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Show HN: Books mentioned on Hacker News in 2025
hackernews-readings-613604506318.us-west1.run.app
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Show HN: WalletWallet – create Apple passes from anything
walletwallet.alen.ro
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E.W.Dijkstra Archive
cs.utexas.edu
ARIN Public Incident Report – 4.10 Misissuance Error
arin.net

Executive Summary On 2 December 2025, an IPv4 block 23.150.164.0/24, correctly allocated to the Original Customer, was inadvertently removed and reissued to the …

Reasons Not to Become Famous (2020)
tim.blog

Tim Ferriss - I felt like I somehow needed fame. In retrospect, there was a lot of self-loathing from tough childhood experiences, and I desperately hoped that love from without (i.e., from masses of other people) would somehow make up for hate from within.

Structured Outputs Create False Confidence
boundaryml.com

Sam Lijin - Constrained decoding seems like the greatest thing since sliced bread, but it forces models to prioritize output conformance over output quality.

Three Ways to Solve Problems
andreasfragner.com

Deciding not to solve a problem, or solving a different one, can also be a viable solution.

Mozilla right now (Digital Painting)
davidrevoy.com
Coarse Is Better
borretti.me

Fernando Borretti - Make AI weird again.

Show HN: Shittp – Volatile Dotfiles over SSH
github.com/FOBshippingpoint
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Bring your dotfiles to remote machine via SSH. Contribute to FOBshippingpoint/shittp development by creating an account on GitHub.

Show HN: The Official National Train Map Sucked, So I Made My Own
bdzmap.com
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Live map of all passenger trains in Bulgaria. Updates every second.

New mathematical framework reshapes debate over simulation hypothesis
santafe.edu

The simulation hypothesis — the idea that our universe might be an artificial construct running on some advanced alien computer — has long captured the public imagination. Yet most arguments about it rest on intuition rather than clear definitions, and few attempts have been made to formally spell out what “simulation” even means. In a new paper, SFI Professor David Wolpert introduces a mathematically precise framewo

ISBN Visualization
annas-archive.li
Inca Stone Masonry
earthasweknowit.com
Clair Obscur having its Indie Game Game Of The Year award stripped due to AI use
thegamer.com

The Indie Game Awards presented the award last night, only to strip it hours later.

Ruby website redesigned
ruby-lang.org

A Programmer's Best Friend

Isengard in Oxford
lareviewofbooks.org

Christian Kriticos explores J. R. R. Tolkien’s long-lost satire of a motorized world.

Indoor tanning makes youthful skin much older on a genetic level
ucsf.edu

A study shows that young people who use tanning beds have more skin mutations including cells known to lead to skin cancer.

Waymo halts service during S.F. blackout after causing traffic jams
missionlocal.org

Joe Rivano Barros - Waymo stopped its service across San Francisco on Saturday after numerous autonomous vehicles caused traffic jams in the city.

I doubt that anything resembling genuine AGI is within reach of current AI tools
mathstodon.xyz

I doubt that anything resembling genuine "artificial general intelligence" is within reach of current #AI tools. However, I think a weaker, but still quite valuable, type of "artificial general cleverness" is becoming a reality in various ways. By "general cleverness", I mean the ability to solve broad classes of complex problems via somewhat ad hoc means. These means may be stochastic or the result of brute force

Measuring AI Ability to Complete Long Tasks
metr.org
PG&E outages in S.F. leave 130k without electricity
sfchronicle.com
Flock and Cyble Inc. weaponize “cybercrime” takedowns to silence critics
haveibeenflocked.com

Have I Been Flocked? - Check if your license plate has been searched in the Flock mass surveillance database

Anatomy of US inequality
nber.org
Google and Apple warn employees on visas to avoid international travel
techcrunch.com

Anthony Ha - Law firms representing Google and Apple have reportedly warned that employees who need a visa stamp to re-enter the United States should avoid leaving the country due to longer-than-usual visa processing times.

U.S. Plans $80B Nuclear Power Expansion
spectrum.ieee.org

How will the $80 billion nuclear deal reshape U.S. energy and AI ambitions?

I wrote a code editor in C and now I'm a changed man
github.com/thisismars-x

text editor made for me, by me. Contribute to thisismars-x/light development by creating an account on GitHub.

More databases should be single-threaded
blog.konsti.xyz

Last night, I caused something on X by saying that (most) transactional databases should be single-threaded and aggressively sharded: hot take: databases should be single-threaded someone a long time ago decided that database shards should be multi-threaded. ever since then, we've had to worry about transactions, serializability, race conditions, and

Claude in Chrome
claude.com

Bring Claude's AI assistance to your browser. Ask questions, analyze data, automate tasks, and navigate sites in Chrome. Works with Claude Code and Desktop.

Anthropic: You can't change your Claude account email address
support.claude.com
Show HN: Jmail – Google Suite for Epstein files
jmail.world
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Riley Walz - You are logged into jeevacation@gmail.com, Jeffrey Epstein's email. Sourced from the November 2025 House Oversight Committee data release.

MIRA – An open-source persistent AI entity with memory
github.com/taylorsatula

This is the public release of MIRA OS. Discrete memories decay through momentum loss, tools auto-configure when dropped into tools/ folder, and the system prompt composes from modular trinkets. I w...

Ireland’s Diarmuid Early wins world Microsoft Excel title
bbc.com

Ireland's 'LeBron James' of Microsoft Excel has won the 2025 world championship in Las Vegas.

AI will make our children stupid
thecritic.co.uk

Of all the recent signs that Western civilization is circling the drain, the most depressing is the apparent decline in IQs. The so-called Flynn Effect once showed IQs rising steadily.

I spent a week without IPv4 (2023)
apalrd.net

The time has come to talk about something uncomfortable to a lot of you. You’ve been using legacy methods for far too long. It’s time to move to IPv6. But, of course, there’s a lot more to IPv6 than ‘just’ switching everything over. A lot of systems in the world still haven’t adopted it after nearly 25 years, and although software support is virtually a requirement these days, that doesn’t mean it’s widely enabled.

Backing up Spotify
annas-archive.li

We backed up Spotify (metadata and music files). It’s distributed in bulk torrents (~300TB). It’s the world’s first “preservation archive” for music which is fully open (meaning it can easily be mirrored by anyone with enough disk space), with 86 million music files, representing around 99.6% of listens.

Mathematicians don't care about foundations (2022)
matteocapucci.wordpress.com

Many people seem to believe mathematicians work in non-constructive, non-structural, battered foundations because they love their Platonic realm and have a kink for AC and LEM. The reality is most …

Big GPUs don't need big PCs
jeffgeerling.com
OpenSCAD is kinda neat
nuxx.net
You have reached the end of the internet (2006)
hmpg.net
Pure Silicon Demo Coding: No CPU, No Memory, Just 4k Gates
a1k0n.net
Why do people leave comments on OpenBenches?
shkspr.mobi

Terence Eden - I'm still a believer in the promise of Web 2.0. The idea that giving people a curated space to chat produces tiny sparks of magic. My wife Liz and I have been running the OpenBenches project for about 8 years - it's a crowd-sourced repository of memorial benches. People take a geotagged photo of a bench's plaque, upload it to our site, and we share it with the world. Might sound a bit niche,…

Over 40% of deceased drivers in vehicle crashes test positive for THC: Study
facs.org

Average blood levels far exceed those considered to cause impairment.

Show HN: Claude Code Plugin to play music when waiting on user input
github.com/Sevii
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Plugin Marketplace for Claude Code. Contribute to Sevii/agent-marketplace development by creating an account on GitHub.

Go ahead, self-host Postgres
pierce.dev
School security AI flagged clarinet as a gun. Exec says it wasn't an error
arstechnica.com

Human review didn’t stop AI from triggering lockdown at panicked middle school.

TailwindSQL – Like TailwindCSS, but for SQL queries in React Server components
github.com/mmarinovic

Contribute to mmarinovic/tailwindsql development by creating an account on GitHub.

White House website mysteriously streams personal finance YouTube creator
pbs.org

The livestream sharing commentary on investing appeared for at least eight minutes late Thursday on whitehouse.gov/live, where the White House usually streams live video of the president speaking.

Show HN: HN Wrapped 2025 - an LLM reviews your year on HN
hn-wrapped.kadoa.com
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Your Hacker News year in review - by Kadoa

Immersa: Open-source Web-based 3D Presentation Tool
github.com/ertugrulcetin

Open Source Web-based 3D Presentation Tool. Contribute to ertugrulcetin/immersa development by creating an account on GitHub.

Approaching 50 Years of String Theory
math.columbia.edu

Brian Greene has a new video out today, of himself talking to Edward Witten, mainly about string theory. Pretty much the usual decades-old hype, with nothing even slightly different than what a sim…

Airbus moving critical systems away from AWS, Google, and MS
reddit.com/r/europe
What Does a Database for SSDs Look Like?
brooker.co.za
Reflections on AI at the End of 2025
antirez.com
Airbus to migrate critical apps to a sovereign Euro cloud
theregister.com

Exclusive: Tech exec admits not dead cert it'll find the right solution

A train-sized tunnel is now carrying electricity under South London
ianvisits.co.uk

Electricity has started flowing through a deep-level tube train sized tunnel running through South London.

Skills Officially Comes to Codex
developers.openai.com

Give Codex new capabilities and expertise

Debian adds LoongArch as officially supported architecture
lists.debian.org
NTP at NIST Boulder Has Lost Power
lists.nanog.org
Contrails Map
map.contrails.org

CO2 only causes about half the global warming impact of aviation. The other half is caused by contrail cirrus, high ice clouds that form due to jet exhaust.

Privacy doesn't mean anything anymore, anonymity does
servury.com
Charles Proxy
charlesproxy.com
Data Bank – Nuforc – Latest UFO Sightings
nuforc.org

The largest independently collected and vetted set of UFO / UAP reports available.

The Deviancy Signal: Having "Nothing to Hide" Is a Threat to Us All
thompson2026.com

A sharp indictment of the “nothing to hide” mindset and its role in building the very surveillance state that will one day turn against you.

Android introduces $2-4 install fee and 10–20% cut for US external content links
support.google.com
Sequoia partner spreads debunked Brown shooting theory, testing new leadership
techcrunch.com

Connie Loizos - The newest episode raises questions about whether Sequoia's new leadership -- managing partners Alfred Lin and Pat Grady, who took over last month -- can or will rein in Maguire's social media activity.

Recursive Project Search in Emacs
lukeplant.me.uk

Luke Plant - The workflow of recursively searching for things or dealing with a list of issues to fix without getting lost.

Build Your Own React
pomb.us

We are going to rewrite React from scratch. Step by step. Following the architecture from the real React code but without all the…

PBS News Hour West to go dark after ASU discontinues contract
statepress.com

PBS News Hour West, headquartered at ASU's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, will no longer contribute to the national broadcast.

At least $9B billed across 14 Medicaid services in Minnesota may be fraudulent
cbsnews.com

A top prosecutor suggested on Thursday that the total amount of fraud in Minnesota could be $9 billion or more.

Unix v4 tape raw binary image recovered
elk.zone

A nimble Mastodon web client

We ran Anthropic’s interviews through structured LLM analysis
playbookatlas.com

85.7% live with unresolved AI tensions. Creatives struggle most yet adopt fastest. A deep analysis.

CSS Grid Lanes
webkit.org

It’s here, the future of masonry layouts on the web!

Buteyko Method
en.wikipedia.org
A better zip bomb (2019)
bamsoftware.com
Jeffrey Epstein Court Records
justice.gov
LLM Year in Review
karpathy.bearblog.dev

2025 Year in Review of LLM paradigm changes

The scariest boot loader code
miod.online.fr
Show HN: Stickerbox, a kid-safe, AI-powered voice to sticker printer
stickerbox.com
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The first voice-powered creative tool that instantly transforms any idea into a sticker that you can color, share and collect!

AI's Unpaid Debt: How LLM Scrapers Destroy the Social Contract of Open Source
quippd.com

TL;DR: The big tech AI company LLMs have gobbled up all of our data, but the damage they have done to open source and free culture communities are particularly insidious. By taking advantage of those who share freely, they destroy the bargain that made free software spread like wildfire.

You can now play Grand Theft Auto Vice City in the browser
dos.zone

Open-source implementation of the classic GTA engine now running directly in your browser. Experience the reVC technology demo on DOS.Zone and see how a full 3D city comes alive on the web.

Is Proton leaving Switzerland?
techradar.com

Gioia da Silva - Das Schweizer Tech-Unternehmen Proton hat angefangen, seine Server aus der Schweiz abzuziehen. Im Interview verteidigt der CEO seinen Kurs und greift den Bundesrat scharf an.

Wall Street ruined the Roomba and then blamed Lina Khan
thebignewsletter.com

Matt Stoller - This week's bankruptcy of iRobot, the maker of the Roomba vacuum, is about more than a robot cleaner. It's about monopolies, Wall Street, and economists leading America on a path of destruction.

Performance Hints
abseil.io

An open-source collection of core C++ library code

The New Right-Wing Tech Intelligentsia
bayareacurrent.com

Libs and the far-right ‘link and build’ in the Bay’s tech publication scene.

Why we're taking legal action against SerpApi's unlawful scraping
blog.google

We filed a suit today against the scraping company SerpApi.

TP-Link Tapo C200: Hardcoded Keys, Buffer Overflows and Privacy
evilsocket.net
Zuckerberg Cut Ties with Pro-Immigration Organization He Founded
bloomberg.com
Reverse Engineering US Airline's PNR System and Accessing All Reservations
alexschapiro.com

Timeline & Responsible Disclosure

Gamers Are Overwhelmingly Negative About Gen AI in Video Games
quanticfoundry.com

Nick Yee - Learn about how gender, age, and gaming motivations shape the perception of Gen AI in video games.

AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D sells for more than 9800X3D, enthusiasts flock to AM4 DDR4
tomshardware.com

The average Ryzen 7 5800X3D is being sold for more money than a new Ryzen 7 9800X3D

Performance Hints (2023)
abseil.io

An open-source collection of core C++ library code

Show HN: I Made Loom for Mobile
demoscope.app
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Record or stream mobile browser demos with face cam and touch indicators. The must-have app for tech founders and content creators.

Prepare for That Stupid World
ploum.net
I have to give Fortnite my passport to use Bluesky
spitfirenews.com

Kat from Spitfire News - Age verification laws are as ineffective as they are dangerous.

What Makes You Senior
terriblesoftware.org

The one skill that separates senior engineers from everyone else isn’t technical. It’s the ability to take ambiguous problems and make them concrete.Retry

TikTok Deal Is the Shittiest Possible Outcome, Making Everything Worse
techdirt.com

There were rumblings about this for a while, but it looks like the Trump TikTok deal is done, and it’s somehow the worst of all possible outcomes, amazingly making all of the biggest criticis…

Cursor Acquires Graphite
graphite.com

Graphite helps teams on GitHub deliver higher quality software, faster.

Graphite is joining Cursor
cursor.com

Michael Truell - Built to make you extraordinarily productive, Cursor is the best way to code with AI.

Believe the Checkbook
robertgreiner.com

Robert Greiner - AI companies talk as if engineering is over. Their acquisitions say the opposite.

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