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121. Screenshots from developers: 2002 vs. 2015 (2015)
Same people, 13 years later.
122. Solution to US debt crisis is severe austerity triggered by a fiscal calamity
“Eventually, in the unforeseeable future, austerity may be the most likely of the six possible outcomes.”
123. Zebra-Llama: Towards Efficient Hybrid Models
Abstract page for arXiv paper 2505.17272: Zebra-Llama: Towards Extremely Efficient Hybrid Models
124. United States Antarctic Program Field Manual (2024) [pdf]
125. Recreating the lost SDK for a 42-year-old operating system: VisiCorp Visi On
126. Tiny Core Linux: a 23 MB Linux distro with graphical desktop
Welcome - Tiny Core Linux
127. Show HN: Web app that lets you send email time capsules
128. Einstein: NewtonOS running on other operating systems
NewtonOS running on other operating systems. Contribute to pguyot/Einstein development by creating an account on GitHub.
129. Show HN: Spotify Wrapped but for LeetCode
See your leetcode year in review! Contribute to collinboler/leetcodewrapped development by creating an account on GitHub.
130. Puppy Linux
131. The Myth of the 'Dark Ages' Ignores How Knowledge Flourished Around the World
The author of a sweeping re-examination of Western history reveals the global reach of Greek and Roman antiquity
132. Evidence from the One Laptop per Child Program in Rural Peru
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.
133. Perl's Decline Was Cultural
134. Swift for Android vs. Kotlin Multiplatform
The "Xbox vs. Playstation" of the multiplatform era
135. Saving Japan's exceptionally rare 'snow monsters'
A unique natural wonder is being eroded. Can Japan bring its breathtaking "juhyo" back from the brink?
136. Spinlocks vs. Mutexes: When to Spin and When to Sleep
You’re staring at perf top showing 60% CPU time in pthread_mutex_lock. Your latency is in the toilet. Someone suggests “just use a spinlock” and suddenly your 16-core server is pegged at 100% doing nothing useful. This is the synchronization primitive trap, and most engineers step right into it because nobody explains when each primitive actually makes sense.
137. Self-hosting my photos with Immich
For every cloud service I use, I want to have a local copy of my data for backup purposes and independence. Unfortunately, the gphotos-sync tool stopped working in March 2025 when Google restricted the OAuth scopes, so I needed an alternative for my existing Google Photos setup. In this post, I describe how I have set up Immich, a self-hostable photo manager.
138. The Area 51 of New England
139. Z-Image: Powerful and highly efficient image generation model with 6B parameters
Contribute to Tongyi-MAI/Z-Image development by creating an account on GitHub.
140. Linux Instal Fest Belgrade
141. Nook Browser
Fast, focused, and open — a modern WebKit browser for Mac.
142. Kids who ran away to 1960s San Francisco
I followed my curiosity and ended up at the library reading hundreds of letters of runaway teenagers who came to hippie San Francisco
143. Proxmox delivers its software-defined datacenter contender and VMware escape
144. My car charger can boil water really fast [video]
That title might be the best effort I can pull off.Other stuff:Technology Connections on Bluesky:https://bsky.app/profile/techconnectify.bsky.socialTechnolog...
145. Addressing Linux's Missing PKI Infrastructure
Earlier this year, LWN featured an excellent article titled “Linux’s missing CRL infrastructure”. The article highlighted a number of key issues surrounding traditional Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), but critically not…
146. Show HN: PVAC FHE over hypergraphs with LPN security
pvac-hfhe: PoC for publicly verifiable arithmetic computations with hypergraph based homomorphic encryption over Fp (p = 2^127 - 1), omissions for large numbers and excluded the transfer mechanism for data convertation (applies only to the prod version of octra network). c++17 header-only. - GitHub - octra-labs/pvac_hfhe_cpp: pvac-hfhe: PoC for publicly verifiable arithmetic computations with hypergraph based homomorphic encryption over Fp (p = 2^127 - 1), omissions for large numbers and excluded the transfer mechanism for data convertation (applies only to the prod version of octra network). c++17 header-only.
147. Germany votes to bring in voluntary military service programme for 18-year-olds
The shift in its approach to its military follows a push to create Europe's strongest conventional army.
148. Autism's Confusing Cousins
A differential diagnosis for the weird and the awkward
149. Cloudflare outage on December 5, 2025
Cloudflare experienced a significant traffic outage on December 5, 2025, starting approximately at 8:47 UTC. The incident lasted approximately 25 minutes before resolution. We are sorry for the impact that it caused to our customers and the Internet. The incident was not caused by an attack and was due to configuration changes being applied to attempt to mitigate a recent industry-wide vulnerability impacting React Server Components.
150. Principles of Slack Maximalism
As applied at Inkhaven