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Apple’s head of user interface design, Alan Dye, will join Meta
cnbc.com
Average DRAM price in USD over last 18 months
pcpartpicker.com
Kea DHCP: Modern, open source DHCPv4 and DHCPv6 server
isc.org

Internet Systems Consortium - Modern, open source DHCPv4 & DHCPv6 server

Acme, a brief history of one of the protocols which has changed the Internet
blog.brocas.org

ACME, a brief history of one of the protocols which has changed the Internet Security Preamble I would like to share with you this article I wrote about the ACME protocol, which I “fell in love with” about ten years ago. It is for me a way to give back to this fantastic Free Software and Open Protocols developers community. This article is about the roots, the conception, the standardization, the relation with its ec

Palantir CEO Says Making War Crimes Constitutional Would Be Good for Business
gizmodo.com

Ece Yildirim - Alex Karp vows to use his "whole influence" on immigration and defense policy.

Why doesn't Apple make a standalone Touch ID?
jeffgeerling.com
We Built an AI-Agent to Debug 1000s of Databases – and Cut Incident Time by 90%
databricks.com

At Databricks, we’ve replaced manual database operations with AI-assisted debugging. Here are the key lessons we learned building it.

Greeting Vocalizations in Domestic Cats Are More Frequent with Male Caregivers
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
8086 Microcode Browser
nand2mario.github.io
Chips for the Rest of Us
engineering.nyu.edu

Tandon researchers are putting the power of chip design into more hands with open-source tools, AI-assisted development, and applied teaching.

Agentic Development Environment by JetBrains
air.dev

JetBrains - Air is an agentic development environment. Delegate complex coding tasks to AI agents that work in parallel – always under your oversight.

Checked-size array parameters in C
lwn.net

There are many possible programmer mistakes that are not caught by the minimal checks specified [...]

Show HN: I built a dashboard to compare mortgage rates across 120 credit unions
finfam.app
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Compare daily mortgage rates from over 120 credit unions. See median rates, trends, and calculate your estimated monthly payment.

After nearly 30 years, Crucial will stop selling RAM to consumers
arstechnica.com

Micron cites AI data center demand as reason for killing DIY upgrade brand.

Apple Design Official Alan Dye Poached by Meta in Major Coup
bloomberg.com
Everyone in Seattle hates AI
jonready.com
Lie groups are crucial to some of the most fundamental theories in physics
quantamagazine.org

By combining the language of groups with that of geometry and linear algebra, Marius Sophus Lie created one of math’s most powerful tools.

The only winning move is not to play
gregg.io

Let’s not debase ourselves as user researchers further

'Carspreading' is on the rise – and not everyone is happy about it
bbc.co.uk

In the UK and across Europe, cars are becoming longer, wider and heavier.

Ghostty is now non-profit
mitchellh.com
Formally verifying Advent of Code using Dijkstra's program construction
haripm.com
Micron to exit consumer memory business amid global supply shortage
reuters.com
Show HN: Microlandia, a brutally honest city builder
microlandia.city
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Learn about Microlandia, a city-building simulation game.

Stop talking
gurkan.in
Micron Announces Exit from Crucial Consumer Business
investors.micron.com
Prompt Injection via Poetry
wired.com

Matthew Gault - It turns out all the guardrails in the world won’t protect a chatbot from meter and rhyme.

Launch HN: Phind 3 (YC S22) – Every answer is a mini-app
news.ycombinator.com
launch
Reverse engineering a $1B Legal AI tool exposed 100k+ confidential files
alexschapiro.com

Timeline & Responsible Disclosure

1D Conway's Life glider found, 3.7B cells long
conwaylife.com
Steam Deck lead reveals Valve is funding ARM compatibility of Windows games
frvr.com

Lewis White - Steam Deck creator Pierre-Loup Griffais explains that Valve is funding ARM compatibility layers for future ultraportables.

Django 6.0 Released
djangoproject.com

Posted by Natalia Bidart on Dec. 3, 2025

Critical RCE Vulnerabilities in React and Next.js
wiz.io

Detect and mitigate CVE-2025-55182 and CVE-2025-66478, critical RCE vulnerabilities in React and Next.js.

RCE Vulnerability in React and Next.js
github.com/vercel

A vulnerability affects certain React packages1 for versions 19.0.0, 19.1.0, 19.1.1, and 19.2.0 and frameworks that use the affected packages, including Next.js 15.x and 16.x using the A...

MinIO is now in maintenance-mode
github.com/minio
Critical Security Vulnerability in React Server Components
react.dev

The library for web and native user interfaces

VA staff flag dangerous errors in Oracle-built electronic health record
washingtonpost.com
Why are my headphones buzzing whenever I run my game?
alexene.dev

Alexandru Ene - Background

Microsoft lowers AI software growth targets
finance.yahoo.com

Multiple divisions at ​Microsoft have ‌lowered sales growth ‌targets for certain artificial intelligence products after many ⁠sales ‌staff missed goals in the ‍fiscal year that ended in June, ​The Information ‌reported on Wednesday. It is rare for Microsoft to lower quotas for ⁠specific products, ​the ​report said, citing two salespeople in ‍the ⁠Azure cloud unit.

Show HN: Fresh – A new terminal editor built in Rust
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Mapping the US healthcare system’s financial flows
healthisotherpeople.substack.com

Andrew Tsang - Mapping Every Dollar of America's $5 Trillion Healthcare System

GSWT: Gaussian Splatting Wang Tiles
yunfan.zone
“Captain Gains” on Capitol Hill
nber.org
Helldivers 2 devs slash install size from 154GB to 23GB
tomshardware.com

PC players can now opt into a slim version that’s 85% smaller.

You can't fool the optimizer
xania.org
Satellite captures the first detailed look at a giant tsunami
earth.com

A rare SWOT pass mapped a Pacific tsunami in detail, exposing hidden wave complexity and showing why forecasting models need a major update.

The "Mad Men" in 4K on HBO Max Debacle
fxrant.blogspot.com

Reader warning: there's gonna be a lot of pretend puke photos in this post. If you've fired up HBO Max recently, you've probably seen that o...

Are we repeating the telecoms crash with AI datacenters?
martinalderson.com

Looking at actual token demand growth, infrastructure utilization, and capacity constraints - the economics don't match the 2000s playbook like people assume

India scraps order to pre-install state-run cyber safety app on smartphones
bbc.com

The order to make the registration mandatory had led to a major backlash from several cyber experts.

Anthropic taps IPO lawyers as it races OpenAI to go public
ft.com

San Francisco-based Anthropic has asked Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati to begin work on an initial public offering (IPO) that could take place as early

Codeberg is down
status.codeberg.org

This is an overview of the Codeberg Infrastructure. Uptime stats are calculated over the past 24 hours only. **Regular maintenance window:** We're meeting

Apple will not let me join the Developer Program – and will not say why
blog.kulman.sk

Igor Kulman - Trying to join the Apple Developer Program as an indie and being blocked by an unexplained automated decision.

Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service
theregister.com

: Zig prez complains about 'vibe-scheduling' after safe sleep bug goes unaddressed for eons

Accepting US car standards would risk European lives
etsc.eu

Opening the EU market to vehicles certified under US standards would weaken the protections that save lives in Europe, say more than 80 civil society organisations and the administrations of Amsterdam…

Researchers Find Microbe Capable of Producing Oxygen from Martian Soil
scienceclock.com

When we talk about the possibility of humans living on Mars, one of the biggest challenges is not the rockets or the habitats, but something far more basic:

AI Is Breaking the Moral Foundation of Modern Society
eyeofthesquid.com
Quad9 DOH HTTP/1.1 Retirement, December 15, 2025
quad9.net

A public and free DNS service for a better security and privacy

Sending DMARC reports is somewhat hazardous
utcc.utoronto.ca
Interview with RollerCoaster Tycoon's Creator, Chris Sawyer (2024)
medium.com
Understanding ECDSA
avidthinker.github.io
Japanese game devs face font dilemma as license increases from $380 to $20k
gamesindustry.biz

Japanese game makers are struggling to locate affordable commercial fonts after one of the country's leading font licen…

Kohler Can Access Pictures from "End-to-End Encrypted" Toilet Camera
varlogsimon.leaflet.pub

Claimed end-to-end privacy doesn’t fully conceal your rear-end data

The Rise and Fall of the H-1B Visa – American Affairs Journal
americanaffairsjournal.org

Brian Dan-Ding - The negative consequences of the H-1B can be traced back to its conception and design; the story of who crafted the visa, which firms and lobbies pressed hardest for its passage into law, and how it became Big Tech’s preferred option has largely gone untold. And while it is, of course, a natural feature of American life for businesses to lobby the government for policies that would benefit their bottom lines, what st

DOOM could have had PC Speaker Music
lenowo.org

I'm guessing everyone here has played DOOM before, or at least seen someone else play the game. It would also not be of any news for most here, that DOOM has sp

Exploring Large HTML Documents on the Web
calendar.perfplanet.com

Most HTML documents are relatively small, providing a starting point for other resources on the page to load. But why do some websites load several megabytes of HTML code? Usually it's not that there's a lot of content on the page, but rather that other types of resources are embedded within the do

Windows 11 October 2025 Update Triggers Major Gaming Performance Regression
guru3d.com
AI generated font using Nano Banana
constanttime.notion.site

A tool that connects everyday work into one space. It gives you and your teams AI tools—search, writing, note-taking—inside an all-in-one, flexible workspace.

EmacsConf 2025
emacsconf.org
Ecosia: The greenest AI is here
blog.ecosia.org

We’re building the world’s greenest AI. Find out how we’re harnessing new technology while continuing our mission of putting people and the planet first.

Steam on Linux Use Easily Hits an All-Time High in November
phoronix.com
We're committing $6.25B to give 25M children a financial head start
onedell.com

dan.stasiewski@dell.org - This contribution will fund $250 deposits for children ages 10 and under, expanding early access to investment accounts powered by Invest America.

Head of Germany's Sovereign Tech Agency believes that Europe must invest in OSS
english.elpais.com

Manuel G. Pascual - The head of Germany’s Sovereign Tech Agency believes that Europe must invest in open source to achieve technological independence

Valve reveals it’s the architect behind a push to bring Windows games to Arm
theverge.com

Sean Hollister - The Steam Frame is a Trojan horse carrying Arm’s gaming future.

Paged Out
pagedout.institute

Deeply technical zine. And it's free.

Free static site generator for small restaurants and cafes
lite.localcafe.org

Home made pasta like your ma' used to make it

In defense of lock poisoning in Rust
sunshowers.io

It's worth retaining one of multithreaded Rust's most valuable features.

Claude 4.5 Opus’ Soul Document
lesswrong.com

Simon Willison - Richard Weiss managed to get Claude 4.5 Opus to spit out this 14,000 token document which Claude called the "Soul overview". Richard says: While extracting Claude 4.5 Opus' system message …

Amazon launches Trainium3
techcrunch.com

Julie Bort - AWS has been building its own AI chips — and systems — for years now. It just released its third version, known as Trainium3, with some impressive specs.  

Microsoft won't let me pay a $24 bill, blocking thousands in Azure spending
news.ycombinator.com
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Cursed circuits: charge pump voltage halver
lcamtuf.substack.com

lcamtuf - There's plenty of circuits that are hard to understand because they're complicated. And some that are hard to make sense of because they seem too simple.

IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending on AI data centers will pay off
businessinsider.com

Henry Chandonnet - IBM CEO Arvind Krishna walked through some napkin math on Big Tech's AI data center spending — and raised some doubts on if it'll prove profitable.

Anthropic acquires Bun
bun.com

Bun has been acquired by Anthropic. Anthropic is betting on Bun as the infrastructure powering Claude Code, Claude Agent SDK, and future AI coding products & tools.

Anthropic Acquires Bun
anthropic.com

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

100k TPS over a billion rows: the unreasonable effectiveness of SQLite
andersmurphy.com
How Home Assistant became the most important project in your house
github.blog

Andrea Griffiths - Learn how one of GitHub’s fastest-growing open source projects is redefining smart homes without the cloud.

School cell phone bans and student achievement
nber.org
The Junior Hiring Crisis
people-work.io

AI isn’t replacing everyone. It’s removing the apprenticeship ladder. Here’s what that means for students, early-career professionals, and the tech industry’s future.

Progress on TypeScript 7 – December 2025
devblogs.microsoft.com

Daniel Rosenwasser - Earlier this year, the TypeScript team announced that we’ve been porting the compiler and language service to native code to take advantage of better raw performance, memory usage, and parallelism. This effort (codenamed “Project Corsa”, and soon “TypeScript 7.0”) has been a significant undertaking, but we’ve made big strides in the past few months. We’re […]

Apple to beat Samsung in smartphone shipments for first time in 14 years
sherwood.news

Apple will ship about 243 million phones this year, compared to Samsung’s 235 million, according to CNBC....

Memtest86+ v8.00 Released
github.com/memtest86plus

This release include some significant internal updates, adds CLang/LLD support, and now ships as a single binary for both UEFI and legacy boot. Complete changelog: Add support for latest Intel CPU...

4.3M Browsers Infected: Inside ShadyPanda's 7-Year Malware Campaign
koi.ai
Peter Thiel's Apocalyptic Worldview Is a Dangerous Fantasy
jacobin.com

Peter Thiel recently generated headlines with his rambling diatribes about the Antichrist. Thiel’s lurid, apocalyptic view of world politics may be ludicrous or even deranged, but his wealth and power mean that we can’t afford to ignore it.

Fallout 2's Chris Avellone describes his game design philosophy
arstechnica.com

Avellone recaps his journey from learning on a TRS-80 to today.

Is 2026 next year?
google.com
Mistral 3 family of models released
mistral.ai

A family of frontier open-source multimodal models

OpenAI declares 'code red' as Google catches up in AI race
theverge.com

Robert Hart - Google’s own ‘code red’ response to ChatGPT has started paying off.

Show HN: Marmot – Single-binary data catalog (no Kafka, no Elasticsearch)
github.com/marmotdata
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Marmot helps teams discover, understand, and leverage their data with powerful search and lineage visualisation tools. It's designed to make data accessible for everyone. - marmotdata/marmot

AI Is Destroying the University and Learning Itself
currentaffairs.org

Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.

Nixtml: Static website and blog generator written in Nix
github.com/arnarg

Static website and blog generator written in nix. Contribute to arnarg/nixtml development by creating an account on GitHub.

Claude 4.5 Opus' Soul Document
lesswrong.com

Summary Update 2025-12-02: Amanda Askell has kindly confirmed that the document was used in supervised learning and will share the full version and m…

Jury trials scrapped for crimes with sentences of less than three years
bbc.co.uk

The reforms are being brought in to tackle unprecedented delays in the Crown Court.

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