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Windhawk Windows classic theme mod for Windows 11
windhawk.net

Disables theming (enables Classic theme)

Wealth
saul.pw
Linux on the Fujitsu Lifebook U729
borretti.me

Fernando Borretti - A short review and troubleshooting guide.

6B Miles Driven
tesla.com
Waymo Was on a Roll in San Francisco. Then One of Its Cars Killed a Cat
nytimes.com
How to write type-safe generics in C
raphgl.github.io
Kagi Bloopers – Search Results Gone Wrong
help.kagi.com
Our investigation into the suspicious pressure on Archive.today
adguard-dns.io

Some time ago, we were contacted by a group fighting against online CSAM, demanding that AdGuard DNS blocks the Archive.today website. This was only the beginning of a much larger story…

One Handed Keyboard
github.com/htx-studio

Contribute to htx-studio/One-Handed-Keyboard development by creating an account on GitHub.

NATO Ended Russia's Estonian Air Incursions
themilitaryanalyst.com

NATO had had enough. It was time to teach the Russians a lesson and make it plain these air incursions were no longer going to be tolerated. When the Russians obliged NATO sprang its trap. This is …

Spec-Driven Development: The Waterfall Strikes Back
marmelab.com

François Zaninotto - Kiro, Spec-kit, Bmad, Tessl, and other SDD frameworks turn business analysts into Markdown reviewers. Isn't there a more agile way to use Coding Agents?

Messing with scraper bots
herman.bearblog.dev

Markov chain babblers, bogus php files, and more!

TCP, the workhorse of the internet
cefboud.com

Moncef Abboud - An exploration of TCP, the workhorse of the internet. This deep dive includes detailed examples and a step-by-step walkthrough.

Google must pay German price comparison platform 465M euros in damages
reuters.com
Ohm Editor
ohmjs.org
Designing a Language (2017)
cs.lmu.edu
Lua 5.5.0 (rc1) has been released for testing
lua.org
I can't recommend Grafana anymore
henrikgerdes.me
Over-reliance on English hinders cognitive science
cell.com
AI note-taking startup Fireflies was really two guys typing notes by hand
pcgamer.com

And that tall guy buying a movie ticket was just two mischievous kids in a trench coat.

AMD GPUs Go Brrr
hazyresearch.stanford.edu

multi silicon ai is coming

At 16, I was experimented on by the CIA and now I'm suing
bbc.com

Lana Ponting is part of a class-action lawsuit against the Canadian government for its alleged role in the MK-Ultra experiments.

No Leak, No Problem – Bypassing ASLR with a ROP Chain to Gain RCE
modzero.com
Brexit reduced UK GDP by 6-8%, investments by 12-18% [pdf]
nber.org
USDA head says 'everyone' on SNAP will now have to reapply
thehill.com
Go's Sweet 16
go.dev

Happy Birthday, Go!

SSL Configuration Generator
ssl-config.mozilla.org
30 Days, 9 Cities, 1 Question: Where Did American Prosperity Go?
kyla.substack.com

kyla scanlon - Traveling the country to understand it

Microsoft executive closes replies after Windows 11 "Agentic OS" backlash
windowslatest.com

Abhijith M B - Microsoft’s Windows chief locked comments on an X post after backlash over the idea of Windows becoming an “agentic OS.”

Anthropic Rides an Artificial Wave
berryvilleiml.com

I'll tip my hat to the new ConstitutionTake a bow for the new revolutionSmile and grin at the change all aroundPick up m

All praise to the lunch ladies
bittersoutherner.com

Blessed are the women who watch over America’s children.

Show HN: Epstein Files Organized and Searchable
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Genergo: Propellantless space-propulsion system
satcom.digital

Genergo, an Italian deep-tech company based in Como, comes out of stealth and unveils an innovative electromagnetic space-propulsion system that uses no propellant, successfully flight-tested and validated across three space missions and protected by a portfolio of granted international patents.

John von Neumann Shot Lightning from His Arse
theintrinsicperspective.com

Erik Hoel - Pop-hereditarianism is built on selective credulity

Structured outputs on the Claude Developer Platform
claude.com

Structured outputs on the Claude Developer Platform guarantee API responses match your JSON schemas and tool definitions. Now in public beta for Sonnet 4.5 and Opus 4.1, this feature eliminates parsing errors and failed tool calls for production applications.

Minisforum Stuffs Entire Arm Homelab in the MS-R1
jeffgeerling.com
AI World Clocks
clocks.brianmoore.com

The current time as rendered by 9 different AI models. By Brian Moore.

A race condition in Aurora RDS
hightouch.com

See how we diagnosed and confirmed an AWS Aurora RDS race condition impacting failovers.

Secret Boat Strike Memo Justifies Kills by Claiming Targeting Drugs, Not People
theintercept.com

Nick Turse - In a memo promising legal immunity for those who kill alleged drug traffickers, the Trump administration floated an unusual legal theory.

The disguised return of EU Chat Control
reclaimthenet.org
Bitchat for Gaza – messaging without internet
updates.techforpalestine.org

Bitchat is a new messaging app that allows users to chat securely with or without internet access. Download it today via the App Store or Google Play store to begin communicating safely, even when connectivity disappears. Why Bitchat is needed Palestinians are dependent on Israel for their access to electricity,

Norway's Wealth Tax Unchains a Capital Exodus
citizenx.com

Norway's wealth tax increase, expected to raise $146M, led to a $448M net loss as $54B in wealth left the country, reducing tax revenue by $594M.

Meeting notes between Forgejo and the Dutch government via Git commits
codeberg.org

forgejo - All things related to sustainability: volunteers, donations, grant applications and employee delegation

Germany to ban Huawei from future 6G network
bloomberg.com
Being poor vs. being broke
blog.ctms.me

The more I speak about being poor, the more I realize how fundamentally other folks misunderstand what it means to be poor versus being broke.

Moving Back to a Tiling WM – XMonad
wssite.vercel.app
Manganese is Lyme disease's double-edge sword
news.northwestern.edu
US Tech Market Treemap
caplocus.com
'No One Lives Forever' turns 25 and you still can't buy it legitimately
techdirt.com

One of my favorite things in all of professional sports is the unofficial holiday referred to as “Bobby Bonilla Day.” The short version of it is that Bonilla played for the New York Met…

Marc Andreessen as Avatar for Societal Decay
infinitescroll.us

Jeremiah Johnson - How one venture capitalist represents everything wrong with social media

Oracle hit hard in Wall Street's tech sell-off over its AI bet
ft.com

Larry Ellison’s software company falls more than rivals over its borrowing and reliance on OpenAI contracts

Linear algebra explains why some words are effectively untranslatable
aethermug.com

A modest mathematical framing of language

Wealthy foreigners 'paid for chance to shoot civilians in Sarajevo'
thetimes.com

Tom Kington, Rome - An Italian writer says he has uncovered evidence that Italians paid Bosnian Serb forces for ‘human safaris’ during the siege in the Balkan Wars

I think nobody wants AI in Firefox, Mozilla
manualdousuario.net

Mozilla is developing a built‑in AI assistant for Firefox that will be offered as a third browsing mode alongside Normal and Private tabs. They’re calling it “Window AI.” Details are still scarce.

AGI fantasy is a blocker to actual engineering
tomwphillips.co.uk

:AGI is a harmful and wasteful fantasy that runs counter to the principles of efficient and effective engineering.

Nvidia is gearing up to sell servers instead of just GPUs and components
tomshardware.com

Higher supply chain consolidation under Nvidia?

Backblaze Drive Stats for Q3 2025
backblaze.com

Drive Stats Team - Read the Q3 2025 Drive Stats report to see the latest annualized failure rates, and an analysis of how we define failure in the first place.

Google Releases CodeWiki
codewiki.google
EDE: Small and Fast Desktop Environment (2014)
edeproject.org
Winamp clone in Swift for macOS
github.com/mgreenwood1001

Winamp clone in swift for OS/X. Contribute to mgreenwood1001/winamp development by creating an account on GitHub.

Magit manuals are available online again
github.com/magit

I'm just getting started with Magit, and it works in my Emacs, but I wanted to go over some tutorials from the webpage. magit.vc does not work currently.

Show HN: European tech news in 6 languages
europedigital.cloud
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📰 Stay informed about European digital developments: Privacy technology breakthroughs, digital sovereignty initiatives, EU tech policy, and European alternatives news. Daily multilingual coverage of Europe's digital transformation.

Mullvad VPN present And Then? (Chat Control is back on the menu)
mullvad.net

Chat Control is back on the menu. To highlight the corruption behind the proposal, Mullvad VPN now presents "And Then?" A film directed by Jonas Åkerlund.

GNOME 50 completes the migration to Wayland, dropping X11 backend code
linuxiac.com

GNOME 50 completes the long migration to Wayland, dropping X11 backend code and relying on XWayland for any remaining compatibility needs.

Show HN: Encore – Type-safe back end framework that generates infra from code
github.com/encoredev
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Open source framework for building robust type-safe distributed systems with declarative infrastructure - encoredev/encore

V8 Garbage Collector
wingolog.org
Ask HN: Is building for the web even worth it now?
news.ycombinator.com
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RegreSQL: Regression Testing for PostgreSQL Queries
boringsql.com

Radim Marek - Stop deploying broken SQL queries. RegreSQL provides regression testing for PostgreSQL queries with performance baselines and automated warnings.

Multi-User Dungeon (MUD)
en.wikipedia.org
Lawmakers want to ban VPNs and have no idea what they're doing
eff.org

Rindala Alajaji - It's unfortunately no longer enough to force websites to check your government-issued ID before you can access certain content, because politicians have now discovered that people are using Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) to protect their privacy and bypass these invasive laws. Their solution? Entirely ban the use of VPNs.

Hooked on Sonics: Experimenting with Sound in 19th-Century Popular Science
publicdomainreview.org

Of all the senses cultivated throughout the 19th century, it was the sense of hearing that experienced the most dramatic transformation, as the science of sound underwent rapid advancement. Lucas Thompson delves into a particular genre of popular acoustics primers aimed at children and amateurs alike, which reveal the pedagogical, ludic, and transcendental strivings of Victorian society.

Ask HN: How to learn concurrency?
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Fannie Mae officials ousted after sounding alarm on sharing confidential data
apnews.com

A confidant of Bill Pulte, the Trump administration’s top housing regulator, provided confidential mortgage pricing data from Fannie Mae to a principal competitor.

Copyright winter is coming (to Wikipedia?)
authorsalliance.substack.com

Authors Alliance - This is a guest post by Matthew Sag, Jonas Robitscher Professor of Law in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Data Science at Emory University Law School.

Why do voice transcription apps charge monthly when Whisper runs locally?
lucidvoice.app

Postulate Labs, Inc. - Offline voice transcription for macOS. Turn speech into perfect text 3x faster with privacy-first AI. No internet required, no subscriptions.

Why Fei-Fei Li and Yann LeCun are both betting on "world models"
entropytown.com

entropytown - Gaussian splats, JEPA and Genie 3 — and why “world model” now means three different things at once.

HipKittens: Fast and furious AMD kernels
hazyresearch.stanford.edu

multi silicon ai is coming

How to Get a North Korea / Antarctica VPS
blog.lyc8503.net

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Apple Mini Apps Partner Program
developer.apple.com

Apple Inc. - The Mini Apps Partner Program is designed to help developers who host mini apps grow their business and provide a great customer experience.

What Happened with the CIA and The Paris Review?
theparisreview.org

Dan Piepenbring - November 11, 2025 – “In a funny way, it was really the fact that writing is far too solitudinous an activity that gave us The Paris Review. Along with the CIA, of course.”

Kubernetes Ingress Nginx is retiring
kubernetes.dev

To prioritize the safety and security of the ecosystem, Kubernetes SIG Network and the Security Response Committee are announcing the upcoming retirement of Ingress NGINX. Best-effort maintenance will continue until March 2026. Afterward, there will be no further releases, no bugfixes, and no updates to resolve any security vulnerabilities that may be discovered. Existing deployments of Ingress NGINX will continue to

Guests ejected mid-stay from bankrupt hotel chain Sonder
bbc.com

Sonder guests have complained that they had to leave their accommodation as the firm files for a sudden bankruptcy.

650GB of Data (Delta Lake on S3). Polars vs. DuckDB vs. Daft vs. Spark
dataengineeringcentral.substack.com

Daniel Beach - cluster fatigue

Blue Origin lands New Glenn rocket booster on second try
techcrunch.com

Sean O'Kane - It's an impressive accomplishment for the new mega-rocket launch system, and paves the way for the company to start re-using the boosters in commercial missions.

OpenMANET Wi-Fi HaLow open-source project for Raspberry Pi–based MANET radios
openmanet.net
Needy Programs
tonsky.me

Nikita Prokopov - We used to use software; now software started to use us

The end of naked locker rooms
theatlantic.com

Jacob Beckert - What we lose when casual nudity disappears

Show HN: DBOS Java – Postgres-Backed Durable Workflows
github.com/dbos-inc
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Lightweight Durable Java Workflows. Contribute to dbos-inc/dbos-transact-java development by creating an account on GitHub.

Parsing Integers in C
daniel.haxx.se

In the standard libc API set there are multiple functions provided that do ASCII numbers to integer conversions. They are handy and easy to use, but also error-prone and quite lenient in what they accept and silently just swallow. atoi atoi() is perhaps the most common and basic one. It converts from a string to … Continue reading Parsing integers in C →

Why agents DO NOT write most of our code – a reality check
octomind.dev

At Octomind, we build AI agents - but our code is still mostly written by humans. We love LLMs and use them everywhere we can, from our product to our internal workflows. But despite all the hype, we’re nowhere near “agents writing most of our code.”

I captured my friend transiting the sun during a skydive
twitter.com
Apparently my Samsung fridge has ads now
reddit.com/r/assholedesign
Judge Orders OpenAI to Give Lawyers 20M Private Chats – 'Anonymization'
techdirt.com

A federal magistrate judge just ordered that the private ChatGPT conversations of 20 million users be handed over to the lawyers for dozens of plaintiffs, including news organizations. Those 20 mil…

SlopStop: Community-driven AI slop detection in Kagi Search
blog.kagi.com
GPT-5.1 for Developers
openai.com
IBM Patented Euler's 200 Year Old Math Technique for 'AI Interpretability'
leetarxiv.substack.com

Murage Kibicho - IBM Slapped the Buzzwords 'AI Interpretability' on Generalized Continued Fractions and their Series Transformations and was awarded a Patent

Disrupting the first reported AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign
anthropic.com

A report describing an a highly sophisticated AI-led cyberattack

Rust in Android: move fast and fix things
security.googleblog.com

Posted by Jeff Vander Stoep, Android Last year, we wrote about why a memory safety strategy that focuses on vulnerability prevention in ...

Ask HN: Anyone else disillusioned with "AI experts" in their team?
news.ycombinator.com
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The Eggstraordinary Fortress
ahmed1011001.github.io

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