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151. A web server on a single floppy disk
152. Apple's MacBook Pro DFU port documentation is wrong
153. "Giving up upstream-ing my patches & feel free to pick them up"
154. Show HN: Apate API mocking/prototyping server and Rust unit test library
API prototyping/mocking server & rust unit tests library to mimic external 3rd party API endpoints with Rhai scripting capabilities - rustrum/apate
155. Board Games in Ancient Fiction: Egypt, Iran, Greece
Board games are often used as a plot motif in modern genre fiction, especially in detective and adventure...
156. Why Go is not my favourite language
1. Go has exceptions and return values for error
157. Nintendo DS code editor and scriptable game engine
158. Preserved hair reveals just how bad lead exposure was in the 20th century
A new study reveals the dramatic decrease in lead exposure in the U.S. following the establishment of the Environmental Protection Agency 55 years ago.
159. Apple Platform Security (Jan 2026) [pdf]
160. Typechecking is undecidable when 'type' is a type (1989) [pdf]
161. Western Digital doubles the performance of hard drives with dual-actuator
Tailoring HDDs for applications.
162. Autonomous cars, drones cheerfully obey prompt injection by road sign
163. Finland to end "uncontrolled human experiment" with ban on youth social media
Prime Minister Petteri Orpo (NCP), the Finnish public health authority THL and two-thirds of Finns are in favour of banning or restricting the use of social media by under-15s.
164. ClickHouse Release 26.1
165. DHS is trying to force tech companies to hand over data about Trump critics
The use of administrative subpoenas, which are not subject to judicial oversight, are used to demand a wealth of information from tech companies, including the owners of anonymous online accounts documenting ICE operations.
166. Msgvault: fast private email archive and search system
167. Show HN: Kannada Nudi Editor Web Version
168. SpaceX Acquires xAI in $1.25T All-Stock Deal
Musk is combining rocket maker SpaceX with his AI startup, the largest tie-up in his expansive business portfolio.
169. Mesh: A compacting memory allocator for C/C++
A memory allocator that automatically reduces the memory footprint of C/C++ applications. - plasma-umass/Mesh
170. What I learned building an opinionated and minimal coding agent
Lessons I learned while building my own coding agent from scratch.
171. SBA cuts off non-US citizens from primary loan program
172. MicroPythonOS graphical operating system delivers Android-like user experience
MicroPythonOS lightweight OS for microcontroller targets applications with graphical user interfaces with a look similar to Android/iOS.
173. A novelist who took on the Italian mafia and lived
In the biography A Sicilian Man, Caroline Moorehead tells the story of Leonardo Sciascia, who first exposed the rampant, murderous corruption that had infiltrated Italian society
174. No Source Code == No Patent
How we know you "have' the invention
175. Reliable 25 Gigabit Ethernet via Thunderbolt
I found this tiny fanless Thunderbolt 25G Ethernet adapter. With a little tinkering, it actually works.
176. To Build a Fire:Inside Russia's Campaign of Sabotage in Europe
Joshua Yaffa reports on how Russian military intelligence is recruiting young people online to carry out espionage, arson, and other attacks across the Continent.
177. List animals until failure
hot new brain workout
178. Time Machine-style Backups with rsync (2018)
Sam Hewitt, Human Interface Designer
179. What a Diff a VS Code Fork Makes: Antigravity, Cursor and Windsurf Compared
VS Code forks like Cursor, Windsurf, and Google Antigravity may share a common foundation, but hands-on testing shows they reflect sharply different philosophies around AI autonomy, workflow structure, and developer control.
180. UniKernels: Functional Operating System Design [video]
Haskell Symposium @ ICFP 2014.Gothenburg, Sweden.