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151. Ultrasound Cancer Treatment: Sound Waves Fight Tumors
Trials are underway for an ultrasound cancer treatment that targets pancreatic tumors, offering hope against one of the deadliest diseases.
152. Ask HN: Good uses cases for Fabrice's microquickjs
153. Name That Part: 3D Part Segmentation and Naming
Name That Part: 3D Part Segmentation and Naming
154. The Fisher-Yates shuffle is backward
Given a list of $latex n$ elements, such as cards in a deck, what is the right way to shuffle the list? That is, what is the appropriate algorithm to (pseudo)randomly permute the elements in the list, so that each of the $latex n!$ possible permutations is equally likely? This is an interesting problem, in…
155. Confessions to a Data Lake
I’ve been building Confer: end-to-end encryption for AI chats. With Confer, your conversations are encrypted so that nobody else can see them. Confer can’t read them, train on them, or hand them over – because only you have access to them.
156. Looking for Decent Conversation?
157. Is Northern Virginia Still the Least Reliable AWS Region?
We analyzed if AWS’ N. Virginia region remains the least reliable in 2025. Overview of outages, affected services, and the massive October 20 AWS incident, with insights from StatusGator’s real-time monitoring.
158. GLM-4.7: Advancing the Coding Capability
159. Texas App Store Age Verification Law Blocked by Federal Judge
A Texas federal judge today blocked an App Store age verification law that was set to go into effect on January 1, 2026, which means Apple may not have to support the changes after all. The Texas App Store Accountability Act (SB2420) requires Apple and other app marketplaces to confirm user age when a person creates an Apple Account. Apple Accounts for users under 18 would need to join a Family Sharing group, with new controls available for parents and restrictions for minors.
160. I announced my divorce on Instagram and then AI impersonated me
161. The Duodecimal Bulletin, Vol. 55, No. 1, Year 1209 [pdf]
162. Ask HN: How many HN'ers Celebrate Christmas vs. ?
163. How I protect my Forgejo instance from AI web crawlers
This article describes my nginx configuration and strategy on how to prevent web crawlers from putting down my instance while still serving most people with minimal amount of friction.
164. Tell HN: Merry Christmas
165. Knowledge curation (not search) is the AI big data problem
The next context engineering breakthrough looks a lot less like Google (Information Retrieval) and a lot more like Wikipedia (Knowledge Curation).
166. CSS-Tricks: Thank You (2025 Edition)
This is the best job I've had in my life and it's only possible because you keep showing up each day to read, learn, share, and discuss all-things-front-end (and a little CSS, of course) with us.
167. Writing non-English languages with a QWERTY keyboard
The altgr keyboards
168. NASA's Webb Observes Exoplanet Whose Composition Defies Explanation
Scientists using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have observed a rare type of exoplanet, or planet outside our solar system, whose atmospheric composition
169. The IPv4 address swamp: The new normal
Guest Post: Has IPv4 allocation improved in the 21st century, or are prefixes becoming smaller and more fragmented? What are the potential impacts on Internet security?
170. Why and how I moved from Apple + iCloud to my own server
Moving on from iCloud and AppleID
171. Interactive Fluid Typography
How to build responsive typography with fluid units and typed arithmetic in CSS.
172. The Coffee Warehouse
Starbucks ascended as a "third space." Maybe it should run like a 3PL.
173. Learn LaTeX in 30 Minutes
An online LaTeX editor that’s easy to use. No installation, real-time collaboration, version control, hundreds of LaTeX templates, and more.
174. A Guide to Local Coding Models
What you need to know about local model tooling and the steps for setting one up yourself
175. Hacking a Java Minecraft server with memory overflows using in-game mechanics
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176. LVM Thin Provisioning (2016)
The previous blog post I wrote about LVM described the foundations this great technology is based on. But as I already mentioned there, the real purpose of that blog post was to provide the basic "common ground" for this blog post. A blog post focusing on LVM Thin Provisioning which is a really great technology…
177. Back to the future: the story of Squeak, a practical Smalltalk written in itself [pdf]
178. Microsoft Agent Framework
Learn about Microsoft Agent Framework
179. Show HN: Books mentioned on Hacker News in 2025
180. Build Android apps using Rust and iced
Example of building iced for android. Contribute to ibaryshnikov/android-iced-example development by creating an account on GitHub.