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A series of vignettes from my childhood and early career
jasonscheirer.com
Addressing the adding situation
xania.org
Man unexpectedly cured of HIV after stem cell transplant
newscientist.com

#author.fullName} - A handful of people with HIV have been cured after receiving HIV-resistant stem cells – but a man who received non-resistant stem cells is also now HIV-free

Advent of Compiler Optimisations 2025
xania.org
Comparing AWS Lambda ARM64 vs. x86_64 Performance Across Runtimes in Late 2025
chrisebert.net

See how AWS Lambda arm64 stacks up against x86_64 in real-world benchmarks across CPU, memory, and I/O workloads using Node.js, Python, and Rust.

How Brian Eno Created Ambient 1: Music for Airports (2019)
reverbmachine.com

In 1978, Brian Eno released Ambient 1: Music for Airports, a landmark album in ambient and electronic music. Although it wasn't the first ambient

Rootless Pings in Rust
bou.ke
Why Replicate is joining Cloudflare
blog.cloudflare.com

Today, we’re excited to announce that Replicate is officially part of Cloudflare. We wanted to share a bit about our journey and why we made this decision.

Frequently Asked Unicycling Questions
vale.rocks

Declan Chidlow - No, I did not lose the other wheel.

Apple Releases Open Weights Video Model
starflow-v.github.io
Beej's Guide to Learning Computer Science
beej.us
Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days
letsencrypt.org

Let’s Encrypt will be reducing the validity period of the certificates we issue. We currently issue certificates valid for 90 days, which will be cut in half to 45 days by 2028. This change is being made along with the rest of the industry, as required by the CA/Browser Forum Baseline Requirements, which set the technical requirements that we must follow. All publicly-trusted Certificate Authorities like Let’s Encryp

What will enter the public domain in 2026?
publicdomainreview.org

At the start of each year, on January 1st, a new crop of works enter the public domain. Find our highlights of what lies in store for 2026 here.

Reverse math shows why hard problems are hard
quantamagazine.org

Researchers have used metamathematical techniques to show that certain theorems that look superficially distinct are in fact logically equivalent.

Netherlands – Capital Growth Tax and Capital Gains Tax for Box 3
kpmg.com

The Dutch government presented a new bill to the Parliament aimed at reforming the taxation system for income derived from assets, known as the ‘Actual Return on Investment in Box 3 Act.’ The bill regarding Box 3 introduces two main categories of taxation: capital growth tax and capital gains tax. Given recent changes to Dutch tax law, all individuals under the 30% ruling will lose their near-total exemption from ta

After Windows Update, Password icon invisible, click where it used to be
support.microsoft.com
Notes on Bhutan
apropos.substack.com

Santi - Small Himalayan Kingdom, Big Governance Experiments

US air travelers without REAL IDs will be charged a $45 fee
apnews.com

The Transportation Security Administration has announced that U.S. air travelers without a REAL ID will face a $45 fee starting in February.

Arcee Trinity Mini: US-Trained Moe Model
arcee.ai

Introducing Trinity Mini, a compact MoE model trained end-to-end in the U.S., offering open weights, strong reasoning, and full control for developers.

AI agents find $4.6M in blockchain smart contract exploits
red.anthropic.com
Last Week on My Mac: Losing confidence
eclecticlight.co

What was the key to successfully learning to drive, ride a bike, or speak a foreign language? Confidence, and it’s every bit as important in computing, and in macOS.

Meta's new EU regulator is contractually prohibited from hurting Meta's feelings
pluralistic.net
OpenAI desperate to avoid explaining why it deleted pirated book datasets
arstechnica.com

OpenAI risks increased fines after deleting pirated books datasets.

Apple AI chief John Giannandrea is retiring in spring 2026
macrumors.com

Apple AI chief John Giannandrea is stepping down from his position and retiring in spring, 2026, Apple announced today. Giannandrea will serve as an advisor between now and 2026, with former Microsoft AI researcher Amar Subramanya set to take over as vice president of AI. Subramanya will report to Craig Federighi, and will lead Apple Foundation Models, ML research, and AI Safety and Evaluation.

John Giannandrea to retire from Apple
apple.com

John Giannandrea is retiring, and Amar Subramanya joins as vice president of AI.

The healthcare market is taxing reproduction out of existence
aaronstannard.com

Aaronontheweb - The healthcare market is taxing reproduction out of existence.

Mozilla's latest quagmire
rubenerd.com

Defending Mozilla’s inclusion of AI features and tooling in Firefox misses the point, and only threatens to isolate them further.

Lawmakers Want to Ban VPNs–and They Have No Idea What They're Doing
techdirt.com

Remember when you thought age verification laws couldn’t get any worse? Well, lawmakers in Wisconsin, Michigan, and beyond are about to blow you away. It’s unfo…

Instagram chief orders staff back to the office five days a week in 2026
businessinsider.com

Pranav Dixit - Instagram back-to-office policy: Adam Mosseri demands full-time in-person work in 2026, fewer meetings, and faster product prototypes.

How to Attend Meetings
docs.google.com

How To Attend Meetings Brian Peterson Product @ The New York Times “How to run meetings” is another meeting

Sycophancy is the first LLM "dark pattern"
seangoedecke.com

People have been making fun of OpenAI models for being overly sycophantic for months now. I even wrote a post advising users to pretend that their work was…

Why I stopped using JSON for my APIs
aloisdeniel.com

An in-depth look at why Protobuf can outperform JSON for modern APIs, with practical Dart examples showing how strong typing, binary serialization, and shared schemas improve both performance and developer experience.

React and Remix Choose Different Futures
laconicwit.com

Bryan Cantrill's talk Platform as a Reflection of Values gave me a lens I didn't know I needed. When platforms diverge, he argued, it's rarely about technical merit. It's about values misalignment. The things that matter most to one community simply rank differently for another. I attended Remix Jam two

Intel could return to Apple computers in 2027
theverge.com

Andrew J. Hawkins - Is Intel making a comeback?

Durin is a library for reading and writing the Dwarf debugging format
github.com/tmcgilchrist

Durin is a library for reading and writing the Dwarf debugging format - tmcgilchrist/durin

High-income job losses are cooling housing demand
jbrec.com

Which local economies sustain housing? We analyze Charlotte's job boom vs. Austin/Denver slowdowns. High-wage contractions impact for-sale demand.

Ghostty compiled to WASM with xterm.js API compatibility
github.com/coder

Ghostty for the web with xterm.js API compatibility - coder/ghostty-web

Response to "Ruby Is Not a Serious Programming Language"
robbyonrails.com
Google Starts Sharing All Your Text Messages with Your Employer
forbes.com

Zak Doffman - Warning: What happens on your Android, doesn’t stay on your Android — not if it's a work phone.

Microsoft Teams will tell your boss when you're out of the office
mashable.com

A game-changing update for your local middle manager.

Why I'm Betting Against the AGI Hype
notesfromthecircus.com

Mike Brock - An Engineer’s (Philosophical) Perspective.

A new AI winter is coming?
taranis.ie

Though LLMs had a lot of promise, this has not been demonstrated in practice. The technology is essentially a failure, and a new AI winter is coming.

ImAnim: Modern animation capabilities to ImGui applications
github.com/soufianekhiat

Animation Enginer for Dear ImGui. Contribute to soufianekhiat/ImAnim development by creating an account on GitHub.

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2025)
news.ycombinator.com
ask
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2025)
news.ycombinator.com
ask
DeepSeek-v3.2: Pushing the frontier of open large language models [pdf]
huggingface.co
AI-Assisted Coding Killed My Joy of Programming
meysam.io

Meysam Azad - AI coding assistants feel like video game cheat codes—exciting at first, then soul-crushing. A raw reflection on losing the joy of programming in 2025 and why I keep going back to my piano.

Google unkills JPEG XL?
tonisagrista.com
Google, Nvidia, and OpenAI
stratechery.com

OpenAI and Nvidia are both under threat from Google; I like OpenAI’s chances best, but they need an advertising model to beat Google as an Aggregator.

WordPress plugin quirk resulted in UK Gov OBR Budget leak [pdf]
obr.uk
Netflix kills casting from its mobile app to most modern TVs
macrumors.com

Netflix has quietly removed the ability to cast content from its mobile apps to most modern TVs and streaming devices, including newer Chromecast models and the Google TV Streamer.

Ask HN: Quality of recent gens of Dell/Lenovo laptops worse than 10 years ago?
news.ycombinator.com
ask
The Penicillin Myth
asimov.press

Asimov Press - Competing theories seek to explain inconsistencies surrounding Alexander Fleming’s famed discovery.

Cartographers have been hiding illustrations inside Switzerland’s maps (2020)
eyeondesign.aiga.org
A vector graphics workstation from the 70s
justanotherelectronicsblog.com

riktw - A bit of history and a repair of a Tektronix 4051 graphical computer from 1975. What was this computer's place in history, what was it used for and what parts exploded when turning it on.

WhatsApp will become interoperable with other messaging apps in Europe
tuta.com

WhatsApp users in Europe will soon have the possibility to message users of other services.

14yo won $25k for origami, discovered pattern that holds 10k times its weight
businessinsider.com

Lauren Edmonds - Miles Wu, 14, said an origami fold could hold over 10,000 times its own weight, the equivalent of a NYC taxi cab holding over 4,000 elephants.

WW1 toxic compound sprayed on Georgian protesters, BBC evidence suggests
bbc.com

Anti-government demonstrators are likely to have been targeted with camite, our investigation finds.

Why xor eax, eax?
xania.org
1GB Raspberry Pi 5, and memory-driven price rises
raspberrypi.com
UK Government plans new powers to label dissenting movements as 'subversion'
netpol.org
Self-hosting a Matrix server for 5 years
yaky.dev
DeepSeek-v3.2
huggingface.co
Xlibre is a fork of the Xorg Xserver with lots of code cleanups
x11libre.net
Accenture dubs 800k staff 'reinventors' amid shift to AI
theguardian.com

Consultancy’s move to embrace artificial intelligence follows Disney’s use of the term ‘imagineers’

AWS data centers' water use tied to spike in cancer and miscarriages in Oregon
techoreon.com

Morrow County, Oregon, has recorded nitrate readings as high as 73 parts per million (ppm) in household wells—more than ten times the state's legal ceiling of

DeepSeekMath-V2: Towards Self-Verifiable Mathematical Reasoning
huggingface.co
Games using anti-cheats and their compatibility with GNU/Linux or Wine/Proton
areweanticheatyet.com
India orders smartphone makers to preload state-owned cyber safety app
reuters.com
It’s been a very hard year
bell.bz

Unlike a lot of places in tech, my company, Set Studio/Piccalilli has no outside funding. Bootstrapped is what the LinkedIn people say, I think. It’s been a hard year this year. A very hard year. I think a naive person would blame it all on the seemingly industry-wide attitude of “AI can just do this […]

Google Antigravity Deletes D Drive
mastodon.gamedev.place
SmartTube Compromised
aftvnews.com

Elias Saba -  Earlier this week, the developer of SmartTube, the most popular alternative YouTube app for Android TV and Fire TV devices, announced that his app's digital

'A full-blown crisis': Americans brace for a surge in healthcare costs
ft.com

West Virginia is at the epicentre of a looming disaster over rising insurance premiums as affordability concerns soar

Google Antigravity just deleted the contents of whole drive
reddit.com/r/google_antigravity
Search tool that only returns content created before ChatGPT's public release
tegabrain.com

A browser extension for avoiding AI slop.  Download it for Chrome or Firefox. This is a search tool that will only return content created before ChatGPT's...

X210Ai is a new motherboard to upgrade ThinkPad X201/200
tpart.net
In Re: 23andMe, Inc. Customer Data Security Breach Litigation
23andmedatasettlement.com
Regarding Thien-Thi Nguyen
news.ycombinator.com
ask
Advent of Sysadmin 2025
sadservers.com
Is America's jobs market nearing a cliff?
economist.com
Malware embedded into audio driver is silently recording from system mic
twitter.com
Ly – A lightweight TUI (ncurses-like) display manager for Linux and BSD
codeberg.org

fairyglade - A lightweight TUI (ncurses-like) display manager for Linux and BSD.

Grokipedia is the antithesis of Wikipedia
404media.co

Grokipedia is not a 'Wikipedia competitor.' It is a fully robotic regurgitation machine designed to protect the ego of the world’s wealthiest man.

Algorithms for Optimization [pdf]
algorithmsbook.com
Bricklink suspends Marketplace operations in 35 countries
jaysbrickblog.com

Jay Ong - Bricklink, LEGO’s biggest online marketplace and lifeblood of the LEGO community has made quite an alarming announcement. From 12 December 2025, BrickLink Marketplace will not be available for members in 35 countries around the world, which means that LEGO and Bricklink members will no longer be able to buy or sell on the Marketplace. See […]

A Love Letter to FreeBSD
tara.sh
The reality of life after getting your brand stocked in a national retailer
reddit.com/r/ausbusiness
Ty – A fast Python type checker, written in Rust
docs.astral.sh
“Boobs check” – Technique to verify if sites behind CDN are hosted in Iran
twitter.com
How to run phones while being struck by suicide drones
nasa.cx
White House gives Maduro ultimatum as U.S. moves toward land operations
miamiherald.com

The call quickly reached an impasse as it became clear that the two sides’ positions were far apart.

Hacking on the ReMarkable 2
sgt.hootr.club
People keep flocking to Linux, not just to escape Windows
zdnet.com

By my count, Linux has over 11% of the desktop market. Here's how I got that number - and why people are making the leap.

You want microservices, but do you need them?
docker.com

Before you default to microservices, weigh hidden costs and consider a modular monolith or SOA. Learn when Docker delivers consistency and scale—without sprawl.

Building the Perfect Linux PC with Linus Torvalds [video]
youtube.com
Program-of-Thought Prompting Outperforms Chain-of-Thought by 15% (2022)
arxiv.org

Recently, there has been significant progress in teaching language models to perform step-by-step reasoning to solve complex numerical reasoning tasks. Chain-of-thoughts prompting (CoT) is by far the state-of-art method for these tasks. CoT uses language models to perform both reasoning and computation in the multi-step `thought' process. To disentangle computation from reasoning, we propose `Program of Thoughts' (Po

NixOS 25.11 released
nixos.org
Don't push AI down our throats
gpt3experiments.substack.com

nutanc - AI is being done wrong.

X's move to show users' location is a great step toward online transparency
washingtonpost.com
There is No Quintic Formula [video]
youtube.com

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