636
532
Sick of smart TVs? Here are your best options
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/12/the-ars-technica-guide-to-dumb-tvs/
2 months ago
587
324
OpenAI are quietly adopting skills, now available in ChatGPT and Codex CLI
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/12/openai-skills/
540
291
macOS 26.2 enables fast AI clusters with RDMA over Thunderbolt
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/macos-release-notes/macos-26_2-release-notes#RDMA-over-Thunderbolt
481
115
“Are you the one?” is free money
https://blog.owenlacey.dev/posts/are-you-the-one-is-free-money/
480
190
Nokia N900 Necromancy
https://yaky.dev/2025-12-11-nokia-n900-necromancy/
433
189
Google de-indexed Bear Blog and I don't know why
https://journal.james-zhan.com/google-de-indexed-my-entire-bear-blog-and-i-dont-know-why/
346
Epic celebrates "the end of the Apple Tax" after court win in iOS payments case
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/12/epic-celebrates-the-end-of-the-apple-tax-after-appeals-court-win-in-ios-payments-case/
428
159
Rats Play DOOM
https://ratsplaydoom.com/
381
114
SQLite JSON at full index speed using generated columns
https://www.dbpro.app/blog/sqlite-json-virtual-columns-indexing
372
613
Jonathan Blow has spent the past decade designing 1,400 puzzles
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/12/jonathan-blow-has-spent-the-past-decade-designing-1400-puzzles-for-you/
348
267
The Tor Project is switching to Rust
https://itsfoss.com/news/tor-rust-rewrite-progress/
347
79
GNU Unifont
https://unifoundry.com/unifont/index.html
339
368
Id Software devs form "wall-to-wall" union
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/id-software-devs-form-wall-to-wall-union-with-165-workers-at-doom-studio-the-latest-to-vote-in-favour
317
197
Koralm Railway
https://infrastruktur.oebb.at/en/projects-for-austria/railway-lines/southern-line-vienna-villach/koralm-railway
314
236
CRISPR fungus: Protein-packed, sustainable, and tastes like meat
https://www.isaaa.org/kc/cropbiotechupdate/article/default.asp?ID=21607
276
162
Home Depot GitHub token exposed for a year, granted access to internal systems
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/12/home-depot-exposed-access-to-internal-systems-for-a-year-says-researcher/
272
72
The tiniest yet real telescope I've built
https://lucassifoni.info/blog/miniscope-tiny-telescope/
243
110
Google releases its new Google Sans Flex font as open source
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/11/google-sans-flex-font-ubuntu
242
221
Framework Raises DDR5 Memory Prices by 50% for DIY Laptops
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Framework-50p-DDR5-Memory
211
64
CM0 – A new Raspberry Pi you can't buy
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/cm0-new-raspberry-pi-you-cant-buy
196
12
Show HN: Tiny VM sandbox in C with apps in Rust, C and Zig
https://github.com/ringtailsoftware/uvm32
185
169
String theory inspires a brilliant, baffling new math proof
https://www.quantamagazine.org/string-theory-inspires-a-brilliant-baffling-new-math-proof-20251212/
34
Japan law opening phone app stores to go into effect
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20251210_B1/
182
131
Guarding My Git Forge Against AI Scrapers
https://vulpinecitrus.info/blog/guarding-git-forge-ai-scrapers/
178
Benn Jordan’s flock camera jammer will send you to jail in Florida now [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEllWdK4l_A
151
US TikTok investors in limbo as deal set to be delayed again
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp34442z25ko
158
116
Berlin Approves New Expansion of Police Surveillance Powers
https://reclaimthenet.org/berlin-approves-new-expansion-of-police-surveillance-powers
156
87
Freeing a Xiaomi humidifier from the cloud
https://0l.de/blog/2025/11/xiaomi-humidifier/
149
138
Young journalists expose Russian-linked vessels off the Dutch and German coast
https://www.digitaldigging.org/p/they-droned-back
148
56
The true story of the Windows 3.1 'Hot Dog Stand' color scheme
https://www.pcgamer.com/software/windows/windows-3-1-included-a-red-and-yellow-hot-dog-stand-color-scheme-so-garish-it-was-long-assumed-to-be-a-joke-so-i-tracked-down-the-original-designer-to-get-the-true-story/
144
30
50 years of proof assistants
https://lawrencecpaulson.github.io//2025/12/05/History_of_Proof_Assistants.html
167
In Defense of Matlab Code
https://runmat.org/blog/in-defense-of-matlab-whiteboard-style-code
136
127
Oracle made a $300B bet on OpenAI. It's paying the price
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/oracle-made-a-300-billion-bet-on-openai-its-paying-the-price-205441863.html
135
48
Async DNS
https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/async-dns
133
248
Using secondary school maths to demystify AI
https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/secondary-school-maths-showing-that-ai-systems-dont-think/
130
218
Nuclear energy key to decarbonising Europe, says EESC
https://www.eesc.europa.eu/en/news-media/news/nuclear-energy-key-decarbonising-europe-says-eesc
121
54
Fedora: Open-source repository for long-term digital preservation
https://fedorarepository.org/
113
41
Stoolap: High-performance embedded SQL database in pure Rust
https://github.com/stoolap/stoolap
97
35
Smartphone without a battery (2022)
https://yaky.dev/2022-09-06-smartphone-without-battery/
96
37
How to think about durable execution
https://hatchet.run/blog/durable-execution
93
58
Capsudo: Rethinking sudo with object capabilities
https://ariadne.space/2025/12/12/rethinking-sudo-with-object-capabilities.html
92
Security issues with electronic invoices
https://invoice.secvuln.info/
90
14
Laying out the 404 Media zine
https://tedium.co/2025/12/10/404-media-zine-linux-affinity/?
88
62
Senator endorses discredited book that claims chemical treats autism, cancer
https://www.propublica.org/article/ron-johnson-wisconsin-chlorine-dioxide-pierre-kory-endorsement
85
Why isn't online age verification just like showing your ID in person?
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/12/why-isnt-online-age-verification-just-showing-your-id-person
84
New Kindle feature uses AI to answer questions about books
https://reactormag.com/new-kindle-feature-ai-answer-questions-books-authors/
60
Tesla US sales drop to nearly 4-year low in November
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tesla-us-sales-drop-nearly-3-year-low-november-despite-launch-cheaper-versions-2025-12-11/
73
27
Building small Docker images faster
https://sgt.hootr.club/blog/docker-protips/
70
24
Cadmium Zinc Telluride: The wonder material powering a medical 'revolution'
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c24l223d9n7o
Training LLMs for honesty via confessions
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.08093
69
America's betting craze has spread to its news networks
https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/americas-betting-craze-has-spread-to-its-news-networks
17
Testing a cheaper laminar flow hood
https://chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com/p/testing-a-cheaper-laminar-flow-hood
63
0
Wine 11.0 RC2 – Run Windows Applications on Linux, BSD, Solaris and macOS
https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/releases/wine-11.0-rc2
5
BpfJailer: eBPF Mandatory Access Control [pdf]
https://lpc.events/event/19/contributions/2159/attachments/1833/3929/BpfJailer%20LPC%202025.pdf
CRISPR fungus: Protein-packed, sustainable, and tastes like meat