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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2025)
news.ycombinator.com
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Google *Unkills* JPEG XL?
tonisagrista.com
WordPress plugin quirk resulted in UK Gov OBR Budget leak [pdf]
obr.uk
Netflix Kills Casting from Its Mobile App to Most Modern TVs
macrumors.com

Netflix has quietly removed the ability to cast content from its mobile apps to most modern TVs and streaming devices, including newer Chromecast models and the Google TV Streamer.

The Penicillin Myth
asimov.press

Asimov Press - Competing theories seek to explain inconsistencies surrounding Alexander Fleming’s famed discovery.

Cartographers Have Been Hiding Covert Illustrations Inside of Switzerland's Maps
eyeondesign.aiga.org
A vector graphics workstation from the 70s
justanotherelectronicsblog.com

riktw - A bit of history and a repair of a Tektronix 4051 graphical computer from 1975. What was this computer's place in history, what was it used for and what parts exploded when turning it on.

WhatsApp will become interoperable with other messaging apps
tuta.com

WhatsApp users in Europe will soon have the possibility to message users of other services.

Why xor eax, eax?
xania.org
1GB Raspberry Pi 5, and memory-driven price rises
raspberrypi.com
UK Government plans new powers to label dissenting movements as 'subversion'
netpol.org
Self-hosting a Matrix server for 5 years
yaky.dev
DeepSeek-v3.2
huggingface.co
Xlibre is a fork of the Xorg Xserver with lots of code cleanups
x11libre.net
Accenture dubs 800k staff 'reinventors' amid shift to AI
theguardian.com

Consultancy’s move to embrace artificial intelligence follows Disney’s use of the term ‘imagineers’

AWS data centers' water use tied to spike in cancer and miscarriages in Oregon
techoreon.com

Morrow County, Oregon, has recorded nitrate readings as high as 73 parts per million (ppm) in household wells—more than ten times the state's legal ceiling of

DeepSeekMath-V2: Towards Self-Verifiable Mathematical Reasoning
huggingface.co
Games using anti-cheats and their compatibility with GNU/Linux or Wine/Proton
areweanticheatyet.com
It’s been a very hard year
bell.bz

Unlike a lot of places in tech, my company, Set Studio/Piccalilli has no outside funding. Bootstrapped is what the LinkedIn people say, I think. It’s been a hard year this year. A very hard year. I think a naive person would blame it all on the seemingly industry-wide attitude of “AI can just do this […]

Google Antigravity Deletes D Drive
mastodon.gamedev.place
SmartTube Compromised
aftvnews.com

Elias Saba -  Earlier this week, the developer of SmartTube, the most popular alternative YouTube app for Android TV and Fire TV devices, announced that his app's digital

'A full-blown crisis': Americans brace for a surge in healthcare costs
ft.com

West Virginia is at the epicentre of a looming disaster over rising insurance premiums as affordability concerns soar

Google Antigravity just deleted the contents of whole drive
reddit.com/r/google_antigravity
Search tool that only returns content created before ChatGPT's public release
tegabrain.com

A browser extension for avoiding AI slop.  Download it for Chrome or Firefox. This is a search tool that will only return content created before ChatGPT's...

X210Ai is a new motherboard to upgrade ThinkPad X201/200
tpart.net
In Re: 23andMe, Inc. Customer Data Security Breach Litigation
23andmedatasettlement.com
Regarding Thien-Thi Nguyen
news.ycombinator.com
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Advent of Sysadmin 2025
sadservers.com
Is America's jobs market nearing a cliff?
economist.com
Malware embedded into audio driver is silently recording from system mic
twitter.com
Ly – A lightweight TUI (ncurses-like) display manager for Linux and BSD
codeberg.org

fairyglade - A lightweight TUI (ncurses-like) display manager for Linux and BSD.

Grokipedia is the antithesis of Wikipedia
404media.co

Grokipedia is not a 'Wikipedia competitor.' It is a fully robotic regurgitation machine designed to protect the ego of the world’s wealthiest man.

Algorithms for Optimization [pdf]
algorithmsbook.com
Bricklink suspends Marketplace operations in 35 countries
jaysbrickblog.com

Jay Ong - Bricklink, LEGO’s biggest online marketplace and lifeblood of the LEGO community has made quite an alarming announcement. From 12 December 2025, BrickLink Marketplace will not be available for members in 35 countries around the world, which means that LEGO and Bricklink members will no longer be able to buy or sell on the Marketplace. See […]

A Love Letter to FreeBSD
tara.sh
The reality of life after getting your brand stocked in a national retailer
reddit.com/r/ausbusiness
Ty – A fast Python type checker, written in Rust
docs.astral.sh
“Boobs check” – Technique to verify if sites behind CDN are hosted in Iran
twitter.com
How to run phones while being struck by suicide drones
nasa.cx
White House gives Maduro ultimatum as U.S. moves toward land operations
miamiherald.com

The call quickly reached an impasse as it became clear that the two sides’ positions were far apart.

Hacking on the ReMarkable 2
sgt.hootr.club
People keep flocking to Linux, not just to escape Windows
zdnet.com

By my count, Linux has over 11% of the desktop market. Here's how I got that number - and why people are making the leap.

You want microservices, but do you need them?
docker.com

Before you default to microservices, weigh hidden costs and consider a modular monolith or SOA. Learn when Docker delivers consistency and scale—without sprawl.

Program-of-Thought Prompting Outperforms Chain-of-Thought by 15% (2022)
arxiv.org

Recently, there has been significant progress in teaching language models to perform step-by-step reasoning to solve complex numerical reasoning tasks. Chain-of-thoughts prompting (CoT) is by far the state-of-art method for these tasks. CoT uses language models to perform both reasoning and computation in the multi-step `thought' process. To disentangle computation from reasoning, we propose `Program of Thoughts' (Po

NixOS 25.11 released
nixos.org
Don't push AI down our throats
gpt3experiments.substack.com

nutanc - AI is being done wrong.

X's move to show users' location is a great step toward online transparency
washingtonpost.com
There is No Quintic Formula [video]
youtube.com
Writing a good Claude.md
humanlayer.dev

`CLAUDE.md` is a high-leverage configuration point for Claude Code. Learning how to write a good `CLAUDE.md` (or `AGENTS.md`) is a key skill for agent-enabled software engineering.

ETH-Zurich: Digital Design and Computer Architecture; 227-0003-10L, Spring, 2025
safari.ethz.ch
ESA Sentinel-1D delivers first high-resolution images
esa.int
Notes on Shadowing a Hospitalist
humaninvariant.substack.com

@HumanInvariant - 16 observations on hospital culture and incentives

LLVM-MOS – Clang LLVM fork targeting the 6502
llvm-mos.org
GitHub to Codeberg: my experience
eldred.fr

In which I talk about the process involved in switching forges, and how well that went.

The Thinking Game Film – Google DeepMind documentary
thinkinggamefilm.com

The Thinking Game takes you on a fascinating journey into the heart of DeepMind, one of the world's leading AI labs, as it strives to unravel the mysteries of artificial general intelligence (AGI).

Langjam Gamejam: Build a programming language then make a game with it
langjamgamejam.com

A 7-day challenge to create a programming language and then use it to build a game.

Modern cars are spying on you. Here's what you can do about it
apnews.com

Modern cars are collecting more data than ever, raising privacy concerns. The Mozilla Foundation says cars are the worst product category for privacy.

Atlas Shrugged (2024)
david-jasso.com

I read Ann Rand’s novel, the Fountain Head, in High School and loved it.  I had intended to go on and read the book she wrote after that, Atlas Shrugged, but just never got around to it. …

The Undermining of the CDC
newyorker.com

Dhruv Khullar - The Department of Health and Human Services maintains that it is hewing to “gold standard, evidence-based science”—doublespeak that might unsettle Orwell.

Geothermal Breakthrough in South Texas Signals New Era for Ercot
powermag.com

Sonal Patel - In just 12 months, Sage Geosystems and San Miguel Electric Cooperative built the world’s first pressure geothermal system. It is now poised to deliver long-duration, dispatchable storage for the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) as variable generation and data center demand surge.

Migrating Dillo from GitHub
dillo-browser.org
Don't throw away your old PC–it makes a better NAS than anything you can buy
howtogeek.com

Doing it yourself is way more cost effective.

Windows drive letters are not limited to A-Z
ryanliptak.com
Norway wealth fund to vote for human rights report at Microsoft, against Nadella
cnbc.com
Advent of Code 2025
adventofcode.com
Tell HN: It's now impossible to disable all AI features in Firefox 145 (latest)
news.ycombinator.com
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CachyOS: Fast and Customizable Linux Distribution
cachyos.org

🚀 CachyOS is an Arch Linux-based distribution that offers an easy installation, several customization options to suit every user, and special optimizations for improved performance while remaining simple.

Silicon Valley's man in the White House is benefiting himself and his friends
nytimes.com
The space of minds
karpathy.bearblog.dev

On the space of minds and the optimizations that give rise to them.

The Copenhagen Trap: How the West made passivity the only safe strategy
aliveness.kunnas.com

How the West made passivity the only safe strategy

AI just proved Erdos Problem #124
erdosproblems.com
Zigbook Is Plagiarizing the Zigtools Playground
zigtools.org
Show HN: Boing
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Boing

Built a Free, Unlimited Screen Recorder Because Everything Else Annoyed Me
indiehackers.com

Showesome Screen Recorder started as a personal need.I was recording tutorials, walkthroughs, and demos almost every day — but every tool I tried slowed...

Tell HN: Regrets. Think carefully about how you spend your time
news.ycombinator.com
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Stopping bad guys from using my open source project (feedback wanted)
evanhahn.com

I maintain a sorta-popular open source package, and I want to prevent big corporations and "bad guys" from using it. I want feedback on how to do this.

Meshtastic
meshtastic.org

An open source, off-grid, decentralized, mesh network built to run on affordable, low-power devices

A new Little Prince museum has opened its doors in Switzerland
lepetitprince.com

saintexadmin - The Besenval Palace in Solothurn opened the museum « Der Kleine Prinz und seine Welt » dedicated to the Little Prince through the collection of Jean-Marc Probst.

Walmart exec: 'I've never believed in the term work-life balance'
cnbc.com
Dilution vs. Risk taking: Capital gains taxes and entrepreneurs
nber.org
Scala
huygens-fokker.org
Americans no longer see four-year college degrees as worth the cost
nbcnews.com

The latest NBC News poll shows two-thirds of registered voters down on the value proposition of a degree. A majority said degrees were worth the cost a dozen years ago.

Bazzite: Operating System for Linux gaming
bazzite.gg

Bazzite makes gaming and everyday use smoother and simpler across desktop PCs, handhelds, tablets, and home theater PCs.

Landlock-Ing Linux
blog.prizrak.me
Europe's New War on Privacy
unherd.com
Show HN: Nano PDF – A CLI Tool to Edit PDFs with Gemini's Nano Banana
github.com/gavrielc
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Edit PDF files with Nano Banana. Contribute to gavrielc/Nano-PDF development by creating an account on GitHub.

Joe Armstrong interviews Alan Kay (2016) [video]
youtube.com
All it takes is for one to work out
alearningaday.blog

More than a decade ago, when I was applying to graduate school, I went through a period of deep uncertainty. I had tried the previous year and hadn’t gotten in anywhere. I wanted to try again, but …

FBI RFP for tool to scrape Gab, Parler, 8Kun, and Telegram (5k licenses) [pdf]
vault.fbi.gov
The Origins of Scala (2009)
artima.com
Learning Feynman's Trick for Integrals
zackyzz.github.io
Be Like Clippy
be-clippy.com

Join the Be Like Clippy movement to make technology more user-friendly and transparent. Including a list of custom clippy profile pictures

Ported freetype, fontconfig, harfbuzz, and graphite to Fil-C
twitter.com
Framework Computer Now Sponsoring LVFS / Fwupd Development
phoronix.com
Electric vehicle sales are booming in South America – without Tesla
reuters.com
An update on the Farphone's battery
far.computer
Student perceptions of AI coding assistants in learning
arxiv.org

The arrival of AI coding assistants in educational settings presents a paradigm shift, introducing a "new kid in the classroom" for both students and instructors. Thus, understanding the perceptions of these key actors about this new dynamic is critical. This exploratory study contributes to this area by investigating how these tools are shaping the experiences of novice programmers in an introductory programming cou

Zero knowlege proof of compositeness
johndcook.com

John - Testing whether a number is composite as an example of a zero knowledge proof. How ZKPs are used more generally.

We're learning more about what Vitamin D does
technologyreview.com

The sunshine vitamin could affect your immune system and heart health.

Testing shows automotive glassbreakers can't break modern automotive glass
core77.com

It's easy to convince EDC people to buy EDC things. But how do you convince non-EDC folks to buy your product? Simple: Fear. The global "car escape tool market," according to market research firm Data Insights Market, is valued at $500 this year, projected to grow 7% a year and

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