I love regular work. But fixit weeks have a special place in my heart. What’s a fixit, you ask? Once a quarter, my org with ~45 software engineers stops all regular work for a week. That means no roadmap w

B-Trees: Why Every Database Uses Them
mehmetgoekce.substack.com

Mehmet Gökçe - Understanding the data structure that makes databases fast on disk

US issues security NOTAM for Venezuelan airspace
flightradar24.com

Ian Petchenik - The US FAA issued a security notice for Venezuelan airspace, warning operators of civilian aircraft of potential dangers.

Ask HN: Hearing aid wearers, what's hot?
news.ycombinator.com
ask
Passing the Torch – My Last Root DNSSEC KSK Ceremony as Crypto Officer 4
technotes.seastrom.com
My Life Is a Lie: How a Broken Benchmark Broke America
yesigiveafig.com

Michael W. Green - How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America

Ego, empathy, and humility at work
matthogg.fyi

In our daily lives empathy and humility are obvious virtues we aspire to. They keep our egos in check. Less obvious is that they're practical skills in the workplace, too. I think, for developers and technical leaders in particular, that the absence of ego is the best way to further our careers and do great work.

'Invisible' microplastics spread in skies as global pollutant
asahi.com

Minuscule airborne plastic particles are spreading to all corners of the planet, penetrating deep into human bodies and sparking alarm among researchers of the relatively new subject matter.

Doge 'doesn't exist' with eight months left on its charter
reuters.com
ISPs more likely to throttle netizens who connect through CG-NAT: Cloudflare
theregister.com

: When operators see danger, innocent users are dragged down along with bad actors

Tell HN: Wanted to Give Dang Appreciation
news.ycombinator.com
ask
X's new country-of-origin feature reveals many 'US' accounts to be foreign-run
hindustantimes.com

Elon Musk's X, formerly Twitter, has rolled out a feature where going to the ‘Joined’ tab on one's profile, displays the country of origin for that account.

Sunsetting Supermaven
supermaven.com

We will provide free autocomplete inference for existing customers for the foreseeable future.

Show HN: I wrote a minimal memory allocator in C
github.com/t9nzin
show

a custom memory allocator in C. Contribute to t9nzin/memory development by creating an account on GitHub.

A desktop app for isolated, parallel agentic development
github.com/coder

A desktop app for isolated, parallel agentic development - coder/mux

Iowa City made its buses free. Traffic cleared, and so did the air
nytimes.com
Particle Life
sandbox-science.com

DicSo92 - Discover Particle Life, an interactive and educational particle simulator to understand physical phenomena and particle system dynamics.

Several core problems with Rust
bykozy.me
Meet the AI workers who tell their friends and family to stay away from AI
theguardian.com

When the people making AI seem trustworthy are the ones who trust it the least, it shows that incentives for speed are overtaking safety, experts say

µcad: New open source programming language that can generate 2D sketches and 3D
microcad.xyz
"Good engineering management" is a fad
lethain.com

As I get older, I increasingly think about whether I’m spending my time the right way to advance my career and my life. This is also a question that your company asks about you every performance cycle: is this engineering manager spending their time effectively to advance the company or their organization? Confusingly, in my experience, answering these nominally similar questions has surprisingly little in common. Th

Thiel, Karp, Ellison, Catz, Bezos, Lessin appear in newly leaked Israel emails
sfstandard.com

A hacked trove of emails reveals the revolving door of political leaders, tech billionaires, and intelligence officers.

1M Downloads of Zorin OS 18
blog.zorin.com
Why Autoimmune Diseases Rise Sharply After 50
wsj.com
Scoop: Judge Caught Using AI to Read His Court Decisions
migrantinsider.com

Pablo Manríquez - Newly obtained EOIR records reveal Judge John P. Burns uses artificial intelligence for courtroom decisions, deepening concerns about politicized hiring, secrecy, and the slow automation of justice.

Fran Sans – font inspired by San Francisco light rail displays
emilysneddon.com

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Apple to focus on 'quality and underlying performance' with iOS 27 next year
9to5mac.com

Michael Burkhardt - This past year, Apple overhauled its design language across all of its major software platforms with the introduction of Liquid...

Native Secure Enclave backed SSH keys on macOS
gist.github.com

Native Secure Enclaved backed ssh keys on MacOS . GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

SVG.js v3.2
svgjs.dev

The lightweight library for manipulating and animating SVG. SVG.js has no dependencies and aims to be as small as possible.

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