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Show HN: Vibe coding a bookshelf with Claude Code
balajmarius.com
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I’m a UI engineer turned founder with a background in startups. I co-founded QED in 2021, grew it, and eventually sold it to The Sandbox. Now, I’m focused on building in AI.

Kidnapped by Deutsche Bahn
theocharis.dev

Jeremy Theocharis - A Christmas Eve journey. Deutsche Bahn. 35 kilometers.

Feynman's Hughes Lectures: 950 pages of notes
thehugheslectures.info
EU to build no-fee payments service like Visa/Mastercard and Apple/Google Pay
independent.ie

It’s January 1, 2029, the first day of the digital euro. You are in a shop buying milk and bread, and decide to pay with this new money. How exactly will it work?

Asking Gemini 3 to generate Brainfuck code results in an infinite loop
teodordyakov.github.io
Staying ahead of censors in 2025
forum.torproject.org

by meskio and shelikhoo | December 3, 2025 From internet blackouts in Iran to Russia's evolving censorship tactics, 2025 has tested Tor's anti-censorship tools like never before. These are the moments where the work of Tor's anti-censorship team is more important than ever, to fulfill our mission of preserving connectivity between users in affected regions and the rest of the world. In this blog post, we want t

Show HN: Z80-μLM, a 'Conversational AI' That Fits in 40KB
github.com/HarryR
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Z80-μLM is a 2-bit quantized language model small enough to run on an 8-bit Z80 processor. Train conversational models in Python, export them as CP/M .COM binaries, and chat with your vintage compu...

Huge Binaries
fzakaria.com

A problem I experienced when pursuing my PhD and submitting academic articles was that I had built solutions to problems that required dramatic scale to be effective and worthwhile. Responses to my publication submissions often claimed such problems did not exist; however, I had observed them during my time within industry, such as at Google, but I couldn’t cite it!

Panoramas of Star Trek Sets
mijofr.github.io

MiJoFr - 360° of Star Trek

Show HN: My not-for-profit search engine with no ads, no AI, & all DDG bangs
nilch.org
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John Simpson: 'I've reported on 40 wars but I've never seen a year like 2025'
bbc.com

2025 has been a year of multiple major conflicts and it is becoming clear that one of them has geopolitical implications of unparalleled importance.

My First Meshtastic Network
rickcarlino.com
Why I think Valve’s retiring the Steam Deck LCD
gardinerbryant.com

The secret motivations for killing off the LCD model... (it's not the Steam Deck 2)

Fast GPU Interconnect over Radio
spectrum.ieee.org

Can radio cables outshine copper in data centers? Discover how startups are pushing the limits of connectivity with innovative radio-based solutions.

CIA Star Gate Project: An Overview (1993) [pdf]
cia.gov
You can make up HTML tags
maurycyz.com
Self-hosting is being enshittified
troubled.engineer

Self-hosting got harder in 2025. Here's what changed.

Private equity is killing private ownership: first it was housing, now it's PCs
reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace
Rich Hickey: Thanks AI
gist.github.com

Thanks AI! GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

My app just won best iOS Japanese learning tool of 2025 award (blog)
skerritt.blog

Welcome to the award show everyone! Hosted by your favourite bee... Bee! 🥳 I wanted to summarise the best tools etc out there in 2025, and what better way then to put on a fake award show! And like all true award shows and Christmas themed events, let's get into the

Fast CVVDP implementation in C
github.com/halidecx

Fast CVVDP implementation in C. Contribute to halidecx/fcvvdp development by creating an account on GitHub.

How to complain (2024)
outerproduct.net
CEOs are hugely expensive. Why not automate them? (2021)
newstatesman.com

Will Dunn - If a single role is as expensive as thousands of workers, it is surely the prime candidate for robot-induced redundancy.

Spherical Cow
lib.rs
Slaughtering Competition Problems with Quantifier Elimination (2021)
grossack.site

Anytime I see questions on mse that ask something “simple”, I feel a powerful urge to chime in with “a computer can do this for you!”. Obviously if you’re a researching mathematician you shouldn’t waste your time with something a computer can do for you, but when you’re still learning techniques (or, as is frequently the case on mse, solving homework problems), it’s not a particularly useful comment (so I usually abs

62 years in the making: NYC's newest water tunnel nears the finish line
ny1.com

NY1 visited a NYC water tunnel nearly 800 feet below ground.

As AI gobbles up chips, prices for devices may rise
npr.org

Demand for memory chips currently exceeds supply and there's very little chance of that changing any time soon. More chips for AI means less available for other products such as computers and phones and that could drive up those prices too.

What an unprocessed photo looks like
maurycyz.com
Researchers discover molecular difference in autistic brains
medicine.yale.edu

Isabella Backman - Brains of autistic individuals have fewer of a specific kind of glutamate receptor, supporting an idea that autism is driven by a signaling imbalance.

KDE – Highlights from 2025
pointieststick.com

It’s been a few years since I did an end-of-year “highlights in KDE” post, but hopefully better late than never! 2025 was a big year for KDE — bigger than me or any of us individu…

Keep the Robots Out of the Gym
danielmiessler.com

We have to be very careful about what we ask AI to help us with

Dolphin Progress Report: Release 2512
dolphin-emu.org

With the holiday season reaching its apex, we have a few surprises for those of you that have been patiently waiting. The latest release of Dolphin is stuffed with treats. Our first present is presentation - frame presentation, that is. Two new options have arrived and will help users both…

Why I Disappeared – My week with minimal internet in a remote island chain
kenklippenstein.com

Ken Klippenstein - My week with minimal internet in a remote island chain

Unity's Mono problem: Why your C# code runs slower than it should
marekfiser.com

Marek Fiser - Execution of C# code in Unity’s Mono runtime is slow by today’s standards, much slower than you might expect! Our game runs 2-3x faster on modern .NET compared to Unity’s Mono, and in a few small benchmarks I measured speedups of up to 15x. I’ve spent some time investigating what’s going on and in this article I will present my findings and why everyone should want Unity’s .NET modernization to become production-read

Software engineers should be a little bit cynical
seangoedecke.com

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The Prison of Financial Mediocrity
twitter.com
MongoBleed Explained Simply
bigdata.2minutestreaming.com

Stanislav Kozlovski - CVE-2025-14847 allows attackers to read any arbitrary data from the database's heap memory. It affects all MongoDB versions since 2017, here's a simple explanation:

Loss of moist broadleaf forest in Africa has turned a carbon sink into source
nature.com

Africa’s forests and woody savannas have historically acted as a carbon sink, removing atmospheric carbon and storing it as biomass. However, our novel analysis reveals a critical transition from a carbon sink to a carbon source between 2010 and 2017. Using new high-resolution satellite-derived biomass maps, validated with field plots and machine learning techniques, we quantified the aboveground biomass stocks acros

Stepping down as Mockito maintainer after ten years
github.com/mockito

In March 2026, I will be Mockito maintainer for 10 years (nearly a third of my whole life). Looking ahead, I decided that a decade milestone is a good moment to pass on maintainership to other folk...

PySDR: A Guide to SDR and DSP Using Python
pysdr.org
No, it's not a battleship
navalgazing.net
Delete LinkedIn – you'll have zero fucking regrets (2021)
thenextweb.com

Joan Westenberg - I deleted LinkedIn this week. I am enjoying a refreshing break from SEO and VA business development managers who want to connect in the name of synergy. From work/life coaches who “just want to ask me one question.” And from copy-paste cont

Remembering Lou Gerstner
newsroom.ibm.com

The following is the text of an email sent today to all IBM employees by Chairman and CEO Arvind Krishna: IBMers, I am saddened to share that Lou Gerstner, IBM’s Chairman and CEO from 1993 to...

Tell HN: Google ignores English searches and forces localized results
news.ycombinator.com
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If you care about security you might want to move the iPhone Camera app
blog.jgc.org

There's a quirk in the iPhone Camera app that can drive a security conscious iPhone owner crazy: if you hover your finger over the Camera ap...

Show HN: Pion SCTP with RACK is 70% faster with 30% less latency
pion.ly
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Deathbed Advice/Regret
hazn.com
Hacker News Made of Primes
dosaygo-studio.github.io
2 in 3 Americans think AI will cause major harm to humans in the next 20 years [pdf] (2024)
pewresearch.org
Scientists discover beer bottle in the Mariana Trench (2024)
unilad.com

Dr Dawn Wright was stunned to find the 'irrevocable' damage humans have done to the planet after deep sea discovery.

All my Deutschlandtickets gone: Fraud at an industrial scale [video]
media.ccc.de

551724 / maya boeckh - The Deutschlandticket was the flagship transport policy of the last government, rolled out in an impressive timescale for a political pro...

Global Memory Shortage Crisis: Market Analysis
idc.com

Francisco Jeronimo, Tom Mainelli, Bryan Ma, Ryan Reith and Jeff Janukowicz - A global memory shortage is reshaping smartphone and PC markets for 2026. Rising DRAM and NAND costs threaten pricing, specs, and growth across devices.

Designing Predictable LLM-Verifier Systems for Formal Method Guarantee
arxiv.org

The integration of Formal Verification tools with Large Language Models (LLMs) offers a path to scale software verification beyond manual workflows. However, current methods remain unreliable: without a solid theoretical footing, the refinement process acts as a black box that may oscillate, loop, or diverge. This work bridges this critical gap by developing an LLM-Verifier Convergence Theorem, providing the first fo

Ask HN: Best Podcasts of 2025?
news.ycombinator.com
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Ask HN: Anti-AI Open Source License?
news.ycombinator.com
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'PromptQuest' is the worst game of 2025 (trying to make chatbots work)
theregister.com

Opinion: Everything you hated about text adventure games is now being sold as a productivity tool

Building a macOS app to know when my Mac is thermal throttling
stanislas.blog

Stanislas - How I built MacThrottle, a menu bar app that tells me when my Mac is thermal throttling, and the journey to find the right macOS APIs.

Claude Code creator says Claude wrote all his code for the last month
twitter.com
Learn computer graphics from scratch and for free
scratchapixel.com
Salesforce pulls back from LLMs, pivots Agentforce to deterministic automation
timesofindia.indiatimes.com

Salesforce is dialing back LLMs, leaning on deterministic automation and guardrails after reliability gaps. The aim: predictable outcomes, clean data, and no missed steps.

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS – The Roadmap
discourse.ubuntu.com

The Desktop team has just returned from our engineering sprint in Gothenburg, and as we begin the development cycle for Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, I’m excited to share what’s coming next for Ubuntu Desktop. Long-term support releases traditionally focus on stability, refinement, and a cohesive user experience across installation, daily use, security, and enterprise integration. Here is a look at the key themes and what we ai

Last Year on My Mac: Look Back in Disbelief
eclecticlight.co

If someone had told me 12 months ago what was going to happen this past year, I wouldn’t have believed them. Skipping swiftly past all the political, economic and social turmoil, I come to th…

Hungry Fat Cells Could Someday Starve Cancer
ucsf.edu

Scientists used implanted fat cells to gobble up available nutrients around cancer tumors, starving the tumors to death.

Manus AI 100M USD ARR
manus.im

Manus reaches $100M ARR, becoming the fastest startup to hit this milestone. With $125M total revenue run-rate, 147T tokens processed, and 80M virtual computers created, Manus is redefining AI-human collaboration through its General AI Agent platform.

AI Slop Report: The Global Rise of Low-Quality AI Videos
kapwing.com

Kapwing’s new research shows that 21-33% of YouTube’s feed may consist of AI slop or brainrot videos. But which countries and channels are achieving the greatest reach — and how much money might they make? We analyzed social data to find out.

Italians celebrate village's first baby in 30 years
theguardian.com

Feted birth of bambina Lara in Pagliara dei Marsi highlights sticky national debate over country’s ‘demographic winter’

Growing up in “404 Not Found”: China's nuclear city in the Gobi Desert
substack.com

Substack - A memoir of growing up in China’s classified atomic bomb base in the Gobi Desert.

C++ says “We have try... finally at home”
devblogs.microsoft.com

Raymond Chen - The destructor serves as the "finally".

Calendar
neatnik.net

A simple printable calendar with the full year on a single page

Rust errors without dependencies
vincents.dev
Dialtone – AOL 3.0 Server
dialtone.live
Fathers’ choices may be packaged and passed down in sperm RNA
quantamagazine.org

Research into how a father’s choices — such as diet, exercise, stress, nicotine use — may transfer traits to his children has become impossible to ignore.

Replacing JavaScript with Just HTML
htmhell.dev

A collection of bad practices in HTML, copied from real websites.

Functional programming and reliability: ADTs, safety, critical infrastructure
blog.rastrian.dev

> In banking, telecom, and payments, reliability is not a nice to have. It is table stakes. The most reliable systems I have worked on reduce entire classes of bugs before the code even runs. Functional programming and Algebraic Data Types (ADTs) let you push correctness into the type system, so illegal states cannot be constructed in the first place. **What you will learn** - How invalid states show up in real sy

Show HN: Waycore – an open-source, offline-first modular field computer
news.ycombinator.com
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7- and 14-segment fonts "DSEG"
keshikan.net
The Dangers of SSL Certificates
surfingcomplexity.blog

Yesterday, the Bazel team at Google did not have a very Merry Boxing Day. An SSL certificate expired for and as shown in this screenshot from the github issue. This expired certificate apparently b…

Liberating Bluetooth on the ESP32
exquisite.tube

Despite how widely used the ESP32 is, its Bluetooth stack remains closed source. Let’s dive into the low-level workings of a proprietary Bluetooth peripheral. Whether you are interested in reverse ...

Yanis Varoufakis on the future of capitalism [video]
youtube.com
Bankruptcies are exploding across the economy
businessinsider.com

Natalie Musumeci - Bankruptcies are suddenly everywhere, from billion-dollar giants to small businesses to individuals. Experts are stumped at the breadth of industries.

Public Domain Day 2026
web.law.duke.edu

January 1, 2026 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1930 are open to all, as are sound recordings from 1925! By Jennifer Jenkins and James Boyle[1] CC BY 4.0 Please note that this site is only about US law; the copyright terms in other countries are different.[2] On January 1, 2026, thousands of copyrighted works from 1930 enter the US public domain, along with sound recordings from 1925.

How We Found Out About COINTELPRO (2014)
monthlyreview.org

Martin Oppenheimer is professor emeritus of sociology at Rutgers University, and has written extensively about the civil rights movement. Betty Medsger, The Burglary: The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover’s Secret... READ MORE

Pfizer ended up passing on my GLP-1 work back in the early '90s (2024)
statnews.com

Jeffrey Flier - Even the biggest future blockbuster drugs can be prematurely abandoned.

In 1995, a Netscape employee wrote a hack in 10 days that now runs the Internet
arstechnica.com

Thirty years later, JavaScript is the glue that holds the interactive web together, warts and all.

Say No to Palantir in the NHS
notopalantir.goodlawproject.org

NHS England is rolling out software to run our health records from Palantir - fight back

Richard Stallman at the First Hackers Conference in 1984 [video]
youtube.com
An ounce of silver is now worth more than a barrel of oil
wsj.com
Legal sports betting linked to sharp increases in violent crime
news.rice.edu
White House pushes to dismantle leading climate and weather research center
pbs.org

The Trump administration says it plans to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, which is the nation’s premier atmospheric science center. The center was founded in 1960 and has facilitated generations of breakthroughs in climate and weather science. William Brangham discussed the move with climate scientist Kim Cobb and meteorologist Matthew Cappucci.

America's richest 10% now hold 60% of the nation's wealth
bsky.app/profile/rbreich.bsky.social

America's richest 10% now hold 60% of the nation's wealth. The bottom half of America? It holds just 6%. Wealth inequality is eating this country alive.

'Off switch' discovery could help clear our brains of a common parasite
sciencealert.com

Jess Cockerill - There's a parasite living in the brains of 40 million Americans, and most of these human hosts are completely unaware.

How we lost communication to entertainment
ploum.net
The Epstein files downloaded today is different compared to before
news.ycombinator.com
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Rainbow Six Siege hacked as players get billions of credits and random bans
shanethegamer.com

Dimas Ibnu - Rainbow Six Siege appears to have been hacked as global server outages hit all platforms, with players reporting billions of credits, dev skins, and random bans while Ubisoft calls it a server incident.

Toll roads are spreading in America
economist.com
Scientists edited genes in a living person and saved his life
popularmechanics.com

With grim prognosis hanging overhead, doctors and scientists at universities and institutions across the U.S. worked tirelessly to develop the world’s first custom gene-editing therapy to save the life of a newborn.

Windows 2 for the Apricot PC/Xi
ninakalinina.com
More than 20% of videos shown to new YouTube users are 'AI slop', study finds
theguardian.com

Low-quality AI-generated content is now saturating social media – and generating about $117m a year, data shows

Cleartext signatures considered harmful
gnupg.org
Nvidia's $20B antitrust loophole
ossa-ma.github.io

The Groq deal that dodged regulators, enriched Chamath, sidestepped Saudi entanglements and a whole bunch more

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