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Building more with GPT-5.1-Codex-Max
openai.com
I am just sooo sick of AI prediction content, let's kill it already
verdikapuku.com
LLMs are bullshitters. But that doesn't mean they're not useful
blog.kagi.com
Questions for Cloudflare
entropicthoughts.com
Adventures in upgrading Proxmox
blog.vasi.li

Running docker inside LXC is weird. It's containers on top of other container, and there was a fairly recent issue with AppArmor that prevented some functionality from running inside a docker container with very cryptic error. I was trying to deploy coolify and/or dokploy in my homelab and hitting

Outdated Samsung handset linked to fatal emergency call failure in Australia
theregister.com

: Carrier insists network wasn't at fault when smartphone couldn't reach 000

Emoji evidence errors don’t undo a murder conviction
blog.ericgoldman.org

Eric Goldman - Delarosa was convicted of murder. (Some background on the case). On appeal, he argues the court should have excluded a Facebook message that indicated he owned a gun a few weeks before the shooting. The Facebook message included some emojis:...

Launch HN: Mosaic (YC W25) – Agentic Video Editing
mosaic.so
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Mosaic Team - Mosaic is a canvas for agentic video editing. Run video edits on autopilot and A/B test multiple variants from the same raw footage. Then jump into a familiar timeline editor for hands-on creative control.

Europe is scaling back GDPR and relaxing AI laws
theverge.com

Robert Hart - The EU folds under Big Tech’s pressure.

How to stay sane in a world that rewards insanity
joanwestenberg.com

Joan Westenberg - Is There Still a Return on Being Reasonable?

Proxmox virtual environment 9.1 available
proxmox.com
What happens when even college students can't do math anymore?
theatlantic.com

Rose Horowitch - What happens when even college students can’t do math anymore?

Europe's cookie nightmare is crumbling. EC wants preference at browser level
theverge.com

Tom Warren - The seven-year nightmare is nearly over

Your smartphone, their rules: App stores enable corporate-government censorship
aclu.org

Daniel Kahn Gillmor - Big Tech Oligopoly helps the Trump Administration crack down on free speech

The peaceful transfer of power in open source projects
shkspr.mobi

Terence Eden - Most of the people who run Open Source projects are mortal. Recent history shows us that they will all eventually die, or get bored, or win the lottery, or get sick, or be conscripted, or lose their mind. If you've ever visited a foreign country's national history museum, I guarantee you've read this little snippet: King Whatshisface was a wise and noble ruler who bought peace and prosperity…

Larry Summers resigns from OpenAI board
cnbc.com
How do the pros get someone to leave a cult?
theguardian.com

Two of the world’s leading cult interventionists live (with their parrot) in Philadelphia. They explain the art of coaxing people out of the most pernicious cults in the world

Pimped Amiga 500
pimyretro.org

jit - Back in the early ’90s, I had an Amiga 2000 with just one expansion card: a SCSI controller paired with a massive 290 MB hard drive. Getting software and game

The Cities Skylines Paradox: how the sequel stumbled
selix.net

Paradox splits from Colossal Order and hands Cities: Skylines II to Iceflake. Can the sequel recover from its technical and business missteps?

Thunderbird adds native Microsoft Exchange email support
blog.thunderbird.net

Heather Ellsworth, Brendan Abolivier - Thunderbird Exchange support has finally landed for email in the latest monthly release. Find out what's in, out, and still on the way.

Learning to Boot from PXE
blog.imraniqbal.org
What Killed Perl?
entropicthoughts.com
A $1k AWS mistake
geocod.io

Dotsquare LLC - A cautionary tale about AWS VPC networking, NAT Gateways, and how a missing VPC Endpoint turned our S3 data transfers into an expensive lesson.

I made a downdetector for downdetector's downdetector's downdetector
downdetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetector.com
Multimodal Diffusion Language Models for Thinking-Aware Editing and Generation
github.com/tyfeld

Official Implementation of "MMaDA-Parallel: Multimodal Large Diffusion Language Models for Thinking-Aware Editing and Generation" - tyfeld/MMaDA-Parallel

Ultra-processed food linked to harm in every major human organ, study finds
theguardian.com

World’s largest scientific review warns consumption of UPFs poses seismic threat to global health and wellbeing

Exploring the Limits of Large Language Models as Quant Traders
nof1.ai
What nicotine does to your brain
economist.com
A down detector for down detector's down detector
downdetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetector.com
DOE gives Microsoft partner $1B loan to restart Three Mile Island reactor
techcrunch.com

Tim De Chant - Constellation Energy will use the loan to refurbish a reactor it idled in 2019. Microsoft has agreed to buy the power once the facility reopens in 2028.

I just want working RCS messaging
wt.gd

I’m in over a month now with non-working RCS on my iPhone 15 Pro. Apple blames the carriers, the carriers tell me it’s not them (mostly T-Mobile since I have good contacts there). They tell me they can’t really do anything about iPhones not... | What's This Guy Doing? | Written stuff about things.

3.5B Accounts: Complete WhatsApp Directory Retrieved and Evaluated
heise.de

Daniel AJ Sokolov - Vienna researchers retrieved all WhatsApp numbers. The 3.5 billion profiles represent the largest data leak in history—and it's worse than you might think.

GOP overhaul of broadband permit laws: Cities hate it, cable companies love it
arstechnica.com

Cities and counties call Congressional plan an “unprecedented federal intrusion.”…

Strace-macOS: A clone of the strace command for macOS
github.com/Mic92

A clone of the strace command for macOS. Contribute to Mic92/strace-macos development by creating an account on GitHub.

Show HN: I made a down detector for down detector
downdetectorsdowndetector.com
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Lucent 7 R/E 5ESS Telephone Switch Rescue (2024)
kev009.com

Kevin Bowling - I am still recovering from the fairly challenging logistical project of saving a Lucent 5ESS. This is a whale of a project and I am still in a state of disbelief that I have gotten to this point. Thanks to my wife, brother, and a few friends for their help …

Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025 post mortem
blog.cloudflare.com

Cloudflare suffered a service outage on November 18, 2025. The outage was triggered by a bug in generation logic for a Bot Management feature file causing many Cloudflare services to be affected.

Ford can't find mechanics for $120K: It takes math to learn a trade
joannejacobs.com

Ford can't find auto mechanics -- for $120,000 a year. Most high school graduates don't know enough math (or read well enough) to succeed in job training.

Rebecca Heineman – from homelessness to porting Doom (2022)
corecursive.com

Adam Gordon Bell - Today Rebecca Burger Becky Heineman shares the tale of porting Doom to the 3DO console under extreme conditions. There is an engine to tweak, deadlines to hit, hardware acceleration to get working, and dramatic rock anthems to record.We also learn about how game piracy led her to game development and what it was like to do game development in the... […]

Monotype font licencing shake-down
insanityworks.org

tl;dr Don’t try to shake-down a typography nerd with your dubious, automated claims about his employer using unlicensed fonts. How it started It started with a LinkedIn InMail message (sanitised to protect privacy): Subject: [Urgent] Font Software Licensing Review Hi Ameel I hope you

Blender 5.0
blender.org
GitHub Down
news.ycombinator.com
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GitHub: Git operation failures
githubstatus.com
GitHub Is Having Issues
news.ycombinator.com
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Facebook has made it impossible to delete Pages – dark patterns everywhere
news.ycombinator.com
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Oracle is underwater on its $300B OpenAI deal
ft.com

AI’s circular economy may have a reverse Midas at the centre

The Unraveling of the Justice Department: 60 attorneys describe a year of chaos
nytimes.com

Sixty former staffers describe an environment of suspicion and intimidation within the nation’s most powerful law enforcement agency.

New Arduino T&C: "user shall not [...] reverse-engineer the platform"
bsky.app/profile/ptorrone.bsky.social

there are no llms online today, everything is faceplanted through cloudflare, which makes it a perfect day to slip out the worst possible updates, rug-pulls, and files am i right? qualcomm arduino just pushed a privacy policy and terms qualcomm-rewrite TODAY...

New EU Chat Control proposal moves forward
techreport.com

Anya Zhukova - The EU advances its new Chat Control plan as privacy experts warn it could enable backdoor scanning and threaten encrypted messaging.

Trying out Gemini 3 Pro with audio transcription and a new pelican benchmark
simonwillison.net

Simon Willison - Google released Gemini 3 Pro today. Here’s the announcement from Sundar Pichai, Demis Hassabis, and Koray Kavukcuoglu, their developer blog announcement from Logan Kilpatrick, the Gemini 3 Pro Model Card, …

OrthoRoute – GPU-accelerated autorouting for KiCad
bbenchoff.github.io

Brian Benchoff - OrthoRoute: GPU-Accelerated PCB Autorouter

Show HN: RowboatX – open-source Claude Code for everyday automations
github.com/rowboatlabs
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AI-powered multi-agent builder. Contribute to rowboatlabs/rowboat development by creating an account on GitHub.

Court settlement calls for NPR to get $36M to operate US public radio system
apnews.com

National Public Radio will receive approximately $36 million in government funding to operate the nation’s public radio interconnection system under the terms of a court settlement.

I am stepping down as the CEO of Mastodon
blog.joinmastodon.org

Reflections on my time leading Mastodon and what's to come next.

Show HN: Guts – convert Golang types to TypeScript
github.com/coder
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Guts is a code generator that converts Golang types to Typescript. Useful for keeping types in sync between the front and backend. - coder/guts

Google CEO: If an AI bubble pops, no one is getting out clean
arstechnica.com

Sundar Pichai says no company is immune if AI bubble bursts, echoing dotcom fears.

Google is collecting troves of data from downgraded Nest thermostats
theverge.com

Emma Roth - The thermostats may no longer connect to Google’s app, but they still transmit your data.

Pebble, Rebble, and a path forward
ericmigi.com

Eric Migicovsky - Pebble, Rebble, and a Path Forward

Strix Halo's Memory Subsystem: Tackling iGPU Challenges
chipsandcheese.com

Chester Lam - Editor’s Note (11/2/2025): Due to an error in moving the article over from Google Docs to Substack, the “Balancing CPU and GPU Bandwidth Demands” section was missing some Cyberpunk 2077 data.

Solving a million-step LLM task with zero errors
arxiv.org

LLMs have achieved remarkable breakthroughs in reasoning, insights, and tool use, but chaining these abilities into extended processes at the scale of those routinely executed by humans, organizations, and societies has remained out of reach. The models have a persistent error rate that prevents scale-up: for instance, recent experiments in the Towers of Hanoi benchmark domain showed that the process inevitably becom

A day at Hetzner Online in the Falkenstein data center
igorslab.de

Igor Wallossek - My visit to Hetzner Online in Falkenstein goes far beyond a tour of a single server, as the site reveals an impressive combination of industrial precision, tech

PSA syncthing-fork has changed owners
forum.syncthing.net

Do not start baseless theories like this. Nothing points at anything nefarious targeting users here (see below). I personally am just hoping that Catfriend1 is doing fine. Just in case you are reading this and as it bears repeating: Thanks for being part of this community and all the work you put into the app! Now as a user I’d suggest as we German-speakers would say “Abwarten und Tee trinken” (wait and see I guess?

The code and open-source tools I used to produce a science fiction anthology
compellingsciencefiction.com
5 Things to Try with Gemini 3 Pro in Gemini CLI
developers.googleblog.com
Google Brings Gemini 3 AI Model to Search and AI Mode
blog.google

Learn more about Gemini 3 and how it’s upgrading Google Search and AI Mode.

Google Antigravity
antigravity.google

Google Antigravity - Build the new way

How long can it take to become a US citizen?
usafacts.org

For some immigrants, becoming a US citizen takes a few years. For others, limited visa availability and annual country caps mean waiting decades before even applying.

Gemini 3 for developers: New reasoning, agentic capabilities
blog.google

Gemini 3 is introducing advanced agentic coding capabilities, plus Google Antigravity, a new agentic development platform.

Gemini 3
blog.google

Today we’re releasing Gemini 3 – our most intelligent model that helps you bring any idea to life.

Google Antigravity
antigravity.google

Google Antigravity - Build the new way

Gemini 3
blog.google
Show HN: Browser-based interactive 3D Three-Body problem simulator
trisolarchaos.com
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N-Body Simulator - Explore the famous three-body problem with this interactive N-body physics simulator. Real-time 3D visualization of gravitational dynamics and orbital mechanics.

Short Little Difficult Books
countercraft.substack.com

Lincoln Michel - Novels that challenge with style, story, or form that you can read in a day.

Nearly all UK drivers say headlights are too bright
bbc.com

The study, commissioned by the Department for Transport, was completed by Berkshire's TRL.

Experiment: Making TypeScript immutable-by-default
evanhahn.com

I got it working with arrays and records, but couldn't make it work for regular objects.

'Fear really drives him': is Alex Karp of Palantir the world's scariest CEO?
theguardian.com

His company is potentially creating the ultimate state surveillance tool, and Karp has recently been on a striking political and philosophical journey. His biographer reveals what makes him tick

Ruby 4.0.0 Preview2
ruby-lang.org
Only Criminals Don't Want to Be Gassed by the Government
popehat.com

Ken White at Popehat Report - The Tellingly Pathetic Case Against Alejandro Orellana

Do not put your site behind Cloudflare if you don't need to
huijzer.xyz

My blog containing posts about open source software, statistics, history, and related topics

Multiple Digital Ocean services down
status.digitalocean.com
GoSign Desktop RCE flaws affecting users in Italy
ush.it
Mathematics and Computation (2019) [pdf]
math.ias.edu
Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues
cloudflarestatus.com
Gemini 3 Pro Model Card
pixeldrain.com

This file has been shared with you on pixeldrain

Cloudflare Down?
news.ycombinator.com
ask
Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues
cloudflarestatus.com
Gemini 3 Pro Model Card [pdf]
storage.googleapis.com
A 'small' vanilla Kubernetes install on NixOS
stephank.nl
The Miracle of Wörgl
scf.green
AI slop security engineering: Okta's NextJS-0auth troubles
joshua.hu

Joshua Rogers - In October, I reported two security issues to Okta’s auth0/nextjs-auth0 project, here and here. The latter bug, an oauth parameter injection, allows for a range of types of abuse, like scoping tokens for unintended services, setting redirect_uri and scope to arbitrary values to leak tokens, and so on.

Comparing Android Alternatives: Lineage OS, ∕E∕OS, and Graphene OS
kevinboone.me
How Quake.exe got its TCP/IP stack
fabiensanglard.net
PayPal bans Linux users with a GPU name containing the string "Apple M1"
vt.social

Soooo... PayPal is banning Asahi Linux users. Hey, can you maybe not do that please? https://gist.github.com/asahilina/31dd6bf3cde26a51e0fc1414e1abe730 Yes, they ban Linux users with a GPU name containing the string "Apple M1". Anything else works. Edit: To be clear they're banning the platform from access, not individual accounts. This won't get your account banned. Edit 2: Alternate workaround: Spoof a Mac OS /

Show HN: A subtly obvious e-paper room air monitor
nicolin-dora.ch
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Google boss says AI investment boom has 'elements of irrationality'
bbc.com

The AI boom has been an "extraordinary moment" but a subsequent bust would affect every company, CEO Sundar Pichai told the BBC.

The surprising benefits of giving up
nautil.us

Molly Glick - The Surprising Benefits of Giving Up: Ditching or adjusting goals in the face of adversity might often be the best thing for us.

LeJEPA: Provable and Scalable Self-Supervised Learning Without the Heuristics
arxiv.org

Learning manipulable representations of the world and its dynamics is central to AI. Joint-Embedding Predictive Architectures (JEPAs) offer a promising blueprint, but lack of practical guidance and theory has led to ad-hoc R&D. We present a comprehensive theory of JEPAs and instantiate it in {\bf LeJEPA}, a lean, scalable, and theoretically grounded training objective. First, we identify the isotropic Gaussian as

Core Devices keeps stealing our work
rebble.io
Unofficial "Tier 4" Rust Target for older Windows versions
github.com/rust9x

UNOFFICIAL "Tier 4" Rust target for Windows 9x/Me/NT/2000/XP/Vista. - rust9x/rust

Rebecca Heineman has died
pcgamer.com

Heineman's cancer fundraiser is now collecting for her funeral.

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