A series of vignettes from my childhood and early career (www.jasonscheirer.com)
Comparing AWS Lambda ARM64 vs. x86_64 Performance Across Runtimes in Late 2025 (chrisebert.net)
Peter Thiel''s Apocalyptic Worldview Is a Dangerous Fantasy (jacobin.com)
Python Data Science Handbook (jakevdp.github.io)
Rootless Pings in Rust (bou.ke)
Is 2026 Next Year? (www.google.com)
Proximity to coworkers increases long-run development, lowers short-term output (2023) (pallais.scholars.harvard.edu)
WhatsApp will become interoperable with other messaging apps in Europe (tuta.com)
Mistral 3 family of models released (mistral.ai)
Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days (letsencrypt.org)
Man unexpectedly cured of HIV after stem cell transplant (www.newscientist.com)
How Brian Eno Created Ambient 1: Music for Airports (2019) (reverbmachine.com)
Addressing the adding situation (xania.org)
Advent of Compiler Optimisations 2025 (xania.org)
After Windows Update, Password icon invisible, click where it used to be (support.microsoft.com)
Reverse math shows why hard problems are hard (www.quantamagazine.org)
Apple Releases Open Weights Video Model (starflow-v.github.io)
John Giannandrea to retire from Apple (www.apple.com)
Ly – A lightweight TUI (ncurses-like) display manager for Linux and BSD (codeberg.org)
Why I stopped using JSON for my APIs (aloisdeniel.com)
Beej''s Guide to Learning Computer Science (beej.us)
What will enter the public domain in 2026? (publicdomainreview.org)
AI agents find 4.6M in blockchain smart contract exploits (red.anthropic.com)
Mozilla''s latest quagmire (rubenerd.com)
Google, Nvidia, and OpenAI (stratechery.com)
Losing Confidence (eclecticlight.co)
Who wants to be hired? (December 2025) (news.ycombinator.com)
Apple AI Chief Retiring After Siri Failure (www.macrumors.com)
Sycophancy is the first LLM "dark pattern" (www.seangoedecke.com)
The healthcare market is taxing reproduction out of existence (aaronstannard.com)
Intel could return to Apple computers in 2027 (www.theverge.com)
Instagram chief orders staff back to the office five days a week in 2026 (www.businessinsider.com)
How to Attend Meetings – Internal guidelines from the New York Times (docs.google.com)
Ghostty compiled to WASM with xterm.js API compatibility (github.com)
Response to "Ruby Is Not a Serious Programming Language" (robbyonrails.com)
The Penicillin Myth (www.asimov.press)
High-income job losses are cooling housing demand (jbrec.com)
DeepSeek-v3.2: Pushing the frontier of open large language models [pdf] (huggingface.co)
WordPress plugin quirk resulted in UK Gov OBR Budget leak [pdf] (obr.uk)
A vector graphics workstation from the 70s (justanotherelectronicsblog.com)
India orders smartphone makers to preload state-owned cyber safety app (www.reuters.com)
Langjam Gamejam: Build a programming language then make a game with it (langjamgamejam.com)
A new AI winter is coming? (taranis.ie)
Who is hiring? (December 2025) (news.ycombinator.com)
Google *Unkills* JPEG XL? (tonisagrista.com)
Netflix Kills Casting from Its Mobile App to Most Modern TVs (www.macrumors.com)
Cartographers Have Been Hiding Covert Illustrations Inside of Switzerland''s Maps (eyeondesign.aiga.org)
1GB Raspberry Pi 5, and memory-driven price rises (www.raspberrypi.com)
Why xor eax, eax? (xania.org)
UK Government plans new powers to label dissenting movements as ''subversion'' (netpol.org)
Self-hosting a Matrix server for 5 years (yaky.dev)
''A full-blown crisis'': Americans brace for a surge in healthcare costs (www.ft.com)
Games using anti-cheats and their compatibility with GNU/Linux or Wine/Proton (areweanticheatyet.com)
SmartTube Compromised (www.aftvnews.com)
X210Ai is a new motherboard to upgrade ThinkPad X201/200 (www.tpart.net)
DeepSeek releases open-weights math model with IMO gold medal performance (huggingface.co)
How to run phones while being struck by suicide drones (nasa.cx)
It’s been a very hard year (bell.bz)
Google Antigravity just deleted the contents of whole drive (old.reddit.com)
ESA Sentinel-1D delivers first high-resolution images (www.esa.int)
Regarding Thien-Thi Nguyen (news.ycombinator.com)
Grokipedia is the antithesis of Wikipedia (www.404media.co)
Bricklink suspends Marketplace operations in 35 countries (jaysbrickblog.com)
Program-of-Thought Prompting Outperforms Chain-of-Thought by 15% (2022) (arxiv.org)
Search tool that only returns content created before ChatGPT''s public release (tegabrain.com)
Advent of Sysadmin 2025 (sadservers.com)
Is America''s jobs market nearing a cliff? (www.economist.com)
You want microservices, but do you need them? (www.docker.com)
Algorithms for Optimization [pdf] (algorithmsbook.com)
AI just proved Erdos Problem #124 (www.erdosproblems.com)
LLVM-MOS – Clang LLVM fork targeting the 6502 (llvm-mos.org)
A Love Letter to FreeBSD (www.tara.sh)
People keep flocking to Linux, not just to escape Windows (www.zdnet.com)
GitHub to Codeberg: my experience (eldred.fr)
"Boobs check" – Technique to verify if sites behind CDN are hosted in Iran (twitter.com)
ETH-Zurich: Digital Design and Computer Architecture; 227-0003-10L, Spring, 2025 (safari.ethz.ch)
NixOS 25.11 released (nixos.org)
The Undermining of the CDC (www.newyorker.com)
Writing a Good Claude.md (www.humanlayer.dev)
A new Little Prince museum has opened its doors in Switzerland (www.lepetitprince.com)
Don''t push AI down our throats (gpt3experiments.substack.com)
The Thinking Game Film – Google DeepMind Documentary (thinkinggamefilm.com)
Modern cars are spying on you. Here''s what you can do about it (apnews.com)
Silicon Valley''s man in the White House is benefiting himself and his friends (www.nytimes.com)
Don''t throw away your old PC–it makes a better NAS than anything you can buy (www.howtogeek.com)
Migrating Dillo from GitHub (dillo-browser.org)
Windows drive letters are not limited to A-Z (www.ryanliptak.com)
Norway wealth fund to vote for human rights report at Microsoft, against Nadella (www.cnbc.com)
Advent of Code 2025 (adventofcode.com)
CachyOS: Fast and Customizable Linux Distribution (cachyos.org)
Stopping bad guys from using my open source project (feedback wanted) (evanhahn.com)
Zigbook Is Plagiarizing the Zigtools Playground (zigtools.org)
Meshtastic (meshtastic.org)
Boing (boing.greg.technology)
Zero knowlege proof of compositeness (www.johndcook.com)
Testing shows automotive glassbreakers can''t break modern automotive glass (www.core77.com)
Americans no longer see four-year college degrees as worth the cost (www.nbcnews.com)
Regrets. Think carefully about how you spend your time (news.ycombinator.com)
Nano PDF – A CLI Tool to Edit PDFs with Gemini''s Nano Banana (github.com)
Learning Feynman''s Trick for Integrals (zackyzz.github.io)
Bazzite: The next generation of Linux gaming (bazzite.gg)
Landlock-Ing Linux (blog.prizrak.me)
Europe''s New War on Privacy (unherd.com)
Datacenters in space aren''t going to work (taranis.ie)
Framework Computer Now Sponsoring LVFS / Fwupd Development (www.phoronix.com)
Electric vehicle sales are booming in South America – without Tesla (www.reuters.com)
Be Like Clippy (be-clippy.com)
All it takes is for one to work out (alearningaday.blog)
We''re learning more about what Vitamin D does to our bodies (www.technologyreview.com)
Hachi: An Image Search Engine (eagledot.xyz)
The CRDT Dictionary: A Field Guide to Conflict-Free Replicated Data Types (www.iankduncan.com)
DNS LOC Record (2014) (blog.cloudflare.com)
C Web Server on my custom hobby OS (oshub.org)
Major AI conference flooded with peer reviews written by AI (www.nature.com)
The ''S&P 493'' reveals a different U.S. economy (www.msn.com)
Iceland declares ocean-current instability a national security risk (www.dagens.com)
It''s Always the Process, Stupid (its.promp.td)
Garfield''s Proof of the Pythagorean Theorem (en.wikipedia.org)
Language is primarily a tool for communication rather than thought (2024) [pdf] (gwern.net)
High air pollution could diminish exercise benefits by half – study (scienceclock.com)
Electron vs. Tauri (www.dolthub.com)
Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
Belgian Police exposed using botnets to manipulate EU data law impact assessment (old.reddit.com)
A triangle whose interior angles sum to zero (www.johndcook.com)
Effective harnesses for long-running agents (www.anthropic.com)
Every mathematician has only a few tricks (2020) (mathoverflow.net)
The original ABC language, Python''s predecessor (1991) (github.com)
A first look at Django''s new background tasks (roam.be)
System 7 natively boots on the Mac mini G4 (macos9lives.com)
Airbus A320 Fly by wire corrupted by radiation in flight (viewfromthewing.com)
The Math of Why You Can''t Focus at Work (justoffbyone.com)
Confessions of a Software Developer: No More Self-Censorship (kerrick.blog)
Airbus A320 – intense solar radiation may corrupt data critical for flight (www.airbus.com)
True P2P Email on Top of Yggdrasil Network (github.com)
Don''t tug on that, you never know what it might be attached to (2016) (blog.plover.com)
Flight disruption warning as Airbus requests modifications to 6k planes (www.bbc.com)
Good engineers write bad code at big companies (www.seangoedecke.com)
Airloom – 3D Flight Tracker (objectiveunclear.com)
Molly: An Improved Signal App (molly.im)
Apple and Intel Rumored to Partner on Mac Chips (www.macrumors.com)
Swedish publishers file police report against Meta''s Zuckerberg for fraud (www.sverigesradio.se)
Beads – A memory upgrade for your coding agent (github.com)
Imgur Geo-Blocked the UK, So I Geo-Unblocked My Network (blog.tymscar.com)
So you wanna build a local RAG? (blog.yakkomajuri.com)
Stellantis Is Spamming Owners'' Screens with Pop-Up Ads for New Car Discounts (www.thedrive.com)
28M Hacker News comments as vector embedding search dataset (clickhouse.com)
SQLite as an Application File Format (sqlite.org)
Bringing Sexy Back. Internet surveillance has killed eroticism (lux-magazine.com)
AI Adoption Rates Starting to Flatten Out (www.apolloacademy.com)
Tiger Style: Coding philosophy (2024) (tigerstyle.dev)
Can Dutch universities do without Microsoft? (dub.uu.nl)
Meta hiding 27B in debt using advanced geometry (stohl.substack.com)
A trillion dollars (potentially) wasted on gen-AI (garymarcus.substack.com)
Want a better HN? Visit /newest (news.ycombinator.com)
Tech Titans Amass Multimillion-Dollar War Chests to Fight AI Regulation (www.wsj.com)
Petition to formally recognize open source work as civic service in Germany (www.openpetition.de)
A Remarkable Assertion from A16Z (nealstephenson.substack.com)
The mysterious black fungus from Chernobyl that may eat radiation (www.bbc.com)
A programmer-friendly I/O abstraction over io_uring and kqueue (2022) (tigerbeetle.com)
EU Council Approves New "Chat Control" Mandate Pushing Mass Surveillance (reclaimthenet.org)
FileZilla Pro "Perpetual License" – A Warning to All Users (github.com)
Vsora Jotunn-8 5nm European inference chip (vsora.com)
Glasses to detect smart-glasses that have cameras (github.com)
China''s BEV trucks and the end of diesel''s dominance (cleantechnica.com)
Pocketbase – open-source realtime back end in 1 file (pocketbase.io)
GitLab discovers widespread NPM supply chain attack (about.gitlab.com)
Bird flu viruses are resistant to fever, making them a major threat to humans (medicalxpress.com)
How Charles M Schulz created Charlie Brown and Snoopy (2024) (www.bbc.com)
250MWh ''Sand Battery'' to start construction in Finland (www.energy-storage.news)
DeepSeekMath-V2: Towards Self-Verifiable Mathematical Reasoning [pdf] (github.com)
The input stack on Linux: An end-to-end architecture overview (venam.net)
Feedback doesn''t scale (another.rodeo)
Underrated reasons to be thankful V (dynomight.net)
Memories of .us (computer.rip)
LinkedIn is loud, and corporate is hell (ramones.dev)
Runprompt – run .prompt files from the command line (github.com)
Pakistan says rooftop solar output to exceed grid demand in some hubs next year (www.reuters.com)
The Tesla Model Y Just Scored the Worst Reliability Rating in a Decade (www.autoblog.com)
AirDrop support for Pixel 10 likely exists because of the EU ruling (9to5google.com)
Replace your boss before they replace you (replaceyourboss.ai)
TPUs vs. GPUs and why Google is positioned to win AI race in the long term (www.uncoveralpha.com)
Happy Thanksgiving (news.ycombinator.com)
Same-day upstream Linux support for Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 (www.qualcomm.com)
Functional Data Structures and Algorithms: a Proof Assistant Approach (fdsa-book.net)
We''re Losing Our Voice to LLMs (tonyalicea.dev)
The State of GPL Propagation to AI Models (shujisado.org)
Ilya Sutskever, Yann LeCun and the End of “Just Add GPUs” (www.abzglobal.net)
Arthur Conan Doyle explored men’s mental health through Sherlock Holmes (scienceclock.com)
Mixpanel Security Breach (mixpanel.com)
Coq: The World''s Best Macro Assembler? (2013) [pdf] (nickbenton.name)
C100 Developer Terminal (caligra.com)
Ray Marching Soft Shadows in 2D (2020) (www.rykap.com)
Music eases surgery and speeds recovery, study finds (www.bbc.com)
The Nerd Reich – Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy (www.simonandschuster.com)
Linux Kernel Explorer (reverser.dev)
AdBlock and Signal are for terrorists, according to French govt (2023) [video] (www.youtube.com)
Indie game developers have a new sales pitch: being ''AI free'' (www.theverge.com)
DIY NAS: 2026 Edition (blog.briancmoses.com)
Penpot: The Open-Source Figma (github.com)
Running Unsupported iOS on Deprecated Devices (nyansatan.github.io)
Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens (www.nytimes.com)
Fara-7B: An efficient agentic model for computer use (github.com)
Alan.app – Add a Border to macOS Active Window (tyler.io)
Migrating the Main Zig Repository from GitHub to Codeberg (ziglang.org)
Bring Bathroom Doors Back to Hotels (bringbackdoors.com)
EU Council approves Chat Control mandate for negotiation with Parliament (www.techradar.com)
The EU made Apple adopt new Wi-Fi standards, and now Android can support AirDrop (arstechnica.com)
Don''t Download Apps (blog.calebjay.com)
Crews claim Boring Company failed to pay workers and snubbed OSHA concerns (nashvillebanner.com)
S&box is now an open source game engine (sbox.game)
From blood sugar to brain relief: GLP-1 therapy slashes migraine frequency (www.medlink.com)
AWS is 10x slower than a dedicated server for the same price [video] (www.youtube.com)
Image Diffusion Models Exhibit Emergent Temporal Propagation in Videos (arxiv.org)
Gemini CLI Tips and Tricks for Agentic Coding (github.com)
DRAM prices are spiking, but I don''t trust the industry''s why (www.xda-developers.com)
Cloudflare outage should not have happened (ebellani.github.io)
KDE Plasma 6.8 Will Go Wayland-Exclusive in Dropping X11 Session Support (www.phoronix.com)
Constant-time support coming to LLVM: Protecting cryptographic code (blog.trailofbits.com)
I DM''d a Korean presidential candidate and ended up building his core campaign (medium.com)
OpenAI needs to raise at least 207B by 2030 so it can continue to lose money (ft.com)
Voyager 1 Is About to Reach One Light-Day from Earth (scienceclock.com)
A cell so minimal that it challenges definitions of life (www.quantamagazine.org)
Kagi Hub Belgrade (blog.kagi.com)
I don''t care how well your "AI" works (fokus.cool)
Statistical Process Control in Python (timothyfraser.com)
1,700-year-old Roman sarcophagus is unearthed in Budapest (apnews.com)
Space Truckin'' – The Nostromo (2012) (alienseries.wordpress.com)
CS234: Reinforcement Learning Winter 2025 (web.stanford.edu)
The Generative Burrito Test (www.generativist.com)
IQ differences of identical twins reared apart are influenced by education (www.sciencedirect.com)
Brand New Layouts with CSS Subgrid (www.joshwcomeau.com)
KiDoom – Running DOOM on PCB Traces (www.mikeayles.com)
What they don''t tell you about maintaining an open source project (andrej.sh)
Google steers Americans looking for health care into "junk insurance" (pluralistic.net)
Reinventing how .NET builds and ships (again) (devblogs.microsoft.com)
Unifying our mobile and desktop domains (techblog.wikimedia.org)
US banks scramble to assess data theft after hackers breach financial tech firm (techcrunch.com)
Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been Fulfilled (jayd.ml)
ZoomInfo CEO blocks researcher after documenting pre-consent biometric tracking (github.com)
A new bridge links the math of infinity to computer science (www.quantamagazine.org)
Python is not a great language for data science (blog.genesmindsmachines.com)
Ilya Sutskever: We''re moving from the age of scaling to the age of research (www.dwarkesh.com)
ICE Offers Up to 280M to Immigrant-Tracking ''Bounty Hunter'' Firms (www.wired.com)
Unison 1.0 (www.unison-lang.org)
Bad UX World Cup 2025 (badux.lol)
Ozempic does not slow Alzheimer''s, study finds (www.semafor.com)
PRC elites voice AI-skepticism (jamestown.org)
Jakarta is now the biggest city in the world (www.axios.com)
In wake of Windows 10 retirement, over 780K Windows users skip Win 11 for Linux (www.tomshardware.com)
We built an open source, zero webhooks payment processor (github.com)
Google Antigravity Exfiltrates Data (www.promptarmor.com)
Roblox is a problem but it''s a symptom of something worse (www.platformer.news)
Onyx (YC W24) – Open-source chat UI (news.ycombinator.com)
Trillions spent and big software projects are still failing (spectrum.ieee.org)
FLUX.2: Frontier Visual Intelligence (bfl.ai)
Orion 1.0 – Browse Beyond (blog.kagi.com)
Brain has five ''eras'' with adult mode not starting until early 30s (www.theguardian.com)
Making Crash Bandicoot (2011) (all-things-andy-gavin.com)
Apt Rust requirement raises questions (lwn.net)
General principles for the use of AI at CERN (home.web.cern.ch)
AI has a deep understanding of how this code works (github.com)
What you can get for the price of a Netflix subscription (nmil.dev)
Most Stable Raspberry Pi? 81% Better NTP with Thermal Management (austinsnerdythings.com)
Human brains are preconfigured with instructions for understanding the world (news.ucsc.edu)
Fifty Shades of OOP (lesleylai.info)
Build a Compiler in Five Projects (kmicinski.com)
Google''s new ''Aluminium OS'' project brings Android to PC (www.androidauthority.com)
The Bitter Lesson of LLM Extensions (www.sawyerhood.com)
What OpenAI did when ChatGPT users lost touch with reality (www.nytimes.com)
Unpowered SSDs slowly lose data (www.xda-developers.com)
DoGE "cut muscle, not fat"; 26K experts rehired after brutal cuts (arstechnica.com)
Mind-reading devices can now predict preconscious thoughts (www.nature.com)
I built an interactive HN Simulator (news.ysimulator.run)
TSMC Arizona Outage Saw Fab Halt, Apple Wafers Scrapped (www.culpium.com)
Cool-retro-term: terminal emulator which mimics look and feel of the old CRTs (github.com)
Implications of AI to schools (twitter.com)
PS5 now costs less than 64GB of DDR5 memory. RAM jumps to 600 due to shortage (www.tomshardware.com)
Claude Advanced Tool Use (www.anthropic.com)
GrapheneOS migrates server infrastructure from France (www.privacyguides.org)
Pebble Watch software is now 100% open source (ericmigi.com)
Bureau of Meteorology''s new boss asked to examine 96M bill for website redesign (www.abc.net.au)
Claude Opus 4.5 (www.anthropic.com)
France threatens GrapheneOS with arrests / server seizure for refusing backdoors (grapheneos.social)
SHA1-Hulud the Second Comming – Postman, Zapier, PostHog All Compromised via NPM (www.aikido.dev)
Chrome Jpegxl Issue Reopened (issues.chromium.org)
X Just Accidentally Exposed a Covert Influence Network Targeting Americans (weaponizedspaces.substack.com)
Booking.com cancels 4K hotel reservation, offers same rooms again for 17K (www.cbc.ca)
Lambda Calculus – Animated Beta Reduction of Lambda Diagrams (cruzgodar.com)
Ego, empathy, and humility at work (matthogg.fyi)
NSA and IETF, part 3: Dodging the issues at hand (blog.cr.yp.to)
Japan''s gamble to turn island of Hokkaido into global chip hub (www.bbc.com)
Shai-Hulud Returns: Over 300 NPM Packages Infected (helixguard.ai)
I wrote a minimal memory allocator in C (github.com)
Stun LLMs with thousands of invisible Unicode characters (gibberifier.com)
The Cloudflare outage was a good thing (gist.github.com)
RuBee (computer.rip)
Hearing aid wearers, what''s hot? (news.ycombinator.com)
Doge ''doesn''t exist'' with eight months left on its charter (www.reuters.com)
We stopped roadmap work for a week and fixed 189 bugs (lalitm.com)