What Folk Can Do (folk.computer)
Native ads coming soon to Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange (meta.stackexchange.com)
After 27 years within budget Austria open 6thlongest railway tunnel in the world (infrastruktur.oebb.at)
From Text to Token: How Tokenization Pipelines Work (www.paradedb.com)
How does a "you interview for US company, we do the work" scam work? (news.ycombinator.com)
You are dating an ecosystem (www.razor.blog)
Octo: A Chip8 IDE (github.com)
Jottings; Anti-social microblog for your thoughts (jottings.me)
4B If Statements (andreasjhkarlsson.github.io)
Journalism students expose Russian-linked vessels off the Dutch and German coast (www.digitaldigging.org)
Guarding My Git Forge Against AI Scrapers (vulpinecitrus.info)
Smartphone Without a Battery (2022) (yaky.dev)
Spirograph style Lego drawing machine (jkbrickworks.com)
The Boot Order of the Raspberry Pi Is Unusual (patrickmccanna.net)
The tiniest yet real telescope I''ve built (lucassifoni.info)
I got my site down to 237kb by ditching Google Analytics (deadstack.net)
Dependent Names with a Little Encouragement (consteval.ca)
He set out to walk around the world. After 27 years, his quest is nearly over (www.washingtonpost.com)
Google De-Indexed My Bear Blog and I Don''t Know Why (journal.james-zhan.com)
The HTML-First Approach: Why Htmx and Lightweight Frameworks Are Revolutionizin (www.danieleteti.it)
One Last Trip: Traveling with my brother''s remains (2022) (www.thecut.com)
CRISPR Fungus: Protein-Packed, Sustainable, and Tastes Like Meat (www.isaaa.org)
Tile IR Specification (docs.nvidia.com)
Cadmium Zinc Telluride: The wonder material powering a medical ''revolution'' (www.bbc.com)
The Invisible Cost: From Creator to Consumer (edwardnoaland.substack.com)
Notes on Gamma (poniesandlight.co.uk)
Stoolap: High-performance embedded SQL database in pure Rust (github.com)
The Weird Way the 404 Media Zine Was Built (tedium.co)
My Father''s Instant Mashed Potatoes (www.astralcodexten.com)
Nokia N900 Necromancy – giving a new life to a classic Linux smartphone (yaky.dev)
Pdsink: USB Power Delivery Sink library for embedded devices (github.com)
Gotui – a modern Go terminal dashboard library (github.com)
Christmas Tree Exec (en.wikipedia.org)
Powder and Stone. Or, Why Medieval Rulers Loved Castles (1517.substack.com)
RFC 6677 DNS Transport over TCP – Implementation Requirements (www.ietf.org)
You Gotta Push If You Wanna Pull (www.morling.dev)
Two new RSC protocol vulnerabilities uncovered (nextjs.org)
React2Shell and related RSC vulnerabilities threat brief (blog.cloudflare.com)
UK House of Lords attempting to ban use of VPNs by anyone under 16 (alecmuffett.com)
A ''Tatooine'' Planet Directly Imaged (www.centauri-dreams.org)
Contact Sheet Prompting (www.willienotwilly.com)
Almond (YC X25) Is Hiring SWEs and MechEs (www.ycombinator.com)
Denial of service and source code exposure in React Server Components (react.dev)
The architecture of "not bad": Decoding the Chinese source code of the void (suggger.substack.com)
Encountering Japanese Ellipses in English Translations (legendsoflocalization.com)
My productivity app is a never-ending .txt file (2022) (jeffhuang.com)
An SVG is all you need (jon.recoil.org)
Age verification is coming for the internet (www.eff.org)
Last quarter I rolled out Microsoft Copilot to 4k employees (twitter.com)
Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS with Cosmic Desktop Environment Released (blog.system76.com)
Going Through Snowden Documents, Part 1 (libroot.org)
SIM – Apache-2.0 n8n alternative (github.com)
An endless scrolling word search game (endless-wordsearch.com)
Golang optimizations for high‑volume services (packagemain.tech)
Prove It All Night: With no fame or fortune, what keeps a band onstage? (1999) (chicagoreader.com)
Rivian Unveils Custom Silicon, R2 Lidar Roadmap, and Universal Hands Free (riviantrackr.com)
GPT-5.2 (openai.com)
Programmers and software developers lost the plot on naming their tools (larr.net)
Litestream VFS (fly.io)
Giant of the Attic: On the Majesty of Alan Moore (www.metropolitanreview.org)
Days since last GitHub incident (github-incidents.pages.dev)
GPULlama3.java Llama Compilied to PTX/OpenCL Now Integrated in Quarkus (news.ycombinator.com)
Things I want to say to my boss (www.ithoughtaboutthatalot.com)
Kicking Robots (harpers.org)
A Developer Accidentally Found CSAM in AI Data. Google Banned Him for It (www.404media.co)
Deprecate Like You Mean It (entropicthoughts.com)
Crick and Watson Did Not Steal Franklin''s Data (nautil.us)
iPhone Typos? It''s Not Just You – The iOS Keyboard Is Broken [video] (www.youtube.com)
BrowserBook (YC F24) – IDE for deterministic browser automation (news.ycombinator.com)
An Orbital House of Cards: Frequent Megaconstellation Close Conjunctions (arxiv.org)
Pop Goes the Population Count? (xania.org)
I''ve asked Claude to improve codebase quality 200 times (gricha.dev)
Disney making 1B investment in OpenAI, will allow characters on Sora AI (www.cnbc.com)
The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI Partner on Sora (openai.com)
Craft software that makes people feel something (rapha.land)
Oldest attestation of Austronesian language: Đông Yên Châu inscription (en.wikipedia.org)
WhatHappened – HN summaries, heatmaps, and contrarian picks (www.whathappened.tech)
French supermarket''s Christmas advert is worldwide hit (without AI) [video] (www.youtube.com)
Why No Fish Wants a Tongue-Eating Parasitic Louse in Its Mouth (animals.howstuffworks.com)
How can I read the standard output of an already-running process? (devblogs.microsoft.com)
South Korea – A Cautionary Tale for the Rest of Humanity (worksinprogress.co)
Meta shuts down global accounts linked to abortion advice and queer content (www.theguardian.com)
Local Privacy Firewall-blocks PII and secrets before ChatGPT sees them (github.com)
oeis-tui – A TUI to search OEIS integer sequences in the terminal (github.com)
If You Quit Social Media, Will You Read More Books? (www.newyorker.com)
Helldivers 2 on-disk size 85% reduction (store.steampowered.com)
McDonald''s removes AI-generated ad after backlash (www.theguardian.com)
A "Frozen" Dictionary for Python (lwn.net)
Why Startups Die (www.techfounderstack.com)
Just 0.001% hold 3 times the wealth of poorest half of humanity, report finds (www.theguardian.com)
Go''s escape analysis and why my function return worked (bonniesimon.in)
How the Brain Parses Language (www.quantamagazine.org)
The Cost of a Closure in C (thephd.dev)
Flow Where You Want – Guidance for Flow Models (drscotthawley.github.io)
Booting Linux in QEMU and Writing PID 1 in Go to Illustrate Kernel as Program (serversfor.dev)
Wirebrowser – A JavaScript debugger with breakpoint-driven heap search (github.com)
Python Workers redux: fast cold starts, packages, and a uv-first workflow (blog.cloudflare.com)
Incomplete List of Mistakes in the Design of CSS (wiki.csswg.org)
3D-Printed Carotid Artery-on-Chips for Personalized Thrombosis Investigation (advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
Vibe Coding Is Depressing (law.gmnz.xyz)
Anacondas Have Been the Same Size for over 12 Million Years, Fossils Reveal (scienceclock.com)
Patterns.dev (www.patterns.dev)
VCMI: An open-source engine for Heroes III (vcmi.eu)
OpenRouter Broadcast (openrouter.ai)
Sharding to Contain the Blast Radius of Data Breaches (www.mimirsec.com)
Resolution Dynamics: Deriving the Fine Structure Constant from Shannon Capacity (zenodo.org)
Common Lisp, ASDF, and Quicklisp: packaging explained (cdegroot.com)
How Google Maps allocates survival across London''s restaurants (laurenleek.substack.com)
Rubio orders return to Times New Roman font over ''wasteful'' Calibri (www.bbc.com)
When Would You Ever Want Bubblesort? (buttondown.com)
VoxCSS – A DOM based voxel engine (github.com)
Getting a Gemini API key is an exercise in frustration (ankursethi.com)
Apple Services Experiencing Outage (www.apple.com)
EFF Launches Age Verification Hub as Resource Against Misguided Laws (www.eff.org)
I got an Nvidia GH200 server for 7.5k on Reddit and converted it to a desktop (dnhkng.github.io)
Largest EV manufacturer is coming to the Western market (newatlas.com)
Scientists create ultra fast memory using light (www.isi.edu)
The future of Terraform CDK (github.com)
Super Mario 64 for the PS1 (github.com)
Terrain Diffusion: A Diffusion-Based Successor to Perlin Noise (arxiv.org)
Intermittent hypoxia increases blood flow and benefits executive function (onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
Automated license plate reader coverage in the USA (alpranalysis.com)
Kernel Float: Unlocking Mixed-Precision GPU Programming (dl.acm.org)
A 2-row, 16-key keyboard designed for smartphones (k-keyboard.com)
MCPShark – Traffic Inspector for Model Context Protocol (news.ycombinator.com)
Is it a bubble? (www.oaktreecapital.com)
Auto-grading decade-old Hacker News discussions with hindsight (karpathy.bearblog.dev)
Gundam is just the same as Jane Austen but happens to include giant mech suits (eli.li)
Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux (www.heise.de)
Deprecations via warnings don''t work for Python libraries (sethmlarson.dev)
9 Mothers (YC X26) Is Hiring (app.dover.com)
DeepSeek uses banned Nvidia chips for AI model, report says (finance.yahoo.com)
RoboCrop: Teaching robots how to pick tomatoes (phys.org)
Factor 0.101 now available (re.factorcode.org)
Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban (www.reuters.com)
Why the Sanitizer API is just setHTML() (frederikbraun.de)
Typewriter Plotters (2022) (biosrhythm.com)
Cloudspecs: Cloud Hardware Evolution Through the Looking Glass [pdf] (www.cs.cit.tum.de)
Super-Flat ASTs (jhwlr.io)
Golang''s big miss on memory arenas (avittig.medium.com)
Exploiting silent delivery receipts to monitor users on instant messengers (arxiv.org)
England Historic Aerial Photo Explorer (historicengland.org.uk)
Qwen3-Omni-Flash-2025-12-01：a next-generation native multimodal large model (qwen.ai)
Size of Life (neal.fun)
Qualcomm acquires RISC-V focused Ventana Micro Systems (www.qualcomm.com)
Bloodhound – Grey-box attack-path discovery in Rust/Go/C binaries (www.bloodhoundsecurity.ca)
InspectMind (YC W24) an AI agent for reviewing construction drawings (www.inspectmind.ai)
Writing an Outlook Add-in in Rust (tritium.legal)
Volcanic eruptions set off a chain of events that brought Black Death to Europe (www.cam.ac.uk)
In New York City, Congestion Pricing Leads to Marked Drop in Pollution (e360.yale.edu)
Israel Used Palantir Technologies in Pager Terrorist Attack in Lebanon (the307.substack.com)
How Much Wealth an AI Stock Market Crash Could Destroy (www.economist.com)
%20comparison%20top%20art%20122025%20updated%20SOURCE%20Amazon.jpg)
The New Kindle Scribes Are Great, but Not Great Enough (www.wired.com)
New benchmark shows top LLMs struggle in real mental health care (swordhealth.com)
Rust: Proof of Concept, Not Replacement (files.neoon.com)
I Tried the New Android XR Smart Glasses from Google and XReal (www.pcmag.com)
.png)
Taxing Growth (www.equitileconversations.com)
Apple Faces Scrutiny as Sanctioned Entities Slip Through App Store Controls (www.washingtonpost.com)
Tech for Small vs. Big Firms (lexifina.com)
McDonald''s pulls AI Christmas ad after backlash (www.bbc.co.uk)
US could ask foreign tourists for five-year social media history before entry (www.bbc.co.uk)
Map of All the Buildings in the World (gizmodo.com)
First PC Emulator Launched for Galaxy XR (github.com)
Running Linux on a RiscPC – why is it so hard? (thejpster.org.uk)
Passing the Torch: James Gross on the Next Chapter of Micromobility Industries (micromobility.io)
Big Tech are the new Soviets (unherd.com)
AWS Announces Graviton 5 (aws.amazon.com)
Cloth Simulation (cloth.mikail-khan.com)
Stop Breaking TLS (www.markround.com)
Are the Three Musketeers allergic to muskets?(2014) (www.ox.ac.uk)
Putting email in its place with Emacs and Mu4e (eamonnsullivan.co.uk)
Revisiting "Let''s Build a Compiler" (eli.thegreenplace.net)
Dependable C (dependablec.org)
''Source available'' is not open source (and that''s okay) (dri.es)
Are We over the "Jaws Effect?" (nautil.us)
Atomic time source failure at NIST Gaithersburg campus (groups.google.com)
Distributed ID Formats Are Architectural Commitments, Not Just Data Types (piljoong.dev)
The end of the kernel Rust experiment (lwn.net)
NYC congestion pricing cuts air pollution by 22% in six months (airqualitynews.com)
Making macOS Bearable (seg6.space)
Show all your application error using Cloudflare Error Page (github.com)
224 Compression of Llama-70B with Higher Accuracy (Paper and Code) (zenodo.org)
When a video codec wins an Emmy (blog.mozilla.org)
The AI-Education Death Spiral a.k.a. Let the Kids Cheat (anandsanwal.me)
Rubio Deletes Calibri as the State Department''s Official Typeface (www.nytimes.com)
Writing our own Cheat Engine in Rust (lonami.dev)
Fate, a new data framework for React and tRPC, inspired by Relay (github.com)
Rubio stages font coup: Times New Roman ousts Calibri (www.reuters.com)
Operando interlayer expansion of curved graphene for dense supercapacitors (www.nature.com)
OpenEvolve: Teaching LLMs to Discover Algorithms Through Evolution (algorithmicsuperintelligence.ai)
Linux CVEs, more than you ever wanted to know (www.kroah.com)
Italy''s longest-serving barista reflects on six decades behind the counter (www.reuters.com)
OpenAI economist quits, alleging that they are verging into AI Advocacy (www.wired.com)
Joyboard is a balance board peripheral for the Atari 2600 (en.wikipedia.org)
Qt, Linux and everything: Debugging Qt WebAssembly (qtandeverything.blogspot.com)
I misused LLMs to diagnose myself and ended up bedridden for a week (blog.shortround.space)
Django: what’s new in 6.0 (adamj.eu)
ULID: Universally Unique Lexicographically Sortable Identifier (packagemain.tech)
We Need to Die (willllliam.com)
Agentic AI Foundation (block.xyz)
The Big Vitamin D Mistake [pdf] (pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
MCP Joins the Agentic AI Foundation (blog.modelcontextprotocol.io)
Tutorial 48: my museum collections kit (svpow.com)
10 Years of Let''s Encrypt (letsencrypt.org)
The stack circuitry of the Intel 8087 floating point chip, reverse-engineered (www.righto.com)
So You Want to Speak at Software Conferences? (dylanbeattie.net)
"The Matilda Effect": Pioneering Women Scientists Written Out of Science History (www.openculture.com)
Agentic QA – Open-source middleware to fuzz-test agents for loops (news.ycombinator.com)
Donating the Model Context Protocol and Establishing the Agentic AI Foundation (www.anthropic.com)
Detail, a Bug Finder (detail.dev)
How Private Equity Is Changing Housing (www.theatlantic.com)
AI needs more power than the grid can deliver – supersonic tech can fix that (boomsupersonic.com)
Animalcules and Their Motors (www.asimov.press)
If You''re Going to Vibe Code, Why Not Do It in C? (stephenramsay.net)
PeerTube is recognized as a digital public good by Digital Public Goods Alliance (www.digitalpublicgoods.net)
Clearspace (YC W23) Is Hiring a Founding Designer (www.ycombinator.com)
After the Bubble (www.tbray.org)
Mentat (YC S16) – Controlling LLMs with Runtime Intervention (playground.ctgt.ai)
Berkeley professor''s camera caught student allegedly sabotaging another student (www.mercurynews.com)
Handsdown one of the coolest 3D websites (bruno-simon.com)
Velato (www.futilitycloset.com)
Should "I asked AI, and it said" replies be forbidden in HN guidelines? (news.ycombinator.com)
Gemini Pro 3 Hallucinates the HN Front Page 10 Years from Today (dosaygo-studio.github.io)
Mistral Releases Devstral 2 (72.2% SWE-Bench Verified) and Vibe CLI (mistral.ai)
Fate: A modern data client for React and tRPC (fate.technology)
EU investigates Google over AI-generated summaries in search results (www.bbc.com)
Is your AI system illegal in the EU? (medium.com)
My favourite small hash table (www.corsix.org)
Oliver Sacks Put Himself into His Case Studies. What Was the Cost? (www.newyorker.com)
AWS Trainium3 Deep Dive – A Potential Challenger Approaching (newsletter.semianalysis.com)
Apple''s Slow AI Pace Becomes a Strength as Market Grows Weary of Spending (finance.yahoo.com)
New Pebble Device (repebble.com)
Engineers: Stop trying to win other people''s game (www.anthonyputignano.com)
Kaiju – General purpose 3D/2D game engine in Go and Vulkan with built in editor (github.com)
The Gamma Language (lair.masot.net)
Rahm Emanuel says U.S. should follow Australia''s youth social media ban (www.politico.com)
30 Year Anniversary of WarCraft II: Tides of Darkness (www.jorsys.org)
Mazda suitcase car, a portable three-wheeled vehicle that fits in the luggage (www.designboom.com)
Constructing the Word''s First JPEG XL MD5 Hash Quine (stackchk.fail)
Why frozen test fixtures are a problem on large projects and how to avoid them (radanskoric.com)
America Has Become a Digital Narco-State (paulkrugman.substack.com)
Where are you supposed to go if you don''t care about growth? (ramones.dev)
Transformers know more than they can tell: Learning the Collatz sequence (www.arxiv.org)
Brent''s Encapsulated C Programming Rules (2020) (retroscience.net)
ZX Spectrum Next on the Internet: Xberry Pi ESP01 and Pi Zero Upgrades (retrogamecoders.com)
Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz (www.forever-wars.com)
AlgoDrill – Interactive drills to stop forgetting LeetCode patterns (algodrill.io)
A deep dive into QEMU: The Tiny Code Generator (TCG), part 1 (airbus-seclab.github.io)
Richard Stallman on ChatGPT (www.stallman.org)
The Joy of Playing Grandia, on Sega Saturn (www.segasaturnshiro.com)
LLM from scratch, part 28 – training a base model from scratch on an RTX 3090 (www.gilesthomas.com)
No ARIA is better than bad ARIA (www.w3.org)
Epsilon: A WASM virtual machine written in Go (github.com)
Periodic Spaces (ianthehenry.com)
A thousand-year-long composition turns 25 (2024) (longplayer.org)
The closer we look at time, the stranger it gets (www.sciencefocus.com)
Using Floating Point Numbers as Hash Keys (2017) (readafterwrite.wordpress.com)
Manual: Spaces (type.today)
Luarrow – True pipeline operators and elegant Haskell-style function compositio (github.com)
Modern Cassette Walkmans (walkman.land)
I built a system for active note-taking in regular meetings like 1-1s (withdocket.com)
The Hitchhiker''s Guide to Coherent Fabrics: 5 Programming Rules (www.sigarch.org)
The web runs on tolerance (shkspr.mobi)
Everything that is wrong in museums starts with wall labels (www.aaronland.info)
A National Mission to Accelerate Science Through Artificial Intelligence (energy.gov)
OSHW: Small tablet based on RK3568 and AMOLED screen (oshwhub.com)
The power of proximity to coworkers [pdf] (pallais.scholars.harvard.edu)
30M military wreath charity buys solely from its founders'' farm (www.militarytimes.com)
Latency Profiling in Python: From Code Bottlenecks to Observability (quant.engineering)
Horses: AI progress is steady. Human equivalence is sudden (andyljones.com)
The Lost Machine Automats and Self-Service Cafeterias of NYC (2023) (www.untappedcities.com)
Scientific and Technical Amateur Radio (destevez.net)
The Universal Weight Subspace Hypothesis (arxiv.org)
8086 Microcode Explorer (nand2mario.github.io)
Kroger acknowledges that its bet on robotics went too far (www.grocerydive.com)
Cassette tapes are making a comeback. Yes (theconversation.com)
It''s 2026 –. ChatGPT still doesn''t allow email change (help.openai.com)
Doctors'' estimates of the feasibility of preserving the dying for future revival (www.medrxiv.org)
Amp, Inc. – Amp is spinning out of Sourcegraph (ampcode.com)
Running on Empty: Copper (thehonestsorcerer.substack.com)
Delivery Robots Take over Chicago Sidewalks, Sparking Debate and a Petition (blockclubchicago.org)
The consumption of AI-generated content at scale (www.sh-reya.com)
Icons in Menus Everywhere – Send Help (blog.jim-nielsen.com)
Fanfa – Interactive and animated Mermaid diagrams (fanfa.dev)
GitHub no longer uses Toasts (primer.style)
Cancer Is Surging, Bringing a Debate About Whether to Look for It (www.nytimes.com)
Trials Avoid High Risk Patients and Underestimate Drug Harms (www.nber.org)
Spaces between words only started in the 7th century in Ireland (en.wikipedia.org)
IBM Z17 Time Synchronization Resiliency Enhancements – Planet Mainframe (planetmainframe.com)
Has the cost of building software just dropped 90%? (martinalderson.com)
Persistent memory for Claude Code sessions (github.com)
Jepsen: NATS 2.12.1 (jepsen.io)
Deep dive on Nvidia circular funding (philippeoger.com)
We collected 10k hours of neuro-language data in our basement (condu.it)
Microsoft Download Center Archive (legacyupdate.net)
Quanta to Publish Popular Math and Physics Titles by Terence Tao and David Tong (www.simonsfoundation.org)
DuckDB for Kafka Stream Processing (sql-flow.com)
A series of tricks and techniques I learned doing tiny GLSL demos (blog.pkh.me)
How the Creator Economy Destroyed the Internet (www.theverge.com)