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Show HN: Stop Claude Code from forgetting everything
github.com/mutable-state-inc
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Contribute to mutable-state-inc/ensue-skill development by creating an account on GitHub.

AI employees don't pay taxes
alec.is
ManusAI Joins Meta
manus.im

Manus is joining Meta, and we’ll continue delivering our current services while accelerating product improvements to bring more powerful, reliable general AI agent capabilities to more users and businesses.

USPS announces changes to the postmark date system
nstp.org
Google is dead. Where do we go now?
circusscientist.com
Binance's Trust Wallet extension hacked; users lose $7M
web3isgoinggreat.com

Molly White - The Trust Wallet Chrome extension was compromised in an apparent supply chain attack. People who used the non-custodial wallet extension after it updated to version 2.68 lost funds after malicious code was introduced to exfiltrate wallet seed phrases so that the attackers could then drain the wallets. Victims have lost a combined $7 million due to the compromise.Binance founder Changpeng Zhao — who supposedly has no

Meta's ads tools started switching out top-performing ads with AI-generated ones
businessinsider.com

Lara O'Reilly - What do a granny, a contorted leg, and a flying car have in common? They're all bizarre ads recently whipped up by Meta's generative AI.

Russian Ghost Ship Sank Smuggling Nuclear Reactor Parts Likely Bound for N Korea
united24media.com

The Ursa Major, a Russian cargo ship that sank off Cartagena, was found to carry unlisted nuclear reactor components bound for North Korea.

When someone says they hate your product
getflack.com

Lulu Cheng Meservey - How to reset the thermostat, and CodeRabbit as a case study

All Delisted Steam Games
delistedgames.com

This page gives you direct access to all delisted Steam titles on the site. Below each title are the companies it relates to. An * in the title denotes a placeholder page that contains basic details.

The future of software development is software developers
codemanship.wordpress.com

I’ve been a computer programmer all-told for 43 years. That’s more than half the entire history of electronic programmable computers. In that time, I’ve seen a lot of things chang…

AI is forcing us to write good code
bits.logic.inc

Steve Krenzel - When Best Practices Are Best

LLMs Are Not Fun
orib.dev
List of domains censored by German ISPs
cuiiliste.de

Die CUII Liste zeigt dir, welche Domains von der CUII gesperrt sind und wie du die Zensur umgehen kannst.

A production bug that made me care about undefined behavior
gaultier.github.io
Tesla's 4680 battery supply chain collapses as partner writes down deal by 99%
electrek.co

Fred Lambert - A major link in Tesla’s 4680 battery supply chain has just snapped. South Korean battery material supplier L&F Co. announced...

Nvidia takes $5B stake in Intel under September agreement
reuters.com
Five Years of Tinygrad
geohot.github.io

The first commit to tinygrad was October 17, 2020. It’s been almost three years since we raised money. The company is 6 people now. The codebase is 18,935 lines not including tests.

GOG is getting acquired by its original co-founder
gog.com

Hey everyone, GOG Team here.

US Confirms Strike on 'Big Facility' Inside Venezuela
bloomberg.com
Static Allocation with Zig
nickmonad.blog

Introducing kv, a statically allocated key/value server.

Swapping SIM cards used to be easy, and then came eSIM
arstechnica.com

Swapping SIM cards used to be easy, and then came eSIM.

Libgodc: Write Go Programs for Sega Dreamcast
github.com/drpaneas

Go runtime for Dreamcast using gccgo and KOS. Contribute to drpaneas/libgodc development by creating an account on GitHub.

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.

UK accounting body to halt remote exams amid AI cheating
theguardian.com

Candidates will have to sit assessments in person unless there are exceptional circumstances, says ACCA

Kidnapped by Deutsche Bahn
theocharis.dev

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

Linux DAW: Help Linux musicians to quickly and easily find the tools they need
linuxdaw.org

Quality audio software for Linux Audio Production such as LV2, VST2, VST3, and CLAP effects, synthesizers and sampler plugins.

Show HN: See what readers who loved your favorite book/author also loved to read
shepherd.com
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Every book is from a reader's top 3 picks for 2025. Vote for your 3 favorite reads.

Kubernetes egress control with squid proxy
interlaye.red
Market design can feed the poor
worksinprogress.co

America's food banks had a broken distribution system. University of Chicago economists fixed it.

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
You can't design software you don't work on
seangoedecke.com

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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
China launches live-fire drills encircling Taiwan
theguardian.com

Taipei condemns exercise that Chinese army calls ‘a stern warning against “Taiwan independence” separatist forces and external interference forces’

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.

Ask HN: Loneliness at 19, how to cope?
news.ycombinator.com
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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

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