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newsfeed for busy web developers
2025: The Year in LLMs

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/31/the-year-in-llms/

940
599
Kidnapped by Deutsche Bahn

https://www.theocharis.dev/blog/kidnapped-by-deutsche-bahn/

1187
1031
Rob Pike goes nuclear over GenAI

https://skyview.social/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbsky.app%2Fprofile%2Frobpike.io%2Fpost%2F3matwg6w3ic2s&viewtype=tree

1550
1797
Tell HN: Merry Christmas

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46380168

1958
429
Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. We Tracked Ourselves

https://www.404media.co/flock-exposed-its-ai-powered-cameras-to-the-internet-we-tracked-ourselves/

827
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Backing up Spotify

https://annas-archive.li/blog/backing-up-spotify.html

1980
701
Hacker News front page now, but the titles are honest

https://dosaygo-studio.github.io/hn-front-page-2035/news-honest.html

1384
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Texas is suing all of the big TV makers for spying on what you watch

https://www.theverge.com/news/845400/texas-tv-makers-lawsuit-samsung-sony-lg-hisense-tcl-spying

1268
642
I'm Kenyan. I don't write like ChatGPT, ChatGPT writes like me

https://marcusolang.substack.com/p/im-kenyan-i-dont-write-like-chatgpt

800
504
Europeans' health data sold to US firm run by ex-Israeli spies

https://www.ftm.eu/articles/europe-health-data-us-firm-israel-spies

701
418
Sick of smart TVs? Here are your best options

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/12/the-ars-technica-guide-to-dumb-tvs/

636
532
GPT-5.2

https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-2/

1195
1083
Icons in Menus Everywhere – Send Help

https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/icons-in-menus/

846
333
Using LLMs at Oxide

https://rfd.shared.oxide.computer/rfd/0576

711
271
Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros

https://about.netflix.com/en/news/netflix-to-acquire-warner-bros

1755
1358
Why are 38 percent of Stanford students saying they're disabled?

https://reason.com/2025/12/04/why-are-38-percent-of-stanford-students-saying-theyre-disabled/

766
1021
Ghostty is now non-profit

https://mitchellh.com/writing/ghostty-non-profit

1343
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Anthropic acquires Bun

https://bun.com/blog/bun-joins-anthropic

2192
1073
DeepSeek-v3.2: Pushing the frontier of open large language models [pdf]

https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3.2/resolve/main/assets/paper.pdf

982
465
Advent of Code 2025

https://adventofcode.com/2025/about

1243
397
Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/artificial-intelligence/leak-confirms-openai-is-preparing-ads-on-chatgpt-for-public-roll-out/

854
737
Migrating the main Zig repository from GitHub to Codeberg

https://ziglang.org/news/migrating-from-github-to-codeberg/

927
893
Voyager 1 is about to reach one light-day from Earth

https://scienceclock.com/voyager-1-is-about-to-reach-one-light-day-from-earth/

1088
395
Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been Fulfilled

https://jayd.ml/2025/11/10/someone-at-youtube-needs-glasses-prophecy-fulfilled.html

1001
692
Pebble Watch software is now open source

https://ericmigi.com/blog/pebble-watch-software-is-now-100percent-open-source

1241
227
Helping Valve to power up Steam devices

https://www.igalia.com/2025/11/helpingvalve.html

859
315
Nano Banana Pro

https://blog.google/technology/ai/nano-banana-pro/

1275
685
Europe is scaling back GDPR and relaxing AI laws

https://www.theverge.com/news/823750/european-union-ai-act-gdpr-changes

975
1168
Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues

https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/8gmgl950y3h7

2432
1650
Windows 11 adds AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders

https://www.windowslatest.com/2025/11/18/windows-11-to-add-an-ai-agent-that-runs-in-background-with-access-to-personal-folders-warns-of-security-risk/

703
638
Our investigation into the suspicious pressure on Archive.today

https://adguard-dns.io/en/blog/archive-today-adguard-dns-block-demand.html

1816
443
AI World Clocks

https://clocks.brianmoore.com/

1383
384
Android developer verification: Early access starts

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/11/android-developer-verification-early.html

1362
676
Steam Machine

https://store.steampowered.com/sale/steammachine

2928
1514
The 'Toy Story' You Remember

https://animationobsessive.substack.com/p/the-toy-story-you-remember

1196
338
I Want You to Understand Chicago

https://aphyr.com/posts/397-i-want-you-to-understand-chicago

735
486
YouTube Removes Windows 11 Bypass Tutorials, Claims 'Risk of Physical Harm'

https://news.itsfoss.com/youtube-removes-windows-11-bypass-tutorials/

950
447
You should write an agent

https://fly.io/blog/everyone-write-an-agent/

1070
395
Solarpunk is happening in Africa

https://climatedrift.substack.com/p/why-solarpunk-is-already-happening

1201
591
Mr TIFF

https://inventingthefuture.ghost.io/mr-tiff/

1052
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Tiny electric motor can produce more than 1,000 horsepower

https://supercarblondie.com/electric-motor-yasa-more-powerful-tesla-mercedes/

622
598
Facts about throwing good parties

https://www.atvbt.com/21-facts-about-throwing-good-parties/

963
412
You can't refuse to be scanned by ICE's facial recognition app, DHS document say

https://www.404media.co/you-cant-refuse-to-be-scanned-by-ices-facial-recognition-app-dhs-document-says/

601
509
Show HN: Strange Attractors

https://blog.shashanktomar.com/posts/strange-attractors

804
78
Affinity Studio now free

https://www.affinity.studio/get-affinity

1217
793
10M people watched a YouTuber shim a lock; the lock company sued him – bad idea

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/10/suing-a-popular-youtuber-who-shimmed-a-130-lock-what-could-possibly-go-wrong/

1587
632
A worker fell into a nuclear reactor pool

https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/event-status/event/2025/20251022en?brid=vscAjql9kZL1FfGE7TYHVw#en57996:~:text=TRANSPORT%20OF%20CONTAMINATED%20PERSON%20OFFSITE

689
507
The Swift SDK for Android

https://www.swift.org/blog/nightly-swift-sdk-for-android/

696
280
Trump pardons convicted Binance founder

https://www.wsj.com/finance/currencies/trump-pardons-convicted-binance-founder-7509bd63

1055
1221
Google flags Immich sites as dangerous

https://immich.app/blog/google-flags-immich-as-dangerous

1464
688
Replacing a $3000/mo Heroku bill with a $55/mo server

https://disco.cloud/blog/how-idealistorg-replaced-a-3000mo-heroku-bill-with-a-55-server/

813
556
AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1

https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status?ts=20251020

2246
2058
IDEs we had 30 years ago and lost (2023)

https://blogsystem5.substack.com/p/the-ides-we-had-30-years-ago-and

617
592
Apple M5 chip

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/10/apple-unleashes-m5-the-next-big-leap-in-ai-performance-for-apple-silicon/

1263
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FSF announces Librephone project

https://www.fsf.org/news/librephone-project

1586
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Wireguard FPGA

https://github.com/chili-chips-ba/wireguard-fpga

640
168
Microsoft only lets you opt out of AI photo scanning 3x a year

https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/25/10/11/0238213/microsofts-onedrive-begins-testing-face-recognizing-ai-for-photos-for-some-preview-users

844
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A small number of samples can poison LLMs of any size

https://www.anthropic.com/research/small-samples-poison

1202
439
Qualcomm to acquire Arduino

https://www.qualcomm.com/news/releases/2025/10/qualcomm-to-acquire-arduino-accelerating-developers--access-to-i

1340
535
Ladybird passes the Apple 90% threshold on web-platform-tests

https://twitter.com/awesomekling/status/1974781722953953601

950
257
Fire destroys S. Korean government's cloud storage system, no backups available

https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/2025-10-01/national/socialAffairs/NIRS-fire-destroys-governments-cloud-storage-system-no-backups-available/2412936

2080
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Apple takes down ICE tracking apps after pressure from DOJ

https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/apple-takes-down-ice-tracking-app-after-pressure-from-ag-bondi

659
574
How Israeli actions caused famine in Gaza, visualized

https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/02/middleeast/gaza-famine-causes-vis-intl

1205
1364
Jane Goodall has died

https://www.latimes.com/obituaries/story/2025-10-01/jane-goodall-chimpanzees-dead

1302
185
Kagi News

https://blog.kagi.com/kagi-news

942
440
Claude Sonnet 4.5

https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-sonnet-4-5

1585
786
Open Social

https://overreacted.io/open-social/

991
388
ChatControl: EU wants to scan all private messages, even in encrypted apps

https://metalhearf.fr/posts/chatcontrol-wants-your-private-messages/

1102
631
Everything that's wrong with Google Search in one image

https://bitbytebit.substack.com/p/everything-thats-wrong-with-google

1291
723
Quicksort explained IKEA-style

https://idea-instructions.com/quick-sort/

689
133
Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says

https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/trump-mulls-adding-new-100000-fee-h-1b-visas-bloomberg-news-reports-2025-09-19/

1476
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Top UN legal investigators conclude Israel is guilty of genocide in Gaza

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/un-concludes-israel-guilty-genocide-gaza

1415
1446
Hosting a website on a disposable vape

https://bogdanthegeek.github.io/blog/projects/vapeserver/

1415
472
EU court rules nuclear energy is clean energy

https://www.weplanet.org/post/eu-court-rules-nuclear-energy-is-clean-energy

1053
1243
NPM debug and chalk packages compromised

https://www.aikido.dev/blog/npm-debug-and-chalk-packages-compromised

1372
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996

https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/9/4/996/

1058
532
I ditched Docker for Podman

https://codesmash.dev/why-i-ditched-docker-for-podman-and-you-should-too

1123
654
30 minutes with a stranger

https://pudding.cool/2025/06/hello-stranger/

1103
375
Where's the shovelware? Why AI coding claims don't add up

https://mikelovesrobots.substack.com/p/wheres-the-shovelware-why-ai-coding

770
482
Next.js is infuriating

https://blog.meca.sh/3lxoty3shjc2z

1033
579
Google AI Overview made up an elaborate story about me

https://bsky.app/profile/bennjordan.bsky.social/post/3lxojrbessk2z

698
278
We should have the ability to run any code we want on hardware we own

https://hugotunius.se/2025/08/31/what-every-argument-about-sideloading-gets-wrong.html

2071
1203
Cognitive load is what matters

https://github.com/zakirullin/cognitive-load

1582
522
Do the simplest thing that could possibly work

https://www.seangoedecke.com/the-simplest-thing-that-could-possibly-work/

1111
387
Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, the end

https://rosenzweig.io/blog/asahi-gpu-part-n.html

845
224
Gemini 2.5 Flash Image

https://developers.googleblog.com/en/introducing-gemini-2-5-flash-image/

1093
475
What makes Claude Code so damn good

https://minusx.ai/blog/decoding-claude-code/

469
304
FFmpeg 8.0

https://ffmpeg.org/index.html#pr8.0

987
200
AWS CEO says using AI to replace junior staff is 'Dumbest thing I've ever heard'

https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/21/aws_ceo_entry_level_jobs_opinion/

1697
744
How we exploited CodeRabbit: From simple PR to RCE and write access on 1M repos

https://research.kudelskisecurity.com/2025/08/19/how-we-exploited-coderabbit-from-a-simple-pr-to-rce-and-write-access-on-1m-repositories/

687
227
Anna's Archive: An Update from the Team

https://annas-archive.org/blog/an-update-from-the-team.html

1087
534
Good system design

https://www.seangoedecke.com/good-system-design/

957
390
Open hardware desktop 3D printing is dead?

https://www.josefprusa.com/articles/open-hardware-in-3d-printing-is-dead/

721
440
Streaming services are driving viewers back to piracy

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/aug/14/cant-pay-wont-pay-impoverished-streaming-services-are-driving-viewers-back-to-piracy

1130
919
FFmpeg 8.0 adds Whisper support

https://code.ffmpeg.org/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/commit/13ce36fef98a3f4e6d8360c24d6b8434cbb8869b

1033
325
GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation

https://www.theverge.com/news/757461/microsoft-github-thomas-dohmke-resignation-coreai-team-transition

1468
1121
Debian 13 “Trixie”

https://www.debian.org/News/2025/20250809

974
407
GPT-5

https://openai.com/gpt-5/

2063
2482
Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade no-crawl directives

https://blog.cloudflare.com/perplexity-is-using-stealth-undeclared-crawlers-to-evade-website-no-crawl-directives/

1315
748
Telo MT1

https://www.telotrucks.com/

627
622
Corporation for Public Broadcasting ceasing operations

https://cpb.org/pressroom/Corporation-Public-Broadcasting-Addresses-Operations-Following-Loss-Federal-Funding

624
604
Slow

https://michaelnotebook.com/slow/index.html

991
229
Fast

https://www.catherinejue.com/fast

1606
431
Study mode

https://openai.com/index/chatgpt-study-mode/

1130
805
Rust running on every GPU

https://rust-gpu.github.io/blog/2025/07/25/rust-on-every-gpu/

605
205
Graphene OS: a security-enhanced Android build

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1030004/898017c7953c0946/

749
556
How to Firefox

https://kau.sh/blog/how-to-firefox/

818
484
Global hack on Microsoft Sharepoint hits U.S., state agencies, researchers say

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/07/20/microsoft-sharepoint-hack/

809
428
Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to delist certain adult games

https://www.pcgamer.com/software/platforms/valve-confirms-credit-card-companies-pressured-it-to-delist-certain-adult-games-from-steam/

948
905
ChatGPT agent: bridging research and action

https://openai.com/index/introducing-chatgpt-agent/

686
486
Linux Reaches 5% Desktop Market Share in USA

https://ostechnix.com/linux-reaches-5-desktop-market-share-in-usa/

1021
614
LLM Inevitabilism

https://tomrenner.com/posts/llm-inevitabilism/

1773
1628
Kiro: A new agentic IDE

https://kiro.dev/blog/introducing-kiro/

1063
462
Let me pay for Firefox

https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/let-me-pay-for-firefox/141297

814
618
Tree Borrows

https://plf.inf.ethz.ch/research/pldi25-tree-borrows.html

584
146
Supabase MCP can leak your entire SQL database

https://www.generalanalysis.com/blog/supabase-mcp-blog

848
470
Are we the baddies?

https://geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll/update/2025/07/05/are-we-the-baddies.html

718
523
Local-first software (2019)

https://www.inkandswitch.com/essay/local-first/

883
297
Nvidia won, we all lost

https://blog.sebin-nyshkim.net/posts/nvidia-is-full-of-shit/

995
571
Introducing tmux-rs

https://richardscollin.github.io/tmux-rs/

868
293
Websites hosting major US climate reports taken down

https://apnews.com/article/climate-change-national-assessment-nasa-white-house-057cec699caef90832d8b10f21a6ffe8

599
393
More on Apple's Trust-Eroding 'F1 the Movie' Wallet Ad

https://daringfireball.net/2025/06/more_on_apples_trust-eroding_f1_the_movie_wallet_ad

977
639
IDF officers ordered to fire at unarmed crowds near Gaza food distribution sites

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-06-27/ty-article-magazine/.premium/idf-soldiers-ordered-to-shoot-deliberately-at-unarmed-gazans-waiting-for-humanitarian-aid/00000197-ad8e-de01-a39f-ffbe33780000

1455
1122
AlphaGenome: AI for better understanding the genome

https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/alphagenome-ai-for-better-understanding-the-genome/

529
176
Gemini CLI

https://blog.google/technology/developers/introducing-gemini-cli-open-source-ai-agent/

1428
788
Writing toy software is a joy

https://blog.jsbarretto.com/post/software-is-joy

820
313
U.S. bombs Iranian nuclear sites

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/ckg3rzj8emjt

1247
3848
Samsung embeds IronSource spyware app on phones across WANA

https://smex.org/open-letter-to-samsung-end-forced-israeli-app-installations-in-the-wana-region/

846
480
Working on databases from prison

https://turso.tech/blog/working-on-databases-from-prison

849
534
Why SSL was renamed to TLS in late 90s (2014)

https://tim.dierks.org/2014/05/security-standards-and-name-changes-in.html

549
229
GCP Outage

https://status.cloud.google.com/

1468
494
Research suggests Big Bang may have taken place inside a black hole

https://www.port.ac.uk/news-events-and-blogs/blogs/space-cosmology-and-the-universe/what-if-the-big-bang-wasnt-the-beginning-our-research-suggests-it-may-have-taken-place-inside-a-black-hole

771
603
Bill Atkinson has died

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/06/07/bill-atkinson-rip

1589
273
Self-hosting your own media considered harmful according to YouTube

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/self-hosting-your-own-media-considered-harmful

1634
760
The impossible predicament of the death newts

https://crookedtimber.org/2025/06/05/occasional-paper-the-impossible-predicament-of-the-death-newts/

578
183
The time bomb in the tax code that's fueling mass tech layoffs

https://qz.com/tech-layoffs-tax-code-trump-section-174-microsoft-meta-1851783502

1575
948
Precision Clock Mk IV

https://mitxela.com/projects/precision_clock_mk_iv

552
126
Photos taken inside musical instruments

https://www.dpreview.com/photography/5400934096/probe-lenses-and-focus-stacking-the-secrets-to-incredible-photos-taken-inside-instruments

1121
55
The Who Cares Era

https://dansinker.com/posts/2025-05-23-who-cares/

739
721
Square Theory

https://aaronson.org/blog/square-theory

750
138
CSS Minecraft

https://benjaminaster.com/css-minecraft/

1220
140
Claude 4 System Card

https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/25/claude-4-system-card/

700
252
I used o3 to find a remote zeroday in the Linux SMB implementation

https://sean.heelan.io/2025/05/22/how-i-used-o3-to-find-cve-2025-37899-a-remote-zeroday-vulnerability-in-the-linux-kernels-smb-implementation/

658
223
Postgres IDE in VS Code

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/adforpostgresql/announcing-a-new-ide-for-postgresql-in-vs-code-from-microsoft/4414648

1040
407
Claude 4

https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-4

2013
1170
Watching AI drive Microsoft employees insane

https://old.reddit.com/r/ExperiencedDevs/comments/1krttqo/my_new_hobby_watching_ai_slowly_drive_microsoft/

1088
552
Veo 3 and Imagen 4, and a new tool for filmmaking called Flow

https://blog.google/technology/ai/generative-media-models-io-2025/

832
532
The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source

https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2025/05/19/the-windows-subsystem-for-linux-is-now-open-source/

1613
1194
Push Ifs Up and Fors Down

https://matklad.github.io/2023/11/15/push-ifs-up-and-fors-down.html

569
197
Baby is healed with first personalized gene-editing treatment

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/health/gene-editing-personalized-rare-disorders.html

1257
531
AlphaEvolve: A Gemini-powered coding agent for designing advanced algorithms

https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/alphaevolve-a-gemini-powered-coding-agent-for-designing-advanced-algorithms/

1036
270
The Barbican

https://arslan.io/2025/05/12/barbican-estate/

728
256
Plain Vanilla Web

https://plainvanillaweb.com/index.html

1519
685
A critical look at MCP

https://raz.sh/blog/2025-05-02_a_critical_look_at_mcp

623
336
ALICE detects the conversion of lead into gold at the LHC

https://www.home.cern/news/news/physics/alice-detects-conversion-lead-gold-lhc

637
300
From: Steve Jobs. "Great idea, thank you."

https://blog.hayman.net/2025/05/06/from-steve-jobs-great-idea.html

1209
292
The Death of Daydreaming

https://www.afterbabel.com/p/on-the-death-of-daydreaming

707
265
I'd rather read the prompt

https://claytonwramsey.com/blog/prompt/

1444
839
Technical analysis of the Signal clone used by Trump officials

https://micahflee.com/tm-sgnl-the-obscure-unofficial-signal-app-mike-waltz-uses-to-text-with-trump-officials/

807
339
Someone at YouTube needs glasses

https://jayd.ml/2025/04/30/someone-at-youtube-needs-glasses.html

1424
694
Firefox tab groups are here

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/tab-groups-community/

807
441
Internet in a Box

https://internet-in-a-box.org/

897
247
A $20k American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, no screen

https://www.theverge.com/electric-cars/655527/slate-electric-truck-price-paint-radio-bezos

1457
1297
Careless People

https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/23/zuckerstreisand/#zdgaf

1071
537
You wouldn't steal a font

https://fedi.rib.gay/notes/a6xqityngfubsz0f

1401
394
Whistleblower: DOGE Siphoned NLRB Case Data

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/04/whistleblower-doge-siphoned-nlrb-case-data/

818
452
Getting forked by Microsoft

https://philiplaine.com/posts/getting-forked-by-microsoft/

1865
998
Gemma 3 QAT Models: Bringing AI to Consumer GPUs

https://developers.googleblog.com/en/gemma-3-quantized-aware-trained-state-of-the-art-ai-to-consumer-gpus/

602
276
Gemini 2.5 Flash

https://developers.googleblog.com/en/start-building-with-gemini-25-flash/

1076
560
CVE program faces swift end after DHS fails to renew contract [updated]

https://www.csoonline.com/article/3963190/cve-program-faces-swift-end-after-dhs-fails-to-renew-contract-leaving-security-flaw-tracking-in-limbo.html

1934
1094
Whistleblower details how DOGE may have taken sensitive NLRB data

https://www.npr.org/2025/04/15/nx-s1-5355896/doge-nlrb-elon-musk-spacex-security

1171
542
Cursor IDE support hallucinates lockout policy, causes user cancellations

https://old.reddit.com/r/cursor/comments/1jyy5am/psa_cursor_now_restricts_logins_to_a_single/

1511
606
A Reddit bot drove me insane

https://posthuman.blog/this-reddit-post-fried-my-brain/

699
364
Google is winning on every AI front

https://www.thealgorithmicbridge.com/p/google-is-winning-on-every-ai-front

1005
819
But what if I want a faster horse?

https://rakhim.exotext.com/but-what-if-i-really-want-a-faster-horse

1525
609
Garfield Minus Garfield

https://garfieldminusgarfield.net

780
246
Trump temporarily drops tariffs to 10% for most countries

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/09/trump-announces-90-day-tariff-pause-for-at-least-some-countries.html

720
1413
Apache ECharts

https://echarts.apache.org/en/index.html

1658
250
Middle-aged man trading cards go viral in rural Japan town

https://www.tokyoweekender.com/entertainment/middle-aged-man-trading-cards-go-viral-in-japan/

1817
403
Bored of It

https://paulrobertlloyd.com/2025/087/a1/bored/

573
478
An image of an archeologist adventurer who wears a hat and uses a bullwhip

https://theaiunderwriter.substack.com/p/an-image-of-an-archeologist-adventurer

1503
898
How each pillar of the First Amendment is under attack

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/03/how-each-pillar-of-the-1st-amendment-is-under-attack/

1176
916
FBI raids home of prominent computer scientist who has gone incommunicado

https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/03/computer-scientist-goes-silent-after-fbi-raid-and-purging-from-university-website/

1008
467
Everyone knows all the apps on your phone

https://peabee.substack.com/p/everyone-knows-what-apps-you-use

1195
482
xAI has acquired X, xAI now valued at $80B

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1905731750275510312

806
1269
Tracing the thoughts of a large language model

https://www.anthropic.com/research/tracing-thoughts-language-model

1072
394
OpenAI adds MCP support to Agents SDK

https://openai.github.io/openai-agents-python/mcp/

807
267
Stoop Coffee: A simple idea transformed my neighborhood

https://supernuclear.substack.com/p/stoop-coffee-how-a-simple-idea-transformed

1652
498
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/trump-administration-accidentally-texted-me-its-war-plans/682151/

2283
1291
The Worst Programmer I Know (2023)

https://dannorth.net/the-worst-programmer/

520
370
Monster Cables picked the wrong guy to threaten (2008)

https://www.oncontracts.com/monster-cables-picked-the-wrong-guy-to-threaten/

565
198
France rejects backdoor mandate

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/win-encryption-france-rejects-backdoor-mandate

1043
301
Claude can now search the web

https://www.anthropic.com/news/web-search

1233
726
I'm the Canadian who was detained by ICE for two weeks

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/19/canadian-detained-us-immigration-jasmine-mooney

1009
826
Apple restricts Pebble from being awesome with iPhones

https://ericmigi.com/blog/apple-restricts-pebble-from-being-awesome-with-iphones/

1678
1106
GIMP 3.0

https://testing.gimp.org/news/2025/03/16/gimp-3-0-released/

1312
508
Milk Kanban

https://brodzinski.com/2025/03/milk-kanban.html

435
166
Samsung Q990D unresponsive after 1020 firmware update

https://us.community.samsung.com/t5/Home-Theater/Samsung-Q990D-unresponsive-after-1020-firmware-update/td-p/3168571

591
562
OpenAI asks White House for relief from state AI rules

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/openai-asks-white-house-relief-100000706.html

780
782
Mark Klein, AT&T whistleblower who revealed NSA mass spying, has died

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/memoriam-mark-klein-att-whistleblower-about-nsa-mass-spying

1597
354
A 10x Faster TypeScript

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/typescript-native-port/

1827
908
uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ublock-origin/cjpalhdlnbpafiamejdnhcphjbkeiagm?hl=en

1972
987
US Ends Support For Ukrainian F-16s

https://ukrainetoday.org/us-ends-support-for-ukrainian-f-16s-but-french-mirages-will-be-salvation-forbes/

1184
2215
Age Verification Laws: A Backdoor to Surveillance

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/first-porn-now-skin-cream-age-verification-bills-are-out-control

660
445
Mistral OCR

https://mistral.ai/fr/news/mistral-ocr

1756
417
Apple M3 Ultra

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/03/apple-reveals-m3-ultra-taking-apple-silicon-to-a-new-extreme/

1077
1029
Apple's Software Quality Crisis

https://www.eliseomartelli.it/blog/2025-03-02-apple-quality

1196
1198
Firefly ‘Blue Ghost’ lunar lander touches down on the moon

https://www.cnn.com/science/live-news/moon-landing-blue-ghost-03-02-25/index.html

768
204
I Went to SQL Injection Court

https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2025/02/09/fixing-illinois-foia/

1230
435
Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code

https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-3-7-sonnet

2127
963
It is no longer safe to move our governments and societies to US clouds

https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/you-can-no-longer-base-your-government-and-society-on-us-clouds/

1403
800
DOGE's only public ledger is riddled with mistakes

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/upshot/doge-musk-trump-errors.html

1092
1462
DOGE has 'god mode' access to government data

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/02/doge-god-mode-access/681719/

884
1671
Multiple Russia-aligned threat actors actively targeting Signal Messenger

https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/russia-targeting-signal-messenger

836
289
Valve releases Team Fortress 2 code

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/source-sdk-2013/commit/0759e2e8e179d5352d81d0d4aaded72c1704b7a9

1863
387
All Kindles can now be jailbroken

https://kindlemodding.org/jailbreaking/WinterBreak/

1377
423
“A calculator app? Anyone could make that”

https://chadnauseam.com/coding/random/calculator-app

1821
430
My Life in Weeks

https://weeks.ginatrapani.org/

984
262
Anyone can push updates to the doge.gov website

https://www.404media.co/anyone-can-push-updates-to-the-doge-gov-website-2/

1125
1123
Resigning as Asahi Linux project lead

https://marcan.st/2025/02/resigning-as-asahi-linux-project-lead/

1116
997
Leaking the email of any YouTube user for $10k

https://brutecat.com/articles/leaking-youtube-emails

1624
466
I tasted Honda’s spicy rodent-repelling tape and I will do it again (2021)

https://haterade.substack.com/p/i-tasted-hondas-spicy-rodent-repelling

1579
454
Undergraduate shows that searches within hash tables can be much faster

https://www.quantamagazine.org/undergraduate-upends-a-40-year-old-data-science-conjecture-20250210/

1304
584
Teen on Musk's DOGE team graduated from 'The Com'

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/02/teen-on-musks-doge-team-graduated-from-the-com/

1624
1801
Meta torrented & seeded 81.7 TB dataset containing copyrighted data

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/02/meta-torrented-over-81-7tb-of-pirated-books-to-train-ai-authors-say/

1270
938
Paper Apps

https://gladdendesign.com/collections/paper-apps

673
94
WikiTok

https://wikitok.vercel.app/

1459
221
CDC data are disappearing

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2025/01/cdc-dei-scientific-data/681531/

749
589
OpenAI O3-Mini

https://openai.com/index/openai-o3-mini/

962
904
JavaScript Temporal is coming

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/blog/javascript-temporal-is-coming/

1405
399
OpenAI Furious DeepSeek Might Have Stolen All the Data OpenAI Stole from Us

https://www.404media.co/openai-furious-deepseek-might-have-stolen-all-the-data-openai-stole-from-us/

1361
16
It's not a crime if we do it with an app

https://pluralistic.net/2025/01/25/potatotrac/#carbo-loading

872
609
0-click deanonymization attack targeting Signal, Discord, other platforms

https://gist.github.com/hackermondev/45a3cdfa52246f1d1201c1e8cdef6117

1457
438
DeepSeek-R1

https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1

1843
663
TikTok goes dark in the US

https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/18/tiktok-goes-dark-in-the-u-s/

1180
2458
Canon wants us to pay for using our own camera as a webcam

https://romanzipp.com/blog/no-you-cant-use-your-6299-canon-camera-as-a-webcam

1051
648
No Calls

https://keygen.sh/blog/no-calls/

1603
517
Nobody cares

https://grantslatton.com/nobody-cares

1071
976
FFmpeg by Example

https://ffmpegbyexample.com/

920
247
Stop Trying to Schedule a Call with Me

https://matduggan.com/stop-trying-to-schedule-a-call-with-me/

588
198
I've acquired a new superpower

https://danielwirtz.com/blog/spot-the-difference-superpower

1807
557
Show HN: Tetris in a PDF

https://th0mas.nl/downloads/pdftris.pdf

1289
223
I had to take down my course-swapping site or be expelled

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jdkaim_github-jdkaimhuskyswap-huskyswap-project-activity-7282609173316415488-1jdb

1349
698
How I program with LLMs

https://crawshaw.io/blog/programming-with-llms

919
332
Stimulation Clicker

https://neal.fun/stimulation-clicker/

3082
589
uBlock Origin GPL code being stolen by team behind Honey browser extension

https://old.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/1hr6xjc/ubo_quick_filters_list_being_stolen_by_team/

1057
444
DOOM CAPTCHA

https://doom-captcha.vercel.app/

1316
270