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31. Best of Moltbook
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32. NASA's WB-57 crash lands at Houston
A thorough investigation will be conducted by NASA into the cause."
33. Guix System First Impressions as a Nix User
34. History of the browser user-agent string (2008)
35. Genode OS is a tool kit for building highly secure special-purpose OS
36. Berlin: Record harvest sparks mass giveaway of free potatoes
From zoos to soup kitchens, people are hauling away tonnes of surplus spuds after the biggest crop in 25 years
37. Working example of a Yocto setup without unnecessary complications
Working example of a yocto setup without unnecessary complications - bootlin/simplest-yocto-setup
38. 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.
39. US has investigated claims WhatsApp chats aren't private
40. The Spacecraft That Wouldn't Die
Epic Aerospace's record-setting tug has traveled millions of kilometers, and there's a chance we can bring it back
41. A novelist who took on the Italian mafia and lived
In the biography A Sicilian Man, Caroline Moorehead tells the story of Leonardo Sciascia, who first exposed the rampant, murderous corruption that had infiltrated Italian society
42. Pre-Steal This Book
Seth Godin's Blog on marketing, tribes and respect
43. A Step Behind the Bleeding Edge: A Philosophy on AI in Dev
This is a memo I published internally to my team at Monarch. I'm sharing it more publicly in case it helps other software engineering teams that are managing the crazy times we're experiencing. There’s no question: AI is changing how we work as Software Engineers. There’s a lot of hype, excitement, anxiety, and uncertainty around…
44. Sumerian Star Map Recorded the Impact of an Asteroid (2024)
Explore the mystery of a 5,500-year-old Sumerian star map, revealing a massive asteroid impact, Köfels’ Impact. Learn about ancient astronomical
45. Google Cloud suspended my account for 2 years, only automated replies
46. SQLite Is a Self Contained System
47. We have ipinfo at home or how to geolocate IPs in your CLI using latency
48. Archive.today is directing a DDoS attack against my blog
Around January 11, 2026, archive.today (aka archive.is, archive.md, etc) started using its users as proxies to conduct a distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack against Gyrovague, my personal blog. All users encountering archive.today's CAPTCHA page currently load and execute the following Javascript: setInterval(function() { fetch("https://gyrovague.com/?s=" + Math.random().toString(36).substring(2, 3 + Math.random() * 8), { referrerPolicy: "no-referrer",…
49. Show HN: I trained a 9M speech model to fix my Mandarin tones
A tiny on-device speech model to grade Mandarin pronunciation and tones.
50. Moltbook is a bad takeoff scenario where human psychology itself is the exploit
51. My Ridiculously Robust Photo Management System (Immich Edition)
How I added Immich to my already robust photo management system to make it ridiculously robust.
52. Death Note: L, Anonymity and Eluding Entropy (2011)
Applied Computer Science: On Murder Considered As STEM Field—using information theory to quantify the magnitude of Light Yagami’s mistakes in Death Note and considering fixes
53. Naples' 1790s civil war was intensified by moral panic over Real Analysis (2023)
Massimo Mazzotti uses a forgotten episode in revolutionary Naples to demonstrate the entanglement of mathematics and politics.
54. Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native
55. CERN accepts $1B in private cash towards Future Circular Collider
56. Autonomous cars, drones cheerfully obey prompt injection by road sign
57. Does JIT Go Brrr?
58. This Year in LLVM (2025)
59. Direct Current Data Centers
Casey Handmer, Matt Weickert This post explains our current views on how humanity will achieve Kardashev Level 1 status by exploiting the full energy resources of an entire planet. More specifically, how pure solar+batteries will power AI scaleup beyond gas turbine manufacturing limits. It is an extension to my earlier post of March 2024 on…
60. The User Guide for Elite, the Tool Palantir Made for ICE
404 Media is publishing a version of the user guide for ELITE, which lets ICE bring up dossiers on individual people and provides a “confidence score” of their address.