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121. Benn Jordan's flock camera jammer will send you to jail in Florida now [video]
https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/253/BillText/er/PDFhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pp9MwZkHiMQhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoEQg1M92_Ehttps://y...
122. Powder and Stone. Or, Why Medieval Rulers Loved Castles
And how gunpowder and castles led to modern states and centralized taxation. Part I.
123. A LLM trained only on data from certain time periods to reduce modern bias
A LLM trained only on data from certain time periods to reduce modern bias - haykgrigo3/TimeCapsuleLLM
124. Kids Rarely Read Whole Books Anymore. Even in English Class
125. Why Isn't Online Age Verification Just Like Showing Your ID in Person?
This blog also appears in our Age Verification Resource Hub: our one-stop shop for users seeking to understand what age-gating laws actually do, what’s at stake, how to protect yourself, and why EFF opposes all forms of age verification mandates. Head to EFF.org/Age to explore our resources and...
126. Common Lisp, ASDF, and Quicklisp: packaging explained
Common Lisp has good packaging tools, but they're different. Here we explain the what and how.
127. The architecture of "not bad": Decoding the Chinese source code of the void
WTF moment: Why my native OS refuses to return a "True" value.
128. RoboCrop: Teaching robots how to pick tomatoes
129. Google Maps allocates survival across London's restaurants
I wanted a dinner recommendation and got a research agenda instead. Using 13000+ restaurants, I rebuild its ratings with machine learning and map how algorithmic visibility actually distributes power.
130. Going Through Snowden Documents, Part 1
131. PeerTube is recognized as a digital public good by Digital Public Goods Alliance
Learn more about PeerTube.
132. University of Nebraska-Lincoln Collection of Astronomy Simulations & Animations
Links to animations and simulations for astronomy education are provided below. Topics include seasons, moon phases, coordinate systems, light, and more.
133. The Boot Order of the Raspberry Pi Is Unusual
134. A "Frozen" Dictionary for Python
135. Arizona city rejects data center after AI lobbying push
136. Terraform CDK has been phased out
Define infrastructure resources using programming constructs and provision them using HashiCorp Terraform - hashicorp/terraform-cdk
137. Indexed Reverse Polish Notation, an Alternative to AST
138. Instacart reaches into your pocket and lops a third off your dollars
139. Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 Hallucinates the HN Front Page 10 Years from Today
140. Notes on Gamma
The nuance between seeing and perceiving, linearity and non-linearity, what EOTFs are – and how to draw nice smooth gradients against the odds
141. Factor 0.101 now available
142. In letter to tech, 42 AG's target "sycophantic and delusional" AI outputs [pdf]
143. Incomplete List of Mistakes in the Design of CSS
144. Senator endorses discredited book that claims chemical treats autism, cancer
Wisconsin's Ron Johnson has a history of spreading vaccine misinformation. Now he's giving credence to assertions about the therapeutic powers of chlorine dioxide, a disinfectant and deodorizer. “It is all lunacy," one expert said.
145. Training LLMs for Honesty via Confessions
Abstract page for arXiv paper 2512.08093: Training LLMs for Honesty via Confessions
146. BehindTheMedspeak: A Spinal Tap
147. Mistral Releases Devstral 2 (72.2% SWE-Bench Verified) and Vibe CLI
State-of-the-art, open-source agentic coding models and CLI agent.
148. Tanning beds triple melanoma risk, potentially causing broad DNA damage
Tanning bed use is tied to almost a threefold increase in melanoma risk, and for the first time, scientists have shown how these devices cause melanoma-linked DNA damage across nearly the entire skin surface, reports a new study led by Northwestern Medicine and University of California, San Francisco.
149. Writing an Outlook Add-in in Rust
150. Kicking Robots
Humanoids and the tech-­industry hype machine