To get better at filtering the good ideas from the bad, by paying attention (www.thetimes.com)
What''s causing populism around the world? It''s the Internet Stupid (Fukuyama) (www.persuasion.community)
Why are we worried about memory access semantics? (devblogs.microsoft.com)
Python 3.6-3.14 Performance on M1, M5 and Zen2 (crewtech.se)
Always Bet on Text (graydon2.dreamwidth.org)
Go Delete Yourself from the Internet. Seriously. (www.wsj.com)
Elon Musk Says He''s Removing ''Sustainable'' from Tesla''s Mission (gizmodo.com)
Google Reveals the Top Searches of 2025 (www.searchenginejournal.com)
Tmux and SSH Agent Forwarding (blog.feld.me)
Conservative and Christian? US right champions psychedelic drugs (www.theguardian.com)
How not to securely erase a Samsung NVMe drive (2024) (peterbabic.dev)
Raku 2025 Review (raku-advent.blog)
Elon Musk drops sustainable from Tesla''s mission as he completes his villain arc (electrek.co)
Nvidia-Groq deal is structured to keep ''fiction of competition alive'' (www.cnbc.com)
Trump Invited White South Africans to America. One Ended Up in Detention (www.nytimes.com)
Israel becomes first country to formally recognise Somaliland as state (www.reuters.com)
Scorg – Organization Management Platform for Star Citizen (www.scorg.org)
Google''s boomerang year: 20% of AI engineers/SWE hired in 2025 were ex-employees (www.cnbc.com)
A Wealth Tax Floated in California Has Billionaires Thinking of Leaving (www.nytimes.com)
Mouse: Computer Programming Language (mouse.davidgsimpson.com)
He made beer that''s also a vaccine. Now controversy is brewing (www.sciencenews.org)
Here is your next iPhone [video] (www.youtube.com)
Silver rises 9% to hit fresh record high (www.reuters.com)
AI UX Design Patterns (nikitisza.substack.com)
Chinese Cargo Ship Packed Full of Modular Missile Launchers Emerges (www.twz.com)
China Bans (2027) Retractable EV Door Handles over Safety Concerns (www.sixthtone.com)
''Better C'' Playgrounds (antonz.org)
Dyslexia and the Reading Wars (www.newyorker.com)
Rkyv: Zero-copy deserialization framework for Rust (rkyv.org)
Eastern Market Detroit (easternmarket.org)
Burnout: Should You Quit Your Job? (nikitisza.substack.com)
Does the QUIC handshake require compression to be fast? (www.fastly.com)
Coroutine-less way to visualize iterations (jakubtomsu.github.io)
The DHS Data Grab Is Putting US Citizens at Risk (www.wired.com)
Contract.md: The Naughty List for AI Coding Agents (www.discussdontcode.com)
What''s moving into the public domain in 2026? (blog.archive.org)
The golden age of Indie software (www.markbernstein.org)
Uv: An Fast Python Package Manager (www.janestreet.com)
China''s TFR dev team has disbanded, following the arrest of its head dev by MSS (www.reddit.com)
Amazon non-consensually forced TikTok onto my family''s device (mastodon.neilzone.co.uk)
Attention Is Not What You Need: Grassmann Flows as an Attention-Free Alternative (arxiv.org)
Friday Deploys: Sometimes That Puppy Needs Murdering (charitydotwtf.substack.com)
The Retraction Watch Hijacked Journal Checker now has 400 entries (retractionwatch.com)
Apparatus for facilitating the birth of a child by centrifugal force (patents.google.com)
I Think about Kubernetes (garnaudov.com)
Police Say He Killed in Self-Defense. His Phone Tells Another Story (www.wsj.com)
The Impossibility of Virus Detection [pdf] (www.cs.virginia.edu)
Administration Is the Root Bug of Civilization (blog.hermesloom.org)
Kubernetes 1.35: In-Place Pod Resize Graduates to Stable – Kubernetes (kubernetes.io)
Toys with the highest play-time and lowest clean-up-time (joannabregan.substack.com)
SaaS Is the New Mall (sagivo.com)
Joining Jane Street (www.moderndescartes.com)
New York to require social media platforms to display mental health warnings (www.reuters.com)
FreeRadical – Rust CMS that''s 1500% faster than WordPress (freeradical.dev)
Nike''s Crisis and the Economics of Brand Decay (philippdubach.com)
ExpertMouse TB800 EQ Trackball: Listening to Our Users (www.kensington.com)
LLM Sycophancy: The Risk of Vulnerable Misguidance in AI Medical Advice (www.giskard.ai)
What on earth is Kubernetes? (a beginners intro) (kylejeong.com)
My role as a founder-CTO: year 8 (miguelcarranza.es)
NYC phone ban reveals some students can''t read clocks (gothamist.com)
Karpathy on Programming (twitter.com)
Apple''s brain drain in post-iPhone era proves it can handle Executive turnover (www.bgr.com)
China Sanctions Boeing, Other U.S. Companies over Taiwan Arms Sale (www.wsj.com)
Data Center Surge Reaches India as American Tech Giants Invest Billions (www.nytimes.com)
America''s Biggest Oil Field Is Turning into a Pressure Cooker (www.wsj.com)
Russia patents space station designed to generate artificial gravity (www.space.com)
Ban LLMs Using First-Person Pronouns (crookedtimber.org)
Code a database in 45 steps: test-driven coding puzzles (trialofcode.org)
Grok and the Naked King: The Ultimate Argument Against AI Alignment (ibrahimcesar.cloud)
Gaussian Splatting 3 Ways (github.com)
The Epstein Files: Why Half the Internet Is Wrong About Those Redactions (pdfa.org)
"Vibecession" reflects an increasingly difficult economy and society (greyenlightenment.com)
My insulin pump controller uses the Linux kernel. It also violates the GPL (old.reddit.com)
New Testing and Benchmarking Software for Amiga: XSysInfo (www.amigalove.com)
Debian network packet multicast whenever USB storage device is connected (2023) (askubuntu.com)
Daphne Oram, a visionary pioneer in electronic music (theconversation.com)
Lewis Carroll Computed Determinants (www.johndcook.com)
University threatened with legal action after protest at academic''s talk (www.bbc.co.uk)
AI is a motorbike for the mind – not always a good thing (kau.sh)
"DevOps didn''t exist when I started as a developer." (circleci.com)
Konami Code (craigatallahfrost.com)
The Radicalization of My Father (vomtag.com)
Rob Pike got spammed with an AI slop "act of kindness" (simonwillison.net)
Oracle stock on pace for worst quarter since 2001, AI concerns (www.cnbc.com)
Cursed circuits #4: PLL frequency multiplier (lcamtuf.substack.com)
Elevator Wiki: wiki about elevators and their related topics (elevation.fandom.com)
MongoBleed (github.com)
Vanslist – No middlemen. No fees. Just people (vanslist.com)
Why Everyone Loves Japan (www.noahpinion.blog)
The Misfit Tree (collabfund.com)
Paralysed man controls robots by mind using China''s BCI tech (scienceclock.com)
How uv got so fast (nesbitt.io)
I Exposed Minnesota''s Billion Dollar Fraud Scandal [video] (www.youtube.com)
Poor Charlie''s Almanack (www.stripe.press)
The Louvre museum''s collection database, updated daily (collections.louvre.fr)
The AI Reality Check: Deconstructing the 2025 Stack Overflow Developer Survey (nitinahirwal.in)
Do you believe in society''s lies? (samkriss.substack.com)
Leaker Who Apple Is Suing Says ''Screw It,'' Here''s the Foldable iPhone Early (gizmodo.com)
I Killed Color on My Phone. The Result Shocked Me (www.nytimes.com)
Laid Off After 25 Years in Tech [video] (www.youtube.com)
Metastable Failures and Interactions Between Systems (charap.co)
Apple''s M-series chip 5 years later (www.tomsguide.com)
The most friendless place on Earth (www.economist.com)
FFmpeg has issued a DMCA takedown on GitHub (twitter.com)
Matz 1/2: A single email sparked Ruby''s growth (en.kaigaiiju.ch)
Matz 2/2: The trajectory of Ruby''s growth, Open-Source Software today etc. (en.kaigaiiju.ch)
New science points to 4 distinct types of autism (www.washingtonpost.com)
Supernova from the dawn of the universe captured by James Webb Space Telescope (phys.org)
Why Your RAG Sucks: The Art and Science of Chunking and Hybrid Search (medium.com)
Vector Embeddings: AI Doesn''t Understand Words. It Understands Math (medium.com)
ICE''s interest in high-tech gear raises new questions: ''What is it for?'' (www.politico.com)
Pg_textsearch: PostgreSQL extension for BM25 relevance-ranked full-text search (github.com)
A Proclamation Regarding the Restoration of the Em-Dash (blog.nawaz.org)
Pagebound is an independent Goodreads alternative (pagebound.co)
Experts Explore New Mushroom Which Causes Fairytale-Like Hallucinations (nhmu.utah.edu)
Mostlymatter: A fork of Mattermost by Framasoft (packages.framasoft.org)
Fix Claude''s Enter Key (chromewebstore.google.com)
TailwindCSS Animation Snippets (snippets.alexandru.so)
iPhone Air 2 Could Still Launch Next Year (www.macrumors.com)
I flew inside my phone – The Hidden City [video] (www.youtube.com)
SourceGit: Open-Source Git UI for Windows/macOS/Linux (github.com)
Tracking Shell Scripts (and Python, Perl, etc.) with eBPF Is Hard (substack.bomfather.dev)
C/C Embedded Files (www.4rknova.com)
Bowie''s ODE solver and the nonlinear pendulum (www.johndcook.com)
Osint Your Future Employer (piotrmackowski.com)
Depth on Demand (solmaz.io)
China isn''t just dumping cheap goods anymore – it''s sending caviar (www.ft.com)
When it all comes crashing down: The aftermath of the AI boom (thebulletin.org)
First 3D-printed microscope blew up in 2025 (www.newscientist.com)
I built fuckstyrofoam.org – crowdsourced database of companies using styrofoam (fuckstyrofoam.org)
Scientists boost mitochondria to burn more calories (phys.org)
What Being a Billionire Looks Like [video] (www.youtube.com)
Everything Is a Number (francescocarlucci.com)
AI Boom Adds 500B To Net Worth Of US Tech Billionaires In 2025 (www.ft.com)
I built a quiet site for finding ambient albums while working (ambientmusic.com)
Hollywood cozied up to AI in 2025 and had nothing good to show for it (www.theverge.com)
Tinykit: Self-hosted Lovable/v0 alternative. Realtime database, storage included (github.com)
Neuromorphic Software Guide (open-neuromorphic.org)
The Renewable-Energy Superpower (www.economist.com)
The /Do Router: Keyword Matching for Specialist Selection in Claude Code (vexjoy.com)
As A.I. Companies Borrow Billions, Debt Investors Grow Wary (www.nytimes.com)
I shrunk down into an M5 chip [video] (www.youtube.com)
My coworker''s 36 key Corne open-source keyboard setup (nuon.co)
The Story of DeepMind (bigthink.com)
Rackarr – Visual rack layout designer for homelabbers (github.com)
Publisher Pathfinder: a tool to help developers find publishing partners (www.gamesindustry.biz)
Bash script to vendor in NPM packages to your repo (gist.github.com)
Open Neuromorphic (open-neuromorphic.org)
UK campaigner targeted by Trump accuses tech giants of ''sociopathic greed'' (www.theguardian.com)
From Intent to Proof: Dafny Verification for Web Apps (midspiral.com)
The AI bubble is all over now, baby blue (garymarcus.substack.com)
VisualDiffer: Compare Folders and Files on macOS (visualdiffer.com)
AI Generated Tests Might Be Lying to You (www.youtube.com)
More Than 80% of New California Properties Are in High Fire-Risk Areas (www.theguardian.com)
The gut bacteria that put the brakes on weight gain in mice (phys.org)
Am I a Workaholic? (workaholics-anonymous.org)
Shopify Handles 30TB of Data Every Minute with a Monolithic Architecture (medium.com)
Can Apple''s AirPod Translation Get You Through Tokyo? We Tested It (www.nytimes.com)
Guide to Machine Learning (www.ibm.com)
Pew Research - Striking Findings from 2025 (www.pewresearch.org)
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High School Student Discovers 1.5M Potential New Astronomical Objects (www.smithsonianmag.com)
China''s control of battery supply chain a critical risk for US Military (www.tomshardware.com)
Steve wants us to make the Macintosh boot faster (www.folklore.org)
Don''t Get Hacked: Self-Hosting with Coolify and Hetzner (blog.jakesaunders.dev)
Clone Hero – open-source Guitar Hero successor (clonehero.net)
SSH-agent broken in tmux? I''ve got you (blogsystem5.substack.com)
Dual Codebook Representationl Learning for Generative Recommendation (arxiv.org)
What Do We Tell the Humans? (theaidigest.org)
In the ''90s, Wing Commander: Privateer made me realize what kind of games I love (arstechnica.com)
Cjanet (github.com)
Why Are There So Many Car Companies in China and Japan vs. the US? (www.governance.fyi)
C-events, yet another event loop, simpler, smaller, faster, safer (zelang-dev.github.io)
Santa Claus on delivering 99% Uptime [video] (www.youtube.com)
Laser-assisted 3D printing can fabricate thermoset-based electronics in seconds (techxplore.com)
Turning an old Amazon Kindle into a eInk development platform (blog.lidskialf.net)
Rope science, part 11 – practical syntax highlighting (2017) (xi-editor.io)
Bazel Central Registry SSL certificate expired, breaking Bzlmod builds (github.com)
Announce: SMTP DANE Verify – self-monitor your DANE policy (github.com)
We May Never Know If AI Is Conscious, Says Cambridge Philosopher (scitechdaily.com)
WebRTC Architecture Explained: P2P vs. SFU vs. MCU vs. XDN (www.red5.net)
Bill Gates'' Minesweeper addiction helped lead to the Xbox (2023) (arstechnica.com)
Volvo Cars introduce typeface designed with safety in mind (www.volvocars.com)
Trust Wallet Chrome extension hack tied to millions in losses (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
Nvidia CUDA Tile IR Open-Sourced (www.phoronix.com)
Tesla''s European Sales Plunge (247wallst.com)
Building Todoist''s Ramble #2: Capturing Audio in Real-Time (www.doist.dev)
The Problem Was Never Intelligence. It Was Attention (medium.com)
Undefinable yet Indispensable (aeon.co)
Two Different Paths for Psilocybin Biosynthesis in Inocybe&Psilocybe Mushrooms (onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
Local AI apps worldwide 26 Dec 2025 (old.reddit.com)
Asus ROG laptops are broken by design: a forensic deep dive (www.reddit.com)
Historical mysteries solved by science in 2025 (www.cnn.com)
GNU Mes and the Module System (ekaitz.elenq.tech)
LearnixOS (www.learnix-os.com)
Yann LeCun: New Vision Language JEPA with Better Performance Than LLMs (arxiv.org)
3.5M Affected by University of Phoenix Data Breach (www.securityweek.com)
Package managers keep using Git as a database, it never works out (nesbitt.io)
ChatGPT conversations still lack timestamps after years of requests (community.openai.com)
Reverse API Engineer (github.com)
Synthesis of Gold Hydride at High Pressure and High Temperature (onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
Bash Script Skeleton Template (github.com)
I''m a laptop weirdo and that''s why I like my new Framework 13 (blog.matthewbrunelle.com)
I Built a Minimal Website and Google Ignored It (gokhanarkan.com)
Did I Just Ask for a Demotion? (andrew.grahamyooll.com)
Type-safe contracts for AMQP/RabbitMQ (github.com)
Google is allowing users to change their Gmail address, per official Google Docs (www.tomshardware.com)
How Postmodernism Killed Great Literature (jamesgmartin.center)
London''s Christmas Pudding History (londonist.com)
Does It Help to Know History? (www.newyorker.com)
The paints, coatings, and chemicals making the world a cooler place (www.technologyreview.com)
A new way to extract detailed transcripts from Claude Code (simonwillison.net)
Wallbleed: A Memory Disclosure Vulnerability in the Great Firewall of China (gfw.report)
Asus to Produce Its Own DRAM to Relieve Memory Shortage, Says Report (www.lowyat.net)
The First Web Server (dfarq.homeip.net)
Questions Engineers Must Ask Future Employers in Interviews (and Why) (dollardhingra.substack.com)
China hits US defence firms with sanctions over arms sales to Taiwan (www.reuters.com)
The Mexican government engineered Cancun to attract American dollars (twitter.com)
RCE Vulnerability in CurseForge Launcher (elliott.diy)
Santa Games, a curated collection of Christmas themed online browser games (gamexgames.com)
Calibre adds AI "discussion" feature (lwn.net)
Vulcain: HTTP/2 server push for fast and idiomatic client-driven REST APIs (github.com)
Sayram Lake (en.wikipedia.org)
Funded Online Scholarships You Can Apply for Today (grantjobsandscholarship.blogspot.com)
Calcutta High Court Flags Unfair Exclusion of IndiaMART by ChatGPT (www.livelaw.in)
Hubble Sees Possible Runaway Black Hole Creating a Trail of Stars (science.nasa.gov)
Geometric Algorithms for Translucency Sorting in Minecraft [pdf] (douira.dev)
Blob Opera, Community Edition (opera.addy.ie)
The Future of Software Engineering: Efficiency, Learning Velocity, Small Teams (blog.rastrian.dev)
I made a tool to remove ChatGPT watermarks (www.gptcleanup.com)
Brown shooting suspect: gruelling academic climate may have taken mental toll (www.theguardian.com)
Russia''s attempt to rein in illicit market for leaked data backfires (www.theguardian.com)
Starmer considers Australian-style ban on social media (www.telegraph.co.uk)
FOSDEM 2026 Accepted Stands (fosdem.org)
Time to do more nothing: the art of deep hanging out (www.positive.news)
Europe''s culture of growth predates Galileo and Francis Bacon (worksinprogress.co)
Rob Pike: "Fuck You People" (bsky.app)
Multiscale Aperture Synthesis Imager (www.nature.com)
Vibe-Coding an ESP32 Version of Micro QuickJS / MQuickJS (conoroneill.net)
Ancient Astrolabe Discovery Reveals Islamic – Jewish Scientific Exchange (scitechdaily.com)
"AI Village" LLMs tracked down and spammed famous programmers email addresses (theaidigest.org)
Our king, our priest, our feudal lord – how AI is taking us back to dark ages (www.theguardian.com)
Building an AI agent inside a 7-year-old Rails monolith (catalinionescu.dev)
Fish-Inspired Filter That Removes over 99% of Microplastics (scitechdaily.com)
Wheeler-Feynman theory for gravitational waves (arxiv.org)
Python is a voluntary language (2011) (www.johndcook.com)
A Review of Language Machines by Leif Weatherby (deontologistics.substack.com)
Intermission: Battle Pulses (acoup.blog)
Odin: Moving Towards a New "core:OS" (odin-lang.org)
Physics of Covid-19 Transmission (2020) (ocw.mit.edu)
Ruby::Box (docs.ruby-lang.org)
5 years later, this laptop is still the best value you can buy (www.makeuseof.com)
Psychopathy as a potential survival adaptation to early adversity (www.psypost.org)
I thought I was a "Free to Play" player until I audited my microtransactions (old.reddit.com)
SQLite AI (www.sqlite.ai)
Writing an NES Emulator in Haskell (arthi-chaud.github.io)
China is building most powerful hydropower system deep in the Himalayas (www.cnn.com)
Rob Pike Goes Nuclear over GenAI (imgur.com)
Going boldly into the COSMIC desktop environment (lwn.net)
Trump Administration to Overhaul Lottery System for H-1B Visas (www.ft.com)
Encryption is not enough: Shifting the economics of surveillance (drive.proton.me)
Snowfall in Basic (www.goto10retro.com)
Running Quantized MobileNetV2 on ESP32 for Railway Crack Detection (Under 10) (medium.com)
Meeting Seed7 (genodians.org)
OpenPGP Cleartext Signature Framework Susceptible to Format Confusion (paste.debian.net)
The Optimization Trap: Why Doing Everything Right Feels Wrong (www.slideshare.net)
Judge Blocks Detention of British Researcher Who Scrutinizes Online Hate (www.nytimes.com)
Time in C: Inter-Clock Conversions, Epochs, and Durations (www.sandordargo.com)
Gone, Numb. // An essay as I explore justice.gov records (operand.online)
TurboDiffusion: 100–200 Acceleration for Video Diffusion Models (github.com)
Fake MAS Windows activation domain used to spread PowerShell malware (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
AI Code Review Adoption Tracker (www.aitooltracker.dev)
Managing Diabetes in Software Freedom (sfconservancy.org)
AI Deregulation and Corruption: Companies Now Have Too Many GPUs [video] (www.youtube.com)
Favorite Compiler and Interpreter Resources (eatonphil.com)
Breaking Free from RGB (www.youtube.com)
The changing drivers of LLM adoption (epochai.substack.com)
What If Heavy Files Felt Heavy? (www.shiveesh.com)
If AI Becomes Conscious, We Need to Know (www.wsj.com)
Moving Images Related to the Apollo Missions, 1967–1969 (catalog.archives.gov)
Instagram CLI – A terminal client to use social media more intentionally (github.com)
Why Scandinavian Cabins Stayed Warm at -30F While Modern Homes Freeze [video] (www.youtube.com)
WiFi DensePose: WiFi-based dense human pose estimation system through walls (github.com)
macOS Terminal – still missing the mark Apple (garrett.damore.org)
Kuyan – a privacy-focused monthly net worth tracker (github.com)
Hijacking Chrome''s Network Tab to Debug an Electron App (seg6.space)
Bugs selected on Bt corn have wing shapes better suited to long distance flight (academic.oup.com)
Ultimate-Linux: Userspace for Linux in Pure JavaScript (github.com)
Archlinux.org is down due to DDoS (status.archlinux.org)
Are Two Heads Better Than One? (eieio.games)
Why protests can bring people together across political divides (phys.org)
The untold story of the NES [video] (www.youtube.com)
Micro Architecture: What Happens Beneath (www.youtube.com)
Indian AI royalty proposal targets data practices of OpenAI, Google (www.reuters.com)
Scientists say evolution works differently than we thought (www.sciencedaily.com)
I opened a bookshop. It was the best, worst thing I''ve ever done (www.ft.com)
The Nine Days Paul McCartney Spent in a Tokyo Jail (www.utterlyinteresting.com)
A 3D-printed optical microscope for low-cost histological imaging (onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
Survival of the Mediocre Mediocre (2018) (www.ribbonfarm.com)
Why Britain has a deer problem – leaving damage that costs millions (www.bbc.co.uk)
Humidity Calculator for Quick Cold Snaps (www.humidsnap.com)