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421. Acme, a brief history of one of the protocols which has changed the Internet
ACME, a brief history of one of the protocols which has changed the Internet Security Changelog 03 December 2025: article announced on Mastodon, LinkedIn and X. 03 December 2025: J.C. Jones published his reflections about 10 years of Let’s Encrypt. A must read! 03 December 2025: J.C. has also been kind enough to announce this article on Hacker News. It makes it jump in the TOP 25 on the HN homepage and in stats (31k reads after 24h) 💚 04 December 2025: add a link to the ACME website of Fabien Hochstrasser.
422. PyTogether: Collaborative lightweight real-time Python IDE for teachers/learners
📄🐍 Google Docs for Python. A fully browser-based collaborative IDE with real-time editing, live drawing, and voice chat. - SJRiz/pytogether
423. One gadget could give China a back door into the U.S. power grid
424. Autism should not be treated as a single condition
425. Modern Cassette Walkmans
List of modern, post-mp3, current Walkmans cassette players
426. Ads are showing up on Google's AI Mode now
Hope it doesn’t go the same route as Google Search!...
427. Ask HN: What are young technically minded people reading?
428. Washington state Medicare users could soon have claims denied by AI
429. Idempotency Keys for Exactly-Once Processing
430. The Birth of the Internet Troll (2014)
Trolls are shitting all over our internet. You can hardly search for something as innocuous as "dog" on Google without coming across inflammatory attacks
431. Multivox: Volumetric Display
Contribute to AncientJames/multivox development by creating an account on GitHub.
432. Everyone in Seattle hates AI
A post about everyone in Seattle hating AI.
433. Google Tells Advertisers It'll Bring Ads to Gemini in 2026
The discussions mark the first time advertisers have heard directly from Google about monetizing its Gemini AI chatbot
434. A series of vignettes from my childhood and early career
435. I have been writing a niche history blog for 15 years
A special appeal to support Res Obscura on its Crystal Anniversary
436. Physicists prove the Universe isn't a simulation after all
New research from UBC Okanagan mathematically demonstrates that the universe cannot be simulated. Using Gödel’s incompleteness theorem, scientists found that reality requires “non-algorithmic understanding,” something no computation can replicate. This discovery challenges the simulation hypothesis and reveals that the universe’s foundations exist beyond any algorithmic system.
437. I Designed and Printed a Custom Nose Guard to Help My Dog with DLE
Discover how our pitbull Billie's struggle with Discoid Lupus led to creating SnoutCover - a 3D-printed nose protector that helped her nose fully recover in 5 months.
438. Halftime: Dynamically weaves AI-generated ads into the scenes you're watching
439. Tech elites are starting their own for-profit cities
They want to escape from regulation and ‘failing’ democracy — but are they more opportunistic than libertarian?
440. Guide to making a CHIP-8 emulator
A high-level guide to making a CHIP-8 emulator.
441. GSWT: Gaussian Splatting Wang Tiles
A tile-based Gaussian Splatting rendering system for infinitely expanding terrain
442. Congressional lawmakers 47% pts better at picking stocks
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.
443. Framework Laptop 13 gets ARM processor with 12 cores via upgrade kit
The Framework Laptop 13 has a replaceable mainboard, which means that the processor can be easily upgraded after purchase. While Framework itself only offers Intel and AMD CPUs, a mainboard with a high-performance ARM processor from a third-party manufacturer has now launched.
444. CSS now has an if() conditional function
"Can I use" provides up-to-date browser support tables for support of front-end web technologies on desktop and mobile web browsers.
445. Mathematics is hard for mathematicians to understand too
446. Show HN: I was reintroduced to computers: Raspberry Pi
Wow, half a year has passed since my last blog. I have to admit, during this period I was a bit disconnected from the physical AI world. I transitioned to a different team at work after their two data scientists were reassigned to other teams, and I had to ramp up quickly to take over…
447. A lost Amazon world just reappeared in Bolivia
Researchers exploring Bolivia’s Great Tectonic Lakes discovered a landscape transformed over centuries by sophisticated engineering and diverse agricultural traditions. Excavations show how Indigenous societies adapted to dynamic wetlands through raised fields, canals, and mixed livelihoods. Today’s local communities preserve this biocultural continuity, guiding research and conservation.
448. Vanilla CSS is all you need