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121. The Patent Office Is About to Make Bad Patents Untouchable
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has proposed new rules that would effectively end the public’s ability to challenge improperly granted patents at the Patent Office itself. We need EFF supporters to file public comments opposing these rules this week. The USPTO is moving quickly, and staying silent will only help those who profit from abusive patents.
122. Readonly Characters Are a Big Deal
I like Emacs UX as exemplified by Magit. I consider it to be a user interface paradigm on the same footing as UNIX pipes: An Engine for an Editor
123. Private Equity's New Venture: Youth Sports
Backed by Wall Street, the company Black Bear Sports Group is tightening its grip on youth sports. In a scheme only private equity could dream up, parents now can’t record their kids’ games — but they can pay a steep price to watch corporate recordings.
124. Linux Career Opportunities in 2025: Skills in High Demand
The Linux job market has reached unprecedented heights in 2025, with demand for professionals who possess Linux expertise continuing to surge across multiple technology sectors. Organizations worldwide are prioritizing candidates who can leverage Linux systems in cloud-native environments, AI...
125. Ask HN: Are you still working with a website that requires Internet Explorer?
126. I made a down detector for down detector
127. New Proofs Probe Soap-Film Singularities
Mathematicians have broken through a long-standing barrier in the study of “minimizing surfaces,” which play an important role in both math and physics.
128. Thunderbird Adds Native Microsoft Exchange Email Support
Thunderbird Exchange support has finally landed for email in the latest monthly release. Find out what's in, out, and still on the way.
129. Judgement on Dr Matthew Garrett (@mjg59) vs. Dr Roy Schestowitz (Techrights.org)
130. CLI tool to check the Git status of multiple projects
✨​ A fast, cross-platform CLI tool to check the git status of multiple projects organized by categories. - uralys/check-projects
131. Multimodal Diffusion Language Models for Thinking-Aware Editing and Generation
Official Implementation of "MMaDA-Parallel: Multimodal Large Diffusion Language Models for Thinking-Aware Editing and Generation" - tyfeld/MMaDA-Parallel
132. Google Antigravity
Google Antigravity - Build the new way
133. Suppressing ability to lie makes LLM more likely to claim it's conscious
134. Exploring the Limits of Large Language Models as Quant Traders
135. Racing karts on a Rust GPU kernel driver
The Tyr prototype has progressed from basic GPU job execution to running GNOME, Weston, and full-screen 3D games like SuperTuxKart
136. A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages
137. Japanese Mozilla volunteers quit over AI plans
TL;DR: On the November 2025 Mozilla Support Community call, Mozilla provided updates on the recent controversy from the Japanese Support Mozilla community quitting over AI, calling it a “miscommunication” and “misinterpretation”.
138. Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash
Mustafa Suleyman says people that are unimpressed with AI's capabilities are mind blowing to him, after recent backlash around Copilot and Windows as an agentic OS.
139. Show HN: MCP Traffic Analysis Tool
Wireshark-like forensic analysis for Model Context Protocol communications Capture, inspect, and investigate all HTTP requests and responses between your IDE and MCP servers - mcp-shark/mcp-shark
140. IBM Delivers New Quantum Package
IBM unveiled fundamental progress on its path to delivering both quantum advantage by the end of 2026 and fault-tolerant quantum computing by 2029.
141. Why CUDA translation wont unlock AMD
Every few years, a new solution pops up promising the same dream: keep your CUDA codebase target AMD (and maybe other accelerators) no source rewrite no HIP porting “native performance” On paper, that sounds perfect. Take your existing CUDA applications, swap out the toolchain, and suddenly you’re “portable.” And to…
142. PHP 8.5 gets released today, here's what's new
143. Show HN: A game where you invest into startups from history
Chat with founders, evaluate their ideas, and decide whether to invest. Learn why fictional startups succeed or fail and build real startup intuition through play.
144. Bill Watterson Returns with The Mysteries (2024)
With The Mysteries, the Calvin and Hobbes creator is teaming with John Kascht on a new book for adult readers.
145. So Long, Firefox, Part One
146. Roblox Requires Age Checks for Communication, Ushering in New Safety Standard
Roblox Requires Age Checks, Limits Minor and Adult Communication
147. World Othello Championship Finals
Finished, 13 rounds, 92 players
148. How did the Windows 95 user interface code get brought to the Windows NT?
149. It's your fault my laptop knows where I am
150. The FBI spied on a Signal group chat of immigration activists, records reveal
Exclusive: Agency accessed private conversations of New York ‘courtwatch’ group that was observing public hearings