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31. Mozilla's Latest Quagmire
Defending Mozilla’s inclusion of AI features and tooling in Firefox misses the point, and only threatens to isolate them further.
32. Games using anti-cheats and their compatibility with GNU/Linux or Wine/Proton
33. Ask HN: Quality of recent gens of Dell/Lenovo laptops worse than 10 years ago?
34. Around The World, Part 27: Planting trees
In the previous post, I determined what kind of vegetation should grow where in my procedurally generated world. Now it’s time to actually plant those plants!
35. It's Been a Hard Year
Unlike a lot of places in tech, my company, Set Studio/Piccalilli has no outside funding. Bootstrapped is what the LinkedIn people say, I think. It’s been a hard year this year. A very hard year. I think a naive person would blame it all on the seemingly industry-wide attitude of “AI can just do this […]
36. After Windows Update, Password icon invisible, click where it used to be
37. Why xor eax, eax?
Why do compilers love xor-ing registers so much?
38. A New AI Winter Is Coming
Though LLMs had a lot of promise, this has not been demonstrated in practice. The technology is essentially a failure, and a new AI winter is coming.
39. ImAnim: Modern animation capabilities to ImGui applications
Animation Enginer for Dear ImGui. Contribute to soufianekhiat/ImAnim development by creating an account on GitHub.
40. High-income job losses are cooling housing demand
41. Search tool that only returns content created before ChatGPT's public release
Tega Brain is an Australian artist based in New York examining the politics of computation at a time of climate change.
42. 1GB Raspberry Pi 5, and memory-driven price rises
43. Advent of Code 2025
44. Amazon faces FAA probe after delivery drone snaps internet cable in Texas
The probe comes as Amazon faces stiffer competition from Walmart, which has also begun drone deliveries.
45. Response to Ruby Is Not a Serious Programming Language
The question Sheon Han poses — “Is Ruby a serious programming language?” — says a lot about what someone thinks programming is supposed to feel like. For som...
46. Sycophancy is the first LLM "dark pattern"
People have been making fun of OpenAI models for being overly sycophantic for months now. I even wrote a post advising users to pretend that their work was…
47. Help, My Java Object Vanished (and the GC Is Not at Fault)
Today I’m going to talk about a recent journey as a HotSpot Java Virtual Machine developer working on the OpenJDK project. While running tests for a new feature, I realized my Java objects and classes were arbitrarily disappearing! What followed was probably the most interesting debugging and fixing experience of my life (so far), which I wanted to share with the world.
48. Historic Engineering Wonders: Photos That Reveal How They Pulled It Off
49. React and Remix Choose Different Futures
50. Intel could return to Apple computers in 2027
Intel could supply Apple’s lowest-end M-series chips by 2027, supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo predicts.
51. Pose-free 3D Gaussian splatting via shape-ray estimation
Abstract page for arXiv paper 2505.22978: Pose-free 3D Gaussian splatting via shape-ray estimation
52. Netherlands to start taxing unrealized capital gains yearly from 2028
53. User-Adjustable Leather Tool Organizers
For some, the appeal of having a leather sheath for a much-carried or valued tool is high. However, these are typically single-purpose items, sized and dedicated to a single object. Silver Fox Tool, a small UK-based hand tool manufacturer, has a different idea. Their Mule Pouch is designed to carry
54. Why Am I Paying $40k for the Birth of My Child?
Why Am I Paying $40,000 for the Birth of My Child?
55. X210Ai is a new motherboard to upgrade ThinkPad X201/200
56. New AI slop signal: code blocks with weird indentation
57. Show HN: RFC Hub
Track the lifecycle of Request For Comment (RFC) / Technical Design Doc (TDD) technical proposals.
58. We've Detected Lightning on Mars
Scientists analyzed 28 hours of recordings over two Martian years, listening for electrical signals.
59. SmartTube Compromised
Earlier this week, the developer of SmartTube, the most popular alternative YouTube app for Android TV and Fire TV devices, announced that his app's digital signature had been exposed. A new version of the app using a new digital signature has since been released.
60. IT consultant arrested after posing with gun on LinkedIn