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31. Treasures found on HS2 route stored in secret warehouse
Archaeological finds from the planned HS2 train line have been shown exclusively to the BBC.
32. Netbird a German Tailscale alternative (P2P WireGuard-based overlay network)
WireGuard®-based overlay network and Zero Trust Network Access in one platform for reliable and secure connectivity
33. Founding Is a Snowball
It can happen to anyone.
34. Time Machine-style Backups with rsync (2018)
Sam Hewitt, Human Interface Designer
35. A Crisis comes to Wordle: Reusing old words
A few days ago, The new York Times (owner of Wordle) announced that from 2 February it would start reusing some words from previous years. Their announcem...
36. Stop Using Pseudo-Types
Stop Using Pseudo-Types (Published on Jan 20, 2025 - Version française)
37. Amiga Unix (Amix)
38. Towards a science of scaling agent systems: When and why agent systems work
39. Building a Telegram Bot with Cloudflare Workers, Durable Objects and Grammy
Walkthrough on how to build and deploy a Telegram bot to Cloudflare Workers. Durable Objects are used for per-person DB and grammY is used to interact with the Telegram API
40. I taught my neighbor to keep the volume down
My dish network device interfered with that of my neighbor. He didn't want to cooperate, so I taught him how to keep the volume down. Now he sets it to 18.
41. Jack Kerouac's 37 metre-long, first draft scroll of On the Road to be auctioned
The draft – one of the Beat Generation’s defining artefacts – will be part of a wider sale of pieces from the Jim Irsay Collection at Christie’s in March
42. Mobile carriers can get your GPS location
In iOS 26.3, Apple introduced a new privacy feature which limits “precise location” data made available to cellular networks via cell towers. The feature is only available to devices with Apple’s in-house modem introduced in 2025. The announcement1 says https://support.apple.com/en-us/126101 ↩
43. Troublemaker: The fierce, unruly life of Jessica Mitford
It sometimes feels as if we shall never hear the last of the Mitfords. What Jessica Mitford called ‘the Mitford...
44. A web server on a single floppy disk
45. English professors double down on requiring printed copies of readings
46. Message from Pope Leo XIV on the 60th World Day of Social Communications
MESSAGE OF HIS HOLINESS POPE LEO XIV FOR THE 60 TH WORLD DAY OF SOCIAL COMMUNICATIONS [ Multimedia ] _______________________
47. Typechecking is undecidable when 'type' is a type (1989) [pdf]
48. Are we dismissing AI spend before the 6x lands? (2025)
Critics are judging models trained on last-gen hardware. There's a 6x wave of compute already allocated - and it's just starting to produce results.
49. What I learned building an opinionated and minimal coding agent
Lessons I learned while building my own coding agent from scratch.
50. Notepad++ hijacked by state-sponsored actors
51. History and Timeline of the Proco Rat Pedal (2021)
52. Reliable 25 Gigabit Ethernet via Thunderbolt
I found this tiny fanless Thunderbolt 25G Ethernet adapter. With a little tinkering, it actually works.
53. MRI scans show exercise can make the brain look younger
New research suggests that consistent aerobic exercise can help keep your brain biologically younger. Adults who exercised regularly for a year showed brains that appeared nearly a year younger than those who didn’t change their habits. The study focused on midlife, a critical window when prevention may offer long-term benefits. Even small shifts in brain age could add up over decades.
54. Silver plunges 30% in worst day since 1980, gold tumbles
Gold and silver prices plunged on Friday, following weeks of gains as investors poured money into safe havens.
55. Nintendo DS code editor and scriptable game engine
56. Autonomous cars, drones cheerfully obey prompt injection by road sign
57. Nonograms: a practical guide with interactive examples
58. Finland to end "uncontrolled human experiment" with ban on youth social media
Prime Minister Petteri Orpo (NCP), the Finnish public health authority THL and two-thirds of Finns are in favour of banning or restricting the use of social media by under-15s.
59. List animals until failure
hot new brain workout
60. Apple Platform Security (Jan 2026) [pdf]