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121. 40 years ago, Calvin and Hobbes' raucous adventures burst onto the comics page
122. Android/Linux Dual Boot
123. GrapheneOS accuses compeitors of sabotage, exits France over police threats
GrapheneOS accuses Murena & iodé of sabotage, pulls servers from France over police "threats," and threatens to "burn" exploit markets by directly helping Google harden Android.
124. What really happened with the CIA and The Paris Review?
November 11, 2025 – “In a funny way, it was really the fact that writing is far too solitudinous an activity that gave us The Paris Review. Along with the CIA, of course.”
125. Vortex: An extensible, state of the art columnar file format
An extensible, state of the art columnar file format. Formerly at @spiraldb, now an Incubation Stage project at LFAI&Data, part of the Linux Foundation. - vortex-data/vortex
126. What Killed Perl?
127. Klein Bottles and Nuclear Fusion
128. How to Identify a Prime Number Without a Computer
For years, a French mathematician searched for a proof that a gigantic number is prime. His method is still used 150 years later
129. Exploring the Local Positivity Bias in Crime Perceptions
Americans' ratings of the seriousness of crime nationally continue to be much more negative than their perceptions of crime at home.
130. Ring Cache for High-Frequency Trading in Go: Microsecond-Level Data Access
Ring cache (circular buffer) explained for HFT: lock-free implementation in Go that achieves sub-microsecond latency. From concept to production-ready code with benchmarks.
131. Scientists Reveal How the Maya Predicted Eclipses for Centuries
A medieval Maya text for predicting solar eclipses has confused Western readers for centuries, but a pair of researchers may have finally cracked how it's really meant to work.
132. Loose Wire Leads to Blackout, Contact with Francis Scott Key Bridge
133. Tube: A subway route planner in Dyalog APL (2011)
Dyalog APL
134. Inflatable Space Stations
If we ever want to live in space, we need to work out a way of creating artificial gravity.
135. #!magic, details about the shebang/hash-bang mechanism on various Unix flavours
136. Measuring Political Bias in Claude
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
137. Show HN: Awesome J2ME
Awesome list about everything related to J2ME. Documentation, academic papers, tutorials, communities, IDEs, SDKs, emulators, apps, video games. - hstsethi/awesome-j2me
138. What AI Is Really For
After three years of immersion in AI, I have come to a relatively simple conclusion: it’s a useful technology that is very likely overhyped to the
139. Typesetting the "Begriffsschrift" by Gottlob Frege in Plain TeX [pdf]
140. Bret Victor the Future of Programming (2013) [video]
"The most dangerous thought you can have as a creative person is to think you know what you're doing."Presented at Dropbox's DBX conference on July 9, 2013.A...
141. Towards Interplanetary QUIC Traffic
Have you ever asked yourself which protocols get used when downloading pictures from the Perseverance Mars rover to Earth? I hadn’t thought about that either, until I came across an intriguing message on the internet, back in April 2024: I’m looking for someone knowledgeable of quic/quinn to help us out for our deep space IP project. Would be of part-time consulting. Please dm me if interested. The message itself is quite short and somewhat jargon-y, so it took me a few readings to fully realize what the project was about:
142. Is C++26 getting destructive move semantics?
143. He built underground maze of light-filled earth homes in CA Sierras [video]
Twenty years ago, Zach and Allison Anderson began digging into a hillside on their property in Grass Valley, California, to escape the heat, cold, and fire r...
144. We are replacing OOP with something worse
145. Screw it, I'm installing Linux
Windows is getting worse, while gaming on Linux is getting better. I’m gonna move my desktop to CachyOS. Wish me luck.
146. Google must double AI serving capacity every 6 months to meet demand
At a recent all-hands meeting, Google's head of AI infrastructure said the company has to race to build out compute capacity.
147. Introducing Kagi Assistants
*TL;DR* Today we’re releasing two research assistants: Quick Assistant and Research Assistant (previously named Ki during beta).
148. Building more with GPT-5.1-Codex-Max
Introducing GPT-5.1-Codex-Max, a faster, more intelligent agentic coding model for Codex. The model is designed for long-running, project-scale work with enhanced reasoning and token efficiency.
149. Run Docker containers natively in Proxmox 9.1 (OCI images)
150. I made a down detector for down detector