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421. Copy-Item is 27% slower than File Explorer
1 2 3 4 5 File Explorer drag & drop ########## (112 MBps) Copy-Item ####### (82 MBps) Built in SFTP client ###### (70 MBps) Built in robocopy ## (25 MBps) WSL 2 rsync # (13 MBps) In table form: Tool Speed (MBps) Difference Drag and drop ~112 — Copy-Item ~82 -27% sftp ~70 -37% robocopy ~25 MBps -78% rsync (WSL 2) ~13 MBps -88% I feel like I’m losing my mind.
422. SmartTube Compromised
Earlier this week, the developer of SmartTube, the most popular alternative YouTube app for Android TV and Fire TV devices, announced that his app's digital signature had been exposed. A new version of the app using a new digital signature has since been released.
423. Ask HN: Quality of recent gens of Dell/Lenovo laptops worse than 10 years ago?
424. Why are my headphones buzzing whenever I run my game?
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425. Qwen3-VL can scan two-hour videos and pinpoint nearly every detail
A few months after launching Qwen3-VL, Alibaba has released a detailed technical report on the open multimodal model. The data shows the system excels at image-based math tasks and can analyze hours of video footage.
426. Nixtml: Static website and blog generator written in Nix
Static website and blog generator written in nix. Contribute to arnarg/nixtml development by creating an account on GitHub.
427. Cursed circuits: charge pump voltage halver
There's plenty of circuits that are hard to understand because they're complicated. And some that are hard to make sense of because they seem too simple.
428. The Junior Hiring Crisis
AI isn’t replacing everyone. It’s removing the apprenticeship ladder. Here’s what that means for students, early-career professionals, and the tech industry’s future.
429. WikiFlix: Full Movies Hosted on Wikimedia Commons
430. Ephemeral Infrastructure: Why Short-Lived Is a Good Thing
431. Understanding ECDSA
Exploring blockchain, math, and smart contracts through a security lens.
432. GitHub Actions Has a Package Manager, and It Might Be the Worst
GitHub Actions has a package manager that ignores decades of supply chain security best practices: no lockfile, no integrity verification, no transitive pinning
433. We Built Lightpanda in Zig
We chose Zig over C++ and Rust because we wanted a simple, modern systems language. Here's what we learned building a browser with it.
434. Roko's Dancing Basilisk
Roko's dancing basilisk
435. Sugars, Gum, Stardust Found in NASA's Asteroid Bennu Samples
The asteroid Bennu continues to provide new clues to scientists’ biggest questions about the formation of the early solar system and the origins of life. As
436. Fearless frogs feast on deadly hornets
A remarkable resistance to venom has been discovered in a frog that feasts on hornets despite their deadly stingers. This frog could potentially serve as a model organism for studies on mechanisms underlying venom tolerance.
437. A Most Important Mustard
On the origins of Arabidopsis thaliana, the premier model for plant biology.
438. How to speed up the Rust compiler in December 2025
It has been more than six months since my last post on the Rust compiler’s performance. In that time I lost one job and gained another. I have less time to work directly on the Rust compiler than I used to, but I am still doing some stuff, while also working on other interesting things.
439. OpenTelemetry Distribution Builder
Build custom OpenTelemetry Collector Distributions from manifest files with a local build utility, Docker, Google Cloud Build, or a GitHub Action. - observIQ/otel-distro-builder
440. Endangered bottlenose whale population begins to recover off Canada's east coast
Populations of northern bottlenose whales (Hyperoodon ampullatus), playful animals that resemble large dolphins, stretch across the Atlantic Ocean, with each group of whales living year-round in a particular deep ocean canyon. Historically, commercial whaling targeted these animals, causing their numbers across the basin to collapse. Even as protections against whaling increase, northern bottlenose whale populations […]
441. Cursor and Claude Opus 4.5 is a game changer
442. John Giannandrea to Retire from Apple
John Giannandrea is retiring, and Amar Subramanya joins as vice president of AI.
443. A Love Letter to FreeBSD
444. U.S. to allow export of H200 chips to China
The move, which has the support of Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, could bolster Nvidia’s revenue by opening up a huge market for its chips while ensuring US technology remains the standard worldwide.
445. Spectral rendering, part 3: Spectral vs. RGB
446. Durin is a library for reading and writing the Dwarf debugging format
Durin is a library for reading and writing the Dwarf debugging format - tmcgilchrist/durin
447. Bootloader Unlock Wall of Shame
Keeping track of companies that "care about your data 🥺" - zenfyrdev/bootloader-unlock-wall-of-shame
448. Design executive behind 'Liquid Glass' is leaving Apple
Alan Dye, who was part of the redesign of Apple's software interface called Liquid Glass, is taking his talents to Meta.
449. Apple Desktop Bus Protocol (2021)
Backstory
450. NY judge orders ChatGPT conversation handover in newspaper copyright win
The ruling comes in a lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI initiated in 2023, in which The Times, The News, and news outlets affiliated with Tribune Publishing and MediaNews Group allege the artificial intelligence company is stealing and distorting their copyrighted works.