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241. Fixing a Buffer Overflow in Unix v4 Like It's 1973
This blog post shows how to fix a buffer overflow in the su progam of UNIX v4
242. XFCE Is Great
A post from David Gerard reminded me why I still use Xfce almost everywhere.
243. Show HN: Various shape regularization algorithms
Various shape regularization algorithms. Contribute to nickponline/shreg development by creating an account on GitHub.
244. MIT's "Mathematics for Computer Science" (2018) [pdf]
245. American Dialect Society 2025 Word of the Year Is "Slop"
New Orleans Marriott–Jan. 9—The American Dialect Society, in its 36th annual words-of-the-year vote, selected slop as the Word of the Year for 2025.
246. NCSA Mosaic 2.7, one of the first graphical web browsers
NCSA Mosaic 2.7. Contribute to alandipert/ncsa-mosaic development by creating an account on GitHub.
247. The Vietnam government has banned rooted phones from using any banking app
248. I'm Betting That OpenAI Will Go Broke
249. 'The answer cannot be nothing': The battle over Canada's mystery brain disease
A small Canadian province feared it had a mystery neurological illness on its hands. The search for answers set off a battle for the truth.
250. I Was Kidnapped by Idiots
An academic trip to Iraq unexpectedly turned into an immersive field study on the ways authoritarian regimes use brutality.
251. David Long's 751-point Adventure has been found
Back in 2021 I announced the rediscovery of a text adventure named Castlequest (Mike Holtzman and Mark Kershenblatt, 1980). This month another “lost game” has been found: David Long’s 751-point Adventure!
252. Show HN: Interactive California Budget (by Claude Code)
253. You probably don't need Oh My Zsh
Why you might not need Oh My Zsh for your Zsh configuration.
254. Jerome Powell Responds
Good evening. On Friday, the Department of Justice served the Federal Reserve with grand jury subpoenas, threatening a criminal indictment related to my testi
255. Drones that recharge directly on transmission lines
Self Charging Drones. Founded in 2025 by Hayden Gosch, Avi Gotskind, Ronan Nopp, and Warren Weissbluth, Voltair has 5 employees based in San Francisco, CA, USA. Voltair is hiring for 7 roles in engineering, marketing, and operations.
256. Hegseth Wants to Integrate Grok into Pentagon Networks
US defense secretary announces plans for integration despite recent controversies.
257. Show HN: macOS menu bar app to track Claude usage in real time
Contribute to richhickson/claudecodeusage development by creating an account on GitHub.
258. Kodbox: Open-source cloud desktop with multi-storage fusion and web IDE
kodbox is a file manager for web. It is a newly designed product based on kodexplorer. It is also a web code editor, which allows you to develop websites directly within the web browser.You can run kodbox either online or locally,on Linux, Windows or Mac based platforms - kalcaddle/kodbox
259. Workers at Redmond SpaceX lab exposed to toxic chemicals
InvestigateWest discovered hazardous chemicals seeped from a SpaceX lab in Redmond into the lungs of unsuspecting workers next door.
260. Sopro TTS: A 169M model with zero-shot voice cloning that runs on the CPU
A lightweight text-to-speech model with zero-shot voice cloning - samuel-vitorino/sopro
261. Amiga Pointer Archive
262. Start your meetings at 5 minutes past
I work as an Engineering Manager at Google, and my teams practice a simple habit - we book all meetings to start at five minutes past the hour (or half hour). This works better than trying to finish five minutes early. Meetings often don't finish on time, and the impact is highest with back-to-back meetings.…
263. Digital Red Queen: Adversarial Program Evolution in Core War with LLMs
264. Kagi releases alpha version of Orion for Linux
Kagi Search Help
265. Why Is Greenland Part of the Kingdom of Denmark? A Short History
From the Vikings to Trump: Greenland’s historic development negates recent White House territorial demands.
266. Private equity firms acquired more than 500 autism centers in past decade: study
A new study from researchers at the Brown University School of Public Health highlights a push from private equity investors into autism therapy centers across the nation.
267. Iran Shuts Down Starlink Internet for First Time
268. The Double Standard in the Human-Rights World
Organizations that explicitly valued impartiality and independence have become stridently critical of Israel.
269. A bombshell': doubt cast on discovery of microplastics throughout human body
Exclusive: Some scientists say many detections are most likely error, with one high-profile study called a ‘joke’
270. Deno has made its PyPI distribution official
https://pypi.org/project/deno/ https://github.com/manzt/denop deno is being distributed on pypi for use in python projects. i think this is a really amazing thing that allows deno to be used in more places and appreciated by more people....