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Why Firing Programmers for AI Will Destroy Everything
defragzone.substack.com

Francesco Gadaleta  - Ah, the tech industry.

Sid Meier's Civilization VII
civilization.2k.com

Pre-order Civilization VII for PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo Switch, or Steam. Choose from the Standard, Deluxe Edition, or Founders Edition.

How about trailing commas in SQL?
peter.eisentraut.org

Peter Eisentraut - Anecdotally, this might be the most requested feature in SQL: Allow some trailing commas.

Working from home is here to stay
wolfstreet.com
Far-right populists much more likely than the left to spread fake news – study
theguardian.com

Amplifying misinformation is now part of radical right strategy, says Dutch study of tweets by MPs in 26 countries

Jeep Introduces Pop-Up Ads That Appear Every Time You Stop
tech.slashdot.org

"In-dash advertising is here and Stellantis, the parent company of Jeep, Dodge, Chrysler, and Ram, beat everyone to further enshittification," writes longtime Slashdot reader sinij. "Ads can be seen in this video." From a report: In a move that has left drivers both frustrated and bewildered, Stell...

NixOS and Portable Executables
jackkelly.name
CFPB's 1,700 employees told to "not perform any work"
nypost.com

Russ Vought, the acting director of CFPB, told employees to ‘stand down from performing any work task.’

Meta's Hyperscale Infrastructure: Overview and Insights
cacm.acm.org
Nvidia's RTX 5090 power connectors are melting
theverge.com

Tom Warren - The 12VHPWR power cable is still causing issues.

How America traded systematic improvement for quick wins–and lost both
population.fyi

Dave Deek - It's not about finding middle ground between transformation and bureaucracy or punching left or right in favor of "moderates"—it's about recommitting to the idea of systematic improvement and quality

Apple software update "bug" enables Apple Intelligence
lapcatsoftware.com
What are non intelligent people like me supposed to do for money?
reddit.com
Make Your Own Website: A beginner's guide
web.pixelshannon.com
We replaced our React front end with Go and WebAssembly
dagger.io

Powerful, programmable CI/CD engine that runs your pipelines in containers — pre-push on your local machine and/or post-push in CI

SolarWinds to Be Acquired by Turn/River Capital
investors.solarwinds.com

SolarWinds shareholders to receive $18.50 per share in cash, with a total enterprise value of $4.4 billion; SolarWinds to become a privately held company upon completion of the transaction SolarWinds Corporation (NYSE:SWI) (“SolarWinds” or the “Company”), a leading provider of simple, powerful, secure observability and IT management software, today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to be acqui

Danes sign petition to buy California from U.S.
ktla.com

In response to President Donald Trump’s continued musing about the U.S. acquiring Greenland from Denmark, Danish citizens have launched their own effort to purchase America’s most econo…

How Copyover MUD Servers Worked
jackkelly.name
The Floppotron 3.0 (2022)
silent.org.pl
Google Calendar removed events like Pride and BHM; retains Black Friday
theverge.com

Jay Peters - Some users are angry that some events have been removed.

'social network' attacking pesticide critics shuts down after investigation
theguardian.com

v-Fluence halts operations after widespread backlash over private portal profiling environmental health advocates

Nocc – A Distributed C++ Compiler
github.com/VKCOM

A distributed C++ compiler: like distcc, but faster - VKCOM/nocc

Google Maps now shows the 'Gulf of America'
theverge.com

Umar Shakir - The world sees both names.

DOGE's war on "waste" looks suspiciously like a war on science
vanityfair.com

Molly Jong-Fast - DOGE’s war on “waste” looks suspiciously like a war on science.

France unveils 109B-euro AI investment
cnbc.com

Ryan Browne - Macron announced the mammoth investment sum ahead of France's AI Action Summit, where world leaders and tech bosses are gathering in Paris this week.

Fun with C++26 reflection: Keyword Arguments
pydong.org

Che - In this blog post, we’ll explore implementing order-independent keyword arguments for C++ through use of C++26’s proposed reflection features. I stumbled upon this technique while experimenting with reflection a few days ago and thought it might be worthwhile to share, as it nicely showcases just how powerful the proposed reflection features are.

Hedge Funds Are Pocketing Much of Their Clients' Gains with 'No Limit' Fees
bloomberg.com
The ABA supports the rule of law
americanbar.org
Relational Quantum Mechanics
plato.stanford.edu
Musk-led group makes $97B bid for control of OpenAI
reuters.com
TinyX: Small Featured X Server
github.com/tinycorelinux

Contribute to tinycorelinux/tinyx development by creating an account on GitHub.

Scaling up test-time compute with latent reasoning: A recurrent depth approach
arxiv.org

We study a novel language model architecture that is capable of scaling test-time computation by implicitly reasoning in latent space. Our model works by iterating a recurrent block, thereby unrolling to arbitrary depth at test-time. This stands in contrast to mainstream reasoning models that scale up compute by producing more tokens. Unlike approaches based on chain-of-thought, our approach does not require any spec

What happens to SaaS in a world with computer-using agents?
docs.google.com

What Happens to SaaS in a World with Computer Using Agents? 2/10/25 • By Stephen Coyner Context: We are rapidly entering the era of intelligent AI agents. Thus far, the most successful agents have handled relatively narrow tasks by being built directly into systems (e.g. a customer support age...

Patterns for Building Realtime Features
zknill.io

Realtime features make apps feel modern, collaborative, and up-to-date. The features predominantly require sharing changes triggered by one user to other users, as the changes are happening. This typically means your server needs to send data to some set of clients, where those clients don’t know they are missing the data. These patterns rely on a connection between the client and the server, where the server can not

The return of the buffalo is reviving portions of the ecosystem
nativesunnews.today

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I'm glad I took the off-ramp from software engineering
newsletter.goodtechthings.com

Forrest Brazeal - A letter to my very stupid 22-year-old self

Kaspersky finds hardware backdoor in 5 generations of Apple Silicon (2024)
xstore.co.za

Audio transcript There are some readers here who will understand the import of the statement above and not believe it, and there are others who are not in a position to understand it all. For both …

1% Equity for Founding Engineers Is BS
fetchfox.ai
Work at the Mill: The story of Digital Equipment Corporation
abortretry.fail

Bradford Morgan White - Or, the Story of Digital Equipment Corporation

Undergraduate shows that searches within hash tables can be much faster
quantamagazine.org

A young computer scientist and two colleagues show that searches within data structures called hash tables can be much faster than previously deemed possible.

The Physicians Are Healing Themselves, with Ozempic
nytimes.com
CAPTCHAs: 'a tracking cookie farm for profit masquerading as a security service'
pcgamer.com

Is that good?

A story about USB floppy drives (2004)
devblogs.microsoft.com

Raymond Chen - It all comes down to the color.

Earth's inner core may have changed shape, say scientists
bbc.co.uk

The findings shed light on a deeply mysterious part of Earth that is key to life on our planet.

Show HN: Open Source Security & Compliance: Introducing Opencomply
opencomply.io
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Show HN: Global 3D topography explorer
topography.jessekv.com
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Bank CEO: Retract your debanking piece? Me: No
kalzumeus.com
Ask HN: Physics PhD at Stanford or Berkeley
news.ycombinator.com
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The Anthropic Economic Index
anthropic.com

Announcing our new Economic Index, and the first results on AI use in the economy

Surnames from nicknames nobody has any more
blog.plover.com

From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus

Show HN: HTML visualization of a PDF file's internal structure
github.com/desgeeko
show

A Python library to inspect and modify the internal structure of a PDF file - desgeeko/pdfsyntax

Why hasn't commercial air travel gotten any faster since the 1960s? (2009)
engineering.mit.edu
Steam makes its ban on in-game ads explicit
pcgamer.com

New page, old policy.

What about K?
xpqz.github.io
I built an open source AI tool to find my autoimmune disease
reddit.com/r/selfhosted
Advertising Is a Cancer on Society (2019)
jacek.zlydach.pl
Beavers finish seven-year dam project in two days saving – $1M
nationalgeographic.com

After plans stalled for a new dam in the Czech Republic, eight beavers saved the day seemingly overnight. “At this point, nothing that beavers do surprises me.”

Man who lost Bitcoin fortune in Welsh tip explores purchase of entire landfill
theguardian.com

James Howells lost case to force Newport city council to allow him to search for hard drive discarded by accident

The state of Rust trying to catch up with Ada [video]
fosdem.org
To buy a Tesla Model 3, only to end up in hell
myteslaexperience.com

My Tesla Experience - Four months ago I decided to buy a Tesla Model 3. What promised to be an exciting adventure in the world of electric cars, and some of the most advanced technology brought directly from Silicon Valley, ended up becoming a nightmare from which I still have not found my way out.

ReCAPTCHA: 819M hours of wasted human time and billions in Google profits
boingboing.net

Mark Frauenfelder - New research reveals Google's reCAPTCHA system primarily serves as a tracking tool, generating billions in revenue while offering minimal protection against bots.

Apple's Best Option: Decentralize iCloud
mnot.net

Mark Nottingham - What can Apple do in the face of a UK order to weaken encryption worldwide? Decentralize iCloud, to start.

TL;DR of Deep Dive into LLMs Like ChatGPT by Andrej Karpathy
anfalmushtaq.com

Anfal Mushtaq - A TL;DR version of Andrej Karpathy's "Deep dive into LLMs like ChatGPT" video.

How does Ada's memory safety compare against Rust?
ajxs.me
Don't Be Frupid
selix.net

Frupidity is stupid frugality that wrecks engineering teams. Misguided cost-cutting kills productivity, morale, and innovation. You can fight it.

Thomas Aquinas' skull reveals appearance and cause of death
ncregister.com

Dominican priests react to the visage of a holy man they have grown to know and love.

Trump says he has directed Treasury to stop minting new pennies
apnews.com

President Donald Trump says he has directed the Treasury Department to stop minting new pennies, citing the cost of producing the one-cent coin.

I Blog with Raw HTML
devpoga.org
Starlink and T-Mobile open satellite texting test to all
washingtonpost.com
Show HN: Infinite Horizontal Array of Text Editors
zeminary.com
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Ilya Sutskever's startup in talks to fundraise at roughly $20B valuation
techcrunch.com

Kyle Wiggers - The startup founded by ex-OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever is reportedly in talks to raise funding at a valuation of "at least" $20 billion.

Thank You Bootstrap 1
kylerego.github.io
Clark County Election Analysis
electiontruthalliance.org
U.S. facing most intense flu season in at least 15 years
pbs.org

One indicator of flu activity is the percentage of doctor’s office visits driven by flu-like symptoms. Last week, that number was clearly higher than the peak of any winter flu season since 2009-2010.

Reflect Orbital: Sunlight after dark using a constellation of spatial reflectors
reflectorbital.com

Sunlight after dark

Ocean temperatures are rising much faster than scientists expected
popularmechanics.com

And they’re not slowing down anytime soon.

Boeing MAX has yet another hidden system called LRD, that is causing issues
youtube.com
Google Pay Study Finds It Underpaid Men for Some Jobs (2019)
npr.org

The tech company disbursed almost $10 million to more than 10,000 employees to try to standardize pay. Google says it will continue studying structural issues to ensure compensation is fair.

Show HN: Searchable library of free audiobooks
booksearch.party
show

Libridev - Search for free audiobooks by genre, title, or author. Explore a large collection of audiobooks from platforms like Gutenberg, Lit2Go, and LibriVox.

Analysis of 2024 election results in Clark County indicates manipulation
wcia.com
Reasoning models are just LLMs
antirez.com
Three Observations
blog.samaltman.com

Our mission is to ensure that AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) benefits all of humanity.  Systems that start to point to AGI* are coming into view, and so we think it’s important to...

The Recombobulation Area (2023)
onmilwaukee.com

15 years of recombobulating!

Music Generation AI Models
maximepeabody.com

A short blog post surveying the current state of music generation AI models

No AI December Reflections
blog.rybarix.com

It started as a joke, but after finishing it, I started thinking about the impacts technology has on me and what actually matters.

The first ever all-drone assault by Ukraine
counteroffensive.news

Tim Mak - The Counteroffensive is the first to give a detailed play-by-play of a major milestone in military drone history. Here’s a behind-the-scenes look at its planning, execution and impact on future wars.

Ada crate of the year 2024 announced
blog.adacore.com

by Fabien Chouteau – Jan 29, 2025. In 2024 we announced our fourth Ada/SPARK Crate Of The Year Awards. We see the Alire source package manager as a game changer for Ada/SPARK, so we want to use the Crate of the Year awards to honor the people contributing to the ecosystem. Today we are pleased to…

OpenStreetMap Calendar
osmcal.org
PostgreSQL Best Practices
speakdatascience.com

PostgreSQL (Postgres) is one of the most powerful and popular relational database management systems available today. Whether you're a database administrator,

Intel ruined an Israeli startup it bought for $2B–and lost the AI race
calcalistech.com

Habana Labs was supposed to challenge Nvidia. Instead, Intel drove it into the ground. 

Daily omega-3 fatty acids may help human organs stay young
medicalxpress.com

Consuming one gram of omega-3 per day may slow down the rate of biological aging in humans, according to an analysis of data from a clinical trial involving over 700 older adults over a three-year period. The findings are published in Nature Aging.

AI Demos
aidemos.meta.com

Try experimental demos featuring the latest AI research from Meta.

Building Personal Software with Claude
blog.nelhage.com

Nelson Elhage - Earlier this month, I used Claude to port (parts of) an Emacs package into Rust, shrinking the execution time by a factor of 1000 or more (in one concrete case: from 90s to about 15ms). This is a variety of yak-shave that I do somewhat routinely, both professionally and in service of my personal computing environment. However, this time, Claude was able to execute substantially the entire project under my supervision

Persistent packages on Steam Deck using Nix
chrastecky.dev
PhD Knowledge Not Required: A Reasoning Challenge for Large Language Models
arxiv.org

Existing benchmarks for frontier models often test specialized, ``PhD-level'' knowledge that is difficult for non-experts to grasp. In contrast, we present a benchmark based on the NPR Sunday Puzzle Challenge that requires only general knowledge. Our benchmark is challenging for both humans and models, however correct solutions are easy to verify, and models' mistakes are easy to spot. Our work reveals capability g

The Campaign to Delegitimize Wikipedia
theatlantic.com

Lila Shroff - Musk and other right-wing tech figures have been on a campaign to delegitimize the digital encyclopedia. What happens if they succeed?

Why blog if nobody reads it?
andysblog.uk

What's the point of blogging?

UnitedHealth Is Sick of Everyone Complaining About Its Claim Denials
rollingstone.com

Miles Klee - Two months after UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was killed, the insurer's parent company is going after people who say it denies too many claims.

An Upstate Town Took Back Its Power (2023)
nysfocus.com

Massena residents fought the local utility to bring their electric grid under public control. Forty years later, they say it’s still paying off.

Estonian, Latvian, and Lithuanian power systems synchronised with Europe
elering.ee

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