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151. Short-Circuiting Correlated Subqueries in SQLite
Skipping expensive per-row subqueries to speed up my average query ~17%.
152. Germany: Amazon is not allowed to force customers to watch ads on Prime Video
Eigentlich gab es bei Amazon Prime keine Werbung, später kostete werbefreies Streaming zusätzlich Geld. Dagegen hatten Verbraucherschützer geklagt – mit Erfolg.
153. Secret Documents Show Pepsi and Walmart Colluded to Raise Food Prices
The Trump FTC tried to hide a complaint showing Pepsi forced shoppers to pay higher prices everywhere but Walmart. But now it's unsealed. And the politics of affordability are explosive.
154. Cosmic-ray bath in a past supernova gives birth to Earth-like planets
155. Rob Reiner has died
Rob Reiner, the actor-director known for All in the Family, This Is Spinal Tap, Stand by Me, Misery and When Harry Met Sally, has died at 78.
156. Native vs. emulation: World of Warcraft game performance on Snapdragon X Elite
Benchmarking World of Warcraft performance when running native and emulated on Windows on ARM.
157. Too Fast to Think: The Hidden Fatigue of AI Vibe Coding
Getting to the limits of what developers can do
158. Debug Mode for LLMs in vLLora
Debug LLM agents with vLLora’s Debug Mode. Pause requests, view full prompts and parameters, edit them, and resume long workflows without code changes.
159. A Kernel Bug Froze My Machine: Debugging an Async-Profiler Deadlock
How I investigated and worked around a kernel bug that caused async-profiler to freeze my machine whenever I tried to use a profiler.
160. If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes?
The technological race among industry giants and the wave of layoffs they have announced has revived the debate about the advisability of taxing automation
161. Show HN: a Pager
162. In Defense of Matlab Code
MATLAB still shines for math-heavy work. Its whiteboard-style syntax makes code easy to read, review, and run on modern tools like RunMat and fast GPUs.
163. Annual Production of 1/72 (22mm) scale plastic soldiers, 1958-2025
164. It seems that OpenAI is scraping [certificate transparency] logs
165. John Varley, 1947-2025
166. Adafruit: Arduino's rules are 'incompatible with Open Source'
Arduino has defended the changes, claiming its commitment to open source hardware remains unchanged.
167. Top Gun's Carrier Landing: Exposed
Best read with Danger Zone playing on loop Like most people, you’re probably an absolute expert at landing on the aircraft carrier in Top Gun for the NES. But if you’re in the silent minority that have not yet mastered this skill, you’re in luck: I’ve done a little reverse engineerining and figured out precisely how landing works. Hopefully now you can get things really dialed in during your next practice session. Let’s get those windmill high-fives warmed up!
168. Drivers struggle to multitask when using dashboard touch screens, study finds
169. "Are you the one?" is free money
170. Ford kills the All-Electric F-150
The move comes as a response to the Trump administration’s waning support for electrification and a weakening consumer market.
171. Nvidia plans heavy cuts to GPU supply in early 2026
Nvidia reportedly plans to axe as much as 40% of its GeForce RTX 50 series GPU production in early 2026. Why? Memory costs...
172. US threatens EU digital services market access
173. AI capability isn't humanness
Despite superficial similarities, humans and LLMs operate under fundamentally different constraints and algorithms. Scaling AI will only widen this gap.
174. Show HN: C-compiler to compile TCC for live-bootstrap
Investigation into replacing the MES compiler. Contribute to FransFaase/MES-replacement development by creating an account on GitHub.
175. Meta Segment Anything Model Audio
With SAM Audio, you can use simple text prompts to accurately separate any sound from any audio or audio-visual source.
176. The Whole App is a Blob
I tried to prepare for life in French-speaking Canada by turning language drills into a Tamagotchi. It worked, as long as you don't ask me whether my coffee is for here or to go.
177. I don't think Lindley's paradox supports p-circling
Don’t give p-values a role they’re not made for
178. Avoid UUIDv4 Primary Keys
Introduction Over the last decade, when working on databases with UUID Version 41 as the primary key data type, these databases have usually had bad performance and excessive IO. https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc4122#section-4.4 ↩
179. Trump Media to Merge with Fusion Energy Firm in $6B Deal
180. The US govt has revoked the non-immigrant visa of Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka [video]
The United States government has revoked the non-immigrant visa of Wole Soyinka, the Nobel laureate.In a letter dated October 23 and signed by the US consula...