Daily Top Stories
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2025: The Year in LLMs (simonwillison.net)
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Warren Buffett steps down as Berkshire Hathaway CEO after six decades (latimes.com)
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I canceled my book deal (austinhenley.com)
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Web Browsers have stopped blocking pop-ups (smokingonabike.com)
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Meta created 'playbook' to fend off pressure to crack down on scammers (reuters.com)
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Stewart Cheifet, creator of The Computer Chronicles, has died (obits.goldsteinsfuneral.com)
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2025 was a disaster for Windows 11 (windowscentral.com)
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Bluetooth Headphone Jacking: A Key to Your Phone [video] (media.ccc.de)
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Scientists unlock brain's natural clean-up system for new treatments for stroke (monash.edu)
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Resistance training load does not determine hypertrophy (physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
11.
The Delete Act (privacy.ca.gov)
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On privacy and control (toidiu.com)
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Court report detailing ChatGPT's involvement with a recent murder suicide [pdf] (storage.courtlistener.com)
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I rebooted my social life (takes.jamesomalley.co.uk)
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Scaffolding to Superhuman: How Curriculum Learning Solved 2048 and Tetris (kywch.github.io)
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Flow5 released to open source (flow5.tech)
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Show HN: BusterMQ, Thread-per-core NATS server in Zig with io_uring (bustermq.sh)
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2026: The Year of Java in the Terminal? (xam.dk)
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If childhood is half of subjective life, how should that change how we live? (moultano.wordpress.com)
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Meta made scam ads harder to find instead of removing them (sherwood.news)
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Worlds largest electric ship launched by Tasmanian boatbuilder (theguardian.com)
22.
Pixar's True Story (computerhistory.org)
23.
PyPI in 2025: A Year in Review (blog.pypi.org)
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All-optical synthesis chip for large-scale intelligent semantic vision (science.org)
25.
Judge to Texas: You Can't Age-Gate the Internet Without Evidence (techdirt.com)
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Rust–: Rust without the borrow checker (github.com)
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Windows 11 Outperforming Linux on an Intel Arrow Lake H Laptop (phoronix.com)
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Nerd: A language for LLMs, not humans (nerd-lang.org)
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The Economics of Duke University (dontaylor13.substack.com)
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Love Your Customers (bcantrill.dtrace.org)