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YouTube caught making AI-edits to videos and adding misleading AI summaries
ynetnews.com

YouTube is now using AI to alter people's videos without permission. (There are threads about this at https://mastodon.content.town/@operationpuppet/115640694705318541 & https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/@strypey/115598837629003478 etc) This is really disturbing and dangerous. It's more insidious than censorship because viewers cannot tell a video has been altered. If you post to YouTube, I'd strongly recommend you sta

Sam Altman's Dirty DRAM Deal
mooreslawisdead.com

Or: How the AI Bubble, Panic, and Unpreparedness Stole ChristmasWritten by Tom of Moore’s Law Is DeadSpecial Assistance by KarbinCry & kari-no-sugataBased on this Video: https://youtu.be/BORRBce5TGwIntroduction — The Day the RAM Market SnappedAt the beginning of November, I ordered a 32GB DDR5 kit for pairing with a Minisforum BD790i X3D motherboard, and three weeks later those very same sticks of DDR5 are now li

Google 'Looking into' Gmail Hack Locking Users Out with No Recovery
forbes.com

Davey Winder - Google is 'looking into' a devastating Gmail attack that locks users out of their accounts with no way to recover.

Anna's Archive finished releasing all obtained Chinese books
annas-archive.li

We have finally finished the Chinese release which we started 2 years ago. We look at all the work involved.

Adenosine on the common path of rapid antidepressant action: The coffee paradox
genomicpress.kglmeridian.com

Yue, Luo, and colleagues discovered that adenosine signalling is the common underlying mechanism of rapid acting antidepressant therapies, unifying the effects of ketamine, ECT and acute intermittent hypoxia. They use genetically encoded sensors, along with extensive mechanistic dissection, to show that all three induce adenosine surges in mood-regulatory circuits via A1 and A2A receptor activation. The mechanism of

Frank Gehry has died
bbc.co.uk

Frank Gehry was acclaimed for his love of jagged angles and use of industrial materials.

A $20 drug in Europe requires a prescription and $800 in the U.S.
statnews.com

David Maris - A month’s supply of Miebo requires $800 and a prescription in the U.S. In Europe, it’s over-the-counter and $20.

Leaving Intel
brendangregg.com
Perpetual Futures
bitsaboutmoney.com

Crypto’s most popular product offers capital efficiency for professionals, leveraged exposure for the masses, rich yields for market makers — and a poorly understood failure mode.

The missing standard library for multithreading in JavaScript
github.com/W4G1

The missing standard library for multithreading in JavaScript (Works in Node.js, Deno, Bun, Web browser) - W4G1/multithreading

Judge Signals Win for Software Freedom Conservancy in Vizio GPL Case
fossforce.com

Christine Hall - A California judge has tentatively sided with SFC in its GPL case over Vizio’s SmartCast TVs, but the final outcome is still pending.

Advertising as a major source of human dissatisfaction (2019) [pdf]
andrewoswald.com
Fizz Buzz in CSS
susam.net
Framework Sponsors CachyOS
discuss.cachyos.org

Hey CachyOS Community, We have some massive news to share today. Framework, the company behind the modular and repairable laptop revolution, is now sponsoring CachyOS. For an open-source project like ours, finding hardware partners who genuinely care about Linux is rare. Framework has not only provided us with a Framework Laptop 16 to help us optimize our kernel and packages on modern hardware, but they have also c

SpaceX in Talks for Share Sale That Would Boost Valuation to $800B
wsj.com
Why we built Lightpanda in Zig
lightpanda.io

We chose Zig over C++ and Rust because we wanted a simple, modern systems language. Here's what we learned building a browser with it.

Wall Street races to protect itself from AI bubble
rollingout.com

Wall Street lends billions to AI companies while using credit derivatives and sophisticated bonds to hedge against potential bubble risks.

WikiFlix: Full Movies Hosted on Wikimedia Commons
commons.wikimedia.org
The effect of shingles vaccination at different stages of dementia
cell.com
Detainees at 'Alligator Alcatraz' facing 'harrowing human right violations'
theguardian.com

Amnesty International finds immigrants at Florida facility were shackled and left outside in metal cage for up to a day

The AI Backlash Is Here: Why Public Patience with Tech Giants Is Running Out
newsweek.com

Welcome to the slop era.

Jony Ive's OpenAI Device Barred From Using 'io' Name
macrumors.com

A U.S. appeals court has upheld a temporary restraining order that prevents OpenAI and Jony Ive's new hardware venture from using the name "io" for products similar to those planned by AI audio startup iyO, Bloomberg Law reports. iyO sued OpenAI earlier this year after the latter announced its partnership with Ive's new firm, arguing that OpenAI's planned "io" branding was too close to its own name and related to sim

X hit with $140M EU fine for breaching content rules
reuters.com
Synadia and TigerBeetle Pledge $512k to the Zig Software Foundation
tigerbeetle.com
Patterns for Defensive Programming in Rust
corrode.dev

Corrode Rust Consulting - I have a hobby. Whenever I see the comment // this should never happen in code, I try to find out the exact conditions under which it could happen. And in 90% of cases, I find a way to do just that. More often than not…

Zellij: A terminal workspace with batteries included
zellij.dev

A terminal workspace with batteries included

Gemini 3 Pro: the frontier of vision AI
blog.google

Build with Gemini 3 Pro, the best model in the world for multimodal capabilities.

I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
news.ycombinator.com
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Framework Laptop 13 gets ARM processor with 12 cores via upgrade kit
notebookcheck.net

The Framework Laptop 13 has a replaceable mainboard, which means that the processor can be easily upgraded after purchase. While Framework itself only offers Intel and AMD CPUs, a mainboard with a high-performance ARM processor from a third-party manufacturer has now launched.

Cloudflare outage on December 5, 2025
blog.cloudflare.com

Cloudflare experienced a significant traffic outage on December 5, 2025, starting approximately at 8:47 UTC. The incident lasted approximately 25 minutes before resolution. We are sorry for the impact that it caused to our customers and the Internet. The incident was not caused by an attack and was due to configuration changes being applied to attempt to mitigate a recent industry-wide vulnerability impacting React

Jolla Phone Pre-Order
commerce.jolla.com

The independent European Do It Together (DIT) Linux phone, shaped by the people who use it.

Covid-19 mRNA Vaccination and 4-Year All-Cause Mortality
jamanetwork.com
Influential study on glyphosate safety retracted 25 years after publication
lemonde.fr

A 2000 study that concluded the well-known herbicide glyphosate was safe, widely cited since then, has just been officially disavowed by the journal that published it. The scientists are suspected of having signed a text actually prepared by Monsanto.

Show HN: Pbnj – A minimal, self-hosted pastebin you can deploy in 60 seconds
pbnj.sh
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A minimal pastebin for code snippets

Most technical problems are people problems
blog.joeschrag.com

  I once worked at a company which had an enormous amount of technical debt - millions of lines of code, no unit tests, based on frameworks ...

Making RSS More Fun
matduggan.com

I wrote a browser extension to try and make finding random, independent websites more fun.

Linus Torvalds thinks Elon Musk is 'too stupid' to be working at a tech company
neowin.net
Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros
about.netflix.com
Sugars, Gum, Stardust Found in NASA's Asteroid Bennu Samples
nasa.gov

The asteroid Bennu continues to provide new clues to scientists’ biggest questions about the formation of the early solar system and the origins of life. As

Why we can’t quit Excel
bloomberg.com
The US polluters that are rewriting the EU's human rights and climate law
somo.nl

laura - Leaked documents reveal how a secretive alliance of eleven large multinational enterprises has worked to tear down the EU’s flagship human rights and climate law, the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD). The mostly US-based coalition, which calls itself the Competitiveness Roundtable, has targeted all EU institutions, governments in Europe’s capitals, as well as the […]

Kenyan court declares law banning seed sharing unconstitutional
apnews.com

A high court in Kenya has declared unconstitutional sections of a seed law that prevented farmers from sharing and selling indigenous seeds in what food campaigners have called a landmark win for food security.

Cloudflare Is Down
cloudflare.com
Cloudflare Down Again – and DownDetector Is Also Down
news.ycombinator.com
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Cloudflare was down
cloudflare.com
UniFi 5G
blog.ui.com

Discover the U5G Max and UniFi’s next generation 5G lineup featuring effortless setup, ultra fast speeds, rugged outdoor options, and advanced UniFi integration for unmatched performance.

State Department to deny visas to fact checkers and others, citing 'censorship'
npr.org

The order is focused on applicants for H-1B visas, which are frequently used by tech companies and is part of a campaign by the Trump administration against online content moderation.

Netflix becomes frontrunner in bidding war for Warner Bros. Discovery – sources
cnn.com

Brian Stelter - Netflix’s most recent offer, submitted on Thursday, valued the Warner Bros. studio, HBO Max streaming service and related parts of the company at around $28 per share, sources said.

Rats Snatching Bats Out of the Air and Eating Them–Researchers Got It on Video
smithsonianmag.com

Sarah Kuta - Rodents in northern Germany were spotted using two different hunting strategies at major urban bat hibernation sites

Fast trigram based code search
github.com/sourcegraph

Fast trigram based code search . Contribute to sourcegraph/zoekt development by creating an account on GitHub.

Warner Bros Begins Exclusive Deal Talks With Netflix
bloomberg.com
Blogging in 2025: Screaming into the Void
askmike.org
The Disappearance of an Anti-AI Activist
theatlantic.com

Kaitlyn Tiffany - Sam Kirchner wants to save the world from artificial superintelligence. He’s been missing for two weeks.

How Brussels writes so many laws
siliconcontinent.com

Luis Garicano - Explaining Europe’s extraordinary legal productivity

NeurIPS 2025 Best Paper Awards
blog.neurips.cc
BMW PHEV: Safety fuse replacement is extremely expensive
evclinic.eu

2021 > PHEV BMW iBMUCP PHEV Post-Crash Recovery — When EU engineering becomes a synonym for “unrepairable” + "generating waste". If you own a BMW PHEV — or if you’re an insurance company — every pothole, every curb impact, and even every rabbit jumping out of a bush represents a potential €5,0

The Ofcom Files, Part 4: Ofcom Rides Again
prestonbyrne.com

This is a continuation of the Ofcom Files, a series of First Amendment-protected public disclosures designed to inform the American and British public about correspondence that the UK’s censo…

Netflix’s AV1 Journey: From Android to TVs and Beyond
netflixtechblog.com
Trick users and bypass warnings – Modern SVG Clickjacking attacks
lyra.horse

A novel and powerful twist on an old classic.

What is better: a lookup table or an enum type?
cybertec-postgresql.com
Coca Cola has an executive dedicated to McDonald's
coca-colacompany.com

Roberto Mercade is president of The McDonald’s Division (TMD). Learn more about Roberto Mercade & Coca-Cola Leadership.

We gave 5 LLMs $100K to trade stocks for 8 months
aitradearena.com
SMS phishers pivot to points, taxes, fake retailers
krebsonsecurity.com
StardustOS: Library operating system for building light-weight Unikernels
github.com/StardustOS

Stardust is a library operating system for building light-weight Unikernels - StardustOS

State of AI: An Empirical 100T Token Study with OpenRouter
openrouter.ai

An empirical study analyzing over 100 trillion tokens of real-world LLM interactions across tasks, geographies, and time.

YouTuber accidentally crashes the rare plant market with viral cloning technique
dexerto.com

YouTuber ‘Plants in Jars’ explained how she was a driving force in accidentally crashing the rare plant market with one specific method.

Thoughts on Go vs. Rust vs. Zig
sinclairtarget.com

Sinclair Target's personal website.

Countdown until the AI bubble bursts
pop-the-bubble.xyz
Django 6
docs.djangoproject.com

The web framework for perfectionists with deadlines.

CUDA-l2: Surpassing cuBLAS performance for matrix multiplication through RL
github.com/deepreinforce-ai

CUDA-L2: Surpassing cuBLAS Performance for Matrix Multiplication through Reinforcement Learning - deepreinforce-ai/CUDA-L2

A Cozy Mk IV light aircraft crashed after 3D-printed part was weakened by heat
bbc.com

The aircraft was completely destroyed after a spare part bought at an air show in America collapsed.

CJEU has made it effectively impossible to run a user-generated platform legally
techdirt.com

The Court of Justice of the EU—likely without realizing it—just completely shit the bed and made it effectively impossible to run any website in the entirety of the EU that hosts user-generated con…

The RAM shortage comes for us all
jeffgeerling.com
Who Hooked Up a Laptop to a 1930s Dance Hall Machine?
chrisbako.com

Who Hooked Up a Laptop to a 1930s Dance Hall Machine?

Hammersmith Bridge – Where did 25k vehicles go?
nickmaini.substack.com

Nick Maini - Where did 25,000 vehicles go?

I have been writing a niche history blog for 15 years
resobscura.substack.com

Benjamin Breen - A special appeal to support Res Obscura on its Crystal Anniversary

US will now review H-1B applicants' social media – require them to make public
businessinsider.com

Thibault Spirlet - H-1B applicants and their dependents will face expanded online checks as the US tightens scrutiny of skilled-worker visas, a spokesperson said.

Rsync.net Technical Notes – Q4 2025
rsync.net
Why are 38 percent of Stanford students saying they're disabled?
reason.com

Emma Camp - If you get into an elite college, you probably don't have a learning disability.

PyTogether: Collaborative lightweight real-time Python IDE for teachers/learners
github.com/SJRiz

📄🐍 Google Docs for Python. A fully browser-based collaborative IDE with real-time editing, live drawing, and voice chat. - SJRiz/pytogether

Multivox: Volumetric Display
github.com/AncientJames

Contribute to AncientJames/multivox development by creating an account on GitHub.

Launch HN: Browser Buddy (YC W24) – A recommendation system for Internet writing
browserbuddy.com
launch
Autism should not be treated as a single condition
economist.com
Feynman vs. Computer
entropicthoughts.com
Bootloader Unlock Wall of Shame
github.com/zenfyrdev

Keeping track of companies that "care about your data 🥺" - zenfyrdev/bootloader-unlock-wall-of-shame

The Free Software Foundation Europe deleted its account on X
fsfe.org

The Free Software Foundation Europe deleted its account on X. The platform never aligned with our values and no longer serves as a space for communication....

Microsoft drops AI sales targets in half after salespeople miss their quotas
arstechnica.com

Report: Microsoft declared “the era of AI agents” in May, but enterprise customers aren’t buying.

Proxmox Datacenter Manager 1.0 available
proxmox.com

Latest announcements for Proxmox.

Microsoft faces complaint in EU over Israeli surveillance data
france24.com

Microsoft is facing a complaint in the European Union filed by a non-profit organisation alleging it illegally stored data on Palestinians used for Israeli military surveillance.

Show HN: Onlyrecipe 2.0 – I added all features HN requested – 4 years later
onlyrecipeapp.com
show

OnlyRecipe - Save and organize your favorite recipes from any website. Extract recipes, sync across devices, and print beautiful recipe cards.

Transparent leadership beats servant leadership
entropicthoughts.com
Fighting the age-gated internet
wired.com

Jason Parham - Half of the country now requires age verification to watch porn or access “harmful” content. Digital rights advocates are pushing back against legislation they say will make the internet less safe.

Human hair grows through 'pulling' not pushing, study shows
phys.org
RAM is so expensive, Samsung won't even sell it to Samsung
pcworld.com

Due to rising prices from the "AI" bubble, Samsung Semiconductor reportedly refused a RAM order for new Galaxy phones from Samsung Electronics.

Functional Quadtrees
lbjgruppen.com

A Quadtree is a tree data structure, which is useful for giving more focus/detail to certain regions of your data, while saving resources elsewhere. I could only find a couple tutorials/guides and both were imperative, so I figured it'd be fun to do a functional version in Clojure which runs in the browser.

Japanese four-cylinder engine is so reliable still in production after 25 years
topspeed.com

This Honda engine remains a crucial part of its production strategy.

I ignore the spotlight as a staff engineer
lalitm.com

Lalit Maganti - Lately I’ve been reading Sean Goedecke’s essays on being a Staff+ engineer. His work (particularly Software engineering under the spotlight and It’s Not Your Codebase) is razor-sharp and feels painfully familiar to anyone in Big Tech. On paper, I fit the mold he describes: I’m a Senior Staff engineer at Google. Yet, reading his work left me with a lingering sense of unease. At first, I dismissed this as cynicism. Aft

Brave vs. Firefox – Brave
brave.com

Looking to compare Brave vs Firefox? Understand how each browser compares on features, privacy, and speed so you can choose the one that suits you best.

30 years ago today "Netscape and Sun announce JavaScript"
web.archive.org
Building optimistic UI in Rails (and learn custom elements)
railsdesigner.com

Rails Designer - Learn how custom elements work in Rails by building an optimistic form. From simple counters to instant UI updates, understand when to use custom elements over Stimulus controllers.

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