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How Charles M Schulz created Charlie Brown and Snoopy (2024)
bbc.com

Charles M Schulz drew his beloved Peanuts strip for 50 years until he retired on 14 December 1999. By then, the unassuming cartoonist had built a billion-dollar empire.

Bird flu viruses are resistant to fever, making them a major threat to humans
medicalxpress.com
Vsora Jotunn-8 5nm European inference chip
vsora.com

Jotunn 8 The UltimateAI Chip Where efficiency meets innovation The magic number 0 /tflops This is Jotunn 8 Introducing the World’s Most Efficient AI Inference Chip In modern data centers, success means deploying trained models with blistering speed, minimal cost, and effortless scalability. Designing and operating inference systems requires balancing key factors such as high […]

250MWh 'Sand Battery' to start construction in Finland
energy-storage.news

Cameron Murray - Polar Night Energy and Lahti Energia have partnered for a project using 'Sand Battery' technology for a district heating network in Finland.

A programmer-friendly I/O abstraction over io_uring and kqueue (2022)
tigerbeetle.com
FileZilla Pro "Perpetual License" – A Warning to All Users
github.com/x011

FileZilla Pro Download. Contribute to x011/FileZilla-Pro-Download development by creating an account on GitHub.

Underrated reasons to be thankful V
dynomight.net

dynomight - even more

LinkedIn is loud, and corporate is hell
ramones.dev

A rollercoaster with no finish (yet!)

DeepSeekMath-V2: Towards Self-Verifiable Mathematical Reasoning [pdf]
github.com/deepseek-ai
AI CEO – Replace your boss before they replace you
replaceyourboss.ai
Cherry gives up German production and wants to sell core division
heise.de

Mark Mantel - German manufacturer Cherry is in crisis. The peripherals division could go to another company.

The input stack on Linux: An end-to-end architecture overview
venam.net

Let's explore and deobfuscate the input stack on Linux. Our aim is to understand its components and what each does. Input handling can be divided into two parts, separated by a common layer. We’ll try to make sense of all this, one thing at a time, with a logical and coherent approach.

Seagate achieves 6.9TB storage capacity per platter
tomshardware.com

Seagate is squeezing as much capacity out of its HAMR technology as it can

Pakistan says rooftop solar output to exceed grid demand in some hubs next year
reuters.com
The VanDersarl Blériot: a 1911 airplane homebuilt by teenage brothers (2017)
historynet.com

Amy Chan - Fabricated by teenage brothers in 1911, this unique homebuilt is once again airworthy. Despite its shortcomings, the Blériot XI was one of the great

Same-day upstream Linux support for Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5
qualcomm.com

Initial kernel and subsystem support for new Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 posted for review. Learn what’s in the patches and how you can start working with them.

GitLab discovers widespread NPM supply chain attack
about.gitlab.com

Malware driving attack includes "dead man's switch" that can harm user data.

Protect Public School Students from Surveillance of Off-Campus Speech
eff.org

Sophia Cope - EFF filed an amicus brief in Arizona federal court arguing that public school students need private digital spaces beyond their school’s reach to speak freely, without the specter of constant school surveillance and punishment.

Steam censors LGBTQ+ content on behalf of the Russian Government
videogamesindustrymemo.com

George E. Osborn - When Roskomnadzor calls, Valve answers

We're losing our voice to LLMs
tonyalicea.dev

We are losing something precious in the age of LLMs: our unique voices.

Don't be a scary old guy: My 40s survival strategy with charm
devas.life

Hi, it’s Takuya. Last week I had my birthday and turned 41 (November 19th). When I was younger, I could never really picture what life in my 40s would look like. It’s this vague age where you don’t have a clear image of how you’re supposed

Show HN: SyncKit – Offline-first sync engine (Rust/WASM and TypeScript)
github.com/Dancode-188
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🔄 A powerful, type-safe sync engine for building real-time collaborative applications. Local-first, CRDT-based, with zero-config offline support. - Dancode-188/synckit

Show HN: Runprompt – run .prompt files from the command line
github.com/chr15m
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Tiny script to run .prompt files. Contribute to chr15m/runprompt development by creating an account on GitHub.

TPUs vs. GPUs and why Google is positioned to win AI race in the long term
uncoveralpha.com

UncoverAlpha - I am publishing a comprehensive deep dive, not just a technical overview, but also strategic and financial coverage of the Google TPU.

Show HN: MkSlides – Markdown to slides with a similar workflow to MkDocs
github.com/MartenBE
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Use mkslides to easily turn markdown files into beautiful slides using the power of Reveal.js! - MartenBE/mkslides

The current state of the theory that GPL propagates to AI models
shujisado.org

When GitHub Copilot was launched in 2021, the fact that its training data included a vast amount of Open Source code publicly available on GitHub attracted significant attention, sparking lively de…

AGI is not possible even in 10 years
medium.com
Arthur Conan Doyle explored men’s mental health through Sherlock Holmes
theconversation.com

Note: This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. It includes links to external sites that may earn a commission for

New research highlights a shortage of male mentors for boys and young men
psypost.org

Eric W. Dolan - Approximately one in three young men lacks an adult male to consult for help with school or relationships. New survey data indicates this "mentorship gap" is most pronounced for boys living in lower-income families.

Ray Marching Soft Shadows in 2D (2020)
rykap.com

Ryan Kaplan - Software Engineer at Figma. Previously at Dropbox. Studied Math/CS at Brown University.

Mixpanel Security Breach
mixpanel.com

Insights for digital builders

The Nerd Reich – Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy
simonandschuster.com
Linux Kernel Explorer
reverser.dev

reverser.dev - Interactive Linux kernel source code browser with guided learning paths.

Last Issue of "ECMAScript News"
ecmascript.news
Show HN: Era – Open-source local sandbox for AI agents
github.com/BinSquare
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Open source local sandboxing for running AI generated code. - BinSquare/ERA

Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving
news.ycombinator.com
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$96M AUD revamp of Bom website bombs out on launch
bbc.com

Nicknamed the Bom, the country's weather agency has been heavily criticised over a recent redesign.

Music eases surgery and speeds recovery, study finds
bbc.com

A new study finds patients who listen to music during surgery wake faster and need fewer painkillers.

Coq: The World's Best Macro Assembler? (2013) [pdf]
nickbenton.name
What to know about a recent Mixpanel security incident
openai.com
DIY NAS: 2026 Edition
blog.briancmoses.com

An 8-bay DIY NAS with 10GbE networking, TrueNAS 25.10.1, an Intel N355 CPU, 32GB of DDR5 RAM, and a smallish form factor that occupies less than 20 liters of your office space.

Green card interviews end in handcuffs for spouses of U.S. citizens
nytimes.com
CDE – Common Desktop Environment – Release 2.5.3
sourceforge.net
Penpot: The Open-Source Figma
github.com/penpot

Penpot: The open-source design tool for design and code collaboration - penpot/penpot

Functional Data Structures and Algorithms: a Proof Assistant Approach
fdsa-book.net
Migrating the main Zig repository from GitHub to Codeberg
ziglang.org
The Tesla Model Y Just Scored the Worst Reliability Rating in a Decade
autoblog.com
Bonsai_term: A library for building dynamic terminal apps by Jane Street
github.com/janestreet

A library for building dynamic terminal apps, using bonsai - janestreet/bonsai_term

Collabora Online Desktop Released with Improved UI from LibreOffice
collaboraonline.com

Richard Brock - Same look. Same code.Your files, your device. We’re excited to share the first release of the new Collabora Office for desktop – bringing the familiar, powerful Collabora Online experience, to run locally on Windows, macOS, and Linux. Open it and feel instantly at home: ODF or DOCX, quick edits or deep dives, a clean, beautiful […]

DSP 101 Part 1: An Introductory Course in DSP System Design
analog.com
Has the bailout of generative AI begun?
garymarcus.substack.com

Gary Marcus - Or is pouring a pile of government money in just a coincidence?

AdBlock and Signal are for terrorists, according to French govt (2023) [video]
youtube.com
Crypto hoarders dump tokens as shares tumble
arstechnica.com

Several companies are selling crypto stockpiles in effort to fund share buybacks, shore up stock prices.

Ilya Sutskever, Yann LeCun and the End of “Just Add GPUs”
abzglobal.net

When two of the most influential people in AI both say that today’s large language models are hitting their limits , it’s worth paying attention. In a recent long-form interview, Ilya Sutskever – co-founder of OpenAI and now head of Safe Superintelligence Inc. – argued that the industry is movin

C100 Developer Terminal
caligra.com

The Linux®-powered computer designed to accelerate your work.

Running Unsupported iOS on Deprecated Devices
nyansatan.github.io
Bring bathroom doors back to hotels
bringbackdoors.com

Bring Bathroom Doors Back to Hotels

Why Strong Consistency?
brooker.co.za
EU Council approves Chat Control mandate for negotiation with Parliament
techradar.com

The agreement follows more than three years of disagreements

The EU made Apple adopt new Wi-Fi standards, and now Android can support AirDrop
arstechnica.com

Google’s Pixel 10 works with AirDrop, and other phones should follow later.

AirDrop support for Pixel 10 likely exists because of the EU ruling
9to5google.com

Will Sattelberg - Out of nowhere, Google brought cross-platform AirDrop support to the Pixel 10 this week, allowing the company’s latest lineup of...

Why 90s Movies Feel More Alive Than Anything on Netflix
afranca.com.br

Andre Franca - Tags: #Blogging #ClassicCinema #ModernMovies #Netflix #Streaming I was rewatching The Silence of the Lambs the other night, and somethin...

Inspired by Spider-Man, scientists recreate web-slinging technology
scienceclock.com

We all have moments as kids watching Spider-Man and imagining what it might feel like to shoot a thread into the air and have it grab something, bringing it

Crews claim Boring Company failed to pay workers and snubbed OSHA concerns
nashvillebanner.com

Sarah Grace Taylor - Willie Shane and his crew walk off the Music City Loop project, citing safety concerns and payment issues with The Boring Company.

The most male and female reasons to end up hospital
leobenedictus.substack.com

Leo Benedictus - In which some stereotypes are resoundingly confirmed

S&box is now an open source game engine
sbox.game
Don't Download Apps
blog.calebjay.com
Alan.app – Add a Border to macOS Active Window
tyler.io
Fara-7B: An efficient agentic model for computer use
github.com/microsoft

Contribute to microsoft/fara development by creating an account on GitHub.

China Has Three Reusable Rockets Ready for Their Debut Flights
china-in-space.com

Jack C. - One of the three launch vehicles will be China’s first and the first outside the United States.

A temporary victory – but we still need to stop Chat Control
mullvad.net

An important victory – but we still need to stop Chat Control.

Gemini CLI tips and tricks for agentic coding
github.com/addyosmani

Gemini CLI Tips and Tricks. Contribute to addyosmani/gemini-cli-tips development by creating an account on GitHub.

Investors expect AI use to soar. That's not happening
economist.com
Scaleway turns Mac Minis into high‑density, Raspberry Pi–managed servers
scaleway.com

From desktop to datacenter: how Scaleway turns Apple's Mac mini into a fully managed, high-performance cloud server for macOS and iOS developers.

GrapheneOS is leaving France after receiving threats from law enforcement
grapheneos.social

We no longer have any active servers in France and are continuing the process of leaving OVH. We'll be rotating our TLS keys and Let's Encrypt account keys pinned via accounturi. DNSSEC keys may also be rotated. Our backups are encrypted and can remain on OVH for now.

DRAM prices are spiking, but I don't trust the industry's why
xda-developers.com

There are a lot of reasons to be skeptical.

A Vibe Coded SaaS Killed My Team
cendyne.dev

We lost the capitalism game and they're trying to get a second wind through a broken vibe-coded SaaS platform.

Cloudflare outage should not have happened
ebellani.github.io

Yet again, another global IT outage happen (deja vu strikes again in our industry). This time at cloudflare(Prince 2025). Again, taking down large swats of the internet with it(Booth 2025). And yes, like my previous analysis of the GCP and CrowdStrike’s outages, this post critiques Cloudflare’s root cause analysis (RCA), which — despite providing a great overview of what happened — misses the real lesson. Here’s the

Slop Detective – Fight the Slop Syndicate
slopdetective.kagi.com

Fight the Slop Syndicate!

Slashdot effect
en.wikipedia.org
From blood sugar to brain relief: GLP-1 therapy slashes migraine frequency
medlink.com

A diabetes medication that lowers brain fluid pressure has cut monthly migraine days by more than half

KDE Plasma 6.8 Will Go Wayland-Exclusive in Dropping X11 Session Support
phoronix.com
MIT study finds AI can replace 11.7% of U.S. workforce
cnbc.com
OpenAI needs to raise at least $207B by 2030
ft.com

A burning platform

Compressed filesystems à la language models
grohan.co

Ronalds Vilcins - https://grohan.co - Every systems engineer at some point in their journey yearns to write a filesystem. This sounds daunting at first - and writing a battle-tested filesystem is hard - but the minimal surface area for a “working” FS is surprisingly small, simple, and in-distribution for coding agents. In fact, one of my smoke tests for new coding models is seeing how good of a filesystem they can one-shot! At some point, I had quite a f

Justice dept. requires RealPage end sharing competitively sensitive information
justice.gov

The Justice Department’s Antitrust Division filed a proposed settlement today to resolve the United States’ claims against RealPage Inc. as part of its ongoing enforcement against algorithmic coordination, information sharing, and other anticompetitive practices in rental housing markets across the country. The proposed settlement would help restore free market competition in

There may not be a safe off-ramp for some taking GLP-1 drugs, study suggests
arstechnica.com

In trial, 82% saw weight rebound and cardiovascular health reverse after withdrawal.

Voyager 1 is about to reach one light-day from Earth
scienceclock.com
I DM'd a Korean presidential candidate and ended up building his core campaign
medium.com
Indie game developers have a new sales pitch: being 'AI free'
theverge.com

Ash Parrish - “We can produce results that meet our quality standards without its assistance.”

Kagi Hub Belgrade
blog.kagi.com
Qiskit open-source SDK for working with quantum computers
github.com/Qiskit

Qiskit is an open-source SDK for working with quantum computers at the level of extended quantum circuits, operators, and primitives. - Qiskit/qiskit

EU council reaches position on Chat Control
consilium.europa.eu
Await Is Not a Context Switch: Understanding Python's Coroutines vs. Tasks
mergify.com

Python’s async model is misunderstood, especially by engineers coming from JS or C#. In Python, awaiting a coroutine doesn’t yield to the event loop. Only tasks create concurrency. This post explains why that distinction matters and how it affects locking, design, and correctness.

I don't care how well your "AI" works
fokus.cool
A cell so minimal that it challenges definitions of life
quantamagazine.org

The newly described microbe represents a world of parasitic, intercellular biodiversity only beginning to be revealed by genome sequencing.

Statistical Process Control in Python
timothyfraser.com

Timothy Fraser, PhD - Your online textbook for learning reliability and six sigma techniques in R and Python! Made for Cornell University Course SYSEN 5300.

AWS is 10x slower than a dedicated server for the same price [video]
youtube.com
Image Diffusion Models Exhibit Emergent Temporal Propagation in Videos
arxiv.org

Image diffusion models, though originally developed for image generation, implicitly capture rich semantic structures that enable various recognition and localization tasks beyond synthesis. In this work, we investigate their self-attention maps can be reinterpreted as semantic label propagation kernels, providing robust pixel-level correspondences between relevant image regions. Extending this mechanism across frame

ICE Arrests the Press
petapixel.com

Pesala Bandara - A GoFundMe campaign has been set up to help him with the costs.

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