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421. Advent of Compiler Optimisations 2025
Announcing AoCO 2025 - daily December posts about compiler optimisations
422. Ways of Seeing by John Berger
Ways of Seeing by John Berger is a seminal text based on the 1972 BBC series of the same name, which explores the role of art in western civilization and how it has shaped how the world is seen.
423. Ask HN: Quality of recent gens of Dell/Lenovo laptops worse than 10 years ago?
424. Unix v4 tape found in closet at UofU
425. 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.
426. 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.
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 Syncthing Android drama is exploding
the #Syncthing Android drama is exploding. https://github.com/researchxxl/syncthing-android/issues/16 @fdroidorg@floss.social at this point is being used to push out an app with sensitive permissions that's been taken over by an unknown individual who refuses to engage with its large community of users and developers. I STRONGLY recommend disabling updates from Fdroid, if not uninstalling and manually installing 2.0.11.2, or installing the Google Play version which has a different maintainer. this is extremely shady and it's just looking worse as time goes on. I'll link to the Syncthing forum thread from about where I left off last time in a subsequent post. #SyncthingFork #SyncthingAndroid
429. 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.
430. Why are my headphones buzzing whenever I run my game?
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431. Treating Documentation as a Product
Why treating documentation as a product is essential. Enhance onboarding, ease integrations, and improve user experience effectively.
432. Understanding ECDSA
Exploring blockchain, math, and smart contracts through a security lens.
433. The Surprisingly Complicated World of SMS: Emoji SMS Reactions
434. The Traveling Salesperson Problem (Modernized)
Python programs, usually short, of considerable difficulty, to perfect particular skills. - pytudes/ipynb/TSP.ipynb at main · norvig/pytudes
435. 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.
436. A Love Letter to FreeBSD
437. John Giannandrea to Retire from Apple
John Giannandrea is retiring, and Amar Subramanya joins as vice president of AI.
438. Ephemeral Infrastructure: Why Short-Lived Is a Good Thing
439. Kenyans lured by lucrative job offers and sent to fight for Russia
Kenyan families whose sons have been duped into fighting for Russia demand they be brought home.
440. WikiFlix: Full Movies Hosted on Wikimedia Commons
441. Traveling Neighborhoods
A different kind of group trip
442. A Most Important Mustard
On the origins of Arabidopsis thaliana, the premier model for plant biology.
443. 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
444. Multiplying our way out of division
How compilers avoid expensive division with multiplication tricks
445. Show HN: Minimal container-like sandbox built from scratch in C
A sandbox created from scratch in C. Contribute to Sahilb315/runbox development by creating an account on GitHub.
446. 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
447. Linux GPIB Drivers Declared Stable 53 Years After HP Introduced the Bus
Merged to the mainline Linux kernel last year was GPIB drivers in the kernel's 'staging' area
448. 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.