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121. Show HN: I built an open-source Linux-capable single-board computer with DDR3
A low-cost H3 single-board computer capable of running Linux with DDR3 - cheyao/icepi-sbc
122. A Big Fight over a Small Language in the Swiss Alps: a Plan to Tidy Up Romansh
Romansh, a Swiss language spoken by a tiny fraction of the population, comes in five major versions. Simon Akam reports from Switzerland about the verbal avalanche that ensued when reformers tried to entrench the tongue by standardizing it.
123. The ancient monuments saluting the winter solstice
Dozens of mysterious structures across the Northern Hemisphere – some nearly 5,000 years old – align precisely to frame the rising and setting Sun on midwinter's shortest day.
124. Debian's Git Transition
125. QEMU Version 10.2.0 Released
126. Jmail: Google Suite for Jeffrey Epstein's files
You are logged into jeevacation@gmail.com, Jeffrey Epstein's email. Sourced from the November 2025 House Oversight Committee data release.
127. US bars approvals of new models of DJI, all other foreign drones
128. Interactive Fluid Typography
How to build responsive typography with fluid units and typed arithmetic in CSS.
129. Ultrasound Cancer Treatment: Sound Waves Fight Tumors
Trials are underway for an ultrasound cancer treatment that targets pancreatic tumors, offering hope against one of the deadliest diseases.
130. Universal Reasoning Model (53.8% pass 1 ARC1 and 16.0% ARC 2)
Abstract page for arXiv paper 2512.14693: Universal Reasoning Model
131. Why and how I moved from Apple + iCloud to my own server
Moving on from iCloud and AppleID
132. AI Image Generators Default to the Same 12 Photo Styles, Study Finds
Anything your imagination desires, as long as it's one of just a few options.
133. The Duodecimal Bulletin, Vol. 55, No. 1, Year 1209 [pdf]
134. More on whether useful quantum computing is "imminent"
These days, the most common question I get goes something like this: A decade ago, you told people that scalable quantum computing wasn't imminent. Now, though, you claim it plausibly is imminent. Why have you reversed yourself?? I appreciated the friend of mine who paraphrased this as follows: "A decade ago you said you were…
135. Rue: Higher level than Rust, lower level than Go
A systems programming language with memory safety and high-level ergonomics
136. Backing Up Spotify
We backed up Spotify (metadata and music files). It’s distributed in bulk torrents (~300TB). It’s the world’s first “preservation archive” for music which is fully open (meaning it can easily be mirrored by anyone with enough disk space), with 86 million music files, representing around 99.6% of listens.
137. GLM-4.7: Advancing the Coding Capability
138. Judge in Vizio Case Rules on Issue Irrelevant to Rights Under Copyleft
The Software Freedom Conservancy provides a non-profit home and services to Free, Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) projects.
139. Can eating high fat cheese and cream reduce dementia risk,as new study suggests?
Research linking cheese and cream to lower dementia risk has made headlines, but the story is more nuanced than it might sound.
140. I announced my divorce on Instagram and then AI impersonated me
141. Trained LLMs exclusively on pre-1913 texts
Information hub for our project training the largest possible historical LLMs. - DGoettlich/history-llms
142. Help my website is too small
143. The Coffee Warehouse
Starbucks ascended as a "third space." Maybe it should run like a 3PL.
144. Why did we use leaded petrol for so long? (2017)
The arguments nearly a century ago over the use of leaded petrol.
145. Investors Warn of 'Rot in Private Equity' as Funds Strike Circular Deals
146. Knowledge curation (not search) is the AI big data problem
The next context engineering breakthrough looks a lot less like Google (Information Retrieval) and a lot more like Wikipedia (Knowledge Curation).
147. How I protect my Forgejo instance from AI web crawlers
This article describes my nginx configuration and strategy on how to prevent web crawlers from putting down my instance while still serving most people with minimal amount of friction.
148. CSS-Tricks: Thank You (2025 Edition)
149. NASA's Webb Observes Exoplanet Whose Composition Defies Explanation
Scientists using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have observed a rare type of exoplanet, or planet outside our solar system, whose atmospheric composition
150. The post-GeForce era: What if Nvidia abandons PC gaming?
Unless the AI bubble pops soon, gaming is going to change... and it won't be the same ever again.