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1. Backing Up Spotify
We backed up Spotify (metadata and music files). It’s distributed in bulk torrents (~300TB). It’s the world’s first “preservation archive” for music which is fully open (meaning it can easily be mirrored by anyone with enough disk space), with 86 million music files, representing around 99.6% of listens.
2. Jmail: Google Suite for Jeffrey Epstein's files
You are logged into jeevacation@gmail.com, Jeffrey Epstein's email. Sourced from the November 2025 House Oversight Committee data release.
3. 'LeBron James of spreadsheets' wins world Microsoft Excel title
Ireland's 'LeBron James' of Microsoft Excel has won the 2025 world championship in Las Vegas.
4. Claude in Chrome
Bring Claude's AI assistance to your browser. Ask questions, analyze data, automate tasks, and navigate sites in Chrome. Works with Claude Code and Desktop.
5. Pure Silicon Demo Coding: No CPU, No Memory, Just 4k Gates
6. Anatomy of US inequality
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.
7. Log level 'error' should mean that something needs to be fixed
8. Big GPUs don't need big PCs
9. Go ahead, self-host Postgres
Self-hosting Postgres is simpler and cheaper than managed services suggest, with comparable reliability and better performance tunability.
10. Italian bears living near villages have evolved to be smaller and less agressive
11. I spent a WEEK without IPv4
The time has come to talk about something uncomfortable to a lot of you. You’ve been using legacy methods for far too long. It’s time to move to IPv6. But, of course, there’s a lot more to IPv6 than ‘just’ switching everything over. A lot of systems in the world still haven’t adopted it after nearly 25 years, and although software support is virtually a requirement these days, that doesn’t mean it’s widely enabled.
12. Gemini 3 Pro vs. 2.5 Pro in Pokemon Crystal
From 2.5 Pro's lighthouse loop to 3 Pro's "Zombie Phoenix" strategy against Red: a full breakdown of why Gemini 3 Pro is a superior long-horizon agent.
13. Show HN: HN Wrapped 2025 - an LLM reviews your year on HN
Your Hacker News year in review - by Kadoa
14. Humankind's 10 million year love affair with booze might end
15. OpenSCAD Is Kinda Neat
16. More databases should be single-threaded
17. Biscuit is a specialized PostgreSQL index for fast pattern matching LIKE queries
Biscuit is a specialized PostgreSQL index access method (IAM) designed for blazing-fast pattern matching on LIKE queries, with native support for multi-column searches. It eliminates the recheck overhead of trigram indexes while delivering significant performance improvements on wildcard-heavy queries. - CrystallineCore/Biscuit
18. NTP at NIST Boulder Has Lost Power
19. How to Write a 21st Century Proof (2011) [pdf]
20. Depot (YC W23) Is Hiring an Enterprise Support Engineer (Remote/US)
Depot is the fastest place to build software. Our platform integrates with services and tools like GitHub Actions, Docker, Bazel, Gradle, Turborepo, and more to make builds exponentially faster, saving our customers collective decades of build time every month. To support our rapidly growing customer base, we are looking for an Enterprise Support Engineer working Pacific Time hours to expand our support team. About the job You will handle technical support requests for all Depot offerings and advise customers on best practices You will become a customer-facing subject-matter expert on CI/CD optimization, Docker, and build tools across a variety of languages and technologies You will identify product and resource gaps in customer contexts and work with the engineering team to prioritize and escalate them You will assist customers migrating from legacy build infrastructure to take full advantage of Depot’s platform You'll be joining our growing support team and helping to shape how support works at Depot About you You are interested in the CI/build space and are comfortable with a fair amount of context-switching. We assist customers with their GitHub Actions workflows, give recommendations for Dockerfile optimizations, debug performance regressions, and generally see a wide range of build and CI configurations You are able to debug and troubleshoot complex issues, combining experience and intuition to find root causes quickly You are comfortable in front of customers, able to assist but also empower them to become successful on their own You can operate independently, but know when to flag for help You know how to work under pressure in times of urgency. Blocked build pipelines can mean being unable to deploy critical fixes to production or failing deadlines, so we and our customers take issues seriously You enjoy preventing issues from recurring through documentation work You are available to work under a public holiday rotation basis to ensure continuous support coverage Benefits Remote work with async-friendly culture Compensation package with equity available Health insurance/benefits Unlimited PTO policy Free access to Claude Code and Cursor Yearly team offsites Cool Depot swag What you will need Able to work Pacific Time hours and participate in public holiday rotation Technical experience with DevOps consulting or similar customer-facing role Working knowledge of CI/CD platforms, such as GitHub Actions Working knowledge of Docker and Dockerfile optimization Working knowledge of major cloud platforms, such as AWS, Azure or GCP Working knowledge of some common build tools and package managers, such as NPM, Maven, UV or Cargo Strong ability to communicate directly with customers, primarily via email, Slack, or via calls when required What would be helpful Experience with GitHub Actions optimization Experience with BuildKit and/or advanced Dockerfile features (buildx, multi-stage builds) API integration experience, to help our customers integrate our programmatic build API into their platforms
21. Perfecting Steve Baer's Triple Dome
Steve Baer's triple dome at Drop City can be built precisely with real Zometool struts, as a particular subset of a projected H4 polytope. Three alternatives are discussed.
22. X-59 3D Printing
This X-59 3D Printing files are available for download below. The X-59 experimental aircraft is approximately 100 feet long and is designed to fly at Mach 1.4 (925 mph).
23. Why do people leave comments on OpenBenches?
24. Approaching 50 Years of String Theory
25. Skills Officially Comes to Codex
Give Codex new capabilities and expertise
26. All about Parameters and Widgets in Databricks Workflows
27. Immersa: Open-source Web-based 3D Presentation Tool
Open Source Web-based 3D Presentation Tool. Contribute to ertugrulcetin/immersa development by creating an account on GitHub.
28. You have reached the end of the internet
29. Over 40% of Deceased Drivers in Vehicle Crashes Test Positive for THC: Study
New study findings show that over 40% of drivers who died in motor vehicle collisions tested positive for active delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) in their system, with average blood levels far exceeding those considered to cause impairment.
30. Privacy doesn't mean anything anymore, anonymity does
Privacy is when they promise to protect your data. Anonymity is when they never had your data to begin with.