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121. How a French judge was digitally cut off by the USA
Nicolas Guillou has been sanctioned by the USA as a judge of the International Criminal Court. He notices the effects primarily in the digital realm.
122. Arduino Terms of Service and Privacy Policy update: setting the record straight
123. CBP is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with suspicious travel patterns
The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious.
124. Verifying your Matrix devices is becoming mandatory
From April 2026, only verified devices can send or receive end-to-end encrypted message on Element.
125. FAWK: LLMs can write a language interpreter
After reading the book The AWK Programming Language (recommended!), I was planning to try AWK out on this year’s Advent of Code. Having some time off from work this week, I tried to implement one of the problems in it to get some practice, set up my tooling, see how hard AWK would be, and… I found I’m FP-pilled.
126. 'Suddenly exposed' DOGE employees fear prosecution after Musk abandoned them
Current and former Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) staffers are growing increasingly concerned that the work they did slashing government programs and eliminating jobs will come back to haunt them with the possibility of criminal prosecutions.Worse still is their growing belief that the b...
127. The signs of educational decline are now impossible to ignore
128. Ask HN: Looking for a donated PC or laptop for freelance work
129. Is Matrix Multiplication Ugly?
A few weeks ago I was minding my own business, peacefully reading a well-written and informative article about artificial intelligence, when I was ambushed by a passage in the article that aroused my pique. That’s one of the pitfalls of knowing too much about a topic a journalist is discussing; journalists often make mistakes that…
130. Red Alert 2 in web browser
An unofficial remake of the classic "Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2" RTS game, playable online in the web browser.
131. Microsoft Will Preload Windows 11 File Explorer to Fix Bad Performance
132. Microsoft makes Zork open-source
Microsoft’s Open Source Programs Office (OSPO), Team Xbox, and Activision are making Zork I, Zork II, and Zork III available under the MIT License.
133. The $1k AWS Mistake
A cautionary tale about AWS VPC networking, NAT Gateways, and how a missing VPC Endpoint turned our S3 data transfers into an expensive lesson.
134. Gabe Newell: "We don't worry about Piracy" (2009) [video]
#gabenewell #piracy #games #gamedevelopment #pc #money #legend #developer #pirates #game #interview #valve
135. Meta Segment Anything Model 3
With SAM 3 you can use text and visual prompts to precisely identify, segment, and follow any object in images or videos—coming soon to Instagram Edits and Vibes on the Meta AI app.
136. The lost cause of the Lisp machines
I am just really bored by Lisp Machine romantics at this point: they should go away. I expect they never will....
137. ADHD and Monotropism (2023)
138. It's Hard to Build an Oscillator
Especially if you want it to work.
139. Coding at work (after a decade away)
Since joining Imprint a bit over six months ago as the CTO of a ~50 engineer team, I’ve merged 104 pull requests, which is slightly over four per week. Many of them are very minimal configuration and documentation tweaks, and none were the hardest or even most time-sensitive task available at any given time; I’m much more of a pull request scavenger finding opportunities that don’t disrupt the operating teams’ rhythms.
140. New Apple Study Shows LLMs Can Tell What You're Doing from Audio and Motion Data
Apple researchers have published a study that looks into how LLMs can analyze audio and motion data to get a better overview of the user’s activities.
141. Infinibay LXD Container
LXD container to deploy infinibay in a containerized environment - Infinibay/lxd
142. The Qtile Window Manager: A Python-Powered Tiling Experience
My journey from XFCE to Qtile, a tiling window manager written entirely in Python, including setup, configuration strategies, and real-world config examples.
143. Top MAGA Influencers on X/Twitter Accidentally Unmasked as Foreign Trolls
A new feature on Elon Musk’s X has given deeper insight into the online “America First” movement.
144. Private Equity's New Venture: Youth Sports
Backed by Wall Street, the company Black Bear Sports Group is tightening its grip on youth sports. In a scheme only private equity could dream up, parents now can’t record their kids’ games — but they can pay a steep price to watch corporate recordings.
145. Rapid Transit Timelines and Scale Comparison
146. Set Theory with Types
147. What Killed Perl?
148. Freer Monads, More Extensible Effects [pdf]
149. Take a Look the First Musical Robot
150. Show HN: Search London StreetView panoramas by text
Search London StreetView panoramics by text