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Meta Announces Nuclear Energy Projects, Unlocking Up to 6.6 GW
about.fb.com

isolomons - Our landmark agreements with Vistra, TerraPower, and Oklo will expand the operation of three nuclear power plants, boost the development of nuclear technology, and foster job growth in American communities.

'F*ck You, Make Me' Without Saying the Words
daringfireball.net

Make the Trump administration object. Make them defend the indefensible — in public. Make clear why the apps were removed from the app stores and force Musk — and Trump, if he chooses — to argue that those things are A-OK by them. In court.

Poison Fountain
rnsaffn.com

: Poison Fountain project seeks allies to fight the power

Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (January 2026)
news.ycombinator.com
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Replace the Retiring Windows XP with Linux (2014)
linux.com

Windows XP is officially retired as of April 8, 2014. Microsoft has tried to retire XP several times before, but due to enterprise customer demand had to continue supporting it. But this time they really really mean it, for reals. If you’re using Windows XP, it won’t stop working. All this means is you won’t get security …

Instagram data breach reportedly exposed the personal info of 17.5M users
engadget.com

The leak may be responsible for Instagram users receiving plenty of emails requesting a password reset.

Aaron Swartz died 13 years ago today
news.ycombinator.com
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Happy 50th Birthday KIM-1
github.com/netzherpes

a little demo for the KIM-1 for it's 50th birthday - netzherpes/KIM1-Demo

Iran Shuts Down Starlink Internet for First Time
forbes.com
Google: Don't make "bite-sized" content for LLMs
arstechnica.com

Google says creating for people rather than robots is the best long-term strategy.

BasiliskII Macintosh 68k Emulator Ported to ESP32-P4 / M5Stack Tab5
github.com/amcchord

BasiliskII Macintosh 68k emulator ported to ESP32-P4 / M5Stack Tab5 - Run classic Mac OS on embedded hardware - amcchord/M5Tab-Macintosh

Gentoo Linux 2025 Review
gentoo.org

News and information from Gentoo Linux

I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too
notebookcheck.net

With the growing number of users jumping from Windows to Linux, I decided to fully take the plunge and dive deep into the Open Source ocean. A few months and several headaches later, it has proved to be the best computer-related decision I've made in over a decade (and perhaps in my entire life).

HTML-only conditional lazy loading (via preload and media)
orga.cat
Think of Pavlov
boz.com

almost all interactions are repeat games

Don't fall into the anti-AI hype
antirez.com
More than one hundred years of Film Sizes
wichm.home.xs4all.nl
Linus is vibe coding
github.com/torvalds

Random digital audio effects. Contribute to torvalds/AudioNoise development by creating an account on GitHub.

Iranian regime tries to shut down Starlink
timesofisrael.com
The Concise TypeScript Book
github.com/gibbok

The Concise TypeScript Book: A Concise Guide to Effective Development in TypeScript. Free and Open Source. - gibbok/typescript-book

A battle over Canada’s mystery brain disease
bbc.com

A small Canadian province feared it had a mystery neurological illness on its hands. The search for answers set off a battle for the truth.

Ripple: The Elegant TypeScript UI Framework
jsdev.space

Ripple is a compiler-first TypeScript UI framework for building fast, clean, reactive applications with minimal boilerplate and optimal performance.

My Home Fibre Network Disintegrated
alienchow.dev
Max Payne – two decades later – Graphics Critique (2021)
darkcephas.blogspot.com

  It has been two decades since the video game Max Payne was release on July 23, 2001.  The game itself was some incredible homage to The Ma...

Workers at Redmond SpaceX lab exposed to toxic chemicals
fox13seattle.com

InvestigateWest discovered hazardous chemicals seeped from a SpaceX lab in Redmond into the lungs of unsuspecting workers next door.

Show HN: VAM Seek – 2D video navigation grid, 15KB, zero server load
github.com/unhaya
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2D Video Seek Marker - Client-side video navigation grid library - unhaya/vam-seek

OpenAI is reportedly asking contractors to upload real work from past jobs
techcrunch.com

Anthony Ha - An intellectual property lawyer says OpenAI is "putting itself at great risk" with this approach.

Datadog, thank you for blocking us
deductive.ai

Datadog cut off our observability overnight. We migrated to an open Grafana stack in 48 hours. Here’s why vendor lock-in is fading in an AI-native world.

A Year of Work on the Arch Linux Package Management (ALPM) Project
devblog.archlinux.page

An overview of the work done on the ALPM project in 2024 and 2025.

Sisyphus Now Lives in Oh My Claude
github.com/Yeachan-Heo

Sisyphus from OmO (Oh My Opencode), ported to the Claude Code SDK. Written with Claude Code — ironically. Anthropic, what are you gonna do next? - Yeachan-Heo/oh-my-claude-sisyphus

Show HN: Ferrite – Markdown editor in Rust with native Mermaid diagram rendering
github.com/OlaProeis
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A fast, lightweight text editor for Markdown, JSON, YAML, and TOML files. Built with Rust and egui for a native, responsive experience. - OlaProeis/Ferrite

Bob Weir has died
rollingstone.com

Richard Gehr,Daniel Kreps - Bob Weir, the singer-guitarist who co-founded the Grateful Dead and later found success with Dead & Company, has died at age 78.

YouTube has removed the ability to search by upload date
twitter.com
Show HN: Librario, a book metadata API that aggregates G Books, ISBNDB, and more
news.ycombinator.com
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Private equity firms acquired more than 500 autism centers in past decade: study
brown.edu

A new study from researchers at the Brown University School of Public Health highlights a push from private equity investors into autism therapy centers across the nation.

Tux Paint
tuxpaint.org
UK Orders Ofcom to Explore Encryption Backdoors
reclaimthenet.org
Tesla's Germany Sales Down 72% from Their Peak
cleantechnica.com

Zachary Shahan - Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. After writing about Tesla’s 10% drop in sales in the UK despite the UK EV market rising 24%, and BYD passing up Tesla in the UK in annual sales last year, a reader pointed out some extra jaw-dropping stats. The ... [continued]

Extracting books from production language models (2026)
arxiv.org

Many unresolved legal questions over LLMs and copyright center on memorization: whether specific training data have been encoded in the model's weights during training, and whether those memorized data can be extracted in the model's outputs. While many believe that LLMs do not memorize much of their training data, recent work shows that substantial amounts of copyrighted text can be extracted from open-weight models

Worst of breed software
worstofbreed.net

The premier destination for Resume-Driven Development, Over-Engineering, and Resume-Padding. Why build simple solutions when you can build a distributed monolith?

Linus Torvalds Uses Google Antigravity
github.com/torvalds

Random digital audio effects. Contribute to torvalds/AudioNoise development by creating an account on GitHub.

Overdose deaths are falling in America because of a 'supply shock': study
economist.com
Code Is Clay
campedersen.com

import { Hypercube, PotteryWheel, BreakingVase, ConveyorBelt, OneAmongMany } from './hypercube'; import Image from 'next/image'; import hypercubeClay from './hy

Bichon: A lightweight, high-performance Rust email archiver with WebUI
github.com/rustmailer

Bichon – A lightweight, high-performance Rust email archiver with WebUI - rustmailer/bichon

Show HN: Play poker with LLMs, or watch them play against each other
llmholdem.com
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Watch AI models battle it out in Texas Hold'em poker. See how different LLMs bluff, bet, and compete.

Finding and fixing Ghostty's largest memory leak
mitchellh.com
Rats caught on camera hunting flying bats (2025)
scienceclock.com

In northern Germany, researchers have filmed brown rats (Rattus norvegicus) leaping from cave ledges to catch bats mid-flight — the first evidence that

Circumcision classed as possible child abuse in draft CPS document
theguardian.com

Exclusive: Possible revision of guidance for prosecutors in England and Wales comes amid safety concerns from courts

Show HN: I used Claude Code to discover connections between 100 books
trails.pieterma.es
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Pieter Maes - Thematic links across books, automatically discovered by Claude.

AI is a business model stress test
dri.es

AI commoditizes anything you can specify. It can't commoditize what you have to operate.

Drones that recharge directly on transmission lines
ycombinator.com

Self Charging Drones. Founded in 2025 by Hayden Gosch, Avi Gotskind, Ronan Nopp, and Warren Weissbluth, Voltair has 5 employees based in San Francisco, CA, USA. Voltair is hiring for 7 roles in engineering, marketing, and operations.

Microsoft May Have Created the Slowest Windows in 25 Years with Windows 11
eteknix.com

When it comes to performance, it’s hard to find users who are completely satisfied with Windows 11. Many believe it’s filled with unnecessary features that are difficult to disable.

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt accused of rape, surveillance by ex-mistress
news.com.au
Open Chaos: A self-evolving open-source project
openchaos.dev
I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great
theverge.com

Nathan Edwards - What, like it’s hard?

UK government exempting itself from cyber law inspires little confidence
theregister.com

ANALYSIS: Ministers promise equivalent standards just without the legal obligation

NASA announces unprecedented return of sick ISS astronaut and crew
livescience.com

NASA has announced the early return of Crew-11 from the International Space Station after an unidentified astronaut experienced a medical problem.

LLMs have burned Billions but couldn't build another Tailwind
omarabid.com
All my new code will be closed-source from now on
twitter.com
Eulogy for Dark Sky, a data visualization masterpiece (2023)
nightingaledvs.com

Srini Kadamati - A deep look at how the Dark Sky weather app used simple but highly effective charts to report and contextualize the weather.

Why Is Greenland Part of the Kingdom of Denmark? A Short History
diis.dk

From the Vikings to Trump: Greenland’s historic development negates recent White House territorial demands.

New information extracted from Snowden PDFs through metadata version analysis
libroot.org
Allow me to introduce, the Citroen C15
eupolicy.social

Attached: 1 image I often hear Americans & rich brits justify buying oversized, polluting vehicles by claiming they need them because they live in the "countryside". I call bullshit, Ladies and Gentlemen, allow me to introduce, the Citroen C15⬇ #C15 #carBrain #CarDependency #SUV #NoSUV #Pickup_truck

I got paid minimum wage to solve an impossible problem
tiespetersen.substack.com

Ties Petersen - An experiment involving sweeping floors, simulated annealing, and why algorithms that optimize for the wrong thing ruin your life.

Iran's internet shutdown is chillingly precise and may last some time
theguardian.com

Experts note the blackout is unprecedented in its extent but also selective, allowing some government communications

"We write to ask that you enforce your app stores' terms of service against X" [pdf]
wyden.senate.gov
Many small queries are efficient in SQLite
sqlite.org
Org Mode Syntax Is One of the Most Reasonable Markup Languages for Text (2017)
karl-voit.at

Karl Voit - Org Mode Syntax Is One of the Most Reasonable Markup Languages to Use for Text

FFmpeg 8.0
ayosec.github.io
My mouse stopped working because Logitech's servers went down
reddit.com/r/logitech
US oil giant ExxonMobil says Venezuela is 'uninvestable'
ft.com

Chief executive Darren Woods pushes back against president’s call to rush back into troubled country

Landlords are using automated services to monitor tenant promotions
reddit.com/r/shitrentals
CDC staff 'blindsided' as child vaccine schedule unilaterally overhauled
unmc.edu

Washington Post The Trump administration took unprecedented steps to recommend fewer vaccines for children without extensive consultations with career scientists. Vaccine experts at the Centers for…

Oh My Zsh adds bloat
rushter.com

Artem Golubin - Why you might not need Oh My Zsh for your Zsh configuration.

Microsoft revealed as company behind controversial data center proposal in MI
cnbc.com
OLED, Not for Me
nuxx.net
USDA suspends federal financial awards to Minnesota and Minneapolis
turnto10.com

The USDA announced that the agency suspended federal financial awards to Minnesota and Minneapolis "effective immediately."

Caltrain shows why every region should be moving toward regional rail
hsrail.org
See it with your lying ears
lcamtuf.substack.com

lcamtuf - This blog has a history of answering questions that no one should be asking. Today, we continue that proud legacy.

Washington National Opera Is Leaving the Kennedy Center
nytimes.com
Collection and Use of Biometrics by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
federalregister.gov
“Erdos problem #728 was solved more or less autonomously by AI”
mathstodon.xyz

Recently, the application of AI tools to Erdos problems passed a milestone: an Erdos problem (#728 https://www.erdosproblems.com/728) was solved more or less autonomously by AI (after some feedback from an initial attempt), in the spirit of the problem (as reconstructed by the Erdos problem website community), with the result (to the best of our knowledge) not replicated in existing literature (although similar resul

Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are cowards
theverge.com

Elizabeth Lopatto - Once you’ve traded your principles for proximity to power, do you even run your own company?

Start your meetings at 5 minutes past
philipotoole.com
Deno has made its PyPI distribution official
github.com/denoland

https://pypi.org/project/deno/ https://github.com/manzt/denop deno is being distributed on pypi for use in python projects. i think this is a really amazing thing that allows deno to be used in mor...

Sigmund Freud's Begonia
observer.co.uk

Emma Freud - How the gift of a plant helped Emma Freud finally get to know her great-grandfather

Why Are Federal Agents Using GoPros, Smart Glasses, and Phones to Record Us?
gizmodo.com

Matt Novak - "What happened to the police body cameras?" one Uber driver in Minnesota asked a Border Patrol agent.

Video filmed by ICE agent who shot Minneapolis woman emerges
bbc.com

The clip shows the chaotic moments before gunfire rang out on a Minneapolis street.

Iran's complete Internet shutdown reaches 24 hours
mastodon.social/@netblocks

Attached: 1 image ⚠️ Update: It has now been 24 hours since #Iran implemented a nationwide internet shutdown, with connectivity flatlining at 1% of ordinary levels. The ongoing digital blackout violates the fundamental rights and liberties of Iranians while masking regime violence ⏱

QtNat – Open you port with Qt UPnP
renaudguezennec.eu
Datadog, thank you for blocking us
deductive.ai

Datadog cut off our observability overnight. We migrated to an open Grafana stack in 48 hours. Here’s why vendor lock-in is fading in an AI-native world.

RTX 5090 and Raspberry Pi: Can it game?
scottjg.com

It turns out, you can attach an external GPU to a Raspberry Pi 5. So my natural first question is, can I game on it? Let’s try it out and compare it with some similar computers. For the showdown of crappy gaming computers, we’ll see which of these handles gaming best: Beelink MINI-S13 CPU: 4-core Intel N150 @ 3.6GHz RAM: 16GB DDR4 PCIe: M.2 Gen3 x4 More powerful than the Raspberry Pi 5, but at a similar price point.

Show HN: Rocket Launch and Orbit Simulator
donutthejedi.com
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Code and Let Live
fly.io

How we learned to stop worrying and love writeable root filesystems.

Show HN: EuConform – Offline-first EU AI Act compliance tool (open source)
github.com/Hiepler
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EU AI Act Compliance Tool - Risk classification and bias testing - Hiepler/EuConform

JavaScript Demos in 140 Characters
beta.dwitter.net
Turn a single image into a navigable 3D Gaussian Splat with depth
lab.revelium.studio
Exercise can be nearly as effective as therapy for depression
sciencedaily.com

A large review of studies suggests that exercise can ease depression about as effectively as psychological therapy. Compared with antidepressants, exercise showed similar benefits, though the evidence was less certain. Researchers found that light to moderate activity over multiple sessions worked best, with few side effects. While it’s not a cure-all, exercise may be a powerful and accessible tool for many people.

My article on why AI is great (or terrible) or how to use it
matthewrocklin.com

Matthew Rocklin - Senior engineers are best positioned to benefit from AI. We're good enough to avoid slop, and there's so much we can accomplish. I wouldn't go back.

Show HN: Scroll Wikipedia like TikTok
quack.sdan.io
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Scroll Wikipedia like TikTok.

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