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241. The Dank Case for Scrolling Window Managers
My favorite UX metaphor, the scrolling window manager, is having a moment thanks to innovations like Niri and Dank Linux.
242. Kimwolf Botnet Lurking in Corporate, Govt. Networks
243. Time Station Emulator
Synchronize most radio-controlled ("atomic") clocks and watches using almost any phone or tablet - kangtastic/timestation
244. Ask HN: What serious task have you accomplished with Moltbot / OpenClaw?
245. The Film Students Who Can No Longer Sit Through Films
The attention-span crisis goes to the movies.
246. Starlink updates privacy policy to allow consumer data to train
SpaceX revised its Starlink privacy policy to allow the use of customer data for AI training, a shift that ​could bolster Elon Musk's AI ambitions. Ahead of a blockbuster IPO planned for later this year, ‌SpaceX is in talks to merge with Musk’s AI company, xAI, a deal first reported by Reuters on Thursday. SpaceX, already the ‌world’s most valuable private company, could reach a value of more than $1 trillion after the IPO.
247. Infomaniak: "The best independent alternative to the Web giants"
Control your data governance with an independent cloud. Solutions hosted in the heart of Europe, designed to protect your confidentiality.
248. Trump's cyber chief uploaded sensitive files into a public version of ChatGPT
249. Amazon axes 16,000 jobs as it pushes AI and efficiency
250. Spurious Correlations
Correlation is not causation: thousands of charts of real data showing actual correlations between ridiculous variables.
251. 430k-year-old well-preserved wooden tools are the oldest ever found
Researchers uncovered 430,000-year-old wooden tools, the oldest known, at the Marathousa 1 site in Greece.
252. Notes on Starting to Use Django
Some notes on starting to use Django
253. I Stopped Following the News
A personal reflection on the decision to stop following daily news and its impact on my well-being.
254. 150 MB Minimal FreeBSD Installation
Sometimes an article starts with a simple question or a single message on one of the available social platforms. This is the case today with this article where @ooberober asked: How small can the root get in its most minimal setup, as far as you know, with pkgbase(8)? Tiny OS installations sounds similar to me…
255. Therac-25: A landmark case study in software engineering failure
256. Network Applications of Bloom Filters: A Survey [pdf]
257. Secure erase for Samsung PM951 NVMe drive (2024)
258. AI's Impact on Engineering Jobs May Be Different Than Expected
259. Vitamin D and Omega-3 have a larger effect on depression than antidepressants
260. This year, I will write a GUI for my Emacs clone
I've been hoping to write a GUI for my Emacs clone for a while now. And I'm putting together a list of Emacs' display features to keep compatible with when designing the GUI. Unsurprisingly, this list just keeps growing, and, nah, Waiting to feel ready to do the thing is not doing the thing. 1 So, I really need to start writing the shittiest Emacs GUI ever.
261. Heating homes with the largest particle accelerator
262. This Year in LLVM (2025)
263. 'Tesla is (still) trying to deceive investors into thinking it has SF robotaxis'
Tesla once again suggested to investors that it has robotaxis operating in San Francisco, even though it does not have permits to do so.
264. Somebody used spoofed ADSB signals to raster the meme of JD Vance
265. Playing Board Games with Deep Convolutional Neural Network on 8bit Motorola 6809
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266. TikTok users can't upload anti-ICE videos. The company blames tech issues
Why are people saying “Delete TikTok”? One reason is that some TikTok users, including comedian Megan Stalter, are accusing the app of censorship after they have attempted and failed to upload videos about ICE. TikTok says the ongoing glitches are related to a power outage.
267. Virtual Boy on TV with Intelligent Systems Video Boy
268. Pancreatic cancer researchers' latest breakthrough could help tumors disappear
Researchers in Spain have developed a therapy protocol that could revolutionize the treatment of pancreatic cancer.
269. Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux
Broken updates, Copilot shoved everywhere, and my system bricking itself. Here's why I finally escaped to Linux.
270. The User Guide for Elite, the Tool Palantir Made for ICE
404 Media is publishing a version of the user guide for ELITE, which lets ICE bring up dossiers on individual people and provides a “confidence score” of their address.