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Hello World! I’m back to blogging after a long hiatus of two whole years. People have been kindly asking how’s my life going. Since I haven’t written a blog post for so long, some people may be wonder

Original Article: Show HN: isometric.nyc – giant isometric pixel art map of NYC Comments: HN Discussion Comment Summary: COMMENTS SENTIMENT AGREED POSITIVES

isometric nyc A few months ago I was standing on the 13th floor balcony of the Google New York 9th St office staring out at Lower Manhattan. I’d been deep in the weeds of a secret project using Nano B

There is a dashboard for pizza places around the Pentagon. The Pentagon Pizza Index (PizzINT) is a real-time dashboard that monitors pizza shop popularity around the Pentagon area in Arlington, Virgi

An answer to a question that I get asked a lotJan 22, 2025 I’m regularly asked questions like: Hey. I just moved to New York. I want to find cool people doing tech/art/games stuff.Where should I go?

And why do I care?Jan 22, 2026 Here are a few lines of summarized tcpdump output for an ssh session where I send a single keystroke: $ ./first_lines_of_pcap.sh single-key.pcap 1 0.000s CLIENT->

SSH has no Host header exe.dev is a new hosting service that, for $20/month, gives you up to 25 VMs "that share 2 CPUs and 8GB RAM". Everything happens over SSH, including creating new VMs. Once conf

College admissions are nonsense.Not because colleges are malicious or because admissions officers are stupid, but because the process itself pretends to have a level of precision and moral seriousness

F1 2026 brings with it a host of engine and chassis rules changes that could in turn prompt the biggest shake-up in decades. We've already detailed the engine changes here, but what are those all-impo

Formula 1 has overhauled its power unit regulations for 2026, after 12 consecutive seasons without change.The key change for 2026 is the increased reliance on electrical power, with the new power unit

Generate images locally with Ollama on macOS. Windows and Linux support coming soon.

For 16 years now, we’ve asked smart people what they think will happen in the coming year in the world of journalism and digital media. And this year’s collection of predictions, published last month,

Buckle up, readers, because we’re about to do a deep dive into an important but difficult-to-grasp concept in the social sciences. It’s called age-period-cohort (APC) effects. Let me start by showing

jordanhubbard/nanolang Plenty of people have mused about what a new programming language specifically designed to be used by LLMs might look like. Jordan Hubbard (co-founder of FreeBSD, with serious

Original Article: Apple testing new App Store design that blurs the line between ads and results Comments: HN Discussion Comment Summary: COMMENTS SENTIMENT L

The New York Times has hired eight new journalists for its video department, the news organization announced today. Another 14 video-related roles remain open. The new hires include Robert Libetti (

This article was migrated from an old version of our website in 2025. As a result, it might have some low-quality images or non-functioning links - if there's any issues you'd like to see fixed, get

Prolific as always, Sebastian Tomczak (aka littlescale) just dropped this gem. What do you need nine times out of ten from an audio editor? Visualize, check levels, trim, gain, fade, reverse, normaliz

Original Article: After 25 years, Wikipedia has proved that news doesn't need to look like news Comments: HN Discussion Comment Summary: COMMENTS SENTIMENT: NEUT

Believe it or not, A$AP Rocky is a huge fan of radiance fields.Yesterday, when A$AP Rocky released the music video for Helicopter, many viewers focused on the chaos, the motion, and the unmistakable e

this approach provides censorship resistance, surveillance resistance, and infrastructure independence. the network remains functional during internet outages, natural disasters, protests, or in re

Mercedes will be the sole supplier of Formula 1's safety and medical cars this season, The Race can reveal, with Aston Martin stepping back from its involvement.Aston Martin had shared responsibility

Formula 1's brand-new era in 2026 will feature 24 grands prix, from the season-opener in Melbourne in March to the season finale in Abu Dhabi in December, almost nine months later.Below you'll find al

A lot has already been said about the absurdly large corner radius of windows on macOS Tahoe. People are calling the way it looks comical, like a child’s toy, or downright insane. Setting all the ae

At the 2016 Loop summit, Dr. Jason Hockman gave a fascinating talk about the evolving role of breakbeats in electronic music, from their initial usage in hip hop into a second generation appropriation

Sparkle! Slash! PowerUP! This deceptively simple, stupidly fun free browser tool/download generates sound effects in the style of 80s and 90s Japanese animation, all thanks to a clever signal chain. A

A crypto holder has lost $282 million in bitcoin and litecoin after a scammer impersonating a customer support employee for the Trezor hardware wallet manufacturer successfully convinced them into rev

Ollama is now compatible with the Anthropic Messages API, making it possible to use tools like Claude Code with open models.

My book The Vanishing Church just released on Tuesday (1/13). I have a couple of events that I wanted to make you aware of regarding its release. I am doing an online discussion with the wonderful Ade

For those of you who have joined the subscription list of this newsletter, let me get you up to speed. Tony Jones and I won a Templeton Grant titled Making Meaning in a Post-Religious America. The cen

A wind farm near the Heidu Mountain Scenic Area in Qinghai Province. Weimin Chu Last year China installed more than half of all wind and solar added globally. In May alone, it added eno

Lewis Hamilton is to switch race engineers this season, with Ferrari announcing on Friday that Riccardo Adami is to move to a new role within its Formula 1 organisation.In a disappointing first Ferrar

[Joseph Cox at 404 Media]This is racial profiling on a grand scale:“Palantir is working on a tool for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) that populates a map with potential deportation targets

There was little warning. Officers tumbled into the newsroom all at once, guns drawn, shouting into the common spaces. In the kitchen, someone was in the middle of drawing an espresso; overflowing co

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What sets TouchDesigner apart from many other software tools is its community. Over the last few years, that community has grown significantly, and you can now find both virtual and in-person meetups

Chinese car giant BYD has reportedly been offering LiDAR sensors in upcoming versions of some of its cheapest cars on the market. According to CNC, the latest to be approved versions of both the Seag

Apple is joining forces with Google to power its artificial intelligence features, including a major Siri upgrade expected later this year. The multiyear partnership will lean on Google's Gemini and c

As of 2025, a stamp for a letter costs $0.78 in the United States. Amazon Prime sells items for less than that... with free shipping! Why send a postcard when you can send actual stuff? I found all it

Back in 2019, Live Nation CEO Michael Rapino said that 1 billion people tried to buy tickets for BTS’ then tour dates the day they went on sale. Could demand for their long-awaited 2026-2027 outing be

Superhuman AI Exfiltrates Emails Classic prompt injection attack: When asked to summarize the user’s recent mail, a prompt injection in an untrusted email manipulated Superhuman AI to submit conte

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — Private equity firms acquired more than 500 autism therapy centers across the U.S. over the past decade, with nearly 80% of acquisitions occurring over a four-ye

North Korean workers were frustrated with the speech national leader Kim Jong Un delivered in Pyongyang on New Year’s Day. The speech was distributed to factories and enterprises nationwide to be stud

At the end of my post about color palettes I talked about extracting palettes from images. I said there that I’d gone through a few different strategies but wasn’t really satisfied with any of them. A

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Original Article: I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great Comments: HN Discussion Comment Summary: COMMENTS SENTIMENT LIKED POSITIVES

I've been dealing with data privacy regulations for over 15 years. GDPR, CCPA, dozens of state laws—most of them great on paper, terrible in execution. But California just launched something different

Cut the chuck roast into 1 1/2-inch cubes, removing any large, tough pieces of fat or gristle.Turn the Instant Pot to SAUTE. Add 1 tablespoon of the oil. Once the oil is hot and shimmering (a drop of

Made For ESPHomeThe Bluetooth proxy function is enabled by defaultInput：USB 5V 1AWi-Fi Type：2.4GhzWi-Fi chip： ESP32C3Temperature measurement range：-40 ~ 125 °CHumidity measurement range： 0 ~ 100%RHTem

Push-button telephone. Analog drum machine. Arduino Nano. DIY amplifier. Shashwath Sundar, aka simple_but_nerdy, makes the telephone-drum machine fusion seem like it was meant to be. At first glance

Adrian Newey's would-be Formula 1 superteam has a perfect set of ingredients to thrive in 2026, which probably explains the hype that has filled some of the social media vacuum of the winter in recent

LANDR, the AI-powered music platform, has acquired Reason Studios. That pairs Reason with the Montreal-based platform for mastering and distribution, and LANDR subsidiary SynchroArts (makers of VocAli

Original Article: Dell admits consumers don't care about AI PCs Comments: HN Discussion Comment Summary: COMMENTS SENTIMENT: NEUTRAL POSITIVES: - Many commen

Original Article: Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far Comments: HN Discussion Comment Summary: COMMENTS SENTIMENT LIKED

Original Article: Stop Doom Scrolling, Start Doom Coding: Build via the terminal from your phone Comments: HN Discussion Comment Summary: COMMENTS SENTIMENT L

Code on a run! Even code at the club! I've been amazed by how much I can get done while being so far away from home. In Taiwan, I could access my computer in Philadelphia and coded a prototy

Original Article: US will ban Wall Street investors from buying single-family homes Comments: HN Discussion Comment Summary: COMMENTS SENTIMENT LIKED - Most c

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has a new budget under the current administration, and they are going on a surveillance tech shopping spree. Standing at $28.7 billion dollars for the ye

Haas is now set to become the first team to reveal images of its 2026 Formula 1 car, after bringing forward its launch to avoid an over-congested day.The American-owned outfit had originally planned t

Sergio Perez is preparing for his Formula 1 return with Cadillac while shedding the last of the baggage from a turbulent late-2024 exit from Red Bull, where he believes "everything was a problem" with

What has happened since Toyota first revealed an initial visual of its 2026 LMH on October 1 last year? The car was shaken down at Paul Ricard on October 8 and 9 in camouflage livery, giving The Race 

No, MTV is not shutting down, though Paramount Skydance did shutter some all-music video channels in various markets. But never mind: the internet can best even vintage MTV. Tune into MTV REWIND and h

While Formula 1 has hit the pause button on the idea of a switch to V8/V10 hybrids in the future, the emergence of an interesting new project that aims to put the spectacular engines right at its hear

Today we will take a look at unconventional ways to use cameras as creative input devices in TouchDesigner. Let’s explore a few examples and techniques. There are tons of ways to use cameras in

Inside a brightly lit office in Shanghai, Kim’s task for the week was to pretend he was opening the door of a microwave. Wearing a virtual reality headset and exoskeletons...

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CLAUDE CODE ON-THE-GO Author: mgranda Date: January 2026 I run six Claude Code agents in parallel from my phone. No laptop, no desktop—just Termius on iOS and a cloud VM.The Setupflowchart LR

Today's links The Post-American Internet (permalink) On December 28th, I delivered a speech entitled "A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet" for 39C3, the 39th Chaos Communica

Original Article: AWS raises GPU prices 15% on a Saturday, hopes you weren't paying attention Comments: HN Discussion Comment Summary: COMMENTS SENTIMENT LIKE

Original Article: Microsoft Office renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app” Comments: HN Discussion Comment Summary: COMMENTS SENTIMENT LIKED POSITIVES - Comm

Original Article: Anna's Archive loses .org domain after surprise suspension Comments: HN Discussion Comment Summary: COMMENTS SENTIMENT LIKED POSITIVES - M

Essay It’s contradictory to sit alone in a café. It’s against the reason cafés exist. They are designed as meeting spaces. There is no table with a single chair. Even the ones placed right by the win

I’ve been trying to improve my writing so I read On Writing Well by William Zinsser. My main takeaways: Clear thinking is a prerequisite for clear writing. How do you avoid cluttered writing? “T

When I joined Google ~14 years ago, I thought the job was about writing great code. I was partly right. But the longer I’ve stayed, the more I’ve realized that the engineers who thrive aren’t necessa

Something I like about our weird new LLM-assisted world is the number of people I know who are coding again, having mostly stopped as they moved into management roles or lost their personal side proje

Welcome to the Unsure app! This text is a tutorial that you can play with. Every Unsure app document ("napkin") is a plain text file like this one. But when you write an assignment like the follow

It genuinely feels to me like GPT-5.2 and Opus 4.5 in November represent an inflection point - one of those moments where the models get incrementally better in a way that tips across an invisible cap

Original Article: Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time Comments: HN Discussion Comment Summary: COMMENTS SENTIMENT DISLIKED POSITIVES

Original Article: Publish on your own site, syndicate elsewhere Comments: HN Discussion Comment Summary: COMMENTS SENTIMENT LIKED POSITIVES Many comme

Toggle the table of contents POSSE icon POSSE is an abbreviation for Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere, the practice of posting content on your own site first, then p

KJU Events Director and WPK Propaganda and Agitation Department Deputy Director Hyon Song Wol arrives with her daughter for the New Year’s celebration. Looks like mama had to work (Photo: KCTV-Yonhap)

Happy New Year! Many have made plans, goals, and resolutions for 2026 – diet, exercise, business, and finance are just some of the determinations to make personal and professional changes.While the ca

We at Rest of World love a good chart. So much so that this year we launched Charts, a page dedicated to preserving all the original charts we put into our articles. In 2025, we used them to help vis

13 commentsSeoul Completes Elevators at All Subway Stations Seoul first to install elevators at all 338 subway stations nationwidehttps://www.chosun.com/english/national-en/2025/12/30/HCYGS7LKNRG2RKBQ

I am a huge fan of gistpreview.github.io, the site by Leon Huang that lets you append ?GIST_id to see a browser-rendered version of an HTML page that you have saved to a Gist. The last commit was ten

Original Article: 2025 was a disaster for Windows 11 Comments: HN Discussion Comment Summary: COMMENTS SENTIMENT DISLIKED POSITIVES Some users appreci

Digital preservation is the new challenge for synths, just as it is in areas like games. And the Roland JP-8000 got a big leg up with a free and open source release from The Usual Suspects available t

A major link in Tesla’s 4680 battery supply chain has just snapped. South Korean battery material supplier L&F Co. announced today that the value of its massive supply deal with Tesla has been

Original Article: Show HN: Vibe coding a bookshelf with Claude Code Comments: HN Discussion Comment Summary: COMMENTS SENTIMENT LIKED POSITIVES - Commente

This post went unexpectedly viral on Hacker News. There's an interesting discussion there if you want to take a look. I own more books than I can read. Not in a charming, aspirational way, but in th