December 2025 Archive
601.
The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine (nytimes.com)
602.
Programming peaked (functional.computer)
603.
Rust's Block Pattern (notgull.net)
604.
Peter Thiel's Apocalyptic Worldview Is a Dangerous Fantasy (jacobin.com)
605.
Professional software developers don't vibe, they control (arxiv.org)
606.
Static Allocation with Zig (nickmonad.blog)
607.
Zpdf: PDF text extraction in Zig (github.com)
608.
How I Left YouTube (zhach.news)
609.
After Windows Update, Password icon invisible, click where it used to be (support.microsoft.com)
610.
James Moylan, engineer behind arrow signaling which side to refuel a car, dies (fordauthority.com)
611.
Nvidia just paid $20B for a company that missed its revenue target by 75% (blog.drjoshcsimmons.com)
612.
The Deviancy Signal: Having "Nothing to Hide" Is a Threat to Us All (thompson2026.com)
613.
Coarse is better (borretti.me)
614.
Huge Binaries (fzakaria.com)
615.
Germany: Amazon is not allowed to force customers to watch ads on Prime Video (zeit.de)
616.
Full Unicode Search at 50× ICU Speed with AVX‑512 (ashvardanian.com)
617.
The GitHub Actions control plane is no longer free (blacksmith.sh)
618.
Show HN: Mysti – Claude, Codex, and Gemini debate your code, then synthesize (github.com)
619.
VS Code deactivates IntelliCode in favor of the paid Copilot (heise.de)
620.
AI agents find $4.6M in blockchain smart contract exploits (red.anthropic.com)
621.
LLVM AI tool policy: human in the loop (discourse.llvm.org)
622.
It seems that OpenAI is scraping [certificate transparency] logs (benjojo.co.uk)
623.
Quickemu: Quickly create and run optimised Windows, macOS and Linux VMs (github.com)
624.
Iron Beam: Israel's first operational anti drone laser system (mod.gov.il)
625.
LLMs Are Not Fun (orib.dev)
626.
Cat Gap (en.wikipedia.org)
627.
Reverse Engineering a Mysterious UDP Stream in My Hotel (2016) (gkbrk.com)
628.
Tixl: Open-source realtime motion graphics (github.com)
629.
Feynman's Hughes Lectures: 950 pages of notes (thehugheslectures.info)
630.
School cell phone bans and student achievement (nber.org)