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121. AI should only run as fast as we can catch up
122. Join the on-call roster, it'll change your life
Joining an on-call rotation might change the future of your career – and maybe you as a person. This article shares my experience being on-call.
123. Google is powering a new US Military AI platform
The Department of Defense is announcing its own “bespoke” AI platform, GenAI.mil, and Google Cloud’s Gemini will be the first to be available on the platform.
124. A thousand-year-long composition turns 25 (2024)
As of midday today (GMT), New Year’s Eve, Longplayer has been playing continuously, without repetition, for 25 years. Playing since the cusp of the new millennium, at midnight on 31 December 1999, the composition will continue without repetition (if circumstances permit it to) until the last moments of 2999, when it will return to the…
125. Nested Learning: A new ML paradigm for continual learning
126. Go Proposal: Secret Mode
Automatically erase memory to prevent secret leaks.
127. Congress strips right-to-repair from military spending bill
128. Applets Are Officially Gone, but Java in the Browser Is Better
Applets Are Officially Gone, But Java In The Browser Is Better Than Ever
129. 12 Days of Shell
One-line shell challenges, to help improve your skill on the commandline.
130. Dollar-stores overcharge cash-strapped customers while promising low prices
A Guardian investigation reveals Dollar General and Family Dollar stores often fail to honor their shelf prices – charging more at checkout for everything from frying pans to Frosted Flakes
131. The "confident idiot" problem: Why AI needs hard rules, not vibe checks
Use: We cannot fix probability with more probability. Why I built a deterministic reliability layer for AI agents.
132. Canadian universities aim to attract top global scholars with funding boost
133. Former Twitter Attorney Files for 'Twitter' Trademark
A former Twitter attorney is challenging X Corp.’s “Twitter” and “Tweet” trademarks. This article analyzes the filings and the legal stakes of possible abandonment.
134. Mazda suitcase car, a portable three-wheeled vehicle that fits in the luggage
revisit the mazda suitcase car, a portable three-wheeled vehicle for airports that could fit inside hard-shell luggage.
135. A series of tricks and techniques I learned doing tiny GLSL demos
136. Microsoft Patch Tuesday, December 2025 Edition
137. Show HN: I got tired of switching AI tools, so I built an IDE with 11 of them
Industry first: AI IDE with benchmark-driven model selection from 9 authoritative sources (7 ground-truth, 2 preference). 8 Consensus Profiles updated daily from academic research & peer-reviewed studies. 11 AI tools with Consensus memory.
138. Animalcules and Their Motors
Advances in cryo-electron microscopy are revealing the molecular intricacies of cell movement.
139. 8086 Microcode Explorer
140. Google Titans architecture, helping AI have long-term memory
141. Why Is Ice Slippery? A New Hypothesis Slides into the Chat
A newly proposed explanation for the slipperiness of ice has revived a centuries-long debate.
142. Client-side GPU load balancing with Redis and Lua
Learn how Galileo boosted GPU utilization by 40% and cut tail latency by 70% using Redis and Lua for client-side, load-aware GPU balancing in AI inference systems.
143. Colors of Growth
We develop a novel approach to measuring long-run economic growth by exploiting systematic variation in the use of color in European paintings. Drawing inspirat
144. Scientific and Technical Amateur Radio
145. Java Hello World, LLVM Edition
146. GrapheneOS is the only Android OS providing full security patches
GrapheneOS is the only Android-based OS providing the full security preview patches. Samsung ships a small subset of their flagship devices. Pixel stock OS gets a portion of it early but we aren't sure exactly how much since they don't follow their guidelines for listing patches.
147. Work disincentives hit the near-poor hardest (2022)
In many ways, America’s social safety net falls short of those of our liberal democratic peers, yet we have no shortage of policies intended to provide social protections. Why is that, and how can we fix it?
148. Uninitialized garbage on ia64 can be deadly (2004)
149. Indexing 100M vectors in 20 minutes on PostgreSQL with 12GB RAM
1. Introduction In the past few months, we’ve heard consistent feedback from users and partners: while our goal of providing a scalable, high-performance alternative to pgvector is well-received, index build time and memory usage remain major concern...
150. Delivery Robots Take over Chicago Sidewalks, Sparking Debate and a Petition
As companies dispatch more of the app-based food delivery robots into neighborhoods, some Chicagoans are sounding the alarm, citing safety and accessibility concerns.