MCP Is a Fad (tombedor.dev)
Why Is There a Tiny Hole in the Airplane Window? (2023) (www.afar.com)
Surveillance Watch – a map that shows connections between surveillance companies (www.surveillancewatch.io)
1M for Non-Specialists: Introduction (pithlessly.github.io)
Grok turns off image generator for most after outcry over sexualised AI imagery (www.theguardian.com)
European Commission issues call for evidence on open source (lwn.net)
Samba Was Written (2003) (download.samba.org)
What Happened to WebAssembly (emnudge.dev)
MIT''s "Mathematics for Computer Science" (2018) [pdf] (courses.csail.mit.edu)
Photographing the hidden world of slime mould (www.bbc.com)
Do not mistake a resilient global economy for populist success (www.economist.com)
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Mysterious Victorian-Era Shoes Are Washing Up on a Beach in Wales (www.smithsonianmag.com)
The No Fakes Act Has a "Fingerprinting" Trap That Kills Open Source (old.reddit.com)
Iran Goes Dark as Government Cuts Itself Off from Internet (www.kentik.com)
On Getting Hacked (ahmeto.com)
Remote Job (github.com)
I hacked Casio F-91W digital watch (medium.com)
Anthropic bans use of API in OpenCode CLI tool (github.com)
Anti-cheat evolution in Windows 11 (www.andrea-allievi.com)
Executable Markdown files with Unix pipes (news.ycombinator.com)
Logistics Is Dying; Or – Dude, Where''s My Mail? (lagomor.ph)
Systematically Improving Espresso: Mathematical Modeling and Experiment (2020) (www.cell.com)
Why I Left iNaturalist (kueda.net)
Flint Confirms Biodegradable Paper Batteries Are Now in Production (audioxpress.com)
Recent Optimizations in Python''s Reference Counting (rushter.com)
Tumblr removed from Apple App Store over abuse images (www.bbc.com)
Expired certificate breaks macOS Logitech apps (arstechnica.com)
He was called a ''terrorist sympathizer.'' Now his AI company is valued at 3B (sfstandard.com)
Embassy: Modern embedded framework, using Rust and async (github.com)
Pole of Inaccessibility (en.wikipedia.org)
Iran Protest Map (pouyaii.github.io)
Landline phones cut in parts of Iran, eyewitnesses say (www.iranintl.com)
I built a quantum internet that runs on your WiFi (github.com)
Richard D. James aka Aphex Twin speaks to Tatsuya Takahashi (web.archive.org)
A geofence-based social network app 6 years in development (www.localvideoapp.com)
Making Magic Leap past Nvidia''s secure bootchain and breaking Tesla Autopilots (fahrplan.events.ccc.de)
SQL Studio (sql.studio)
Support for the TSO memory model on Arm CPUs (2024) (lwn.net)
Texas court blocks Samsung from tracking TV viewing, then vacates order (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
We built a permissions layer for Notion (notionportals.com)
PgX – Debug Postgres performance in the context of your application code (docs.base14.io)
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Texas First State to End American Bar Association oversight of law schools (www.keranews.org)
Sopro TTS: A 169M model with zero-shot voice cloning that runs on the CPU (github.com)
How to Code Claude Code in 200 Lines of Code (www.mihaileric.com)
Task-free intelligence testing of LLMs (www.marble.onl)
Intellectual Junkyards (www.forester-notes.org)
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of the Fourier Transform (joshuawise.com)
macOS menu bar app to track Claude usage in real time (github.com)
Google AI Studio is now sponsoring Tailwind CSS (twitter.com)
Claude keeps nagging about "Help improve Claude" inspite of previous decline (news.ycombinator.com)
Is it time for HN to implement a form of captcha? (news.ycombinator.com)
Fixing a Buffer Overflow in Unix v4 Like It''s 1973 (sigma-star.at)
Ushikuvirus: Newly discovered virus may offer clues to the origin of eukaryotes (www.tus.ac.jp)
I built a tool to create AI agents that live in iMessage (tryflux.ai)
IBM AI (''Bob'') Downloads and Executes Malware (www.promptarmor.com)
Supernova Remnant Video from NASA''s Chandra Is Decades in Making (www.nasa.gov)
Nvidia Kicks Off the Next Generation of AI with Rubin (nvidianews.nvidia.com)
China starts UHV power line: The new 700 km UHV line will transmit 8M kW (switchgear-magazine.com)
Chinese AI models have lagged the US frontier by 7 months on average since 2023 (epoch.ai)
Dynamic Large Concept Models: Latent Reasoning in an Adaptive Semantic Space (arxiv.org)
Digital Red Queen: Adversarial Program Evolution in Core War with LLMs (sakana.ai)
Iran Goes Into IPv6 Blackout (radar.cloudflare.com)
Signals vs. Query-Based Compilers (marvinh.dev)
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Tamarind Bio (YC W24) Is Hiring Infrastructure Engineers (www.ycombinator.com)
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A Daily Bible Game (bibdle.com)
Our Changing Planet, as Seen from Space (e360.yale.edu)
AI Coding Assistants Are Getting Worse (spectrum.ieee.org)
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Suppression of Type I collagen in human scleral fibroblasts treated with ELF (pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
Bose is open-sourcing its old smart speakers instead of bricking them (www.theverge.com)
Looking for Alice (www.henrikkarlsson.xyz)
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Gmail is entering the Gemini Era (blog.google)
DeepDream for Video with Temporal Consistency (github.com)
The Jeff Dean Facts (github.com)
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I program without syntax highlighting (hakon.gylterud.net)
Danish troops told to ''shoot first, ask questions later'' if US invades Greenland (www.lbc.co.uk)
How Bright Headlights Escaped Regulation – and Blinded Us All (www.autoblog.com)
Mothers (YC X26) Is Hiring (jobs.ashbyhq.com)
Lights and Shadows (ciechanow.ski)
I bootstrapped an AI OSINT search engine to 35k users. Trying 5 Day Pass Model (ai.cylect.io)
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Open database of link metadata for large-scale analysis (github.com)
Lessons from Hash Table Merging (gist.github.com)
Delty (YC X25) Is Hiring an ML Engineer (www.ycombinator.com)
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AI Misses Nearly One-Third of Breast Cancers, Study Finds (www.emjreviews.com)
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Project Patchouli: Open-source electromagnetic drawing tablet hardware (patchouli.readthedocs.io)
go.sum Is Not a Lockfile (words.filippo.io)
The Rise of Computer Games, Part II: Digitizing Nerddom (technicshistory.com)
Open Infrastructure Map (openinframap.org)
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Reading Without Limits or Expectations (www.carolinecrampton.com)
GLSL Web CRT Shader (blog.gingerbeardman.com)
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Don''t Let the Grocery Store Scan Your Face: How to Stop Wegmans (blog.adafruit.com)
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Everything You Need to Know About Email Encryption in 2026 (soatok.blog)
Michel Siffre: This man spent months alone underground – and it warped his mind (www.newscientist.com)
2026 Predictions Scorecard (rodneybrooks.com)
My first paper: A practical implementation of Rubiks cube based passkeys (ieeexplore.ieee.org)
So you wanna de-bog yourself (2024) (www.experimental-history.com)
I visualized the entire history of Citi Bike in the browser (bikemap.nyc)
LMArena is a cancer on AI (surgehq.ai)
An LLM response cache that''s aware of dynamic data (blog.butter.dev)
Notion AI: Unpatched data exfiltration (www.promptarmor.com)
Notebook Lawyer (avc.xyz)
A to Z – A word game I built from a childhood road trip memory (a26z.fun)
We found cryptography bugs in the elliptic library using Wycheproof (blog.trailofbits.com)
Claude Code CLI Broken (github.com)
Tailscale state file encryption no longer enabled by default (tailscale.com)
Claude Code Emergent Behavior: When Skills Combine (vibeandscribe.xyz)
Introducing ChatGPT Health (openai.com)
Residues: Time, Change and Uncertainty in Software Architecture [video] (www.youtube.com)
A practical guide to converting YAML to JSON safely (with Kubernetes examples) (coderaviverma.github.io)
US will ban Wall Street investors from buying single-family homes (www.reuters.com)
How Google got its groove back and edged ahead of OpenAI (www.wsj.com)
Native Amiga Filesystems on macOS / Linux / Windows with FUSE (github.com)
NPM to implement staged publishing after turbulent shift off classic tokens (socket.dev)
Predict your house price (www.bloomberg.com)
Texas A&M bans part of Plato''s Symposium (dailynous.com)
Polymarket refuses to pay bets that US would ''invade'' Venezuela (www.ft.com)
A tab hoarder''s journey to sanity (twitter.com)
Building voice agents with Nvidia open models (www.daily.co)
Free and local browser tool for designing gear models for 3D printing (gears.dmtrkovalenko.dev)
Cursor Party – An MMO cursor game built in 1 hour with Elixir Phoenix (github.com)
Eat Real Food – Introducing the New Pyramid (realfood.gov)
The 14 Burrito: Why San Francisco Inflation Feels Higher Than 2.5% (www.foglinesf.com)
Becoming a Centenarian (www.newyorker.com)
Health care data breach affects over 600k patients, Illinois agency says (www.nprillinois.org)
BillG the Manager (hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com)
The Case for Nushell (2023) (www.sophiajt.com)
Animal Diversity Web (animaldiversity.org)
Hightouch (YC S19) Is Hiring (hightouch.com)
Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team (github.com)
Many Hells of WebDAV: Writing a Client/Server in Go (candid.dev)
Dell''s CES 2026 chat was the most pleasingly un-AI briefing I''ve had in 5 years (www.pcgamer.com)
Target has their own forensic lab to investigate shoplifters (thehorizonsun.com)
I built a "Do not disturb" Device for my home office (apoorv.page)
Commodore 64 floppy drive has the power to be a computer and runs BASIC (www.tomshardware.com)
LLM Problems Observed in Humans (embd.cc)
US Job Openings Decline to Lowest Level in More Than a Year (www.bloomberg.com)
We might have been slower to abandon StackOverflow if it wasn''t a toxic hellhole (www.pcloadletter.dev)
Supreme Court Increasingly Favors the Rich, Economists Say (www.nytimes.com)
Shipmap.org (www.shipmap.org)
Meditation as Wakeful Relaxation: Unclenching Smooth Muscle (psychotechnology.substack.com)
Sugar industry influenced researchers and blamed fat for CVD (www.ucsf.edu)
RepoReaper – AST-aware, JIT-loading code audit agent (Python/AsyncIO) (github.com)
LaTeX Coffee Stains [pdf] (ctan.math.illinois.edu)
Everyone hates OneDrive, Microsofts cloud app that steals and deletes files (boingboing.net)
Quake Brutalist Jam III (www.slipseer.com)
Gnome dev gives fans of Linux''s middle-click paste the middle finger (www.theregister.com)
Comet MCP – Give Claude Code a browser that can click (github.com)
A4 Paper Stories (susam.net)
KeelTest – AI-driven VS Code unit test generator with bug discovery (keelcode.dev)
Htmx: High Power Tools for HTML (github.com)
The ISEE Trajectories (www.drmindle.com)
Stop Designing Languages. Write Libraries Instead (2016) (lbstanza.org)
The Eric and Wendy Schmidt Observatory System (www.schmidtsciences.org)
Optery (YC W22) Hiring a CISO and Web Scraping Engineers (Node) (US and Latam) (www.optery.com)
The first new compass since 1936 (www.youtube.com)
Firefox extension to redirect x.com to xcancel.com (addons.mozilla.org)
The mineral riches hiding under Greenland''s ice (www.bbc.com)
Formal Methods Only Solve Half My Problems (brooker.co.za)
TCP chat server written in C# and .NET 9, used in the terminal (github.com)
This Month in Redox – December 2025 (www.redox-os.org)
Vector graphics on GPU (gasiulis.name)
Rust Is Beyond Object-Oriented, Part 3: Inheritance (2023) (www.thecodedmessage.com)
Open-source AI workflows with read-only auth scopes (github.com)
Bill to Eliminate H-1B Visa Program Introduced in Congress (www.newsweek.com)
A glimpse into V8 development for RISC-V (riseproject.dev)
The 5 Knights of the MCP Apocalypse (foojay.io)
What *is* code? (2015) (www.bloomberg.com)
SMTP Tunnel – A SOCKS5 proxy disguised as email traffic to bypass DPI (github.com)
On the slow death of scaling (papers.ssrn.com)
VaultSandbox – Test your real MailGun/SES/etc. integration (vaultsandbox.com)
The Oddest Couple in American Literature: Part II (airmail.news)
Make audio loops online (makeloops.online)
The Manifold Mind of Saul Bellow (www.metropolitanreview.org)
Two ways to crack a walnut, per Grothendieck (2025) (shreevatsa.net)
One Hundred Years of Gossip (www.plough.com)
The creator of Claude Code''s Claude setup (twitter.com)
Sergey Brin''s Unretirement (www.inc.com)
Jan Łukasiewicz (plato.stanford.edu)
Microsoft probably killed my Snapdragon Dev Kit (jasoneckert.github.io)
We Recreated Steve Jobs''s 1975 Atari Horoscope Program and You Can Run It (blog.adafruit.com)
Study: Managers with first-born daughters, hire more women and pay more equal [pdf] (csef.it)
How to Improve a Perfect Join Algorithm (remy.wang)
The Agentic Self: Parallels Between AI and Self-Improvement (muratbuffalo.blogspot.com)
The data center boom is concentrated in the U.S. (spectrum.ieee.org)
Most websites don''t need cookie consent banners (block81.com)
PassSeeds – hijacking Passkeys to unlock new cryptographic use cases (backalleycoder.com)
Website with a DMCA Takedown (priyatham.in)
Electronic Nose for Indoor Mold Detection and Identification (advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
Why the trans flag emoji is the 5-codepoint sequence it is (hecate.pink)
JavaScript Analyzer – Burp Suite Extension (github.com)
Vulnerability in Ruby that has existed since 2002 (nastystereo.com)
Building a rain predictor on a C64 with 1985''s "XPER," expert system software (stonetools.ghost.io)
Hyundai Introduces Its Next-Gen Atlas Robot at CES 2026 [video] (www.youtube.com)
Are we tired of social media once and for all? On the downfall of social media (www.danielbrendel.com)
Representing Hierarchies (gpfault.net)
High-Performance GPU Cuckoo Filter (github.com)
Runtime invariant to rule count in a single-pass boundary execution model (targetedwebresults.com)
CES 2026: Taking the Lids Off AMD''s Venice and MI400 SoCs (chipsandcheese.com)
A 30B Qwen Model Walks into a Raspberry Pi and Runs in Real Time (byteshape.com)
Flick (YC F25) Is Hiring Founding Engineer to Build Figma for AI Filmmaking (www.ycombinator.com)
Laylo (YC S20) – Head of Growth (Organic and Partners and Loops and AI) – Remote US (www.ycombinator.com)
Comparing AI agents to cybersecurity professionals in real-world pen testing (arxiv.org)
Oral microbiome sequencing after taking probiotics (blog.booleanbiotech.com)
Finding similarities in New Yorker covers (shoplurker.com)
Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far (burkeholland.github.io)
Foundertrace – chain of YC startups founded by its employees (foundertrace.com)
How HTML changes in ePub (www.htmhell.dev)
I built "Google" for searching Shadcn blocks on the web (shoogle.dev)
Writing an eigenvalue solver in Rust for WebAssembly (abstractnonsense.xyz)
Calling All Hackers: How money works (2024) (phrack.org)
How Spotify Made Me Self Host (layandreas.github.io)
Mantic.sh – Search 480k files in 0.46s without embeddings (github.com)
48-digit prime numbers every git commit (textonly.github.io)
Stop Doom Scrolling, Start Doom Coding: Build via the terminal from your phone (github.com)
High-Performance DBMSs with io_uring: When and How to use it (arxiv.org)
Video Game Websites in the early 00s (www.webdesignmuseum.org)
Spherical Snake (kevinalbs.com)
ccrider - Search and Resume Your Claude Code Sessions – TUI / MCP / CLI (github.com)
llmgame.ai – The Wikipedia Game but with LLMs (www.llmgame.ai)
Why agents matter more than other AI (substack.com)
Using fewer syllables to express numbers (thegraycuber.github.io)
Subsets (YC S23) is hiring engineers in Copenhagen, Denmark (www.workatastartup.com)
Jax-JS, array library in JavaScript targeting WebGPU (ss.ekzhang.com)
Passing of Joe Mancuso author of Masonite (Python web framework) (github.com)
Creating a Bespoke Data Diode for Air‑Gapped Networks (nelop.com)
Hierarchical Autoregressive Modeling for Memory-Efficient Language Generation (arxiv.org)
Locating a Photo of a Vehicle in 30 Seconds with GeoSpy (geospy.ai)
Dude, where''s my supersonic jet? (rationaloptimistsociety.substack.com)
DatBench: Discriminative, faithful, and efficient VLM evaluations (arxiv.org)
Stash – Sync Markdown Files with Apple Notes via CLI (github.com)
Why Big Companies Keep Failing: The Stack Fallacy (2016) (techcrunch.com)
My Tamagotchi is an RL agent playing Slither.io (nkasmanoff.github.io)
Tamarind Bio (YC W24) – AI Inference Provider for Drug Discovery (news.ycombinator.com)
Co-founder Joe Lonsdale: Palantir was founded to kill communists (twitter.com)
FTSE100 bosses'' pay overtakes typical worker''s annual salary in less than 3 days (news.sky.com)
Gtasks-terminal – Google Tasks power-tool for the terminal (github.com)
Volkswagen Brings Back Physical Buttons (www.caranddriver.com)
Loongarch Improvements with Box64 (box86.org)
Raspberry Pi and mini PC home lab prices hit parity as DRAM costs skyrocket (www.tomshardware.com)
Why is the Gmail app 700 MB? (akr.am)
Vienam Bans Unskippable Ads, Requires Skip Button to Appear After 5 Seconds (saigoneer.com)
The skill of the future is not ''AI'', but ''Focus'' (2025) (carette.xyz)
State of the Fin 2026-01-06 – Jellyfin (jellyfin.org)
I wanted a camera that doesn''t exist – so I built it (medium.com)
Mamdani Targets Junk Fees and Hidden Charges in Two Executive Orders (www.nytimes.com)
New Lego smart-play system (www.lego.com)
High-performance header-only container library for C23 on x86-64 (github.com)
Swapping two blocks of memory inside a larger block, in constant memory (devblogs.microsoft.com)
Gnome and Mozilla Discuss Proposal to Disable Middle Mouse Paste on Linux (linuxiac.com)
Gemini Protocol Deployment Statistics (www.obsessivefacts.com)
65% of Hacker News Posts Have Negative Sentiment, and They Outperform (philippdubach.com)
Why German Strings Are Everywhere? (cedardb.com)
I write and ship code 20–50x faster than I did 5 years ago (news.ycombinator.com)
System: Control your Mac from anywhere using natural language (system.surf)
Portland''s gas-powered leaf blower ban goes into effect (www.oregonlive.com)
DDL to Data – Generate realistic test data from SQL schemas (news.ycombinator.com)
Ugreen is expanding into AI-powered smart home surveillance (www.theverge.com)
C Is Best (sqlite.org)
Prism.Tools – Free and privacy-focused developer utilities (blgardner.github.io)
Is this the best epoch converter? (epochconverter.dev)
"Inspector Dangerfuck", ANSI art comic from 1994 (breakintochat.com)
AWS raises GPU prices 15% on a Saturday, hopes you weren''t paying attention (www.theregister.com)
Shipping at Inference-Speed (steipete.me)
Repair a ship’s hull still in the river in -50C (2022) (eugene.kaspersky.com)
SCiZE''s Classic Warez Collection (scenelist.org)
Investigating and fixing a nasty clone bug (kobzol.github.io)
Tube trains could navigate the Underground using the rules of Quantum Physics (www.ianvisits.co.uk)
Mapping Protests in Iran (www.fdd.org)
Interpreter – Offline screen translator for Japanese retro games (github.com)
New maps reveal post-flood migration patterns across the US (kinder.rice.edu)
enclose.horse (enclose.horse)
The Post-American Internet (pluralistic.net)
Intel Core Ultra Series 3 Debut as First Built on Intel 18A (newsroom.intel.com)