News

  1. Measuring AI Ability to Complete Long Tasks: Opus 4.5 has 50% horizon of 4h49M (metr.org)
  2. My 2025 app audit: less mindless scrolling, but more mindless listening (amontalenti.com)
  3. PG&E outages in S.F. leave 130k without electricity (www.sfchronicle.com)
  4. Flock and Cyble Inc. Weaponize "Cybercrime" Takedowns to Silence Critics (haveibeenflocked.com)
  5. Intention Setting 2026 (clarionsong.substack.com)
  6. Claude in Chrome (claude.com)
  7. Show HN: Jmail – Google Suite for Epstein files (www.jmail.world)
  8. MIRA – An open-source persistent AI entity with memory (github.com)
  9. Ireland’s Diarmuid Early wins world Microsoft Excel title (www.bbc.com)
  10. I spent a week without IPv4 (2023) (www.apalrd.net)
  11. Backing Up Spotify (annas-archive.li)
  12. Big GPUs don't need big PCs (www.jeffgeerling.com)
  13. OpenSCAD is kinda neat (nuxx.net)
  14. You have reached the end of the internet (2006) (hmpg.net)
  15. Pure Silicon Demo Coding: No CPU, No Memory, Just 4k Gates (www.a1k0n.net)
  16. Why do people leave comments on OpenBenches? (shkspr.mobi)
  17. Over 40% of deceased drivers in vehicle crashes test positive for THC: Study (www.facs.org)
  18. Go ahead, self-host Postgres (pierce.dev)
  19. Show HN: HN Wrapped 2025 - an LLM reviews your year on HN (hn-wrapped.kadoa.com)
  20. Immersa: Open-source Web-based 3D Presentation Tool (github.com)
  21. Approaching 50 Years of String Theory (www.math.columbia.edu)
  22. Skills Officially Comes to Codex (developers.openai.com)
  23. A Small Year for tsc, a Giant Year for TypeScript (effectivetypescript.com)
  24. The books I'm constantly recommending (sashalaundy.com)
  25. The 13 books I'm constantly recommending (sashalaundy.com)
  26. Gatineau: The Canadian Museum of History (gochugarugirl.com)
  27. Building a Transparent Keyserver (words.filippo.io)
  28. Stop Worrying About Survivorship Bias With This One Weird Trick (commoncog.com)
  29. How I self-host with Ansible - Multi-server Container Deployments with Nomad (hamy.xyz)
  30. Twenty twenty five annual report and twenty twenty six goals (ablwr.github.io)
  31. Python Software Foundation, National Science Foundation, And Integrity (harihareswara.net)
  32. The ESP32 ADC (cceckman.com)
  33. How to annotate JITed code for perf/samply (bernsteinbear.com)
  34. My 67 bugs in 2025 (iafisher.com)
  35. Building a PostgreSQL extension for fun and absolutely no profit (blog.veitheller.de)
  36. TIL: bash builtin RANDOM (indradhanush.github.io)
  37. Short-Circuiting Correlated Subqueries in SQLite (emschwartz.me)
  38. The Programming Language Death Spiral - How Small Languages Die in the Age of AI (hamy.xyz)
  39. The Symbolic Life (thewitchofendor.com)
  40. I Think This Might Have Been Epistolary (figbert.com)
  41. the one where i throw quotes at you (clarionsong.substack.com)
  42. Statistics made simple (tonsky.me)