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121. Trump announces 25% tariff on countries 'doing business' with Iran
122. A Eulogy for Dark Sky, a Data Visualization Masterpiece (2023)
A deep look at how the Dark Sky weather app used simple but highly effective charts to report and contextualize the weather.
123. "There Are Two Possible Futures for American Science."
The Simons Foundation president talks about science philanthropy, the future of the research enterprise, and remaining hopeful.
124. 2025 marked a record-breaking year for Apple services
2025 was a record-breaking year for Apple services, marked by unprecedented growth, global expansion, and continuous innovation.
125. Old-school programming techniques you probably don't miss (2009)
Software development has gotten easier over the years. Really, it has. Here are 11 skills and tactics that every programmer once needed to master ... and today can blissfully forget.
126. A Year of Work on the Arch Linux Package Management (ALPM) Project
An overview of the work done on the ALPM project in 2024 and 2025.
127. iMessage-kit is an iMessage SDK for macOS
A type-safe, elegant iMessage SDK for macOS with zero dependencies - photon-hq/imessage-kit
128. WhatsApp Is Untrustable
129. AI is a business model stress test
AI commoditizes anything you can specify. It can't (yet) commoditize what requires ongoing operation.
130. Open Chaos: A self-evolving open-source project
A self-evolving open source project. Vote on PRs. Winner gets merged every Sunday.
131. EPA to Stop Considering Lives Saved When Setting Rules on Air Pollution
132. Jerome Powell Responds
Good evening. On Friday, the Department of Justice served the Federal Reserve with grand jury subpoenas, threatening a criminal indictment related to my testi
133. Code Is Clay
import { Hypercube, PotteryWheel, BreakingVase, ConveyorBelt, OneAmongMany } from './hypercube'; import Image from 'next/image'; import hypercubeClay from './hy
134. Linkers and Loaders
135. Side-by-side comparison of how AI models answer moral dilemmas
Explore how 20 leading AI models respond to tough ethical, social, and political questions. See how their answers compare to each other and to you.
136. Linus Torvalds vibe coding (Google's LLMs?)
Random digital audio effects. Contribute to torvalds/AudioNoise development by creating an account on GitHub.
137. Why pleasure is the key to self-improvement
Forget puritanical self-discipline – the way to really make a new habit stick is to lace it with instant gratification
138. An Experimental Approach to Printf in HLSL
Bringing the best form of debugging to shaders!
139. Which programming languages are most token-efficient?
Comparing token efficiency across 19 popular programming languages using RosettaCode data - from Clojure to C, there's a 2.6x difference.
140. David Long's 751-point Adventure has been found
Back in 2021 I announced the rediscovery of a text adventure named Castlequest (Mike Holtzman and Mark Kershenblatt, 1980). This month another “lost game” has been found: David Long’s 751-point Adventure!
141. AI solves Erdos problem #728 (Terence Tao mathstodon post)
Recently, the application of AI tools to Erdos problems passed a milestone: an Erdos problem (#728 https://www.erdosproblems.com/728) was solved more or less autonomously by AI (after some feedback from an initial attempt), in the spirit of the problem (as reconstructed by the Erdos problem website community), with the result (to the best of our knowledge) not replicated in existing literature (although similar results proven by similar methods were located). This is a demonstration of the genuine increase in capability of these tools in recent months, and is largely consistent with other recent demonstrations of AI using existing methods to resolve Erdos problems, although in most previous cases a solution to these problems was later located in the literature, as discussed in https://mathstodon.xyz/deck/@tao/115788262274999408 . This particular case was unusual in that the problem as stated by Erdos was misformulated, with a reconstruction of the problem in the intended spirit only obtained in the last few months, which helps explain the lack of prior literature on the problem. However, I would like to talk here about another aspect of the story which I find more interesting than the solution itself, which is the emerging AI-powered capability to rapidly write and rewrite expositions of the solution. (1/5)
142. American Dialect Society 2025 Word of the Year Is "Slop"
New Orleans Marriott–Jan. 9—The American Dialect Society, in its 36th annual words-of-the-year vote, selected slop as the Word of the Year for 2025.
143. Show HN: Interactive California Budget (by Claude Code)
144. Fossil versus Git
145. Ask HN: Job seekers, what's working / not working?
146. Allow me to introduce, the Citroen C15
Attached: 1 image I often hear Americans & rich brits justify buying oversized, polluting vehicles by claiming they need them because they live in the "countryside". I call bullshit, Ladies and Gentlemen, allow me to introduce, the Citroen C15⬇ #C15 #carBrain #CarDependency #SUV #NoSUV #Pickup_truck
147. Extracting books from production language models (2026)
Abstract page for arXiv paper 2601.02671: Extracting books from production language models
148. The Taming of Collection Scans
Explore different ways to organize collections for efficient scanning, from arrays and lists to less obvious layouts
149. Think of Pavlov
almost all interactions are repeat games
150. NCSA Mosaic 2.7, one of the first graphical web browsers
NCSA Mosaic 2.7. Contribute to alandipert/ncsa-mosaic development by creating an account on GitHub.