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121. Supreme Court leans toward internet service providers in copyright battle
The Supreme Court appeared sympathetic Monday to an internet service provider locked in a copyright battle with the music industry that some warn could leave millions of Americans disconnected and turn companies that provide connectivity into “internet police.”
122. Amazon faces FAA probe after delivery drone snaps internet cable in Texas
The probe comes as Amazon faces stiffer competition from Walmart, which has also begun drone deliveries.
123. A vector graphics workstation from the 70s
124. Around The World, Part 27: Planting trees
In the previous post, I determined what kind of vegetation should grow where in my procedurally generated world. Now it’s time to actually plant those plants!
125. Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days
Let’s Encrypt will be reducing the validity period of the certificates we issue. We currently issue certificates valid for 90 days, which will be cut in half to 45 days by 2028. This change is being made along with the rest of the industry, as required by the CA/Browser Forum Baseline Requirements, which set the technical requirements that we must follow. All publicly-trusted Certificate Authorities like Let’s Encrypt will be making similar changes. Reducing how long certificates are valid for helps improve the security of the internet, by limiting the scope of compromise, and making certificate revocation technologies more efficient.
126. React and Remix Choose Different Futures
127. A Love Letter to FreeBSD
128. Intel could return to Apple computers in 2027
Intel could supply Apple’s lowest-end M-series chips by 2027, supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo predicts.
129. AI Is Destroying the University and Learning Itself
Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.
130. Help, My Java Object Vanished (and the GC Is Not at Fault)
Today I’m going to talk about a recent journey as a HotSpot Java Virtual Machine developer working on the OpenJDK project. While running tests for a new feature, I realized my Java objects and classes were arbitrarily disappearing! What followed was probably the most interesting debugging and fixing experience of my life (so far), which I wanted to share with the world.
131. Langjam Gamejam: Build a programming language then make a game with it
A 7-day challenge to create a programming language and then use it to build a game.
132. Self-hosting a Matrix server for 5 years
133. Jury trials scrapped for crimes with sentences of less than three years
The reforms are being brought in to tackle unprecedented delays in the Crown Court.
134. How much of "Mississippi's education miracle" is an artifact of selection bias?
135. Engineers repurpose a mosquito proboscis to create a 3D printing nozzle
136. Losing Confidence
What was the key to successfully learning to drive, ride a bike, or speak a foreign language? Confidence, and it's every bit as important in computing, and in macOS.
137. Google Antigravity just deleted the contents of whole drive
138. Pose-free 3D Gaussian splatting via shape-ray estimation
Abstract page for arXiv paper 2505.22978: Pose-free 3D Gaussian splatting via shape-ray estimation
139. Indian order to preload state-owned app on smartphones sparks political outcry
Apple among big tech companies reportedly refusing to install Sanchar Saathi cybersecurity app on their devices
140. Show HN: RFC Hub
Track the lifecycle of Request For Comment (RFC) / Technical Design Doc (TDD) technical proposals.
141. Show HN: Anthony Bourdain's Lost Li.st's
Partial Archive of Anthony Bourdain’s li.st Content
142. What's Hiding Inside Haribo's Power Bank and Headphones?
CT scans reveal severe battery defects inside Haribo’s 20,000 mAh power bank and earbuds, explaining their quiet removal from Amazon.
143. Forward compatibility and fault tolerance in TypeScript API Clients/SDKs
How Speakeasy SDKs handle API evolution gracefully with forward-compatible enums, unions, lax mode, and smart union deserialization.
144. Replacing My Window Manager with Google Chrome
A lesson in X11, networking, and design.
145. WordPress plugin quirk resulted in UK Gov OBR Budget leak [pdf]
146. Advent of Sysadmin 2025
Linux Troubleshooting Interview DevOps SRE
147. Why Am I Paying $40k for the Birth of My Child?
Why Am I Paying $40,000 for the Birth of My Child?
148. Paul Hegarty's updated CS193p SwiftUI course released by Stanford
149. Netflix Kills Casting from Its Mobile App to Most Modern TVs
Netflix has quietly removed the ability to cast content from its mobile apps to most modern TVs and streaming devices, including newer Chromecast models and the Google TV Streamer. The change was first spotted by users on Reddit and confirmed in an updated Netflix support page (via Android Authority), which now states that the streaming service no longer supports casting from mobile devices to most TVs and TV-streaming devices.
150. Apple to beat Samsung in smartphone shipments for first time in 14 years
Apple will ship about 243 million phones this year, compared to Samsung’s 235 million, according to CNBC....