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31. If you care about security you might want to move the iPhone Camera app
32. Worlds largest electric ship launched by Tasmanian boatbuilder
Manufacturer Incat built Hull 096 to run between Buenos Aires and Uruguay, dubbing it the ‘most complex’ project it has ever undertaken
33. Recreating the Bell Labs Switch Experiment with Agents
The one where I recreate the 12 switch experiment from TADSE
34. Simple 3D Packing
Simple 3D Packing. Contribute to Vrroom/psacking development by creating an account on GitHub.
35. Heap Overflow in FFmpeg EXIF
AI cybersecurity startup finding memory vulnerabilities
36. If childhood is half of subjective life, how should that change how we live?
If childhood is half of our subjective life, how should that change how we live?
37. Cycling Game (Mini Neural Net Demo)
38. Easel Turns One One year of building my own IDE in Clojure
39. Meta made scam ads harder to find instead of removing them
Scam ads are big business for Meta....
40. 2025: The Year in LLMs
41. FreeBSD Closes the Laptop Gap: Year One Project Update
If you’ve been waiting for the right moment to try FreeBSD on a laptop, take note - 2025 has brought transformative changes. The Foundation's ambitious Laptop Support & Usability Project is systematically addressing the gaps that have held FreeBSD back on modern laptop hardware. The project started in 2024 Q4 and covers areas including Wi-Fi,
42. GoGoGrandparent (YC S16) Is Hiring Tech Leads
About Us GoGoGrandparent is a digital caregiving platform helping older and disabled adults stay independent, safe, and supported at home. We adapt on-demand APIs (Uber, Lyft, DoorDash, Instacart, etc.) into a concierge-style experience tailored for people with cognitive, mobility, or vision challenges. We’re a profitable, fast-growing, YC-backed startup (S16) with a deeply mission-driven team. Everything we build directly impacts real families who rely on GoGo every day. Our engineering team is fully remote, tight-knit, and moves fast. You’ll work closely with founders, ship meaningful features weekly, and have real ownership over architecture, reliability, and product direction.\ \ The Position FULLY REMOTE | US timezone or able to work 4+ hours overlap with mainland US | $100k to $200k (based on location, experience and seniority) Serve as a Full Stack Tech Lead, helping guide engineering efforts across the team. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to: - Acting as the primary liaison between engineering and other departments - Leading sprint planning sessions and daily standups - Participating in sprint refinement meetings - Managing and continuously improving the sprint cycle - Scoping out new features and identifying fixes for bugs - Overseeing and executing code deployments - Developing and maintaining deep expertise in the codebase - Conducting thorough code reviews to ensure quality and consistency - Holding regular 1-on-1s with developers to support growth and alignment - Steps in to write code when essential to unblock the team or ensure delivery \ Tech Stack Back-end heavy: Node.js, TypeScript, MySQL, REST + GraphQL\ Front-end: Vue.js (nice to have)\ Deployment: AWS, Docker/Kubernetes (nice to have)\ \ Requirements 6+ years of professional experience (primarily in Node.js and Vue.js)\ \ If you're passionate about improving the lives of older adults and people with disabilities, we would love for you to apply!
43. A font with built-in TeX syntax highlighting
At the TUG2025 conference, I presented a talk about the development of a new colour font, which does automatic syntax highlighting for TeX documents/snippets. The idea was floated by CVR, and was inspired by a prior-art of HTML/CSS syntax highlighting font by Heikki Lotvonen. Syntax highlighting is achieved by specialized grammar files or packages on…
44. Tell HN: Happy New Year
45. Arpanet standardized TCP/IP on this day in 1983
How an academic research network became the Internet.
46. Starlink satellites being lowered from 550 km to 480 km
47. Resistance training load does not determine hypertrophy
48. Motion and Machine
49. Only 5 Sears stores remain in the U.S.
50. Show HN: I created a tool to design and create foamcore inserts for boardgames
Design custom boardgame box inserts and storage that you can build with foamcore or cardboard. Easy to use and free. Generates a simple cut list.
51. ACM Is Now Open Access
52. Flow5 Released to Open Source
53. Warren Buffett steps down as Berkshire Hathaway CEO after six decades
Greg Abel faces the challenge of taking over Berkshire Hathaway from the legendary Warren Buffett this week.
54. A love song for Linux gamers with old GPUs
AMD GPUs are famous for working very well on Linux. However, what about the very first GCN GPUs? In this post, I’m going to summarize how well these old GPUs are supported and what I’ve been doing to improve that.
55. European Space Agency hit again as cybercriminals claim 200 GB data up for sale
56. Demystifying DVDs
Hidden Palace and Last Minute Continue PROUDLY present...
57. Beyond the Nat: Cgnat, Bandwidth, and Practical Tunneling
58. I canceled my book deal
I've always wanted to write a book, and I was close, but not this time.
59. The Curious Case of the Shallow Session SPAs
Buried at the end of this year's installment of my semi-annual series on network and device reality is a mystery: multiple, independent data sets from the Web Performance community indicate sites built as Single-Page Applications ("SPAs") receive, on average, only one (1) "soft navigation" for every
60. Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design [pdf]