1. Why timekeeping is now on the verge of a giant leap forward in accuracy

2. Why are doctors wary of wearables?

3. The World of Dante''s Divine Comedy

4. Announcing OpenBao v2.1.0 - OSI-licensed fork of HashiCorp Vault

5. Demo: Decoupled Momentum Optimization – training neural networks in parallel

6. The Two Big Games

7. Government Funding Fuels Geothermal Expansion

8. Enron is back to launch crypto token focused on solving the energy crisis

9. The Art of Failure Analysis 2024

10. PicoCAD – Steam release retrospect – wishlist and sales data

11. Fish Have a Brain Microbiome. Could Humans Have One Too?

12. NUPP: Nearly Universal Principles of Projects

13. Next-level frosted glass with CSS backdrop-filter

14. Paralysed patients able to walk after electrodes implanted in their brains

15. Thoughts on Online Addiction

16. Things I Learned in 2024

17. Durable all inorganic perovskite tandem photovoltaics – Nature

18. Falcon 9 reaches a flight rate 30 times higher than shuttle at 1/100th the cost

19. Consciousness Might Hide in Our Brain''s Electric Fields

20. The Existential Risk of Math Errors

21. The dark side of online space disinformation – Science – AAAS

22. I''m Switching Back to Android

23. NeuroAI for AI Safety

24. Windows 11 market share declines as users seemingly shift back to Windows 10

25. Putting the I in Team

26. Radon – IDE for React Native

27. Sales of Bibles Are Booming, Fueled by First-Time Buyers and New Versions

28. Learning from Error Is Not the Same as Learning from Experience

29. Claud Cockburn invented guerrilla journalism

30. Building a 40K/Month iPhone App

31. Building Apple Products Is a Side Hustle for BYD, China''s Biggest EV Maker

32. Tenstorrent closes 693M of Series D funding

33. You exist before your pain [video]

34. VW Workers Go on Strike

35. Legacy Safety: The Wrocław C Meeting

36. European Federation of Journalists to stop posting content on X (Twitter)

37. Do Less with Serverless: Elastic Cloud Serverless – Now GA

38. Vulkan 1.4 Streamlines Development/Deployment of GPU-Accelerated Applications

39. Raspberry Pi boosts Pi 5 performance with SDRAM tuning

40. Oracle''s Java price hikes push CIOs to brew new licensing strategies

41. Working for Robots

42. Building Mobile Apps with Claude and Model Context Protocol

43. Macros in Dart

44. Software Freedom Conservancy release a router expressly for open-source firmware

45. Swords, Lances, Spears, and Unique Chainmail: Iron Age Weapon Sacrifice

46. Modern Work Fucking Sucks

47. Lessons Learned from Burning Things

48. Pre-training a 15B parameter language model over the internet

49. Dia Browser

50. Why Not Mars (2023)

51. Stellantis CEO Carlos Tavares abruptly quits as US Jeep, RAM sales falter

52. Musk seeks injunction to stop OpenAI morphing into for-profit company

53. Fathom Analytics has been acquired

54. Apple IIe and IIc Design Manager Peter Quinn Interviewed by Byte Magazine

55. Decarbonizing heavy industry with thermal batteries

56. Global push for cooperation as space traffic crowds Earth orbit

57. Be Easy to Fire

58. Windows 11 market share falls despite Microsoft ad blitz

59. 25 Years of DPReview: Five things I learned in twenty-five years of reviewing

60. Evidence of the use of silk by Bronze Age civilization

61. President Biden pardons son Hunter Biden

62. She believed she was an FBI ''asset.'' The scam drained her life''s savings

63. World Labs: Generate 3D worlds from a single image

64. Palantir and Ferrari: Building Ultimate Performance with Charles Leclerc [video]

65. This site is unavailable due to my WordPress blackout

66. Just Built a Giant, Next-Gen Planet Hunting Telescope? Here''s Where to Point It

67. DuckDB is faster at counting the lines of a CSV file than wc

68. Conventional Commit Messages

69. How Libra Was Killed

70. Windows 11 now warns when typing your password in Notepad, websites

71. From PDFs to AI-ready structured data: a deep dive

72. The rise of static-first websites: why major brands are making the switch

73. The Gen AI Bridge to the Future

74. New Data Security Regulations – Healthcare

75. Colt''s Revolutions

76. Agent Framework / shim to use Pydantic with LLMs

77. Start Web Scraping with Python

78. Vulnerability-Lookup facilitates quick correlation of vulnerabilities

79. Every Board Game Rulebook Is Awful [pdf]

80. Warcraft 12 will be delisted from GOG

81. Manifesto from Prisma on next steps with the ORM

82. AGI requires better retrieval, not just better LLMs. Here''s why

83. Enron Corporation Announces Relaunch with a Vision to Solve Global Energy Crisis

84. Evening use of eReaders negatively affects sleep, and next-morning alertness

85. The zoology and biochemistry of xenomorphs from the Alien franchise

86. LLMOps Database

87. Does GitHub Copilot Really Improve Code Quality?

88. Money and Language (2017)

89. Planting New Platform Roots in Cloud Native with Fir

90. The company behind Arc is building a new AI web browser called Dia

91. Llamafile 0.8.17 Brings New Web UI for This Easy-to-Distribute AI LLM Framework

92. Inhaling Hydrogen-Rich Gas Before Acute Exercise Alleviates Exercise Fatigue

93. America has a child marriage epidemic

94. My favourite Gleam feature confuses people [video]

95. Employee lawsuit accuses Apple of spying on its workers

96. Pre-Owned Pricing Is Broken – Here’s How We’re Fixing It!

97. Reverse Thinking Makes LLMs Stronger Reasoners

98. Qt Creator 15 released with Windows on ARM64 support

99. Cancer Cells Fend Off Starvation and Death from Chemotherapy

100. Long term technologies, waiting in the background

101. SSD Cost versus Spinning Rust

102. The CIA, NSA, and Pokémon Go

103. Privacy Disasters: FaceHuggers Are Eating Your Skeets

104. Mapsy – easy static maps in Python

105. eInk Picture Frames

106. Why printers add secret tracking dots (2017)

107. Vision

108. The Honeywell Kitchen Computer: The 1960s Meal Planner That Nobody Could Afford

109. The Great Flattening is here to stay

110. System Design for Entity Resolution

111. Access salary data for non-immigrant visa holders (H1B, F-1, and others)

112. Bloomberg Joins the Alliance for Open Media

113. Trump threatens 100% tariff on BRICS nations if they try to replace dollar

114. Better, Faster Python Projects: A Deep Dive into Uv

115. Experimenting with Rust, Nix, K6 and Parca

116. Kenya and "The Decline of the Greatest Coffee"

117. BlackRock marks down its investment in Automattic by 10%

118. Carbon dioxide capture from open air using covalent organic frameworks

119. Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger Retires

120. 1Password Joins the Rails Foundation

121. The Rails Foundation Welcomes 1Password as Core Member

122. Insects react to virtual reality gaming

123. Compiling Lisp to Bytecode and Running It

124. The Secret Pentagon War Game That Offers a Stark Warning for Our Times

125. Publish to the Steam Deck with Construct''s New Linux Exporter

126. European Air Quality Index Tool

127. China Tensions Prompt U.S. Navy Race to Reload Missiles at Sea

128. Some Simple Economics of the Google Antitrust Case

129. Intel Announces Retirement of CEO Pat Gelsinger

130. Open-source OpenWrt One router released at 89 – ''hacker-friendly device''

131. ContainerScript: Firefox Addon for programmatically assigning URLs to containers

132. I Want an Honest Office

133. China takes aim at energy replacement with plan to rely on renewable,reduce coal

134. Retro Debugger: multiplatform debugger APIs host for retro computers

135. Mathematics, Philosophy, and Artificial Intelligence

136. Amazon EKS Auto Mode

137. Patched AppKit in Mac OS X 10.0 to re-enable the NeXTSTEP interface style (2022)

138. Dia: New browser from the makers of Arc browser

139. SEC Public Alert: Unregistered Soliciting Entities (PAUSE)

140. Kleene algebra with commutativity conditions is undecidable

141. FCC Strengthens Requirements for Third-Party Caller ID Authentication Solutions

142. MapKit

143. What does Google really know about you?

144. The Sperry Rand Corporation – By Bradford Morgan White

145. Vulkan Video Now Enabled by Default for Radeon VCN2/VCN3 Hardware on Linux

146. AI Search Engine for Research

147. OpenAI explores advertising as it steps up revenue drive

148. Built a podcast generator (inspired by notebooklm)

149. Turkish strike drone completes first carrier landing, takeoff

150. Nearest Neighbors: Solidarity, startups and convenience

151. Dolphin Emulator Progress Report: Release 2412

152. Humans have the need to read (2011)

153. ''It''s so easy to lie'': A fifth of children use fake age on social media

154. What does 1025 versus 1026 mean? – AI regulations

155. Video Games Can Improve Strategic Thinking

156. PydanticAI Agent: Framework to Use Pydantic with LLMs

157. A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace

158. Inside Shopify''s Layoffs

159. Kakeibo: Japanese Approach to Personal Budget

160. Disable-devtool: Disable web developer tools

161. Axis 3D Printer with Radial Non-Planar Slicer – Joshua Bird [video]

162. SQLite Index Visualization: Search

163. UK: Proposed amendment to legal presumption about the reliability of computers

164. 40th Anniversary: The Making of Do They Know It''s Christmas?

165. The scientist who tested his revolutionary medicine on his own brain cancer

166. Paraprosdokian

167. Once

168. Detect AI photos using noise

169. GrackerAI Copilot

170. Why designers don''t like design systems

171. Day 2 – WAT LLM coding tool do you want for Christmas?

172. Minimum qualifying income for a home in the Bay Area is now 320k

173. US airlines transported passengers over two light-years since the last crash

174. Professional headshots for every career stage at HeadShot.cv

175. Introduction to GPU Microarchitecture [pdf]

176. Finding Bugs with Fuzzing

177. Biden pardons his son Hunter despite previous pledges not to

178. An early peek at Dia, our second product [video]

179. What happened on 22nd January 1970, 26th April 1956, and first October 1908?

180. The Illusion Illusion

181. The future of RSA certificates and TLS 1.2 at Wikimedia

182. I think the donation notification works

183. You Have One Voice

184. New physical AWS Data Transfer Terminals let you upload to the cloud faster

185. PixarAI

186. The Beautiful Math of Bloom Filters

187. How Do Isochronic Tones Work? The Benefits and the Research

188. KlongPy: High-Performance Array Programming in Python

189. 95 Tesla deaths have involved fires or Autopilot failures

190. An Aperiodic Monotile

191. A few interesting Postgres features

192. Reward Hacking in Reinforcement Learning

193. I''ve Been Here for Years

194. DeepSeek-R1, a transparent challenger to OpenAI O1

195. The One question I use to overcome task paralysis

196. South Korea hosts treaty talks on curbing plastic pollution

197. Advent of Papers: Elephant 2000

198. Advent of Papers (2024)

199. Three Math Books Everybody Should Buy

200. Brief History of Haptic Computing

201. After years of building and growing FxbulkSMS, it''s now time to pass the torch

202. The Rock VX Gas Canister Build (2022)

203. Gestaltgesetze füR Websites (Gestalt Principles for Websites)

204. Lost in the Future

205. Global Value of Music Copyright soars to 45.5B, now worth more than cinema

206. Years later: how to successfully focus textboxes in iOS Safari

207. Dotlan EveMaps

208. LLM Routing – Intuitively and Exhaustively Explained

209. The AI Effect: Amazon Sees Nearly 1B Cyber Threats a Day

210. I''ve worked in SF, Chicago, and Silicon Valley. I''d only raise my family in one

211. Unconditional Pardon for Hunter Biden for all crimes between 1/1/2014-12/1/2024

212. With Only Voice Use Emacs to Write Go Code

213. The Abandoned Corner Shops Getting Transformed into Million-Dollar Homes

214. Bicameral, Not Homoiconic

215. President Biden pardons his son Hunter Biden, reversing course as term nears end

216. See how a lab-grown diamond is made

217. Music Producer Amon Tobin explains his latest work using 3D software Houdini [video]

218. Modern cars are surveillance devices on wheels with major privacy risks

219. JPEG compress your LLM weights

220. Musk''s Rivals Fear He Will Target Them with His New Power

221. Tesla has been slow to make its chargers accessible to other EVs

222. You''re the Man Now Dog

223. First-Hand Account of "The Undefined Behavior Question" Incident [pdf]

224. Is JSON Predicate

225. Why Golang slices still surprise me

226. View''s Lifetime Is Not Yours

227. Czech billionaire closes in on deal to buy Royal Mail

228. Improving the approachability of data-race safety

229. How do you create absolute silence?

230. Dopamine fasting: Misunderstanding science spawns a maladaptive fad

231. Engineers unveil catalyst innovations for sustainable turquoise hydrogen

232. GNU Coreutils Gotchas (2015)

233. How to be not lonely? ''Cohousing'' is an answer for some people

234. The FBI''s WofMD Program Has a New Target: Animal Rights Activists

235. 2024 Space Telescope Advent Calendar

236. Rush to ''value up'' may be Asia stocks best defense against Trump

237. SpyLoan: A Global Threat Exploiting Social Engineering

238. C.R. Patterson and sons – America''s only black owned auto manufacturer

239. Uplifting Stories

240. There''s a real math problem with MicroStrategy''s obscene valuation premium

241. Every Mantra Has a Counter-Mantra

242. ''Brain rot'' named Oxford Word of the Year 2024

243. Discovery of CVE-2024-2550 (Palo Alto)

244. Amazon Workers on Strike from Black Friday to Cyber Monday

245. Turbostat Utility Lands New Features with Linux 6.13

246. A Trio of Modules to Speed Up Your Perl Web Applications

247. Working on Perfection

248. Sitters and Standers

249. Feds: Tether Has Become a Money Laundering Tool for Mexican Drug Trafficker

250. Oxford Electric Bell

251. Vivid unlocks the full brightness of your MacBook Pro and Pro Display XDR

252. President Biden pardons his son Hunter Biden

253. Training myself to run farther with Strava''s API and an IoT dog feeder of M&Ms

254. Debugging a Superblock Percpu_rw_semaphore Deadlock

255. Git-Cleanup-Squashed-Branches

256. What is noninterference, and how do we enforce it? (2015)

257. Drift of Earth''s Pole Confirms Groundwater Depletion Impact on Sea Level Rise

258. Oxford''s word of the year: "brain rot"

259. When was the famous "sudo warning" introduced? Under what background? By whom?

260. The Technology for Autonomous Weapons Exists. What Now?

261. Zoo experiment finds 1 in 5 animals test positive for Covid

262. Police bust pirate streaming service making 250M per month

263. List of Lists of Lists

264. Banned C Contributor Speaks Out [video]

265. Nathan Taylor on Liquid Type Systems [video]

266. The Birth and Death of Meaning (Ernest Becker)

267. Ampere WS-1 Japanese APL Clamtop

268. A Case of Fraud

269. Legacy Shmegacy

270. 16th-century graffiti of Tower of London prisoners decoded for first time

271. A Strange Shape on Google Earth Found to Be the Mark of an Undetected Tornado

272. Thank Big Data for Killing Off the Worst Part of Thanksgiving Meal Prep

273. Guy tries to update adobe subscription, adobe wants 250 to cancel current subsc

274. RAII and the Rust/Linux Drama

275. Stellantis CEO Tavares Quits Early After Strategy Dispute

276. Category Theory in Programming

277. Honeycrisp: An Apple-First Deep Learning Framework

278. ''Call of Duty: Modern Warfare'' Rewrites the Highway of Death as a Russian Attack

279. The Imminence of the Destruction of the Space Program

280. Can Europe build its first trillion-dollar startup?

281. UN plastic treaty talks end without a deal

282. How to Study Mathematics

283. Endless OS vastly simplifies the Linux desktop so anyone can enjoy it

284. AI Developer''s Handbook

285. Goat or Car? Solving the Monty Hall Problem with Python and NumPy

286. What Graykey iPhone hack tool can unlock

287. Scientists Discover a Protein Key to Preventing Muscle Breakdown

288. NaNoGenMo 2024 novel from AI captioned stills from the movie A.I

289. I Will Do This Now

290. Thinking in Actors – Challenging your software modelling to be simpler

291. UK counter-terrorism unit demands Steam withdraw controversial shooter from sale

292. How to Watch a Baby

293. The Misunderstood Reason Americans Stopped Going to Church

294. Trump''s Return Heralds Litigation Peace for Crypto

295. Why Most Published Research Findings Are False

296. Scalable and Performant Data Loading

297. iOS 18 is the worst software Apple has ever released

298. Fidelity marks up its X stake by 32 percent

299. 208 million Americans are classified as obese or overweight

300. Poop: a performance optimizer observation platform