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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).

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.

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.

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
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
twitter.com
Zigbook Is Plagiarizing the Zigtools Playground
zigtools.org
Show HN: Boing
boing.greg.technology
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Boing

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

Copenhagenize Index 2025: The Global Ranking of Bicycle-Friendly Cities
copenhagenizeindex.eu
Major AI conference flooded with peer reviews written by AI
nature.com

Controversy has erupted after 21% of manuscript reviews for an international AI conference were found to be generated by artificial intelligence.

Iceland declares ocean-current instability a national security risk
edition.cnn.com

Iceland has classified the potential collapse of a major Atlantic current system as a national security threat, citing new scientific warnings that such a change could radically alter the country’s climate and economy. Officials say the risk represents an “existential” challenge that demands a coordinated, top-level response.

It's Always the Process, Stupid
its.promp.td

Why AI Won’t Save Your Broken Workflow

Datacenters in space aren't going to work
taranis.ie

There is a rush for AI companies to team up with space launch/satellite companies to build datacenters in space. TL;DR: It's not going to work.

DNS LOC Record (2014)
blog.cloudflare.com

Hachi: An Image Search Engine
eagledot.xyz
Quebec to ban public prayer in sweeping new secularism law
theguardian.com

Bill 9 would outlaw prayer and face coverings in public institutions, sparking fears it targets Muslims in Canada

How ICE is becoming a secret police force
theconversation.com

Lee Morgenbesser - The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement meets most criteria that have defined secret police forces in authoritarian regimes. And the worst may be yet to come.

Users brutually reject Microsoft's "Copilot for work" in Edge and Windows 11
windowslatest.com

Mayank Parmar - Angry users are telling Windows giant that they’re “not a baby” and don’t need a chatbot “shoved” in their face.

Chainalysis Successful Deanonymization Attack on Monero
darkwebinformer.com

Chainalysis Successful Deanonymization Attack on Monero

The CRDT Dictionary: A Field Guide to Conflict-Free Replicated Data Types
iankduncan.com

A comprehensive guide to CRDTs and their tradeoffs, from counters to sequences. Written in the spirit of the Typeclassopedia, exploring how different CRDTs solve the distributed consensus puzzle.

Show HN: I built Magiclip – an all-in-one AI studio
magiclip.io
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Magiclip - AI-powered platform for creating viral short-form videos, with automatic subtitles, AI voice generation, and social media optimization.

DMT-induced shifts in criticality correlate with self-dissolution
jneurosci.org

Psychedelics profoundly alter subjective experience and brain dynamics. Brain oscillations express signatures of near-critical dynamics, relevant for healthy function. Alterations in the proximity to criticality have been suggested to underlie the experiential and neurological effects of psychedelics. Here, we investigate the effects of a psychedelic substance (DMT) on the criticality of brain oscillations, and in re

Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out
bleepingcomputer.com

OpenAI is now internally testing 'ads' inside ChatGPT that could redefine the web economy.

Belgian Police exposed using botnets to manipulate EU data law impact assessment
reddit.com/r/europe
High air pollution could diminish exercise benefits by half – study
scienceclock.com

We all know exercise is good for us. It lowers the risk of heart disease, cancer, and early death, and keeps the body and mind in shape. But when the air you

I Know We're in an AI Bubble Because Nobody Wants Me
petewarden.com

I first got into deep learning in 2012, when AlexNet came out. I was CTO of Jetpac, a startup that aimed to provide information about bars, hotels, and restaurants by analyzing public photos, for e…

KDE going all-in on a Wayland future
blogs.kde.org

Well folks, it’s the beginning of a new era: after nearly three decades of KDE desktop environments running on X11, the future KDE Plasma 6.8 release will be Wayland-exclusive! Support for X11 applications will be fully entrusted to Xwayland, and the Plasma X11 session will no longer be included.

Garfield's Proof of the Pythagorean Theorem
en.wikipedia.org
The 'S&P 493' reveals a different U.S. economy
msn.com
The Great Downzoning
worksinprogress.co

It was once legal to build almost anything, anywhere. Then, in the space of a few decades, nearly every city in the West banned densification.

System 7 natively boots on the Mac mini G4
macos9lives.com
Neato vacuum robots to stop working
support.neatorobotics.com

Dear Neato Robotics community, Our promise has always been to deliver innovative products while protecting the trust and safety of our users. We want to address openly and clearly changes now taking place as we phase out Neato cloud servi...

Every mathematician has only a few tricks (2020)
mathoverflow.net

In Gian-Carlo Rota's "Ten lessons I wish I had been taught" he has a section, "Every mathematician has only a few tricks", where he asserts that even mathematicians like Hilbert...

A triangle whose interior angles sum to zero
johndcook.com

John - In hyperbolic geometry, the sum of a the interior angles of a triangle can be any value less than π. If the sum is zero the triangle has area π.

Fabric Project
github.com/Fabric-Project

Node Creative Coding / 3D / Image Processing tool inspired by Quartz Composer - Fabric-Project/Fabric

I changed my address, and TransferWise in two days will empty my account
news.ycombinator.com
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Confessions of a Software Developer: No More Self-Censorship
kerrick.blog

Kerrick Long - I haven't published since April because I've been afraid. What was I afraid of? In this post I detail every single thing I've avoided admitting on this blog.

How to Short the Bubbliest Firms
economist.com
A first look at Django's new background tasks
roam.be

Django 6.0 introduces a built-in background tasks framework in `django.tasks`. But don't expect to phase out Celery, Huey or other preferred solutions just yet.

Airbus A320 – intense solar radiation may corrupt data critical for flight
airbus.com

Analysis of a recent event involving an A320 Family aircraft has revealed that intense solar radiation may corrupt data critical. Read more.

Jedi Blue
en.wikipedia.org
Flight disruption warning as Airbus requests modifications to 6k planes
bbc.com

The European aerospace giant said it had found that intense radiation from the Sun could corrupt data crucial to flight controls.

Ask HN: What is the purpose of all these AI spam comments?
news.ycombinator.com
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Airbus A320 Fly by wire corrupted by radiation in flight
viewfromthewing.com

Gary Leff - Aviation insiders say an airworthiness directive may soon require software updates across the Airbus A320 fleet after investigators linked a JetBlue incident—where the aircraft entered a sudden uncommanded descent—to a faulty ELAC computer. Any grounding is expected to be short and staggered, with airlines updating the systems plane-by-plane to avoid major disruption.

Electron vs. Tauri
dolthub.com

Eric Richardson - Electron is the most popular framework for building desktop apps using web technologies. In this article, we'll discuss a newer alternative, Tauri, and weigh some of the pros and cons between the two frameworks.

How good engineers write bad code at big companies
seangoedecke.com

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The original ABC language, Python's predecessor (1991)
github.com/gvanrossum

The original ABC language (Python's predecessor), from 1991 - gvanrossum/abc-unix

Effective harnesses for long-running agents
anthropic.com

Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

Show HN: Pulse 2.0 – Live co-listening rooms where anyone can be a DJ
473999.net
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Livestream music with 1 click

How wealth dies
surplusenergyeconomics.wordpress.com

THE NOTIONAL VALUE TRAP Foreword Just as growth in the “real” economy of material products and services has been decelerating towards contraction, so aggregates of financial wealth have carried on …

Imgur geo-blocked the UK, so I geo-unblocked my network
blog.tymscar.com

Imgur started blocking UK users. Rather than installing a VPN on every device, I set up a network-wide proxy that tunnels Imgur traffic through a VPN automatically.

28M Hacker News comments as vector embedding search dataset
clickhouse.com

Dataset containing 28+ million Hacker News postings & their vector embeddings

Rock Paper Scissors Solitaire
klezlab.it
Molly: An Improved Signal App
molly.im

Molly is an improved Signal app for Android

Codex, Opus, Gemini Try to Build Counter Strike
instantdb.com
JSON Schema Demystified: Dialects, Vocabularies and Metaschemas
iankduncan.com

An accessible guide to understanding the confusing terminology around JSON Schema. What are schemas, dialects, vocabularies, and metaschemas, and how do they all fit together?

Show HN: An LLM-Powered Tool to Catch PCB Schematic Mistakes
netlist.io
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Catch PCB schematic mistakes before fabrication

Anti-patterns while working with LLMs
instavm.io
C++ Web Server on my custom hobby OS
oshub.org

OSHub Team - Demo After a long break from working on my hobby operating system, I finally got back into it and finished a very important milestone: a working ...

Bringing Sexy Back. Internet surveillance has killed eroticism
lux-magazine.com

Internet surveillance has killed eroticism. We need privacy to reclaim it.

Apple and Intel Rumored to Partner on Mac Chips
macrumors.com

While all Macs are now powered by Apple's custom-designed chips, a new rumor claims that Apple may rekindle its partnership with Intel, albeit in a new and limited way. Apple supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo today said Intel is expected to begin shipping Apple's lowest-end M-series chip as early as mid-2027.

So you wanna build a local RAG?
blog.yakkomajuri.com
Airloom – 3D Flight Tracker
objectiveunclear.com

Objective Unclear - Real-time 3D visualization of aircraft flight paths. Watch live flights with stunning ribbon trails across the sky.

Lobsters Interview
susam.net
Stellantis Is Spamming Owners' Screens with Pop-Up Ads for New Car Discounts
thedrive.com

Caleb Jacobs - Pushing "marketing notifications" for loyalty cash is a bold move when you're taking over existing customers' screens.

True P2P Email on Top of Yggdrasil Network
github.com/JB-SelfCompany

True P2P Email on top of Yggdrasil Network. Contribute to JB-SelfCompany/Tyr development by creating an account on GitHub.

AI Adoption Rates Starting to Flatten Out
apolloacademy.com

Torsten Sløk - Data from the Census Bureau and Ramp shows that AI adoption rates are starting to flatten out across all firm...

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