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31. Rare X-ray images of a 4.5-ton satellite that returned intact from space
32. An update on the Farphone's battery
farphone is a website running on a repurposed smartphone
33. Scala
34. The CRDT Dictionary: A Field Guide to Conflict-Free Replicated Data Types
A comprehensive guide to CRDTs and their tradeoffs, from counters to sequences. Written in the spirit of the Typeclassopedia, exploring how different CRDTs solve the distributed consensus puzzle.
35. Zero Knowlege Proof of Compositeness
Testing whether a number is composite as an example of a zero knowledge proof. How ZKPs are used more generally.
36. Bronze Age mega-settlement in Kazakhstan has advanced urban planning, metallurgy
Bronze Age Semiyarka in Kazakhstan reveals advanced urban planning and large-scale metallurgy, reshaping our view of steppe societies.
37. Student Perceptions of AI Coding Assistants in Learning
Abstract page for arXiv paper 2507.22900: New Kid in the Classroom: Exploring Student Perceptions of AI Coding Assistants
38. NFCGate flagged as malware even after multiple followups saying it isn't
May I kindly ask to take a look at VT for the latest release? With two major engines agreeing and being supported by 2 others, I'm not 100% sure to call it a "false positive" (maybe something slipped in?). I'll remove this update from Iz...
39. Men Who Made America's Self-Made Man
40. Stopping bad guys from using my open source project (feedback wanted)
I maintain a sorta-popular open source package, and I want to prevent big corporations and "bad guys" from using it. I want feedback on how to do this.
41. Hardening the C++ Standard Library at scale
42. We're learning more about what Vitamin D does to our bodies
The sunshine vitamin could affect your immune system and heart health.
43. Let go of StackOverflow; communities must take ownership
Despite the title this is less a directive and more a description of what has already happened, and how I came to realize it. Still, there are many who remember StackOverflow as a revelation in the mid-2010s and think some vestige of those times remain. They think if they make an effort to distill their confusion into a question and post it there they will be rewarded. Perhaps some scarce few will, but a better way exists.
44. The Origins of Scala (2009)
45. Garfield's Proof of the Pythagorean Theorem
46. Show HN: Explore what the browser exposes about you
Discover all the information your browser shares automatically, including fingerprints, permissions, hardware, and privacy settings. 100% client-side, no data is sent.
47. Hachi: An Image Search Engine
48. DNS LOC Record
49. Post-mortem of Shai-Hulud attack on November 24th, 2025
At 4:11 AM UTC on November 24th, a number of our SDKs and other packages were compromised, with a malicious self-replicating worm - Shai-Hulud 2.…
50. Reddit Migrates Comment Back End from Python to Go Microservice to Halve Latency
51. Man behind in-flight Evil Twin WiFi attacks gets 7 years in prison
A 44-year-old man was sentenced to seven years and four months in prison for operating an
52. Tell HN: It's now impossible to disable all AI features in Firefox 145 (latest)
53. Mint Is Not TeX
54. Bazzite: The next generation of Linux gaming
Bazzite makes gaming and everyday use smoother and simpler across desktop PCs, handhelds, tablets, and home theater PCs.
55. 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.
56. AI just proved Erdos Problem #124
57. Running a Business Means Contact with Reality
58. 1964 Recompiling Engine Documentation (2001) [pdf]
59. Building road signs at home using a Cricut Machine
Staff Software Engineer, Grafana Labs
60. GitLab discovers widespread NPM supply chain attack
Malware driving attack includes "dead man's switch" that can harm user data.