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121. I turned my PC into a Linux gaming console
When Valve announced the new Steam Machine, I was genuinely excited. I’m not an avid gamer myself. I built a solid PC thinking I would get back into gaming, ...
122. What's in a Passenger Name Record (PNR)? (2013)
Edward Hasbrouck, The Practical Nomad
123. How Cops Are Using Flock's ALPR Network to Surveil Protesters and Activists
Through an analysis of 10 months of nationwide searches on Flock Safety's servers, we discovered that more than 50 federal, state, and local agencies ran hundreds of searches through Flock's national network of surveillance data in connection with protest activity. In some cases, law enforcement specifically targeted known activist groups, demonstrating how mass surveillance
124. Firefox 147 Will Support the XDG Base Directory Specification
A 21 year old bug report requesting support of the XDG Base Directory specification is finally being addressed by Firefox
125. What Killed Perl?
126. Android/Linux Dual Boot
127. 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
128. Measuring Latency (2015)
129. 40 years ago, Calvin and Hobbes' raucous adventures burst onto the comics page
130. 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.”
131. On the Death of Tech Idealism (and Rise of the Homeless) in Northern California
132. 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
133. A Whale-Surfing Fish
Scientists have captured rare footage of remoras, also known as sucker fish, hitching rides on humpback whales off the coast of Australia.
134. Loose Wire Leads to Blackout, Contact with Francis Scott Key Bridge
135. mRNA flu vaccine is up to 34.5% more effective than current flu vaccines
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. #!magic, details about the shebang/hash-bang mechanism on various Unix flavours
138. 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...
139. 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.
140. 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
141. 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
142. Understanding QCOW2 Risks with QEMU Cache=None in Proxmox
Learn how QEMU’s cache=none works in Proxmox. Understand QCOW2 metadata risks, RAW disk advantages, and how flush and barrier handling impact data safety.
143. 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:
144. 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.
145. Typesetting the "Begriffsschrift" by Gottlob Frege in Plain TeX [pdf]
146. Google Antigravity
Google Antigravity - Build the new way
147. I made a down detector for down detector
148. 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.
149. Building more with GPT-5.1-Codex-Max
150. Cloudflare Dashboard and Cloudflare API service issues
Cloudflare's Status Page - Cloudflare Dashboard service issues.