Measuring AI Ability to Complete Long Tasks: Opus 4.5 has 50% horizon of 4h49M (metr.org)
AI News from Hacker News (ai-hn.com)
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Speech to text model for healthcare-based voice applications (huggingface.co)
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Distributional AGI Safety (DeepMind) (arxiv.org)
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Americans are hungry for community. So why don''t we have European-style squares? (www.cnn.com)
Google sues web scraper for sucking up search results ''at an astonishing scale'' (www.theverge.com)
What the Smartest Minds Think About AI (www.wsj.com)
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daff: align and compare tables (github.com)
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Seattle''s Delivery Minimum Wage Failed Drivers and Raised Costs (reason.com)
Luna NFC/RFID Poker Cards (electricks.info)
Stem Cells from Wisdom Teeth Can Be Transformed into Corneal Cells (2015) (www.upmc.com)
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The Machine Stops [pdf] (www.cs.ucdavis.edu)
Wordiest: Android APK ported to iOS by ChatGPT 5.2 (blog.fsck.com)
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TailwindSQL: Like TailwindCSS but SQL.className your way to database queries (tailwindsql.xyz)
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Yann LeCun Raising 500M at 3B Valuation for New AI Startup (www.ft.com)
I built a 5/month uptime monitor because existing tools felt like overkill (gositeowl.com)
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Plastic ABS Parts Manufacturing (www.rpproto.com)
HBM consumes around three times the wafer capacity of DDR5 per gigabyte (www.tomshardware.com)
My Sparkling and Surreal Experience as a Water-Tasting Judge (thewalrus.ca)
Freedom University: The right-wing group rallying youth in South Korea (www.bbc.com)
Starlink Satellite Is Tumbling Toward Earth After an Anomaly in Orbit (gizmodo.com)
Recall Election (en.wikipedia.org)
Flock and Cyble Inc. Weaponize "Cybercrime" Takedowns to Silence Critics (haveibeenflocked.com)
Delaware High Court Reinstates Elon Musk''s 56B Tesla Pay Package (www.ft.com)
Windows WSL 2.7.0 Released with Newer Linux 6.6 LTS Point Release, Many Fixes (www.phoronix.com)
Impeachment in the United States (en.wikipedia.org)
James Bond Movies Set to Stream on Netflix in Deal with Amazon (variety.com)
Google Fonts shows the declaration of human rights as sample text (fonts.google.com)
MySQL for Developers (planetscale.com)
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HoustonTracker2 – A Music Sequencer for the Texas TI-82 (www.irrlichtproject.de)
When creating images, AI keeps remixing the same 12 stock photo clichés (www.science.org)
I''m never working again thanks to this browser-based Doom archive (www.pcgamer.com)
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London 1600s (AI Reconstruction) [video] (www.youtube.com)
Paraplegic engineer becomes the first wheelchair user to blast into space (www.abc.net.au)
File System as Claude Code''s Memory (backnotprop.com)
Thorium Fuel Cycle (en.wikipedia.org)
Constructive (2010) (xkcd.com)
On British Roads, Chinese Cars Are Racing Ahead (www.nytimes.com)
FSF Criticize New Nintendo DRM (www.fsf.org)
Anatomy of US inequality (www.nber.org)
Ant societies rose by trading individual protection for collective power (entomology.umd.edu)
Everyone should be using Claude Code more (www.lennysnewsletter.com)
China Seen Overtaking U.S. as Global Superpower (2011) (www.pewresearch.org)
Why the fuel-switch story does not explain the AI171 crash (frontline.thehindu.com)
Advanced Tools – Bringing Anthropic''s advanced tool use to any LLM provider (github.com)
Mitochondrial Protein COX7RP May Hold the Secret to Longevity (scitechdaily.com)
Data center deals hit record 61B in 2025 amid construction frenzy (www.cnbc.com)
DraftKings hopes to score big with new prediction markets app (www.cbsnews.com)
Laws That Do Harm (1982) (miltonfriedman.hoover.org)
Google and Apple warn employees on visas to avoid international travel (techcrunch.com)
Climate change''s hidden price tag: a drop in our income (news.arizona.edu)
Huang declares Israel Nvidia''s "second home", to build 1.5B AI Campus (www.calcalistech.com)
Impact of Plant-Based Dietary Fibers on Metabolic Homeostasis in High-Fat Diet (www.sciencedirect.com)
She wants SF to legalize her in-law rental units. City rules trigger 1M costs (www.sfchronicle.com)
C-reactive protein outpaced ''bad'' cholester as leading heart disease risk marker (theconversation.com)
OpenWRT 25.12.0-RC1 Released (downloads.openwrt.org)
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I built a tool to do my bookkeeping for me (freelancer) (billpal.io)
FrontierScience Benchmark by OpenAI (openai.com)
More databases should be single-threaded (blog.konsti.xyz)
Titan''s strong tidal dissipation precludes a subsurface ocean (www.sciencedaily.com)
SearchArray – rethinking full text search [video] (www.youtube.com)
Unix Was a Love Letter to Agents (vivekhaldar.com)
Indie Game Awards retracts awards from game for using Gen AI during development (bsky.app)
I wrote a code editor in C and now I''m a changed man (github.com)
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Chinese molten salt reactor achieves conversion of thorium-uranium fuel (www.world-nuclear-news.org)
C64 Ultimate User''s Guide with Quick Start (www.commodore.net)
Humanist Plumbing (www.tbray.org)
Simple SDF mesh generation in Python (github.com)
Prediction markets barely make money; sportsbooks make money (www.ft.com)
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PayPal''s Honey Lawsuit Dismissed (allaboutlawyer.com)
Mullvad VPN: "The EU Commission wants to save metadata” (mastodon.online)
Claude in Chrome (claude.com)
Granule – A statically-typed linear functional language with graded modal types (github.com)
Anthropic: You can''t change your Claude account email address (support.claude.com)
"We hate it. It''s desecration": the real cost of HS2 (www.theguardian.com)
The Shape of AI: Jaggedness, Bottlenecks and Salients (www.oneusefulthing.org)
State of CSS 2025: Modern Features Every Business Needs (aexaware.com)
Microsoft AI CEO admits Gemini ''can do things that Copilot can''t do'' (www.techradar.com)
Australia''s biggest pension fund to cut global stocks allocation on AI concerns (www.ft.com)
Available to download Friday, some Epstein files no longer there Saturday (www.npr.org)
Climber Faces Homicide Charges After His Partner Dies (www.climbing.com)
Jmail: Gmail except it''s Epstein Files (www.jmail.world)
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ACM Transactions on Programming Languages & Systems: New Year, New Paper Tracks (dl.acm.org)
MIRA – An open-source persistent AI entity with memory (github.com)
Go feature: Modernized go fix (antonz.org)
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An Effective Product Manager (notes.eatonphil.com)
3D Printed Origami [video] (www.youtube.com)
What Epstein Ordered on Amazon (www.jmail.world)
DMARC Analyser – Email authentication monitoring for your domains (dmarcanalyser.io)
Freedesktop''s website is blocked to "protect against AI companies" (www.freedesktop.org)
Accurate Matrix Animation (rezmason.github.io)
Two Canadians lose 2.3M to crypto scams (www.ctvnews.ca)
PowerShell''s curl runs JavaScript code with system access (support.microsoft.com)
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The ''TrumpKennedyCenter.org'' website is taken. This comedian owns it (washingtonpost.com)
Most AI Products Fail After They Start Working (www.indiehackers.com)
ChatGPT doesn''t know how to average pH values (chatgpt.com)
String Theory in 2037, Brian Green and Edward Witten (www.youtube.com)
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The Art of Pivoting – Techniques for Intelligence Analysts (github.com)
Google Photos, except it''s Epstein''s camera roll (www.jmail.world)
''LeBron James of spreadsheets'' wins world Microsoft Excel title (www.bbc.com)
U.S. to drop childhood vaccine recommendations as it looks to Denmark (www.reuters.com)
Sheryl Sandberg on why it''s a troubling time for women in the workplace now (fortune.com)
Tana – Turns your ideas, meetings and projects into action (tana.inc)
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The Dawn of a World Simulator (odyssey.ml)
She just became the first wheelchair user to travel to space (www.cnn.com)
AI will make our children stupid (thecritic.co.uk)
U.S. Seizes Second Oil Tanker Near Venezuela (www.wsj.com)
AI is revolutionary, but not egalitarian (keroshan.substack.com)
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Four Ways AI Is Being Used to Strengthen Democracies Worldwide (www.schneier.com)
MCP Is a Fad (tombedor.dev)
Europe''s new carbon tax on imported goods will change global trade (theconversation.com)
Public Domain Day 2026 (web.law.duke.edu)
Nvidia Is the Only AI Model Maker That Can Afford to Give It Away (www.nextplatform.com)
Rage bait: the psychology behind social media''s angriest posts (theconversation.com)
FOSDEM 2026 – Schedule (fosdem.org)
Rotmg Map Seeds (www.redblobgames.com)
Programming Languages Used for Music (timthompson.com)
I spent a WEEK without IPv4 (www.apalrd.net)
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''GhostPairing'' attack enables complete WhatsApp account control (www.telegraphindia.com)
Automated Equality Checks in C with Reflection (C26) (lemire.me)
Six (or seven) predictions for AI 2026 from a Generative AI realist (garymarcus.substack.com)
Time Travel Is Possible: Math Proves Paradox-Free Time Travel (www.popularmechanics.com)
When You Increase Kafka Partitions (arpitbhayani.me)
NMAP Scan HTML Report Style Sheet (github.com)
Big GPUs don''t need big PCs (www.jeffgeerling.com)
Library of Useless (www.libraryofuseless.com)
Mathematicians don''t care about foundations (matteocapucci.wordpress.com)
"80/20''ing" your relationships (and why it fails) (aryanbhasin.com)
Backblaze No Longer Backs Up Dropbox (mjtsai.com)
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How SUSE Is Using Perl (perladvent.org)
OpenSCAD Is Kinda Neat (nuxx.net)
This "mushroom" is not a fungus, it''s a plant that breaks all the rules (www.sciencedaily.com)
Concept Artists Say Generative AI References Only Make Their Jobs Harder (thisweekinvideogames.com)
GDB 17.1 Released with shadow and guard stack support (sourceware.org)
Fast Retro 2.0 (fastretro.app)
We got Basecamp running on SQLite to work on Active Search (twitter.com)
ESC: Next-gen security where secrets erase upon observation, verified with TLA (drive.google.com)
Germany''s Fuggerei is oldest social housing project (2022) (www.dw.com)
Rust: Using String and andstr in your APIs (dx13.co.uk)
Calm: Consistency as Logical Monotonicity (bloom-lang.net)
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Wisconsin town will use accessible voting machines after federal lawsuit (www.votebeat.org)
Construct in 2025: Year in Review (www.construct.net)
Hubble spots two cosmic collisions in the nearby Fomalhaut system (scienceclock.com)
Rep Helped Me Identify a Critical Supabase JWT Exposure (bour.ch)
3D Risk on a Globe (www.instructables.com)
ProjectM – Cross-Platform Music Visualization Library (github.com)
Snap-O: Android screen capture tool for macOS (by OpenAI) (github.com)
Marionette: Local-first, private, voice-controlled AI browser automation agent (github.com)
Would You Let A.I. Design Your Living Room? (www.nytimes.com)
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You have reached the end of the internet (hmpg.net)
Ex-ASML workers reverse-engineered state of the art chipmaking machines in China (www.pcgamer.com)
Online Gaming''s Final Boss: The Copyright Bully (www.eff.org)
Clean, Limitless Energy Exists. China Is Going Big in the Race to Harness It (www.nytimes.com)
Tolkien''s Secret: Why Lord of the Rings Outlasted Every Imitator (medium.com)
Perplexity Lost Part of Our Conversation and Then Denied It (github.com)
CO2 Rise Directly Impairs Crop Nutritional Quality (onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
The SR-71 Blackbird crew that ''gave the birdie'' to a Mirage pilot (theaviationgeekclub.com)
Unix v4 tape dumped and booted (oldbytes.space)
Japan trials 100-kilowatt laser weapon (www.livescience.com)
Two Young Physicists Seemed Destined for Greatness. One Shot the Other Dead (www.wsj.com)
Werner Vogels Is Right (tsak.dev)
Most Outages Are Brownouts: Modeling Dependency Degradation (uptimex.cloud)
Why do people leave comments on OpenBenches? (shkspr.mobi)
Reference Library for C – New Way (github.com)
Over 40% of Deceased Drivers in Vehicle Crashes Test Positive for THC: Study (www.facs.org)
AI Augmentation vs. AI Amputation (indiantinker.bearblog.dev)
Benchmarking Kdb, ClickHouse, QuestDB, TimescaleDB, and InfluxDB with TSBS (kx.com)
It''s time to accept the US Supreme Court is illegitimate and must be replaced (www.theguardian.com)
Ntfy: Send push notifications to your phone or desktop using PUT/POST (github.com)
The Last Meteor Shower of 2025 and the Winter Solstice Align This Weekend (www.scientificamerican.com)
Laid Off After 25 Years in Tech (www.youtube.com)
DotMeow – A fun domain with a serious mission (www.dotmeow.org)
PromptGuard – A way to guard your system prompts (karanja.xyz)
Fundamentals of Browser Exploitation (browser.training.ret2.systems)
How to Become Unhealthy in One Week (breatheless.substack.com)
Trumps Biggest Failures 2025 (asiaviewnews.com)
The Secret Trial of the General Who Refused to Attack Tiananmen Square (www.nytimes.com)
Trump admin says White House ballroom construction is national security matter (apnews.com)
Trump nominates Army general to lead Cyber Command, NSA after ouster of director (defensescoop.com)
Papis: CLI Document and Bibliography Manager (github.com)
Implicit contract assertions: a systematic mechanism to fix all UB C [pdf] (www.open-std.org)
An exploration of playing three generations of windows games on macOS (carette.xyz)
SQL Quest – The Bank Job (www.sqlhabit.com)
Amazon confirms years-long Russian cyberattack against AWS customers'' devices (mashable.com)
Interview with Sebastian Borgeaud, Gemini 3.0 pre-trainng lead [video] (www.youtube.com)
Penny Farthing Race at 1928 Olympics (twitter.com)
Satellites Used to Have Months to Avoid Collisions–Now They Have Days (www.scientificamerican.com)
China issues new rules to regulate internet platform pricing (www.reuters.com)
Pg_textsearch is now open-source (github.com)
Getting Emacs and macOS to Play Nice (brainbaking.com)
Philosopher of Pride (aeon.co)
Intel Custom Foundry Was Killed Already, Can the Fabs Rise Again? (tickerfeed.net)
Explained: You can''t move Windows 11 taskbar like Windows 10 (www.windowslatest.com)
Browser extensions with 8M users collect extended AI conversations (arstechnica.com)
Google Sues SerpApi (www.reuters.com)
Things people get wrong about Electron (felixrieseberg.com)
Building with NextJS (When You''d Rather Use Svelte) (mohammedeabdelaziz.github.io)
The Fisher-Yates shuffle is backward (possiblywrong.wordpress.com)
EU drops 2035 combustion engine ban as global EV shift faces reset (www.reuters.com)
Chinese team build optical chip AI that is 100x faster than Nvidia''s A100 chip (www.scmp.com)
There is no silver lining to Female Genital Mutilation (unherd.com)
Pompeii site reveals recipe for Roman concrete (www.cnn.com)
Motherboard flaws allows game cheats, Riot blocks players that don''t update BIOS (www.tomshardware.com)
A Supposedly Fun Thing I''ll Never Do Again [pdf] (harpers.org)
Sewage can be used to heat and cool buildings (apnews.com)
Intel''s new Arizona fab, where the chipmaker''s fate hangs in the balance (www.cnbc.com)
Ontario, New York announce nuclear energy agreement (www.cbc.ca)
TailwindSQL – Like TailwindCSS, but for SQL Queries in React Server Components (github.com)
We may never be able to tell if AI becomes conscious, argues philosopher (www.cam.ac.uk)
Cory Doctorow – Rescuing the Internet from "Enshittification" – The Daily Show [video] (www.youtube.com)
McKinsey "Women In The Workplace" report hides what companies are doing to women (www.forbes.com)
What If Readers Like A.I.-Generated Fiction? (www.newyorker.com)
White House website mysteriously streams personal finance YouTube creator (www.pbs.org)
Why Are 50k New York City Apartments Vacant? (www.city-journal.org)
Paper2Video: Automatic Video Generation from Scientific Papers (github.com)
Do mathematicians have an ethical role to play, regarding the AI bubble? (mathoverflow.net)
Stanford AI Experts Predict What Will Happen in 2026 (hai.stanford.edu)
Why U.S. sports tickets have gotten so expensive (www.nytimes.com)
Kazuo Ishiguro – Nobel Prize Lecture (www.nobelprize.org)
Immersa: Open-source Web-based 3D Presentation Tool (github.com)
LoongArch architecture added to Debian Ports (lists.debian.org)
SIMD City: Auto-Vectorisation (xania.org)
Approaching 50 Years of String Theory (www.math.columbia.edu)
AI content farm publishing 10K articles/day: An OSINT investigation (www.numerama.com)
Help my website is too small (lukeplant.me.uk)
Do You Know What Time It Is? If You''re on Mars, Now You Do (www.universetoday.com)
TS Zip (www.bellard.org)
How are coding assistants evaluated? SWE-Bench Pro Explorer (marginlab.ai)
"Awesome Production Machine Learning" Github List (github.com)
International maps of cities coloured by street/road/ave/etc. (erdavis.com)
Tech Talk: Improving Window Resize Behavior (www.electronjs.org)
Agentic browsers: a note for my friends (www.dvsj.in)
UnifyBio: Power Tools for Translational Data Science – Benjamin Kamphaus [video] (www.youtube.com)
What''s new in Swift: December 2025 Edition (www.swift.org)
Building a Multi- Site Kubernetes Cluster with BGP Anycast (kyriakos.papadopoulos.tech)
You Are Not the Code (double-dissent.fika.bar)
Amstrad PPC 640 cyberdeck gets a Raspberry Pi makeover (www.raspberrypi.com)
From "I''ll set up monitoring later" to 50 paying customers (www.catops.app)
LoongArch Promoted to Being an Official Architecture for Debian 14 (www.phoronix.com)
Why Some Men Pretend to Work 80-Hour Weeks (2015) (hbr.org)
Hackers Stole Pornhub Users'' Data for Extortion (www.wired.com)
Y Combinator (twitter.com)
New Design for the Official Ruby Website (www.ruby-lang.org)
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Deploy your podcast server fed from from YouTube channels (github.com)
Airbus moving critical systems away from AWS, Google, and MS (old.reddit.com)
Why Software Processes Exist (Hint: Not Why You Think) (blog.alash3al.com)
Blackstone leads investment in data-security firm Cyera at 9B valuation (www.reuters.com)
Gaza: The Reckoning by B. Macaes (brunomacaes.substack.com)
Taiwan considers TSMC export ban (www.tomshardware.com)
''100 Steam Machine'' uses a cut-down PS5 APU with Bazzite (www.tomshardware.com)
Epstein Files Browser (epstein-files-browser.vercel.app)
Open Source Historical LLM trained exclusively on 19th century text (github.com)
The post-GeForce era: What if Nvidia abandons PC gaming? (www.pcworld.com)
The Gerrit code review iceberg (www.haiku-os.org)
What Does a Database for SSDs Look Like? (brooker.co.za)
Robocop – The Future of Copy Protection (hoffman.home.blog)
Reflections on AI at the End of 2025 (antirez.com)
Len Sassaman and Satoshi: A Cypherpunk History (evanhatch.medium.com)
Fourteen numbers every developer should know (2013) (www.infoarena.ro)
Breaking LZW: Interactive Exploration of a PDF Decompression DoS (aydinnyunus.github.io)
AI Bathroom Monitors? Welcome to America''s New Surveillance High Schools (www.forbes.com)
The ancient Trial of the Pyx is moving to Mansion House in 2026 (www.ianvisits.co.uk)
Airbus to migrate critical apps to a sovereign Euro cloud (www.theregister.com)
SA Surgeon Performs Successful Middle Ear Transplant Using 3D Printing (2019) (3dprint.com)
A train-sized tunnel is now carrying electricity under South London (www.ianvisits.co.uk)
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Roblox–Schlep Controversy (en.wikipedia.org)
Skills Officially Comes to Codex (developers.openai.com)
The Polyglot NixOS (x86.lol)