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Meta created 'playbook' to fend off pressure to crack down on scammers
reuters.com
I canceled my book deal
austinhenley.com

Austin Z. Henley - I've always wanted to write a book, and I was close, but not this time.

Court report detailing ChatGPT's involvement with a recent murder suicide [pdf]
storage.courtlistener.com
Stewart Cheifet, creator of The Computer Chronicles, has died
obits.goldsteinsfuneral.com

View Stewart Cheifet's obituary, find service dates, and sign the guestbook.

The Economics of Duke University
dontaylor13.substack.com

Don Taylor - is a hedge fund with a health system, a huge research enterprise & a hobby of college

2025 was a disaster for Windows 11
windowscentral.com

Windows 11 is having its worst year yet, with nonstop bugs, broken updates, and unwanted features pushing users to the breaking point.

2026: The Year of Java in the Terminal?
xam.dk
Scaffolding to Superhuman: How Curriculum Learning Solved 2048 and Tetris
kywch.github.io
The compiler is your best friend
blog.daniel-beskin.com

Daniel Beskin - The compiler is a powerful tool, yet many developers have a painful relationship with it. Can we do better?

Stardew Valley developer made a $125k donation to the FOSS C# framework MonoGame
monogame.net

One framework for creating powerful cross-platform games

France targets Australia-style social media ban for children next year
theguardian.com

Draft bill to be submitted for legal checks as France aims to follow Australia’s world-first ban on platforms including Facebook, Snapchat and YouTube

Drugmakers raise US prices on 350 medicines despite pressure
reuters.com
Zero-Code Instrumentation of an Envoy TCP Proxy Using eBPF
sergiocipriano.com
OpenAI is paying employees more than any major tech startup in history
wsj.com
Iron Beam: Israel's first operational anti drone laser system
mod.gov.il

Portal website of the Ministry of Defense

Efficient method to capture carbon dioxide from the atmosphere
helsinki.fi

The method is based on a recyclable filtration fluid consisting of a superbase-alcohol compound. One gram of the new compound can absorb 156 milligrams of carbon dioxide.

How AI labs are solving the power problem
newsletter.semianalysis.com

Ajey Pandey - Bring Your Own Generation, Sayonara Electric Grid, Turbines vs. Recips. vs. Fuel Cells, Why Not Build More CCGTs?, Onsite Power TCO

When square pixels aren't square
alexwlchan.net

When you want to get the dimensions of a video file, you probably want the display aspect ratio. Using the dimensions of a stored frame may result in a stretched or squashed video.

Claude wrote a functional NES emulator using my engine's API
carimbo.games
Tell HN: Happy New Year
news.ycombinator.com
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Nvidia GB10's Memory Subsystem, from the CPU Side
chipsandcheese.com

Chester Lam - GB10 is a collaboration between Nvidia and Mediatek that brings Nvidia’s Blackwell architecture into an integrated GPU.

The most famous transcendental numbers
sprott.physics.wisc.edu
Who Invented the Transistor?
people.idsia.ch
Show HN: I built a universal clipboard that syncs realtime on multiple devices
quickclip.space
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QuickClip Team - A cross-device clipboard manager that syncs copied text, links, and images instantly.

AI-generated videos showing young and attractive women promote Poland's EU exit
euronews.com

They are beautiful, eloquent — and do not exist. AI-generated girls from the 'Prawilne_Polki' profile called for Polexit and preached right-wing views. The TikTok account has been deleted, but disinformation and propaganda in Poland persist.

Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design [pdf]
ece.uvic.ca
The rise of industrial software
chrisloy.dev

> _**Industrial**_ > > _adj. (sense 3a)_ > > Of or relating to productive work, trade, or manufacture, esp.

Show HN: Use Claude Code to Query 600 GB Indexes over Hacker News, ArXiv, etc.
exopriors.com
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Why C++ programmers keep growing fast despite competition, safety, and AI
herbsutter.com

2025 was another great year for C++. It shows in the numbers Before we dive into the data below, let’s put the most important question up front: Why have C++ and Rust been the fastest-growing major…

Google Opal
opal.google
LLVM AI tool policy: human in the loop
discourse.llvm.org

Hey folks, I got a lot of feedback from various meetings on the proposed LLVM AI contribution policy, and I made some significant changes based on that feedback. The current draft proposal focuses on the idea of requiring a human in the loop who understands their contribution well enough to answer questions about it during review. The idea here is that contributors are not allowed to offload the work of validating LL

Readings in Database Systems (5th Edition) (2015)
redbook.io
S&P500 Priced in Gold
pricedingold.com
Quality of drinking water varies significantly by airline
foodmedcenter.org

Charles Platkin, PhD, JD, MPH - A 2026 Airline Water Study released today by the Center for Food as Medicine and Longevity reveals that the quality of drinking water varies significantly by airline, and many airlines…

Project ideas to appreciate the art of programming
codecrafters.io

Curated list of project ideas for programmers who aren't sure what to build. We chose 73 projects that teach a lot and are fun to build.

NYC Mayoral Inauguration bans Raspberry Pi and Flipper Zero alongside explosives
blog.adafruit.com
Psilocybin triggers activity-dependent rewiring of large-scale cortical networks
cell.com
Honey's Dieselgate: Detecting and tricking testers
vptdigital.com

Ben Edelman, Chief Scientist, VPT - MegaLag’s December 2024 video introduced 18 million viewers to serious questions about Honey, the widely-used browser shopping plug-in—in particular, whether Honey abides by the rules set by affiliate networks and merchants, and whether Honey takes commissions that should flow to other affiliates. I wrote in January that I thought Honey was out of line. In

OpenAI's cash burn will be one of the big bubble questions of 2026
economist.com
U.S. cybersecurity experts plead guilty for ransomware attacks
tomshardware.com

Two former cybersecurity experts pled guilty to conspiracy to obstruct commerce by extortion. The perpetrators are facing 20 years in prison each.

Humans May Be Able to Grow New Teeth Within Just 4 Years
popularmechanics.com

Scientists are on the verge of a dental miracle.

Sabotaging Bitcoin
blog.dshr.org

Source I find myself in the unusual position of defending Bitcoin from its critics, if only reluctantly. In 2024 Soroush Farokhnia & Amir...

Professional software developers don't vibe, they control
arxiv.org

The rise of AI agents is transforming how software can be built. The promise of agents is that developers might write code quicker, delegate multiple tasks to different agents, and even write a full piece of software purely out of natural language. In reality, what roles agents play in professional software development remains in question. This paper investigates how experienced developers use agents in building soft

Everything as code: How we manage our company in one monorepo
kasava.dev

Kasava - Kasava is the AI-native platform purpose-built for product development. Plan, build, and monitor with AI-powered workflows.

The sword-wielding man hired to kick squatters out of empty Oakland homes
oaklandside.org

Natalie Orenstein - A squatter removal cottage industry has grown out of California’s housing crisis, catering to property owners who don’t want to go to court.

Zpdf: PDF text extraction in Zig
github.com/Lulzx

Zero-copy PDF text extraction library written in Zig. High-performance, memory-mapped parsing with SIMD acceleration. - Lulzx/zpdf

Foreign tech workers are avoiding travel to the US
computerworld.com

It's not just the Trump Administration’s H-1B visa overhaul that’s keeping people away from jobs and conferences in the US.

FediMeteo: A €4 FreeBSD VPS Became a Global Weather Service
it-notes.dragas.net

Stefano Marinelli - How a simple idea turned into an international weather service on the Fediverse.

Escaping containment: A security analysis of FreeBSD jails [video]
media.ccc.de

Michael Smith - FreeBSD’s jail mechanism promises strong isolation—but how strong is it really? In this talk, we explore what it takes to escape a compro...

Iran Protests Enter Third Straight Day as Students Join In
wsj.com
Now That He Has No Power, Mitt Romney Says "Tax the Rich"
jacobin.com

Mitt Romney recently published a New York Times op-ed arguing for higher taxes on the rich. When he was in a position to actually sculpt the GOP platform and the tax policy of the US, Romney was an ardent supporter of cutting taxes for the wealthy.

TRIZ
en.wikipedia.org
A faster heart for F-Droid
f-droid.org

Donations are a key part of what keeps F-Droid independent and reliable and our latest hardware update is a direct result of your support. Thanks to donation...

America's economy looks set to accelerate
economist.com
Lottocracy: Democracy Without Elections
lottocracy.org

A website for the book Lottocracy: Democracy Without Elections published by Oxford University Press. Includes an introduction to lottocracy, events, audio/video, and connections to others working on sortition, lottocracy, and democracy and democratic innovation.

Electrolysis can solve one of our biggest contamination problems
ethz.ch

ETH Zurich researchers have developed a process that can be used on site to render environmental toxins such as DDT and lindane harmless and convert them into valuable chemicals – a breakthrough for the remediation of contaminated sites and a sustainable circular economy. 

A Vulnerability in Libsodium
00f.net

Frank Denis (Jedi/Sector One) - Libsodium is now 13 years old!

Ask HN: Does reading HN make you happy?
news.ycombinator.com
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Toro: Deploy Applications as Unikernels
github.com/torokernel

This repository contains the source code of toro unikernel - torokernel/torokernel

Show HN: 22 GB of Hacker News in SQLite
hackerbook.dosaygo.com
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Ask HN: Any example of successful vibe-coded product?
news.ycombinator.com
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Dollar on track for steepest annual drop for almost a decade
ft.com

Analysts say Federal Reserve rate cuts will push the US currency lower in 2026

2025 Was Another Exceptionally Hot Year
e360.yale.edu
What Happened to Abit Motherboards
dfarq.homeip.net

Dave Farquhar - Capacitor plague and bad accounting practices were a lethal one-two punch

The Legacy of Undersea Cables
blog.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk

Former assistant curator trainee Jasmin Taylor explores how the history and unheard voices behind the undersea telegraph cable are replicated in modern communication technology.

The 70% AI productivity myth: why most companies aren't seeing the gains
sderosiaux.substack.com

Stephane Derosiaux - "I've never felt this much behind as a programmer." That's Andrej Karpathy, OpenAI co-founder and one of the most respected AI researchers alive, writing in December 2025

Public Sans – A strong, neutral typeface
public-sans.digital.gov

A strong, neutral, open source typeface for text or display.

Igniting the GPU: From Kernel Plumbing to 3D Rendering on RISC-V
mwilczynski.dev

Michał Wilczyński - How I enabled the PowerVR GPU on the TH1520 SoC by writing the missing kernel drivers.

MH370 vanished in 2014.New search aims to find answers families desperately want
abc.net.au

Malaysia Airlines missing flight MH370, which vanished in 2014, remains one of aviation's enduring mysteries. A new search  is aiming to provide answers.

Win32 is the stable Linux ABI
loss32.org
No strcpy either
daniel.haxx.se

Some time ago I mentioned that we went through the curl source code and eventually got rid of all strncpy() calls. strncpy() is a weird function with a crappy API. It might not null terminate the destination and it pads the target buffer with zeroes. Quite frankly, most code bases are probably better off completely … Continue reading no strcpy either →

The British empire's resilient subsea telegraph network
subseacables.blogspot.com

subsea cables, internet infrastructure, telecom infrastructure, 2Africa, new subsea cable projects, layer 1 pricing on key international routes,

Approachable Swift Concurrency
fuckingapproachableswiftconcurrency.com

Fucking Approachable Swift Concurrency - A no-bullshit guide to Swift concurrency. Learn async/await, actors, Sendable, and MainActor with simple mental models. No jargon, just clear explanations.

Times New American: A Tale of Two Fonts
hsu.cy

A less romantic truth is that aesthetic standards rarely travel alone; power tends to follow in their wake. An episode at the U.S. State Department this month makes exactly this point.

Groq investor sounds alarm on data centers
axios.com
Singapore study links heavy infant screen time to teen anxiety
bloomberg.com
Non-Zero-Sum Games
nonzerosum.games

NonZeroSumJames - ~ a world-help site ~

Nicolas Guillou, French ICC judge sanctioned by the US and “debanked”
lemonde.fr

Six judges and three prosecutors at the International Criminal Court have been sanctioned by the Trump administration. In an interview with Le Monde, Guillou discusses the impact of these measures on his work and daily life.

Netflix Open Content
opencontent.netflix.com

At Netflix, we are always exploring ways to make our content look and sound even better. To provide a common reference for prototyping bleeding-edge technologies within entertainment, technology and academic circles without compromising the security of our original and licensed programming, we've

HSBC blocks its app due to F-Droid-installed Bitwarden
mastodon.neilzone.co.uk

Attached: 1 image HSBC has chosen to block its mobile app on my phone because *checks notes* I've got a password manager, Bitwarden, installed via F-Droid. Its solution is for me to remove Bitwarden. My solution is to stop using HSBC's app.

You Need to Ditch VS Code
jrswab.com

Learn how breaking free from GUIbased IDEs can level up your programming skills and make you a more capable developer.

Go away Python
lorentz.app

The personal website of Lorentz Kinde, a Cloud Engineer.

Quickemu: Quickly create and run optimised Windows, macOS and Linux VMs
github.com/quickemu-project

Quickly create and run optimised Windows, macOS and Linux virtual machines - quickemu-project/quickemu

Still using Firefox – but not because of its vision
blog.kulman.sk

Igor Kulman - For years I have been using Firefox as my primary browser. Not out of ideology or nostalgia, but because it did the job well enough and stayed out of the way. Lately, however, I have been increasingly uncomfortable with where Firefox is heading — and yet I am still using it. This post is about why. Firefox’s new direction In December 2025, Mozilla made it clear that Firefox is entering an “AI browser” phase.

Charm Ruby – Glamorous Terminal Libraries for Ruby
charm-ruby.dev

Marco Roth - Ruby ports of the beloved Charm terminal libraries. Build glamorous TUIs, style terminal output, create beautiful forms, and make your Ruby CLIs sparkle.

Hacking Washing Machines [video]
media.ccc.de

Hajo Noerenberg - Almost everyone has a household appliance at home, whether it's a washing machine, dishwasher, or dryer. Despite their ubiquity, little i...

Outside, Dungeon, Town: Integrating the Three Places in Videogames (2024)
keithburgun.net

Videogames, at least the kind I’m talking about (RPGs, adventure kinds of somewhat narrative videogames, Zelda games, Elden Ring, etc), have essentially three “places”: Outside &#…

MongoDB Server Security Update, December 2025
mongodb.com

The following is an update on the security vulnerability identified in December 2025.

Stranger Things creator says turn off “garbage” settings
screenrant.com

Stranger Things creator tells fans to turn off "garbage" controls.

I migrated to an almost all-EU stack and saved 500€ per year
zeitgeistofbytes.com

Max - “Bye bye bye.” It took some time, and a serious amount of research, but I have finally crossed the finish line. I have officially migrated my digital life to pure, EU-hosted solutions.

Parsing Advances
matklad.github.io
Geology of the Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary
pubs.usgs.gov
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
Why the Internet Is Bad for Democracy (2005)
dl.acm.org
Google is dead. Where do we go now?
circusscientist.com

tomjuggler - It’s anecdotal, I know, but my main entertainment business revenue is down 50% over the past 3 months. Our main paid source of leads was Google Ads, which have served us well over the past 10 years or so – I think I know what I am doing in adwords by now. Once per month … Continue reading "Google is dead. Where do we go now?"

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

Which Humans? (2023)
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