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Rich Hickey''s opening remarks from Clojure/Conj 2025 [video] (www.youtube.com)
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US Confirms Strike on ''Big Facility'' Inside Venezuela (www.bloomberg.com)
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China stages record drills designed to encircle Taiwan (www.reuters.com)
Static Allocation with Zig (nickmonad.blog)
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iOS 26.2 Security Update (support.apple.com)
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We Plugged ChinaXiv into Paperzilla (paperzilla.ai)
Kaizen: A Factory Story (A Programming Game from Zach Barth) (coincidence.games)
Starlink Direct to Cell (starlink.com)
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Macromedia Flash, from an Animator''s Standpoint (medium.com)
IT team camp in the office for days after Y2K bug found in boss''s side project (www.theregister.com)
I switched to eSIM in 2025, and I am full of regret (arstechnica.com)
Open source adndroid video downloader (github.com)
Gen Zers and millennials flocking to so-called analog islands (fortune.com)
Zero-back end spreadsheets. The data is the URL (spreadsheetlive.netlify.app)
Niklaus Wirth: Recollections about the Development of Pascal (1993) [pdf] (pascal.hansotten.com)
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HVIF Store (hvif-store.art)
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German hackers call for ''digital independence days'' to reduce US tech grip (www.euractiv.com)
Trump Says the U.S. Struck a ''Big Facility'' in Campaign Against Venezuela (www.nytimes.com)
Progress Linux 6.18 – Asahi Linux (asahilinux.org)
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Loro Protocol: a wire protocol designed for real-time CRDT synchronization (loro.dev)
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Mosa Cloud (mosa.cloud)
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AI Is a Scam, but Don''t Let That Spoil Machine Learning (gardinerbryant.com)
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2025: That''s a Wrap and Here Are the Stats (www.backblaze.com)
Payment giants preparing for a world where AI agents book flights, shop for you (www.cnbc.com)
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Software Architecture Is About Things Hard to Change (tomasjurasek.substack.com)
You meant elm-lang.org (thank you kind author of elmlang.org) (elmlang.org)
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Banana Prompts – Master Nano Banana: The Premier AI Prompt Gallery (banana-prompts.com)
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Americans Hate AI. Which Party Will Benefit? (www.politico.com)
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China launches live-fire drills encircling Taiwan (www.theguardian.com)
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Listing gaming on your resume might hurt your job prospects (www.psypost.org)
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Entry-level AI job displacement (www.yahoo.com)
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Only the Questions: An app that shows only the questions in a piece of text (only-the-questions.vercel.app)
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Hydraulic press flips coin onto its edge on the 11,175th flip after 147 hours (www.twitch.tv)
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Thick Desires in a Thin World (domofutu.substack.com)
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LineageOS for QEMU Virtual Machines (github.com)
Pope Leo''s pick to lead New York Catholics signals shift away from Maga (www.ft.com)
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NTSB Investigation: 2024 Orlando drone show accident [pdf] (data.ntsb.gov)
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QuickCurrency – Free currency converter with no sign-up required (quickcurrency.net)
AI Chatbots Linked to Psychosis, Say Doctors (www.wsj.com)
Louis Gerstner, man credited with turning around IBM, dies aged 83 (www.theguardian.com)
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AI-generated content in Wikipedia – a tale of caution [video] (media.ccc.de)
NPM needs an analog to pnpm''s minimumReleaseAge and yarn''s npmMinimalAgeGate (www.pcloadletter.dev)
Roko''s Basilisk (en.wikipedia.org)
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KYC fails at the only thing it claims to do (servury.com)
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The brain decides what to remember with sequential molecular timers (medicalxpress.com)
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Ubisoft helpdesk staff in India accepted bribes to hack player accounts (twitter.com)
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Endurance athletes have a 4x higher risk of irregular heartbeat, here''s why (theconversation.com)
UVB-76 (The Buzzer) (en.wikipedia.org)
The Day the LLM Stood Still: A Diary from a World Without AI (blog.pytoshka.me)
Familial confounding in the associations between maternal health and autism (doi.org)
CLI for internet speed test via Cloudflare (github.com)
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Rich Hickey: Thanks AI (gist.github.com)
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An Experiment in Vibe Coding (nolanlawson.com)
Julie – an open-source, screen-aware multimodal desktop AI assistant (github.com)
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Apple retires 25 products, ends iconic iPhone SE era (news.az)
Curator ''shocked'' by Melbourne pitch performance in Ashes (www.rnz.co.nz)
ThinkTank, an "idea processor" that launched a religion (of outliners) (stonetools.ghost.io)
Shields.io Uses the GitHub API (shields.io)
Fast Cvvdp Implementation in C (github.com)
The Sociology of the Crease (www.sebs.website)
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ADHD and Loneliness: What It''s Like to Be "Good with People" and Lonely (mindfullofit.substack.com)
CEOs are hugely expensive. Why not automate them? (www.newstatesman.com)
Slaughtering Competition Problems with Quantifier Elimination (grossack.site)
62 years in the making: NYC''s newest water tunnel nears the finish line (ny1.com)
Halifax video game workers form first Ubisoft union in North America (www.cbc.ca)
As AI gobbles up chips, prices for devices may rise (www.npr.org)
Controlling Blood Sugar Cut Heart Disease Risk in Half, Study Says (www.nytimes.com)
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Parsing IP addresses quickly (portably, without SIMD magic) (lemire.me)
A Profit-Based Measure of Lending Discrimination (arxiv.org)
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Researchers Discover Molecular Difference in Autistic Brains (medicine.yale.edu)
SWEResume – clean your resume in seconds (www.sweresume.app)
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KDE – Highlights from 2025 (pointieststick.com)
AI, the forty percent problem, and the future of work (smarterarticles.co.uk)
Ghost resorts: as 100s of ski slopes lie abandoned will nature reclaim the Alps? (www.theguardian.com)
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Trump to hire 1k specialists for ''Tech Force'' to build AI, finance projects (www.cnbc.com)
LoongArch 64-bit userspace emulation (fwsgonzo.medium.com)
Soft robots harvest ambient heat for self-sustained motion (techxplore.com)
Why I Disappeared – My week with minimal internet in a remote island chain (www.kenklippenstein.com)
Unity''s Mono problem: Why your C# code runs slower than it should (marekfiser.com)
Software engineers should be a little bit cynical (www.seangoedecke.com)
Pop icon Kate Bush''s 10.8M windfall from Stranger Things hit song (www.dailymail.co.uk)
The Prison of Financial Mediocrity (twitter.com)
Apex Programming Language – Fancy syntax, easy and fast (github.com)
Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS reveals weird wobbling jets in rare sun-facing tail (www.space.com)
If you receive a bribe, include it in your income (www.irs.gov)
MongoBleed Explained Simply (bigdata.2minutestreaming.com)
Did Tim Cook post AI slop in his Christmas message promoting ''Pluribus''? (apple.slashdot.org)
Loss of moist broadleaf forest in Africa has turned a carbon sink into source (www.nature.com)
Snowflake CEO: Big Tech''s grip on AI will loosen in 2026 (fortune.com)
Executive Assistant (www.watercode.in)
Think (en.wikipedia.org)
An Owner''s Guide to the Human Genome: Introduction to human population genetics (web.stanford.edu)
Using the Corne Keyboard for Half a Year (rugu.dev)
Posits: An Alternative to Floating Point (insidehpc.com)
AI''s trillion-dollar opportunity: Context graphs (ashugarg.substack.com)
Life is wasting my time (2013) (blog.daemonl.com)
PySDR: A Guide to SDR and DSP Using Python (pysdr.org)
Simple Small Markdown Reader (github.com)
Stepping down as Mockito maintainer after 10 years (github.com)
Intellectual AI Bubble (xendo.bearblog.dev)
There''s No Happy Ending for Movie Theaters, No Matter Who Wins Warner (www.wsj.com)
K2pdfopt (www.willus.com)
The 20 Domain Trap: Why Buying a Domain Feels Like Progress but Isn''t (www.validatemy.app)
BM25 search and Claude efficient precision (github.com)
California Typewriter Documentary (2016) (californiatypewritermovie.com)
Nvidia Groq Update: Everyone Gets Rich, Patent Warfare Begins (ossa-ma.github.io)
No it''s not a Battleship (www.navalgazing.net)
Why Are Cars Getting Rid of Android Auto? (www.bgr.com)
Amazon halts plans for drone delivery in Italy (www.reuters.com)
Engineering Is Becoming Beekeeping (bits.logic.inc)
Synthwave Radio (nightride.fm)
Stay on top of your inbox in 2013 (ploum.net)
Delete LinkedIn – you''ll have zero fucking regrets (thenextweb.com)
Legendary French Actress, Sex Symbol Brigitte Bardot Dies at 91 (www.wsj.com)
Nick Kyrgios defeats Anna Sabalenka to win ''Battle of the Sexes'' tennis match (news.sky.com)
When US Cavalry&Germans Fought Together in WWII&Saved 1.2k Horses from Soviets (www.military.com)
New York subway ends its MetroCard era and switches to tap-and-go fares (abcnews.go.com)
TLD Sucks [Wiki] (en.wikipedia.org)
The ''decolonised'' essay alternatives dumbing down Britain''s universities (www.telegraph.co.uk)
Free compare two Excel online in RAM. Export added (medium.com)
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First Steps with Gleam: Building a Simple Web App (Rest API with PostgreSQL) (blog.andreyfadeev.com)
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