648
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The Going Dark initiative or ProtectEU is a Chat Control 3.0 attempt
https://mastodon.online/@mullvadnet/115742530333573065
8 months ago
613
212
Show HN: Books mentioned on Hacker News in 2025
https://hackernews-readings-613604506318.us-west1.run.app
607
351
A guide to local coding models
https://www.aiforswes.com/p/you-dont-need-to-spend-100mo-on-claude
604
120
Flock and Cyble Inc. weaponize “cybercrime” takedowns to silence critics
https://haveibeenflocked.com/news/cyble-downtime
585
223
Logging sucks
https://loggingsucks.com/
551
563
I can't upgrade to Windows 11, now leave me alone
https://idiallo.com/byte-size/cant-update-to-windows-11-leave-me-alone
448
115
Show HN: WalletWallet – create Apple passes from anything
https://walletwallet.alen.ro/
437
121
Show HN: Gaming Couch – a local multiplayer party game platform for 8 players
https://gamingcouch.com
427
194
Ruby website redesigned
https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/
370
311
CO2 batteries that store grid energy take off globally
https://spectrum.ieee.org/co2-battery-energy-storage
355
413
You’re not burnt out, you’re existentially starving
https://neilthanedar.com/youre-not-burnt-out-youre-existentially-starving/
319
456
Waymo halts service during S.F. blackout after causing traffic jams
https://missionlocal.org/2025/12/sf-waymo-halts-service-blackout/
185
Autoland saves King Air, everyone reported safe
https://avbrief.com/autoland-saves-king-air-everyone-reported-safe/
280
143
Disney Imagineering Debuts Next-Generation Robotic Character, Olaf
https://disneyparksblog.com/disney-experiences/robotic-olaf-marks-new-era-of-disney-innovation/
258
197
Indoor tanning makes youthful skin much older on a genetic level
https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2025/12/431206/indoor-tanning-makes-youthful-skin-much-older-genetic-level
257
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Rue: Higher level than Rust, lower level than Go
https://rue-lang.dev/
247
193
Measuring AI Ability to Complete Long Tasks
https://metr.org/blog/2025-03-19-measuring-ai-ability-to-complete-long-tasks/
240
68
Ask HN: Resources to get better at outbound sales?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46346648
216
Coarse is better
https://borretti.me/article/coarse-is-better
189
98
How I protect my Forgejo instance from AI web crawlers
https://her.esy.fun/posts/0031-how-i-protect-my-forgejo-instance-from-ai-web-crawlers/index.html
186
403
Clair Obscur having its Indie Game Game Of The Year award stripped due to AI use
https://www.thegamer.com/clair-obscur-expedition-33-indie-game-awards-goty-stripped-ai-use/
172
43
Inca Stone Masonry
https://www.earthasweknowit.com/pages/inca_construction
163
134
Reasons not to become famous (2020)
https://tim.blog/2020/02/02/reasons-to-not-become-famous/
155
66
Structured outputs create false confidence
https://boundaryml.com/blog/structured-outputs-create-false-confidence
152
125
More on whether useful quantum computing is “imminent”
https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=9425
149
I wish people were more public
https://borretti.me/article/i-wish-people-were-more-public
146
39
ARIN Public Incident Report – 4.10 Misissuance Error
https://www.arin.net/announcements/20251212/
145
22
Three ways to solve problems
https://andreasfragner.com/writing/three-ways-to-solve-problems
14
E.W.Dijkstra Archive
https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/welcome.html
41
Using Vectorize to build an unreasonably good search engine in 160 lines of code
https://blog.partykit.io/posts/using-vectorize-to-build-search/
142
64
Get an AI code review in 10 seconds
https://oldmanrahul.com/2025/12/19/ai-code-review-trick/
140
114
I doubt that anything resembling genuine AGI is within reach of current AI tools
https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/115722360006034040
136
85
Show HN: Shittp – Volatile Dotfiles over SSH
https://github.com/FOBshippingpoint/shittp
132
110
The gift card accountability sink
https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/gift-card-accountability-sink/
127
18
Immer – A library of persistent and immutable data structures written in C++
https://github.com/arximboldi/immer
62
Jingle Bells (Batman Smells): An incomplete festive folk-rhyme taxonomy
https://loreandordure.com/2025/12/16/jingle-bells/
10
Langjam-Gamejam Devlog: Making a language, compiler, VM and 5 games in 52 hours
https://github.com/Syn-Nine/gar-lang/blob/main/DEVLOG.md
117
Never Use Pixelation to Hide Sensitive Text (2014)
https://dheera.net/posts/20140725-why-you-should-never-use-pixelation/
17
Isengard in Oxford
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/isengard-in-oxford/
103
9
Intertapes – collection of found cassette tapes from different locations
https://intertapes.net/
101
13
How GNU Guile is 10x better (2021)
https://www.draketo.de/software/guile-10x
100
Show HN: RenderCV – Open-source CV/resume generator, YAML to PDF
https://github.com/rendercv/rendercv
95
19
I rebuilt FlashAttention in Triton to understand the performance archaeology
https://aminediro.com/posts/flash_attn/
88
PG&E outages in S.F. leave 130k without electricity
https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/pg-e-outage-40-000-customers-without-power-21254326.php
87
106
New mathematical framework reshapes debate over simulation hypothesis
https://www.santafe.edu/news-center/news/new-mathematical-framework-reshapes-debate-over-simulation-hypothesis
86
58
An 11-qubit atom processor in silicon with all fidelities from 99.10% to 99.99%
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09827-w
82
12
Dr. Richard Stallman to give free talk and QA at Georgia Tech Jan. 23rd 2-5pm
https://old.reddit.com/r/gatech/comments/1prm6if/free_event_meet_dr_richard_stallman_creator_of/
81
Go Gray, Not Cray: Why You Should Grayscale Your Phone
https://sami.eljabali.org/go-gray-not-cray-why-you-should-grayscale-your-phone/
77
24
Show HN: The Official National Train Map Sucked, So I Made My Own
https://www.bdzmap.com/
75
Mountain home near Aspen, built for monks, sold to Palantir CEO for $120M
https://coloradosun.com/2025/12/19/monastery-sells-palantir-ceo/
74
32
Handheld PC Community Forums
https://www.hpcfactor.com/forums/category-view.asp
72
The WhatsApp Whisperer
https://www.whatsprivcy.com/
67
ELF Crimes: Program Interpreter Fun
https://nytpu.com/gemlog/2025-12-21
ISBN Visualization
https://annas-archive.li/isbn-visualization/
65
3
Faster practical modular inversion
https://purplesyringa.moe/blog/faster-practical-modular-inversion/
80
Day laborers protest noise machines installed at Home Depot
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-12-17/day-laborers-protest-noise-machines-home-depot