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241. Unix "find" expressions compiled to bytecode
242. Show HN: Tetris Time
Watch the time come alive as Tetris pieces fall into place. A mesmerizing clock where tetrominoes build the current time, one block at a time.
243. 100k-Watt Iron Beam laser becomes first to be operationally deployed
Israel deployed the first Iron Beam systems on Sunday, to complement its Iron Dome, David’s Sling, and Arrow multi-layered defense architecture.
244. Meta's ads tools started switching out top-performing ads with AI-generated ones
What do a granny, a contorted leg, and a flying car have in common? They're all bizarre ads recently whipped up by Meta's generative AI.
245. Using lava lamps to break RSA
246. Pandas with Rows (2022)
The problem We want to find out which are the top #5 American airports with the largest average (mean) delay on domestic flights. Data...
247. We Automated Federal Retirements
Two engineers walked into the government six months ago to drag federal retirements from an underground mine onto the Internet. They built retire.opm.gov and are poised to turn six-month waits into near-instant processing for hundreds of thousands of employees.
248. Show HN: Vibe coding a bookshelf with Claude Code
I’m a UI engineer turned founder with a background in startups. I co-founded QED in 2021, grew it, and eventually sold it to The Sandbox. Now, I’m focused on building in AI.
249. Toll roads are spreading in America
250. Formulaic Delimiters in the Iliad and the Odyssey
This article and the one it is based on have been summarized in video format using Google NotebookLM. https://youtu.be/7JnPQ7U3vEw During my middle school studies, I was introduced to Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey. This year, I decided to revisit these...
251. Exe.dev/
252. Golfing Is Not Rowing
Some work rewards steady effort. Other work rewards big swings (and mulligans).
253. Experiments with Ableton-MCP
Experiments with ableton-mcp (Dec 2025)I started tinkering with Ableton and MCPs over the holiday break and ended up creating 70+ automation tool calls and a mashup...
254. Trump administration removes three spyware-linked executives from sanctions list
255. I'm rejecting the next architecture PR that uses a Service Mesh for a team of 4
256. Dollar on track for steepest annual drop for almost a decade
257. Rainbow Six Siege Hacked as Players Get Billions of Credits and Random Bans
Rainbow Six Siege appears to have been hacked as global server outages hit all platforms, with players reporting billions of credits, dev skins, and random bans while Ubisoft calls it a server incident.
258. Reverse-engineered a Sextortion Bot: Llama-7B instance with 2048 token window
259. Spherical Cow
Spherical Cow: High volume fraction sphere packing in arbitrary geometries | Rust/Cargo package
260. MongoBleed Explained Simply
CVE-2025-14847 allows attackers to read any arbitrary data from the database's heap memory. It affects all MongoDB versions since 2017, here's a simple explanation:
261. I Sharted and Understood the Helpful Content Update
262. Left Behind: Futurist Fetishists, Prepping and the Abandonment of Earth
263. Quality of drinking water varies significantly by airline
264. Rob Pike Goes Nuclear over GenAI
Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software. Just fuck you. Fuck you all. I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
265. Growing up in "404 Not Found": China's nuclear city in the Gobi Desert
A memoir of growing up in China’s classified atomic bomb base in the Gobi Desert.
266. Always Bet on Text
267. The Dangers of SSL Certificates
Yesterday, the Bazel team at Google did not have a very Merry Boxing Day. An SSL certificate expired for https://bcr.bazel.build and https://releases.bazel.build, as shown in this screenshot from the github issue. This expired certificate apparently broke the build workflow of users who use Bazel, who were faced with the following error message: ERROR: Error computing…
268. Operation Mincemeat
269. MongoBleed
Contribute to joe-desimone/mongobleed development by creating an account on GitHub.
270. Phoenix: A modern X server written from scratch in Zig