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151. Europe: WhatsApp opens for third-party apps
152. NeurIPS best paper awards 2025
153. Guide to making a CHIP-8 emulator
A high-level guide to making a CHIP-8 emulator.
154. Tunnl.gg
Instant public URLs for your local web server. No installation required, just use SSH. Secure, fast, and developer-friendly reverse tunneling.
155. Endangered bottlenose whale population begins to recover off Canada's east coast
Populations of northern bottlenose whales (Hyperoodon ampullatus), playful animals that resemble large dolphins, stretch across the Atlantic Ocean, with each group of whales living year-round in a particular deep ocean canyon. Historically, commercial whaling targeted these animals, causing their numbers across the basin to collapse. Even as protections against whaling increase, northern bottlenose whale populations […]
156. The Differences Between an IndyCar and a F1 Car
Discover the key differences between IndyCar and Formula 1 cars and engines — from chassis, downforce, and tires to engines, brakes and lap times
157. Why Are Americans Unhappy?
A broken cultural archetype
158. Reverse engineering a $1B Legal AI tool exposed 100k+ confidential files
Update: This post received a large amount of attention on Hacker News — see the discussion thread.
159. Wolfram Compute Services
Wolfram releases the Wolfram Compute Services system--a fully programmable, streamlined way to scale up Wolfram Language computations. For large volumes of data, extensive iterations, large-scale parallelism and more.
160. All of Russia's Porsches Were Bricked by a Mysterious Satellite Outage
161. Patching Pulse Oximeter Firmware
162. Comparing genuine and fake Casio F91-W watches
Detailed photos comparing a genuine Casio F-91W with a fake.
163. PalmOS on FisherPrice Pixter Toy
Dmitry.GR: PalmOS on new hardware!
164. Idempotency Keys for Exactly-Once Processing
165. Hating Stranger Things During the Death Rattle of Criticism
this kind of piece will be criminalized within a year
166. I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
167. Desperately Seeking Squircles (2018)
In a famous 1972 interview, Charles Eames answered a short sequence of fundamental questions about the nature of design.
168. Albert Michelson's Harmonic Analyzer [pdf]
169. BYD's Engine Flexes Between Ethanol, Gasoline, and Electricity
BYD's hybrid engine blends ethanol and electric power, offering Brazilian drivers affordable, flexible fuel options for a sustainable future.
170. PC-Man (IBM PC 1983) and the spark of childhood wonder
  Teenager Greg Kuperberg wrote three fast-action arcade games for the IBM-PC in 1982 and 1983 (an almost impossible of feat at the time) and then took another path. In this rare examination of his work, we look at the legacy and inspiration of this "would-be" game programming auteur, who "moved-on" while at the top…
171. Transparent Leadership Beats Servant Leadership
172. List of Common Misconceptions (Wikipedia)
173. IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending on AI data centers will pay off
IBM CEO Arvind Krishna walked through some napkin math on Big Tech's AI data center spending — and raised some doubts on if it'll prove profitable.
174. Micron Announces Exit from Crucial Consumer Business
175. Wave of (Open Street Map) Vandalism in South Korea
OpenStreetMap is a map of the world, created by people like you and free to use under an open license.
176. Kenyan court declares law banning seed sharing unconstitutional
A high court in Kenya has declared unconstitutional sections of a seed law that prevented farmers from sharing and selling indigenous seeds in what food campaigners have called a landmark win for food security.
177. Framework Laptop 13 gets ARM processor with 12 cores via upgrade kit
The Framework Laptop 13 has a replaceable mainboard, which means that the processor can be easily upgraded after purchase. While Framework itself only offers Intel and AMD CPUs, a mainboard with a high-performance ARM processor from a third-party manufacturer has now launched.
178. Average DRAM price in USD over last 18 months
Memory Price Trends
179. Making tiny 0.1cc two stroke engine from scratch
Merch - https://jellyfishmachine.myspreadshop.com/Let's make ourselves a tiny little model airplane engine! The engine is 0.1cc (.006 ci) displacement and we...
180. Advent of Code 2025