Making the Buddha Head from Merv Whole Again (www.getty.edu)
AI didn''t cause the tech jobs bust, but it explains why there''s no recovery (vithushansylvester.com)
Serbia''s Vucic concedes election defeat in historic win for student movement (www.reuters.com)
OpenAI and Anthropic cut their LLM prices by up to 80% within a few months. Why? (minimaxir.com)
The State of Context Engineering (www.dbreunig.com)
Focused Company Operating Principles (focused.io)
Overgrown, when plants invade your abandoned tabs (charliegerard.dev)
Where the Romans Fought (interactive map) (iosiflazaridis.github.io)
What goes into making an animated film? (www.disneyanimation.com)
Gheist campaign plants secret-dumping workflows using stolen GitHub tokens (www.wiz.io)
The U.S. Power Grid (nomagicpill.site)
Eunice is almost here (William Gibson, Agency) (armincat.com)
Why I Am a Programmer (www.alfie.wtf)
Moderna and Merck say their mRNA cancer vaccine cut death, recurrence by 42% (arstechnica.com)
UTS #39: Unicode Security Mechanisms (unicode.org)
JetBrains Thinkrail (github.com)
Dijkstra vs. A* vs. Contraction Hierarchies (arcadedb.com)
Hurston-1 open source TTS that speak Southern American and Afro-English (huggingface.co)
All you need is Wide Events, not "Metrics, Logs and Traces" (isburmistrov.substack.com)
Scientists rediscover how to make ancient Roman colour-changing glass (www.theguardian.com)
I made a virtual pet fruit fly that Twitch chat can interact with (www.twitch.tv)
Dolly Parton''s Imagination Library (imaginationlibrary.com)
Amazon''s "digital pacifier" for toddlers (oligarchwatch.substack.com)
Oregon Police Are Charging a Local News Outlet 2.5M for Records About One Cop (theintercept.com)
What is the main bottleneck facing Agentic AI today? (news.ycombinator.com)
ReVault – new secure archive format (news.ycombinator.com)
Recreate the Apollo Guidance Computer (www.raspberrypi.com)
Fuck Nuance (2015) (crookedtimber.org)
A 10-year-old CNN outperforms frontier LLMs for skin cancer diagnosis (lynchlab.net)
I refuse to accept a censored Internet. Join Me at FOSDEM 27 (talkweb.eu)
Jukebox-OS: Deterministic time-travel replay and ACID tool sandbox for AI agents (github.com)
Sabre Wulf Remastered (gp-64.com)
A Mathematician Reads the AI Future (www.theatlantic.com)
Anthropic Wanted to Replace Engineers. Instead, They Shot Their Own Customers (techbronerd.substack.com)
Active incident at Dreamhost forcing password reset (www.dreamhoststatus.com)
VCF Southwest 2026, but Edited on Silicon Graphics for ''90s TV [video] (www.youtube.com)
Flapping Airplanes (flappingairplanes.com)
Bentley''s Kyiv deadlership among the strongest, despite the war (www.autonext.co)
AI use leads UC Berkeley math professor to see ''no point'' in grading homework (www.dailycal.org)
Can we do something about this impending AI dystopia (news.ycombinator.com)
Bring Back the Cool Save File Screens (scabshack.lol)
A Few Thoughts on Intensity (www.tylerhogge.com)
I put employees inside S&P 500 market-cap bubbles (bigwhalehunting.com)
Samsung TVs look for microphones in your house via Bluetooth and then spy events (twitter.com)
Why Washing Machines Took Decades to Catch On (daily.jstor.org)
Imagine an AI future where being banned means you are now economically useless (twitter.com)
US inequality is getting worse in ways you might not expect (theconversation.com)
R/open source bans all solo projects and projects using LLMs (www.reddit.com)
Did it just build.. a clock? (theclock.online)
Farol – a risk map of a pull request for the person who approves it (github.com)
The Lego group reveals collaboration with Daft Punk (www.lego.com)
Challenge Is Gone (blog.alxgsv.com)
Tool book of a Nuremberg knight from 1505 (loeffelholz-codex.org)
Radio Days (oldster.substack.com)
XPS 16 Creator Edition Laptop (www.dell.com)
fheroes2: A recreation of Heroes of Might and Magic II game engine (github.com)
Samsung running a TensorFlow lite model on 960x540 image to track you (twitter.com)
Nikon photography contest winner loses title after scientists spot signs of AI (www.techspot.com)
Reverse engineer of PC-98 Touhou games retires (rec98.nmlgc.net)
France asked ISPs to prepare temporary DNS blocks for major social platforms (www.blast-info.fr)
Cannabis legalisation and cardiovascular hospitalisations in the USA (bmjopen.bmj.com)
Not Palantir (notpalantir.eu)
Online censorship is crushing indie webcomics (xtramagazine.com)
Meta Ignores Brazilian Court Order to End Bolsonaro Favoritism (www.panamericandispatch.org)
Tablesample Picks Rows (boringsql.com)
Rewriting a Commercial Engine in Jai (polygonjs.com)
New Open-Source Cybersecurity Platform Uses AI Agents to Hunt Threats (medium.com)
How Japanese Dried Bonito Is Made (kottke.org)
Picasa Photo Viewer Rebuilt for Linux, Project Named Licasa (github.com)
Monoidal computer I: Basic computability by string diagrams (2012) (arxiv.org)
Five Qwen3.8-27B models outperform Fable 5 Using GVS5H Harness (github.com)
Attention people who think UB is fine (blog.habets.se)
Pragtical v3.14 Lua-based text editor adds menus, floating views, and sessions (pragtical.dev)
Xbox Turns Down Netflix 500M Offer (www.darkhorizons.com)
Meta employees say Lula’s accounts restricted in Brazil election: Report (www.aljazeera.com)
In Rainbows (hitogata.neocities.org)
Cerebras Deploys Trillion-Parameter AI Models (www.cerebras.ai)
Why is AI generated language so hard to understand? (arxiv.org)
A story of a Figma bug that wasn''t a bug at all (2021) (aresluna.org)
"Musk" Documentary Pulled from Almost Every One of 472 Theaters After One Week (www.showbiz411.com)
Tailworm – Tailscale Vulnerabilities (tailworm.com)
Why a Great Product Won''t Succeed Without a Community (news.ycombinator.com)
FindMyWeb: Apple Find My, reverse enginiered (codeberg.org)
Reactive Optimizers: rewrite the optimizer''s source code during training (xingjianbai.com)
Why Gopher in 2026? (gopher.muffinlabs.com)
Google has officially turned these Nest thermostats back into dumb thermostats (www.makeuseof.com)
America Has Lost 200k of Jobs in Media, Film and the Arts. How Much Is AI? (www.apricitas.io)
We should be more ambitious with the software we build (danluu.com)
Small Programs and Languages (ratfactor.com)
The Importance of Limitations for Creativity and Learning (ratfactor.com)
Steal My Bitcoin (stealmybitcoin.com)
No signs of AI payoff outside the tech sector (www.apollo.com)
Listen and read USA nuclear forces Emergency Action Messages, heard on 11175 kHz (missileer.watch)
SpeedCrunch 1.1 (www.speedcrunch.org)
The Goose Programming Language (aardappel.github.io)
Bbtree: Fastest Ordered Map (bbtree.xiangpeng.systems)
I Built a Stereo Vision Board for Hardware Hackers (rootkitlabs.com)
Social dynamics of toxic metal industry in medieval Europe (www.cambridge.org)
Making a VGA Driver in SystemVerilog (lukaswerner.com)
Oai-math-revised: a community hub for revising OpenAI''s math write-ups (terrytao.wordpress.com)
Symbolic Learning in Python and Julia (github.com)
Israeli soldiers raze neighbourhood in Hebron, driving families from homes (www.theguardian.com)
Argus- open source security platform to protect against agentic attacks (github.com)
Sam Altman: ''I No Longer Think We''re Gonna Be Able to Just Patch All the Bugs'' (gizmodo.com)
The St. Helena 5 pence coin shows Jonathan, a roughly 190 year old tortoise (de.numista.com)
Cecilia Berdichevsky, Clementina expert (1961) (en.wikipedia.org)
Roku developer repositories moved from GitHub to GitLab (blog.roku.com)
Neural chip decodes interactions between brain regions (actu.epfl.ch)
Parsing EDIFACT in Python with syntax trees (github.com)
FreeDNS (freedns.afraid.org)
Google illegally cut down 250K trees in Finland for data center (nypost.com)
I built a neural network using DOOM games (github.com)
GPU-unlock: FP/BF16 instruction issue rate on Nvidia 3000''s cards (github.com)
One Must Fall 2097 Remastered (github.com)
TornadoVM 7 Enables GPU-Native Workloads from Java Applications (www.infoq.com)
Elon Musk Just Gave Europe a Reason to Replace American Technology (steveblank.com)
Tiling Noise – Procedural GPU Patterns (catlikecoding.com)
Appreciating the beauty of all your body''s scars and scratches (1000awesomethings.com)
Autonomous root for Tcl Android TV via CVE-2022-22706 (gitlab.com)
Node.js Vulnerability Blog (nodejs.org)
AI-Assisted Paper on Z-Library Cites a TorrentFreak Article That Doesn''t Exist (torrentfreak.com)
The Chalk and the Airplane (unintendedconsequenc.es)
Node2Shell evolves to HTTP2Shell, blast radius affects many HTTP libs and apps (www.aikido.dev)
I Don''t Understand Quantum Physics (www.southampton.ac.uk)
U-2 spy plane makes rare appearance in Bay Area flyover (www.sfgate.com)
ThinkRail from JetBrains (thinkrail.ai)
How to run a city builder on 16 MHz (larstofus.com)
Around a dozen banking apps began specifically permitting GrapheneOS (grapheneos.social)
Physicists trap a single antimatter particle for a month (www.scientificamerican.com)
Hacker reverses Samsung TV, finds on-board AI listening OpenAI account suspended (www.reddit.com)
Apple Security Research Device (security.apple.com)
A Cocktail Party in the Street: An Interview with Alan Stillman (2010) (www.ediblegeography.com)
OBS Studio 33 (github.com)
CowAgent – Open-Source Super AI Assistant (cowagent.ai)
How Block Blast harvests its players for ad money (ayoships.com)
The Best Monopoly Strategy, Tested on 300M Games [video] (www.youtube.com)
Password, Please: Border Searches of Laptops, Phones Up 32% This Year (gizmodo.com)
Elon Musk Acquires 1B Stake in CNN''s Parent Company (symby.com)
How close can pure functional programming get to C? (rtfeldman.com)
A practical guide to AI image generation, from diffusion to agents (danielball.com)
One Man''s Pan Am 747 Replica [video] (www.youtube.com)
The Quake Fan who built the map editor everybody uses (funcarena.com)
The past, present, and future share a show floor at Pinball Expo 2026 (arstechnica.com)
Twelve Years of Distributed SQLite (philipotoole.com)
Alzheimer''s breakthrough: 2 hrs of sleep restored without clearing brain plaques (www.sciencedaily.com)
Mark Zuckerberg Pushed Meta to Shield Him from California''s Proposed Wealth Tax (www.nytimes.com)
C vs. C#: racing VLC''s Gaussian blur (martinfinkel.com)
Bringing uv and ty together (astral.sh)
Evolving Threat: http2shell is an RCE in node, Python, and more (nitter.click)
Rise of collagen-eating microbes may help explain gaps in the fossil record (www.cam.ac.uk)
German court calls Google aerial imagery ''spying'' (www.courthousenews.com)
Caffeine-like utility to keep you MacBook awake with its lid closed (github.com)
Google will pay people to use less electricity so its data centers can use more (www.computerworld.com)
Corgi, a helpful {agent, terminal} multiplexer (corgi.computer)
John Snow Cholera Data (johnsnow.rtwilson.com)
CVE Tracker (cve.0xosprey.com)
No Source Code? No Problem (queue.acm.org)
A Bicycle Journey Across Brazil to Find a Vanishing Savanna (e360.yale.edu)
A whirlwind tour of systemd-nspawn containers (quantum5.ca)
OpenAI: Securing our frontier model training environment (openai.com)
Rune 1.3: adds TypeScript, a Helix editor, Kitty graphics and OSC-7501 (rune.build)
DNS: A Replacement for Finger (altchan.org)
Sony Retires Its Last 4K Blu-ray Player in Japan, PS5 Is All That''s Left (www.techpowerup.com)
We are all living inside of an obscure sci-fi film from 1970 (thanksforthatjim.bearblog.dev)
Now Google says it might use your Gmail and Google Photos data to target ads (www.theverge.com)
Florida officer found dead man, impersonated him for years, renovated his home (www.nbcnews.com)
Why Do AI Models Tell Left-Wing Voters to Support the Communist Party? (fsi.stanford.edu)
Dessa: the most authentic full-duplex speech model ever built (block.xyz)
Kimi K3.1 scores 55 on Artificial Analysis, placed on the Pareto line (artificialanalysis.ai)
Reforming English Spelling (blog.oup.com)
Air Purifiers as White Noise Machines (www.jefftk.com)
Animations for System Builders (brooker.co.za)
Searching for optimal strategies in a puzzle game with chance (Drop7) (drop7.dev)
Apple Music 404 Not Found (music.apple.com)
I turned my TV into a Game Boy Color with a Pokemon town as my home screen (twitter.com)
AI Is Not a Tool (write.as)
Can we replace a 150k Looker with a bucket of HTML files? (david.lequin.dev)
UUIDv7 doesn''t have the properties you think it does (alexsci.com)
Swurf – Swipe through the real web (swurf.org)
Time Nuts (leapsecond.com)
Kimi K3.1 Pro (www.kimi.ai)
The Missed Opportunities of Sonic 06 (isaacmarovitz.com)
How Is Music Possible (www.henrikkarlsson.xyz)
Impossible Machines: declaratively program the physical world (www.impossiblemachines.xyz)
Canadians are running out of time to oppose Bill C-22 (www.eff.org)
Kimi K3.1 Pro and K3.1 Pro Highspeed (www.kimi.com)
eMudhra Login Bypass (mastodon.catgirl.cloud)
Total Historian (www.theideasletter.org)
Today, we hacked what we''d set out to hack: the iPhone (blog.calif.io)
An alignment assessment of the UK AISI cybertesting incident (www.anthropic.com)
Gemma-4-26B-A4B with 39-69% less thinking at same accuracy (bottlecapai.com)
Pentagon grants DHS permission to test heat ray weapon for use at border (www.cnn.com)
eMudhra ignored Mozilla Root investigation deadline; blames social media (bugzilla.mozilla.org)
Investor-owned utilities charge 23% more for electricity than public providers (www.kadoa.com)
Shitter – A Nitter Fork (codeberg.org)
OpenSSL 4.1.0 (github.com)
We had AI write a wiki from 45k Enron emails, every fact cited (www.thisandthat.chat)
Is this the new cyber normal? (drew.silcock.dev)
Job Loss and Cortisone Mania (tilschuenemann.de)
Disney Raising Prices Days After Confirming Ads Will Now Show Up on Every Tier (www.tvfandomlounge.com)
Remove pgrust: the entry is cheating (per-query kernels and result caching) (github.com)
The Real Kevin Bacon (pudding.cool)
Hand-bent after 3D printing, Oberdoerfer and Krebs'' Bend chair (www.designboom.com)
I Did This Without Your Knowledge (www.lesswrong.com)
The same AI request emits 8.5 times more CO2 in Texas than in Sweden (berget.ai)
Rule 30: one black cell (www.wolframcollatzmahler.com)
How does Fable 5.1 hide messages in images? (www.lesswrong.com)
Making a smart TV dumb and then smart (github.com)
We have traits at home (www.axelmagn.com)
Local Wikipedia: Wikipedia, but only for things a half hour walk from you (edjefferson.com)
The HTML-in-Canvas API origin trial (developer.chrome.com)
LISP Comes of Age (1980) (microship.com)
Objects, attributes, maps, oh my (bernsteinbear.com)
OnKey – I''m a bad singer, so I built an app to show where I''m off-key (github.com)
The alien space of science: Coherent but cognitively unavailable directions (arxiv.org)
A lost Schrödinger manuscript reveals a twist in quantum physics (www.sciencealert.com)
Move Slow and Fix Things (endler.dev)
Median product "lifespan" has fallen from 4y down to 1.5y (news.ycombinator.com)
Take my toil, leave me my struggle (newsletter.kentbeck.com)
This I Believe (www.awakin.org)
Why My Asus Laptop Kept Rebooting After Sleep and How to Fix It (idiallo.com)
Mortality Among People with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (jamanetwork.com)
Jank – The native Clojure dialect with seamless C interop (jank-lang.org)
The Secret Life of Circuits is now in stock everywhere (blog.coredump.cx)
The foolishness of "natural language programming" (1978) (www.cs.utexas.edu)
Color Names (names.color.pizza)
Mapping the Northern Sky (www.maps.com)
Docker Is Weird (codeandcake.dev)
AI compute is the new oil–and needs a new market (www.economist.com)
LLMs are making formal software verification feasible at a much larger scale (www.anthropic.com)
How to Design Flowers (www.asimov.press)
CATT 0.2.1: Test agents/services against a Muse/Instinct-alike, in CI (github.com)
An icon for every city in North America (evans.bike)
Speeding up code review with small-change (lethain.com)
Jared Kushner Hacked Phone Reveals Secret Negotiations, Millions in Transactions (www.vanityfair.com)
Railpass (train.samismith.com)
Replacing CAPTCHAs with adaptive proof-of-work in WordPress (wordpress.org)
If the models are so good, why doesn''t OpenAI just start 100 companies? (news.ycombinator.com)
Solving the 1950 cipher meant to test life after death (creilly11235.github.io)
Arc is being sunset on December 22, 2026 (resources.arc.net)
eMudhra logins can be bruteforced (mastodon.catgirl.cloud)
I unknowingly broke the PHP RCE embargo. I am sorry. (news.ycombinator.com)
Build a world on your phone, explore it in XR on Vision Pro and Quest (3d.camilleworld.com)
Hedra is a 3D open world game I wrote from scratch while in highschool (github.com)
UI micro interactions prompts for AI (www.typeui.sh)
AI and the Enclosure of the Scientific Commons (arxiv.org)
Award-Winning AI Literature (jamesyu.org)
Mini brain organoids ''reading'' Braille key step towards biohybrid computing (www.frontiersin.org)
Templates for Woven Christmas Hearts (juleflet.dk)
AI analysis of CT scans finds 42.9% of patients have coronary inflammation (www.biograph.com)
agent-usage-guard – a Claude Code mod to protect your usage window (github.com)
Nvidia OpenShell (github.com)
Dovepass – can I legally fly a drone along this exact path in SF? (dovepass.com)
Every AI model has the same "controversial" take on humans (www.modelcompare.ai)
Arc Is Sunsetting (arc.net)
Getting ready to operate GNU Taler in Germany (www.taler.net)
Where Wealth Is Moving in America (thestatedtruth.com)
Dungeon Generation in the Gnomish Mines of NetHack (www.boristhebrave.com)
Google cleared 300 hectares of Finnish forest (www.techspot.com)
Run full iOS 16.5 firmware on Android Devices (github.com)
MPs moving to restrict gambling ads in Canada amid mounting harms (www.cbc.ca)
Uberblok – an interactive museum of ZFS internals (uberblok.storagebits.workers.dev)
Quad9 (DNS Resolver) to Exit France (quad9.net)
What''s Getting Pwned (pwn.watch)
VMMouse for NT 3.x: QEMU/VMware mouse integration driver (github.com)
SBD: We Have a Filesystem at Home (fly.io)
eMudhra to Exit Global SSL/TLS Certificate Business (emudhra.com)
Crystal 1.22.0 Is Released (crystal-lang.org)
The Last Museum: Semantic search across 5.8M artworks from major museums (lastmuseum.com)
eMudhra to Exit Global SSL/TLS Certificate Business; (news.ycombinator.com)
Woman faces six years in prison over Cash App account she never opened (www.techspot.com)
The painter behind Manhattan’s Gilded Age interiors (engelsbergideas.com)
"Flying Tesla is just another Lie" [TopCars TV] [video] (www.youtube.com)
What Is Gridifcation (musicalform.substack.com)
Amazon identifies Oct 17 PHP2Shell exploitation prior to public disclosure (aws.amazon.com)
Xbox wants you to pay 24 to 40 cents per hour to stream games you bought (arstechnica.com)
Several Linux kernel vulnerabilities accidentally posted to public mailing list (www.phoronix.com)
Jailbreaking the Switch 2 (pepsipu.com)
Eigenmoon: linear algebra puzzles by moonlight (eigenmoon.vercel.app)
Startup taps underwater volcano as energy source in "proof point" test (arstechnica.com)
Faster than earcut: triangulating 3.7M map polygons in 489 ms (globus.software)
Achieving AI-style reasoning without an LLM (fleetingswallow.com)
The Robot I Didn''t Expect to Build (spectrum.ieee.org)
CVE-2026-111943: Compromised Intermediate Certificate Authority (nvd.nist.gov)
The fastest browser for AI agents to run browser automation (ego-lite.apposters.com)
I can''t use generic lambdas at compile-time, now what? (blog.ganets.ky)
A Markdown File Should Just Open (joshuamorris.info)
ThinkPad I9990303 Error Catch-22 (www.os2museum.com)
Claude Now Works with Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides (claude.com)
PyTorch-native TPU back end for vLLM (github.com)
OpenAI CLI (github.com)
WorldTUI: I trained a 360M model to pretend to be a terminal (simedw.com)
What Is the Karakoram Anomaly? (nsidc.org)
I can''t believe PowerShell is good (www.spacebar.news)
Clockwork Mechanics, Maintenance, and Metaphors in the Late Middle Ages (www.jhiblog.org)
Can you tell an AI''s real 30-day memory from a fabricated one? (kairos-experiment.com)
AI-built browser games, collected in one place (playgroundarcade.com)
The recently proposed O(n log n) integer multiplication algorithm [pdf] (web.maths.unsw.edu.au)
Epic vs. Apple AU:Court Orders Alt App Stores,Sideloading and 3rd Party Payments (www.judgments.fedcourt.gov.au)
Postgres recovery_prefetch can cause outages (ardentperf.com)