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151. How Brian Eno Created Ambient 1: Music for Airports (2019)
In 1978, Brian Eno released Ambient 1: Music for Airports, a landmark album in ambient and electronic music. Although it wasn't the first ambient
152. In Northern Scotland, the Neolithic Age Never Ended
In the Orkney Islands, where megalithic monuments remain a fundamental part of the landscape, archeologists have been uncovering remarkable ruins, Alex Ross reports.
153. The "Mad Men" in 4K on HBO Max Debacle
154. Visualize 4B Years: The Trillions of Generations: LUCA to Modern Human
Explore the incredible journey of evolution from the first single cell to modern humans. Scroll through billions of years of ancestral life forms in this interactive visualization.
155. Reverse math shows why hard problems are hard
Researchers have used metamathematical techniques to show that certain theorems that look superficially distinct are in fact logically equivalent.
156. Comparing AWS Lambda ARM64 vs. x86_64 Performance Across Runtimes in Late 2025
See how AWS Lambda arm64 stacks up against x86_64 in real-world benchmarks across CPU, memory, and I/O workloads using Node.js, Python, and Rust.
157. Why One Man Is Fighting for Our Right to Control Our Garage Door Openers
158. What Will Enter the Public Domain in 2026?
At the start of each year, on January 1st, a new crop of works enter the public domain. Find our highlights of what lies in store for 2026 here.
159. Zig's new plan for asynchronous programs
160. Search tool that only returns content created before ChatGPT's public release
Tega Brain is an Australian artist based in New York examining the politics of computation at a time of climate change.
161. Foreign-dlopen: call dlopen from static programs
Small library allowing to use dlopen() from statically-linked applications (where statically-linked executable vs loaded shared library may use completely different libc's) - pfalcon/foreign-dlopen
162. Mapping Every Dollar of America's $5T Healthcare System
Mapping Every Dollar of America's $5 Trillion Healthcare System
163. AI just proved Erdos Problem #124
164. New homes in London were delayed by 'energy-hungry' data centres
The London Assembly found the growth of new data centres temporarily halted building some houses in 2022.
165. Sending DMARC reports is somewhat hazardous
166. Apple Releases Open Weights Video Model
167. Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days
Let’s Encrypt will be reducing the validity period of the certificates we issue. We currently issue certificates valid for 90 days, which will be cut in half to 45 days by 2028. This change is being made along with the rest of the industry, as required by the CA/Browser Forum Baseline Requirements, which set the technical requirements that we must follow. All publicly-trusted Certificate Authorities like Let’s Encrypt will be making similar changes. Reducing how long certificates are valid for helps improve the security of the internet, by limiting the scope of compromise, and making certificate revocation technologies more efficient.
168. Steve Cropper, legendary guitarist for Booker T and the MGs, dies aged 84
Prolific musician was known for work on songs like Green Onions and Otis Redding’s (Sittin’ on) The Dock of the Bay
169. Cursed circuits: charge pump voltage halver
There's plenty of circuits that are hard to understand because they're complicated. And some that are hard to make sense of because they seem too simple.
170. Qwen3-VL can scan two-hour videos and pinpoint nearly every detail
A few months after launching Qwen3-VL, Alibaba has released a detailed technical report on the open multimodal model. The data shows the system excels at image-based math tasks and can analyze hours of video footage.
171. Wolfenstein 3D's map renderer [video]
Wolfenstein 3D was a triumph of early 90s engineering. It was an action packed 3d first person shooter - arguably the first - and it ran well on a 12 MHz 286...
172. The Junior Hiring Crisis
AI isn’t replacing everyone. It’s removing the apprenticeship ladder. Here’s what that means for students, early-career professionals, and the tech industry’s future.
173. SWI-Prolog 10.0.0 Released
Dear SWI-Prolog user, SWI-Prolog 10.0.0 (stable) is ready for download. Below is the full changelog since version 9.2.9, the previous stable version. Overall, version 10 is closely compatible to version 9.2. It mai…
174. India scraps order to pre-install state-run cyber safety app on smartphones
The order to make the registration mandatory had led to a major backlash from several cyber experts.
175. In 1995, a Netscape employee wrote a hack in 10 days that now runs the Internet
Thirty years later, JavaScript is the glue that holds the interactive web together, warts and all.
176. Apple Design Leadership Change: Bad Dye Job
177. Show HN: FastLanes based integer compression in Zig
integer compression library for Zig based on FastLanes - steelcake/zint
178. Nixtml: Static website and blog generator written in Nix
Static website and blog generator written in nix. Contribute to arnarg/nixtml development by creating an account on GitHub.
179. Impacts of working from home on mental health tracked in study of 16K Aussies
Working from home can positively impact the mental health of Australian men and women in different ways, according to a new study of more than 16,000 people. 
180. Rootless Pings in Rust