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31. The Economics of Duke University
is a hedge fund with a health system, a huge research enterprise & a hobby of college
32. Show HN: LoongArch Userspace Emulator
LoongArch userspace emulator. Contribute to libriscv/libloong development by creating an account on GitHub.
33. Who Invented the Transistor?
34. 2026: The Year of Java in the Terminal
Look, I’m going to say something that might sound crazy to some of you: Java deserves to be better in the terminal. And 2026? That’s going to be ...
35. 'Three norths' alignment about to end
The rare 'three norths' alignment of true, magnetic and grid north will likely not be seen again for several centuries.
36. Zero-Code Instrumentation of an Envoy TCP Proxy Using eBPF
37. Honey's Dieselgate: Detecting and Tricking Testers
38. Readings in Database Systems (5th Edition)
39. Court report detailing ChatGPT's involvement with a recent murder suicide [pdf]
40. A Vulnerability in Libsodium
Libsodium is now 13 years old!
41. I use Samsung's Wi-Fi menu to seriously improve my connectivity
Here's how to find Connectivity labs on your Galaxy phone - and the 7 features I actually use.
42. The Weeb Economy
The entire new section of my book.
43. Loss32: Let's Build a Win32/Linux
44. Eliminate Branches by Melding IR Instructions
Abstract page for arXiv paper 2512.22390: Eliminate Branches by Melding IR Instructions
45. Non-Zero-Sum Games
Home page for a World-Help site: How to create more Non-Zero-Sum Games for a brighter future.
46. A super fast website using Cloudflare workers
Sub-100ms website served from 200+edge locations. 1.7KB Brotli, perfect Lighthouse score. The fastest site on Earth.
47. Odin: Moving Towards a New "core:OS"
48. no strpy either
49. Tesla publishes analyst forecasts suggesting sales set to fall
Tesla endured tough year in part thanks to some consumers’ distaste for Elon Musk’s embrace of rightwing politics
50. OpenAI's cash burn will be one of the big bubble questions of 2026
51. France seeks to ban social media for children under 15
The initiative is backed by President Emmanuel Macron, who said earlier this month that Parliament should start debating such a proposal in January.
52. Electrolysis can solve one of our biggest contamination problems
ETH Zurich researchers have developed a process that can be used on site to render environmental toxins such as DDT and lindane harmless and convert them into valuable chemicals – a breakthrough for the remediation of contaminated sites and a sustainable circular economy. 
53. Sabotaging Bitcoin
54. Mitsubishi Diatone D-160 (1985)
55. Laptops are about to become a casualty of the AI grift
Dreams of artificial general intelligence are killing the tools that actually run the US economy — all thanks to bad government policy.
56. UK company sends factory with 1,000C furnace into space
A factory in space has been switched on and has reached temperatures of about 1,000C.
57. Toro: Deploy Applications as Unikernels
This repository contains the source code of toro unikernel - torokernel/torokernel
58. Escaping Containment: A Security Analysis of FreeBSD Jails [video]
FreeBSD’s jail mechanism promises strong isolation—but how strong is it really? In this talk, we explore what it takes to escape a compro...
59. The British Empire's Resilient Subsea Telegraph Network
60. Calibri Wasn't Fit for the State Department; Neither Is Times New Roman
A less romantic truth is that aesthetic standards rarely travel alone; power tends to follow in their wake. An episode at the U.S. State Department this month makes exactly this point.