New Year Zone (newyear.zone)
Kiwix: Free educational content, offline browser apps, and local hotspot device (kiwix.org)
The Economist – Archive 1945 – NotebookLM (notebooklm.google.com)
ChatGPT involvement in mentally-ill person''s murder and suicide (en.wikipedia.org)
Fork Yeah: We''re keeping ingress-Nginx alive (www.chainguard.dev)
A Big, Long Day: The Fastest Known Time on the Everest Base Camp Trail (strivetrips.org)
Conduit (Rust Matrix Server) v0.10.11 another critical vulnerability (conduit.rs)
Apps Let You Bet on Deportations and Famine. Mainstream Media Is Eating It Up (theintercept.com)
Microsoft''s Nadella overhauls leadership as he plots AI strategy beyond OpenAI (www.ft.com)
ByteDance to pour US14B into Nvidia chips in 2026 (www.scmp.com)
Questions to ask yourself every year (gourav.io)
Study links America''s favorite cooking oil to obesity (medicalxpress.com)
Creating my own blog from scratch using zola (vjay15.github.io)
Writing for the Opponent (en.wikipedia.org)
The Lore of the World: Field Notes for a Child''s Codex (www.theintrinsicperspective.com)
Build Your Own ML Framework (mlsysbook.ai)
A Woman on a NY Subway Just Set the Tone for Next Year (www.honest-broker.com)
Advice for generalists who want to join startups (twitter.com)
Languish – Programming Language Trends (tjpalmer.github.io)
What to Expect from the AI Engineering World in 2026 (sarthakai.substack.com)
Meta is sued by US Virgin Islands over ads for scams, dangers to children (www.reuters.com)
Poland urges Brussels to probe TikTok over AI-generated content (www.reuters.com)
Nvelox: Lightweight, event-driven load balancer built for high-concurrency (github.com)
Restoring My Childhood Family Computer Part 4: Emulation (www.gridbugs.org)
Ten things we forgot to be true (kgrep.com)
OpenAI Is Paying Employees More Than Any Major Tech Startup in History (www.wsj.com)
Google Opal (opal.google)
The Showa Hundred Year Problem (www.dampfkraft.com)
RC5-72 / Overall Project Stats (stats.distributed.net)
Radio observations to date find no evidence of technosignature from 3I/ATLAS (phys.org)
Askap discovers an outflow in a nearby galaxy (phys.org)
Skunk Works Rules [pdf] (www.lockheedmartin.com)
Taking photos of PCBs and electronics [video] (www.youtube.com)
AI-powered skin analysis platform (skinadvisor.ai)
Antibrittle Agents (www.southbridge.ai)
I built a free tool to explore app market data for indie developers and founders (appark.ai)
You can now submit fraud claims to the IRS online. Before you had to mail a form (twitter.com)
OpenSSL Performance Still Under Scrutiny (www.feistyduck.com)
How can I detect that the system is running low on memory? (devblogs.microsoft.com)
The Antitrust Trial That Could Take Apart Nascar (www.thebignewsletter.com)
Why Are the Seas Named Black, White, and Yellow? (ssec.si.edu)
How to Win at eBay: How to Search (www.kenrockwell.com)
5th floor at stair 9 in building 2 of CS research group at Bell Labs (spinroot.com)
New York''s incoming mayor bans Raspberry Pi at his inauguration party (www.theregister.com)
Operation Mincemeat (en.wikipedia.org)
A single DNA cassette tape could store billions of photos (www.popsci.com)
Effective Alruists Should Embrace Sortition (almostinfinite.substack.com)
Mitt Romney: Tax the Rich, Like Me (www.nytimes.com)
Tips for Writing a Technical Book (borischerny.com)
I''m rejecting the next architecture PR that uses a Service Mesh for a team of 4 (old.reddit.com)
We don''t need more contributors who aren''t programmers to contribute code (discourse.llvm.org)
Play Free Online Games – No Download Needed – MiniTapFun (minitapfun.com)
MTTR-A: Measuring Cognitive Recovery Latency in Multi-Agent Systems (arxiv.org)
Italy antitrust agency fines Apple 116M over privacy feature (apnews.com)
Readings in Database Systems (5th Edition) (www.redbook.io)
The NPC to MC Spectrum (nonzerosum.games)
Brazil''s Amazon rainforest at risk as key protection under threat (www.bbc.co.uk)
L1TF Reloaded (github.com)
VL-JEPA: Joint Embedding Predictive Architecture for Vision-Language (arxiv.org)
SomaliScan – US Fraud aggregator sourced from public records (www.somaliscan.com)
The science of how (and when) we decide to speak out–or self-censor (arstechnica.com)
MCP to trade Robinhood through Claude Code (github.com)
Dittytoy – Generative Music Playground (dittytoy.net)
Tech Startups Are Handing Out Free Nicotine Pouches to Boost Productivity (www.wsj.com)
The Window for Local-First AI (Before the Defaults Ship) (www.localghost.ai)
How to translate a ROM: The mysteries of the game cartridge [video] (www.youtube.com)
MAME 0.284 (www.mamedev.org)
2025 End of Year Engineering Pay Report (levels.fyi)
Anomalous electronic state opens pathway to room-temperature superconductivity (phys.org)
S&P500 Priced in Gold (pricedingold.com)
AI code analysis is getting good (hachyderm.io)
A History of My Homelab (vhaudiquet.fr)
obsera – a real-time intelligence platform (www.obsera.xyz)
Brazilian court requiring Reddit to disclose identity of a ponzi whistleblower (www.conjur.com.br)
LLMs for Medical Practice: Look Out (www.science.org)
Porting Graph:Easy to TypeScript with GPT-5.2 and Azad (tomisin.space)
Alan Kay – 75 Years of Graphical User Interfaces [video] (www.youtube.com)
I used Claude to revive an NPM package with 760K downloads/wk last updated 2019 (github.com)
Anti-Addiction iPhone Setup (www.aadillpickle.com)
Random Quality of Life Improvements That Will Change Your Life (twitter.com)
You''re Getting ''Screen Time'' Wrong (www.theatlantic.com)
Exploiting Prime Selection Vulnerabilities in Public Key Cryptography (RSA) (arxiv.org)
The First Video Game Came Long Before Pong (www.iflscience.com)
Cross-site Scripting-benchmark of Python sanitizers against real browsers (github.com)
Be aware when opening "take home challenges" from untrusted recruiters (bitbucket.org)
Quality of drinking water varies significantly by airline (foodmedcenter.org)
Francesca Albanese and the Lonely Road of Defiance (chrishedges.substack.com)
Stable-Pretraining-v1: Foundation Model Research Made Simple (arxiv.org)
Firebase, Antigravity, & TypeScript FTW (daywards.com)
The Heritage Foundation Shows How MAGA Will Die (paulkrugman.substack.com)
Russia claims to have moved nuclear-capable missile system into Belarus (www.theguardian.com)
Reverse-engineered a Sextortion Bot: Llama-7B instance with 2048 token window (old.reddit.com)
EdgeVec – Vector search in the browser, no server (Rust/WASM) (github.com)
Admit It, You''re in a Relationship with AI (www.bloomberg.com)
Updated LLM Benchmark (Gemini 3 Flash) (entropicthoughts.com)
We have all we need to make mass surveillance a reality (idiallo.com)
Petition: Restore Free and Open Access to the ACM Digital Library (www.ipetitions.com)
Turning Dafny Sets into Sequences [video] (www.youtube.com)
X Users Have the Power to Edit Any Image Without Permission (petapixel.com)
We still don''t know what Elon Musk''s DOGE did (www.theguardian.com)
Waymo sues Santa Monica, and the city sues right back: Court fight ahead (www.latimes.com)
Attention Is Bayesian Inference (medium.com)
AI and politics and stagflation workplace fatigue (www.glassdoor.com)
Project ideas to appreciate the art of programming (codecrafters.io)
Penn and Teller Help Rob Pike and Dennis Ritchie Play a Prank on Arno Penzias [video] (www.youtube.com)
Christmas 500 years ago was a drunken 6-week feast (fortune.com)
Brain immune cells may drive more damage in females than males with Alzheimer''s (medicalxpress.com)
Feuding physicists and the bitter battle over the swirls in ''The Starry Night'' (www.washingtonpost.com)
The GDB JIT Interface (bernsteinbear.com)
I exposed my Homelab through Cloudflare Tunnels (ebourgess.dev)
Coverage.py sleepy snake logo (2019) (nedbatchelder.com)
NYC Mayoral Inauguration Bans Raspberry Pi and Flipper Zero Alongside Explosives (blog.adafruit.com)
HP told me I need to buy a new motherboard to reset the forgotten BIOS password (old.reddit.com)
Flint (www.flint.fyi)
Tw93/Mole: Deep clean and optimize your Mac (github.com)
Using Perplexity, Firecrawl and Gemini Flash to analyze 305 Links for 12.70 USD (vibegui.com)
Coase''s Penguin, Or, Linux and the Nature of the Firm [pdf] (www.benkler.org)
Gallery of Bad Shell Code (github.com)
Mamdani Will Be Sworn in at Abandoned Subway Station Beneath City Hall (www.nytimes.com)
Hubble Reveals Chaos in the Largest Planet Nursery Ever Seen (www.universetoday.com)
Elon Musk''s top Tesla predictions for 2025 that didn''t happen (electrek.co)
Important stuff most people get wrong (upgrader.gapminder.org)
Cybersecurity Employees Plead Guilty to Ransomware Attacks Using ALPHV BlackCat (www.justice.gov)
Review: Commodore 64 Ultimate (www.wired.com)
Introducing RalphOS, a vibe-coded operating system (www.loom.com)
Psilocybin triggers activity-dependent rewiring of large-scale cortical networks (www.cell.com)
The Honey Files Expose Major Fraud [video] (www.youtube.com)
Honey''s Dieselgate: Detecting and Tricking Testers (vptdigital.com)
XFCE-Winxp-Tc (github.com)
Former IBM CEO Lou Gerstner passes, aged 83 (www.theregister.com)
Eric Barone makes 125,000 donation to the C# framework (xcancel.com)
OpenAI''s cash burn will be one of the big bubble questions of 2026 (www.economist.com)
Leveraging insights from neuroscience to build adaptive artificial intelligence (www.nature.com)
The Honey Files Expose Major Fraud (docs.google.com)
A Battle with My Blood (www.newyorker.com)
A small collection of text-only websites (shkspr.mobi)
The moment GMV is labeled ARR, the business is built on sand (oswarld.com)
AI Labs Are Solving the Power Crisis: The Onsite Gas Deep Dive (newsletter.semianalysis.com)
Gestational diabetes rose every year in the US since 2016 (news.northwestern.edu)
Frontier Models are Capable of In-context Scheming (arxiv.org)
U.S. cybersecurity experts plead guilty for ransomware attacks (www.tomshardware.com)
Tatiana Schlossberg, granddaughter of John F Kennedy, dies aged 35 (www.bbc.com)
Tesla Owner Logs 10k Consecutive Miles on FSD Without a Single Intervention (driveteslacanada.ca)
Humans May Be Able to Grow New Teeth Within Just 4 Years (www.popularmechanics.com)
How the "Marvelization" of Cinema Accelerates the Decline of Filmmaking (www.openculture.com)
Framework Is Showing (dbushell.com)
The Slow Media Manifesto (en.slow-media.net)
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Nexperia in no-man''s-land: how the company became caught between 2 world powers (www.nrc.nl)
ADHD drugs don''t work the way we thought (www.sciencedaily.com)
Minification Doesnt Matter Much (gomakethings.com)
Wrapped Envy Season (www.wreflection.com)
Sabotaging Bitcoin (blog.dshr.org)
iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max Users Report Static Speaker Noise While Charging (www.macrumors.com)
Rover: AI Coding Agent Manager (endor.dev)
Introduction to Machine Learning Systems (github.com)
Using lava lamps to break RSA (flak.tedunangst.com)
The Bruising Reality of Searching for a Job at 65 (www.wsj.com)
Rx Inspector – Look Up Where Your Generic Prescription Drugs Were Made (projects.propublica.org)
The Truth about Affordability (www.economist.com)
Mitigation needed to avoid unprecedented multi-decade North Atlantic Oscillation (www.nature.com)
Reverse Engineering Bluetooth on Amazon Kindle EReaders (sighery.com)
The sword-wielding man hired to kick squatters out of empty Oakland homes (oaklandside.org)
Sustainable 3D printing using rapid-set clay concrete with biobased additives (link.springer.com)
Where Are the Beautiful Cities? (twitter.com)
Google Home Users Are Trying to Hack Their Way to a Better Voice Assistant (gizmodo.com)
Cyberattack disrupts France''s postal service and banking during Christmas rush (apnews.com)
India has surpassed Japan to become the fourth-largest economy (www.dw.com)
ESPectre Sensor: open-source motion detection system for ESP32 (espectre.dev)
Painting with light in WebGL: terrain builder in the browser (medium.com)
New brain implant restores lost senses using light (newatlas.com)
Prof. Software Developers Don''t Vibe, They Control: AI Agent Coding Use in 2025 (arxiv.org)
Everything as Code: How We Manage Our Company in One Monorepo (www.kasava.dev)
Billionaire Superyachts in St. Barts for New Year''s Eve (www.forbes.com)
Social Media Posts Predict Unemployment Spikes Two Weeks Early (scienceblog.com)
Soldr, an open-source compact soldering station (www.soldr.pro)
Zpdf: PDF text extraction in Zig – 5x faster than MuPDF (github.com)
Growing Reddit Topics (freesubstats.com)
Common-Mode Chokes PDF (2006) (remoteqth.com)
Luna – Space Simulation (luna.watermelonson.com)
Amtrak: A Year of Records (media.amtrak.com)
Desktop Classic System – Spacial computing hearkening back to classic Mac OS (mycophobia.org)
Can a Commodore 1541 Disk Drive Be Used as a General Purpose Computer? [video] (www.youtube.com)
Easily create and view 3D splat files from 2D images with Apple''s ML Sharp model (github.com)
Troy: Turkish Payment Method Alternative (www.troyodeme.com)
Yet, another temple, but now in space (orbitaltemple.art)
China mandates 50% domestic equipment rule for chipmakers (www.reuters.com)
We Fall for Narcissistic Leaders, Starting in Grade School (www.nytimes.com)
The Napoleon of Notting Hill (en.wikipedia.org)
The birth of the internet, according to Jon Bois [video] (www.youtube.com)
Welcome to "necroprinting"–3D printer nozzle made from mosquito''s proboscis (arstechnica.com)
jless – A Command-Line JSON Viewer (jless.io)
Foreign tech workers are avoiding travel to the US (www.computerworld.com)
David Long''s "Adventure 6" (LONG0751) has been found (quuxplusone.github.io)
FediMeteo: A 4 FreeBSD VPS Became a Global Weather Service (it-notes.dragas.net)
5 Years, 12 Pivots (boundaryml.com)
Collaboration Sucks (posthog.com)
Cheap Solar Is Transforming Lives and Economies Across Africa (www.nytimes.com)
Escaping Containment: A Security Analysis of FreeBSD Jails [video] (media.ccc.de)
Internet Archive Wayback Machine is currently 503 (web.archive.org)
Iran Protests Enter Third Straight Day as Students Join In (www.wsj.com)
The Podcast ''Productivity'' Trap (www.theatlantic.com)
Mutatis – Database that mutates its schema based on semantic patterns (github.com)
Now That He Has No Power, Mitt Romney Says "Tax the Rich" (jacobin.com)
Questions for Jill Tarter, Astronomer (2014) (www.sciencefriday.com)
Company in a Box – 42 AI agents to run a software house (github.com)
The rise and fall of the OLAP cube (www.holistics.io)
Patriotism tests loom for big business (www.economist.com)
Funes.world (funes.world)
Building an in-memory background job queue in ASP.NET Core (abp.io)
Quickly Inspect Your Java Application with JStall (mostlynerdless.de)
Community Tools Bring Lockfile Support to GitHub Actions (nesbitt.io)
Intro to Foundation DB via a Distributed Mutex (jander.land)
Ohara – blockchain verification of non-AI media (github.com)
Russian number station UVB-76 suddenly plays Swan Lake and Erika [video] (www.youtube.com)
TRIZ (en.wikipedia.org)
CCC 25:Build a CPU in Factory Game Engine (www.youtube.com)
You''ve been targeted by government spyware. Now what? (techcrunch.com)
A faster heart for F-Droid. Our new server is here (f-droid.org)
Git''s HTTP server side design does not scale (xeiaso.net)
America''s economy looks set to accelerate (www.economist.com)
George and Amal Clooney granted French citizenship (www.cnn.com)
Chinese cars are beating European tariffs (www.economist.com)
Conditions in the Intel 8087 floating-point chip''s microcode (www.righto.com)
Bison return to Illinois'' Kane County after 200 years (phys.org)
Lottocracy: Democracy Without Elections (www.lottocracy.org)
The Problem with Letting AI Do the Grunt Work (www.theatlantic.com)
Wayland is flawed at its core and the community needs to talk about it (old.reddit.com)
I Sharted and Understood the Helpful Content Update (wskpf.com)
Electrolysis can solve one of our biggest contamination problems (ethz.ch)
Hiring a Series A/B CTO: Attributes That Matter (shailppatel.com)
Monolith OS Devblog for December 2025 (monolith-project.org)
Party of One for Code Review (tidyfirst.substack.com)
Every Hacker News Item Organized by Day (staticnews.dosaygo.com)
Gitdb.net (gitdb.net)
An AI generated wiki for exploring GitHub projects (deepwiki.com)
Nvidia insists it isn''t Enron (www.theguardian.com)
39C3 Asahi Linux – Porting Linux to Apple Silicon [video] (media.ccc.de)
Why Make Websites? (hypertext-engineering.pages.dev)
The Origin of Rot (www.owlposting.com)
How to Get Startup Ideas (2012) (paulgraham.com)
The great programming transformation: How AI and Rust are quietly dethroning C (www.zdnet.com)
Am I slop? Analyze the perplexity of your thoughts (www.amislop.com)
A Billionaire Wants to Reinvent Appalachia with a Utopian City (appalachianmemories.org)
Apple''s AI Strategy Could Pay Off in 2026 (www.macrumors.com)
We lost the habit of sleeping in two segments and that changed our sense of time (english.elpais.com)
Solar Slidewheel for Celestial Navigation (trmm.net)
Did Starmer Impose a Curfew in the U.K.? No, It''s a Fake TikTok Video (www.nytimes.com)
Money struggle is unhealed trauma (mibetterelli.substack.com)
The Oil Company Drilled. The Government Slaughtered. Who Is Guilty? (www.nytimes.com)
Note67 – Local-first AI meeting transcription and notes macOS app (note67.com)
Sova Study the friendly AI learning companion (www.sovastudy.com)
When the AI bubble pops, Nvidia becomes the most important software co overnight (www.theregister.com)
Mastering Function and Class Templates in C: A Complete Guide (techfortalk.co.uk)
Std: Span C20: When to Use (and Not Use) for Safe Buffer Passing (techfortalk.co.uk)
Raindrop-Powered Generator Using Carbon Fiber Composites (en.sedaily.com)
Flow Is a Property of the System and the Individual (russmiles.substack.com)
Tool Design Patterns for Agents (fred.glass)
AI showing signs of self-preservation and humans should be ready to pull plug (www.theguardian.com)
Alternative sweetener sorbitol linked to liver disease (medicalxpress.com)
Motorized aim assist system uses a moving mousepad for laser-accurate headshots (www.tomshardware.com)
US approves Samsung, SK Hynix chipmaking tool shipments to China (www.reuters.com)
Iran''s currency collapse sparks second day of trader protests (www.euronews.com)
The Star Gauge is a 4th-century Chinese poem that can be read 3k ways (en.wikipedia.org)
A Vulnerability in Libsodium (00f.net)
My Vibe Coded Projects in 2025 (blog.nawaz.org)
Assessing Public Support for Degrowth (www.thelancet.com)
Are There Fourth Amendment Rights in Google Search Terms? (reason.com)
''Commuting Is Bad''–Particularly for Women (www.theatlantic.com)
Local AI Needs to Become the Norm (unix.foo)
Toro: Deploy Applications as Unikernels (github.com)
Apache Kafka 2025 Wrapped (blog.2minutestreaming.com)
PostNord, Denmark''s Main Postal Carrier, Ends Letter Delivery (www.nytimes.com)
SoftBank has completed its 40B investment in OpenAI, CNBC reports (www.reuters.com)
Tamiko Thiel posting a new project emulating ELI5-like Feynman Lectures (www.youtube.com)
Tech Policy Should Look Like Engineering Requirements (howdytx.technology)
Agent Client Protocol: A protocol for connecting any editor to any agent (github.com)
Friendly Little Wrapper Types–high value, low cost, just use them (v5.chriskrycho.com)
Living with obesity: The people who are hard-wired to store fat (2021) (www.bbc.com)
What is the greatest artwork of the century so far? (marginalrevolution.com)
2025 in Review: Jagged Intelligence Becomes a Fault Line (www.dbreunig.com)
1Password extension breaks code blocks on all websites (twitter.com)
My shower head is racist [doechii] (doechii.substack.com)
Why Private-Equity Millionaires Love South Dakota (www.wsj.com)
Daily orange juice could be helping your heart (theconversation.com)
Image Sequence to GIF Converter [Gifify] (gifify.himthe.dev)
Turn Objections into Conditions (holenventures.substack.com)
Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years (1998) (norvig.com)
Why people are mad at Framework (sgued.fr)
YouTuber Ross Creations probed for animal abuse over ''opossum launcher'' video (www.dexerto.com)
European Russophobia and Europe''s Rejection of Peace: A Two-Century Failure (www.jeffsachs.org)
What changes when AI memory stops being ephemeral? (ryjoxdemo.com)
Offenders in England and Wales to have alcohol levels tracked over newyearperiod (www.theguardian.com)
Fixing My System76 Laptop in 20 Minutes or Less (danielmangum.com)
Qwen Code v0.6.0 is available (github.com)
Manus Is a Tough Business (kippinitreal.substack.com)
Polish, the AI Whisperer (europeancorrespondent.com)
1M for Non-Specialists (pithlessly.github.io)
MIT Battlecode (programming competition) starts in 1 week (battlecode.org)
Children and Helical Time (moultano.wordpress.com)