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The Free Software Foundation Europe deleted its account on X
fsfe.org

The Free Software Foundation Europe deleted its account on X. The platform never aligned with our values and no longer serves as a space for communication....

Transparent Leadership Beats Servant Leadership
entropicthoughts.com
The Age-Gated Internet Is Sweeping the US. Activists Are Fighting Back
wired.com

Jason Parham - Half of the country now requires age verification to watch porn or access “harmful” content. Digital rights advocates are pushing back against legislation they say will make the internet less safe.

Human hair grows through 'pulling' not pushing, study shows
phys.org
RAM is so expensive, Samsung won't even sell it to Samsung
pcworld.com

Due to rising prices from the "AI" bubble, Samsung Semiconductor reportedly refused a RAM order for new Galaxy phones from Samsung Electronics.

Functional Quadtrees
lbjgruppen.com

A Quadtree is a tree data structure, which is useful for giving more focus/detail to certain regions of your data, while saving resources elsewhere. I could only find a couple tutorials/guides and both were imperative, so I figured it'd be fun to do a functional version in Clojure which runs in the browser.

Japanese Four-Cylinder Engine Is So Reliable Still in Production After 25 Years
topspeed.com

This Honda engine remains a crucial part of its production strategy.

I ignore the spotlight as a staff engineer
lalitm.com

Lalit Maganti - Lately I’ve been reading Sean Goedecke’s essays on being a Staff+ engineer. His work (particularly Software engineering under the spotlight and It’s Not Your Codebase) is razor-sharp and feels painfully familiar to anyone in Big Tech. On paper, I fit the mold he describes: I’m a Senior Staff engineer at Google. Yet, reading his work left me with a lingering sense of unease. At first, I dismissed this as cynicism. Aft

Brave vs. Firefox – Brave
brave.com

Looking to compare Brave vs Firefox? Understand how each browser compares on features, privacy, and speed so you can choose the one that suits you best.

30 years ago today "Netscape and Sun announce JavaScript"
web.archive.org
Building optimistic UI in Rails (and learn custom elements)
railsdesigner.com

Rails Designer - Learn how custom elements work in Rails by building an optimistic form. From simple counters to instant UI updates, understand when to use custom elements over Stimulus controllers.

PGlite – Embeddable Postgres
pglite.dev
Tunnl.gg
tunnl.gg

Instant public URLs for your local web server. No installation required. Just SSH.

Unreal Tournament 2004 is back
reddit.com/r/unrealtournament
Programming peaked
functional.computer
It’s time to free JavaScript (2024)
javascript.tm

We need your help to continue our fight over Oracle's claim to the JavaScript trademark. Here's where we are now and what you can do to help.

Elites could shape mass preferences as AI reduces persuasion costs
arxiv.org

In democracies, major policy decisions typically require some form of majority or consensus, so elites must secure mass support to govern. Historically, elites could shape support only through limited instruments like schooling and mass media; advances in AI-driven persuasion sharply reduce the cost and increase the precision of shaping public opinion, making the distribution of preferences itself an object of delibe

Uncloud - Tool for deploying containerised apps across servers without k8s
uncloud.run

Take your Docker Compose apps to production with zero-downtime deployments, automatic HTTPS, and cross-machine scaling. Self-hosting made reliable without the complexity.

Show HN: A Minimal Monthly Task Planner (printable, offline, no signup)
printcalendar.top
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Russia Bans Roblox
bbc.com

Its media agency flagged content linked to terrorism and LGBT issues, which are deemed extremist.

The rapid growth of data centres is delaying new homes in London
bbc.com

The London Assembly found the growth of new data centres temporarily halted building some houses in 2022.

Euler Conjecture and CDC 6600
fortran-lang.discourse.group

In 1966, Lander and Parkin published a paper containing exactly two sentences. They reported that they had used a program that used direct search on a CDC 6600 to obtain one counterexample to Euler’s Sum Of Powers Conjecture. The result: 27^4 + 84^4 +110^4 +133^4 =144^4 A small program, written in Fortran and using OpenMP, reproduces this result (and others of a similar nature) in two minutes on a current PC (Open

Why WinQuake exists and how it works
fabiensanglard.net
Apple’s head of user interface design, Alan Dye, will join Meta
cnbc.com
Average DRAM price in USD over last 18 months
pcpartpicker.com
Kea DHCP: Modern, open source DHCPv4 and DHCPv6 server
isc.org

Internet Systems Consortium - Modern, open source DHCPv4 & DHCPv6 server

Vanilla CSS is all you need
zolkos.com
Zmx: Session Persistence for Terminal Processes
github.com/neurosnap

Session persistence for terminal processes. Contribute to neurosnap/zmx development by creating an account on GitHub.

'If you aren't lying, you aren't flying.' Pilots hide mental health struggles
reuters.com
Acme, a brief history of one of the protocols which has changed the Internet
blog.brocas.org

ACME, a brief history of one of the protocols which has changed the Internet Security Preamble I would like to share with you this article I wrote about the ACME protocol, which I “fell in love with” about ten years ago. It is for me a way to give back to this fantastic Free Software and Open Protocols developers community. This article is about the roots, the conception, the standardization, the relation with its ec

Palantir CEO Says Making War Crimes Constitutional Would Be Good for Business
gizmodo.com

Ece Yildirim - Alex Karp vows to use his "whole influence" on immigration and defense policy.

Why doesn't Apple make a standalone Touch ID?
jeffgeerling.com
We Built an AI-Agent to Debug 1000s of Databases – and Cut Incident Time by 90%
databricks.com

At Databricks, we’ve replaced manual database operations with AI-assisted debugging. Here are the key lessons we learned building it.

Greeting Vocalizations in Domestic Cats Are More Frequent with Male Caregivers
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
8086 Microcode Browser
nand2mario.github.io
Chips for the Rest of Us
engineering.nyu.edu

Tandon researchers are putting the power of chip design into more hands with open-source tools, AI-assisted development, and applied teaching.

Agentic Development Environment by JetBrains
air.dev

JetBrains - Air is an agentic development environment. Delegate complex coding tasks to AI agents that work in parallel – always under your oversight.

Checked-size array parameters in C
lwn.net

There are many possible programmer mistakes that are not caught by the minimal checks specified [...]

Show HN: I built a dashboard to compare mortgage rates across 120 credit unions
finfam.app
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Compare daily mortgage rates from over 120 credit unions. See median rates, trends, and calculate your estimated monthly payment.

After nearly 30 years, Crucial will stop selling RAM to consumers
arstechnica.com

Micron cites AI data center demand as reason for killing DIY upgrade brand.

Apple Design Official Alan Dye Poached by Meta in Major Coup
bloomberg.com
Everyone in Seattle hates AI
jonready.com
Lie groups are crucial to some of the most fundamental theories in physics
quantamagazine.org

By combining the language of groups with that of geometry and linear algebra, Marius Sophus Lie created one of math’s most powerful tools.

The only winning move is not to play
gregg.io

Let’s not debase ourselves as user researchers further

'Carspreading' is on the rise – and not everyone is happy about it
bbc.co.uk

In the UK and across Europe, cars are becoming longer, wider and heavier.

Ghostty is now non-profit
mitchellh.com
Formally verifying Advent of Code using Dijkstra's program construction
haripm.com
Micron to exit consumer memory business amid global supply shortage
reuters.com
Show HN: Microlandia, a brutally honest city builder
microlandia.city
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Learn about Microlandia, a city-building simulation game.

Stop talking
gurkan.in
Micron Announces Exit from Crucial Consumer Business
investors.micron.com
Prompt Injection via Poetry
wired.com

Matthew Gault - It turns out all the guardrails in the world won’t protect a chatbot from meter and rhyme.

Launch HN: Phind 3 (YC S22) – Every answer is a mini-app
news.ycombinator.com
launch
Reverse engineering a $1B Legal AI tool exposed 100k+ confidential files
alexschapiro.com

Timeline & Responsible Disclosure

1D Conway's Life glider found, 3.7B cells long
conwaylife.com
Steam Deck lead reveals Valve is funding ARM compatibility of Windows games
frvr.com

Lewis White - Steam Deck creator Pierre-Loup Griffais explains that Valve is funding ARM compatibility layers for future ultraportables.

Django 6.0 Released
djangoproject.com

Posted by Natalia Bidart on Dec. 3, 2025

Critical RCE Vulnerabilities in React and Next.js
wiz.io

Detect and mitigate CVE-2025-55182 and CVE-2025-66478, critical RCE vulnerabilities in React and Next.js.

RCE Vulnerability in React and Next.js
github.com/vercel

A vulnerability affects certain React packages1 for versions 19.0.0, 19.1.0, 19.1.1, and 19.2.0 and frameworks that use the affected packages, including Next.js 15.x and 16.x using the A...

MinIO is now in maintenance-mode
github.com/minio
Critical Security Vulnerability in React Server Components
react.dev

The library for web and native user interfaces

VA staff flag dangerous errors in Oracle-built electronic health record
washingtonpost.com
Why are my headphones buzzing whenever I run my game?
alexene.dev

Alexandru Ene - Background

Microsoft lowers AI software growth targets
finance.yahoo.com

Multiple divisions at ​Microsoft have ‌lowered sales growth ‌targets for certain artificial intelligence products after many ⁠sales ‌staff missed goals in the ‍fiscal year that ended in June, ​The Information ‌reported on Wednesday. It is rare for Microsoft to lower quotas for ⁠specific products, ​the ​report said, citing two salespeople in ‍the ⁠Azure cloud unit.

Show HN: Fresh – A new terminal editor built in Rust
sinelaw.github.io
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Mapping the US healthcare system’s financial flows
healthisotherpeople.substack.com

Andrew Tsang - Mapping Every Dollar of America's $5 Trillion Healthcare System

GSWT: Gaussian Splatting Wang Tiles
yunfan.zone
“Captain Gains” on Capitol Hill
nber.org
Helldivers 2 devs slash install size from 154GB to 23GB
tomshardware.com

PC players can now opt into a slim version that’s 85% smaller.

This Month in Ladybird: November 2025
buttondown.com

November is already over, and we got a lot done! We merged 215 PRs from 34 contributors. Let's look at some highlights! Welcoming new sponsors Ladybird is...

You can't fool the optimizer
xania.org
Satellite captures the first detailed look at a giant tsunami
earth.com

A rare SWOT pass mapped a Pacific tsunami in detail, exposing hidden wave complexity and showing why forecasting models need a major update.

The "Mad Men" in 4K on HBO Max Debacle
fxrant.blogspot.com

Reader warning: there's gonna be a lot of pretend puke photos in this post. If you've fired up HBO Max recently, you've probably seen that o...

Are we repeating the telecoms crash with AI datacenters?
martinalderson.com

Looking at actual token demand growth, infrastructure utilization, and capacity constraints - the economics don't match the 2000s playbook like people assume

India scraps order to pre-install state-run cyber safety app on smartphones
bbc.com

The order to make the registration mandatory had led to a major backlash from several cyber experts.

Anthropic taps IPO lawyers as it races OpenAI to go public
ft.com

San Francisco-based Anthropic has asked Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati to begin work on an initial public offering (IPO) that could take place as early

Codeberg is down
status.codeberg.org

This is an overview of the Codeberg Infrastructure. Uptime stats are calculated over the past 24 hours only. **Regular maintenance window:** We're meeting

Apple will not let me join the Developer Program – and will not say why
blog.kulman.sk

Igor Kulman - Trying to join the Apple Developer Program as an indie and being blocked by an unexplained automated decision.

Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service
theregister.com

: Zig prez complains about 'vibe-scheduling' after safe sleep bug goes unaddressed for eons

Accepting US car standards would risk European lives
etsc.eu

Opening the EU market to vehicles certified under US standards would weaken the protections that save lives in Europe, say more than 80 civil society organisations and the administrations of Amsterdam…

Researchers Find Microbe Capable of Producing Oxygen from Martian Soil
scienceclock.com

When we talk about the possibility of humans living on Mars, one of the biggest challenges is not the rockets or the habitats, but something far more basic:

AI Is Breaking the Moral Foundation of Modern Society
eyeofthesquid.com
Quad9 DOH HTTP/1.1 Retirement, December 15, 2025
quad9.net

A public and free DNS service for a better security and privacy

Sending DMARC reports is somewhat hazardous
utcc.utoronto.ca
Interview with RollerCoaster Tycoon's Creator, Chris Sawyer (2024)
medium.com
Understanding ECDSA
avidthinker.github.io
Japanese game devs face font dilemma as license increases from $380 to $20k
gamesindustry.biz

Japanese game makers are struggling to locate affordable commercial fonts after one of the country's leading font licen…

Kohler Can Access Pictures from "End-to-End Encrypted" Toilet Camera
varlogsimon.leaflet.pub

Claimed end-to-end privacy doesn’t fully conceal your rear-end data

The Rise and Fall of the H-1B Visa – American Affairs Journal
americanaffairsjournal.org

Brian Dan-Ding - The negative consequences of the H-1B can be traced back to its conception and design; the story of who crafted the visa, which firms and lobbies pressed hardest for its passage into law, and how it became Big Tech’s preferred option has largely gone untold. And while it is, of course, a natural feature of American life for businesses to lobby the government for policies that would benefit their bottom lines, what st

DOOM could have had PC Speaker Music
lenowo.org

I'm guessing everyone here has played DOOM before, or at least seen someone else play the game. It would also not be of any news for most here, that DOOM has sp

Exploring Large HTML Documents on the Web
calendar.perfplanet.com

Most HTML documents are relatively small, providing a starting point for other resources on the page to load. But why do some websites load several megabytes of HTML code? Usually it's not that there's a lot of content on the page, but rather that other types of resources are embedded within the do

Windows 11 October 2025 Update Triggers Major Gaming Performance Regression
guru3d.com
AI generated font using Nano Banana
constanttime.notion.site

A tool that connects everyday work into one space. It gives you and your teams AI tools—search, writing, note-taking—inside an all-in-one, flexible workspace.

EmacsConf 2025
emacsconf.org
Ecosia: The greenest AI is here
blog.ecosia.org

We’re building the world’s greenest AI. Find out how we’re harnessing new technology while continuing our mission of putting people and the planet first.

Steam on Linux Use Easily Hits an All-Time High in November
phoronix.com
We're committing $6.25B to give 25M children a financial head start
onedell.com

dan.stasiewski@dell.org - This contribution will fund $250 deposits for children ages 10 and under, expanding early access to investment accounts powered by Invest America.

Head of Germany's Sovereign Tech Agency believes that Europe must invest in OSS
english.elpais.com

Manuel G. Pascual - The head of Germany’s Sovereign Tech Agency believes that Europe must invest in open source to achieve technological independence

Valve reveals it’s the architect behind a push to bring Windows games to Arm
theverge.com

Sean Hollister - The Steam Frame is a Trojan horse carrying Arm’s gaming future.

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