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ADHD and monotropism (2023)
monotropism.org

Fergus Murray with Sonny Hallett (2023) Monotropism was formulated as a theory of autism. It seeks to explain the experiences and traits of autistic people in terms of a tendency for resources like…

Agent design is still hard
lucumr.pocoo.org

My Agent abstractions keep breaking somewhere I don’t expect.

My private information is worth $30
blog.melashri.net
Jack Ma's family shifted wealth to UK after years-long 'disappearance'
source-material.org

SourceMaterial - Jack Ma's wife Cathy Ying Zhang quietly bought £19.5 million London mansion amid Ma's rapprochement with Chinese regime

Roblox CEO Makes a Fool of Himself in Car-Crash Interview
kotaku.com

John Walker - David Baszucki spoke to the New York Times' Hard Fork podcast about the app's pedophile problem

Original Superman comic becomes the highest-priced comic book ever sold
bbc.com

It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a new record after Man of Steel comic found in a California home is auctioned.

Microsoft's head of AI doesn't understand why people don't like AI
pcgamer.com

Is it really "mindblowing" that people are skeptical of software that consistently doesn't do the things we're told it can do?

Moss Survives 9 Months in Space Vacuum
scienceclock.com
Microsoft Will Preload Windows 11 File Explorer to Fix Bad Performance
blogs.windows.com

Windows Insider Program Team - Hello Windows Insiders, today we are releasing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26220.7271 (KB5070307) to the Dev & Beta Channels. As a reminder we are offering the same builds to both the Dev & Beta Channel

The death of tech idealism and rise of the homeless in Northern California
lithub.com

Fuckers. I couldn’t get the word out of my head, because he wouldn’t stop saying it. I was sitting in the tiled courtyard of the Mediterranean-style home of an old acquaintance, a venture capitalis…

Cryptographers cancel election results after losing decryption key
arstechnica.com

Voting system required three keys. One of them has been “irretrievably lost.”…

Sharper MRI scans may be on horizon thanks to new physics-based model
news.rice.edu
How I learned Vulkan and wrote a small game engine with it (2024)
edw.is
Apple's Problem with Bodies
drobinin.com

Vadim Drobinin - I tried to ship a wellbeing journal and discovered the App Store still isn’t sure whether the human body is health, lifestyle, or sin.

3D printing with unconventional vase mode
vorpal.se
California DMV approves map increase in Waymo driverless operations
dmv.ca.gov

Approved autonomous vehicle platforms to conduct driverless testing and deployment operations in all approved operational design domains (ODD) in California. Make Model Years MakeJaguar I-Pace Model Years2021 and 2024 MakeZeekr RT Model Years2022 and 2025 Hours of Operation: All times of day and night ODD Characteristics: All rain, fog, and other conditions All Speeds Approved […]

A time-travelling door bug in Half Life 2
mastodon.gamedev.place

Attached: 1 image Recent discussion about the perils of doors in gamedev reminded me of a bug caused by a door in a game you may have heard of called "Half Life 2". Are you sitting comfortably? Then I shall begin.

Personal blogs are back, should niche blogs be next?
disassociated.com

Personal blogs are back, should niche blogs be next? Might good old fashion niche blogs be the solution to rampant social media misinformation, AI slop, and more?

Is Matrix Multiplication Ugly?
mathenchant.wordpress.com

A few weeks ago I was minding my own business, peacefully reading a well-written and informative article about artificial intelligence, when I was ambushed by a passage in the article that aroused …

LAPD helicopter tracker with real-time operating costs
lapdhelicoptertracker.com

Track LAPD police helicopters in real-time and see how much taxpayer money is being spent on air support operations.

The Untold History of Arduino (2016)
arduinohistory.github.io
Arduino Terms of Service and Privacy Policy update: setting the record straight
blog.arduino.cc

Arduino Team - We’ve heard some questions and concerns following our recent Terms of Service and Privacy Policy updates. We are thankful our community cares enough to engage with us and we believe transparency and open dialogue are foundational to Arduino. Let us be absolutely clear: we have been open-source long before it was fashionable. We’re not going to […]

The senior population is booming. Caregiving is struggling to keep up
cnbc.com
We remain alive also in a dead internet
slavoj.substack.com

Slavoj Žižek - Now FREE a text

Pixar: The Early Days A never-before-seen 1996 interview
stevejobsarchive.com

A never-before-seen 1996 interview

Boom, bubble, bust, boom. Why should AI be different?
crazystupidtech.com

The AI revolution is three years old Nov. 30. In just 36 months AI has gone from great-new-toy, to global phenomenon, to where we are today - debating whether we are in one of the biggest technology bubbles or booms in modern times. To us there is no debate. There is too much spending, too much leverage, too many crazy deals, and too much competition from China for us not to see big bumps ahead.

Discontinuation of ARM Notebook with Snapdragon X Elite SoC
tuxedocomputers.com
Brazil charges 31 people in major carbon credit fraud investigation
news.mongabay.com

Brazil’s Federal Police have indicted 31 suspects for fraud and land-grabbing in a massive criminal carbon credit scheme in the Brazilian Amazon, according to Brazilian national media outlet Folha de S.Paulo. It is the largest known criminal operation involving carbon credit fraud to date in the nation. The police probe, called Operation Greenwashing, was launched […]

How/why to sweep async tasks under a Postgres table
taylor.town

Taylor Troesh - I like slim and stupid servers, where each endpoint wraps a very dumb DB query. Dumb queries are fast. Fast queries make websites smooth and snappy. Keep those click/render loops sacred. Sweep complexity under a task table.

McDonald's is losing its low-income customers
latimes.com

These customers are feeling the pressures of higher prices on groceries and apparel and the growing costs of rent and child care, the company's chief executive said in a recent earnings call.

Helping Valve to power up Steam devices
igalia.com

Igalia - Igalia is an open source consultancy specialised in the development of innovative projects and solutions. Our engineers have expertise in a wide range of technological areas, including browsers and client-side web technologies, graphics pipeline, compilers and virtual machines. We have the most WPE, WebKit, Chromium/Blink and Firefox expertise found in the consulting business, including many reviewers and committers.

Solving Fizz Buzz with Cosines
susam.net
How Cops Are Using Flock's ALPR Network to Surveil Protesters and Activists
eff.org

Dave Maass and Rindala Alajaji - Through an analysis of 10 months of nationwide searches on Flock Safety's servers, we discovered that more than 50 federal, state, and local agencies ran hundreds of searches through Flock's national network of surveillance data in connection with protest activity. In some cases, law enforcement specifically targeted known activist groups, demonstrating how mass surveillance technology increasingly threatens our free

Private Equity's New Venture: Youth Sports
jacobin.com

Backed by Wall Street, the company Black Bear Sports Group is tightening its grip on youth sports. In a scheme only private equity could dream up, parents now can’t record their kids’ games — but they can pay a steep price to watch corporate recordings.

You can make PS2 games in JavaScript
jslegenddev.substack.com

JSLegendDev - I recently discovered that you could make PS2 games in JavaScript.

Show HN: Wealthfolio 2.0- Open source investment tracker. Now Mobile and Docker
wealthfolio.app
show

Wealthfolio is an open-source, private, and offline desktop portfolio tracker. Keep your financial data safe on your computer. No subscriptions, no cloud storage - just a straightforward tool to manage your wealth.

Command Lines
wreflection.com

Nowfal - AI Coding's Control Spectrum

The New AI Consciousness Paper
astralcodexten.com

Scott Alexander - ...

Arduino published updated terms and conditions: no longer an open commons
molecularist.com

charlie - The maker community worried Qualcomm would kill the Arduino ethos. New T&Cs confirm the community's worst fears. Here's what's at stake, what Qualcomm got wrong, and what might still be salvaged.

CDC to end all monkey research; will phase out HIV, infectious disease studies
science.org
Git 3.0 Defaults to "main" Branch Instead of "master
phoronix.com
Make product worse, get money
dynomight.net

dynomight - It’s so easy

XBMC 4.0 for the Original Xbox
xbox-scene.info

A Major Modernization of the Killer App That Started It All A new version of Xbox Media Center (XBMC), version 4.0, has been released. This version marks a significant update to the long-standing media center platform for the Original Xbox. This marks the first major advancement to the software s...

We should all be using dependency cooldowns
blog.yossarian.net
More tales about outages and numeric limits
rachelbythebay.com
Building a Minimal Viable Armv7 Emulator from Scratch
xnacly.me

Emulating armv7 is surprisingly easy, even from scratch AND in Rust

EXIF orientation info in PNGs isn't used for image-orientation: from-image
bugzilla.mozilla.org

RESOLVED (nobody) in Core - Layout: Images, Video, and HTML Frames. Last updated 2025-09-22.

Making a Small RPG
jslegenddev.substack.com

JSLegendDev - I’ve always wanted to try my hand making an RPG but always assumed it would take too much time.

Jmail: Gmail Clone with Epstein's Emails
jmail.world

You are logged into jeevacation@gmail.com, Jeffrey Epstein's email. Sourced from the November 2025 House Oversight Committee data release.

Trump administration eliminates protections for endangered species
cbsnews.com

The proposed changes include the elimination of the "blanket rule" that automatically protects animals and plants when they are classified as threatened.

Brexit Hit to UK Economy Double Official Estimate, Study Finds
bloomberg.com
How a French judge was digitally cut off by the USA
heise.de

Malte Kirchner - Nicolas Guillou has been sanctioned by the USA as a judge of the International Criminal Court. He notices the effects primarily in the digital realm.

The FBI spied on a Signal group chat of immigration activists, records reveal
theguardian.com

Exclusive: Agency accessed private conversations of New York ‘courtwatch’ group that was observing public hearings

Germany: States Pass Porn Filters for Operating Systems
heise.de

Stefan Krempl - State parliaments pass controversial Youth Media Protection Act amendment. Parents can now "secure" devices for children with one click.

FAWK: LLMs can write a language interpreter
martin.janiczek.cz

Martin Janiczek - After reading the book The AWK Programming Language (recommended!), I was planning to try AWK out on this year’s Advent of Code. Having some time off from work this week, I tried to implement one of the problems in it to get some practice, set up my tooling, see how hard AWK would be, and… I found I’m FP-pilled.

HP and Dell disable HEVC support built into their laptops' CPUs
arstechnica.com

HEVC licensing gets more expensive in January.

It's hard to build an oscillator
lcamtuf.substack.com

lcamtuf - Especially if you want it to work.

The Qtile Window Manager: A Python-Powered Tiling Experience
tech.stonecharioteer.com

My journey from XFCE to Qtile, a tiling window manager written entirely in Python, including setup, configuration strategies, and real-world config examples.

Olmo 3: Charting a path through the model flow to lead open-source AI
allenai.org

Our new flagship Olmo 3 model family empowers the open source community with not only state-of-the-art open models, but the entire model flow and full traceability back to training data.

Streaming platform Twitch added to Australia's teen social media ban
bbc.com

It joins other platforms including Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and Snapchat in the ban that starts next month.

Microsoft AI CEO Puzzled by People Being Unimpressed by AI
80.lv

Mustafa Suleyman had his mind blown by the community's negative reaction to Microsoft's "agentic OS" comments.

Measuring Latency (2015)
bravenewgeek.com

Okay, maybe not everything you know about latency is wrong. But now that I have your attention, we can talk about why the tools and methodologies you use to measure and reason about latency are lik…

Microsoft admits almost all major Windows 11 core features are broken
neowin.net
Nursing excluded as 'professional' degree by Department of Education
nurse.org
Why top firms fire good workers
rochester.edu

Sandra Knispel - Elite firms’ culture of employee turnover isn’t arbitrary but a rational way to signal talent and boost profits, a new study finds.

Homeschooling hits record numbers
reason.com

J.D. Tuccille - Last academic year, homeschooling grew at nearly three times the average rate it did during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new research.

Prozac 'no better than placebo' for treating children with depression, experts
theguardian.com

Exclusive: Clinical guidelines should change to avoid exposing young people to potentially harmful side-effects, researchers say

Trump accuses 6 Democratic lawmakers of seditious behavior, punishable by death
rhodeislandcurrent.com

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump accused six Democratic lawmakers of sedition on social media Thursday and threatened them with punishment as severe as death, after they appeared in a video message encouraging U.S. armed forces to refuse “illegal orders.” Trump also shared another social media post that said the Democrats should be hanged. The video’s […]

RI judge intervenes after ICE mistakenly detains Superior Court intern
wpri.com
Over-regulation is doubling the cost
rein.pk
France is taking state actions against GrapheneOS?
grapheneos.social

@Fritange@maly.io France is taking state actions against GrapheneOS. They're conflating us with companies which they've previously gone after and taken over their servers. We aren't vulnerable to being attacked in the same way but we still don't want accesses to our website/network services being logged or our website being hijacked. France isn't a safe country for GrapheneOS to operate in anymore and we're going to

Autocomp: An ADRS Framework for Optimizing Tensor Accelerator Code
adrs-ucb.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.

Grok's Elon Musk worship is getting weird
theverge.com

Adi Robertson - Elon Musk is as smart as da Vinci, fitter than LeBron James, and really good at drinking piss.

Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out
malwarebytes.com

Pieter Arntz - A new Gmail update may allow Google to use your private messages and attachments for AI training. Here's how to turn it off.

Virgin and Qantas to ban use of portable power banks after string of fires
abc.net.au

Virgin Australia and Qantas will ban the use of portable power banks from next month following a string of international incidents.

GitHut – Programming Languages and GitHub (2014)
githut.info

A small place to discover more about the usage of programming languages in GitHub.

New Glenn Update
blueorigin.com
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
washingtonpost.com
Run Docker containers natively in Proxmox 9.1 (OCI images)
raymii.org
Kagi Assistants
blog.kagi.com
New OS aims to provide (some) compatibility with macOS
github.com/ravynsoft

A BSD-based OS project that aims to provide source and binary compatibility with macOS® and a similar user experience. - ravynsoft/ravynos

OOP is shifting between domains, not disappearing
blog.jsbarretto.com

OOP is shifting between domains, not disappearing. I think that's usually a bad thing.

The AI bubble is bigger than you think
prospect.org

David Dayen - It’s not just OpenAI that looks overhyped. There’s a whole mountain of sketchy financial engineering underneath.

CBP is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with suspicious travel patterns
apnews.com

The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious.

Google cracked Apple's AirDrop and is adding it to Pixel phones
theverge.com

Allison Johnson - First iMessage reactions, now AirDrop.

Data-at-Rest Encryption in DuckDB
duckdb.org

Lotte Felius, Hannes Mühleisen - DuckDB v1.4 ships database encryption capabilities. In this blog post, we dive into the implementation details of the encryption, show how to use it and demonstrate its performance implications.

Mozilla says it's finally done with Onerep
krebsonsecurity.com
RFK Jr.'s loathesome edits: CDC website now falsely links vaccines and autism
arstechnica.com

The site previously correctly noted that studies have repeatedly found no link.

NTSB Preliminary Report – UPS Boeing MD-11F Crash [pdf]
ntsb.gov
The Lions Operating System
lionsos.org

The Lions Operating System # LionsOS is currently undergoing active research and development, it does not have a concrete verification story yet. It is not expected for LionsOS to be stable at this time, but it is available for others to experiment with. LionsOS is an operating system based on the seL4 microkernel with the goal of making the achievements of seL4 accessible. That is, to provide performance, security,

Microsoft makes Zork open-source
opensource.microsoft.com

stacey haffner, scott hanselman - Microsoft’s Open Source Programs Office (OSPO), Team Xbox, and Activision are making Zork I, Zork II, and Zork III available under the MIT License.

Launch HN: Poly (YC S22) – Cursor for Files
news.ycombinator.com
launch
Go Cryptography State of the Union
words.filippo.io
Android and iPhone users can now share files, starting with the Pixel 10
blog.google

Today, we’re introducing a way for Quick Share to work with AirDrop.

The Banished Bottom of the Housing Market
ryanpuzycki.com

Ryan Puzycki - How America Destroyed Its Cheapest Homes

Nano Banana Pro
blog.google

Nano Banana Pro is our new image generation and editing model from Google DeepMind.

Freer Monads, More Extensible Effects (2015) [pdf]
okmij.org
210 IQ Is Not Enough
taylor.town

Taylor Troesh - You will never have enough IQ, nor money, nor time, nor energy.

Firefox 147 Will Support the XDG Base Directory Specification
phoronix.com
Dr Matthew Garrett v Dr Roy Schestowitz and Anor
caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk

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