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Coffee linked to slower biological ageing among those with severe mental illness
kcl.ac.uk

King's College London - New research from King’s College London finds that coffee consumption within the NHS recommended limit is linked to longer telomere lengths – a marker of biological ageing – among people with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. The effect is comparable to roughly five years younger biological age.

Zebra-Llama: Towards Efficient Hybrid Models
arxiv.org

With the growing demand for deploying large language models (LLMs) across diverse applications, improving their inference efficiency is crucial for sustainable and democratized access. However, retraining LLMs to meet new user-specific requirements is prohibitively expensive and environmentally unsustainable. In this work, we propose a practical and scalable alternative: composing efficient hybrid language models fro

The general who refused to crush Tiananmen's protesters
economist.com
OMSCS Open Courseware
sites.gatech.edu
Perl's decline was cultural
beatworm.co.uk
Ireland's Inability to Defend Itself
irishpoliticsnewsletter.ie

The Irish Politics Newsletter - Unable to defend itself.

HTML as an Accessible Format for Papers
info.arxiv.org
Tiny Core Linux: a 23 MB Linux distro with graphical desktop
tinycorelinux.net
GrapheneOS is the only Android OS providing full security patches
grapheneos.social

GrapheneOS is the only Android-based OS providing the full security preview patches. Samsung ships a small subset of their flagship devices. Pixel stock OS gets a portion of it early but we aren't sure exactly how much since they don't follow their guidelines for listing patches.

How I discovered a hidden microphone on a Chinese NanoKVM
telefoncek.si
Why Speed Matters
lemire.me

The one constant that I have observed in my professional life is that people underestimate the need to move fast. Of course, doing good work takes time. I once spent six months writing a URL parser. But the fact that it took so long is not a feature, it is not a positive, it is … Continue reading Why speed matters

Touching the Elephant – TPUs
considerthebulldog.com

Understanding the Tensor Processing Unit

'Life being stressful is not an illness' – GPs on mental health over-diagnosis
bbc.com

Hundreds of GPs in England tell the BBC they are also worried about a lack of help for patients.

Autism's confusing cousins
psychiatrymargins.com

Awais Aftab - A differential diagnosis for the weird and the awkward

Berlin: Police can secretly enter homes for state trojan installation
heise.de

Stefan Krempl - To collect data from IT systems, investigators in Berlin can secretly search suspects' rooms. This is in a Police Act amendment.

Linux Instal Fest Belgrade
dmz.rs
Ask HN: How many people got VPNs in response to laws like UK Online Safety Act?
news.ycombinator.com
ask
Schizophrenia sufferer mistakes smart fridge ad for psychotic episode
reddit.com/r/LegalAdviceUK
Wolfram Compute Services
writings.stephenwolfram.com

Wolfram releases the Wolfram Compute Services system--a fully programmable, streamlined way to scale up Wolfram Language computations. For large volumes of data, extensive iterations, large-scale parallelism and more.

Nook Browser
browsewithnook.com

Fast, focused, and open — a modern WebKit browser for Mac.

PalmOS on FisherPrice Pixter Toy
dmitry.gr

Dmitry.GR - Dmitry.GR: PalmOS on new hardware!

Have I been Flocked? – Check if your license plate is being watched
haveibeenflocked.com

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

I cracked a $200 software protection with xcopy
ud2.rip

reverse engineering a $200 commercial protection system, only to discover they protected the installer instead of the software. the crack is copying files.

EU hits X with €120M fine for breaching the Digital Services Act
dw.com

The European Commission has accused X of misleadingly authenticating user accounts with blue ticks, withholding data from researchers and not transparently signposting advertisements.

Without evidence, RFK Jr.'s vaccine panel tosses hep B vaccine recommendation
arstechnica.com

There is no data supporting a delay and no evidence of harm from a birth dose.

YouTube caught making AI-edits to videos and adding misleading AI summaries
ynetnews.com

YouTube is now using AI to alter people's videos without permission. (There are threads about this at https://mastodon.content.town/@operationpuppet/115640694705318541 & https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/@strypey/115598837629003478 etc) This is really disturbing and dangerous. It's more insidious than censorship because viewers cannot tell a video has been altered. If you post to YouTube, I'd strongly recommend you sta

Advent of Code 2025: The AI Edition – By Peter Norvig
github.com/norvig

Python programs, usually short, of considerable difficulty, to perfect particular skills. - norvig/pytudes

Extra Instructions Of The 65XX Series CPU (1996)
ffd2.com
Sam Altman’s DRAM Deal
mooreslawisdead.com

Or: How the AI Bubble, Panic, and Unpreparedness Stole ChristmasWritten by Tom of Moore’s Law Is DeadSpecial Assistance by KarbinCry & kari-no-sugataBased on this Video: https://youtu.be/BORRBce5TGwIntroduction — The Day the RAM Market SnappedAt the beginning of November, I ordered a 32GB DDR5 kit for pairing with a Minisforum BD790i X3D motherboard, and three weeks later those very same sticks of DDR5 are now li

Google 'Looking into' Gmail Hack Locking Users Out with No Recovery
forbes.com

Davey Winder - Google is 'looking into' a devastating Gmail attack that locks users out of their accounts with no way to recover.

Anna's Archive finished releasing all obtained Chinese books
annas-archive.li

We have finally finished the Chinese release which we started 2 years ago. We look at all the work involved.

Adenosine on the common path of rapid antidepressant action: The coffee paradox
genomicpress.kglmeridian.com

Yue, Luo, and colleagues discovered that adenosine signalling is the common underlying mechanism of rapid acting antidepressant therapies, unifying the effects of ketamine, ECT and acute intermittent hypoxia. They use genetically encoded sensors, along with extensive mechanistic dissection, to show that all three induce adenosine surges in mood-regulatory circuits via A1 and A2A receptor activation. The mechanism of

Frank Gehry has died
bbc.co.uk

Frank Gehry was acclaimed for his love of jagged angles and use of industrial materials.

A $20 drug in Europe requires a prescription and $800 in the U.S.
statnews.com

David Maris - A month’s supply of Miebo requires $800 and a prescription in the U.S. In Europe, it’s over-the-counter and $20.

Leaving Intel
brendangregg.com
Perpetual futures, explained
bitsaboutmoney.com

Crypto’s most popular product offers capital efficiency for professionals, leveraged exposure for the masses, rich yields for market makers — and a poorly understood failure mode.

The missing standard library for multithreading in JavaScript
github.com/W4G1

The missing standard library for multithreading in JavaScript (Works in Node.js, Deno, Bun, Web browser) - W4G1/multithreading

Judge Signals Win for Software Freedom Conservancy in Vizio GPL Case
fossforce.com

Christine Hall - A California judge has tentatively sided with SFC in its GPL case over Vizio’s SmartCast TVs, but the final outcome is still pending.

Advertising as a major source of human dissatisfaction (2019) [pdf]
andrewoswald.com
Fizz Buzz in CSS
susam.net
Framework Sponsors CachyOS
discuss.cachyos.org

Hey CachyOS Community, We have some massive news to share today. Framework, the company behind the modular and repairable laptop revolution, is now sponsoring CachyOS. For an open-source project like ours, finding hardware partners who genuinely care about Linux is rare. Framework has not only provided us with a Framework Laptop 16 to help us optimize our kernel and packages on modern hardware, but they have also c

SpaceX in Talks for Share Sale That Would Boost Valuation to $800B
wsj.com
Why we built Lightpanda in Zig
lightpanda.io

We chose Zig over C++ and Rust because we wanted a simple, modern systems language. Here's what we learned building a browser with it.

Wall Street races to protect itself from AI bubble
rollingout.com

Wall Street lends billions to AI companies while using credit derivatives and sophisticated bonds to hedge against potential bubble risks.

WikiFlix: Full Movies Hosted on Wikimedia Commons
commons.wikimedia.org
The effect of shingles vaccination at different stages of dementia
cell.com
Detainees at 'Alligator Alcatraz' facing 'harrowing human right violations'
theguardian.com

Amnesty International finds immigrants at Florida facility were shackled and left outside in metal cage for up to a day

The AI Backlash Is Here: Why Public Patience with Tech Giants Is Running Out
newsweek.com

Welcome to the slop era.

Jony Ive's OpenAI Device Barred From Using 'io' Name
macrumors.com

A U.S. appeals court has upheld a temporary restraining order that prevents OpenAI and Jony Ive's new hardware venture from using the name "io" for products similar to those planned by AI audio startup iyO, Bloomberg Law reports. iyO sued OpenAI earlier this year after the latter announced its partnership with Ive's new firm, arguing that OpenAI's planned "io" branding was too close to its own name and related to sim

X hit with $140M EU fine for breaching content rules
reuters.com
Synadia and TigerBeetle Pledge $512k to the Zig Software Foundation
tigerbeetle.com
Patterns for Defensive Programming in Rust
corrode.dev

Corrode Rust Consulting - I have a hobby. Whenever I see the comment // this should never happen in code, I try to find out the exact conditions under which it could happen. And in 90% of cases, I find a way to do just that. More often than not…

Zellij: A terminal workspace with batteries included
zellij.dev

A terminal workspace with batteries included

Gemini 3 Pro: the frontier of vision AI
blog.google

Build with Gemini 3 Pro, the best model in the world for multimodal capabilities.

I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
news.ycombinator.com
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FDA proposes impossible standards for vaccines that could curtail access
cidrap.umn.edu
Framework Laptop 13 gets ARM processor with 12 cores via upgrade kit
notebookcheck.net

The Framework Laptop 13 has a replaceable mainboard, which means that the processor can be easily upgraded after purchase. While Framework itself only offers Intel and AMD CPUs, a mainboard with a high-performance ARM processor from a third-party manufacturer has now launched.

Cloudflare outage on December 5, 2025
blog.cloudflare.com

Cloudflare experienced a significant traffic outage on December 5, 2025, starting approximately at 8:47 UTC. The incident lasted approximately 25 minutes before resolution. We are sorry for the impact that it caused to our customers and the Internet. The incident was not caused by an attack and was due to configuration changes being applied to attempt to mitigate a recent industry-wide vulnerability impacting React

Jolla Phone Pre-Order
commerce.jolla.com

The independent European Do It Together (DIT) Linux phone, shaped by the people who use it.

Covid-19 mRNA Vaccination and 4-Year All-Cause Mortality
jamanetwork.com
Influential study on glyphosate safety retracted 25 years after publication
lemonde.fr

A 2000 study that concluded the well-known herbicide glyphosate was safe, widely cited since then, has just been officially disavowed by the journal that published it. The scientists are suspected of having signed a text actually prepared by Monsanto.

Show HN: Pbnj – A minimal, self-hosted pastebin you can deploy in 60 seconds
pbnj.sh
show

A minimal pastebin for code snippets

Most technical problems are people problems
blog.joeschrag.com

  I once worked at a company which had an enormous amount of technical debt - millions of lines of code, no unit tests, based on frameworks ...

Making RSS More Fun
matduggan.com

I wrote a browser extension to try and make finding random, independent websites more fun.

Linus Torvalds thinks Elon Musk is 'too stupid' to be working at a tech company
neowin.net
Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros
about.netflix.com
Sugars, Gum, Stardust Found in NASA's Asteroid Bennu Samples
nasa.gov

The asteroid Bennu continues to provide new clues to scientists’ biggest questions about the formation of the early solar system and the origins of life. As

Why we can’t quit Excel
bloomberg.com
The US polluters that are rewriting the EU's human rights and climate law
somo.nl

laura - Leaked documents reveal how a secretive alliance of eleven large multinational enterprises has worked to tear down the EU’s flagship human rights and climate law, the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD). The mostly US-based coalition, which calls itself the Competitiveness Roundtable, has targeted all EU institutions, governments in Europe’s capitals, as well as the […]

Kenyan court declares law banning seed sharing unconstitutional
apnews.com

A high court in Kenya has declared unconstitutional sections of a seed law that prevented farmers from sharing and selling indigenous seeds in what food campaigners have called a landmark win for food security.

Cloudflare Is Down
cloudflare.com
Cloudflare Down Again – and DownDetector Is Also Down
news.ycombinator.com
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Cloudflare was down
cloudflare.com
UniFi 5G
blog.ui.com

Discover the U5G Max and UniFi’s next generation 5G lineup featuring effortless setup, ultra fast speeds, rugged outdoor options, and advanced UniFi integration for unmatched performance.

State Department to deny visas to fact checkers and others, citing 'censorship'
npr.org

The order is focused on applicants for H-1B visas, which are frequently used by tech companies and is part of a campaign by the Trump administration against online content moderation.

Netflix becomes frontrunner in bidding war for Warner Bros. Discovery – sources
cnn.com

Brian Stelter - Netflix’s most recent offer, submitted on Thursday, valued the Warner Bros. studio, HBO Max streaming service and related parts of the company at around $28 per share, sources said.

Rats Snatching Bats Out of the Air and Eating Them–Researchers Got It on Video
smithsonianmag.com

Sarah Kuta - Rodents in northern Germany were spotted using two different hunting strategies at major urban bat hibernation sites

Fast trigram based code search
github.com/sourcegraph

Fast trigram based code search . Contribute to sourcegraph/zoekt development by creating an account on GitHub.

Warner Bros Begins Exclusive Deal Talks With Netflix
bloomberg.com
Blogging in 2025: Screaming into the Void
askmike.org
The Disappearance of an Anti-AI Activist
theatlantic.com

Kaitlyn Tiffany - Sam Kirchner wants to save the world from artificial superintelligence. He’s been missing for two weeks.

How Brussels writes so many laws
siliconcontinent.com

Luis Garicano - Explaining Europe’s extraordinary legal productivity

NeurIPS 2025 Best Paper Awards
blog.neurips.cc
BMW PHEV: Safety fuse replacement is extremely expensive
evclinic.eu

2021 > PHEV BMW iBMUCP PHEV Post-Crash Recovery — When EU engineering becomes a synonym for “unrepairable” + "generating waste". If you own a BMW PHEV — or if you’re an insurance company — every pothole, every curb impact, and even every rabbit jumping out of a bush represents a potential €5,0

The Ofcom Files, Part 4: Ofcom Rides Again
prestonbyrne.com

This is a continuation of the Ofcom Files, a series of First Amendment-protected public disclosures designed to inform the American and British public about correspondence that the UK’s censo…

Netflix’s AV1 Journey: From Android to TVs and Beyond
netflixtechblog.com
Trick users and bypass warnings – Modern SVG Clickjacking attacks
lyra.horse

A novel and powerful twist on an old classic.

What is better: a lookup table or an enum type?
cybertec-postgresql.com
Coca Cola has an executive dedicated to McDonald's
coca-colacompany.com

Roberto Mercade is president of The McDonald’s Division (TMD). Learn more about Roberto Mercade & Coca-Cola Leadership.

We gave 5 LLMs $100K to trade stocks for 8 months
aitradearena.com
SMS phishers pivot to points, taxes, fake retailers
krebsonsecurity.com
StardustOS: Library operating system for building light-weight Unikernels
github.com/StardustOS

Stardust is a library operating system for building light-weight Unikernels - StardustOS

State of AI: An Empirical 100T Token Study with OpenRouter
openrouter.ai

An empirical study analyzing over 100 trillion tokens of real-world LLM interactions across tasks, geographies, and time.

YouTuber accidentally crashes the rare plant market with viral cloning technique
dexerto.com

YouTuber ‘Plants in Jars’ explained how she was a driving force in accidentally crashing the rare plant market with one specific method.

Thoughts on Go vs. Rust vs. Zig
sinclairtarget.com

Sinclair Target's personal website.

Countdown until the AI bubble bursts
pop-the-bubble.xyz
Django 6
docs.djangoproject.com

The web framework for perfectionists with deadlines.

CUDA-l2: Surpassing cuBLAS performance for matrix multiplication through RL
github.com/deepreinforce-ai

CUDA-L2: Surpassing cuBLAS Performance for Matrix Multiplication through Reinforcement Learning - deepreinforce-ai/CUDA-L2

A Cozy Mk IV light aircraft crashed after 3D-printed part was weakened by heat
bbc.com

The aircraft was completely destroyed after a spare part bought at an air show in America collapsed.

CJEU has made it effectively impossible to run a user-generated platform legally
techdirt.com

The Court of Justice of the EU—likely without realizing it—just completely shit the bed and made it effectively impossible to run any website in the entirety of the EU that hosts user-generated con…

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