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121. Why doesn't Apple make a standalone Touch ID?
122. Ethiopian Volcano Erupts for First Time in Nearly 12K Years of Records
The plume from the Hayli Gubbi volcano drifted east over the Arabian Sea and extended roughly 2,200 miles
123. 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.
124. Congressional lawmakers 47% pts better at picking stocks
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.
125. The Reverse-Centaur's Guide to Criticizing AI (05 Dec 2025)
126. Beej's Guide to Learning Computer Science
Beej's Guide to Learning Computer Science
127. Proxmox Datacenter Manager 1.0 available
Latest announcements for Proxmox.
128. Preserving Snow Crystals
129. Pink Lexical Slime: The Dark Side of Autocorrect
This post originally appeared on Mondo 2000.
130. An Overlooked Eruption May Have Sparked the Black Death
The Black Death ravaged Europe, and scientists and historians are still working to understand how it became so deadly
131. Mathematics is hard for mathematicians to understand too
132. Is Cloudflare Down Again? Also, DownDetector/Claude.ai/LinkedIn?
133. Show HN: Vibe Commander
Vibe Code Like It's 1986. Contribute to AvitalTamir/vibecommander development by creating an account on GitHub.
134. Advent of Code 2025
135. Checked-size array parameters in C
136. Greeting Vocalizations in Domestic Cats Are More Frequent with Male Caregivers
137. Anthropic reportedly preparing for $300B IPO
San Francisco-based Anthropic has asked Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati to begin work on an initial public offering (IPO) that could take place as early
138. Interop and MathML Core
a tiny technical blog.
139. Researchers Find Microbe Capable of Producing Oxygen from Martian Soil
When we talk about the possibility of humans living on Mars, one of the biggest challenges is not the rockets or the habitats, but something far more basic:
140. Prompt Injection via Poetry
It turns out all the guardrails in the world won’t protect a chatbot from meter and rhyme.
141. XY Problem
142. Programming Peaked
143. Contextualization Machines
Astro description
144. Household electricity prices worldwide in 3rd quarter 2025, by country
The cheapest electricity prices in the world could be found in Iran in 2023, whereas the cost of electricity per kwh was highest in Europe.
145. Nice Functions [pdf]
146. What I don't like about chains of thoughts
Blog post of Samsja
147. Satellite captures the first detailed look at a giant tsunami
A rare SWOT pass mapped a Pacific tsunami in detail, exposing hidden wave complexity and showing why forecasting models need a major update.
148. OpenAI declares 'code red' as Google catches up in AI race
Google’s own ‘code red’ response to ChatGPT has started paying off.
149. Cybermon: A futuristic hardware monitoring dashboard built with SvelteKit
A futuristic hardware monitoring dashboard built with SvelteKit. - ZachJW34/cybermon
150. Human hair grows through 'pulling' not pushing, study shows