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QNX Self-Hosted Developer Desktop
devblog.qnx.com

Try out the initial release of the QNX Developer Desktop -- a self-hosted development environment for QNX. No more cross-compilation!

Exe.dev/
exe.dev
Always Bet on Text
graydon2.dreamwidth.org
How I think about Kubernetes
garnaudov.com

More than a container orchastrator

T-Ruby is Ruby with syntax for types
type-ruby.github.io

T-Ruby: TypeScript-style type system for Ruby. Write .trb files with type annotations, compile to standard .rb files.

NYC phone ban reveals some students can't read clocks
gothamist.com

They want to know how much time is left in class ... but can't quite tell, one teacher says.

Grok and the Naked King: The Ultimate Argument Against AI Alignment
ibrahimcesar.cloud

When the world's richest man can simply 'correct' an AI to reflect his own values, what does that tell us about the entire alignment discourse?

Gaussian Splatting 3 Ways
github.com/NullandKale

Contribute to NullandKale/NullSplats development by creating an account on GitHub.

My insulin pump controller uses the Linux kernel. It also violates the GPL
reddit.com/r/linux
How Lewis Carroll computed determinants (2023)
johndcook.com

John - Charles Dodgson (a.k.a. Lewis Carroll) developed a method of computing determinants which has some practical advantages.

Drawing with zero-width characters
zw.swerdlow.dev
Rob Pike got spammed with an AI slop "act of kindness"
simonwillison.net

Simon Willison - Rob Pike (that Rob Pike) is furious. Here’s a Bluesky link for if you have an account there and a link to it in my thread viewer if you don’t. …

MongoBleed
github.com/joe-desimone

Contribute to joe-desimone/mongobleed development by creating an account on GitHub.

FFmpeg has issued a DMCA takedown on GitHub
twitter.com
ICE's interest in high-tech gear raises new questions: 'What is it for?'
politico.com
A Proclamation Regarding the Restoration of the Dash
blog.nawaz.org
How uv got so fast
nesbitt.io

Andrew Nesbitt - uv’s speed comes from engineering decisions, not just Rust. Static metadata, dropping legacy formats, and standards that didn’t exist five years ago.

Experts explore new mushroom which causes fairytale-like hallucinations
nhmu.utah.edu

Between traditional folklore and modern biology, the wild forest floor and the sterile scientific laboratory, lies the story of the lilliputian mushroom.

C/C++ Embedded Files (2013)
4rknova.com

Nikolaos Papadopoulos - A summary of different approaches for embedding files within c / c++ code

ZJIT is now available in Ruby 4.0
railsatscale.com

ZJIT is now available with the release of Ruby 4.0. Here’s an update of our progress.

Mostlymatter: A fork of Mattermost by Framasoft
packages.framasoft.org

Mostlymatter binaries, a fork of Mattermost without users limit.

Show HN: AutoLISP interpreter in Rust/WASM – a CAD workflow invented 33 yrs ago
acadlisp.de
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Show HN: Private blogging and journaling with a simulated audience
tempblog-psi.vercel.app
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Show HN: Witr – Explain why a process is running on your Linux system
github.com/pranshuparmar
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Why is this running? Contribute to pranshuparmar/witr development by creating an account on GitHub.

High school student discovers 1.5M potential new astronomical objects
smithsonianmag.com

Margherita Bassi - The 18-year-old won $250,000 for training a machine learning model to analyze understudied data from NASA's retired NEOWISE telescope

Show HN: Xcc700: Self-hosting mini C compiler for ESP32 (Xtensa) in 700 lines
github.com/valdanylchuk
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mini C compiler for esp32. Contribute to valdanylchuk/xcc700 development by creating an account on GitHub.

Steve wants us to make the Macintosh boot faster
folklore.org
Rob Pike goes nuclear over GenAI
skyview.social

Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software. Just fuck you. Fuck you all. I can't remember the last time I was this angry.

LearnixOS
learnix-os.com
Ask HN: What did you read in 2025?
news.ycombinator.com
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Package managers keep using Git as a database, it never works out
nesbitt.io

Andrew Nesbitt - Git repositories seem like an elegant solution for package registry data. Pull requests for governance, version history for free, distributed by design. But as registries grow, the cracks appear.

ChatGPT conversations still lack timestamps after years of requests
community.openai.com

I’ve been working in a single chat for close 9-10 months now, with some separate chats opened once in a while. Now I want to write up a chronological overview of what I’ve been up to and when these past 10 months and I fully expected “the timestamps in the ChatGPT chat” to make that task trivial… It’s madness that this information isn’t available.

Unix "find" expressions compiled to bytecode
nullprogram.com
GNU Mes and the Module System
ekaitz.elenq.tech
I'm a laptop weirdo and that's why I like my new Framework 13
blog.matthewbrunelle.com

It turns out I've always done weird things to my laptops.

Codex vs. Claude Code (today)
build.ms

Every AI tool has its strengths and weaknesses, and the only way to discover what they are is by using them.

The First Web Server
dfarq.homeip.net

Dave Farquhar - It lived on Tim Berners-Lee's desk at CERN in Switzerland.

Questions engineers should ask future employers in interviews
dollardhingra.substack.com

Dollar Dhingra - Beyond salary and benefits: A checklist of questions for developers to gauge tech stacks, on-call expectations, development processes, and mentorship opportunities.

Geometric Algorithms for Translucency Sorting in Minecraft [pdf]
douira.dev
Building an AI agent inside a 7-year-old Rails monolith
catalinionescu.dev

We run a multi-tenant Rails application with sensitive data and layered authorization. In this post, I walk through how I added the first AI agent tool using RubyLLM, Pundit policies, and our existing Algolia search, without introducing a parallel system or loosening constraints.

Rob Pike Goes Nuclear over GenAI
imgur.com

Imgur - Discover the magic of the internet at Imgur, a community powered entertainment destination. Lift your spirits with funny jokes, trending memes, entertaining gifs, inspiring stories, viral videos, and so much more from users.

TurboDiffusion: 100–200× Acceleration for Video Diffusion Models
github.com/thu-ml

TurboDiffusion: 100–200× Acceleration for Video Diffusion Models - thu-ml/TurboDiffusion

Ultimate-Linux: Userspace for Linux in Pure JavaScript
github.com/popovicu

The Ultimate Linux micro distribution written in JavaScript! A very functional minimal userspace for Linux written in... pure JavaScript! Not quite, but almost. It's good, I promise! - popovicu...

MiniMax M2.1: Built for Real-World Complex Tasks, Multi-Language Programming
minimaxi.com
Governments in the West Are Turning Their Sights on VPNs
nakedcapitalism.com

“Politicians have now discovered that people are using VPNs to protect their privacy and bypass these invasive laws. Their solution? Entirely ban the use of VPNs."

When a driver challenges the kernel's assumptions
miod.online.fr
Seven Diabetes Patients Die Due to Undisclosed Bug in Abbott's Glucose Monitors
sfconservancy.org

I wrote last month about my diabetes diagnosis this year and my difficult choice to wear a proprietary device (called a CGM) on my arm 24/7 to continuously monitor my glucose levels. Like my friend and colleague, Karen M. Sandler — who previously made a much higher-stakes choice to receive a proprietary implanted defibrillator to keep her safe given her genetic heart condition — I reluctantly chose to

Ask HN: What tech purchase did you regret even though reviews were great?
news.ycombinator.com
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No shares in company, but 550 employees received a $240M gift from their owner
economictimes.indiatimes.com

More than 550 employees at a Louisiana manufacturing firm received a combined $240 million after the company was sold, despite holding no equity. The payout followed a decision by the owner to share 15 percent of sale proceeds with staff who stayed through layoffs, downturns and uncertainty. The bonuses, averaging about $443,000, rewarded long-term loyalty and transformed lives while boosting the local economy.

Maybe the default settings are too high
raptitude.com

I’ve been reading Lord of the Rings for two months and I’m just at the end of the first part. It’s not because I’m not enjoying it. It’s one of the most ...

Google is 'gradually rolling out' option to change your gmail.com address
9to5google.com

Ben Schoon - Google says on a support page that it is "gradually rolling out" a new change allowing users to change their Gmail address.

Memory Safety
memorysafety.org

Internet Security Research Group - ISRG's Prossimo is moving critical software to memory safe code.

URL Pattern API
developer.mozilla.org

The URL Pattern API defines a syntax that is used to create URL pattern matchers. These patterns can be matched against URLs or individual URL components.

Ask HN: Pivot from SWE to What?
news.ycombinator.com
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UBlockOrigin and UBlacklist AI Blocklist
github.com/laylavish

A huge blocklist of manually curated sites that contain AI generated imagery for uBlock Origin & uBlacklist. - laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist

Weight-loss pill approval set to accelerate food industry product overhauls
reuters.com
Fahrplan – 39C3
fahrplan.events.ccc.de
Critical vulnerability in LangChain – CVE-2025-68664
cyata.ai

admin - Cyata discloses LangGrinch (CVE-2025-68664), a critical LangChain Core serialization injection bug where untrusted, LLM-influenced metadata can be rehydrated as objects, enabling secret leaks and unsafe instantiation. Patch guidance included.

Donald Knuth's 2025 Christmas lecture: the Knight's Tours
thenewstack.io

David Cassel - This year, Knuth took a detour, sharing his recent breakthroughs in classifying and counting the trillions of ways a knight can visit every square on a chessboard.

Ask HN: What is the international distribution/statistics of HN visitors?
news.ycombinator.com
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I sell onions on the Internet (2019)
deepsouthventures.com

Peter Askew - Vidalia Onions to be exact. They’re classified as a sweet onion, and because of their mild flavor (they don’t make your eyes tear up), some folks can eat them like an apple. Most of my customers do. During a phone order one season – 2018 I believe – a customer shared this story where he ... Read more

Ask HN: What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2026?
news.ycombinator.com
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Sad times StackOverflow takes down all its physical servers
stackoverflow.blog
Alzheimer’s disease can be reversed in animal models? Study
case.edu

For more than a century, people have considered Alzheimer's disease (AD) an irreversible illness. Consequently, research has focused on preventing or ...

Salesforce regrets firing 4000 experienced staff and replacing them with AI
maarthandam.com

Salesforces has entered a phase of public reckoning after senior executives publicly admitted that the company overestimated AI’s readiness

Ask HN: MIT grad, junior dev layoffs – watching my daughter lose faith in merit
news.ycombinator.com
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Asahi Linux with Sway on the MacBook Air M2 (2024)
daniel.lawrence.lu

Daniel Lawrence Lu - I bought a MacBook Air M2. As of writing, it's very affordable with the 16 GB RAM, 256 GB SSD, 13.6" model available for $750. As of writing, also Asahi Linux doesn't support anything newer than M2.

Python 3.15’s interpreter for Windows x86-64 should hopefully be 15% faster
fidget-spinner.github.io

My personal blog

Mattermost restricted access to old messages after 10000 limit is reached
github.com/mattermost

We have a problem since the new upgrade. "10.000-message limit reached. Messages sent before 26. September 2025 are hidden -Restore Access" appeared. so the messages before that date can not be acc...

We invited a man into our home at Christmas and he stayed with us for 45 years
bbc.co.uk

An arrangement Rob and Dianne Parsons thought would last a few days ended up changing their lives.

Quantum Error Correction Goes FOOM
algassert.com
Self-referencing Page Tables for the x86-Architecture
0l.de

Thoughts, stories and ideas about of a code poet, bit juggler & logic wizard.

Free Software Foundation receives historic private donations
fsf.org
AI Withholds Life-or-Death Information Unless You Know the Magic Words
substack.com

Substack - A Modest Experiment Exposing the Paternalism at the Heart of RLHF-Based AI Safety

Ruby 4.0.0
ruby-lang.org

We are pleased to announce the release of Ruby 4.0.0.Ruby 4.0 introduces “Ruby Box” and “ZJIT”, and adds many improvements.

Python Applied Mathematics Labs
labs.acme.byu.edu
No Longer Evil – new life for dead/outdated Nest Generation 1 and 2 thermostats
nolongerevil.com

Hack House - Open-source custom firmware for abandoned Nest Gen 1 & 2 thermostats. Turn your bricked Google/Nest device into a fully functional smart thermostat.

Microsoft denies rewriting Windows 11 in Rust using AI
windowslatest.com

Mayank Parmar - Microsoft told Windows Latest that the company does not plan to rewrite Windows 11 using AI in Rust after an employee's post causes outrage.

The next-gen mainboard designed with amigaos4 and morphos in mind
mirari.vitasys.nl
Who Watches the Waymos? I do [video]
youtube.com
Silicon Valley's tone-deaf take on the AI backlash will matter in 2026
fortune.com

Sharon Goldman - AI’s champions keep trying to impress, but the public is still waiting for answers about jobs, costs, and who benefits. By 2026, that tension will matter.

Salmon Recipe
waveinscriber.com
Microsoft please get your tab to autocomplete shit together
ivanca.github.io

What do you think is gonna happen after I press tab when looking at this screenshot?

Asterisk AI Voice Agent
github.com/hkjarral

An open-source AI Voice Agent that integrates with Asterisk/FreePBX using Audiosocket/RTP technology - hkjarral/Asterisk-AI-Voice-Agent

Tell HN: Merry Christmas
news.ycombinator.com
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Phoenix: A modern X server written from scratch in Zig
git.dec05eba.com
How I Left YouTube
zhach.news

What was the road like when I left?

The Phone-Based Retirement Is Here
theatlantic.com

Charlie Warzel - Do your parents have a screen-time problem?

Steam Store is offline
steamstat.us

Is Steam Down? Current status of the Steam client, Steam store, Steam community, Counter-Strike 2 and Dota 2.

Nvidia to buy assets from Groq for $20B cash
cnbc.com
Show HN: Lamp Carousel – DIY kinetic sculpture powered by lamp heat (2024)
evan.widloski.com
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Spaced repetition for efficient learning (2019)
gwern.net

Gwern - Efficient memorization using the spacing effect: literature review of widespread applicability, tips on use & what it’s good for.

The Government Unconstitutionally Labels ICE Observers as Domestic Terrorists
cato.org
Beijing is enforcing tough rules to ensure chatbots don’t misbehave
wsj.com
Show HN: Minimalist editor that lives in browser, stores everything in the URL
github.com/antonmedv
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A notes webapp. Contribute to antonmedv/textarea development by creating an account on GitHub.

European Majority favours more social media regulation
yougov.co.uk

A new YouGov study of seven EU countries – France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania and Spain – examines public attitudes social media regulation and banning political advertising from social platforms.

Looking for Decent Conversation?
news.ycombinator.com
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Google Cloud Run cost me $4,676 in 6 weeks with zero traff
news.ycombinator.com
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Fabrice Bellard: Biography (2009) [pdf]
ipaidia.gr
Researchers achieved 1,270 Wh/L in an anode-free lithium metal battery
postech.ac.kr

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