When AI writes almost all code, what happens to software engineering? (newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com)
Making a game engine based on dynamic signed distance fields [video] (www.youtube.com)
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A Child in the State of Nature (lareviewofbooks.org)
Prince of Persia Defeated Apple II''s Memory Limitations (www.youtube.com)
In Memoriam: All the tech that died in 2025 (mashable.com)
It doesn''t take two to think. It takes ITERATION to think (twitter.com)
PCBWay introduces transparent PCBs [video] (www.youtube.com)
Swapping two blocks of memory that reside inside a larger block, in constant mem (devblogs.microsoft.com)
Someone tried to hack into my SendGrid account (moth.monster)
Chat platform Discord files confidentially for US IPO (www.reuters.com)
Why write unit tests? (2024) (henko.net)
The Guardian view on Trump''s raid in Caracas: oil matters, but it''s not the whol (www.theguardian.com)
Donald Trump poses a threat to civilization (www.theguardian.com)
GitHub Compiled (githubcompiled.com)
Russia sends submarine to escort tanker the US tried to seize off Venezuela (www.reuters.com)
Logitech Options Cert Expired (www.reddit.com)
Microsoft probably killed my Snapdragon Dev Kit (jasoneckert.github.io)
Rockstar still hasn''t offered a convincing reason for firing over 30 developers (www.pcgamer.com)
Lost ''Star Trek'' Episodes from the Unproduced ''Phase II'' Series (www.womansworld.com)
Ba (github.com)
It''s a Great Time to Be a Software Engineer (bitbytebit.substack.com)
Brands upset Buy For Me is featuring their products on Amazon without permission (www.modernretail.co)
Clifm 1.27 Is Out (github.com)
Polymarket refuses to pay bets that US would ''invade'' Venezuela (www.ft.com)
Clone Any Sass (github.com)
Why does the Android Gmail app have no app-level lock? a security flaw (issuetracker.google.com)
DiskImage: A powerful floppy disk image manager with built-in bitstream analysis (github.com)
Programming is not coding: The cognitive cost of LLM generation (github.com)
White House Posts False Jan. 6 Narrative on Riot''s 5th Anniversary (www.nytimes.com)
Cory Doctorow calls for abandoning anticircumvention appeasement laws globally (pluralistic.net)
How do graphics drivers work? (timur.hu)
InfiniTime 1.16 "Starfruit" (github.com)
The Mac Malware of 2025 (Objective-See) (objective-see.org)
New California law requires a working fridge in all apartments (calmatters.org)
Frankenstyle is a build-less Tailwind CSS alternative (franken.style)
The data center rebellion is here, and it''s reshaping the political landscape (www.washingtonpost.com)
A viral Reddit post alleging fraud from a food delivery app turned out to be AI (techcrunch.com)
Logitech Apple Developer Certificate has expired; (old.reddit.com)
The data center boom is concentrated in the U.S. (spectrum.ieee.org)
Aldrich Ames, most damaging CIA traitor in agency history, dies at 84 (www.washingtonpost.com)
Beautiful Terminal Calendar (github.com)
Why Most Websites Don''t Need Cookie Consent Banners (block81.com)
Many schools no longer assign full novels but excerpts on school-issued laptops (www.theguardian.com)
Sam Altman to Elon Musk on Recruiting from Tesla (twitter.com)
PassSeeds – hijacking Passkeys to unlock new cryptographic use cases (backalleycoder.com)
Letting prisons jam contraband phones is a bad idea, phone companies tell FCC (arstechnica.com)
The paradox of failed resolutions (jillianhess.substack.com)
The modern peril of the availability heuristic (www.behavioraleconomics.com)
We Recreated Steve Jobs''s 1975 Atari Horoscope Program and You Can Run It (blog.adafruit.com)
Microsoft wants to resurrect Three Mile Island. It will never happen (thehill.com)
Cursor''s Context Engineering Practice (cursor.com)
Website with a DMCA Takedown (priyatham.in)
XAI announces it has raised 20B (www.theguardian.com)
Revolutionary generator transforms Chinese factories into power plants (kdwalmsley.substack.com)
A multimodal sleep foundation model for disease prediction (www.nature.com)
Refreshing the Brain''s Immune Cells Could Treat a Host of Diseases (singularityhub.com)
The Start – Introduction, Mini Market Ticker (substack.com)
Knowledge curation (not search) is the AI big data problem (www.daft.ai)
A Survey of Dynamic Array Structures (azmr.uk)
Coding Adventure: Analyzing Audio [video] (www.youtube.com)
Startup develops inflatable fall-protection pants to prevent hip fractures (www.ctvnews.ca)
Debian Gets Its Own PPA-Like System as Debusine Repositories Launch (linuxiac.com)
Electronic Nose for Indoor Mold Detection and Identification (advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
SQL Server SSMS scroll indicator 2.5x harder to grab (developercommunity.microsoft.com)
LiveVue v1.0 (livevue.skalecki.dev)
AI automation paradox: More work, not less (www.theregister.com)
Why the trans flag emoji is the 5-codepoint sequence it is (hecate.pink)
Ofcom asks X about reports its Grok AI makes sexualised images of children (www.bbc.co.uk)
TIL: Gabriel, Jibril, and Cebrail Are the Same Name (ahmeto.com)
Scratchpad – A Throwaway Notepad for Developers (scratchpad.starlightjen.com)
API Clients: Bruno betrays, Yaak yaks (royathan.com)
Trump threatens to cancel midterms–realized he''ll be ''impeached'' if GOP defeated (www.the-express.com)
JavaScript Analyzer – Burp Suite Extension (github.com)
AI begins prescribing medications in Utah (www.politico.com)
Space Forge plans to manufacture semiconductors from space (www.scientificamerican.com)
The 5 stages of the ''Enshittification'' of Academic Publishing (theconversation.com)
The 1k Neuron Challenge (www.thetransmitter.org)
''Whata Bod'': An AI-generated NWS map invented fake towns in Idaho (www.washingtonpost.com)
The Boring Reason We Don''t Have 7 Rideshares (abio.substack.com)
A Response to France''s Best-Selling Covid Skeptic (www.integritytalk.blog)
Discord to File Confidentially for IPO (www.bloomberg.com)
Badness 0 (Apostrophe‛s version) [video] (www.youtube.com)
Microsoft Bob: Microsoft''s biggest flop of the 1990s (dfarq.homeip.net)
A congressman wants to criminalize insider trading on prediction markets (www.axios.com)
Study: Managers with first-born daughters, hire more women and pay more equal [pdf] (csef.it)
Vulnerability in Ruby that has existed since 2002 (nastystereo.com)
Hyundai Introduces Its Next-Gen Atlas Robot at CES 2026 [video] (www.youtube.com)
Software Too Cheap to Meter (secondthoughts.ai)
01.06.2021 (www.whitehouse.gov)
Prosody 13.0.3 released – An XMPP/Jabber server written in Lua (blog.prosody.im)
Cloud: Row in Bavaria over billion-euro Microsoft contract without tender (www.heise.de)
Mail Censorship in World War II (medium.com)
Chat of the Future Initiative – XMPP – The universal messaging standard (xmpp.org)
European leaders rally behind Greenland in face of renewed US threat (www.reuters.com)
Trump Floats Cancelling 2026 Elections, Then Insists He Won''t (time.com)
Is the Fate of the West Being Sealed for Good in Greenland? (colliert.substack.com)
Reinforcement learning without human annotations (twitter.com)
Magnetic control of lithium enables a safe, explosion-free ''dream battery'' (techxplore.com)
AI Propaganda factories with language models (arxiv.org)
Marcus Weighs in (Mostly) for LeCun (garymarcus.substack.com)
Founder of spyware maker pleads guilty (techcrunch.com)
Code is a liability (not an asset) (06 Jan 2026): Daily links from Cory Doctorow (pluralistic.net)
Astronomy Picture of the Day (apod.nasa.gov)
Nvidia''s new G-Sync Pulsar monitors target motion blur at the human retina level (arstechnica.com)
Coxeter and Dynkin Diagrams (arxiv.org)
GPT 5.2 helps solve Erdős problem #728 (www.erdosproblems.com)
Perlsecret – Perl secret operators and constants (metacpan.org)
High-Performance GPU Cuckoo Filter (github.com)
A connection between capability-based security and lambda calculus (killerstorm.github.io)
Conbini Wars – map of Japanese convenience store ratios (conbini.kikkia.dev)
Code is a liability (not an asset) (pluralistic.net)
Client and Lawyer Both Responsible for Attorney Fees in AI Hallucination Case (reason.com)
Cybersecurity Bill: ORG calls on MPs to reduce UK reliance on US tech companies (www.openrightsgroup.org)
Are we tired of social media once and for all? On the downfall of social media (www.danielbrendel.com)
What is the Base Services Charge, and how will it change my bill? (www.pge.com)
LG''s housekeeper robot designed to automate your daily chores (newatlas.com)
US discussing options to get Greenland, incl use of military, says White House (www.bbc.co.uk)
Over 200K law firms threatened by Vincent AI phishing flaw (www.scworld.com)
Chinese auto giant Geely to announce entry into US EV market within 2-3 years (electrek.co)
500k tech workers have been laid off since ChatGPT was released (www.anildash.com)
Quant interview and mental math practice (quantercise.com)
The Great Depression: Elevator Pitch (scottsumner.substack.com)
Breakthroughs Rare and Decreasing (splittinginfinity.substack.com)
L.A. fire cleanups reports describe repeated violations (www.latimes.com)
Oncotarget becomes the target of a DDoS attack (anandamide.substack.com)
Stellar Catalog: Discover the nearby universe (www.stellarcatalog.com)
CATL EV batteries significantly outperform rivals in degradation, tests show (electrek.co)
1972 Great Daylight Fireball (en.wikipedia.org)
CES 2026: Taking the Lids Off AMD''s Venice and MI400 SoCs (chipsandcheese.com)
Tesla''s full 2025 data from Europe is in, and it is a total bloodbath (electrek.co)
Losing Things Less Often (excamera.substack.com)
Several Anti-Phonetic Alphabets (web.cs.dal.ca)
Proteins that spread Parkinson''s pathology in the brain identified (medicalxpress.com)
Laid Off After 25 Years in Tech: Anxiety, Sacrifice, and Reality [video] (www.youtube.com)
US oil tankers sail towards Venezuela as risk of production ''collapse'' looms (www.ft.com)
Trump, advisers discussing options to acquire Greenland, US Military an option (www.reuters.com)
Comparing AI agents to cybersecurity professionals in real-world pen testing (arxiv.org)
VP in JP Morgan created 8 AI agents (www.reddit.com)
Building the MCP Search Tool for any model (www.warp.dev)
My Venezuela experience as head of trading in the region for Cargill (twitter.com)
Doppelganger: Self-hosted browser automation and task orchestration (doppelgangerdev.com)
Fred Wilson – What Will Happen in 2026 (avc.xyz)
Some farmers report as many as 70 tick encounters over a 6-month period (www.binghamton.edu)
Sanctum 1.0.0 Released (chants.conclave.se)
Total War: Pharaoh''s Nvidia Ace AI Advisor Is a VRAM Gobbler (overclock3d.net)
Caffeine strips as a nicotine‑free alternative (runstrip.vercel.app)
How to annotate JITed code for perf/samply (bernsteinbear.com)
7M Student Loan Borrowers Likely to See Payments Jump Soon (www.forbes.com)
Llama 2 inference from scratch in C20 (No PyTorch/GGML, ARM NEON) (github.com)
Trump weighs using U.S. military to acquire Greenland: White House (www.cnbc.com)
Oral microbiome sequencing after taking probiotics (blog.booleanbiotech.com)
NZ universities accepting English proficiency tests through Duolingo (www.rnz.co.nz)
A closer look at the BGP anomaly observed in Venezuela (blog.cloudflare.com)
Things Every Parnet Knows (www.thehomeschoolingcompany.com)
A 30B Qwen Model Walks into a Raspberry Pi and Runs in Real Time (byteshape.com)
Against Substack and Closed Ecosystems (robocall.github.io)
US Auto Sales Poised to Slip as Middle-Class Buyers Retreat (www.bloomberg.com)
White House unveils webpage saying Democrats ''staged the real insurrection'' (thehill.com)
GDP data confirms the Gen Z nightmare: the era of jobless growth is here (fortune.com)
Zammad – an open-source Zendesk alternative (zammad.org)
Visual regression tests for personal blogs (marending.dev)
Build with AI without building slop (karozieminski.substack.com)
Calling All Hackers: How money works (2024) (phrack.org)
Currentcondition.tv (github.com)
Stephen Miller Says US Has Right to Take over Any Country for Its Resources (www.commondreams.org)
SQLite – HCTree (new project to support concurrent writes) (sqlite.org)
First ever version of Unix written in C is running again (www.theregister.com)
Dynamic pricing: would you pay more for drinks in a pub at peak times? (www.rte.ie)
Student loan borrowers could see wages garnished in just days (www.newsweek.com)
macOS 26.2 update enables 160MHz channels on 5GHz Wi-Fi networks (www.cultofmac.com)
Oracle''s Debt ''Unlikely'' to Trigger Cut to Junk Grade (www.bloomberg.com)
America''s affordability crisis is (mostly) a mirage (www.economist.com)
Jellyfish sleep like humans even though they don''t have brains (www.nature.com)
ChatGPT Voice with Video Chat (chatgpt.com)
How to Be Less Awkward (www.experimental-history.com)
Texas Is Sued over Investigations into Teacher Speech After Charlie Kirk''s Death (www.nytimes.com)
OpenWRT 25.12.0-RC2 Released (openwrt.org)
Loss32: An idea for a Linux designed around Win32 apps (www.theregister.com)
CU Boulder Student News Plagued by AI Copycat Website (www.govtech.com)
Fund managers prepare for ''reckoning'' in US tech sector (www.ft.com)
The Idiocy of Equating AI with the Dot Com Bubble (markmaunder.com)
OpenAI Must Turn over 20M ChatGPT Logs, Judge Affirms (news.bloomberglaw.com)
TGFX - A lightweight 2D graphics library for modern GPUs (github.com)
A minimalist, reactive notepad calculator (github.com)
So you didn''t buy a Raspberry Pi: Step 1 (interfacinglinux.com)
World War 3 Map Simulator (w3war.com)
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)
How Saudi Arabia''s Neom dream unravelled (www.ft.com)
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)
Analyzing the domains (and sites) of an authoritarian regime (www.coryd.dev)
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)
Why MCP donated to/taken by Linux Foundation? (glama.ai)
Sandboxing AI Coding Agents (deepnoodle.ai)
Opinionated Takes on Meetups Organizing (www.lesswrong.com)
My Notetaking System (Znotes) (tsvibt.blogspot.com)
Obesity Drug Delivers Strong Weight Loss in Late-Stage Trial (humanprogress.org)
GetFullYear – An API that returns the current year (getfullyear.com)
Biotech Galapagos Announces Decision to Wind-Down of Cell Therapy Activities (www.glpg.com)
Qubes OS 4.3.0 has been released (www.qubes-os.org)
Friction-maxxing: could less convenience lead to more happiness? (www.theguardian.com)
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)
Why is Nature considered a "prestigious" journal? (press.asimov.com)
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)