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121. DARPA GO: Generative Optogenetics
122. Australia's Social Media Ban Was Pushed by Gambling Ad Agency
We’ve talked about the Australian social media ban that went into effect last week, how dumb it is, and why it’s already a mess. But late last week, some additional news broke that makes the whole thing even more grotesque: turns out the campaign pushing hardest for the ban was run by an ad agency…
123. Show HN: Cargo-rail: graph-aware monorepo tooling for Rust; 11 deps
Graph-aware monorepo orchestration for Rust workspaces - loadingalias/cargo-rail
124. Pro-democracy HK tycoon Jimmy Lai convicted in national security trial
The 78-year-old UK citizen was convicted of lobbying foreign governments to impose sanctions on HK and China.
125. Shai-Hulud compromised a dev machine and raided GitHub org access: a post-mortem
On November 25th, one of our engineers was compromised by the Shai-Hulud npm supply chain worm. Here's what happened, how we responded, and what we've changed.
126. An Implementation of J
127. Show HN: I Ching simulator with accurate Yarrow Stalk probabilities
Get your free I Ching reading online. Use our virtual 3 coins toss or traditional yarrow stalk method for instant guidance on love, career, and life decisions. No sign-up required.
128. MI6 chief: Tech giants are closer to running the world than politicians
Impartial news & intelligent debate
129. Is your brain tired? Researchers are discovering the roots of mental fatigue
Better ways to measure cognitive exhaustion could point to treatments for long COVID and other debilitating disorders. Better ways to measure cognitive exhaustion could point to treatments for long COVID and other debilitating disorders.
130. Lean Theorem Prover Mathlib
The math library of Lean 4. Contribute to leanprover-community/mathlib4 development by creating an account on GitHub.
131. Instacart director says she was fired for Democratic congressional campaign
132. How to break free from smart TV ads and tracking
Sick of smart TVs? Here are your best options.
133. OpenAI are quietly adopting skills, now available in ChatGPT and Codex CLI
134. I fed 24 years of my blog posts to a Markov model
135. Illuminating the processor core with LLVM-mca
Battle-tested, Mom-approved
136. Closures as Win32 Window Procedures
137. GPT-5.2
Learn about how to use and migrate to GPT-5.2 and the GPT-5 model family, the latest models in the OpenAI API.
138. Kimi K2 1T model runs on 2 512GB M3 Ultras
139. Freeing a Xiaomi humidifier from the cloud
Thoughts, stories and ideas about of a code poet, bit juggler & logic wizard.
140. Longmont halts Flock license plate reader data sharing, weighs ending contract
Longmont City Council determined privacy concerns were too great to continue sharing data from the AI license plate readers.
141. 2025 Word of the Year: Slop
Plus 'gerrymander', 'touch grass', 'performative', and other words that defined the year
142. I Tried Gleam for Advent of Code, and I Get the Hype
A 12 day Advent of Code year convinced me Gleam is the real deal, thanks to Rust-like errors, great pipes, and surprisingly ergonomic FP.
143. Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose. 
144. What Is the Nicest Thing a Stranger Has Ever Done for You?
One of the things I do when I'm feeling blue is to make a mental list of the nice things people have done for me over the years, including perfect strangers.
145. macOS 26.2 enables fast AI clusters with RDMA over Thunderbolt
Update your apps to use new features, and test your apps against API changes.
146. Update Now: iOS 26.2 Fixes 20 Security Vulnerabilities, 2 Actively Exploited
Apple today released iOS 26.2, iPadOS 26.2, and macOS 26.2, all of which introduce new features, bug fixes, and security improvements. Apple says that the updates address over 20 vulnerabilities, including two bugs that are known to have been actively exploited. There are a pair of WebKit vulnerabilities that could allow maliciously crafted web content to execute code or cause memory corruption.
147. FBI Wanted List: Fraudulent Remote IT Workers from DPRK
Wire Fraud Conspiracy; Wire Fraud; Money Laundering Conspiracy
148. United 777-200 fleet faces an uncertain future after dulles engine failure
United Airlines' Boeing 777-200 Is Quietly Being Phased Out - Recent Events Show Why - what is the future of this aircraft in United's fleet?
149. US suspends technology deal with the UK
150. Gut bacteria from amphibians and reptiles achieve complete tumor elimination