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Adventure Game Studio: OSS software for creating adventure games
adventuregamestudio.co.uk
How to Scale a System from 0 to 10M+ Users
blog.algomaster.io

Ashish Pratap Singh - Scaling is a complex topic, but after working at big tech on services handling millions of requests and scaling my own startup (AlgoMaster.io) from scratch, I’ve realized that most systems evolve through a surprisingly similar set of stages as they grow.

Amiga Unix (Amix)
amigaunix.com
FOSDEM 2026 – Open-Source Conference in Brussels – Day#1 Recap
gyptazy.com

gyptazy - A recap of FOSDEM 2026 in Brussels, focusing on open source as a foundation for European digital sovereignty, community-driven innovation, BSD and Linux ecosystems, and the future of free software in Europe.

'Unsubscribe' and 'opt out': A new Big Tech boycott to protest ICE
businessinsider.com

Peter Gelling - Small businesses struggled to observe the national shutdown to protest ICE. Here's why a boycott of companies like OpenAI and Amazon could be easier and more effective.

Netbird – Open Source Zero Trust Networking
netbird.io
What I learned building an opinionated and minimal coding agent
mariozechner.at

Lessons I learned while building my own coding agent from scratch.

New Dutch government to push for EU social media ban for under-15s
politico.eu

The minority coalition’s program also envisions a crackdown on screen time and stricter smartphone rules in schools.

The Book of PF, 4th edition
nostarch.com

Build a more secure network with PF.

'Tesla is (still) trying to deceive investors into thinking it has SF robotaxis'
electrek.co

Jameson Dow - Tesla once again suggested to investors that it has robotaxis operating in San Francisco, even though it does not have permits to do so.

Apple-1 Computer Prototype Board #0 sold for $2.75M
rrauction.com
OpenClaw security assessment [pdf]
zeroleaks.ai
U.S. life expectancy hits all-time high
scientificamerican.com

Jeanna Bryner - Americans are living longer than ever but still well behind the life expectancy of other developed countries

The User Guide for Elite, the Tool Palantir Made for ICE
404media.co

404 Media is publishing a version of the user guide for ELITE, which lets ICE bring up dossiers on individual people and provides a “confidence score” of their address.

List animals until failure
rose.systems
Sparse File LRU Cache
ternarysearch.blogspot.com

An interesting file system feature that I came across a few years ago is sparse files . In short, many file systems allow you to create a lo...

Cells use 'bioelectricity' to coordinate and make group decisions
quantamagazine.org

The discovery that tissues use electricity to expel unhealthy cells is part of a surge of renewed interest in the currents flowing through our bodies.

When will CSS Grid Lanes arrive?
webkit.org

Anytime an exciting new web technology starts to land in browsers, developers want to know “when in the world am I going to be able to use this?” Currently, the finalized syntax for Grid Lanes is available in Safari Technology Preview.

Swift is a more convenient Rust (2023)
nmn.sh
This Year in LLVM (2025)
npopov.com
Best of Moltbook
astralcodexten.com

Scott Alexander - ...

Generative AI and Wikipedia editing: What we learned in 2025
wikiedu.org

Like many organizations, Wiki Education has grappled with generative AI, its impacts, opportunities, and threats, for several years. As an organization that runs large-scale programs to bring new e…

Outsourcing thinking
erikjohannes.no
The Spacecraft That Wouldn't Die
corememory.com

Ashlee Vance - Epic Aerospace's record-setting tug has traveled millions of kilometers, and there's a chance we can bring it back

Data Processing Benchmark Featuring Rust, Go, Swift, Zig, Julia etc.
github.com/zupat

Data Processing benchmark featuring Rust, Go, Swift, Zig, Julia etc. - zupat/related_post_gen

Autonomous cars, drones cheerfully obey prompt injection by road sign
theregister.com

: AI vision systems can be very literal readers

In praise of –dry-run
henrikwarne.com

For the last few months, I have been developing a new reporting application. Early on, I decided to add a –dry-run option to the run command. This turned out to be quite useful – I have…

Demystifying ARM SME to Optimize General Matrix Multiplications
arxiv.org

General Matrix Multiplication (GEMM) is a critical kernel in high-performance computing and deep learning. While modern architectures like ARM's Scalable Matrix Extension (SME) introduce dedicated hardware for matrix operations, existing linear algebra libraries fail to fully exploit its potential, particularly for large matrices. This paper presents MpGEMM, an open-source library that leverages key architectural fea

The Saddest Moment (2013) [pdf]
usenix.org
Noctia: A sleek and minimal desktop shell thoughtfully crafted for Wayland
github.com/noctalia-dev

A sleek and minimal desktop shell thoughtfully crafted for Wayland. - noctalia-dev/noctalia-shell

Show HN: Minimal – Open-Source Community driven Hardened Container Images
github.com/rtvkiz
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Minimal CVE Hardened container image collection. Contribute to rtvkiz/minimal development by creating an account on GitHub.

TrumpRx delayed as senators question if it's a giant scam with Big Pharma
arstechnica.com

The website is delayed as senators seek answers from health department watchdog.

Berlin: Record harvest sparks mass giveaway of free potatoes
theguardian.com

From zoos to soup kitchens, people are hauling away tonnes of surplus spuds after the biggest crop in 25 years

Death Note: L, Anonymity and Eluding Entropy (2011)
gwern.net

Gwern - Applied Computer Science: On Murder Considered As STEM Field—using information theory to quantify the magnitude of Light Yagami’s mistakes in Death Note and considering fixes

Google Cloud suspended my account for 2 years, only automated replies
news.ycombinator.com
ask
Nintendo DS code editor and scriptable game engine
crl.io
Guest Post from an Iranian
scottaaronson.blog

The following guest post was written by a Shtetl-Optimized fan in Iran, who’s choosing to remain anonymous for obvious reasons. I’m in awe of the courage of this individual and the mill…

Genode OS is a tool kit for building highly secure special-purpose OS
genode.org
Ask HN: Any real OpenClaw (Clawd Bot/Molt Bot) users? What's your experience?
news.ycombinator.com
ask
Bitcoin Looks Set for Longest Monthly Losing Streak Since 2018
bloomberg.com
US has investigated claims WhatsApp chats aren't private
bloomberg.com
Mobile carriers can get your GPS location
an.dywa.ng

Andy Wang - In iOS 26.3, Apple introduced a new privacy feature which limits “precise location” data made available to cellular networks via cell towers. The feature is only available to devices with Apple’s in-house modem introduced in 2025. The announcement1 says https://support.apple.com/en-us/126101 ↩

Finland looks to introduce Australia-style ban on social media
yle.fi

Prime Minister Petteri Orpo (NCP), the Finnish public health authority THL and two-thirds of Finns are in favour of banning or restricting the use of social media by under-15s.

SQLite Is a Self Contained System
sqlite.org
Film students who can no longer sit through films
theatlantic.com

Rose Horowitch - The attention-span crisis goes to the movies.

4chan founder created /pol/ board after meeting with Epstein
bsky.app/profile/kaiserbeamz.bsky.social

So apparently I was right to shittalk m00t this week because it's been revealed that his boneheaded decision to establish /pol/ and subsequently ruin the website was allegedly born out of a one-on-one meeting with Jeffery Epstein. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

Apple Platform Security (Jan 2026) [pdf]
help.apple.com
Nvidia's 10-year effort to make the Shield TV the most updated Android device
arstechnica.com

Selfishly a little bit, we built Shield for ourselves."

Ads Are Killing Podcasting
podcasts.rip

Research Report - An immersive data story exploring podcast advertising trends and the breaking point where ads drive audiences away.

US reportedly investigate claims that Meta can read encrypted WhatsApp messages
theguardian.com

A lawsuit filed last week alleges tech firm ‘can access virtually all’ private communications, a claim the company has denied

Moltbook is a bad takeoff scenario where human psychology itself is the exploit
twitter.com
Guix System First Impressions as a Nix User
nemin.hu

My experiences using Guix System after its 1.5.0 release.

Giving up upstream-ing my patches and feel free to pick them up
mail.openjdk.org
Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native
theregister.com

Opinion: Just because you're paranoid about digital sovereignty doesn't mean they're not after you

htmx: Server Sent Event (SSE) Extension
htmx.org
Automatic Programming
antirez.com
CERN accepts $1B in private cash towards Future Circular Collider
physicsworld.com

Michael Banks - Cash comes as Mark Thomson takes the reins at CERN

We have ipinfo at home or how to geolocate IPs in your CLI using latency
blog.globalping.io

TLDR: I made a CLI tool that can resolve an IP address to a country, US state and even a city. https://github.com/jimaek/geolocation-tool It works well and confirms ipinfo's findings. Recently, I read how ipinfo finally proved what most technical people assumed: VPN providers don't actually maintain

YouTube blocks background video playback on Brave and other browsers
piunikaweb.com

Dwayne Cubbins - Reports claim YouTube no longer plays in the background on Samsung Internet and Brave, breaking a popular screen-off audio workaround.

Sumerian Star Map Recorded the Impact of an Asteroid (2024)
archaeologyworlds.com

Explore the mystery of a 5,500-year-old Sumerian star map, revealing a massive asteroid impact, Köfels’ Impact. Learn about ancient astronomical

America First Risks Becoming America Alone
wsj.com
Target director's Global Entry was revoked after ICE used app to scan her face
arstechnica.com

Global Entry and Precheck revoked three days after incident, court filing says.

Starlink updates privacy policy to allow consumer data to train
finance.yahoo.com

SpaceX revised its Starlink privacy policy to allow the use of customer data for AI training, a shift that ​could bolster Elon Musk's AI ambitions. Ahead of a blockbuster IPO planned for later this year, ‌SpaceX is in talks to merge with Musk’s AI company, xAI, a deal first reported by Reuters on Thursday. SpaceX, already the ‌world’s most valuable private company, could reach a value of more than $1 trillion after

Show HN: Phage Explorer
phage-explorer.org
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Phage Explorer - Visualize and analyze bacteriophage genomes with color-coded DNA/amino acid sequences, 3D structures, and 40+ analysis tools. Free, open-source, works offline.

I mocked the Saudi leader on YouTube then my phone was hacked, I was beaten up
bbc.com

Satirist Ghanem al-Masarir has been awarded £3m in damages, but it's unclear if Saudi Arabia will pay.

Naples' 1790s civil war was intensified by moral panic over Real Analysis (2023)
lareviewofbooks.org

Massimo Mazzotti uses a forgotten episode in revolutionary Naples to demonstrate the entanglement of mathematics and politics.

Generative AI for Krita
github.com/Acly

Streamlined interface for generating images with AI in Krita. Inpaint and outpaint with optional text prompt, no tweaking required. - Acly/krita-ai-diffusion

ICE Expands Power of Agents to Arrest People Without Warrants
nytimes.com
You are being misled about renewable energy technology [video]
youtube.com
Court Filings: ICE App Identifies Protesters; Global Entry, PreCheck Get Revoked
viewfromthewing.com

Gary Leff - ICE is using a smartphone app called “Mobile Fortify” to scan faces and capture contactless fingerprints, instantly pulling back names and biographical data — and court filings say the same encounters are being followed by revocations of Global Entry and TSA PreCheck. That turns “trusted traveler” into chilling of speech. DHS runs both the surveillance and the program, and being “under investigation” can be enough

Coding is when we're least productive
codemanship.wordpress.com

One old dragon that’s reared its head again in this “age of AI” is the very wrongheaded notion that productivity == code. Managers aim to maximise the amount of code their dev tea…

Goblins: Distributed, Transactional Programming with Racket and Guile
spritely.institute
Show HN: I trained a 9M speech model to fix my Mandarin tones
simedw.com
show

Simon Edwardsson - A tiny on-device speech model to grade Mandarin pronunciation and tones.

The Department of Justice Ignores Court Orders Because It Knows It Can
americanmuckrakers.com

David B. Wheeler - I've got the receipts to prove it.

175K+ publicly-exposed Ollama AI instances discovered
techradar.com

Exposed servers are being used for LLMjacking, creating malicious content and being sold on the black market.

Direct Current Data Centers
terraformindustries.wordpress.com

Casey Handmer, Matt Weickert This post explains our current views on how humanity will achieve Kardashev Level 1 status by exploiting the full energy resources of an entire planet. More specificall…

The $100B megadeal between OpenAI and Nvidia is on ice
wsj.com
Stonebraker on CAP theorem and Databases (2010)
perspectives.mvdirona.com
Elon Musk asks Jeffery Epstein for invitation to 'let loose' [pdf]
justice.gov
US judge rules Luigi Mangione won't face death penalty in CEO killing case
aljazeera.com

Al Jazeera Staff - Judge rules out capital punishment, but 27-year-old still faces federal stalking charges and state-level murder charges.

Elon Musk had more extensive ties to Epstein than previously known, emails show
theguardian.com

Newly released files from DoJ show the pair making plans in 2012 and 2013 for the Tesla CEO to visit Epstein’s island

Show HN: I built an AI conversation partner to practice speaking languages
apps.apple.com
show

Download TalkBits – Speak Naturally by Omar Muhammad Omar on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more games like TalkBits –…

Vitamin D supplements cut heart attack risk by 52%. Why?
empirical.health

A new randomized control trial tested personalized vitamin D supplementation based on blood test results.

Iran rounds up thousands in mass arrest campaign after crushing unrest
reuters.com
I trapped an AI model inside an art installation (2025) [video]
youtube.com
Claude Code's GitHub page auto closes issues after 60 days
github.com/anthropics

Preflight Checklist I have searched existing issues and this hasn't been reported yet This is a single bug report (please file separate reports for different bugs) I am using the latest version of ...

Former Google engineer found guilty of espionage and theft of AI tech
cnbc.com
P vs. NP and the Difficulty of Computation: A ruliological approach
writings.stephenwolfram.com

A new look at what can be discovered about questions of computational complexity theory that have arisen in theoretical computer science--including the P vs. NP question.

Wikipedia: Sandbox
en.wikipedia.org
DHS ramps up surveillance in immigration raids, sweeping in citizens
apnews.com

The Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in Minneapolis is providing insights into the surveillance technologies the government is using in its mass deportation campaign.

Peerweb: Decentralized website hosting via WebTorrent
peerweb.lol

PeerWeb is a revolutionary way to host and share websites using WebTorrent technology. Instead of relying on centralized servers, websites are distributed across a peer-to-peer network, making them censorship-resistant and always available. 🌍✨

Silver plunges 30% in worst day since 1980, gold tumbles
cnbc.com
Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings
antirender.com

AntiRender - Transform idealized architectural renders into what they'll actually look like. No sunshine. No happy families. Just cold, honest reality.

CaaS – Cat as a Service
cataas.com

Kevin Balicot  - Cat as a service (CATAAS) is a REST API to spread peace and love (or not) thanks to cats.

A judge gave the FBI permission to attempt to bypass biometrics
theintercept.com

Nikita Mazurov - The search warrant to raid a Washington Post reporter’s home shows how authorities can open your phone without your consent.

Epstein: Gates caught STD from trafficked girls, discussed medicating Melinda
twitter.com
Videogame stocks slide after Google's Project Genie AI model release
reuters.com
Amazon's Spending on 'Melania' Is a Barely Concealed Bribe
daringfireball.net

Link to: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/business/media/amazon-melania-trump-film-critics.html?unlocked_article_code=1.IFA.R85v.5ZtNe8FttfaD

You are being mislead about renewable energy technology. [video]
youtube.com
Malicious skills targeting Claude Code and Moltbot users
opensourcemalware.com

OpenSourceMalware.com - Security professionals sharing intelligence on malicious packages, repositories, and CDNs to protect the open source ecosystem.

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