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Tell HN: Google ignores English searches and forces localized results
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A "Prime" View of HN
dosaygo-studio.github.io
2 in 3 Americans think AI will cause major harm to humans in the next 20 years [pdf] (2024)
pewresearch.org
Scientists discover beer bottle in the Mariana Trench (2024)
unilad.com

Dr Dawn Wright was stunned to find the 'irrevocable' damage humans have done to the planet after deep sea discovery.

Global Memory Shortage Crisis: Market Analysis
idc.com

Francisco Jeronimo, Tom Mainelli, Bryan Ma, Ryan Reith and Jeff Janukowicz - A global memory shortage is reshaping smartphone and PC markets for 2026. Rising DRAM and NAND costs threaten pricing, specs, and growth across devices.

Ask HN: Best Podcasts of 2025?
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Ask HN: Anti-AI Open Source License?
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Building a macOS app to know when my Mac is thermal throttling
stanislas.blog

Stanislas - How I built MacThrottle, a menu bar app that tells me when my Mac is thermal throttling, and the journey to find the right macOS APIs.

Claude Code creator says Claude wrote all his code for the last month
twitter.com
Learn computer graphics from scratch and for free
scratchapixel.com
Salesforce pulls back from LLMs, pivots Agentforce to deterministic automation
timesofindia.indiatimes.com

Salesforce is dialing back LLMs, leaning on deterministic automation and guardrails after reliability gaps. The aim: predictable outcomes, clean data, and no missed steps.

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS – The Roadmap
discourse.ubuntu.com

The Desktop team has just returned from our engineering sprint in Gothenburg, and as we begin the development cycle for Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, I’m excited to share what’s coming next for Ubuntu Desktop. Long-term support releases traditionally focus on stability, refinement, and a cohesive user experience across installation, daily use, security, and enterprise integration. Here is a look at the key themes and what we ai

Last Year on My Mac: Look Back in Disbelief
eclecticlight.co

If someone had told me 12 months ago what was going to happen this past year, I wouldn’t have believed them. Skipping swiftly past all the political, economic and social turmoil, I come to th…

Hungry Fat Cells Could Someday Starve Cancer
ucsf.edu

Scientists used implanted fat cells to gobble up available nutrients around cancer tumors, starving the tumors to death.

Manus AI 100M USD ARR
manus.im

Manus reaches $100M ARR, becoming the fastest startup to hit this milestone. With $125M total revenue run-rate, 147T tokens processed, and 80M virtual computers created, Manus is redefining AI-human collaboration through its General AI Agent platform.

AI Slop Report: The Global Rise of Low-Quality AI Videos
kapwing.com

Kapwing’s new research shows that 21-33% of YouTube’s feed may consist of AI slop or brainrot videos. But which countries and channels are achieving the greatest reach — and how much money might they make? We analyzed social data to find out.

Italians celebrate village's first baby in 30 years
theguardian.com

Feted birth of bambina Lara in Pagliara dei Marsi highlights sticky national debate over country’s ‘demographic winter’

Growing up in “404 Not Found”: China's nuclear city in the Gobi Desert
substack.com

Substack - A memoir of growing up in China’s classified atomic bomb base in the Gobi Desert.

C++ says “We have try. . . finally at home”
devblogs.microsoft.com

Raymond Chen - The destructor serves as the "finally".

Calendar
neatnik.net

A simple printable calendar with the full year on a single page

Dialtone – AOL 3.0 Server
dialtone.live
Fathers’ choices may be packaged and passed down in sperm RNA
quantamagazine.org

Research into how a father’s choices — such as diet, exercise, stress, nicotine use — may transfer traits to his children has become impossible to ignore.

Replacing JavaScript with Just HTML
htmhell.dev

A collection of bad practices in HTML, copied from real websites.

Functional programming and reliability: ADTs, safety, critical infrastructure
blog.rastrian.dev

> In banking, telecom, and payments, reliability is not a nice to have. It is table stakes. The most reliable systems I have worked on reduce entire classes of bugs before the code even runs. Functional programming and Algebraic Data Types (ADTs) let you push correctness into the type system, so illegal states cannot be constructed in the first place. **What you will learn** - How invalid states show up in real sy

Show HN: Waycore – an open-source, offline-first modular field computer
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7- and 14-segment fonts "DSEG"
keshikan.net
The Dangers of SSL Certificates
surfingcomplexity.blog

Yesterday, the Bazel team at Google did not have a very Merry Boxing Day. An SSL certificate expired for and as shown in this screenshot from the github issue. This expired certificate apparently b…

Liberating Bluetooth on the ESP32
exquisite.tube

Despite how widely used the ESP32 is, its Bluetooth stack remains closed source. Let’s dive into the low-level workings of a proprietary Bluetooth peripheral. Whether you are interested in reverse ...

Yanis Varoufakis on the future of capitalism [video]
youtube.com
Bankruptcies are exploding across the economy
businessinsider.com

Natalie Musumeci - Bankruptcies are suddenly everywhere, from billion-dollar giants to small businesses to individuals. Experts are stumped at the breadth of industries.

Public Domain Day 2026
web.law.duke.edu

January 1, 2026 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1930 are open to all, as are sound recordings from 1925! By Jennifer Jenkins and James Boyle[1] CC BY 4.0 Please note that this site is only about US law; the copyright terms in other countries are different.[2] On January 1, 2026, thousands of copyrighted works from 1930 enter the US public domain, along with sound recordings from 1925.

How We Found Out About COINTELPRO (2014)
monthlyreview.org

Martin Oppenheimer is professor emeritus of sociology at Rutgers University, and has written extensively about the civil rights movement. Betty Medsger, The Burglary: The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover’s Secret... READ MORE

Pfizer ended up passing on my GLP-1 work back in the early '90s (2024)
statnews.com

Jeffrey Flier - Even the biggest future blockbuster drugs can be prematurely abandoned.

In 1995, a Netscape employee wrote a hack in 10 days that now runs the Internet
arstechnica.com

Thirty years later, JavaScript is the glue that holds the interactive web together, warts and all.

Say No to Palantir in the NHS
notopalantir.goodlawproject.org

NHS England is rolling out software to run our health records from Palantir - fight back

Richard Stallman at the First Hackers Conference in 1984 [video]
youtube.com
An ounce of silver is now worth more than a barrel of oil
wsj.com
Legal sports betting linked to sharp increases in violent crime
news.rice.edu
White House pushes to dismantle leading climate and weather research center
pbs.org

The Trump administration says it plans to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, which is the nation’s premier atmospheric science center. The center was founded in 1960 and has facilitated generations of breakthroughs in climate and weather science. William Brangham discussed the move with climate scientist Kim Cobb and meteorologist Matthew Cappucci.

America's richest 10% now hold 60% of the nation's wealth
bsky.app/profile/rbreich.bsky.social

America's richest 10% now hold 60% of the nation's wealth. The bottom half of America? It holds just 6%. Wealth inequality is eating this country alive.

'Off switch' discovery could help clear our brains of a common parasite
sciencealert.com

Jess Cockerill - There's a parasite living in the brains of 40 million Americans, and most of these human hosts are completely unaware.

How we lost communication to entertainment
ploum.net
The Epstein files downloaded today is different compared to before
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Rainbow Six Siege hacked as players get billions of credits and random bans
shanethegamer.com

Dimas Ibnu - Rainbow Six Siege appears to have been hacked as global server outages hit all platforms, with players reporting billions of credits, dev skins, and random bans while Ubisoft calls it a server incident.

Toll roads are spreading in America
economist.com
Scientists edited genes in a living person and saved his life
popularmechanics.com

With grim prognosis hanging overhead, doctors and scientists at universities and institutions across the U.S. worked tirelessly to develop the world’s first custom gene-editing therapy to save the life of a newborn.

Windows 2 for the Apricot PC/Xi
ninakalinina.com
More than 20% of videos shown to new YouTube users are 'AI slop', study finds
theguardian.com

Low-quality AI-generated content is now saturating social media – and generating about $117m a year, data shows

Cleartext signatures considered harmful
gnupg.org
Nvidia's $20B antitrust loophole
ossa-ma.github.io

The Groq deal that dodged regulators, enriched Chamath, sidestepped Saudi entanglements and a whole bunch more

Janet Jackson had the power to crash laptop computers (2022)
devblogs.microsoft.com

Raymond Chen - Not an artistic judgement. Just a technical one.

USD share as global reserve currency drops to lowest since 1994
wolfstreet.com
Gpg.fail
gpg.fail
Employee commits suicide after MongoDB fired her during mental health leave
linkedin.com

Our beloved, irreplaceable daughter Annie should’ve been celebrating her 30th birthday this week. Instead, we’re left marking that milestone without her -- remembering all that she was and grieving all that should have been. Annie died by suicide last year, after being fired by MongoDB while she was on disability leave. Yesterday, we filed a legal complaint against MongoDB, seeking accountability for Annie’s wron

VSCode rebrands as "The open source AI code editor"
code.visualstudio.com

Visual Studio Code redefines AI-powered coding with GitHub Copilot for building and debugging modern web and cloud applications. Visual Studio Code is free and available on your favorite platform - Linux, macOS, and Windows.

PNG in Chrome shows a different image than in Safari or any desktop app
lr0.org
Nvidia just paid $20B for a company that missed its revenue target by 75%
blog.drjoshcsimmons.com

Dr. Josh C. Simmons - Panic buying, plain and simple. If anything indicates that this AI bubble is about to pop, it’s this.

A Century of Noether's Theorem
arxiv.org

In the summer of 1918, Emmy Noether published the theorem that now bears her name, establishing a profound two-way connection between symmetries and conservation laws. The influence of this insight is pervasive in physics; it underlies all of our theories of the fundamental interactions and gives meaning to conservation laws that elevates them beyond useful empirical rules. Noether's papers, lectures, and personal in

New York to require social media platforms to display mental health warnings
reuters.com
How we automated federal retirements
ndstudio.gov

Dennis Li - Two engineers walked into the government six months ago to drag federal retirements from an underground mine onto the Internet. They built retire.opm.gov and are poised to turn six-month waits into near-instant processing for hundreds of thousands of employees.

Easel Turns One One year of building my own IDE in Clojure
blog.phronemophobic.com
Why is calling my asm function from Rust slower than calling it from C?
ohadravid.github.io

This is a follow-up to making the rav1d video decoder 1% faster, where we compared profiler snapshots of rav1d (the Rust implementation) and dav1d (the C …

NMH BASIC
t3x.org
Floor796
floor796.com
Apple releases open-source model that instantly turns 2D photos into 3D views
github.com/apple

Sharp Monocular View Synthesis in Less Than a Second - apple/ml-sharp

OrangePi 6 Plus Review
boilingsteam.com

OrangePi 6 Plus Review: The New Frontier for ARM64 SBC Performance

Splice a Fibre
react-networks-lib.rackout.net

Interactive React components for creating network diagrams, fiber networks, and rack infrastructure visualization.

CloudFlare is ruining the internet (for me) (2016)
slashgeek.net

admin - Follow up: Cloudflare: Making the internet a little bit faster – for a select group of people CloudFlare is a very helpful service if you are a website owner and don’t want to deal with separate services for CDN, DNS, basic DDOS protection and other (superficial) security needs. You can have all these services in […]

Show HN: Ez FFmpeg – Video editing in plain English
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Verdichtung
alexeygy.github.io
Ask HN: How are you sandboxing coding agents?
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More dynamic cronjobs
george.mand.is

A fun trick for making crontab tasks a little more flexible and dynamic

Pre-commit hooks are broken
jyn.dev
CEO of health care software company sentenced for $1B fraud conspiracy
justice.gov
Inside the proton, the ‘most complicated thing you could possibly imagine’ (2022)
quantamagazine.org

The positively charged particle at the heart of the atom is an object of unspeakable complexity, one that changes its appearance depending on how it is probed. We’ve attempted to connect the proton’s many faces to form the most complete picture yet.

Former ULA President and CEO Tory Bruno Joins Blue Origin
spaceflightnow.com
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!

The battle to stop clever people betting
economist.com
Publishing your work increases your luck
github.com/readme

In 12 months, @aarondfrancis changed his life by bypassing fear and embracing risk. Now, he’s working his dream job @tuple. Get his full story on The ReadME Project:

Exe.dev
exe.dev
Always bet on text (2014)
graydon2.dreamwidth.org
How I think about Kubernetes
garnaudov.com

More than a container orchastrator

Toys with the highest play-time and lowest clean-up-time
joannabregan.substack.com

Joanna Bregan - The worst toy is one with many pieces that my kids dump on the ground and then play with for only 2 minutes.

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.

Karpathy on Programming
twitter.com
What on earth is Kubernetes? (a beginners intro)
kylejeong.com

Kyle Jeong - A deep dive into Kubernetes.

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

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