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31. Qualcomm acquires RISC-V focused Ventana Micro Systems
32. Deprecations via warnings don't work for Python libraries
Python, open source, and the internet
33. Super-Flat ASTs
34. Handsdown one of the coolest 3D websites
35. Kernel Float: Unlocking Mixed-Precision GPU Programming
36. Useful patterns for building HTML tools
37. Cloth Simulation
38. After NPR and PBS defunding, FCC receives call to take away station licenses
NPR and PBS stations targeted by group involved in Carr’s news-distortion probes.
39. England Historic Aerial Photo Explorer
40. Map of All the Buildings in the World
Well, here's something you don't see every day: all 2.75 billion buildings of the world shown together in a single 3D map.
41. AWS Announces Graviton 5
42. AI chatbots can sway voters with remarkable ease
Experiments involving real-world voters show how talking to a chatbot can shape people’s political opinions. Experiments involving real-world voters show how talking to a chatbot can shape people’s political opinions.
43. US Seizes Oil Tanker Off the Coast of Venezuela
44. Disguised and in Danger: How a Nobel Peace Prize Winner Escaped Venezuela
45. Volcanic eruptions set off a chain of events that brought Black Death to Europe
Clues contained in tree rings have identified mid-14th-century volcanic activity as the first domino to fall in a sequence that led to the devastation of the Black Death in Europe.
46. Oracle's stock slides 11% on revenue miss
Oracle flagged new business from Meta and Nvidia in reporting a 438% increase in remaining performance obligations.
47. Stop Breaking TLS
Rant ahead: I hate TLS “Inspection” software with a burning passion and I wish we collectively as an industry would just knock it the fuck off and stop pretending it’s some great security benefit. Every time I encounter it, in whatever form, it’s a gigantic headache that makes everyone’s life worse off and as far as I am concerned offers next to zero tangible benefits.
48. New benchmark shows top LLMs struggle in real mental health care
Sword Health releases an open-source, expert-validated framework to rigorously assess the clinical competence of AI for mental health support.
49. Putting email in its place with Emacs and Mu4e
I had a few free hours recently and decided to have a go at a long-simmering idea: To improve how I manage multiple email accounts. As someone who struggles mightily to cope with distractions (I have the attention span of a gnat), I was hoping to consolidate several separate interfaces into one, simpler, less distracting, more focused client.Sadly, I wasn't quite successful -- my work emails remain out of reach. But I learned a lot and ended up in at least a better place.
50. PeerTube is recognized as a digital public good by Digital Public Goods Alliance
Learn more about PeerTube.
51. Zimbabwe's only female heart surgeon on medicine, misogyny & making a difference
Despite the challenges of working in a healthcare system in crisis, Kudzai Kanyepi has resisted the temptation to move abroad
52. Glyphosate safety article retracted 8 years after Monsanto ghostwriting revealed
Credit: Mike Mozart/Flickr (CC BY 2.0) A review article concluding the weed killer Roundup “does not pose a health risk to humans” has been retracted eight years after documents released in a court case revealed employees of Monsanto, the company that developed the herbicide, wrote the article but were not named as coauthors.  The safety…
53. McDonald's pulls AI Christmas ad after backlash
McDonald's said the moment served as "an important learning" as it explored "the effective use of AI".
54. Is your brain tired? Researchers are discovering the roots of mental fatigue
Better ways to measure cognitive exhaustion could point to treatments for long COVID and other debilitating disorders. Better ways to measure cognitive exhaustion could point to treatments for long COVID and other debilitating disorders.
55. Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 Hallucinates the HN Front Page 10 Years from Today
56. It's cheaper to buy a new printer every month
57. Skin-roasted peanut consumption improves brain vascular function and memory
58. Unrolling Loops
Learning when the compiler decides to unroll loops for performance
59. Mistral Releases Devstral 2 (72.2% SWE-Bench Verified) and Vibe CLI
State-of-the-art, open-source agentic coding models and CLI agent.
60. The stack circuitry of the Intel 8087 floating point chip, reverse-engineered