Archive
Nov 2025
- A Love Letter to FreeBSD
- “Boobs check” – Technique to verify if sites behind CDN are hosted in Iran
- People keep flocking to Linux, not just to escape Windows
- You want microservices, but do you need them?
- Don't push AI down our throats
- Writing a good Claude.md
- GitHub to Codeberg: my experience
- The Thinking Game Film – Google DeepMind documentary
- Modern cars are spying on you. Here's what you can do about it
- The Undermining of the CDC
- Migrating Dillo from GitHub
- Don't throw away your old PC–it makes a better NAS than anything you can buy
- Windows drive letters are not limited to A-Z
- Norway wealth fund to vote for human rights report at Microsoft, against Nadella
- Advent of Code 2025
- Z-Image: Powerful and highly efficient image generation model with 6B parameters
- Beej's Guide to Learning Computer Science
- CachyOS: Fast and Customizable Linux Distribution
- Silicon Valley's man in the White House is benefiting himself and his friends
- Self-hosting my photos with Immich
- Zigbook Is Plagiarizing the Zigtools Playground
- Show HN: Boing
- Stopping bad guys from using my open source project (feedback wanted)
- CSS now has an if() conditional function
- Americans no longer see four-year college degrees as worth the cost
- Bazzite: Operating System for Linux gaming
- Landlock-Ing Linux
- All it takes is for one to work out
- Be Like Clippy
- Electric vehicle sales are booming in South America – without Tesla
- Student perceptions of AI coding assistants in learning
- We're learning more about what Vitamin D does
- Testing shows automotive glassbreakers can't break modern automotive glass
- Copenhagenize Index 2025: The Global Ranking of Bicycle-Friendly Cities
- Major AI conference flooded with peer reviews written by AI
- Iceland declares ocean-current instability a national security risk
- It's Always the Process, Stupid
- Datacenters in space aren't going to work
- Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out
- Garfield's proof of the Pythagorean Theorem
- The Great Downzoning
- System 7 natively boots on the Mac mini G4
- Confessions of a Software Developer: No More Self-Censorship
- Airbus A320 – intense solar radiation may corrupt data critical for flight
- Flight disruption warning as Airbus requests modifications to 6k planes
- How good engineers write bad code at big companies
- Imgur geo-blocked the UK, so I geo-unblocked my network
- 28M Hacker News comments as vector embedding search dataset
- Molly: An Improved Signal App
- Codex, Opus, Gemini try to build Counter Strike
- The unexpected effectiveness of one-shot decompilation with Claude
- Bringing Sexy Back. Internet surveillance has killed eroticism
- So you wanna build a local RAG?
- Airloom – 3D Flight Tracker
- Stellantis Is Spamming Owners' Screens with Pop-Up Ads for New Car Discounts
- AI Adoption Rates Starting to Flatten Out
- Credit report shows Meta keeping $27B off its books through advanced geometry
- Can Dutch universities do without Microsoft?
- Petition to formally recognize open source work as civic service in Germany
- A trillion dollars (potentially) wasted on gen-AI
- A Remarkable Assertion from A16Z
- The mysterious black fungus from Chernobyl that may eat radiation
- EU Council Approves New "Chat Control" Mandate Pushing Mass Surveillance
- Tech Titans Amass Multimillion-Dollar War Chests to Fight AI Regulation
- Show HN: Glasses to detect smart-glasses that have cameras
- Tiger Style: Coding philosophy (2024)
- Pocketbase – open-source realtime back end in 1 file
- China's BEV trucks and the end of diesel's dominance
- The VPN panic is only getting started
- Bird flu viruses are resistant to fever, making them a major threat to humans
- Mathematics is hard for mathematicians to understand too
- 250MWh 'Sand Battery' to start construction in Finland
- FileZilla Pro "Perpetual License" – A Warning to All Users
- LinkedIn is loud, and corporate is hell
- How to Synthesize a House Loop
- AI CEO – Replace your boss before they replace you
- What's Hiding Inside Haribo's Power Bank and Headphones?
- Pakistan says rooftop solar output to exceed grid demand in some hubs next year
- 10 years of writing a blog nobody reads
- Same-day upstream Linux support for Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5
- The programmers who live in Flatland
- GitLab discovers widespread NPM supply chain attack
- We're losing our voice to LLMs
- TPUs vs. GPUs and why Google is positioned to win AI race in the long term
- The current state of the theory that GPL propagates to AI models
- Arthur Conan Doyle explored men’s mental health through Sherlock Holmes
- AI agents break rules under everyday pressure
- New research highlights a shortage of male mentors for boys and young men
- Mixpanel Security Breach
- The Nerd Reich – Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy
- Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving
- DIY NAS: 2026 Edition
- Green card interviews end in handcuffs for spouses of U.S. citizens
- Penpot: The Open-Source Figma
- Migrating the main Zig repository from GitHub to Codeberg
- Ilya Sutskever, Yann LeCun and the End of “Just Add GPUs”
- C100 Developer Terminal
- Running Unsupported iOS on Deprecated Devices
- Bring bathroom doors back to hotels
- EU Council approves Chat Control mandate for negotiation with Parliament
- The EU made Apple adopt new Wi-Fi standards, and now Android can support AirDrop
- Why 90s Movies Feel More Alive Than Anything on Netflix
- S&box is now an open source game engine
- Don't Download Apps
- Alan.app – Add a Border to macOS Active Window
- Gemini CLI tips and tricks for agentic coding
- DRAM prices are spiking, but I don't trust the industry's why
- Cloudflare outage should not have happened
- Stop Hacklore – An Open Letter
- From blood sugar to brain relief: GLP-1 therapy slashes migraine frequency
- KDE Plasma 6.8 Will Go Wayland-Exclusive in Dropping X11 Session Support
- The writing is on the wall for handwriting recognition
- OpenAI needs to raise at least $207B by 2030
- There may not be a safe off-ramp for some taking GLP-1 drugs, study suggests
- Voyager 1 is about to reach one light-day from Earth
- Indie game developers have a new sales pitch: being 'AI free'
- The HTTP Query Method
- Kagi Hub Belgrade
- Amazon faces FAA probe after delivery drone snaps internet cable in Texas
- I don't care how well your "AI" works
- A cell so minimal that it challenges definitions of life
- AWS is 10x slower than a dedicated server for the same price [video]
- Anthony Bourdain's Lost Li.st's
- Space Truckin' – The Nostromo (2012)
- Learning music with Strudel
- Reinventing how .NET builds and ships (again)
- What they don't tell you about maintaining an open source project
- Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been Fulfilled
- A new myth appeared during the presidential campaign of Andrew Jackson
- A new bridge links the math of infinity to computer science
- IQ differences of identical twins reared apart are influenced by education
- Google Antigravity exfiltrates data via indirect prompt injection attack
- Show HN: We built an open source, zero webhooks payment processor
- Ilya Sutskever: We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of research
- Python is not a great language for data science
- Orion 1.0
- Roblox is a problem but it's a symptom of something worse
- FLUX.2: Frontier Visual Intelligence
- Launch HN: Onyx (YC W24) – Open-source chat UI
- APT Rust requirement raises questions
- Brain has five 'eras' with adult mode not starting until early 30s
- WinApps: Run Windows apps as if they were a part of the native Linux OS
- Trillions spent and big software projects are still failing
- What you can get for the price of a Netflix subscription
- Human brains are preconfigured with instructions for understanding the world
- Jakarta is now the biggest city in the world
- Windows GUI – Good, Bad and Pretty Ugly (2023)
- AI has a deep understanding of how this code works
- Isn't WSL2 just a VM?
- PRC elites voice AI-skepticism
- PS5 now costs less than 64GB of DDR5 memory. RAM jumps to $600 due to shortage
- Unpowered SSDs slowly lose data
- Claude Advanced Tool Use
- Claude Opus 4.5
- Pebble Watch software is now open source
- Google's new 'Aluminium OS' project brings Android to PC
- GrapheneOS migrates server infrastructure from France
- TSMC Arizona outage saw fab halt, Apple wafers scrapped
- Mind-reading devices can now predict preconscious thoughts
- Show HN: I built an interactive HN Simulator
- Cool-retro-term: terminal emulator which mimics look and feel of CRTs
- Implications of AI to schools
- Britain is one of the richest countries. So why do children live in poverty?
- France threatens GrapheneOS with arrests / server seizure for refusing backdoors
- X Just Accidentally Exposed a Covert Influence Network Targeting Americans
- Booking.com cancels $4K hotel reservation, offers same rooms again for $17K
- Chrome Jpegxl Issue Reopened
- NSA and IETF, part 3: Dodging the issues at hand
- Shai-Hulud Returns: Over 300 NPM Packages Infected
- Fifty Shades of OOP
- A One-Minute ADHD Test
- Git 3.0 will use main as the default branch
- What OpenAI did when ChatGPT users lost touch with reality
- Japan's gamble to turn island of Hokkaido into global chip hub
- The Cloudflare outage might be a good thing
- Show HN: Stun LLMs with thousands of invisible Unicode characters
- Ask HN: Hearing aid wearers, what's hot?
- Doge 'doesn't exist' with eight months left on its charter
- The fall of Labubus and the mush of modern internet trends
- X's new country-of-origin feature reveals many 'US' accounts to be foreign-run
- Iowa City made its buses free. Traffic cleared, and so did the air
- Several core problems with Rust
- µcad: New open source programming language that can generate 2D sketches and 3D
- "Good engineering management" is a fad
- 1M Downloads of Zorin OS 18
- Fran Sans – font inspired by San Francisco light rail displays
- Apple to focus on 'quality and underlying performance' with iOS 27 next year
- Native Secure Enclave backed SSH keys on macOS
- Are consumers just tech debt to Microsoft?
- Dark Mode Sucks
- 73% of AI startups are just prompt engineering
- We stopped roadmap work for a week and fixed bugs
- Court filings allege Meta downplayed risks to children and misled the public
- Gnome is better macOS than macOS
- Racket v9.0
- Silicon Valley startups: being evil, again and again
- Signal knows who you're talking to (2023)
- After my dad died, we found the love letters
- Surprisingly, Emacs on Android is pretty good
- Google Revisits JPEG XL in Chromium After Earlier Removal
- Hardening the C++ Standard Library at scale
- MCP Apps: Extending servers with interactive user interfaces
- GCC SC approves inclusion of Algol 68 Front End
- Three Years from GPT-3 to Gemini 3
- Meta buried 'causal' evidence of social media harm, US court filings allege
- A monopoly ISP refuses to fix upstream infrastructure
- Kids who own smartphones before age 13 have worse mental health outcomes: Study
- Show HN: Build the habit of writing meaningful commit messages
- The Mozilla Cycle, Part III: Mozilla Dies in Ignominy
- Markdown is holding you back
- Show HN: Forty.News – Daily news, but on a 40-year delay
- How to repurpose your old phone into a web server
- China reaches energy milestone by "breeding" uranium from thorium
- The realities of being a pop star
- The privacy nightmare of browser fingerprinting
- Our babies were taken after 'biased' parenting test
- In a U.S. First, New Mexico Opens Doors to Free Child Care for All
- The Pentagon Can't Trust GPS Anymore
- 'The French people want to save us': help pours in for glassmaker Duralex
- A million ways to die from a data race in Go
- Agent design is still hard
- Roblox CEO interview about child safety didn't go well
- Moss: a Rust Linux-compatible kernel in 26,000 lines of code
- Original Superman comic becomes the highest-priced comic book ever sold
- How I learned Vulkan and wrote a small game engine with it (2024)
- California DMV approves map increase in Waymo driverless operations
- How the Atomic Tests Looked Like from Los Angeles
- Personal blogs are back, should niche blogs be next?
- Is Matrix Multiplication Ugly?
- LAPD helicopter tracker with real-time operating costs
- Boom, bubble, bust, boom. Why should AI be different?
- We Induced Smells With Ultrasound
- Discontinuation of ARM Notebook with Snapdragon X Elite SoC
- McDonald's is losing its low-income customers
- Helping Valve to power up Steam devices
- Show HN: Wealthfolio 2.0- Open source investment tracker. Now Mobile and Docker
- The New AI Consciousness Paper
- How did the Win 95 user interface code get brought to the Windows NT code base?
- Arduino published updated terms and conditions: no longer an open commons
- Make product worse, get money
- We should all be using dependency cooldowns
- Brexit Hit to UK Economy Double Official Estimate, Study Finds
- How a French judge was digitally cut off by the USA
- Germany: States Pass Porn Filters for Operating Systems
- FAWK: LLMs can write a language interpreter
- HP and Dell disable HEVC support built into their laptops' CPUs
- Olmo 3: Charting a path through the model flow to lead open-source AI
- Why top firms fire good workers
- Homeschooling hits record numbers
- Prozac 'no better than placebo' for treating children with depression, experts
- Over-regulation is doubling the cost
- France is taking state actions against GrapheneOS?
- New Glenn Update
- Kagi Assistants
- New OS aims to provide (some) compatibility with macOS
- OOP is shifting between domains, not disappearing
- CBP is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with suspicious travel patterns
- NTSB Preliminary Report – UPS Boeing MD-11F Crash [pdf]
- Microsoft makes Zork open-source
- Android and iPhone users can now share files, starting with the Pixel 10
- The Banished Bottom of the Housing Market
- Nano Banana Pro
- 210 IQ Is Not Enough
- Firefox 147 Will Support the XDG Base Directory Specification
- Students fight back over course taught by AI
- Ubuntu LTS releases to 15 years with Legacy add-on
- Red Alert 2 in web browser
- 'Calvin and Hobbes' at 40
- Adversarial poetry as a universal single-turn jailbreak mechanism in LLMs
- Interactive World History Atlas Since 3000 BC
- PHP 8.5
- Basalt Woven Textile
- Inside Rust's std and parking_lot mutexes – who wins?
- Verifying your Matrix devices is becoming mandatory
- Precise geolocation via Wi-Fi Positioning System
- Gaming on Linux has never been more approachable
- I built a faster Notion in Rust
- Researchers discover security vulnerability in WhatsApp
- Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash
- Loose wire leads to blackout, contact with Francis Scott Key bridge
- Cognitive and mental health correlates of short-form video use
- The Death of Arduino?
- The lost cause of the Lisp machines
- Measuring political bias in Claude
- AI is a front for consolidation of resources and power
- Building more with GPT-5.1-Codex-Max
- Meta Segment Anything Model 3
- Launch HN: Mosaic (YC W25) – Agentic Video Editing
- Moving from OpenBSD to FreeBSD for firewalls
- Europe is scaling back GDPR and relaxing AI laws
- How to stay sane in a world that rewards insanity
- What happens when even college students can't do math anymore?
- Your smartphone, their rules: App stores enable corporate-government censorship
- The peaceful transfer of power in open source projects
- Larry Summers resigns from OpenAI board
- How do the pros get someone to leave a cult?
- Thunderbird adds native Microsoft Exchange email support
- What Killed Perl?
- A $1k AWS mistake
- Ultra-processed food linked to harm in every major human organ, study finds
- DOE gives Microsoft partner $1B loan to restart Three Mile Island reactor
- I just want working RCS messaging
- Show HN: I made a down detector for down detector
- Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025 post mortem
- Ford can't find mechanics for $120K: It takes math to learn a trade
- Blender 5.0
- GitHub: Git operation failures
- Oracle is underwater on its $300B OpenAI deal
- A surprise with how '#!' handles its program argument in practice
- I am stepping down as the CEO of Mastodon
- Pebble, Rebble, and a path forward
- Disney Lost Roger Rabbit
- `satisfies` is my favorite TypeScript keyword (2024)
- How long can it take to become a US citizen?
- Google Antigravity
- Gemini 3
- Show HN: Browser-based interactive 3D Three-Body problem simulator
- Short Little Difficult Books
- Nearly all UK drivers say headlights are too bright
- Experiment: Making TypeScript immutable-by-default
- Do not put your site behind Cloudflare if you don't need to
- Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues
- Gemini 3 Pro Model Card [pdf]
- The Miracle of Wörgl
- Okta's NextJS-0auth troubles
- How Quake.exe got its TCP/IP stack
- Google boss says AI investment boom has 'elements of irrationality'
- The surprising benefits of giving up
- Core Devices keeps stealing our work
- Rebecca Heineman has died
- Windows 11 adds AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders
- Grok 4.1
- Ask HN: How are Markov chains so different from tiny LLMs?
- Two recently found works of J.S. Bach presented in Leipzig [video]
- An official atlas of North Korea
- Azure hit by 15 Tbps DDoS attack using 500k IP addresses
- A new book about the origins of Effective Altruism
- Self-hosting a NAT Gateway
- Israeli-founded app preloaded on Samsung phones is attracting controversy
- Why don't people return their shopping carts?
- You can now buy used Ford vehicles on Amazon
- Project Gemini
- Google is killing the open web, part 2
- WeatherNext 2: Our most advanced weather forecasting model
- Aldous Huxley predicts Adderall and champions alternative therapies
- Jeff Bezos creates A.I. startup where he will be co-chief executive
- The time has finally come for geothermal energy
- GCC 16 considering changing default to C++20
- Mysterious drones have been spotted at airports across Europe
- Are you stuck in movie logic?
- Giving C a superpower: custom header file (safe_c.h)
- Android/Linux Dual Boot
- People are using iPad OS features on their iPhones
- A new chapter begins for EV batteries with the expiry of key LFP patents
- Goldman Sachs asks in biotech Report: Is curing patients a sustainable business? (2018)
- Peter Thiel sells off all Nvidia stock, stirring bubble fears
- I have recordings proving Coinbase knew about breach months before disclosure
- Open-source Zig book
- Supercookie: Browser Fingerprinting via Favicon (2021)
- Dark Pattern Games
- The fate of "small" open source
- The government has no plan for America’s 300 billion pennies
- What if you don't need MCP at all?
- I finally understand Cloudflare Zero Trust tunnels
- Three kinds of AI products work
- Heretic: Automatic censorship removal for language models
- Iran begins cloud seeding operations as drought bites
- Where do the children play?
- A new documentary about the history of forced psychiatric treatment in Spain
- Where Educational Technology Fails: A seventh-grader's perspective
- The internet is no longer a safe haven
- Why use OpenBSD?
- Brimstone: ES2025 JavaScript engine written in Rust
- GNOME 50 completes the migration to Wayland, dropping X11 backend code
- Lawmakers want to ban VPNs
- What happened with the CIA and The Paris Review?
- Kubernetes Ingress Nginx is retiring
- Guests ejected mid-stay from bankrupt hotel chain Sonder
- 650GB of Data (Delta Lake on S3). Polars vs. DuckDB vs. Daft vs. Spark
- Blue Origin lands New Glenn rocket booster on second try
- SlopStop: Community-driven AI slop detection in Kagi Search
- Disrupting the first reported AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign
- Rust in Android: move fast and fix things
- Microsoft confirms Windows 11 is about to change
- Nano Banana can be prompt engineered for nuanced AI image generation
- The Monks in the Casino
- Launch HN: Tweeks (YC W25) – Browser extension to deshittify the web
- Zed is our office
- Hemp ban hidden inside government shutdown bill
- Tesla Is Recalling Cybertrucks Again
- European Nations Decide Against Acquiring Boeing E-7 Awacs Aircraft
- SIMA 2: An agent that plays, reasons, and learns with you in virtual 3D worlds
- We cut our Mongo DB costs by 90% by moving to Hetzner
- Britain's railway privatization was an abject failure
- Checkout.com hacked, refuses ransom payment, donates to security labs
- Android 16 QPR1 is being pushed to the Android Open Source Project
- Meta replaces WhatsApp for Windows with web wrapper
- Bitcoin's big secret: How cryptocurrency became law enforcement's secret weapon
- My dad could still be alive, but he's not
- Android developer verification: Early access starts
- Voyager 1 is a light-day away by November 2026
- Valve is about to win the console generation
- Homebrew no longer allows bypassing Gatekeeper for unsigned/unnotarized software
- FEX-emu – Run x86 applications on ARM64 Linux devices
- GLP-1 drugs linked to lower death rates in colon cancer patients
- GPT-5.1: A smarter, more conversational ChatGPT
- Steam Machine
- Steam Frame
- Project Euler
- Helm 4.0
- Digital ID, a new way to create and present an ID in Apple Wallet
- The last-ever penny will be minted today in Philadelphia
- Waymo robotaxis are now giving rides on freeways in LA, SF and Phoenix
- Anthropic invests $50B in US AI infrastructure
- Learn Prolog Now (2006)
- Show HN: I built a synth for my daughter
- Fighting the New York Times' invasion of user privacy
- A brief look at FreeBSD
- Ask HN: How does one stay motivated to grind through LeetCode?
- Pakistani newspaper mistakenly prints AI prompt with the article
- Yt-dlp: External JavaScript runtime now required for full YouTube support
- What happened to Transmeta, the last big dotcom IPO
- Please donate to keep Network Time Protocol up – Goal 1k
- Yann LeCun to depart Meta and launch AI startup focused on 'world models'
- You will own nothing and be (un)happy
- Problems with C++ exceptions
- Hard drives on backorder for two years as AI data centers trigger HDD shortage
- Why Nietzsche matters in the age of artificial intelligence
- I can build enterprise software but I can't charge for it
- .NET MAUI is coming to Linux and the browser
- Ditch your mutex, you deserve better
- I didn't reverse-engineer the protocol for my blood pressure monitor in 24 hours
- X5.1 solar flare, G4 geomagnetic storm watch
- Collaboration sucks
- The terminal of the future
- A modern 35mm film scanner for home
- FFmpeg to Google: Fund us or stop sending bugs
- We ran over 600 image generations to compare AI image models
- Firefox expands fingerprint protections
- Canada loses its measles-free status, with US on track to follow
- .NET 10
- Pikaday: A friendly guide to front-end date pickers
- Europe converged rapidly on the United States before stagnating
- The Department of War just shot the accountants and opted for speed
- A new Google model is nearly perfect on automated handwriting recognition
- AI adoption in US adds ~900k tons of CO₂ annually, study finds
- Anxiety disorders tied to low levels of choline in the brain
- Stop overhyping AI, scientists tell von der Leyen
- OpenAI may not use lyrics without license, German court rules
- iPhone Pocket
- Why effort scales superlinearly with the perceived quality of creative work
- SoftBank sells its entire stake in Nvidia
- AI documentation you can talk to, for every repo
- Hiring a developer as a small indie studio in 2025
- The 'Toy Story' You Remember
- I hate screenshots of text
- Warren Buffett's final shareholder letter [pdf]
- Spatial intelligence is AI’s next frontier
- Using Generative AI in Content Production
- Redmond, WA, turns off Flock Safety cameras after ICE arrests
- Memory Safety for Skeptics
- The lazy Git UI you didn't know you need
- European Commission plans “digital omnibus” package to simplify its tech laws
- Canadian military will rely on public servants to boost its ranks by 300k
- Unexpected things that are people
- Asus Ascent GX10
- Thiel and Zuckerberg on Facebook, Millennials, and predictions for 2030 (2019)
- Reminder to passengers ahead of move to 100% digital boarding passes
- Zig and the design choices within
- LLMs are steroids for your Dunning-Kruger
- Time to start de-Appling
- Honda: 2 years of ml vs 1 month of prompting - heres what we learned
- Vibe Code Warning – A personal casestudy
- DNS Provider Quad9 Sees Piracy Blocking Orders as "Existential Threat"
- Europe to decide if 6 GHz is shared between Wi-Fi and cellular networks
- Microsoft's lack of quality control is out of control
- BBC director general and News CEO resign in bias controversy
- XSLT RIP
- Beets: The music geek’s media organizer
- LLM policy?
- How the UK lost its shipbuilding industry
- My Git history was a mess of 'update' and 'fix' – so I made AI clean it up
- Iran faces unprecedented drought as water crisis hits Tehran
- Work after work: Notes from an unemployed new grad watching the job market break
- When Tesla's FSD works well, it gets credit. When it doesn't, you get blamed
- Metabolic and cellular differences between sedentary and active individuals
- Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)
- Drilling down on Uncle Sam's proposed TP-Link ban
- Python Software Foundation gets a donor surge after rejecting federal grant
- Operating Margins
- AI isn't replacing jobs. AI spending is
- The Manuscripts of Edsger W. Dijkstra
- Samsung Family Hub for 2025 Update Elevates the Smart Home Ecosystem
- Startups are pushing the boundaries of reproductive genetics
- Montana becomes first state to enshrine 'right to compute' into law
- Ask HN: How would you set up a child’s first Linux computer?
- I Am Mark Zuckerberg
- Study finds memory decline surge in young people
- Grok 4 Fast now has 2M context window
- Boring Company fined nearly $500K after it dumped drilling fluids into manholes
- How Airbus took off
- Judge says Education Dept partisan out-of-office emails violated First Amendment
- US air traffic controllers start resigning as shutdown bites
- Ironclad – formally verified, real-time capable, Unix-like OS kernel
- IP blocking the UK is not enough to comply with the Online Safety Act
- The history of Casio watches
- Largest cargo sailboat completes first Atlantic crossing
- I Want You to Understand Chicago
- Near mid-air collision at LAX between American Airlines and ITA [video]
- Facebook enables gender discrimination in job ads: European human rights body
- Firefox Forcing LLM Features
- WriterdeckOS
- Marko – A declarative, HTML‑based language
- $1T in tech stocks sold off as market grows skeptical of AI
- Ticker: Don't die of heart disease
- Btop: A better modern alternative of htop with a gamified interface
- Study identifies weaknesses in how AI systems are evaluated
- Things I've Heard Boomers Say That I Agree with 100%
- Always be ready to leave (even if you never do)
- Apple's "notarisation" – blocking software freedom of developers and users
- Sam Altman's pants are on fire
- Older Adults Outnumber Children in 11 States
- Mullvad: Shutting down our search proxy Leta
- Valdi – A cross-platform UI framework that delivers native performance
- Cerebras Code now supports GLM 4.6 at 1000 tokens/sec
- Why is Zig so cool?
- FAA to restrict commercial rocket launches to overnight hours
- Becoming a compiler engineer
- AI is Dunning-Kruger as a service
- YouTube Removes Windows 11 Bypass Tutorials, Claims 'Risk of Physical Harm'
- VLC's Jean-Baptiste Kempf Receives the European SFS Award 2025
- Apple is crossing a Steve Jobs red line
- James Watson has died
- Ruby already solved my problem
- Myna: Monospace typeface designed for symbol-heavy programming languages
- Rockstar employee shares account of the company's union-busting efforts
- Gmail AI gets more intrusive
- Vodafone Germany is changing the open internet, one peering connection at a time
- Denmark's government aims to ban access to social media for children under 15
- A.I. and Social Media Contribute to 'Brain Rot'
- Why I love OCaml (2023)
- OpenMW 0.50.0 Released – open-source Morrowind reimplementation
- We chose OCaml to write Stategraph
- Is Software the UFOlogy of Engineering Disciplines?
- Meta projected 10% of 2024 revenue came from scams
- Parents say ChatGPT encouraged son to kill himself
- SanDisk launches dongle-like Extreme Fit USB-C flash drive with up to 1 TB
- Majority of teens hold negative views of news media, says report
- The R47: A new physical RPN calculator
- Lessons from Growing a Piracy Streaming Site
- Leaving Meta and PyTorch
- Dead Framework Theory
- A Fond Farewell
- A Note on Fil-C
- Man who threw sandwich at US border agent not guilty of assault
- Game design is simple
- Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani's policies as 'normal'
- When did people favor composition over inheritance?
- Unix v4 Tape Found
- Analysis indicates that the universe’s expansion is not accelerating
- You should write an agent
- Transpiler, a Meaningless Word (2023)
- Two billion email addresses were exposed
- Mark Zuckerberg Had Illegal School at His Palo Alto Compound. Neighbors Revolted
- Swift on FreeBSD Preview
- The English language doesn't exist – it's just French that's badly pronounced
- ICC ditches Microsoft 365 for openDesk
- FBI tries to unmask owner of archive.is
- OpenAI probably can't make ends meet. That's where you come in
- Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
- Kimi K2 Thinking, a SOTA open-source trillion-parameter reasoning model
- Cloudflare tells U.S. govt that foreign site blocking efforts are trade barriers
- IKEA launches new smart home range with 21 Matter-compatible products
- AI Slop vs. OSS Security
- Eating stinging nettles
- The trust collapse: Infinite AI content is awful
- Mathematical exploration and discovery at scale
- What the hell have you built
- How I am deeply integrating Emacs
- I may have found a way to spot U.S. at-sea strikes before they're announced
- Ratatui – App Showcase
- FAA to cut flights by 10% at 40 major airports due to government shutdown
- End of Japanese community
- Bluetooth 6.2 – more responsive, improves security, USB comms, and testing
- I Stopped Being a Climate Catastrophist
- Tesla's German car sales more than halve in October as wider EV sales jump
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