Monthly Highlights
1741.
What nicotine does to your brain (economist.com)
1742.
Installing Java in 2025, and Version Managers (blog.hakanserce.com)
1743.
$96M AUD revamp of Bom website bombs out on launch (bbc.com)
1744.
Wrapping my head around AI wrappers (wreflection.com)
1745.
Y Combinator Startup brings brainrot to developers' IDEs (cladlabs.ai)
1746.
Israel dumps millions into geo targeting evangelicals in churches and ChatGPT (disclose.tv)
1747.
Why movies just don't feel "real" anymore (old.reddit.com)
1748.
What is better: a lookup table or an enum type? (cybertec-postgresql.com)
1749.
Apparently my Samsung fridge has ads now (old.reddit.com)
1750.
SMS phishers pivot to points, taxes, fake retailers (krebsonsecurity.com)
1751.
The 4.5T dollar elephant in the room (stevenadler.substack.com)
1752.
The Nature of the Beast: Charles Le Brun's Human-Animal Hybrids (1806) (publicdomainreview.org)
1753.
Why Sam Altman was booted from OpenAI, according to new testimony (theverge.com)
1754.
Top MAGA Influencers on X/Twitter Accidentally Unmasked as Foreign Trolls (thedailybeast.com)
1755.
Lazier Binary Decision Diagrams for set-theoretic types (elixir-lang.org)
1756.
An update on the Farphone's battery (far.computer)
1757.
Jedi Blue (en.wikipedia.org)
1758.
US Army to buy 1 million drones, in major acquisition ramp-up (reuters.com)
1759.
Investors expect AI use to soar. That's not happening (economist.com)
1760.
Ask HN: Dark Mode for HN is overdue
1761.
Meta Says the 2,400 'Adult Movies' They Torrented Were for Personal Use (vice.com)
1762.
A Chinese firm bought an insurer for CIA agents (bbc.com)
1763.
Week After Week, the US Is Dismantling Knowledge Infrastructure (techpolicy.press)
1764.
Apple Design Official Alan Dye Poached by Meta in Major Coup (bloomberg.com)
1765.
The AI bubble is bigger than you think (prospect.org)
1766.
Making the Clang AST Leaner and Faster (cppalliance.org)
1767.
Cryptographers cancel election results after losing decryption key (arstechnica.com)
1768.
Strap Rail (construction-physics.com)
1769.
The Unraveling of the Justice Department: 60 attorneys describe a year of chaos (nytimes.com)
1770.
ICE Arrests the Press (petapixel.com)