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31. Building a Minimal Viable Armv7 Emulator from Scratch
Emulating armv7 is surprisingly easy, even from scratch AND in Rust
32. Over-Regulation Is Doubling the Cost by Peter Reinhardt
33. New OS aims to provide (some) compatibility with macOS
A BSD-based OS project that aims to provide source and binary compatibility with macOS® and a similar user experience. - ravynsoft/ravynos
34. Ancient Roman Glass Reveals a Hidden "Language"
Ancient Roman Glass Reveals a Hidden “Language”: Closer inspection of Roman possessions has highlighted possible networks of artisans.
35. Nano Banana Pro
Nano Banana Pro is our new image generation and editing model from Google DeepMind.
36. A Whale-Surfing Fish
Scientists have captured rare footage of remoras, also known as sucker fish, hitching rides on humpback whales off the coast of Australia.
37. Hilbert space: treating functions as vectors
38. Android and iPhone users can now share files, starting with the Pixel 10 family
Today, we’re introducing a way for Quick Share to work with AirDrop.
39. Show HN: 32V TENS device from built from scratch under $100
student, nomad in machine learning
40. The Qtile Window Manager: A Python-Powered Tiling Experience
My journey from XFCE to Qtile, a tiling window manager written entirely in Python, including setup, configuration strategies, and real-world config examples.
41. AI slop security engineering: Okta's NextJS-0auth troubles
In October, I reported two security issues to Okta’s auth0/nextjs-auth0 project, here and here. The latter bug, an oauth parameter injection, allows for a range of types of abuse, like scoping tokens for unintended services, setting redirect_uri and scope to arbitrary values to leak tokens, and so on.
42. Free interactive tool that shows you how PCIe lanes work on motherboards
43. Data-at-Rest Encryption in DuckDB
DuckDB v1.4 ships database encryption capabilities. In this blog post, we dive into the implementation details of the encryption, show how to use it and demonstrate its performance implications.
44. Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak Mechanism in LLMs
Abstract page for arXiv paper 2511.15304: Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak Mechanism in Large Language Models
45. CDC to end all monkey research; will phase out HIV, infectious disease studies
46. The Lions Operating System
The Lions Operating System # LionsOS is currently undergoing active research and development, it does not have a concrete verification story yet. It is not expected for LionsOS to be stable at this time, but it is available for others to experiment with. LionsOS is an operating system based on the seL4 microkernel with the goal of making the achievements of seL4 accessible. That is, to provide performance, security, and reliability.
47. Two recently found works of J.S. Bach presented in Leipzig [video, start 15:29]
Musikalische Sensation in Leipzig!Am Montag um 15 Uhr werden in der Thomaskirche Leipzig zwei bislang unbekannte Solo-Werke von Johann Sebastian Bach erstmal...
48. Show HN: My hobby OS that runs Minecraft
49. Interactive World History Atlas Since 3000 BC
by year, since 3000 BC. Universal History datasets. Relevant Universal History vector information.
50. Make product worse, get money
It’s so easy
51. Historical Reasons
52. CBP is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with suspicious travel patterns
The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious.
53. Google must double AI serving capacity every 6 months to meet demand
At a recent all-hands meeting, Google's head of AI infrastructure said the company has to race to build out compute capacity.
54. Klein Bottles and Nuclear Fusion
55. Exploring the Fragmentation of Wayland, an xdotool adventure
In 2007, I was spending a my norther-hemisphere summer experimenting with UI automation. Born of those efforts, xdotool came into being when I separated it from another project. The goal was modest - write some scripts that execute common keyboard, mouse, and window management tasks. The first commit had only a few basic commands - basic mouse and keyboard actions, plus a few window management actions like movement, focus, and searching. Xdotool sprouted new features as time rolled on. Today, the project is 18 years old, and still going!
56. Is C++26 getting destructive move semantics?
57. Microsoft makes Zork open-source
Microsoft’s Open Source Programs Office (OSPO), Team Xbox, and Activision are making Zork I, Zork II, and Zork III available under the MIT License.
58. HP and Dell disable HEVC support built into their laptops' CPUs
HEVC licensing gets more expensive in January.
59. Two minutes on a porch, a misunderstanding and a gunshot killed a house cleaner
María Florinda Ríos Pérez de Velásquez and her husband began trying their keys in the door of what they believed was the home they were supposed to clean, court records say.
60. Diabetes Treatment May Deliver Insulin Through a Skin Cream
A breakthrough in insulin delivery could one day spell an end to the invasive needles on which many people with diabetes rely.