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Python 3.15’s interpreter for Windows x86-64 should hopefully be 15% faster
fidget-spinner.github.io

My personal blog

Mattermost restricted access to old messages after 10000 limit is reached
github.com/mattermost

We have a problem since the new upgrade. "10.000-message limit reached. Messages sent before 26. September 2025 are hidden -Restore Access" appeared. so the messages before that date can not be acc...

We invited a man into our home at Christmas and he stayed with us for 45 years
bbc.co.uk

An arrangement Rob and Dianne Parsons thought would last a few days ended up changing their lives.

Free Software Foundation receives historic private donations
fsf.org
Ruby 4.0.0
ruby-lang.org

We are pleased to announce the release of Ruby 4.0.0.Ruby 4.0 introduces “Ruby Box” and “ZJIT”, and adds many improvements.

Python Applied Mathematics Labs
labs.acme.byu.edu
Microsoft denies rewriting Windows 11 in Rust using AI
windowslatest.com

Mayank Parmar - Microsoft told Windows Latest that the company does not plan to rewrite Windows 11 using AI in Rust after an employee's post causes outrage.

The next-gen mainboard designed with amigaos4 and morphos in mind
mirari.vitasys.nl
Who Watches the Waymos? I do [video]
youtube.com
Silicon Valley's tone-deaf take on the AI backlash will matter in 2026
fortune.com

Sharon Goldman - AI’s champions keep trying to impress, but the public is still waiting for answers about jobs, costs, and who benefits. By 2026, that tension will matter.

Microsoft please get your tab to autocomplete shit together
ivanca.github.io

What do you think is gonna happen after I press tab when looking at this screenshot?

Asterisk AI Voice Agent
github.com/hkjarral

An open-source AI Voice Agent that integrates with Asterisk/FreePBX using Audiosocket/RTP technology - hkjarral/Asterisk-AI-Voice-Agent

Tell HN: Merry Christmas
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Phoenix: A modern X server written from scratch in Zig
git.dec05eba.com
How I Left YouTube
zhach.news

What was the road like when I left?

Steam Store is offline
steamstat.us

Is Steam Down? Current status of the Steam client, Steam store, Steam community, Counter-Strike 2 and Dota 2.

Nvidia to buy assets from Groq for $20B cash
cnbc.com
Spaced repetition for efficient learning (2019)
gwern.net

Gwern - Efficient memorization using the spacing effect: literature review of widespread applicability, tips on use & what it’s good for.

The Government Unconstitutionally Labels ICE Observers as Domestic Terrorists
cato.org
Beijing is enforcing tough rules to ensure chatbots don’t misbehave
wsj.com
Show HN: Minimalist editor that lives in browser, stores everything in the URL
github.com/antonmedv
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A notes webapp. Contribute to antonmedv/textarea development by creating an account on GitHub.

European Majority favours more social media regulation
yougov.co.uk

A new YouGov study of seven EU countries – France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania and Spain – examines public attitudes social media regulation and banning political advertising from social platforms.

Looking for Decent Conversation?
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Google Cloud Run cost me $4,676 in 6 weeks with zero traff
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Fabrice Bellard: Biography (2009) [pdf]
ipaidia.gr
Researchers achieved 1,270 Wh/L in an anode-free lithium metal battery
postech.ac.kr
Show HN: Vibium – Browser automation for AI and humans, by Selenium's creator
github.com/VibiumDev
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Browser automation for AI agents and humans. Contribute to VibiumDev/vibium development by creating an account on GitHub.

Microsoft Agent Framework
learn.microsoft.com

markwallace-microsoft - Learn about Microsoft Agent Framework

Mt. Gox CEO Karpelès Reveals Details of 2014 Collapse and Japanese Detention
bitcoinmagazine.com

Juan Galt - The French coder who accidentally hosted Silk Road domains and inherited a hacked exchange shares the psychological toll of Japan's detention system.

My 2026 Open Social Web Predictions
timothychambers.net

Predictions for 2026 include growth forecasts for various social media platforms, advancements in federated technologies, and anticipated shifts in how organizations and governments engage with decentralized networks.

Why We Abandoned Matrix (2024)
forum.hackliberty.org

WE HAVE MOVED TO SIMPLEX Anyone that agrees to our Code of Conduct is welcome to join our Simplex Hack Liberty Community Room and our Simplex server, a decentralized, metadata resistant alternative to Matrix! Incognito profiles welcome! Hack Liberty SMP Server smp://esPsfRFGZd2TRyKijJDorCMo3Ld-QD8Cq8ASx8qrY_Q=@simplex.hackliberty.org,gstc5w42xawazcr4txrcyhitmkhiyu2vkkwy2xhwovbhlapzrccjeyad.onion Hack Liberty

New reactor produces clean energy and carbon nanotubes from natural gas
phys.org
AMD entered the CPU market with reverse-engineered Intel 8080 clone 50 years ago
tomshardware.com

In 1975, AMD could make these processors for 50 cents and sell them for $700, providing a great financial springboard to establish the company in PC CPU making.

Games’ affordance of childlike wonder and reduced burnout risk in young adults
games.jmir.org
The EU's fine against X is not about speech or ‘censorship’
techpolicy.press

Daphne Keller - The €120 million fine under the Digital Services Act is just the EU enforcing some normal, boring requirements of its law, writes Stanford's Daphne Keller.

When compilers surprise you
xania.org
I'm returning my Framework 16
yorickpeterse.com
Avoid Mini-Frameworks
laike9m.com
Tell HN: Merry Christmas
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The Ultimate Windows Utility (2022)
christitus.com
Former EU commissioner and activists barred from US
theguardian.com

State department accuses group of pressuring tech firms to censor or suppress American viewpoints through regulation of disinformation

Permission Systems for Enterprise That Scale
eliocapella.com

Elio Capella Sánchez - Permission checks that query on every request will break at scale. Learn how pre-computing permissions at write-time enables fast reads, with working SQL examples and an interactive demo.

US sanctions EU government officials behind the DSA
mastodon.social/@fj

Attached: 2 images The US is sanctioning Thierry Breton and Trusted Flaggers that are critical for the application and enforcement of the #DSA. Full solidarity with the unjustly sanctioned individuals. As Breton called out, 90% of the European Parliament and all 27 Member States unanimously voted the DSA. This bullying into vassalisation of Europe is unacceptable.

Google's year in review: areas with research breakthroughs in 2025
blog.google

This year saw new AI models, transformative products and new breakthroughs in science and robotics.

The e-scooter isn't new – London was zooming around on Autopeds a century ago
ianvisits.co.uk

The e-scooters that clutter up pavements may seem like a new thing, but a hundred years ago, there were already people zooming around London on powered scooters.

Help my website is too small
lukeplant.me.uk

Luke Plant - How can it be a real website if it’s less than 7k?

CEO killed at industrial site by worker operating forklift
12onyourside.com

The files are from OSHA’s recently closed investigation into the death of 45-year-old Sunbok You in March 2025.

Custom Cross Compiler with Nix
hobson.space

James Hobson - How to use a custom cross compiler with nix

Dutch rental fleet Mistergreen goes bankrupt after betting on Tesla self-driving
guessingheadlights.com

Philip Uwaoma - A Dutch leasing and rental firm Mistergreen now face insolvency after betting its entire future on the idea that Tesla’s cars would become highly valued

Don't Become the Machine
armeet.bearblog.dev

I was recently recommended a YouTube video with the following title:

Donald E. Knuth and Peter van Emde Boas on priority deques (1977) [pdf]
staff.fnwi.uva.nl
Show HN: Turn raw HTML into production-ready images for free
html2png.dev
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Convert HTML and CSS to high-quality PNG images instantly. Perfect for dynamic OG images, social shares, and automated screenshots.

Lessons from the PG&E outage
waymo.com

At Waymo, our mission is to be the world’s most trusted driver. We know trust is built through consistent behavior over time—earned through every mile we drive and every interaction we have with the community. This past Saturday, as a widespread PG&E outage cut power to nearly one-third of San Francisco, our service was put to the test. With power now restored, we want to share an account of our operations during

Could lockfiles just be SBOMs?
nesbitt.io

Andrew Nesbitt - Lockfiles and SBOMs record the same information in different formats. What if package managers used SBOMs directly, instead of converting later?

'Dracula's Chivito': Hubble reveals largest birthplace of planets ever observed
phys.org
Open source USB to GPIB converter (for Test and Measurement instruments)
github.com/xyphro

Versatile, cheap and portable USB to GPIB converter (USBTMC class based) - xyphro/UsbGpib

Nabokov's guide to foreigners learning Russian
twitter.com
Stronk.app – open-source gym lifts journal
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Unifi Travel Router
blog.ui.com

Take your UniFi network anywhere. The UniFi Travel Router recreates your full network environment on power up, with flexible uplinks, instant policies, and seamless device connectivity.

US bars 5 Europeans it says pressured tech firms to censor American viewpoints
apnews.com

The State Department is barring five Europeans it accuses of leading efforts to pressure U.S. tech firms to censor or suppress American viewpoints.

Is Northern Virginia still the least reliable AWS region?
statusgator.com

Andy Libby - We analyzed if AWS’ N. Virginia region remains the least reliable in 2025. Overview of outages, affected services, and the massive October 20 AWS incident, with insights from StatusGator’s real-time monitoring.

Texas app store age verification law blocked by federal judge
macrumors.com

A Texas federal judge today blocked an App Store age verification law that was set to go into effect on January 1, 2026, which means Apple may not have to support the changes after all. The Texas App Store Accountability Act (SB2420) requires Apple and other app marketplaces to confirm user age when a person creates an Apple Account. Apple Accounts for users under 18 would need to join a Family Sharing group, with ne

X-ray: a Python library for finding bad redactions in PDF documents
github.com/freelawproject

A tool to detect whether a PDF has a bad redaction - freelawproject/x-ray

I didn't realize my LG TV was spying on me until I turned off Live Plus
pocket-lint.com

Your smart TV can do many great things, but this isn't one of them.

An amateur codebreaker may have just solved the Black Dahlia and Zodiac killings
latimes.com

Two retired LAPD homicide detectives say that both notorious cases are solved -- with a single culprit -- thanks to the work of a novice sleuth. 

Fuck You, I Won't Use Tailwind
fuckyouiwontusetailwind.com

And you can't make me.

Some Epstein file redactions are being undone
theguardian.com

Un-redacted text from released documents began circulating on social media on Monday evening

iOS 26.2 lockscreen clock is slowly moving left
twitter.com
HTTP Caching, a Refresher
danburzo.ro
Terrence Malick's Disciples
yalereview.org

Bilge Ebiri explores filmmaker Terrence Malick’s vision of grace and his far-ranging influence on American cinema.

Un-Redactor
github.com/kvthweatt

A PDF editing tool that lets you put your own information over a redaction box like liquid paper white-out. - kvthweatt/unredactor

Show HN: Kapso – WhatsApp for developers
kapso.ai
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The fastest way to add WhatsApp to your product. Connect in 2 minutes, integrate this afternoon. Ship to 3 billion users today.

Help My c64 caught on fire
c0de517e.com
Volvo Centum is Dalton Maag's new typeface for Volvo
wallpaper.com

Dalton Maag designs a new sans serif typeface for the Swedish carmaker, Volvo Centum, building on the brand’s strong safety ethos

An initial analysis of the discovered Unix V4 tape
spinellis.gr
Amnezia – Self-Hosted VPN
amnezia.org

With Amnezia, you can create a VPN on your own server with high privacy requirements.

We replaced H.264 streaming with JPEG screenshots (and it worked better)
blog.helix.ml

Luke Marsden - Or: How JPEG Screenshots Defeated Our Beautiful H.264 WebCodecs Pipeline

Towards a secure peer-to-peer app platform for Clan
clan.lol

feat. Nix, microVMs, and GPUs

Fabrice Bellard Releases MicroQuickJS
github.com/bellard

Public repository of the Micro QuickJS Javascript Engine - bellard/mquickjs

How did DOGE disrupt so much while saving so little?
nytimes.com
Meta is using the Linux scheduler designed for Valve's Steam Deck on its servers
phoronix.com
When irate product support customers demand to speak to Bill Gates
devblogs.microsoft.com

Raymond Chen - So transfer them to his office, or so it seems.

Stop Slopware
stopslopware.net
Test, don't just verify
alperenkeles.com
Postponed '60 Minutes' segment on Salvadoran prison is streamed by Canadian news
nbcnews.com

CBS News under its new editor-in-chief pulled the segment which was to run Sunday in the U.S., generating criticism — including from the correspondent who reported on it.

Ryanair fined €256M over ‘abusive strategy’ to limit ticket sales by OTAs
theguardian.com

Italy’s competition authority says Irish airline implemented technical obstacles to force sales through its own website

Font with Built-In Syntax Highlighting (2024)
blog.glyphdrawing.club

An experiment in javascript-free syntax highlighting, made possible by opentype contextual alternates and COLR table

We just unredacted some of the Epstein files
krassencast.com

Krassenstein - We’ve figured out how to unredact some of the Epstein Files:

Ask HN: What are the best engineering blogs with real-world depth?
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Carnap – A formal logic framework for Haskell
carnap.io
Why were all stories about the '60 minutes' leak removed from HN?
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Instant database clones with PostgreSQL 18
boringsql.com

Radim Marek - Learn how to clone PostgreSQL databases instantly using reflinks. Turn slow template copies into milliseconds with PostgreSQL 18's new file copy options.

10 years bootstrapped: €6.5M revenue with a team of 13
datocms.com

€6.5M in revenue, 65% EBIT margins, a full infrastructure migration, and enough features shipped to make your head spin — all with 13 people. Ten years in, still small, still profitable, still having...

iOS 26.3 brings AirPods-like pairing to third-party devices in EU under DMA
macrumors.com

The European Commission today praised the interoperability changes that Apple is introducing in iOS 26.3, once again crediting the Digital Markets Act (DMA) with bringing "new opportunities" to European users and developers. The Digital Markets Act requires Apple to provide third-party accessories with the same capabilities and access to device features that Apple's own products get. In iOS 26.3, EU wearable device m

Show HN: CineCLI – Browse and torrent movies directly from your terminal
github.com/eyeblech
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CineCLI is a cross-platform command-line movie browser built with Python. - eyeblech/cinecli

FCC Updates Covered List to Include Foreign UAS and UAS Critical Components [pdf]
docs.fcc.gov
Archivists posted the 60 minutes CECOT segment Bari Weiss killed
404media.co

iCloud, Mega, and as a torrent. Archivists have uploaded the 60 Minutes episode Bari Weiss spiked.

60 Minutes: Cecot
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The 60 Minutes report that Bari Weiss censored is now internet contraband
theverge.com

Elizabeth Lopatto - Once again, the Streisand effect is Streisanding

Diesel pollution particles impair lysosomal functions of iPSC-derived microglia
sciencedirect.com

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