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421. How fast can browsers process base64 data?
422. Unreal Tournament 2004 is back
423. Microsoft drops AI sales targets in half after salespeople miss their quotas
Report: Microsoft declared “the era of AI agents” in May, but enterprise customers aren’t buying.
424. GitLab discovers widespread NPM supply chain attack
Malware driving attack includes "dead man's switch" that can harm user data.
425. Selling H200s to China Is Unwise and Unpopular
AI is the most important thing about the future.
426. Canadian accused in plot to export Nvidia's AI chips from US to China
Export-controlled technology worth US$30 million with fake brand labels was allegedly addressed to a facility near Toronto’s Pearson airport
427. Reverse math shows why hard problems are hard
Researchers have used metamathematical techniques to show that certain theorems that look superficially distinct are in fact logically equivalent.
428. The end of the road for Kafka-delta-ingest
a moderately technical blog
429. Feynman vs. Computer
430. 100000 TPS over a billion rows: the unreasonable effectiveness of SQLite
A blog mostly about Clojure programming
431. Toyota Unintended Acceleration and the Big Bowl of "Spaghetti" Code(2013)
432. Why doesn't Apple make a standalone Touch ID?
433. Show HN: S3 compatible store with 1M IOPS(4K-R,p99~5ms), BYOC in 5min with rust
The ultimate S3 compatible high performance object storage in the AI era. - fractalbits-labs/fractalbits-main
434. Compassionate Curmudgeon: Why we must root ourselves in the real world
435. PC-Man (IBM PC 1983) and the spark of childhood wonder
  Teenager Greg Kuperberg wrote three fast-action arcade games for the IBM-PC in 1982 and 1983 (an almost impossible of feat at the time) and then took another path. In this rare examination of his work, we look at the legacy and inspiration of this "would-be" game programming auteur, who "moved-on" while at the top…
436. What Will Enter the Public Domain in 2026?
At the start of each year, on January 1st, a new crop of works enter the public domain. Find our highlights of what lies in store for 2026 here.
437. I ignore the spotlight as a staff engineer
Discussed on Hacker News, lobste.rs and r/programming. Lately I’ve been reading Sean Goedecke’s essays on being a Staff+ engineer. His work (particularly Software engineering under the spotlight and It’s Not Your Codebase) is razor-sharp and feels painfully familiar to anyone in Big Tech. On paper, I fit the mold he describes: I’m a Senior Staff engineer at Google. Yet, reading his work left me with a lingering sense of unease. At first, I dismissed this as cynicism. After reflecting, however, I realized the problem wasn’t Sean’s writing but my reading. Sean isn’t being bleak; he is accurately describing how to deal with a world where engineers are fungible assets and priorities shift quarterly. But my job looks nothing like that and I know deep down that if I tried to operate in that environment or in the way he described I’d burn out within months. Instead I’ve followed an alternate path, one that optimizes for systems over spotlights, and stewardship over fungibility.
438. Django 6 Released
439. Four Post-Modern Masterpieces Mapped the Future. They Tried to Warn Us
Exploring seminal works that have influenced this newsletter.
440. How Brian Eno Created Ambient 1: Music for Airports (2019)
In 1978, Brian Eno released Ambient 1: Music for Airports, a landmark album in ambient and electronic music. Although it wasn't the first ambient
441. Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days
Let’s Encrypt will be reducing the validity period of the certificates we issue. We currently issue certificates valid for 90 days, which will be cut in half to 45 days by 2028. This change is being made along with the rest of the industry, as required by the CA/Browser Forum Baseline Requirements, which set the technical requirements that we must follow. All publicly-trusted Certificate Authorities like Let’s Encrypt will be making similar changes. Reducing how long certificates are valid for helps improve the security of the internet, by limiting the scope of compromise, and making certificate revocation technologies more efficient.
442. Show HN: PVAC FHE over hypergraphs with LPN security
pvac-hfhe: PoC for publicly verifiable arithmetic computations with hypergraph based homomorphic encryption over Fp (p = 2^127 - 1), omissions for large numbers and excluded the transfer mechanism for data convertation (applies only to the prod version of octra network). c++17 header-only. - GitHub - octra-labs/pvac_hfhe_cpp: pvac-hfhe: PoC for publicly verifiable arithmetic computations with hypergraph based homomorphic encryption over Fp (p = 2^127 - 1), omissions for large numbers and excluded the transfer mechanism for data convertation (applies only to the prod version of octra network). c++17 header-only.
443. 1GB Raspberry Pi 5, and memory-driven price rises
444. Apple Releases Open Weights Video Model