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421. Micron Is Abandoning Consumer SSDs and RAM
Micron has announced its exit from the Crucial consumer business, marking a significant blow to consumers, especially gamers.
422. Let's Not Bring Back the Gatekeepers
The challenge for the liberal establishment in the social media era is simple: persuade or perish. If you can’t control the public conversation, you must participate in it.
423. Testing Shows Automotive Glassbreakers Can't Break Modern Automotive Glass
It's easy to convince EDC people to buy EDC things. But how do you convince non-EDC folks to buy your product? Simple: Fear. The global "car escape tool market," according to market research firm Data Insights Market, is valued at $500 this year, projected to grow 7% a year and
424. Cassette tapes are making a comeback. Yes
The humble cassette seems to be suddenly cool again. What’s driving the craze? And is it a full-blown revival?
425. NixOS 25.11 Released
Nix is a tool that takes a unique approach to package management and system configuration. Learn how to make reproducible, declarative and reliable systems.
426. Are psychedelics the new GLP-1s?
What GLP-1 agonists did for obesity, psychedelic medicine may soon do for mental health.
427. AI Is Destroying the University and Learning Itself
Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.
428. Every mathematician has only a few tricks
429. Petition to formally recognize open source work as civic service in Germany
Open-Source-Software bildet heute das Fundament großer Teile der digitalen Infrastruktur – in Verwaltung, Wirtschaft, Forschung und im täglichen Leben. Selbst im aktuellen Koalitionsvertrag der Bundesregierung wird Open-Source-Software als elementarer Baustein zur Erreichung digitaler Souveränität genannt. Dennoch wird die Arbeit, die tausende Freiwillige dafür leisten, in Deutschland steuer- und förderrechtlich nicht als Ehrenamt anerkannt. Dieses Ungleichgewicht zwischen gesellschaftlicher Bed
430. South Korea police say 120k home cameras hacked for 'sexploitation' footage
The cameras were located in private homes, karaoke rooms, a Pilates studio and a gynaecologist's clinic.
431. Fallout 2's Chris Avellone describes his game design philosophy
Avellone recaps his journey from learning on a TRS-80 to today.
432. Iceland declares ocean-current instability a national security risk
Iceland has classified the potential collapse of a major Atlantic current system as a national security threat, citing new scientific warnings that such a change could radically alter the country’s climate and economy. Officials say the risk represents an “existential” challenge that demands a coordinated, top-level response.
433. Show HN: A prediction market where you can bet against my goals
Bet on predictions about Eric's goals and achievements
434. How to run phones while being struck by suicide drones
435. Proton Sheets Launches as Encrypted Alternative to Google Sheets
Proton today announced the launch of Proton Sheets, its end-to-end encrypted spreadsheet web application designed to offer a privacy-focused alternative to Google Sheets and Microsoft Excel. Unlike traditional spreadsheet tools, Proton Sheets encrypts all user data by default, including filenames and metadata. That means no one, not even Proton, can access the contents of users' spreadsheets.
436. Declining Fertility Rates
This post made the rounds at USV this week and got us thinking about declining fertility rates around the world. While I am sharing that link with all of you, I don't agree with the author's conclusion about the inevitability of extinction. I think humanity is an extremely complex system with many self-correcting mechanisms in it. But the charts in the header of this blog post are worth paying attention to. I was emailing with a friend about this earlier this week, and he said that three char...
437. Show HN: I built alwayswith.us to easily add deceased loved ones into photos
Create beautiful photos with those who matter most using AI. Include loved ones in your memories, even when they can't be there in person. Start with 5 free generations.
438. Tor: What we've learned from fighting censorship in Iran and Russia
439. A Tale of Four Fuzzers
Insights, updates, and technical deep dives on building a high-performance financial transactions database.
440. Gastronorm
441. Show HN: An LLM-Powered Tool to Catch PCB Schematic Mistakes
Catch PCB schematic mistakes before fabrication
442. Kids who ran away to 1960s San Francisco
I followed my curiosity and ended up at the library reading hundreds of letters of runaway teenagers who came to hippie San Francisco
443. Shor's algorithm: the one quantum algo that ends RSA/ECC tomorrow
One algorithm. One quantum computer. Every RSA key, every ECC key, every Bitcoin wallet you ever created becomes readable or forgeable in minutes. This isn't sci-fi. This is math.
444. 'Chemtrails' Conspiracy Theory Dogging the Battle Against Drought
445. Meta hiding $27B in debt using advanced geometry
FSG LLC’s preliminary rating explains how a data center and selective eyesight create a perfectly legal accounting miracle.
446. Head of Germany's Sovereign Tech Agency believes that Europe must invest in OSS
The head of Germany’s Sovereign Tech Agency believes that Europe must invest in open source to achieve technological independence
447. A Programmer-Friendly I/O Abstraction Over io_uring and kqueue
Insights, updates, and technical deep dives on building a high-performance financial transactions database.
448. Constructing the Word's First JPEG XL MD5 Hash Quine
A walk through of building an image that displays its own MD5 Hash
449. UK Government plans new powers to label dissenting movements as 'subversion'
450. MarathonOS: A spiritual successor to BlackBerry10 using Qt6 and PostmarketOS
Marathon OS is a gesture-first mobile operating system built on Linux. Inspired by BlackBerry 10's brilliant interaction model, reimagined for modern hardware with PostmarketOS and Qt6.