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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.

Paged Out
pagedout.institute

Deeply technical zine. And it's free.

Free static site generator for small restaurants and cafes
lite.localcafe.org

Home made pasta like your ma' used to make it

In defense of lock poisoning in Rust
sunshowers.io

It's worth retaining one of multithreaded Rust's most valuable features.

Claude 4.5 Opus’ Soul Document
lesswrong.com

Simon Willison - Richard Weiss managed to get Claude 4.5 Opus to spit out this 14,000 token document which Claude called the "Soul overview". Richard says: While extracting Claude 4.5 Opus' system message …

Amazon launches Trainium3
techcrunch.com

Julie Bort - AWS has been building its own AI chips — and systems — for years now. It just released its third version, known as Trainium3, with some impressive specs.  

Microsoft won't let me pay a $24 bill, blocking thousands in Azure spending
news.ycombinator.com
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Cursed circuits: charge pump voltage halver
lcamtuf.substack.com

lcamtuf - There's plenty of circuits that are hard to understand because they're complicated. And some that are hard to make sense of because they seem too simple.

IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending on AI data centers will pay off
businessinsider.com

Henry Chandonnet - IBM CEO Arvind Krishna walked through some napkin math on Big Tech's AI data center spending — and raised some doubts on if it'll prove profitable.

Anthropic acquires Bun
bun.com

Bun has been acquired by Anthropic. Anthropic is betting on Bun as the infrastructure powering Claude Code, Claude Agent SDK, and future AI coding products & tools.

Anthropic Acquires Bun
anthropic.com

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

100k TPS over a billion rows: the unreasonable effectiveness of SQLite
andersmurphy.com
School cell phone bans and student achievement
nber.org
The Junior Hiring Crisis
people-work.io

AI isn’t replacing everyone. It’s removing the apprenticeship ladder. Here’s what that means for students, early-career professionals, and the tech industry’s future.

Progress on TypeScript 7 – December 2025
devblogs.microsoft.com

Daniel Rosenwasser - Earlier this year, the TypeScript team announced that we’ve been porting the compiler and language service to native code to take advantage of better raw performance, memory usage, and parallelism. This effort (codenamed “Project Corsa”, and soon “TypeScript 7.0”) has been a significant undertaking, but we’ve made big strides in the past few months. We’re […]

Apple to beat Samsung in smartphone shipments for first time in 14 years
sherwood.news

Apple will ship about 243 million phones this year, compared to Samsung’s 235 million, according to CNBC....

Memtest86+ v8.00 Released
github.com/memtest86plus

This release include some significant internal updates, adds CLang/LLD support, and now ships as a single binary for both UEFI and legacy boot. Complete changelog: Add support for latest Intel CPU...

4.3M Browsers Infected: Inside ShadyPanda's 7-Year Malware Campaign
koi.ai
Peter Thiel's Apocalyptic Worldview Is a Dangerous Fantasy
jacobin.com

Peter Thiel recently generated headlines with his rambling diatribes about the Antichrist. Thiel’s lurid, apocalyptic view of world politics may be ludicrous or even deranged, but his wealth and power mean that we can’t afford to ignore it.

Fallout 2's Chris Avellone describes his game design philosophy
arstechnica.com

Avellone recaps his journey from learning on a TRS-80 to today.

Is 2026 next year?
google.com
Mistral 3 family of models released
mistral.ai

A family of frontier open-source multimodal models

OpenAI declares 'code red' as Google catches up in AI race
theverge.com

Robert Hart - Google’s own ‘code red’ response to ChatGPT has started paying off.

Show HN: Marmot – Single-binary data catalog (no Kafka, no Elasticsearch)
github.com/marmotdata
show

Marmot helps teams discover, understand, and leverage their data with powerful search and lineage visualisation tools. It's designed to make data accessible for everyone. - marmotdata/marmot

AI Is Destroying the University and Learning Itself
currentaffairs.org

Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.

Nixtml: Static website and blog generator written in Nix
github.com/arnarg

Static website and blog generator written in nix. Contribute to arnarg/nixtml development by creating an account on GitHub.

Claude 4.5 Opus' Soul Document
lesswrong.com

Summary Update 2025-12-02: Amanda Askell has kindly confirmed that the document was used in supervised learning and will share the full version and m…

Jury trials scrapped for crimes with sentences of less than three years
bbc.co.uk

The reforms are being brought in to tackle unprecedented delays in the Crown Court.

Zig's new plan for asynchronous programs
lwn.net

The designers of the Zig programming language have been working to find a suitable design for [...]

Proximity to coworkers increases long-run development, lowers short-term output (2023)
pallais.scholars.harvard.edu

Revise and resubmit, Quarterly Journal of Economics

Garry Tan claims Zoho will be out of business due to vibe coding
twitter.com
Python Data Science Handbook
jakevdp.github.io
Lazier Binary Decision Diagrams for set-theoretic types
elixir-lang.org

José Valim - This article explores the data structures used to represent set-theoretic types and the recent optimizations we have applied to them

A series of vignettes from my childhood and early career
jasonscheirer.com
Addressing the adding situation
xania.org
GNU Guile 3.0.11
lists.gnu.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

Supreme Court hears case that could trigger big crackdown on Internet piracy
arstechnica.com

Justices want Cox to crack down on piracy, but question Sony’s strict demands.

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
Complex end-to-end tests using Guix G-expressions
systemreboot.net
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.

Pose-free 3D Gaussian splatting via shape-ray estimation
arxiv.org

While generalizable 3D Gaussian splatting enables efficient, high-quality rendering of unseen scenes, it heavily depends on precise camera poses for accurate geometry. In real-world scenarios, obtaining accurate poses is challenging, leading to noisy pose estimates and geometric misalignments. To address this, we introduce SHARE, a pose-free, feed-forward Gaussian splatting framework that overcomes these ambiguities

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
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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

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