xAI Raises 20B Series E (x.ai)
Why multimodal AI needs typed artifacts instead of ad-hoc URLs (joyous-screen-916297.framer.app)
DOI cracks down on stickers covering Trump''s face on national park passes (www.sfgate.com)
OKRs Made Easy: Goal-setting without the theatrics (www.andrew-turnbull.com)
How Spotify Made Me Self Host (layandreas.github.io)
Free US Nationwide Parcel Dataset for Noncommercial Use (www.kaggle.com)
Bryan Cantrill: How Kubernetes Broke the AWS Cloud Monopoly (thenewstack.io)
Bike Index: the non-profit bike registry (bikeindex.org)
All Fedora 44 KDE Variants to Use Plasma Login Manager Rather Than SDDM (www.phoronix.com)
Stop Doom Scrolling, Start Doom Coding: Build via the terminal from your phone (github.com)
No Backup, No Cry (world.hey.com)
Every Stanley Kubrick movie, ranked (www.vulture.com)
Isaac French on X: "Why Tesla Might Save Small Towns" / X (twitter.com)
The Quiet Unraveling of the Power Grid Monopoly (oilprice.com)
The O''Saasy License (world.hey.com)
MTV Simulator (wantmymtv.vercel.app)
The science of green hair care (knowablemagazine.org)
Terraform PRs that explain themselves – built for platform and DevOps teams (tryterracotta.com)
Earth – a project to visualize global weather conditions (github.com)
Calling All Hackers (phrack.org)
Google Big Sleep: Linux Vulnerabilities (blog.gnoack.org)
The Ruff Linter (docs.astral.sh)
Kahvibreak – J2ME game collection (5600 games) (bluemaxima.org)
Engineering an LLM-Based Data Classifier (getnumberseven.com)
High-Performance DBMSs with io_uring: When and How to use it (arxiv.org)
Ultorg – the missing user interface for relational databases (www.ultorg.com)
Guide to Adopting Kotlin in a Java-Dominated Environment (blog.jetbrains.com)
Building a software-defined GPS receiver (axleos.com)
Rwx: "Ralph Wiggum Loop" util for Claude/codex (github.com)
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REI''s ''Return Tags'' Are an Oral History of Hilarious Outdoor Mishaps (gearjunkie.com)
Trump Murders U.S. Public Media (www.techdirt.com)
Short demo video of a GitLab self-hosting workflow (www.youtube.com)
Prolific Business Lessons Nipsey Hussle Gifted the World (www.entrepreneur.com)
Hyundai Debuts Next-Gen Atlas Robot from Boston Dynamics [video] (www.youtube.com)
Google will now only release Android source code twice a year (www.androidauthority.com)
Predict Your House Price (www.bloomberg.com)
Spotify puts hold on all new app submissions (community.spotify.com)
The Industrial Corporate Baby-Talk Complex (substack.com)
The Productivity–Pay Gap (www.epi.org)
Two years website logs analysis (ajqvue.com)
Best Internet Communications, Inc. Historical Tour (www.backplane.com)
I built a mobile block puzzle game with multiple modes and weekly challenges (apps.apple.com)
Enzyme shape-shifting captured in real time during catalysis (phys.org)
Béla Tarr Iconic Hungarian Filmmaker Dies at 70 (variety.com)
PostgreSQL Scripting Tips (www.pgrs.net)
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Nvidia Enters the Self-Driving Race with Alpamayo (driveteslacanada.ca)
Accenture buys UK AI startup Faculty in 1B deal (www.ft.com)
Epiphany (Holiday) (en.wikipedia.org)
Why cancer can come back years later – and how to stop it (www.nature.com)
Nemotron-3-nano-30B-a3B Model by Nvidia (build.nvidia.com)
Nvidia/nemotron-speech-streaming-en-0.6B (huggingface.co)
Building Voice Agents with Nvidia Open Models (www.daily.co)
"Food JPEGs" in Super Smash Bros. & Kirby Air Riders (sethmlarson.dev)
Claude Playwright plugin without the bloat (github.com)
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Sandboxing AI Coding Agents (deepnoodle.ai)
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My Notetaking System (Znotes) (tsvibt.blogspot.com)
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GetFullYear – An API that returns the current year (getfullyear.com)
Biotech Galapagos Announces Decision to Wind-Down of Cell Therapy Activities (www.glpg.com)
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Public Ownership Won''t Cure Power Market Volatility (oilprice.com)
What''s a serverless browser and why does it matter (browserbase.run)
Introduction to Formal Methods – Part 1 (vikramsg.github.io)
Video Game Websites in the early 00s (www.webdesignmuseum.org)
A leading roboticist punctures the hype of driverless cars, LLMs, humanoids (www.latimes.com)
Aquapush (aquapush.dev)
Nvidia Unveils Faster AI Chips Sooner Than Expected (www.wsj.com)
2011: Six technologies that will stick around, and six that will dissapear (archive.org)
Razer Made Its AI Gaming Assistant into a Waifu Hologram (gizmodo.com)
I love Tailscale but still couldn''t share my dev environment. So I built this (privateconnect.co)
Lego unveils tech-filled Smart Bricks (www.bbc.com)
Nvidia''s Vera-Rubin Platform Obsoletes Current AI Iron 6 Months Ahead of Launch (www.nextplatform.com)
Jaguar Land Rover wholesale volumes down 43% after cyberattack (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
A Fireworks Explosion Shattered Their Lives. Will HawaiʻI Learn from It? (www.civilbeat.org)
Evernote Privacy Policy, Effective Date: Jan 1, 2026 (evernote.com)
The Liskov Substitution Principle does more than you think (buttondown.com)
Lingo: A Language Workbench Powered by Datalog (petevilter.me)
How I build levels while the game is running (twitter.com)
"Nvidia''s New Vera Rubin Chips Are in ''Full Production''" (www.wired.com)
Let''s Meet at FOSDEM 2026 (nlnet.nl)
Passing of Joe Mancuso author of Masonite (Python web framework) (github.com)
Creating a Bespoke Data Diode for Air‑Gapped Networks (nelop.com)
The Glaciers Are Melting. This One Is Growing (www.popularmechanics.com)
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Magen: Same Keybindings in VSCode/VSCodium, Zed and Jetbrains IDEs (github.com)
Hierarchical Autoregressive Modeling for Memory-Efficient Language Generation (arxiv.org)
The Parasocial Model of Disability (buttondown.com)
What Makes Bagels Too Hard: Expert Solutions (www.abels-bagels.com)
Locating a Photo of a Vehicle in 30 Seconds with GeoSpy (geospy.ai)
How I code going into 2026; 22 years since writing my first line of code (olshansky.substack.com)
Spec Kitty: Kanban / Spec Driven Development (github.com)
Dude, where''s my supersonic jet? (rationaloptimistsociety.substack.com)
"Space particle" impact hindering Spain''s 2B military satellite program (www.datacenterdynamics.com)
Diving into Qualcomm''s Upcoming Adreno X2 GPU with Eric Demers (chipsandcheese.com)
DatBench fixes VLM evals: 70% blindly solvable, 42% mislabeled, 35% prod gap (www.datologyai.com)
The US dollar and national security (www.hegemoney.com)
How to Detect AI Slop (telmo.dev)
DatBench: Discriminative, faithful, and efficient VLM evaluations (arxiv.org)
Why Your AI Agent Needs a Runtime (Not Just a Framework) (abiorhtech.substack.com)
Early Observer (www.futilitycloset.com)
Imagine a Bigger Seattle (scottsumner.substack.com)
Against Against Boomers (www.astralcodexten.com)
America Needs a Transcontinental Railroad (www.wsj.com)
A Letter of Feedback to Anyone Who Makes Software I Use (blog.jim-nielsen.com)
Persistent Backdoor Attacks Under Continual Fine-Tuning of LLMs (arxiv.org)
Linux on a Mac (it''s not going back) [video] (tinkerbetter.tube)
Genuary 2026 (genuary.art)
AP photographers capture infrared technology used in surveillance [video] (www.youtube.com)
Tamarind Bio (YC W24) – AI Inference Provider for Drug Discovery (news.ycombinator.com)
Databroker Files Targeting the EU (netzpolitik.org)
Opus 4.5 is going to change everything (burkeholland.github.io)
Insights into Claude Opus 4.5 from Pokémon (www.lesswrong.com)
Metapyxl- digital rights management and usage tracking (www.metapyxl.com)
Unforgettable Labs (unforgettablelabs.com)
World''s largest accounting body to scrap remote exams to combat rise in cheating (www.ft.com)
ImageMagick – a free, open-source CLI for editing images (github.com)
roborev: Background agent to review your Git commits with Codex or Claude Code (github.com)
Pentagon Pizza Surge Signals Venezuela Operation: ''Pizza Meter'' Crisis Indicator (www.chosun.com)
The Well: State of the World 2026 (people.well.com)
Taking Local AI Development to the Max with AMD Ryzen AI Halo (www.amd.com)
The 3 most data-hungry mobile browsers: one even collects your personal chats (surfshark.com)
Razer thinks you''d rather have AI headphones instead of glasses (www.theverge.com)
Why Big Companies Keep Failing: The Stack Fallacy (2016) (techcrunch.com)
Ancient Modern: Recreating an Ancient Pump (with no moving parts) (practical.engineering)
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Free Sora 2 (tool.video)
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Bulk Unsubscribe in Gmail (michaelheap.com)
Why smaller houses can lead to happier lives (www.washingtonpost.com)
Just Press Enter (campedersen.com)
Zero heap allocation HTTP server using OxCaml (github.com)
Collaboration vs. Skill Exploitation in Academia (www.randropy.com)
Volkswagen Brings Back Physical Buttons (www.caranddriver.com)
Are Autonomous Vehicles Safer Than Human Drivers? We Don''t Know Yet (www.bloomberg.com)
Béla Tarr, Hungarian film director, dies aged 70 (www.theguardian.com)
FTSE100 bosses'' pay overtakes typical worker''s annual salary in less than 3 days (news.sky.com)
Raspberry Pi and mini PC home lab prices hit parity as DRAM costs skyrocket (www.tomshardware.com)
Why is the Gmail app 700 MB? (akr.am)
LMArena Is a Cancer on AI (surgehq.ai)
Vienam Bans Unskippable Ads, Requires Skip Button to Appear After 5 Seconds (saigoneer.com)
Trump Is Unleashing Forces Beyond His Control (www.nytimes.com)
Lego Unveils Smart Bricks (www.lego.com)
Prediction markets move into real estate with Polymarket–Parcl deal (cointelegraph.com)
Heavy Truck Sales Collapsed in Q4; Down 32.5% Year-over-Year in December (www.calculatedriskblog.com)
January 6 United States Capitol attack (en.wikipedia.org)
Catnip: agentic coding tool (github.com)
Back in power 5 years later, Trump has all but erased the stain of Jan. 6 (www.politico.com)
Pyinfra: Turns Python code into shell commands and runs them on your servers (github.com)
An open format for API collections (www.opencollection.com)
Transformer-Based Memory Reverse Engineering for Malware Behavior Reconstruction (www.mdpi.com)
Cellular Automaton: Ludi Incipiant (gate-hnhb.netlify.app)
Schematics Detailing What Looks Like the Mythical PowerBook G5 Have Appeared (512pixels.net)
Mastery Fun vs. Frontier Fun (fulghum.io)
Models don''t have moats, products do (parsnip.substack.com)
State of the Fin 2026-01-06 – Jellyfin (jellyfin.org)
Croatia extends free train travel to more groups (www.croatiaweek.com)
Sacred ''forbidden island'' in Japan is completely off limits to women (www.abc.net.au)
Artificial intelligence begins prescribing medications in Utah (www.politico.com)
Shape of AI (www.shapeof.ai)
Anthropic reduced usage quota for all Claude users (github.com)
Who''s who at X, the deepfake porn site formerly known as Twitter (www.ft.com)
Dashboards are bad (and you should feel bad) (dogdogfish.com)
Falcon-H1-Arabic: Pushing the Boundaries of Arabic Language AI (huggingface.co)
Nvidia Cosmos Reason 2 Brings Advanced Reasoning to Physical AI (huggingface.co)
An Interactive Guide to How LLMs Generate Text (jaysahnan.com)
Cyberchef: A Web App for Encryption, Encoding, Compression and Data Analysis (github.com)
Pandemic PhDs: graduates anxious, but optimistic, about the future (www.nature.com)
The creator of Claude Code just revealed his workflow (venturebeat.com)
Why Does A.I. Write Like That? (www.nytimes.com)
I built a Kubernetes deployment tool (eric.mann.blog)
Nvidia brings agents to life with DGX Spark and Reachy Mini (huggingface.co)
Mamdani Targets Junk Fees and Hidden Charges in Two Executive Orders (www.nytimes.com)
Building Autonomous Vehicles That Reason with Nvidia Alpamayo (developer.nvidia.com)
The 5 Knights of the MCP Apocalypse (foojay.io)
Sentry Alternatives for Error Monitoring (sentry.io)
H-1B wage analysis: 305k loss over 6 years from visa constraints (2.4M records) (theh1brecords.substack.com)
AI traffic cameras lead to 1k tickets in 4 days (www.msn.com)
The skill of the future is not ''AI'', but ''Focus'' (2025) (carette.xyz)
I made 0 revenue for the past 3 months (medium.com)
Four ways to improve a perfect SQL join algorithm (remy.wang)
I Automated My Morning Standup with N8n (and Got an Unexpected Morale Boost) (iinteractive.com)
Why MCP servers stopped answering? (glama.ai)
How to Structure a Next.js Application (For Humans and LLMs) (swiftace.org)
Béla Tarr Has Died (www.nytimes.com)
Building the Brain of Your Accessibility AI (www.last-child.com)
How to Handle Unsolicited Idea Submissions (www.jdsupra.com)
LLM''s shouldn''t always land the plane (blog.jakesaunders.dev)
Cameroon and Tanzania rulers clung to power – but look more vulnerable (theconversation.com)
Operationalizing Machine Learning: An Interview Study (arxiv.org)
Mastering Nginx Logs with JSON and OpenTelemetry (www.dash0.com)
PayDroid universal checkout layer for chat, bots, and AI commerce (stripe.paydroid.ai)
Urban World: Meeting the Demographic Challenge [pdf] (www.mckinsey.com)
Crackhouse, co-living for cracked engineers (crackhouse.xyz)
How A Young Nation Shaped the Modern World (uberpub.com)
18k Reasons for Causal Learning in Space (nervousmachine.substack.com)
DatBench: Cut VLM eval compute by 10 while INCREASING signal (www.datologyai.com)
Apitrace Goes Vroom (2025) (www.supergoodcode.com)
The Validation Machines (www.theatlantic.com)
About the "Trust-Me-Bro" Culture (carette.xyz)
HP Keyboard Full PC Eliteboard G1A (www.hp.com)
U-Haul Migration Trends (www.uhaul.com)
Chess isn''t fair–so rearrange the pieces (www.popsci.com)
Build Broad, Refine Later – Code as Material (opuslabs.substack.com)
New Lego smart-play system (www.lego.com)
Gnome and Mozilla Discuss Proposal to Disable Middle Mouse Paste on Linux (linuxiac.com)
Government demands Musk''s X deals with ''appalling'' Grok AI deepfakes (www.bbc.co.uk)
Exploring Visual Basic 1.0 for MS-DOS (www.cloudwisp.com)
Never click on a link that looks like that (xn--gckvb8fzb.com)
SRE deep dive into Linux Page Cache (biriukov.dev)
65% of Hacker News Posts Have Negative Sentiment, and They Outperform (philippdubach.com)
High-performance header-only container library for C23 on x86-64 (github.com)
IXI''s autofocus glasses are one step closer to reality (www.engadget.com)
Recreating an Ancient Pump with No Moving Parts [video] (www.youtube.com)
A Knot Thing Unfolds (chat.deepseek.com)
Soil antibiotic resistance genes are associated with increasing risk to humans (www.nature.com)
The 2023 jabber.ru Attack Exposes a Critical Cloudflare Flaw in 2026 (david-osipov.vision)
Don''t Experiment on Your Team (holenventures.substack.com)
Creating Embroidered Charts with R and ImageMagick (aman.bh)
Intellectual Progress in 2025 (www.beren.io)
LiveVue 1.0: Making Phoenix and Vue Best Friends (skalecki.dev)
Hotel staff tricked into installing malware by bogus BSODs (www.theregister.com)
Gemini Protocol Deployment Statistics (www.obsessivefacts.com)
Customize your Fedora with a Dockerfile (blog.piaseczny.dev)
Reverse engineering my e-scooter and finding the master key to unlock them all (blog.nns.ee)
GPU Memory Allocation Bugs with Nvidia on Linux and Wayland Adventures (nickjanetakis.com)
iPadOS and macOS 26.2 Double 5GHz Wi-Fi Bandwidth for Wi-Fi 6E Devices (www.macrumors.com)
You can 3D Print Phone Cases (ivie.codes)
All the rovers heading to the Moon over the next 10 years (jatan.space)
America Is Losing Blue Collar Jobs (www.apricitas.io)
"Owning your data" will not save you from data capitalism (boingboing.net)
U.S. NATO allies say "Greenland belongs to its people" (www.cbsnews.com)
Doing the Most Difficult Job (As a Woman) at 64C Yakutsk, Siberia (www.youtube.com)
Claude Quick – TUI orchestrating multiple Claude Code agents in devcontainers (github.com)
Jan. 6 defendants plan march on fifth anniversary of Capitol riot (www.nbcwashington.com)
Learn Phaser 4 by Building a Sonic Themed Infinite Runner Game in JavaScript (jslegenddev.substack.com)
I Need Feedback (nutritrack.fitness)
Hybrid Assisted Ultra-High-Precision Single-Point Diamond Turning (www.mdpi.com)
Wikipedia Donation Destroyer (github.com)
India''s Jan Russian oil imports may fall sharply; Reliance expects no deliveries (www.reuters.com)
Claude devs complain about surprise limits, Anthropic blames expiring bonus (www.theregister.com)
Short Stints, Real Experience: Rethinking Career Tenure (eric.mann.blog)
Radio Communication via Meteor Trails (en.wikipedia.org)
Online Museum and Technical History of the Hewlett-Packard Company (www.kennethkuhn.com)
How I Hire Engineers (werd.io)
The Slow Death of Scaling (deep learning models) (papers.ssrn.com)
RFK Jr.''S Tuskegee Experiment (pauloffit.substack.com)
Sleep patterns assessed by a smartphone app and work productivity loss (www.nature.com)
Microsoft didn''t rebrand Office to Microsoft 365 Copilot (www.theverge.com)
Why German Strings Are Everywhere? (cedardb.com)
Log2(3) and Log2(5) (www.johndcook.com)
Rcarmo/syncthing-kicker: Make Syncthing rescan (mostly) when you want it to (github.com)
Disaster Costs, 1900–2024 (entropicthoughts.com)
Deep in the vaults: the Bank of England''s 1.4B Venezuelan gold conundrum (www.theguardian.com)
The End of Something (www.nurbaysal.com)
HF-mem: CLI to estimate inference memory requirements for Hugging Face models (github.com)
Trump aide says no-one would fight US over Greenland (www.bbc.com)
(''selector'') on Firefox DevTools console (mastodon.social)
Assange''s lawyer Barry Pollack to fight Maduro''s US narcotics charges (www.reuters.com)
The XMPP Newsletter December 2025 (xmpp.org)
Ugreen is expanding into AI-powered smart home surveillance (www.theverge.com)
Portland''s gas-powered leaf blower ban goes into effect (www.oregonlive.com)
When to Use a Columnar Database (www.tinybird.co)
Dell Admits It Made a Mistake When It Abandoned XPS (gizmodo.com)
Greenland sharks maintain vision for centuries through DNA repair mechanism (phys.org)
College grad unemployment isn''t about AI (theupdatebrief.substack.com)
Recreational marathoners show no long-term heart damage after 10 years (medicalxpress.com)
I started building Lichess (2021) (lichess.org)
Human Scale Software vs. Open Source (posixcafe.org)
C Is Best (sqlite.org)
Psychological traits that may fuel conspiracy theorist mindset identified (phys.org)
Wrapping my head around Steve Yegge''s gastown (justin.abrah.ms)
Covid-19 Is Still Killing a Disturbing Number of People (gizmodo.com)
Nvidia announce a native Linux app for GeForce NOW (www.gamingonlinux.com)
Understanding SQL Parsers (nishchith.com)
Nvidia DLSS 4.5: 2nd‑Gen Transformer Super Resolution and 6 Dynamic Frame Gen (www.nvidia.com)
Trump suggests US taxpayers could reimburse oil firms for Venezuela investment (www.theguardian.com)
Easy (Horizontal Scrollbar) Fixes for Your Blog CSS (aartaka.me)
A Reproducible C Toolchain Rooted on POSIX Shell [pdf] (github.com)
System: Control your Mac from anywhere using natural language (system.surf)
Has MacStadium support quality declined recently? (post-mortem) (macstadium.com)
Build native DuckDB extensions in C# using .NET AOT compilation (github.com)
Kenya''s Great Carbon Valley: a bold new gamble to fight climate change (www.technologyreview.com)
Claude Code as my co-founder and COO (agents-squads.com)
Don''t Get Hacked: Self-Hosting Coolify on Hetzner (blog.jakesaunders.dev)
The Twelve-Factor App (12factor.net)
EU upgrades deep-sea links to deep-sea WiFi (www.der-postillon.com)
Assisted suicide: Coercion isn''t fiction (thecritic.co.uk)
Dieter Rams and ten principles for good design (designexplained.substack.com)
Experienced software developers assumed AI would save them a chunk of time (fortune.com)
Hacker Dressed as the Pink Ranger Takes Down White Supremacist Websites Onstage (gizmodo.com)
Aurora Sprint 2026 – Hack on Embedded Nix in Iceland (aurorasprint.com)
ClickFix attack uses fake Windows BSOD screens to push malware (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
WebAssmbly in Containers in 2026? (thenewstack.io)
Keys to Understanding Trump''s Retro Coup in Venezuela (www.wired.com)