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151. Capsudo: Rethinking Sudo with Object Capabilities
152. The battle for Warner Bros is a prelude to the real streaming war
153. How Exchanges Turn Order Books into Distributed Logs
Every modern exchange is a distributed database in disguise. This article reveals how trading engines transform chaotic streams of buy and sell orders into a perfectly ordered, replayable log, ensuring fairness, determinism, and market data reliability.
154. Mom and daughter find stranger in trunk of Waymo
A video that's gotten thousands of views on social media shows the moment a woman discovered a stranger in the back of a Waymo car.
155. Our emotional pain became a product
In an economy that rewards confession and self-labeling, pain is no longer something to survive – but something to brand, sell, and curate
156. Poor Johnny still won't encrypt
The state of email encryption
157. Oliver Sacks fabricated key details in his books
Oliver Sacks admitted in journals that he gave patients "powers which they do not have." Some details were invented.
158. More atmospheric rivers coming for flooded Washington and the West Coast
Rain has finally largely come to an end in the Pacific Northwest, but the region can’t breathe easy: Additional atmospheric river activity will arrive next week.
159. Rats Play Doom
160. Microservices Should Form a Polytree
Microservices work best as a polytree with clear dependencies and no cycles. Learn how this structure reduces complexity and makes systems easier to scale and maintain.
161. The Rise of Computer Games, Part I: Adventure
Author's note: I originally intended for this post to cover adventure games, computer role-playing games, wargames and other simulations, a brief look at the home video game market, and finally the rise of hybrids that fused home video game systems with personal computers. In the grand scheme of the story about personal computers that I…
162. Australia's social media ban in chaos as youths flock to Chinese alternatives
Australian youths have been racing to murky new social media platforms after the country's
163. Nvidia-backed Starcloud trains first AI model in space, orbital data centers
The company's Starcloud-1 satellite is running Gemma, an open model from Google, marking the first time in history that an LLM has been trained in outer space.
164. Windows 3.1 in the Browser
PCjs offers a variety of online machine emulators written in JavaScript. Run DOS, Windows, OS/2 and other vintage PC applications in a web browser on your desktop computer, iPhone, or iPad. An assortment of microcomputers, minicomputers, terminals, programmable calculators, and arcade machines are also available, along with an archive of historical software and documentation.
165. From sci-fi to reality: Researchers realise quantum teleportation using tech
German scientists teleport information between two separate devices at wavelengths that work with ordinary internet cables, showing that...
166. Use Python for Scripting
"Use the right tool" is nice in theory, but not when the tool acts a bit differently from machine to machine, and isn't always installed.
167. SQLite JSON at Full Index Speed Using Generated Columns
One of the coolest patterns in SQLite—store raw JSON documents, create virtual generated columns using json_extract, add indexes, and query JSON at full B-tree index speed.
168. Guarding My Git Forge Against AI Scrapers
A summary of the techniques in place to protect my git forge
169. GNU Unifont
GNU Unifont free software utilities
170. Home Depot GitHub token exposed for a year, granted access to internal systems
A security researcher tried to alert Home Depot to the security lapse exposing its back-end GitHub source code repos and other internal cloud systems, but was ignored.
171. Bit flips: How cosmic rays grounded a fleet of aircraft
Radiation from space that led to more than 6,000 Airbus aircraft needing emergency computer updates could become a growing problem.
172. The Checkerboard
173. After 27 years within budget Austria open 6thlongest railway tunnel in the world
A fast and safe service between Styria and Carinthia: That’s the Koralm Railway. It’s part of the new Southern Line in Austria and one of the most important infrastructure projects in Europe.
174. Heavy metal is healing teens on the Blackfeet Nation
175. Show HN: I've asked Claude to improve codebase quality 200 times
Blog post
176. Timeline of Reddit
177. Claude CLI deleted my home directory Wiped my whole Mac
178. Google Removes Sci-Hub Domains from U.S. Search Results Due to Dated Court Order
Google has removed dozens of Sci-Hub domain names from its search results in the U.S., marking the country's first pirate domain removals.
179. Obscuring P2P Nodes with Dandelion
What is the Dandelion network protocol? What is the analogy with a dandelion plant?
180. Octo: A Chip8 IDE
A Chip8 IDE. Contribute to JohnEarnest/Octo development by creating an account on GitHub.