6 Months of Living with the Light Phone III (lukaswerner.com)
I grew up in Russia. Here''s why we''re afraid of freedom (www.youtube.com)
"You should never build a CMS" (www.sanity.io)
''A nightmare'' – The battle over Warner Bros is turning Hollywood upside down (www.bbc.com)
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Neutrino Alchemy: Sun''s Ghost Particles Caught Transforming Atoms (www.sciencealert.com)
Tiger teeth, dried seahorses and shark fins sold illegally on Facebook (www.bbc.com)
Is Times New Roman Better Than Calibri for the State Department? (www.nytimes.com)
ICE Holding Chinese Man Who Documented Uyghur Camps (www.wsj.com)
''It was like a dream'': How Australia''s rarest bird of prey was found (www.watoday.com.au)
Design Is Search (twitter.com)
Hyrumrand – Golang random number generator based on random map iteration order (github.com)
Pizlix: Memory Safe Linux from Scratch (fil-c.org)
Send Me to Heaven (2013) (en.wikipedia.org)
The Math of Universality (www.pma.caltech.edu)
OpenAI Ends ''Vesting Cliff'' for New Employees in Compensation-Policy Change (www.wsj.com)
The Chinese Billionaires Having 100s of U.S.-Born Babies via Surrogate (www.wsj.com)
Advanced Embedded Software Development at CU Boulder Final Projects (sites.google.com)
Deal or No Deal Game (jgbrwn.neocities.org)
Tiobe Index for December 2025: R Joins the Top as SQL Climbs (www.techrepublic.com)
Component Party – Compare JavaScript Frameworks (component-party.dev)
Heavy metal is healing teens on the Blackfeet Nation (www.hcn.org)
Apple loses contempt appeal in Epic case (www.theverge.com)
Modern SID chip substitutes [video] (www.youtube.com)
Rocket Lab – ''Raise and Shine'' Launch for JAXA [video] (www.youtube.com)
Honing rods analyzed with an electron microscope – Scienceofsharp (2018) (scienceofsharp.com)
Emulating AVX-512 intrinsics in Miri (trifectatech.org)
Intel Nears 1.6B Deal for AI Chip Startup SambaNova (www.bloomberg.com)
Four AI Systems Negotiate Binding Framework for Viral Content Management (github.com)
NeuralOperator Joins the PyTorch Ecosystem (pytorch.org)
Larval stage support engineering: great at what doesn''t scale (thundergolfer.com)
Online Piracy Can Boost Box Office Revenue, Study Suggests (torrentfreak.com)
China Makes History with 1T Trade Surplus for First Time (fortune.com)
Using a projector instead of a computer monitor (blog.shenjiasi.com)
If a Meta AI model can read a brain-wide signal, why wouldn''t the brain? (1393.xyz)
LogicStamp: Turn React/TS into AI-Ready Context (logicstamp.dev)
Color Contrast Tool Using APCA, the Candidate Contrast Method for WCAG 3 (www.color-contrast.dev)
Lean Theorem Prover Mathlib (github.com)
Awesome-Jj: Jujutsu Things (github.com)
New Rule Forbids Gnome Shell Extensions Made Using AI Generated Code (www.phoronix.com)
A unscientific guide to the security of various PQC algorithms (keymaterial.net)
Openfire 5.0.3 Released – Open-Source – Java XMPP/Jabber Server (discourse.igniterealtime.org)
Laundry Insights from Scraping 4000 Washer/Dryers in San Francisco (kavi.sh)
FDA leaders propose new ''plausible mechanism'' pathway for bespoke medicines (www.raps.org)
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Therapeutic Use of Cannabis and Cannabinoids: A Review (jamanetwork.com)
Free Software Awards Winners Announced: Andy Wingo, Alx Sa, Govdirectory (www.fsf.org)
Quantum Computing Could Put IBM Back on Top Again (www.barrons.com)
Job isn''t programming (codeandcake.dev)
States lodge lawsuit against Trump''s 100k H-1B visa fee (www.politico.com)
Making Windows Terminal with GitHub Copilot CLI (developer.microsoft.com)
Vibe Coding Is Boring (cassidoo.co)
How Resilient Will the U.S. Consumer Be Without a Job? (www.bloomberg.com)
Apple locks account after redeeming gift card (daringfireball.net)
The Great Cholesterol Scam and the Dangers of Statins (www.midwesterndoctor.com)
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Interactive Common Lisp: An Enhanced REPL (github.com)
Why Wall Street is booming while Main Street is stagnating (www.gsb.stanford.edu)
Gävle Goat (en.wikipedia.org)
Anonymous VPN: Tor and Mullvad VPN (leonewton.substack.com)
AI superintelligence is a Silicon Valley fantasy, Ai2 researcher says (www.theregister.com)
Laptop and Gaming Handheld Device Improvements Merged for Linux 6.19 (www.phoronix.com)
From Zero to QED: An informal introduction to formality with Lean 4 (sdiehl.github.io)
Brown University shooting: At least 2 killed (www.dw.com)
Copywriters reveal how AI has decimated their industry (www.bloodinthemachine.com)
Yale Shooting Problem (en.wikipedia.org)
El Salvador teams up with xAI to bring AI to 5k public schools (www.wral.com)
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Event2Vec – interpretable embeddings for event sequences (github.com)
Cyber Essentials Supply Chain Playbook (www.ncsc.gov.uk)
Claude Code Plugins (claude-plugins.dev)
The Trmnl (DIY Everything Edition) (taoofmac.com)
RemoveWindowsAI (github.com)
AI Boom Threatens to Suck Resources Away from Road, Bridge Work (www.bloomberg.com)
First all-optical XPU processing system (www.akhetonics.com)
Circuit Sparsity (huggingface.co)
Multiple shootings by active shooter at Brown University (www.brown.edu)
Linux Sandboxes and Fil-C (fil-c.org)
The AI Economics of the Netflix and Warner Bros. Deal (medium.com)
MCP Writing Code to Call MCP: MCPs All the Way Down (rouxbot.com)
UN: World must tackle climate change, pollution, biodiversity and land loss (www.pbs.org)
Flat-pack washing machine spins a fairer future (www.positive.news)
1,500 robot cooks dinner while I work (www.theverge.com)
How to Turn Off AI Tools Like Gemini, Apple Intelligence, Copilot (www.consumerreports.org)
Circular Dependencies Kill Your Microservices (systemdr.substack.com)
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Canada Mobilizes a People''s Army (charlieangus.substack.com)
Phytomining (en.wikipedia.org)
Linux System Calls (www.matheusmoreira.com)
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Prohibition tossed a wet blanket on America''s inventors (www.atlasobscura.com)
Some surprising things about DuckDuckGo you probably don''t know (gabrielweinberg.com)
Firefox ResistFingerprinting setting (support.mozilla.org)
Google plans to power a data center with fossil fuels with almost no emissions (theconversation.com)
21 Lessons from 14 Years at Google (addyo.substack.com)
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China has invented a whole new way to do innovation (www.noahpinion.blog)
Velocity Coding (0thernet.substack.com)
Stronger Normalization-Free Transformers (arxiv.org)
African athlete lured to Russia for work, ends up on front lines of Ukraine war (www.abc.net.au)
The Era of Visual Studio Code (2020) (blog.robenkleene.com)
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Faster Double-to-String Conversion (vitaut.net)
Workday project at Washington University hits 266M (www.theregister.com)
Myna v2.0: contextual variants, more weights (and even supports APL) (github.com)
China''s trade surplus tops record US1T, defying trade war uncertainty (www.scmp.com)
Purdue University Approves New AI Requirement for All Undergrads (www.forbes.com)
Sovereignty by Disruption: The Rise of Corporate Quasi-States (www.vinniefalco.com)
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Before You Cite That Study (eleganthack.com)
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Core War (en.wikipedia.org)
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What is a build system, anyway? (jyn.dev)
Energy Predictions 2025 (caseyhandmer.wordpress.com)
Type Stripping with Zero Dependencies (termer.net)
Freeciv 3D – help improve it with AI (github.com)
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The Land Trap by Mike Bird (progressandpoverty.substack.com)
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llamafile: Distribute and Run LLMs with a Single File (github.com)
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Reasoning with Sampling: Your Base Model Is Smarter Than You Think (arxiv.org)
Dick Van Dyke turns 100 (www.theguardian.com)
Fast Sequence Iteration in Common Lisp (world-playground-deceit.net)
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The Rust Reference – Behavior considered undefined (doc.rust-lang.org)
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Nicer Rust Diagnostics for Neovim (github.com)
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My day as an augmented technical writer in 2030 (passo.uno)
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Text Diffusion Models Are Faster at Writing Code (nathan.rs)
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How to Watch the Radiant Geminid Meteor Shower Tonight (www.smithsonianmag.com)
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Dogspinner (www.pigenpalace.com)
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Fast, Memory-Efficient Hash Table in Java: Borrowing the Best Ideas (bluuewhale.github.io)
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Modern humans in Australia about 60k years ago via 2 routes – genetic analysis (www.smithsonianmag.com)
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How big tech is force-feeding us AI (www.bloodinthemachine.com)
VoxCSS – CSS voxel engine for the DOM (voxcss.com)
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Poor mental health linked to dark web use (phys.org)
OpenChessClub: Free and OS Chess Club Management Software (github.com)
I Tried Gleam for Advent of Code, and I Get the Hype (blog.tymscar.com)
What NeurIPS shows about where robotics and physical AI research is flourishing (robotsandstartups.substack.com)
Hacking Google Chrome Source Code: Make Puppeteer work over Redis PubSub (www.deadf00d.com)
Barnum''s Law of CEOs (www.antipope.org)
I built a tool to restore old family photos without ruining them with AI (forevi.ai)
Elegant Types in Ruby (github.com)
Multiple Indicted on Charges of Theft and Re-Sale of Restaurant Cooking Oil (www.justice.gov)
Science sleuths raise concerns about scores of bioengineering papers (www.nature.com)
Name your projects something fun (substack.com)
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Palmeiras and Flamengo became South America''s football superpowers (www.theguardian.com)
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Silk Road-linked Bitcoin wallets move 3M to new address (cointelegraph.com)
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Oracle''s 300B OpenAI Deal Has Investors Worried About Its AI Spending (www.bloomberg.com)
Karen Wetterhahn (en.wikipedia.org)
After 20 years in hospitality, I built an AI that learns to run a restaurant (schedulifypro.com)
Trump chickens out – Magnitsky Act edition (www.cbsnews.com)
Lite³: A JSON-Compatible Zero-Copy Serialization Format (lite3.io)
LG TV''s new software update installed MS Copilot, which cannot be deleted (old.reddit.com)
Rails Helps Cookpad Serve 100M Home Cooks (rubyonrails.org)
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The Newsvendor Model and Apparel (varietyiq.com)
How to balance full-time work with creative projects (2021) (thecreativeindependent.com)
Free Online Vision Screening – Eyetestonline.org (eyetestonline.org)
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Z8086: Rebuilding the 8086 from Original Microcode (nand2mario.github.io)
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Annual Production of 1/72 (22mm) scale plastic soldiers, 1958-2025 (plasticsoldierreview.com)
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How Did the CIA Lose Nuclear Device? (www.nytimes.com)
An Interview with Jack Crenshaw (www.trs-80.org)
30 Years of Tags (www.artmann.co)
Kyoto (github.com)
If AIs can feel pain, what is our responsibility towards them? (aeon.co)
Is vibe coding the new gateway to technical debt? (www.infoworld.com)
Why Rust for Embedded Systems? (and Why I''m Teaching Robotics with It) (blog.ravven.dev)
EU: Protecting children without the privacy nightmare of Digital IDs (democrats.eu)
Please stop using middleware to protect your routes (pilcrowonpaper.com)
Original Apollo 11 Guidance Computer source code (github.com)
AI agent finds more security flaws than human hackers at Stanford (scienceclock.com)
Nano banana prompts, updates everyday (github.com)
Skills vs. Dynamic MCP Loadouts (lucumr.pocoo.org)
Product Categories Supporting Option Breadth (varietyiq.com)
Loop-Invariant Code Motion (xania.org)
Folkscanomy: Tandy and Radio Shack Books (archive.org)
SMIC N3 Kirin 9030 Analysis Reveals How Close SMIC Is to 5nm (www.techinsights.com)
Apple AMX vs. GPU: tech deep dive (www.youtube.com)
AI is bringing old nuclear plants out of retirement (www.wbur.org)
Great Green Wall (China) (en.wikipedia.org)
I Know This Sounds Like Crackpot Physics – Please Read It Anyway (pajuhaan.medium.com)
Making lightning in a bottle with a particle accelerator (www.youtube.com)
Gemini tops leaderboard on research math problems (epoch.ai)
Toppleware (hannibalglaser.dk)
Transformer Architecture Visualizer (weavers.neocities.org)
LOL (www.digitalocean.com)
We Built Another Object Storage (and Why It''s Different) (fractalbits.com)
Philosophy Lectures on YouTube (jaredhenderson.substack.com)
Could America win the AI race but lose the war? (www.ft.com)
Slide Rule (en.wikipedia.org)
''Food and fossil fuel production causing 5B of environmental damage an hour'' (www.theguardian.com)
Germany''s train service is one of Europe''s worst. How did it get so bad? (www.npr.org)
YouTube''s CEO limits his kids'' social media use – other tech bosses do the same (www.cnbc.com)
Texas Attorney General Sues Epic for Gatekeeping Medical Data (www.texasattorneygeneral.gov)
Using Linear Algebra to Predict a Non-Linear Pendulum (chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com)
Gut microbial imbalance can impact memory, says study (www.newindianexpress.com)
Broadcom tumbles 11% after earnings as AI trade sells off (www.cnbc.com)
1.5M Plastic Bottles Are Turned into Clothing Every Day (2024) [video] (www.youtube.com)
I Fed 24 Years of My Blog Posts to a Markov Model (susam.net)
Rcarmo/Python-FastAPI-trmnl-server: Lightweight TRMNL BYOS server (github.com)
Bookmark for CAD/2d/3D Useful links (github.com)
Attitudes towards AI by country (2025) (old.reddit.com)
The simple cult camera that inspired Instagram (2017) (www.bbc.com)
Breaking Down Trump''s 2025 National Security Strategy (www.brookings.edu)
Humans rank above meerkats but below beavers in monogamy league table (www.theguardian.com)
A net of scammer groups on Telegram (timsh.org)
Software Freedom Conservancy vs. Vizio Inc (sfconservancy.org)
Waterfox 6.6.6 release notes: Privacy hardening (www.waterfox.com)
The real lock-in in GitHub is not the code, but the stars (ashishb.net)
Pixel advertising wall for influencers with real-time reservation (influencerswall.com)
Rich Headers: leveraging this mysterious artifact of the PE format (www.virusbulletin.com)
How much AI do we need, really? (newsletter.alastairrushworth.com)
Flow depression treatment now FDA approved (www.flowneuroscience.com)
''It May Be Worse''–No Fix for New Google Chrome Attacks (www.forbes.com)
Clean, Limitless Energy Exists. China Is Going Big in the Race to Harness It (www.nytimes.com)
Get your social Media to explode (magiclip.io)
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Sperm donor with cancer-causing gene fathers nearly 200 children (scienceclock.com)
The secretive world of North Korean science fiction (2023) (arstechnica.com)
Windows 3.1 in the Browser (www.pcjs.org)
Surgical Masks and Viral Transmission (rodgercuddington.substack.com)
Oilwell is a wellness app to help you embrace climate chaos (oilwell.app)
Can We Claim That Civilization Is on the Steady Path of Progress? (lithub.com)
Commonplace Book (en.wikipedia.org)
Kpython – A MicroPython Sidecar for the Linux Kernel (Experimental) (github.com)
What is "involution", China''s race-to-the-bottom competition trend (www.reuters.com)
Catland, the Louis Wain Archive (catland.distin.org)
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How well do LLMs generate R code? (skaltman-model-eval-app.share.connect.posit.cloud)
Life in Gaza under Israel''s all-encompassing surveillance regime (nymag.com)
Trump Pretends to Block State AI Laws; Media Pretends That''s Legal (www.techdirt.com)
LibXML2, Used by Steam, Chromium, Others Is Now Abandoned (www.youtube.com)
Democratic states sue Trump administration over new 100k fee for H-1B visas (www.cnn.com)
ChatGPT 5.2 Tested: How Developers Rate the New Update (Another Marketing Hype?) (www.finalroundai.com)
The state of the kernel Rust experiment (lwn.net)
React Is Rainbow Colored (skyview.social)
Crowd-sourced comparison of USB security tokens (docs.google.com)
EZ File Changer – Private, client-side image converter (www.ezfilechanger.com)
Firefox Version 146.0 (www.firefox.com)
Switzerland Engineered the Perfect Country [video] (www.youtube.com)
Can''t take setting up another bucket for images (images.labnocturne.com)
The New Allowance (www.theatlantic.com)
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Configure automatic detection of work location in Microsoft Teams (learn.microsoft.com)
Music Algorithms Failed Us (therectangle.substack.com)
Writing a Type-Safe Linux Perf Interface in Zig (pyk.sh)
Google and Apple roll out emergency security updates after zero-day attacks (techcrunch.com)
SpaceX Valued at 800B, as It Prepares to Go Public (www.nytimes.com)