News

  1. Banning lead in gas worked. The proof is in our hair (attheu.utah.edu)
  2. Persistent, Sandboxed, Single-Site Browser (firejail and proxychains) (tech.michaelaltfield.net)
  3. GitHub discusses giving maintainers control to disable PRs (github.com)
  4. How does misalignment scale with model intelligence and task complexity? (alignment.anthropic.com)
  5. 2026.01 Release Notes (hamy.xyz)
  6. Firefox Getting New Controls to Turn Off AI Features (www.macrumors.com)
  7. Julia (borretti.me)
  8. The TSA's New $45 Fee to Fly Without ID Is Illegal (www.frommers.com)
  9. Court orders restart of all US offshore wind power construction (arstechnica.com)
  10. xAI joins SpaceX (www.spacex.com)
  11. GitHub experience various partial-outages/degradations (www.githubstatus.com)
  12. Anki ownership transferred to AnkiHub (forums.ankiweb.net)
  13. The largest number representable in 64 bits (tromp.github.io)
  14. The Codex App (openai.com)
  15. Advancing AI Benchmarking with Game Arena (blog.google)
  16. Linux From Scratch ends SysVinit support (lists.linuxfromscratch.org)
  17. Todd C. Miller – Sudo maintainer for over 30 years (www.millert.dev)
  18. Hacking Moltbook (www.wiz.io)
  19. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2026) (news.ycombinator.com)
  20. Yee Sang in London 2026 (gochugarugirl.com)
  21. Geologists may have solved mystery of Green River's 'uphill' route (phys.org)
  22. Nano-vLLM: How a vLLM-style inference engine works (neutree.ai)
  23. the best books I read in 2025 (todaythings.substack.com)
  24. Documenting C++ with Doxygen and Sphinx - doxyrest (rgoswami.me)
  25. Some good English word datasets (ntietz.com)
  26. LightClone - Compile-Time Safety for Cheap Clones in Rust (hamy.xyz)
  27. Comments on Cory Doctorow's "AI companies will fail" (anyahope.me)
  28. OpenClaw (Clawdbot): just a fun game? Or...? (sitongpeng.com)
  29. The SaaS-pocalypse is Here. Here’s How to Survive It. (nmn.gl)
  30. How LLMs Keep on Getting Better (probablydance.com)
  31. A quick apology to Dyalog APL (blog.veitheller.de)
  32. Book review: Already Free (thomasbroadley.com)
  33. January Life Update (seinwave.com)
  34. New METR blog post on monitorability (thomasbroadley.com)
  35. From BongoBoard to BongoBored (hannahilea.com)
  36. SaaS Companies Need to Let Their Customers Vibe Code on Top of Their Tools (nmn.gl)
  37. Sketches (macwright.com)
  38. How To Tame Your YouTube disable annoyances & enjoy the show (www.ryanprior.com)
  39. Why my Elfeed index was 0 bytes (punchagan.muse-amuse.in)
  40. Update - New year (aaronstrick.com)
  41. normal (approximateknowledge.net)
  42. PSA: Don't Download Take Home Challenges from Untrusted Recruiters (hamy.xyz)
  43. Letter to Stella, or What Technopaganism Isn't (olu.online)
  44. Building Docs Like a Product (emschwartz.me)
  45. Finished! A Jellyroll GenQuilt (www.fractalkitty.com)
  46. Crooked politicians love crab cakes! (blog.plover.com)
  47. The First Sneaky Town Tournament (blog.danielsosebee.com)
  48. Almost-trivial theorems (blog.plover.com)
  49. Milk Bread (gochugarugirl.com)
  50. “This One Can Make Money Or Not?” (commoncog.com)
  51. Look for what's true (dubroy.com)
  52. making friends with my body (clarionsong.substack.com)
  53. How I Run Speech to Text on Fedora Linux for Free (hamy.xyz)
  54. On Replaceability: Craft, Taste, and AI (blog.veitheller.de)