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151. Do Not Optimize Away
Compilers are sneaky beasts. If you time code like this:
152. New digital wallet to restrict social media access in Ireland for under-16s
Attorney General is to advise on proposed age verification system but senior Government figures stop short of backing Australia-style ban
153. Exploiting silent delivery receipts to monitor users on instant messengers
Abstract page for arXiv paper 2411.11194: Careless Whisper: Exploiting Silent Delivery Receipts to Monitor Users on Mobile Instant Messengers
154. Show HN: Fate, a new data framework for React and tRPC, inspired by Relay
fate is a modern data client for React. Contribute to nkzw-tech/fate development by creating an account on GitHub.
155. IBM to Acquire Confluent
We are excited to announce that Confluent has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by IBM.
156. Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros. In an $82.7B Deal
157. Has the cost of building software just dropped 90%?
Agentic coding tools are dramatically reducing software development costs. Here's why 2026 is going to catch a lot of people off guard.
158. Let's put Tailscale on a jailbroken Kindle
Jailbreaking a Kindle makes it able to do much more. Adding Tailscale takes the Kindle even further.
159. Jujutsu Worktrees Are Convenient
A place to dump thoughts
160. OSHW: Small tablet based on RK3568 and AMOLED screen
基于RK3568和AMOLED屏幕做的小平板
161. I Wasted 8 Years of My Life in Crypto
162. Alignment Is Capability
Alignment is not a constraint on capable AI systems. Alignment is what capability is at sufficient depth. OpenAI and Anthropic have been running this experiment for two years.
163. Brent's Encapsulated C Programming Rules (2020)
A bunch of tips and rules I’ve created for myself for developing programs in the C programming language
164. The Gamma Language
165. The moment the earliest known man-made fire was uncovered
Archaeologists in the UK have discovered the world's oldest evidence of humans lighting fires
166. Paramount launches hostile bid for Warner Bros
Netflix won a bidding war for the Warner Bros. film studio and HBO Max streaming service, but it doesn't plan to buy WBD's TV networks.
167. The Eternal Return of Abstraction: Why Programming Was Never About Code
168. Scala 3 slowed us down?
Is this clickbait? Not really. Is this the fault of the language or the compiler? Definitely not. Rather, it was part of a rushed migration. Sharing the lessons learned in the process.
169. AMD GPU Debugger
Abdelhadi' blog
170. I Tried and Failed to Rebuild the 1996 Space Jam Website with Claude
Can Claude Recreate the 1996 Space Jam Website? No. Or at least not with my prompting skills.
171. Wayland Nvidia: Your Complete 2025 Fix for a Broken Desktop
Fix flickering & crashes with our definitive Wayland NVIDIA guide for Arch Linux. This tutorial solves common Hyprland, suspend, and multi-monitor issues
172. Hunting for North Korean Fiber Optic Cables
Before we go any further, one thing that I want to make clear is that the word assume is going to be doing some heavy lifting throughout this post. This was a rabbit hole that I recently went down and I probably have more questions than answers, but I still wanted to document what I…
173. GitHub no longer uses Toasts
GitHub no longer uses toasts because of their accessibility and usability issues.
174. Nested Learning: A new ML paradigm for continual learning
175. Trials avoid high risk patients and underestimate drug harms
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.
176. Show HN: DuckDB for Kafka Stream Processing
Create a stream processor that reads data from Kafka in less than 5 minutes.
177. "The Matilda Effect": Pioneering Women Scientists Written Out of Science History
Photo via Wikimedia Commons The history of science, like most every history we learn, comes to us as a procession of great, almost exclusively white, men, unbroken but for the occasional token woman—well-deserving of her honors but seemingly anomalous nonetheless. “If you believe the history books,” notes the Timeline series The Matilda Effect, “science is a guy thing. Open Culture, openculture.com
178. Dollar-stores overcharge cash-strapped customers while promising low prices
A Guardian investigation reveals Dollar General and Family Dollar stores often fail to honor their shelf prices – charging more at checkout for everything from frying pans to Frosted Flakes
179. Oliver Sacks Put Himself into His Case Studies. What Was the Cost?
Rachel Aviv on letters, journals, and tape recordings, provided by the Oliver Sacks Foundation, that illuminate the psychology and sexuality of the neurologist, whose books include “Awakenings” and “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat.”
180. Joyboard is a balance board peripheral for the Atari 2600