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121. Animal Diversity Web
122. Intel Panther Lake (first Intel 18A node product) makes debut at CES
Intel ushers in the next generation of AI PCs with exceptional performance, graphics and battery life; available this month
123. The Kimwolf Botnet Is Stalking Your Local Network
124. Oral microbiome sequencing after taking probiotics
125. 65% of Hacker News Posts Have Negative Sentiment, and They Outperform
Analysis of 32,000 HN posts and 340K comments reveals negativity bias correlates with higher engagement. Data, methodology, and full paper available.
126. Are we tired of social media once and for all? On the downfall of social media
Senior Indie Software Developer & Project Founder
127. Vulnerability in Ruby that has existed since 2002
128. Building a rain predictor on a C64 with 1985's "XPER," expert system software
Early AI on microcomputers focused heavily on "expert systems," tools to capture domain-specific knowledge and democratize it amongst the plebians. In a supreme act of hubris, I'm going to use that same technology to turn a C64 into a rain prediction "expert." Will it be better than a coin flip?
129. Why Didn't AI "Join the Workforce" in 2025?
130. Loongarch Improvements with Box64
131. Anthropic Raising $10B at $350B Value
132. Why is the Gmail app 700 MB?
The current state of app bloat.
133. The Lottery Ticket Hypothesis: finding sparse trainable NNs with 90% less params
Abstract page for arXiv paper 1803.03635: The Lottery Ticket Hypothesis: Finding Sparse, Trainable Neural Networks
134. Practical Collision Attack Against Long Key IDs in PGP
In response to the GPG.Fail attacks, a Hacker News user made this claim about the 64-bit "Long Key IDs" used by OpenPGP and GnuPG, while responding to an answer I gave to someone else's question: OK, to be clear, I am specifically contending that a key fingerprint does not include collisions. My proof is empirical, that no…
135. A spider web unlike any seen before (2025)
136. macOS 26.2 update enables 160MHz channels on 5GHz Wi-Fi networks
macOS Tahoe 26.2 and iPadOS 26.2 enable 160MHz channel support on 5GHz Wi-Fi networks for higher throughput.
137. Try to Take My Position: The Best Promotion Advice I Ever Got
138. Dealing with abandonware (2024)
reverse engineering, abandonware
139. SCiZE's Classic Warez Collection
Your premier source of 90's retro warez/0day
140. Show HN: Make audio loops online
Create music loops right in your browser using your keyboard or grid sequencer. Features drumpad, melodic keyboard, multiple synth types, and WAV/MP3 export.
141. Lessons from 14 Years at Google
Lessons learned from 14 years of engineering at Google, focusing on what truly matters beyond just writing great code.
142. Observability's past, present, and future
In my last post, , I wrote about my career, my passion for dev tools, and my decision to start a new company focused on observability. I also wrote about ...
143. Welcome to Gas Town
144. Firefox extension to redirect x.com to xcancel.com
Download ToXCancel for Firefox. Redirects to xcancel.com (a mirror of x) when the browser is about to load an x.com page
145. The ISEE Trajectories
146. ICE Is Going on a Surveillance Shopping Spree
We need to have a hard look at the surveillance industry. It is a key enabler of vast and untold violations of human rights and civil liberties, and it continues to be used by aspiring autocrats to threaten our very democracy. As long as it exists, the surveillance industry, and the data it generates, will be an irresistible tool for anti-democratic forces.
147. Dell admits consumers don't care about AI PCs
Dell is now shifting it focus this year away from being ‘all about the AI PC.’
148. DeepSeek-R1 paper updated from 22 pages to 86 with additional details
149. US says it will discuss Greenland ownership with Denmark next week
Both Greenland and its owner Denmark have repeatedly stressed the island was not for sale.
150. Commodore 64 floppy drive has the power to be a computer and runs BASIC
10 PRINT "IT WORKS"