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121. AI is a business model stress test
AI commoditizes anything you can specify. It can't (yet) commoditize what requires ongoing operation.
122. XFCE Is Great
A post from David Gerard reminded me why I still use Xfce almost everywhere.
123. Open Chaos: A self-evolving open-source project
A self-evolving open source project. Vote on PRs. Winner gets merged every Sunday.
124. Code Is Clay
import { Hypercube, PotteryWheel, BreakingVase, ConveyorBelt, OneAmongMany } from './hypercube'; import Image from 'next/image'; import hypercubeClay from './hy
125. Side-by-side comparison of how AI models answer moral dilemmas
Explore how 20 leading AI models respond to tough ethical, social, and political questions. See how their answers compare to each other and to you.
126. Apple: You (Still) Don't Understand the Vision Pro
127. AI solves Erdos problem #728 (Terence Tao mathstodon post)
Recently, the application of AI tools to Erdos problems passed a milestone: an Erdos problem (#728 https://www.erdosproblems.com/728) was solved more or less autonomously by AI (after some feedback from an initial attempt), in the spirit of the problem (as reconstructed by the Erdos problem website community), with the result (to the best of our knowledge) not replicated in existing literature (although similar results proven by similar methods were located). This is a demonstration of the genuine increase in capability of these tools in recent months, and is largely consistent with other recent demonstrations of AI using existing methods to resolve Erdos problems, although in most previous cases a solution to these problems was later located in the literature, as discussed in https://mathstodon.xyz/deck/@tao/115788262274999408 . This particular case was unusual in that the problem as stated by Erdos was misformulated, with a reconstruction of the problem in the intended spirit only obtained in the last few months, which helps explain the lack of prior literature on the problem. However, I would like to talk here about another aspect of the story which I find more interesting than the solution itself, which is the emerging AI-powered capability to rapidly write and rewrite expositions of the solution. (1/5)
128. Go: A garbage collector where you least expect it
129. Economists are facing a recession as a hiring crunch hits
130. WhatsApp Is Untrustable
131. Allow me to introduce, the Citroen C15
Attached: 1 image I often hear Americans & rich brits justify buying oversized, polluting vehicles by claiming they need them because they live in the "countryside". I call bullshit, Ladies and Gentlemen, allow me to introduce, the Citroen C15⬇ #C15 #carBrain #CarDependency #SUV #NoSUV #Pickup_truck
132. iMessage-kit is an iMessage SDK for macOS
A type-safe, elegant iMessage SDK for macOS with zero dependencies - photon-hq/imessage-kit
133. Extracting books from production language models (2026)
Abstract page for arXiv paper 2601.02671: Extracting books from production language models
134. Linkers and Loaders
135. Jerome Powell Responds
Good evening. On Friday, the Department of Justice served the Federal Reserve with grand jury subpoenas, threatening a criminal indictment related to my testi
136. Dell's CES 2026 chat was the most pleasingly un-AI briefing I've had in 5 years
A bit of a shift from a year ago where we were all about the AI PC.
137. Rats caught on camera hunting flying bats
In northern Germany, researchers have filmed brown rats (Rattus norvegicus) leaping from cave ledges to catch bats mid-flight — the first evidence that
138. NCSA Mosaic 2.7, one of the first graphical web browsers
NCSA Mosaic 2.7. Contribute to alandipert/ncsa-mosaic development by creating an account on GitHub.
139. Org Mode Syntax Is One of the Most Reasonable Markup Languages to Use for Text
Org Mode Syntax Is One of the Most Reasonable Markup Languages to Use for Text
140. Distributed Denial of Secrets
A 501(c)(3) dedicated to archiving and publishing hacked and leaked data.
141. American Dialect Society 2025 Word of the Year Is "Slop"
New Orleans Marriott–Jan. 9—The American Dialect Society, in its 36th annual words-of-the-year vote, selected slop as the Word of the Year for 2025.
142. Malaysia and Indonesia become the first to block Grok over sexualized AI images
Malaysia and Indonesia have blocked access to Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok over its misuse to generate explicit images.
143. Think of Pavlov
almost all interactions are repeat games
144. Sisyphus Now Lives in Oh My Claude
Sisyphus from OmO (Oh My Opencode), ported to the Claude Code SDK. Written with Claude Code — ironically. Anthropic, what are you gonna do next? - Yeachan-Heo/oh-my-claude-sisyphus
145. Which programming languages are most token-efficient?
Comparing token efficiency across 19 popular programming languages using RosettaCode data - from Clojure to C, there's a 2.6x difference.
146. David Long's 751-point Adventure has been found
Back in 2021 I announced the rediscovery of a text adventure named Castlequest (Mike Holtzman and Mark Kershenblatt, 1980). This month another “lost game” has been found: David Long’s 751-point Adventure!
147. Show HN: Interactive California Budget (by Claude Code)
148. ChatGPT Health is a marketplace, guess who is the product?
149. Overdose deaths are falling in America because of a 'supply shock': study
150. Sigmund Freud's Begonia
How the gift of a plant helped Emma Freud finally get to know her great-grandfather