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151. The Adolescence of Technology
Confronting and Overcoming the Risks of Powerful AI
152. IBM Mainframe Business Jumps 67%
IBM today announced fourth-quarter 2025 earnings results.
153. AppleUnsold
Display models, store exclusives, and accessories you can't buy anywhere else.
154. AI found 12 vulnerabilities in OpenSSL
AISLE's autonomous analyzer found all 12 CVEs in the January 2026 coordinated release of OpenSSL, the open-source cryptographic library that underp...
155. You have to know how tech companies work
156. A first look at Aperture by Tailscale (private alpha)
Aperture is an AI gateway that doesn't get in the way of developers, and works with most AI tools.
157. Please Don't Say Mean Things about the AI I Just Invested a Billion Dollars In
158. I made my own Git
159. ASML firing 1700 people, mostly managers
160. TikTok settles just before social media addiction trial to begin
Defendants include Meta, which owns Instagram and Facebook, and YouTube parent Google.
161. Television is 100 years old today
162. France Aiming to Replace Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, etc.
163. Bridging the Gap Between PLECS and SPICE
All Levels of Detail in One Model. PLECS Spice brings SPICE device-level simulation directly into PLECS, enabling both system-level and device-level analysis within a single tool.
164. Two Twisty Shapes Resolve a Centuries-Old Topology Puzzle
The Bonnet problem asks when just a bit of information is enough to uniquely identify a whole surface.
165. The Texas Instruments CC-40 invades Gopherspace (plus TI-74 BASICALC)
166. State Department confirms federal censorship shield law incoming
Today, Sarah Rogers, United States Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy, confirmed that the US is poised to forever block foreign censorship of US citizens under laws like the UK Online Safety Act or the EU Digital Services Act. https://twitter.com/mrharrycole/status/2016580769477505098?s=46 Cognizant this may come as a shock to some of you, it's actually the latest…
167. The Universal Pattern Popping Up in Math, Physics and Biology
All complex correlated systems, from Arctic melt ponds to the Internet, appear to be governed by the same math as a random matrix.
168. Show HN: WordRE, Wordle for Real Estate
169. Who sets the Doomsday Clock?
Behind closed doors with the experts who study the end of the world—and what they know about humanity’s capacity for survival.
170. We Do Not Support Opt-Out Forms (2025)
171. LED lighting undermines visual performance unless supplemented by wider spectra
Life evolved under broad spectrum sunlight, from ultraviolet to infrared (300–2500 nm). This spectrally balanced light sculpted life’s physiology and metabolism. But modern lighting has recently become dominated by restricted spectrum light emitting diodes (350–650 nm LEDs). Absence of longer wavelengths in LEDs and their short wavelength dominance impacts physiology, undermining normal mitochondrial respiration that regulates metabolism, disease and ageing. Mitochondria are light sensitive. The 420–450 nm dominant in LEDs suppresses respiration while deep red/infrared (670–900 nm) increases respiration in aging and some diseases including in blood sugar regulation. Here we supplement LED light with broad spectrum lighting (400–1500 nm+) for 2 weeks and test colour contrast sensitivity. We show significant improvement in this metric that last for 2 months after the supplemental lighting is removed. Mitochondria communicate across the body with systemic impacts following regional light exposure. This likely involves shifting patterns of serum cytokine expression, raising the possibility of wider negative impacts of LEDs on human health particularly, in the elderly or in the clinical environment where individuals are debilitated. Changing the lighting in these environments could be a highly economic route to improved public health.
172. ChatGPT Containers can now run bash, pip/npm install packages and download files
173. After two years of vibecoding, I'm back to writing by hand
Agents write units of changes that look good in isolation. They are consistent with themselves and your prompt. But respect for the whole, there is not.
174. People who know the formula for WD-40
175. Windows 11's Patch Tuesday nightmare gets worse
Microsoft has posted an online bulletin confirming that the company is investigating reports that state Windows 11's latest security update has rendered some PCs unbootable.
176. LLM-as-a-Courtroom
How we built a multi-agent courtroom simulation to decide when code changes require documentation updates—and why the legal system is humanity's best framework for binary decisions under uncertainty.
177. Show HN: Only 1 LLM can fly a drone
📸 gotta find 'em all; spatial reasoning benchmark for LLMs - kxzk/snapbench
178. Pipelining and prefetching: a 45% speedup story
179. The C-Shaped Hole in Package Management
System package managers and language package managers are solving different problems that happen to overlap in the middle.
180. First, Make Me Care
Writing advice: some nonfiction fails because it opens with background instead of a hook—readers leave before reaching the good material. Find the single anomaly or question that makes your topic interesting, lead with that, and let the background follow once you’ve earned attention.