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GNU Unifont (unifoundry.com) story
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Secondary school maths showing that AI systems don't think (raspberrypi.org) story
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Google releases its new Google Sans Flex font as open source (omgubuntu.co.uk) story
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Rats Play Doom (ratsplaydoom.com) story
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The tiniest yet real telescope I've built (lucassifoni.info) story
Open sourcing the Remix Store (remix.run) story
BpfJailer: eBPF Mandatory Access Control [pdf] (lpc.events) story
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Nuclear energy key to decarbonising Europe, says EESC (eesc.europa.eu) story
Japan law opening phone app stores to go into effect (www3.nhk.or.jp) story
The Average Founder Ages 6 Months Each Year (tomtunguz.com) story
Guarding My Git Forge Against AI Scrapers (vulpinecitrus.info) story
Octo: A Chip8 IDE (github.com) story
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Show HN: Tripwire: A new anti evil maid defense (github.com) story
He set out to walk around the world. After 27 years, his quest is nearly over (washingtonpost.com) story
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The Tor Project is switching to Rust (itsfoss.com) story
Training LLMs for Honesty via Confessions (arxiv.org) story
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Google de-indexed Bear Blog and I don't know why (journal.james-zhan.com) story
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Litestream VFS (fly.io) story
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iOS 26.2 Release Notes (developer.apple.com) story
Smartphone without a battery (2022) (yaky.dev) story
Show HN: Sim – Apache-2.0 n8n alternative (github.com) story
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GPT-5.2 (openai.com) story
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iPhone Typos? It's Not Just You – The iOS Keyboard Is Broken [video] (youtube.com) story
Patterns.dev (patterns.dev) story
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Programmers and software developers lost the plot on naming their tools (larr.net) story
Google de-indexed Bear Blog and I don't know why (journal.james-zhan.com) story
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UK House of Lords attempting to ban use of VPNs by anyone under 16 (alecmuffett.com) story
Meta shuts down global accounts linked to abortion advice and queer content (theguardian.com) story
EFF launches Age Verification Hub (eff.org) story
Litestream VFS (fly.io) story
Denial of service and source code exposure in React Server Components (react.dev) story
An SVG is all you need (jon.recoil.org) story
Disney making $1B investment in OpenAI, will allow characters on Sora AI (cnbc.com) story
Craft software that makes people feel something (rapha.land) story
The Tor Project is switching to Rust (itsfoss.com) story
Koralm Railway (infrastruktur.oebb.at) story
CRISPR fungus: Protein-packed, sustainable, and tastes like meat (isaaa.org) story
Epic celebrates "the end of the Apple Tax" after court win in iOS payments case (arstechnica.com) story
My productivity app is a never-ending .txt file (2020) (jeffhuang.com) story
SQLite JSON at full index speed using generated columns (dbpro.app) story
The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI Partner on Sora (openai.com) story
Vibe coding is mad depressing (law.gmnz.xyz) story
Id Software devs form "wall-to-wall" union (rockpapershotgun.com) story
Things I want to say to my boss (ithoughtaboutthatalot.com) story
Going Through Snowden Documents, Part 1 (libroot.org) story
The tiniest yet real telescope I've built (lucassifoni.info) story
Show HN: Sim – Apache-2.0 n8n alternative (github.com) story
Days since last GitHub incident (github-incidents.pages.dev) story
The Cost of a Closure in C (thephd.dev) story
A “frozen” dictionary for Python (lwn.net) story
Incomplete list of mistakes in the design of CSS (wiki.csswg.org) story
GPT-5.2 (openai.com) story
Pop_OS 24.04 LTS with COSMIC desktop environment (blog.system76.com) story
Guarding My Git Forge Against AI Scrapers (vulpinecitrus.info) story
Young journalists expose Russian-linked vessels off the Dutch and German coast (digitaldigging.org) story
Framework Raises DDR5 Memory Prices by 50% for DIY Laptops (phoronix.com) story
Apple Services Experiencing Outage (apple.com) story
Google releases its new Google Sans Flex font as open source (omgubuntu.co.uk) story
Berlin Approves New Expansion of Police Surveillance Powers (reclaimthenet.org) story
Benn Jordan’s flock camera jammer will send you to jail in Florida now [video] (youtube.com) story
CM0 – A new Raspberry Pi you can't buy (jeffgeerling.com) story
The architecture of “not bad”: Decoding the Chinese source code of the void (suggger.substack.com) story
A Developer Accidentally Found CSAM in AI Data. Google Banned Him for It (404media.co) story
Oracle made a $300B bet on OpenAI. It's paying the price (finance.yahoo.com) story
Home Depot GitHub token exposed for a year, granted access to internal systems (techcrunch.com) story
When would you ever want bubblesort? (2023) (buttondown.com) story
Just 0.001% hold 3 times the wealth of poorest half of humanity, report finds (theguardian.com) story

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Socialism AI: A historic advance in the political education of the working class (ai.wsws.org) story
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Remote Code Execution on a $1B Legal AI Tool (promptarmor.com) story
GNU Unifont (unifoundry.com) story
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Tesla US sales drop to nearly 4-year low in November (reuters.com) story
Can something artificial create something real [video] (youtube.com) story
AI based hacking compared to humans (arxiv.org) story
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The Yoneda Perspective: Systems Defined by Their Interfaces (ibrahimcesar.cloud) story
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Democracy in the Workplace: Co-ops [video] (youtube.com) story
macOS 26.2 enables fast AI clusters with RDMA over Thunderbolt (developer.apple.com) story
Testing a cheaper laminar flow hood (chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com) story
Do Not Optimize Away (matklad.github.io) story
Smol share – for sharing ephemeral encrypted snippets of text or links (cblgh.org) story
Ask HN: What is your go-to breakfast? story
The Swatting Database / Leo [pdf] (vault.fbi.gov) story
University of Nebraska-Lincoln Collection of Astronomy Simulations & Animations (astro.unl.edu) story
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Opus 4.5 yields the best precision of any model tested for code review (blog.macroscope.com) story
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A Stable Eyelid Angle Metric for Driver Drowsiness Detection, Data Augmentation (arxiv.org) story
The Line Between Good and Evil (thinkhuman.com) story
WindowSeat (huggingface.co) story
New Kindle feature uses AI to answer questions about books (reactormag.com) story
Energy&cost-efficient CO2 capture from dilute emissions by pyridinic-graphene (nature.com) story
Giza pyramids and convergents of √φ/2 – known connection? (hsm.stackexchange.com) story
iOS 26.2 Release Notes (developer.apple.com) story
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Nano Banana on Gemini is not the same as on AI Studio (twitter.com) story
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Rats Play Doom (ratsplaydoom.com) story
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Bazenda – product discovery engine for US brands story
NTSB "Vehemently Opposes" Section of National Defense Authorization Act [video] (youtube.com) story
Flohmarkt 0.14.0 (codeberg.org) story
Using Calibri on .gov Sites (coryd.dev) story
In Defense of Matlab Code (runmat.org) story
App Selection Criteria (coryd.dev) story
All donations go directly to Mastodon's development and operation (joinmastodon.org) story
Ultrafine particles in aircraft cabins of a French airline (sciencedirect.com) story