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Nokia N900 Necromancy
yaky.dev
Denial of service and source code exposure in React Server Components
react.dev

The library for web and native user interfaces

Opinion: US Authorities Have Far-Reaching Access to European Cloud Data
heise.de

Stefan Krempl - An analysis for the Ministry of the Interior highlights the reach of US laws. According to it, data stored in the EU is also not secure.

UK House of Lords attempting to ban use of VPNs by anyone under 16
alecmuffett.com

This is deranged, each nation’s boomers and reactionaries attempting to outdo the others: “Action to prohibit the provision of VPN services to children in the United Kingdom” … th…

My productivity app is a never-ending .txt file (2020)
jeffhuang.com
An SVG is all you need
jon.recoil.org
Pop_OS 24.04 LTS with COSMIC desktop environment
blog.system76.com

An important message on Pop!_OS, Linux, and one downright fantastic community.

We built a resource hub to fight back against age verification
eff.org

Molly Buckley - Age verification laws are proliferating fast across the United States and around the world, creating a dangerous and confusing tangle of rules about what we’re all allowed to see and do online. That's why today, we're launching EFF.org/Age, a one-stop shop for users seeking to understand what these laws actually do, what’s at stake, why EFF opposes all forms of age verification, how to protect yourself, and how to jo

Going Through Snowden Documents, Part 1
libroot.org
Rivian Unveils Custom Silicon, R2 Lidar Roadmap, and Universal Hands Free
riviantrackr.com
GPT-5.2
openai.com
Programmers and software developers lost the plot on naming their tools
larr.net
GPT-5.2
openai.com
Litestream VFS
fly.io

Query your SQLite database any time, anywhere

Show HN: Sim – Apache-2.0 n8n alternative
github.com/simstudioai
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Open-source platform to build and deploy AI agent workflows. - simstudioai/sim

Days since last GitHub incident
github-incidents.pages.dev
Things I want to say to my boss
ithoughtaboutthatalot.com

A new anonymous essay published every day in December in the countdown to Christmas.

A Developer Accidentally Found CSAM in AI Data. Google Banned Him for It
404media.co

Mark Russo reported the dataset to all the right organizations, but still couldn't get into his accounts for months.

Deprecate like you mean it
entropicthoughts.com
Crick and Watson Did Not Steal Franklin's Data
nautil.us

Matthew Cobb - Crick and Watson Did Not Steal Franklin’s Data: Matthew Cobb’s 3 greatest revelations while writing his book "Crick: A Mind in Motion."

iPhone Typos? It's Not Just You – The iOS Keyboard Is Broken [video]
youtube.com
Launch HN: BrowserBook (YC F24) – IDE for deterministic browser automation
news.ycombinator.com
launch
An Orbital House of Cards: Frequent Megaconstellation Close Conjunctions
arxiv.org

The number of objects in orbit is rapidly increasing, primarily driven by the launch of megaconstellations, an approach to satellite constellation design that involves large numbers of satellites paired with their rapid launch and disposal. While satellites provide many benefits to society, their use comes with challenges, including the growth of space debris, collisions, ground casualty risks, optical and radio-spec

Pop Goes the Population Count?
xania.org
The architecture of “not bad”: Decoding the Chinese source code of the void
suggger.substack.com

Suggger - WTF moment: Why my native OS refuses to return a "True" value.

Disney making $1B investment in OpenAI, will allow characters on Sora AI
cnbc.com
The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI Partner on Sora
openai.com
Craft software that makes people feel something
rapha.land

Recently, people have been asking me why I’m pausing Boo to work on a programming language. I think it would actually be cool to write down how I feel.

French supermarket's Christmas advert is worldwide hit (without AI) [video]
youtube.com
South Korea – A cautionary tale for the rest of humanity
worksinprogress.co

Every hundred South Koreans today will have only six great-grandchildren between them. The rest of the world can learn from Korea’s catastrophe to avoid the same fate.

Meta shuts down global accounts linked to abortion advice and queer content
theguardian.com

More than 50 organisations report sites being restricted or removed, with abortion hotlines blocked and posts showing non-explicit nudity triggering warnings

If You Quit Social Media, Will You Read More Books?
newyorker.com

Jay Caspian Kang - Books are inefficient, and the internet is training us to expect optimized experiences.

A “frozen” dictionary for Python
lwn.net

Dictionaries are ubiquitous in Python code; they are the data structure of choice for a wide va [...]

Just 0.001% hold 3 times the wealth of poorest half of humanity, report finds
theguardian.com

Data from World Inequality Report also showed top 10% of income-earners earn more than the other 90%

The Cost of a Closure in C
thephd.dev

I had a vague idea that closures could have a variety of performance implications; I did not believe that so many of the chosen and potential designs for C and C++ extensions ones, however, were so…

Incomplete list of mistakes in the design of CSS
wiki.csswg.org
Vibe coding is mad depressing
law.gmnz.xyz

I’ve been in the mobile development industry for almost 15 years, and this AI/LLM era might be the worst. My work are mostly freelance, gigs, hourly, mile...

Patterns.dev
patterns.dev

Learn JavaScript design and performance patterns for building more powerful web applications.

The ultra-rich are claiming an increasing share of global wealth
lemonde.fr

The wealth of the ultra-rich is undergoing a historic surge, according to the third report of the World Inequality Lab co-directed by French economist Thomas Piketty. Political choices can reverse these trends, the authors say.

Oracle's stock slides 11% on revenue miss
cnbc.com
US Seizes Oil Tanker Off the Coast of Venezuela
reuters.com
Rubio orders return to Times New Roman font over 'wasteful' Calibri
bbc.com

The US State Department will be required to use Times New Roman instead of Calibri for official documents, starting 10 December.

When would you ever want bubblesort? (2023)
buttondown.com

There are very few universal rules in software engineering, but there are are a lot of near-universal principles. Things like "prefer composition to...

After NPR and PBS defunding, FCC receives call to take away station licenses
arstechnica.com

NPR and PBS stations targeted by group involved in Carr’s news-distortion probes.

Useful patterns for building HTML tools
simonwillison.net

Simon Willison - I’ve started using the term HTML tools to refer to HTML applications that I’ve been building which combine HTML, JavaScript, and CSS in a single file and use them to …

Apple Services Experiencing Outage
apple.com
EFF launches Age Verification Hub
eff.org

With ill-advised and dangerous age verification laws proliferating across the United States and around the world, creating surveillance and censorship regimes that will be used to harm both youth and adults, the Electronic Frontier Foundation has launched a new resource hub that will sort through the mess and help people fight back. To mark the hub's launch, EFF will host a Reddit AMA (“Ask Me Anything”) next week an

Getting a Gemini API key is an exercise in frustration
ankursethi.com
US Fed will start buying Treasury bills to manage market liquidity
reuters.com
US seizes oil tanker off coast of Venezuela
usatoday.com

The U.S. seized an oil tanker off the Venezuelan coast after a monthslong buildup of military forces in the region.

I got an Nvidia GH200 server for €7.5k on Reddit and converted it to a desktop
dnhkng.github.io

ML, Biotech, Hardware, and Coordination Problems. Sometimes I write about hard problems and how to solve them.

The future of Terraform CDK
github.com/hashicorp

Define infrastructure resources using programming constructs and provision them using HashiCorp Terraform - hashicorp/terraform-cdk

Super Mario 64 for the PS1
github.com/malucard

A very WIP port of https://www.github.com/n64decomp/sm64 for the PlayStation 1 - malucard/sm64-psx

Terrain Diffusion: A Diffusion-Based Successor to Perlin Noise
arxiv.org

For decades, procedural worlds have been built on procedural noise functions such as Perlin noise, which are fast and infinite, yet fundamentally limited in realism and large-scale coherence. We introduce Terrain Diffusion, an AI-era successor to Perlin noise that bridges the fidelity of diffusion models with the properties that made procedural noise indispensable: seamless infinite extent, seed-consistency, and cons

Intermittent hypoxia increases blood flow and benefits executive function
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Show HN: A 2-row, 16-key keyboard designed for smartphones
k-keyboard.com
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Creatorlink - 크리에이터링크에서는 HTML을 몰라도 누구나 직접 반응형 홈페이지를 무료로 제작 할 수 있습니다. 홈페이지 제작, 홈페이지 만들기

Show HN: Automated license plate reader coverage in the USA
alpranalysis.com
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Is it a bubble?
oaktreecapital.com

In his latest memo, Howard Marks explores if there is a bubble in AI, identifying uncertainty, parallels to past bubbles, AI's vast potential, and emphasizing the importance of prudence.

Auto-grading decade-old Hacker News discussions with hindsight
karpathy.bearblog.dev

A vibe coding thought exercise on what it might look like for LLMs to scour human historical data at scale and in retrospect.

Glyphosate safety article retracted 8 years after Monsanto ghostwriting revealed
retractionwatch.com

Credit: Mike Mozart/Flickr (CC BY 2.0) A review article concluding the weed killer Roundup “does not pose a health risk to humans” has been retracted eight years after documents released in a court…

Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux
heise.de

Mark Mantel - Technically, the Steam Machine supports HDMI 2.1. However, Valve and AMD are not allowed to offer an open-source driver for it.

You used to be able to just create a Native GUI App in 10 seconds
twitter.com
DeepSeek uses banned Nvidia chips for AI model, report says
finance.yahoo.com

Nvidia’s Blackwell chips were smuggled into China through countries that permitted their sale, The Information reported, citing unnamed sources. More specifically, DeepSeek tapped chips that were installed in data centers in unspecified countries, then dismantled and shipped to China after clearing inspection by companies developing server equipment, The Information said.

England Historic Aerial Photo Explorer
historicengland.org.uk
Qwen3-Omni-Flash-2025-12-01:a next-generation native multimodal large model
qwen.ai
Launch HN: InspectMind (YC W24) – AI agent for reviewing construction drawings
news.ycombinator.com
launch
Size of Life
neal.fun
Leaving the U.S. for the Netherlands
newyorker.com

Atossa Araxia Abrahamian - In the wake of President Trump’s reëlection, the number of aggrieved Americans seeking a new life abroad appears to be rising. The Netherlands offers one way out.

Qualcomm acquires RISC-V focused Ventana Micro Systems
qualcomm.com
RoboCrop: Teaching robots how to pick tomatoes
phys.org
In New York City, congestion pricing leads to marked drop in pollution
e360.yale.edu
Israel used Palantir technologies in pager attack in Lebanon
the307.substack.com

The Dissident - A New Book Quietly Reveals That Israel Used Palantir In It's Terrorist Attack On Lebanon.

COM Like a Bomb: Rust Outlook Add-in
tritium.legal
Why AGI Will Not Happen
timdettmers.com

Tim Dettmers - If you are reading this, you probably have strong opinions about AGI, superintelligence, and the future of AI. Maybe you believe we are on the cusp of a transformative breakthrough. Maybe you are skeptical. This blog post is for those who want to think more carefully about these claims and examine them from a perspective […]

How Much Wealth an AI Stock Market Crash Could Destroy
economist.com
Show HN: Wirebrowser – A JavaScript debugger with breakpoint-driven heap search
github.com/fcavallarin
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Contribute to fcavallarin/wirebrowser development by creating an account on GitHub.

New benchmark shows top LLMs struggle in real mental health care
swordhealth.com

Sword Health releases an open-source, expert-validated framework to rigorously assess the clinical competence of AI for mental health support.

McDonald's pulls AI Christmas ad after backlash
bbc.co.uk

McDonald's said the moment served as "an important learning" as it explored "the effective use of AI".

US could ask foreign tourists for five-year social media history before entry
bbc.co.uk

The plan would affect people from countries, including the UK, which can fill out a form in lieu of a visa.

Factor 0.101 now available
re.factorcode.org
Common Lisp, ASDF, and Quicklisp: packaging explained
cdegroot.com
Big Tech are the new Soviets
unherd.com
Stop Breaking TLS
markround.com

Mark Dastmalchi-Round - Rant ahead: I hate TLS “Inspection” software with a burning passion and I wish we collectively as an industry would just knock it the fuck off and stop pretending it’s some great security benefit. Every time I encounter it, in whatever form, it’s a gigantic headache that makes everyone’s life worse off and as far as I am concerned offers next to zero tangible benefits.

Revisiting "Let's Build a Compiler"
eli.thegreenplace.net
Are the Three Musketeers allergic to muskets? (2014)
ox.ac.uk
Dependable C
dependablec.org
'Source available' is not open source, and that's okay
dri.es

Dries is the Founder and Project Lead of Drupal and the Co-founder and CTO of Acquia.

Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental
lwn.net

The topic of the Rust experiment was just discussed at the annual Maintainers Summit. The cons [...]

NYC congestion pricing cuts air pollution by a fifth in six months
airqualitynews.com

Paul Day - In its first six months, New York City’s controversial congestion pricing scheme has reduced air pollution by 22% in Manhattan’s toll zone, while improving air quality across the entire metropolitan region, according to new research. The Cornell University study analysed data from 42 air quality monitors throughout the New York area between January 2024 and […]

Atomic time source failure at NIST Gaithersburg campus
groups.google.com
Making macOS Bearable
seg6.space
Cloudflare error page generator
github.com/donlon

Cloudflare error page generator. Contribute to donlon/cloudflare-error-page development by creating an account on GitHub.

The AI-Education Death Spiral a.k.a. Let the Kids Cheat
anandsanwal.me

Anand Sanwal - Your kid is cheating with AI. And that's great. Here’s why we should let it burn.

Post-transformer inference: 224× compression of Llama-70B with improved accuracy
zenodo.org

This paper introduces the first verified method to eliminate transformers from inference while preserving, and in many cases improving, downstream accuracy. We show that a frozen 70-billion-parameter Llama-3.3-70B model can be replaced by a 256-dimensional meaning field extracted from seven internal activation layers. A lightweight compressor (AN1) reduces these fields by 224× with an average +1.81 percentage point g

Rubio Deletes Calibri as the State Department's Official Typeface
nytimes.com
Rubio stages font coup: Times New Roman ousts Calibri
reuters.com
Google is powering a new US Military AI platform
theverge.com

Jay Peters - “The future of American warfare is here, and it’s spelled A-I.”

OpenEvolve: Teaching LLMs to Discover Algorithms Through Evolution
algorithmicsuperintelligence.ai
Linux CVEs, more than you ever wanted to know
kroah.com

Greg K-H - It’s been almost 2 full years since Linux became a CNA (Certificate Numbering Authority) which meant that we (i.e. the kernel.org community) are now responsible for issuing all CVEs for the Linux kernel. During this time, we’ve become one of the largest creators of CVEs by quantity, going from nothing to number 3 in 2024 to number 1 in 2025. Naturally, this has caused some questions about how we are both doing all

Qt, Linux and everything: Debugging Qt WebAssembly
qtandeverything.blogspot.com

  One of the most tedious tasks a developer will do is debugging a nagging bug. It's worse when it's a web app, and even worse when its a we...

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