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Man shot and killed by federal agents in south Minneapolis this morning
startribune.com

Star Tribune staff - A video appears to shows federal agents wrestling a man to the ground then shooting him.

Are we all plagiarists now?
economist.com
After two years of vibecoding, I'm back to writing by hand [video]
youtube.com
Claude Code's new hidden feature: Swarms
twitter.com
FOSS "Just Fork It" Delusion
hamishcampbell.com
XHTML Club
xhtml.club
MS confirms it will give the FBI your Windows PC data encryption key if asked
windowscentral.com

Microsoft says it will provide the FBI with BitLocker encryption keys if requested for PCs that upload their key to the cloud via your Microsoft Account.

You can't pay me to prompt
dbushell.com

David Bushell - The one where I set the record straight on my AI usage

Many Small Queries Are Efficient in SQLite
sqlite.org
I Like GitLab
whileforloop.com

Łukasz Klim - I've been using GitLab for years for all my private projects. Some thoughts on why it stuck.

How I Estimate Work as a Staff Software Engineer
seangoedecke.com
Doing gigabit Ethernet over my British phone wires
thehftguy.com

Disclaimer: None of this is written by AI, I’m still a real person writing my own blog like its 1999 I finally figured out how to do Gigabit Ethernet over my existing phone wires. Powerline adapter…

Show HN: I built a space travel calculator using Vanilla JavaScript
cosmic-odometer.vercel.app
show

I have traveled billions of kilometers since birth. Check your cosmic stats here.

Repatriate the gold': German economists advise withdrawal from US vaults
theguardian.com

Shift in relations and unpredictability of Donald Trump make it ‘risky to store so much gold in the US’, say experts

Modetc: Move your dotfiles from kernel space
maxwell.eurofusion.eu
80386 Multiplication and Division
nand2mario.github.io
“Let people help” – Advice that made a big difference to a grieving widow
npr.org

Connie Sherburne lost her husband to a plane accident in 2020. A small bit of advice she got from an insurance company employee made a huge difference in her life for years after that.

SEC obtains final consent judgments against former FTX and Alameda executives
sec.gov
AI can 10x developers in creating tech debt
stackoverflow.blog
The Internet Doesn't Suck: Blame Big Tech, Not the Internet
riverseeber.net
Comma openpilot – Open source driver-assistance
comma.ai

An AI upgrade for your car

Minnesota activist releases arrest video after manipulated White House version
apnews.com

A Minnesota activist who was charged for her role in an anti-immigration enforcement protest at a church has released her own video of her arrest, after the White House posted a manipulated image online.

TikTok is now collecting more data about its users
wired.com

Reece Rogers - According to its new privacy policy, TikTok now collects more data on its users, including their precise location, after majority ownership officially switched to a group based in the US.

Wilson Lin on FastRender: a browser built by parallel agents
simonwillison.net

Simon Willison - Last week Cursor published Scaling long-running autonomous coding, an article describing their research efforts into coordinating large numbers of autonomous coding agents. One of the projects mentioned in the article …

Mental Models (2018)
fs.blog

The smartest people in the world use mental models to make intelligent decisions, avoid stupidity, and increase productivity. Let's take a look at how ...

Neko: History of a Software Pet (2022)
eliotakira.com
Unrolling the Codex agent loop
openai.com
Banned C++ features in Chromium
chromium.googlesource.com
Iran Govt Fakes Traffic to Mimic Internet Restoration
mastodon.social/@netblocks

Attached: 1 image ⚠️ Update: #Iran remains in the midst of a national internet blackout in its third week at hour 348 with only a slight rise in overall connectivity and tunneled users. There are indications of an attempt to generate false traffic and manufacture narratives of a wider restoration.

Tesla kills Autopilot, locks lane-keeping behind $99/month fee
arstechnica.com

With falling sales and shrinking profits, the recurring revenue will be most welcome.

Auto-compact not triggering on Claude.ai despite being marked as fixed
github.com/anthropics

Preflight Checklist I have searched existing issues and this hasn't been reported yet This is a single bug report (please file separate reports for different bugs) I am using the latest version of ...

House vote keeps federal "kill switch" vehicle mandate
reclaimthenet.org
New YC homepage
ycombinator.com

Y Combinator created a new model for funding early stage startups. Four times a year we invest in a large number of startups.

Zotero 8
zotero.org
Microsoft gave FBI set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops
techcrunch.com

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai - The FBI served Microsoft a warrant requesting encryption recovery keys to decrypt the hard drives of people involved in an alleged fraud case in Guam.

Proof of Corn
proofofcorn.com

Seth Goldstein - @fredwilson challenged @seth: AI can write code, but it can't affect the physical world. This is our response.

Route leak incident on January 22, 2026
blog.cloudflare.com

An automated routing policy configuration error caused us to leak some Border Gateway Protocol prefixes unintentionally from a router at our Miami data center. We discuss the impact and the changes we are implementing as a result.

Doubting U.S. resolve, Europe looks to bolster its own nuclear arsenal
nbcnews.com

The discussions have taken on new urgency as President Trump escalates his criticism of Europe. Germany and Poland already have suggested France’s nuclear weapons could be expanded to defend their countries.

Killing the ISP Appliance: An eBPF/XDP Approach to Distributed BNG
markgascoyne.co.uk

An open-source, eBPF-accelerated BNG that runs directly on OLT hardware - eliminating expensive centralised appliances

Nobody likes lag: How to make low-latency dev sandboxes
compyle.ai

How to make low-latency development sandboxes

Notes on the Intel 8086 processor's arithmetic-logic unit
righto.com

In 1978, Intel introduced the 8086 processor, a revolutionary chip that led to the modern x86 architecture. Unlike modern 64-bit processors,...

My review of the Nüborn Baby at 3 months
joshcollinsworth.com

My Nüborn Baby arrived in October, and now that I've had a few months to get used to it, I thought I'd write up a review, in case you were thinking of getting one for yourself.

Gas Town's agent patterns, design bottlenecks, and vibecoding at scale
maggieappleton.com

On agent orchestration patterns, why design and critical thinking are the new bottlenecks, and whether we should let go of looking at code

DOGE improperly accessed and shared Social Security data
blog.quintarelli.it
The tech monoculture is finally breaking
jasonwillems.com

Jason Willems - Growing up in the 90s and early 2000s, tech was a foundational part of my childhood.

Waypoint-1: Real-Time Interactive Video Diffusion from Overworld
huggingface.co

We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

White House Posts Altered Photo Showing Arrested Minnesota Protester Crying
nytimes.com
Is liberal democracy in terminal decline?
ft.com

The old system worked under a set of conditions that are no longer present

Tesla fined for repeatedly failing to help UK police over driving offences
bbc.co.uk

The British arm of Tesla has faced multiple court proceedings linked to allegations of road traffic offences.

KORG phase8 – Acoustic Synthesizer
korg.com

author - Introducing phase8, an eight-voice acoustic synthesizer that merges the sonic richness of the physical world with precise electronic control. With envelope shaping, sequencing, analogue wavefolding, and pitch-dependent modulation, phase8 harnesses the latest Acoustic Synthesis technology developed at KORG.

Yann LeCun's new venture is a contrarian bet against large language models
technologyreview.com

In an exclusive interview, the AI pioneer shares his plans for his new Paris-based company, AMI Labs.

Radicle: The Sovereign Forge
radicle.xyz

Sovereign code infrastructure.

GNU Guix 1.5.0 Released
guix.gnu.org
Microsoft mishandling example.com
tinyapps.org
European Alternatives
european-alternatives.eu

We help you find European alternatives for digital service and products, like cloud services and SaaS products.

White House defends sharing AI image showing arrested woman crying
bbc.co.uk

Latest updates from the BBC's specialists in fact-checking, verifying video and tackling disinformation.

What has Docker become?
tuananh.net

Docker Inc's journey from containerization pioneer to AI-focused platform has been anything but straightforward. Here's what their strategic shifts tell us about the company's search for identity.

Microsoft Gave FBI Keys to Unlock Encrypted Data, Exposing Major Privacy Flaw
forbes.com

Thomas Brewster - The tech giant said providing encryption keys was a standard response to a court order. But companies like Apple and Meta set up their systems so such a privacy violation isn’t possible.

Presence in Death
rubinmuseum.org

In tukdam, clinically dead meditators are said to dwell in the luminosity of emptiness

Show HN: Whosthere: A LAN discovery tool with a modern TUI, written in Go
github.com/ramonvermeulen
show

Local Area Network discovery tool with a modern Terminal User Interface (TUI) written in Go. Discover, explore, and understand your LAN in an intuitive way. Knock Knock.. who's there? 🚪 - ramo...

Ask HN: What's the current best local/open speech-to-speech setup?
news.ycombinator.com
ask
What Will You Do When AI runs Out of Money and Disappear?
louwrentius.com
Booting from a vinyl record (2020)
boginjr.com
Why I don't have fun with Claude Code
brennan.io

Stephen Brennan - Stephen Brennan's personal website and blog.

AI Usage Policy
github.com/ghostty-org

👻 Ghostty is a fast, feature-rich, and cross-platform terminal emulator that uses platform-native UI and GPU acceleration. - ghostty-org/ghostty

Updates to our web search products and Programmable Search Engine capabilities
programmablesearchengine.googleblog.com

The latest news, updates and tips from the Programmable Search Engine team

The state of modern AI text to speech systems for screen reader users
stuff.interfree.ca
Why are there so many CPU bugs nowadays
mas.to

In the early days of personal computing CPU bugs were so rare as to be newsworthy. The infamous Pentium FDIV bug is remembered by many, and even earlier CPUs had their own issues (the 6502 comes to mind). Nowadays they've become so common that I encounter them routinely while triaging crash reports sent from Firefox users. Given the nature of CPUs you might wonder how these bugs arise, how they manifest and what can

Replacing Protobuf with Rust
pgdog.dev
Proton spam and the AI consent problem
dbushell.com

David Bushell - The one where I get very annoyed with my email provider

I built a light that reacts to radio waves [video]
youtube.com
CEOs Say AI Is Making Work More Efficient. Employees Tell a Different Story
wsj.com
United States Completes WHO Withdrawal
hhs.gov
Autodesk burns the village to feed AI and the Cloud – cuts 7% of workforce
blog.adafruit.com
Talking to LLMs has improved my thinking
philipotoole.com
The lost art of XML
marcosmagueta.com
The Uncomfortable Math of Working for Yourself
thomasunise.com

Thomas Unise - Nobody Tells You Freedom Has a Billing Rate This year in 2026, I turn 40. I’ve been self-employed since I was 25. That’s fifteen years of answering to no one,...

U.S. Formally Withdraws from World Health Organization
nytimes.com
Bugs Apple loves
bugsappleloves.com
ICE detains five-year-old Minnesota boy arriving home, say school officials
theguardian.com

Superintendent says Liam Ramos and his father were taken into custody while in their driveway and sent to Texas

Rent-Only Copyright Culture Makes Us All Worse Off
eff.org

Corynne McSherry and Rory Mir - In the Netflix/Spotify/Amazon era, many of us access copyrighted works purely in digital form – and that means we rarely have the chance to buy them. Instead, we are stuck renting them, subject to all kinds of terms and conditions. And because the content is digital, reselling it, lending it, even preserving it for your own use inevitably requires copying. Unfortunately, when it comes to copying digital media, US cop

Stunnel
stunnel.org

Home page for stunnel: a multiplatform GNU/GPL-licensed proxy encrypting arbitrary TCP connections with SSL/TLS.

Vibe a Guitar Pedal
polyend.com
Why medieval city-builder video games are historically inaccurate (2020)
leidenmedievalistsblog.nl

This blog post explores the historical accuracy of medieval city-builder video games.

Arkansas inmates restricted from receiving physical books, other media directly
arkansasadvocate.com

Ainsley Platt - Arkansas inmates will no longer receive books, newspapers or magazines directly under a new policy approved by the Board of Corrections Friday.

Improving the usability of C libraries in Swift
swift.org

Apple Inc. - There are many interesting, useful, and fun C libraries in the software ecosystem. While one could go and rewrite these libraries in Swift, usually there is no need, because Swift provides direct interoperability with C. With a little setup, you can directly use existing C libraries from your Swift code.

Anthropic Economic Index report: economic primitives
anthropic.com

This report introduces new metrics of AI usage to provide a rich portrait of interactions with Claude in November 2025, just prior to the release of Opus 4.5.

Viking Ship Museum in Denmark announces the discovery of the largest cog
medievalists.net

Medievalists.net - A medieval cargo ship of extraordinary size has been found in the waters off Copenhagen. Built around 1410, Svælget 2 is being called the world’s largest cog, and its remarkably preserved remains are revealing new details about medieval shipbuilding and Northern European trade networks.

Extracting a UART Password via SPI Flash Instruction Tracing
zuernerd.github.io

Introduction

Scaling PostgreSQL to power 800M ChatGPT users
openai.com
Capital One to acquire Brex for $5.15B
reuters.com
White House Posts Digitally Altered Image of Woman Arrested After ICE Protest
theguardian.com

Guardian analysis shows images are the same, with Nekima Levy Armstrong looking composed in original but sobbing after alteration

Goldman Sachs Global Macro Research: Gen AI: too much spend, too little benefit [pdf] (2024)
goldmansachs.com
Show HN: CLI for working with Apple Core ML models
github.com/schappim
show

A native command-line interface for working with Apple Core ML models on macOS - schappim/coreml-cli

Why does SSH send 100 packets per keystroke?
eieio.games

I made my next game twice as fast by forking go's crypto library

'Active' sitting is better for brain health: review of studies
sciencealert.com

Carly Cassella - Excessive sitting isn't good for a person's physical or mental health, but there's a type of sedentary activity that may not shrink our brains or cost our cognition to the same extent.

I was banned from Claude for scaffolding a Claude.md file?
hugodaniel.com
Colorectal cancer is now the top cause of cancer death in younger people
wsj.com
Skill.md: An open standard for agent skills
mintlify.com

All Mintlify documentation sites now contain a skill.md file. Learn about this open standard for agent skills and how to use it.

Y Combinator No Longer Investing in Canadian Companies
web.archive.org

The Y Combinator Standard Deal - $500k

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