How Bell Labs Won Its First Nobel Prize (www.construction-physics.com)
Engineers should read more blogs (www.proactiveengineer.com)
Denmark says Russia was behind two ''destructive and disruptive'' cyber-attacks (www.theguardian.com)
Can you visualize what NYC smells like? Yes, turns out, you can (huggingface.co)
New concept for energy transfer between gravitational waves and light (www.hzdr.de)
Naughty Dog Studio Orders Employee Overtime for ''Intergalactic'' (www.bloomberg.com)
Starlink 35956 suffered a failure with venting of the propulsion tank (bsky.app)
CVSS 10.0 HPE OneView RCE bug identified (www.scworld.com)
Wyoming Blasted by 123 MPH Winds on Wednesday and More Wind to Come (cowboystatedaily.com)
New X-ray images show interstellar comet as it makes closest approach to Earth (www.cnn.com)
Bill Gates and Sergey Brin Among Newly Released Epstein Photos (www.ft.com)
LionsOS Design, Implementation and Performance (arxiv.org)
GIJN''s Top Investigative Tools of 2025 (gijn.org)
Protecting the well-being of our users (www.anthropic.com)
GoGPU – Pure Go WebGPU Implementation (github.com)
The boomer-doomer divide within OpenAI, explained by Karen Hao (bigthinkmedia.substack.com)
The Universal Law Behind Market Price Swings (physics.aps.org)
Trump media group agrees 6B merger with Google-backed fusion energy company (www.ft.com)
A Starlink Satellite Exploded (twitter.com)
Mitsubishi Electric Technology Detects Intoxication During Driving (us.mitsubishielectric.com)
LLMs'' impact on science: Booming publications, stagnating quality (arstechnica.com)
Two Kinds of Vibe Coding (davidbau.com)
Model hallucinations aren''t random. They have geometric structure (arxiv.org)
Most Top-Achieving Adults Werent Elite Specialists in Childhood, New Study Finds (www.wsj.com)
FAA Warns of Military Aircraft Flying Undetected in Caribbean (www.bloomberg.com)
Calculate founder dilution across funding rounds (angelmatch.io)
Obscure Polish company launches 122.88TB PCIe 5.0 immersion cooled SSD (www.techradar.com)
Scientists skip key US meetings – and seize on smaller alternatives (www.nature.com)
Supporting FLOSS: My end-of-year donations (tzovar.as)
Lovable bags 330M at 6.6B valuation in Europe''s biggest AI builder bet (techfundingnews.com)
Dataset of 33k human evaluations across 33 AI models (huggingface.co)
''Mars camp'': The extreme adventure that wants to turn tourists into astronauts (www.cnn.com)
ASCII Yin Yang (count-quota-18418512.figma.site)
Oliver Sacks put himself into his case studies – what was the cost? (www.newyorker.com)
WorldPlay: Real-Time Interactive World Modeling (arxiv.org)
North Korean infiltrator caught at Amazon due to 110ms keystroke lag (www.tomshardware.com)
YouTube Shuts Down Channels Using AI Making Fake Movie Trailers Seen by Millions (deadline.com)
Geerling: Apple didn''t have to go this hard - Testing LLMs using RDMA [video] (www.youtube.com)
In which our protagonist dreams of laurels (wingolog.org)
Trump signs executive order to reschedule cannabis from Schedule I to III (www.whitehouse.gov)
Why Trump''s social media company is merging with a fusion power firm (www.washingtonpost.com)
Our Series B: 330M raised at 6.6B valuation (age-of-the-builder.lovable.app)
Jan Koum (WhatsApp cofounder) tops AIPAC donor list (www.trackaipac.com)
StikDebug Removed from App Store, Developer Account Terminated (twitter.com)
Screen Takeover Attack in AI Tool Acquired for 1B (www.promptarmor.com)
Treat Emacs as an Elisp Runtime Using Eask (www.jcs-profile.com)
Did maintainers abandon your critical open-source tool? There''s a lifeline (www.zdnet.com)
Snowflake Postgres Is Now Available in Public Preview (www.snowflake.com)
Dijkstra: The strengths of the academic enterprise (1994) (www.cs.utexas.edu)
T5Gemma 2: The next generation of encoder-decoder models (blog.google)
Zero Inflation (thetontineengine.substack.com)
Study suggests recent tundra fires ''exceed anything in past 3k years (phys.org)
Xata: Instant branches of your Postgres with anonymized production data (xata.io)
Just Use AI (justfuckinguseai.com)
1,500 robot cooks dinner while I work (www.theverge.com)
President Orders Cannabis Rules Relaxed, Easing Research (www.nytimes.com)
How to hack discord, vercel and more with one easy trick (kibty.town)
Elon Musk''s SpaceX bought tens of millions worth of Cybertrucks Tesla can''t sell (electrek.co)
Bias gives ''swing state'' voters more influence over US trade policy (phys.org)
They Get Wheeled on Flights and Miraculously Walk Off. Praise ‘Jetway Jesus. (www.wsj.com)
Drafta Email – Inbox Zero Has Never Been Easier (drafta.email)
Public Makes Millions on Plunging Crypto (cepr.net)
Trump signs executive order reclassifying marijuana as a less dangerous drug (apnews.com)
The Scottish Highlands, the Appalachians, Atlas are the same mountain range (vividmaps.com)
Vibe Coding Is Creating a Generation of Sorcerer''s Apprentices (russellmiller2.substack.com)
Internet 2025: Bigger, more fragile than ever and fundamentally rewired by AI (www.zdnet.com)
Trump Media bets on fusion energy with 6B TAE deal (www.reuters.com)
Bedford: FAA lost up to 500 air traffic controller trainees during shutdown (www.politico.com)
The measurement problem in software engineering (maestroai.substack.com)
We pwned X, Vercel, Cursor, and Discord through a supply-chain attack (gist.github.com)
Top Banned Books: The Most Banned Books in U.S. Schools – Pen America (pen.org)
Micron Forecasts DRAM Shortages Beyond 2026 (www.techpowerup.com)
Gregg Shorthand (en.wikipedia.org)
Worktrees and Tmux and Claude, Oh My Zsh (www.richsnapp.com)
China built its ''Manhattan Project'' to rival the West in AI chips (www.japantimes.co.jp)
China''s unemployed young adults who are pretending to have jobs (www.bbc.com)
GitHub Wrap – Your GitHub Year in Review (www.indiehackers.com)
Please learn how to use your computer (www.niemanlab.org)
Free Vibe Coding eBook (www.amazon.com)
The Power of 10: Rules for Developing Safety-Critical Code (en.wikipedia.org)
Railway knows better than you (anukari.com)
Embedded Analytics as Code (evidence.dev)
GitHub Copilot now supports Agent Skills (github.blog)
Micron stock soars 12% as memory prices skyrocket and shortages persist (www.cnbc.com)
Tech provider for NHS England confirms data breach (techcrunch.com)
Trump Media Discovers Nuclear Fusion (www.bloomberg.com)
Datasetiq – open-source Pandas wrapper for 6M economic series (www.datasetiq.com)
FunctionGemma 270M Model (blog.google)
CUDA de Grâce: Nvidia vulnerability, deep dive, and runtime security detection (stealthium.io)
YouTube Shuts Down Fake AI Movie Trailer Channels Watched by Millions (deadline.com)
Clip: Utility that copies to the clipboard for easy context for AI chats (github.com)
4k Nosebleeds: The Freakout over World Cup Ticket Prices (www.wsj.com)
Conductor: Context-driven development for Gemini CLI (developers.googleblog.com)
Firefox will have an option to disable all AI features (mastodon.social)
MIT nuclear science professor Nuno Loureiro found shot dead in home in Mass (nypost.com)
GPT-5.2-Codex (openai.com)
Levels.fyi End of Year Pay Report 2025 (www.levels.fyi)
Flux Operator Web UI (fluxoperator.dev)
Join Us If you''ve had enough (markmbello.substack.com)
Austrian Supreme Court: Meta must give users full access to their data (noyb.eu)
The Oscars is moving to YouTube (www.techradar.com)
Trump moves to shut down climate research lab, calls its work "alarmism" (www.axios.com)
iOS Backup Machine (github.com)
I Thought Germany Had Too Little Housing (nik.art)
You can now verify Google AI-generated videos in the Gemini app (blog.google)
China may have reverse engineered EUV lithography tool in covert lab (www.tomshardware.com)
Normcore 3 released (docs.normcore.io)
Converting a typewriter into a physical Claude terminal (benbyfax.substack.com)
''You learn tricks to reduce it'': the smart bins measuring food waste in S. Korea (www.theguardian.com)
We added Kafka - Apache Iceberg ingestion to OLake (open source) (olake.io)
Mystery Drones, Or Maybe UFOs, Over Sweetwater County Are ''The New Normal'' (cowboystatedaily.com)
There''s no such thing as a fake feather [video] (www.youtube.com)
"Mother of All Demos" (1968) (www.youtube.com)
I figured out how to stop making engines and start making games [video] (www.youtube.com)
Military Standard on Software Control Levels (entropicthoughts.com)
Yann LeCun raising 500M at 3B valuation for new AI startup (sifted.eu)
Agent Skills is now an open standard (claude.com)
Ruby Weekly #780: What''s New in Ruby 4.0 (rubyweekly.com)
We Found the Craziest Wave on Earth [video] (www.youtube.com)
Vivaldi Browser: Our roadmap for 2026 (bsky.app)
RSC Explorer (overreacted.io)
Detecting goroutine leaks in modern Go (antonz.org)
No one is reading your fucking slides (ninjasandrobots.com)
VR in 2026: Missed Hype or Opportunity? (twitter.com)
Zed Moves Toward Secure-by-Default: Introducing Worktree Trust (zed.dev)
Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) Is Now Live in JetBrains IDEs (blog.jetbrains.com)
Byrne and Storm''s UK Online Safety Act Year in Review for 2025 (prestonbyrne.com)
Frontier AI Trends Report (www.aisi.gov.uk)
Helical rover wheel balloons from 9 to 20 inches and survives fire (newatlas.com)
Ford CEO Jim Farley said Trump would halve the EV market by ending subsidies (fortune.com)
Variable Size MoEs (hbfreed.com)
Relocating for Tech Jobs in 2026 (relocateme.substack.com)
In secret missile factory, Ukraine is ramping up its domestic arms industry (www.bbc.co.uk)
Lunar impact flash detected on the Moon (armaghplanet.com)
Trump Media to merge with nuclear fusion firm in 6B deal (www.bbc.co.uk)
Response Healing: Reduce JSON Defects by 80% (openrouter.ai)
Em Dash in Reddit Comments, Interactive (intervolz.com)
Facebook tests 9.99 monthly subscription for sharing more than two links (www.bbc.com)
A little bit uncomfortable – All Things Distributed (www.allthingsdistributed.com)
McCarthy''s 91-function: an unfortunate paradigm (EWD 845) (www.cs.utexas.edu)
A Codebase by an Agent for an Agent (ampcode.com)
Iceoryx2 – Zero-Copy Lock-Free IPC with a Rust Core (github.com)
JEDEC developing reduced pin count HBM4 standard to enable higher capacity (blocksandfiles.com)
Claude Code Tools We Can''t Live Without (www.kasava.dev)
Lightning talk: Your Very Own Godbolt [video] (www.youtube.com)
Registered voters flagged as "potential noncitizens" proved citizenship (www.votebeat.org)
Cabin – Modern, Cargo-like package manager and build system for C (cabinpkg.com)
Hash tables in Go and advantage of self-hosted compilers (rushter.com)
How to build fast similarity search for email from the ground up (sublime.security)
Variable pay for tech roles: good idea or bad idea? (eventuallymaking.io)
Why ''Thank You'' Might Be the Best Metric in AI Products (flopsandfinance.substack.com)
EU Launches Multi-Billion "Scaleup Europe Fund" (eic.ec.europa.eu)
EU Commissioner Hoekstra defends scrapping 2035 ban on combustion engines (www.euronews.com)
AI surpasses 2024 Bitcoin mining in energy usage (www.tomshardware.com)
Effectiveness of Orthokeratology in Myopia Control (link.springer.com)
How climate breakdown is putting the food in peril – in maps and charts (www.theguardian.com)
Toad: A unified experience for AI in your terminal (willmcgugan.github.io)
Famous Disease (weblog.snats.xyz)
Valve Is Running Apple''s Playbook in Reverse (www.garbagecollected.dev)
What makes a voice AI product hold up on real phone calls (telnyx.com)
Europe''s secret weapon against Trump: it could burst his AI bubble (www.theguardian.com)
A Cheat-Sheet for Helix (github.com)
The Missing Datacenter OS (addxorrol.blogspot.com)
How Warren Buffett Did It (www.theatlantic.com)
Are Robots.txt Instructions Legally Binding?–Ziff Davis vs. OpenAI (blog.ericgoldman.org)
Adobe Photoshop 1.0 Source Code (2013) (computerhistory.org)
Finland Gave Two Groups Identical Payments. One Saw 33% Better Mental Health (scottsantens.substack.com)
UK actors vote to refuse to be digitally scanned in pushback against AI (www.theguardian.com)
Debugging Ruby, the Hard Way (ephemeral.cx)
The 19 best Linux resources I know of, in 11 minutes [video] (www.youtube.com)
Beginning January 2026, all ACM publications will be made open access (dl.acm.org)
The Shortest Path to Zionism: A Network Analysis of the US Industrial Complex (deepblue.lib.umich.edu)
Pulse (YC S24) – Production-grade unstructured document extraction (news.ycombinator.com)
Rx Inspector: Look Up Where Your Generic Prescription Drugs Were Made (projects.propublica.org)
Zuckerberg Compound Prompts Palo Alto to Consider Billionaire Housing Law (www.nytimes.com)
A perfect distillation of the social uselessness of finance (pluralistic.net)
Heart and Kidney Diseases and Type 2 Diabetes May Be One Ailment (www.scientificamerican.com)
Assange brings ''instrument of war'' case against Nobel Foundation (dailytelegraph.co.nz)
Trump Media to Merge with Fusion Energy Firm in 6B Deal (www.wsj.com)
EXO v1 Release (github.com)
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Rain Evolved Its Distinct Scent–and Why Animals and Humans Love It (www.smithsonianmag.com)
Jensen Huang: Israel has become Nvidia''s second home (en.globes.co.il)
Notes on building CRDT-based local-first and end-to-end encrypted applications (kerkour.com)
Microsoft Word Is Immortal (theredline.versionstory.com)
Celebrating 10 Years of DirectX 12 (devblogs.microsoft.com)
Cheese Linked to Lower Dementia Risk in 25-Year Study (www.sciencealert.com)
Expose your DB as a ChatGPT app (supabase.com)
Type to Race – a cyberpunk typing game (TypeRacer Subway Surfers) (www.typetorace.com)
Mistral launches OCR 3 – 74% win rate over OCR 2 (mistral.ai)
Using TypeScript to Obtain One of the Rarest License Plates (www.jack.bio)
Some not-so-bad ads from 80s computer magazines: Christmas edition (buttondown.com)
Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work (simonwillison.net)
Spain fines Airbnb 65M: Why the government is cracking down on illegal rentals (www.euronews.com)
Why your Economy class seat is torturing you – possibly on purpose (newatlas.com)
The world will soon be losing 3000 glaciers every year (www.newscientist.com)
Trump Media announces 6B merger with fusion company TAE Technologies (www.cnbc.com)
SF''s Marina Could Get 790 Homes. Mayor Daniel Lurie Says No. YIMBYs Say Yes (www.governance.fyi)
Creating Diagrams in Markdown on GitHub (docs.github.com)
Running a full voice stack (ASR – LLM – TTS) locally with Docker (www.docker.com)
Reading 40 Software Books and Comparing Them All Head to Head [video] (www.youtube.com)
I Went from Database Noob to Core Datafusion Contribution (datafusion.blog.apache.org)
SWE-Bench: The 500B Benchmark (marginlab.ai)
Dr. Terry Frederick, longtime UCF CS leader, has died (townsonrose.mem.com)
Trump''s social media venture strikes 6B merger deal with fusion power company (www.politico.com)
systemd v259 Released (github.com)
Hatred of Israel Caused Iran''s Water Crisis (aish.com)
Please Just Try Htmx (pleasejusttryhtmx.com)
1.5 TB of VRAM on Mac Studio – RDMA over Thunderbolt 5 (www.jeffgeerling.com)
Trump Media is merging with a nuclear fusion company (www.theverge.com)
Closure of Operations in Computer Programming (deniskyashif.com)
The Mysterious Forces Steering Views on Hacker News (xn--gckvb8fzb.com)
The 10 Most Mind-Blowing Discoveries About the Brain in 2025 (www.scientificamerican.com)
TOML 1.1.0 (github.com)
Dear ACM, you''re doing AI wrong but you can still get it right (anil.recoil.org)
Heart Association Revives Theory That Light Drinking May Be Good for You (www.nytimes.com)
The Rise of SQL:the second programming language everyone needs to know (spectrum.ieee.org)
Half of graduates ''would earn more as a higher-level apprentice'' (www.thetimes.com)
AI''s trillion-dollar question just got louder (www.mindstream.news)
Lovable raises 330M to power the age of the builder (lovable.dev)
Truth Social Parent to Merge with Nuclear Fusion Firm in 6B Deal (www.nytimes.com)
Dynamicland Front Shelf (dynamicland.org)
Tech Billionaires Are Creating Private Cities to Flee America (offthefrontpage.com)
Apple Watch detects 89% of sleep apnea (www.empirical.health)
Rhetorical Demagoguery: An Exploration of Trump''s and Hitler''s Rise to Power (digitalcommons.gardner-webb.edu)
Dont Kill My App (dontkillmyapp.com)
Tesla Drivers Are Buying Escape Tools (archive.ph)
Will Amazon Block Siri''s AI Agent? (www.wreflection.com)
Anti-Aliasing, FXAA (www.4rknova.com)
Avoid fan traps in system diagrams (www.ilograph.com)
Cursor Feature Request: Native Agent Compliance Verification Auto-Critique Loops (forum.cursor.com)
U.S. Plans Largest Nuclear Power Program Since the 1970s (spectrum.ieee.org)
Video game hardware sales had historically bad November: Cost of hardware rising (www.theverge.com)
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Ported to the Browser (dos.zone)
Lovable, a Startup That Makes Anyone a Coder, Raises 330M (www.nytimes.com)
Russian border guards crossed into Estonia with unclear motives, minister says (news.err.ee)
Reconstructed MS-DOS Commander Keen 1-3 Source Code (pckf.com)
Can AI run a business? (www.youtube.com)
Super Mario Bros. Any% in 4:54.415 (New world record, 9 frames from perfect) [video] (www.youtube.com)
Draw Line Racing: mobile racing game (drawlineracing.chyuang.com)
Indian WhatsApp tutors are teaching ordinary people how to use AI (restofworld.org)
Saudi Arabia wants to host the cheapest data centres (www.economist.com)
AI helps ship faster but it produces 1.7 more bugs (www.coderabbit.ai)
YouTube views are 18-25% less effective than podcasts at driving purchases (podnews.net)
Olo (Color) (en.wikipedia.org)
A Look at iMessage in iOS 14 (projectzero.google)
Silver Breaks 66, and Thoughts About Samsung''s Deal to Restart a Silver Mine (goldandsilverdaily.substack.com)
Fast memory vulnerabilities, written in 100% safe Rust (github.com)
Classical statues were not painted horribly (worksinprogress.co)
Vaadin 25.0: Modernizing the Java Web Stack (Java 21, Spring Boot 4, 100% Lit) (vaadin.com)
Nu-9 halts Alzheimer''s disease in animal model before symptoms begin (news.northwestern.edu)
Archer to Launch Air Taxi Trials in US Cities Under White House Executive Order (investors.archer.com)
Is ChatGPT Conservative or Liberal? (www.cambridge.org)
Watchtower Is Now Unmaintained (github.com)
Patterns over Framework (s2.dev)
A school locked down after AI flagged a gun. It was a clarinet (www.washingtonpost.com)
Meta''s Yann LeCun targets 3.5B valuation for new AI startup, FT reports (www.reuters.com)
Help Ukraine by attacking Russian web sites. Good load testing training (gist.github.com)
Bluesky claims its new contact import feature is ''privacy-first'' (www.theverge.com)
Military satellites dogfighting as tensions escalate in orbit (www.washingtonpost.com)
Build with Specs – Spec-Driven Development Workflow for AI-Assisted Software (www.buildwithspecs.com)
The Year in AI at Grafana Labs (grafana.com)
The Scents of Christmas: Aromatic Plants, Memory, and the Ecology of Celebration (worldsensorium.com)
Creating apps like Signal could be ''hostile activity'' claims UK watchdog (www.techradar.com)
Serenely Fast I/O Buffer benchmarked (www.serenedb.com)
America''s Dirtiest Carbon Polluters, Mapped to Ridiculous Precision (gizmodo.com)
There Has to Be a Way (www.bloodinthemachine.com)
Who needs a NAS? Just use your old phone (www.xda-developers.com)
Windows 3.1''s ''Hot Dog Stand'' UI Color Scheme (daringfireball.net)
One Big Server Is Probably Enough: Why You Don''t Need the Cloud for Most Things (oneuptime.com)
Designing a CPU for native BASIC (hackaday.com)
We Let AI Run Our Office Vending Machine. It Lost Hundreds of Dollars (www.wsj.com)
Slowness Is a Virtue (blog.jakobschwichtenberg.com)
Apple announces more ads are coming to App Store search results (9to5mac.com)
After Ruining a Treasured Water Resource, Iran Is Drying Up (e360.yale.edu)
A New Chapter for Cowboy (cowboy.com)
Discovering Clara Rules: Business Logic That AI Can Understand (claude.ai)
It''s all about momentum (combo.cc)
EU leaders face crunch decision on using frozen Russian assets for Ukraine (www.reuters.com)
How getting richer made teenagers less free (www.theargumentmag.com)
Aaron Van Wirdum predicts the future of crypto (altcoindesk.com)
Blue States Used to Lead in Education. Not Anymore (www.city-journal.org)
Hacking LLDB for a great Zig debugging experience (joel.id)
DCMS Pheix – First RTM Release «from the Basement» (pheix.org)
Microsoft kills IntelliCode in favor of the paid Copilot (visualstudiomagazine.com)
GitHub cancels Actions price change for self-hosted runners (docs.github.com)
Online Textbook for Braid groups and knots and tangles (matthematics.com)
How a major convenience store chain became a hub for crypto scams (www.cnn.com)
Is Stackoverflow.com Broken? (stackoverflow.com)
Nvidia Publishes Complete Evaluation Recipe for Nemotron 3 Nano (huggingface.co)
Amazon AI chief Prasad leaving; Infrastructure exec to lead unified AI group (www.geekwire.com)
What Is Orthokeratology? (www.aao.org)
''It''s an open invasion'': how quagga mussels changed Lake Geneva (www.theguardian.com)
King William''s College – Isle of Man "The World''s Most Difficult Quiz" [pdf] (kwc.im)
Exa''s People Search Benchmarks (exa.ai)
I bought a pile of dead POS terminals to hunt Windows drivers for CVEs (neurowinter.com)
Sync your SSH client across every device for life (rootedssh.com)
Notes on Making Stuff with Decker (ahmwma.itch.io)
Denmark scraps controversial VPN ban proposal after public backlash (www.techradar.com)
Tesla throws ''cringe'' anti-union concert for Giga Berlin employees ahead of vote (electrek.co)