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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.

Apple Services Experiencing Outage
apple.com
EFF Launches Age Verification Hub as Resource Against Misguided Laws
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 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
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...

Go Proposal: Secret Mode
antonz.org

Anton Zhiyanov - Automatically erase memory to prevent secret leaks.

OpenAI Staffers Quit, Alleging Economic Research Is Drifting Into AI Advocacy
wired.com

Maxwell Zeff - Four sources close to the situation claim OpenAI has become hesitant to publish research on the negative impact of AI. The company says it has only expanded the economic research team’s scope.

Django: what’s new in 6.0
adamj.eu
We Need to Die
willllliam.com
Agentic AI Foundation
block.xyz

Block, Anthropic, and OpenAI have launched the Agentic AI Foundation (AAF). Learn about this new non-profit organization dedicated to making agentic AI safe, accessible, and beneficial for everyone.

The Big Vitamin D Mistake [pdf] (2017)
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Australian teens lose access to social media as ban takes effect
bbc.com

The social media accounts of millions of Australians aged under-16 must be deactivated, with companies potentially facing fines for not complying.

10 Years of Let's Encrypt
letsencrypt.org

On September 14, 2015, our first publicly-trusted certificate went live. We were proud that we had issued a certificate that a significant majority of clients could accept, and had done it using automated software. Of course, in retrospect this was just the first of billions of certificates. Today, Let’s Encrypt is the largest certificate authority in the world in terms of certificates issued, the ACME protocol we he

So you want to speak at software conferences?
dylanbeattie.net

An article from dylanbeattie.net

Former Twitter Attorney Files for 'Twitter' Trademark
gerbenlaw.com

Josh Gerben, Esq. - A former Twitter attorney is challenging X Corp.’s “Twitter” and “Tweet” trademarks. This article analyzes the filings and the legal stakes of possible abandonment.

The stack circuitry of the Intel 8087 floating point chip, reverse-engineered
righto.com

Early microprocessors were very slow when operating with floating-point numbers. But in 1980, Intel introduced the 8087 floating-point copro...

Please Don't
hn.algolia.com

Hacker News Search, millions articles and comments at your fingertips.

Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban
reuters.com
“The Matilda Effect”: Pioneering Women Scientists Written Out of Science History
openculture.com

Photo via Wikimedia Commons The history of science, like most every history we learn, comes to us as a procession of great, almost exclusively white, men, unbroken but for the occasional token woman—well-deserving of her honors but seemingly anomalous nonetheless. “If you believe the history books,” notes the Timeline series The Matilda Effect, “science is a guy thing.

Show HN: Detail, a Bug Finder
detail.dev
show

Deep scans of your codebase that find bugs you’ll be glad to know about. Security vulnerabilities, data loss, billing mistakes.

How private equity is changing housing
theatlantic.com

Annie Lowrey - In some communities, corporations control more than 20 percent of properties.

If you're going to vibe code, why not do it in C?
stephenramsay.net
PeerTube is recognized as a digital public good by Digital Public Goods Alliance
digitalpublicgoods.net

PeerTube is a tool for hosting, managing, and sharing videos or live streams.

Donating the Model Context Protocol and establishing the Agentic AI Foundation
anthropic.com

Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

Tempo's Testnet Is Live
tempo.xyz

Rachel, Veena, Matt, Veit, Devin, Nick - Today, with the launch of the public testnet, anyone can start building on Tempo.

Launch HN: Mentat (YC F24) – Controlling LLMs with Runtime Intervention
news.ycombinator.com
launch
Bruno Simon – 3D Portfolio
bruno-simon.com

Bruno Simon's creative portfolio

Ask HN: Should "I asked $AI, and it said" replies be forbidden in HN guidelines?
news.ycombinator.com
ask
A supersonic engine core makes the perfect power turbine
boomsupersonic.com

Boom Supersonic - Today, we’re announcing Superpower, our new 42 MW natural gas turbine, along with a $300M funding round and Crusoe as our launch customer.

EU investigates Google over AI-generated summaries in search results
bbc.com

It is examining whether the tech giant did not offer "appropriate compensation" to web publishers.

Apple's slow AI pace becomes a strength as market grows weary of spending
finance.yahoo.com

Through the first six months of 2025, Apple was the second-worst performer among the Magnificent Seven tech giants, as its shares tumbled 18% through the end of June. “It is remarkable how they have kept their heads and are in control of spending, when all of their peers have gone the other direction,” said John Barr, portfolio manager of the Needham Aggressive Growth Fund, which owns Apple shares.

Pebble Index 01 – External memory for your brain
repebble.com

Meet Pebble Index 01 - External Memory For Your Brain

Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now
dosaygo-studio.github.io
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Kaiju – General purpose 3D/2D game engine in Go and Vulkan with built in editor
github.com/KaijuEngine

General purpose 3D and 2D game engine using Go (golang) and Vulkan with built in editor - KaijuEngine/kaiju

My favourite small hash table
corsix.org
Mistral releases Devstral2 and Mistral Vibe CLI
mistral.ai

State-of-the-art, open-source agentic coding models and CLI agent.

Rahm Emanuel says U.S. should follow Australia's youth social media ban
politico.com
Oliver Sacks Put Himself into His Case Studies. What Was the Cost?
newyorker.com

Rachel Aviv - The scientist was famous for linking healing with storytelling. Sometimes that meant reshaping patients’ reality.

JetBrains Cancels Fleet
blog.jetbrains.com

TL;DR Fleet started as our attempt to explore a new generation of JetBrains IDEs, developed in parallel with those based on the IntelliJ Platform. Over time, we learned that having two general-purpose

Mazda suitcase car, a portable three-wheeled vehicle that fits in the luggage
designboom.com

matthew burgos I designboom -  

America Has Become a Digital Narco-State
paulkrugman.substack.com

Paul Krugman - Social media giants have bought our government, and are trying to bully Europe

Where are you supposed to go if you don't care about growth?
ramones.dev

If it wasn't clear, I throw up legalese every night

After the Bubble
tbray.org
Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
forever-wars.com

Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison

Brent's Encapsulated C Programming Rules (2020)
retroscience.net

Brent Farris - A bunch of tips and rules I’ve created for myself for developing programs in the C programming language

Richard Stallman on ChatGPT
stallman.org
Show HN: AlgoDrill – Interactive drills to stop forgetting LeetCode patterns
algodrill.io
show

Master the NeetCode 150 and more with guided pattern blueprints and line-by-line active recall drills.

ZX Spectrum Next on the Internet: Xberry Pi ESP01 and Pi Zero Upgrades
retrogamecoders.com

Chris Garrett - ZX Spectrum Next on Wifi/Internet, plus Pi Zero AcceleratorGetting my ZX Spectrum Next onto Wifi and the Internet, plus Pi Zero Accelerator

Google Maps allocates survival across London's restaurants
laurenleek.substack.com

Lauren Leek - I wanted a dinner recommendation and got a research agenda instead. Using 13000+ restaurants, I rebuild its ratings with machine learning and map how algorithmic visibility actually distributes power.

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