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241. Believe the Checkbook
AI companies talk as if engineering is over. Their acquisitions say the opposite.
242. Making the most of bit arrays in Gleam
243. NASA will soon find out if the Perseverance rover can persevere on Mars
Engineers at JPL are certifying the Perseverance rover to drive up to 100 kilometers.
244. U.S. Bars 5 European Tech Regulators and Researchers
245. Diary: Val McDermid, Deep Winter
Scottish crime novelist Val McDermid on three scenes from a Scottish midwinter: Solstice, Christmas, Hogmanay. From her new memoir: Winter: The Story of a Season
246. OpenSCAD Is Kinda Neat
247. US bars 5 Europeans it says pressured tech firms to censor American viewpoints
The State Department is barring five Europeans it accuses of leading efforts to pressure U.S. tech firms to censor or suppress American viewpoints.
248. Older Americans quit weight loss drugs in droves
249. Flock and Cyble Inc. Weaponize "Cybercrime" Takedowns to Silence Critics
When a government contractor pays a company for "Takedown Services" to prevent transparency in government
250. Things I learnt about passkeys when building passkeybot
Interesting things about passkeys in webauthn
251. Writing HTML by hand is easier than debugging your static site generator (2024)
As someone who has used a static site generator every day at work for years I am on the threshold of believing “actually just writing HTML by hand is probably easier” This becomes obvious when you eg get a new work machine and need to set up the site generator on the new machine and…
252. Firefox will have an option to disable all AI features
Something that hasn't been made clear: Firefox will have an option to completely disable all AI features. We've been calling it the AI kill switch internally. I'm sure it'll ship with a less murderous name, but that's how seriously and absolutely we're taking this. …
253. Chris Rea, rock and blues singer-songwriter, dies aged 74
254. Tell HN: Merry Christmas
255. Approaching 50 Years of String Theory
256. Great Ideas in Theoretical Computer Science
257. Dutch Tesla Fleet Goes Bankrupt After Betting on Musk's Self-Driving Promises
A Dutch leasing and rental firm Mistergreen now face insolvency after betting its entire future on the idea that Tesla’s cars would become highly valued
258. Big GPUs don't need big PCs
259. Qwen-Image-Layered: transparency and layer aware open diffusion model
Join the discussion on this paper page
260. Build Your Own React
We are going to rewrite React from scratch. Step by step. Following the architecture from the real React code but without all the…
261. Reconstructed Commander Keen 1-3 Source Code
262. Skills Officially Comes to Codex
Give Codex new capabilities and expertise
263. Performance Hints (2023)
Battle-tested, Mom-approved
264. Officials discover a million more documents potentially related to Epstein case
The US Department of Justice says reviewing the material could delay the full release of Epstein documents by a "few more weeks".
265. Neuromorphic Hardware Guide
Explore cutting-edge neuromorphic chips and architectures, featuring innovative designs and advanced neural processing technologies.
266. Airbus to migrate critical apps to a sovereign Euro cloud
267. Lsp-CLI: CLI language client for LSP language servers
CLI language client for LSP language servers. Contribute to valentjn/lsp-cli development by creating an account on GitHub.
268. State regulators vote to keep utility profits high angering customers across CA
The California Public Utilities Commission voted 4 to 1 on Thursday to keep profits at Southern California Edison and the state’s other big investor-owned utilities at a level that consumer groups say has long been inflated.
269. E.W.Dijkstra Archive
270. Mullvad VPN: "This is a Chat Control 3.0 attempt."
The European Commission lost the Chat Control 2.0 battle over access to end-to-end encrypted data. By the summer 2026, they will be back with their next attempt: Going Dark. This time some EU member states want to include VPN services. The Going Dark initiative, or ProtectEU as the Commission now calls it, wants to “enable law enforcement authorities to access encrypted data in a lawful manner”. This is a Chat Control 3.0 attempt.