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Wero – Digital payment wallet, made in Europe
wero-wallet.eu

Experience fast and secure digital payments with Wero’s wallet, enabling you to send and receive money between bank accounts in under 10 seconds.

Robert Duvall Dead at 95
newsweek.com

Duvall starred in nearly 100 films during his career, which spanned over seven decades.

"I Was a Director at Amex When They Started Replacing Us with $30K Workers" [video]
youtube.com
Use protocols, not services
notnotp.com
"Token anxiety", a slot machine by any other name
jkap.io

You're absolutely right!

Privilege Is Bad Grammar
tadaima.bearblog.dev

When I got my first real job, I used to get so nervous about writing emails to my boss. I would run spellcheck, triple-check the grammar, read over it again ...

Castlevania and Bloodstained developer Shutaro Ida dies aged 52
dexerto.com

Shutaro Ida, the longtime Castlevania and Bloodstained developer, has died at the age of 52 after battling cancer.

Palantir CEO wants to spray "fentanyl-laced urine" on analysts
twitter.com
I guess I kinda get why people hate AI
anthony.noided.media
WebMCP Proposal
webmachinelearning.github.io
How to take a photo with scotch tape (lensless imaging) [video]
youtube.com
Show HN: Simple org-mode web adapter
github.com/SpaceTurth
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A simple view into your org roam notes with editing, backlinks, and rendered math. - SpaceTurth/Org-Web-Adapter

iOS 27 'Rave' Update to Clean Up Code, Could Boost Battery Life
macrumors.com

Apple's iOS 27 update will prioritize cleaning up the operating system's internals, with engineers making changes that could result in better battery life, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. The effort is said to be similar to what Apple did with its Snow Leopard Mac update years ago, and will involve removing old code, rewriting existing features, and subtly upgrading apps to improve their performance. The result

UK Discord users were part of a Peter Thiel-linked data collection experiment
rockpapershotgun.com

Discord have belatedly confirmed that they're working with Persona, an identity detection firm backed by a fund directed by Palantir chairman Peter Thiel.

Pentagon Threatens Anthropic Punishment
axios.com
What Your Bluetooth Devices Reveal About You
blog.dmcc.io

Danny - Building Bluehood, a Bluetooth scanner that reveals what information we leak just by having Bluetooth enabled on our devices.

The Sideprocalypse
johan.hal.se

You can't open a feed today without having AI boosters fling word salad like "agentic engineering" or "openclaw" into your beautiful but disapproving face. I'm terrible at predicting the future—you should ask me about selling NVIDIA stock in early 2022 some time—but one thing seems abundantly clear at this point.

Twitter(X) Is Down
news.ycombinator.com
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Running My Own XMPP Server
blog.dmcc.io

Danny - Notes from setting up Prosody in Docker for federated messaging, with file sharing, voice calls, and end-to-end encryption.

Ministry of Justice orders deletion of the UK's largest court reporting database
legalcheek.com

Legal Cheek - Blow for open justice

Turning Our Back on Clean Energy
paulkrugman.substack.com

Paul Krugman - Why does MAGA hate the planet?

Thanks a lot, AI: Hard drives are sold out for the year, says WD
mashable.com
The Israeli spyware firm that accidentally just exposed itself
ahmedeldin.substack.com

Ahmed Eldin - The Billion-Dollar Surveillance Pipeline: From Occupation Technology to Global Control

OpenAI president becomes top Trump donor with $25M gift
sfgate.com
planckforth: Bootstrapping a Forth interpreter from hand-written tiny ELF binary
github.com/nineties

Bootstrapping a Forth interpreter from hand-written tiny ELF binary. Just for fun. - GitHub - nineties/planckforth: Bootstrapping a Forth interpreter from hand-written tiny ELF binary. Just for fun.

Anthropic tries to hide Claude's AI actions. Devs hate it
theregister.com

: The software doesn't show what files it's working on

MessageFormat: Unicode standard for localizable message strings
github.com/unicode-org

Developing a standard for localizable message strings - unicode-org/message-format-wg

Qwen3.5: Towards Native Multimodal Agents
qwen.ai
picol: A Tcl interpreter in 500 lines of code
github.com/antirez

A Tcl interpreter in 500 lines of code. Contribute to antirez/picol development by creating an account on GitHub.

I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?
mastodon.world

Attached: 4 images Q: I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive? What do you think the LLM output was? Please; review the output. #ai #LLM #ai

Show HN: Jemini – Gemini for the Epstein Files
jmail.world
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Riley Walz - You are logged into jeevacation@gmail.com, Jeffrey Epstein's email. Sourced from the November 2025 House Oversight Committee data release.

Building SQLite with a small swarm
kiankyars.github.io
DHS has reportedly sent out subpoenas to identify ICE critics online
engadget.com

According to The New York Times, DHS has sent hundreds of administrative subpoenas to Google, Reddit, Discord and Meta over the past few months.

Arm wants a bigger slice of the chip business
economist.com

Artificial intelligence is causing the chip designer to rethink its winning formula

Canada Gives U.S. Arms Makers the Cold Shoulder on Military Spending
nytimes.com
Pink noise reduces REM sleep and may harm sleep quality
pennmedicine.org
JavaScript-heavy approaches are not compatible with long-term performance goals
sgom.es
Reddit, Meta, & Google Voluntarily Gave DHS Info of Anti-ICE Users, Report Says
gizmodo.com

Mike Pearl - DHS is expanding its use of administrative subpoenas, which don't come from judges.

Why I don't think AGI is imminent
dlants.me
Error payloads in Zig
srcreigh.ca
Peter Thiel: 2,436 emails with Epstein from 2014 to 2019
jmail.world

Riley Walz - Peter Thiel — The Jmail Encyclopedia. Sourced from 2,429 emails across 1,345 threads in the Jmail archive.

Magnus Carlsen Wins the Freestyle (Chess960) World Championship
fide.com
I’m joining OpenAI
steipete.me

Peter Steinberger - I'm joining OpenAI to work on bringing agents to everyone. OpenClaw will move to a foundation and stay open and independent.

OpenClaw (ClawdBot) joins OpenAI
twitter.com
Show HN: Lightwave – Real-time notes app, 3.5 years of hand-rolled JavaScript
news.ycombinator.com
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GNU Pies – Program Invocation and Execution Supervisor
gnu.org.ua
Court orders Acer and Asus to stop selling PCs in Germany over H.265 patents
videocardz.com
State Attorneys General Want to Tie Online Access to ID
reclaimthenet.org
Show HN: VOOG – Moog-style polyphonic synthesizer in Python with tkinter GUI
github.com/gpasquero
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VOOG — Virtual Analog Synthesizer (Moog-style polyphonic synth with GUI) - gpasquero/voog

Shingles Vaccine Linked to Slower Biological Aging in Older Adults
gero.usc.edu

Beth Newcomb - Shingles vaccination not only can prevent painful illness but also correlates with lower inflammation & slower biological aging in Americans age 70+.

Show HN: Microgpt is a GPT you can visualize in the browser
microgpt.boratto.ca
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Towards Autonomous Mathematics Research
arxiv.org

Recent advances in foundational models have yielded reasoning systems capable of achieving a gold-medal standard at the International Mathematical Olympiad. The transition from competition-level problem-solving to professional research, however, requires navigating vast literature and constructing long-horizon proofs. In this work, we introduce Aletheia, a math research agent that iteratively generates, verifies, and

Editor's Note: Retraction of article containing fabricated quotations
arstechnica.com

We are reinforcing our editorial standards following this incident.

Radio host David Greene says Google's NotebookLM tool stole his voice
washingtonpost.com
Modern CSS Code Snippets: Stop writing CSS like it's 2015
modern-css.com

A collection of modern CSS code snippets. Every old CSS hack next to its clean, native replacement, side by side.

Palantir Gets Millions of Dollars from New York City's Public Hospitals
theintercept.com

Sam Biddle - Activist are urging New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation to cut ties with the ICE contractor.

Show HN: Klaw.sh – Kubernetes for AI agents
github.com/klawsh
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kubernetes for ai agents . Contribute to klawsh/klaw.sh development by creating an account on GitHub.

LT6502: A 6502-based homebrew laptop
github.com/TechPaula

A 6502 based laptop design. Contribute to TechPaula/LT6502 development by creating an account on GitHub.

EU bans the destruction of unsold apparel, clothing, accessories and footwear
environment.ec.europa.eu

The measures under the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation will allow businesses to benefit from a more circular economy.

Show HN: Knock-Knock.net – Visualizing the bots knocking on my server's door
knock-knock.net
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A real-time 3D globe showing bots trying to break into my server via SSH

The Mega-Rich Are Turning Their Mansions into Impenetrable Fortresses
wsj.com
Palantir vs. the "Republik": US analytics firm takes magazine to court
heise.de

Falk Steiner - Data analysis provider Palantir wants to obtain a counterstatement in court – and triggers a wave of solidarity for a small Swiss magazine.

Western Digital sells out 2026 HDD capacity as AI demand pushes prices higher
eteknix.com

Western Digital has sold out its HDD production capacity for 2026, thanks to major agreements with cloud companies and hyperscalers. The rapid growth of artificial intelligence is pushing demand…

Pocketblue – Fedora Atomic for mobile devices
github.com/pocketblue

Fedora Atomic for mobile devices. Contribute to pocketblue/pocketblue development by creating an account on GitHub.

Hideki Sato, designer of all Sega's consoles, has died
videogameschronicle.com

Sato helmed design for consoles including Mega Drive, Saturn…

An Enslaved Gardener Transformed the Pecan into a Cash Crop
lithub.com

Pecan nuts were already a dietary staple for Native Americans in various parts of what is now the United States before Antoine’s innovation established the basis for a commercial pecan industry. Th…

One Server. Small Business
chodounsky.com

Jakub Chodounský - More than a decade ago, I built a small Rails app to run my curated newsletters. Today it serves over 100,000 subscribers, sends hundreds of thousands of emails each month, and still runs on a single $30 server. In this post, I walk through how I deploy, secure, back up, and monitor it — and why I still prefer owning the stack over using a managed platform.

Gwtar: A static efficient single-file HTML format
gwern.net

Gwern - Gwtar is a new polyglot HTML archival format which provides a single, self-contained, HTML file which still can be efficiently lazy-loaded by a web browser. This is done by a header’s JavaScript making HTTP range requests. It is used on Gwern.net to serve large HTML archives.

AI is going to kill app subscriptions
nichehunt.app

Curated niche app opportunities from Reddit, scored by difficulty and demand.

1940s Irish sci-fi novel features early mecha and gravity assists
github.com/cavedave

Attempt to convert 1943 Irish language sci-fi book Manannán to modern orthography - cavedave/Manannan

Inner-Platform Effect
en.wikipedia.org
Kimi Claw
kimi.com
Amazon's Ring and Google's Nest reveal the severity of U.S. surveillance state
greenwald.substack.com

Glenn Greenwald - Just a decade after a global backlash was triggered by Snowden reporting on mass domestic surveillance, the state-corporate dragnet is stronger and more invasive than ever.

Reversed engineered game Starflight (1986)
github.com/s-macke

Reversed engineered game Starflight (1986). Contribute to s-macke/starflight-reverse development by creating an account on GitHub.

I fixed Windows native development
marler8997.github.io
Show HN: Pangolin: Open-source identity-based VPN (Twingate/Zscaler alternative)
github.com/fosrl
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Identity-aware VPN and proxy for remote access to anything, anywhere. - fosrl/pangolin

A Pokémon of a Different Color
matthew.verive.me
Two different tricks for fast LLM inference
seangoedecke.com
SCM as a database for the code
gist.github.com

GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

DjVu and its connection to Deep Learning (2023)
scottlocklin.wordpress.com

DjVu is a vastly superior file format for books, mathematical papers and just about anything else you can think of to original PDF (current year PDF adopted some of its innovations, but they’…

Seeing Theory
seeing-theory.brown.edu

Daniel Kunin - A visual introduction to probability and statistics.

Michael Abrash doubled Quake framerste
fabiensanglard.net
No Coding Before 10am
michaelxbloch.substack.com

Michael Bloch - Engineering is no longer about writing code. Here is one startup's playbook for building in the AI agent era.

Oat – Ultra-lightweight, zero dependency, semantic HTML, CSS, JS UI library
oat.ink
Ex-Tech –> Homeless in SF
zamoshi.substack.com

Michael McIntosh - Dignity moves, the mission of survival, and $140 million across the river

Discord distances from age verification firm after ties to Peter Thiel surface
kotaku.com

Zack Kotzer - The third-party company Discord could use for their ID collection is mired in surveillance concerns and links to Epstein via one of its investors

Flashpoint Archive – Over 200k web games and animations preserved
flashpointarchive.org
Guitars of the USSR and the Jolana Special in Azerbaijani Music (2012)
caucascapades.wordpress.com

During my first trip to Eastern Europe, I found an “Orpheus”  electric guitar leaning against a wall in the basement of a music shop in Plovdiv, Bulgaria.  Half of its parts were missin…

OpenAI Has Murdered Orion
reddit.com/r/MyBoyfriendIsAI
NewPipe: YouTube client without vertical videos and algorithmic feed
newpipe.net
I love the work of the ArchWiki maintainers
k7r.eu

For this year's "I love Free Software Day" I would like to thank the maintainers of Free Software documentation, and here especially the maintainers of the ArchWiki. Maintainers in general, and maintainers of documentation most of the time get way too little recognition for their contributions to...

Star collapse into a black hole without a supernova
sciencedaily.com

A massive star 2.5 million light-years away simply vanished — and astronomers now know why. Instead of exploding in a supernova, it quietly collapsed into a black hole, shedding its outer layers in a slow-motion cosmic fade-out. The leftover debris continues to glow in infrared light, offering a long-lasting signal of the black hole’s birth. The finding reshapes our understanding of how some of the universe’s biggest

Show HN: Off Grid – Run AI text, image gen, vision offline on your phone
github.com/alichherawalla
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The Swiss Army Knife of Offline AI. Chat, Speak, and Generate Images - Privacy First, Zero Internet. Download an LLM and use it on your mobile device. No data ever leaves your phone. Privacy first....

Show HN: Threat Radar – Live cyber threat intelligence dashboard
radar.offseq.com
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OffSeq Threat Intelligence - Real-time cyber threat intelligence radar showing the latest vulnerabilities, malware, and cyber threats affecting European countries and beyond.

Evolving Git for the Next Decade
lwn.net

Git is ubiquitous; in the last two decades, the version-control system has truly achieved world [...]

Colored Petri Nets, LLMs, and distributed applications
blog.sao.dev
Verizon imposes new roadblock on users trying to unlock paid-off phones
arstechnica.com

Verizon unlocks have 35-day waiting period after paying off device plan online.

Dune II written in HTML5/JS
github.com/oklemenz

Dune II - The Building of A Dynasty reimplementation written in HTML5 / JavaScript - oklemenz/Dune2JS

You can't trust the internet anymore
nicole.express

I like things that are strange and a bit obscure. It’s a habit of mine, and a lot of this blog is to document things I haven’t heard of before, because I wan...

Gemini 3 Deep Think drew me a good SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle
simonwillison.net

Simon Willison - New from Google. They say it's "built to push the frontier of intelligence and solve modern challenges across science, research, and engineering". It drew me a really good SVG of …

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