Growing up in “404 Not Found”: China's nuclear city in the Gobi Desert

248 Vincent_Yan404 2025-12-28 09:43:43 UTC substack.com Llama Share 91

The author grew up in a secret Chinese nuclear city called 404 in the Gobi Desert, built by elite scientists and laborers in 1958. The city was a utopian bubble with its own department stores, cinemas, and zoo, but its dark side included radioactive materials and isolation.

Calendar

583 twapi 2025-12-28 05:43:43 UTC neatnik.net Full Share 77

A simple printable calendar with the full year on a single page

Replacing JavaScript with Just HTML

490 soheilpro 2025-12-28 01:43:43 UTC htmhell.dev Llama Share 175

JavaScript is being replaced by native HTML and CSS methods for simpler tasks to reduce user download and improve performance. HTML elements like details and input with datalist can replace JavaScript accordions and dropdowns.

Ask HN: Anti-AI Open Source License?

15 W-Stool 2025-12-28 14:25:43 UTC news.ycombinator.com Full Share 4

I'm preparing to open source some code I have and I explicitly do not want it used to train AI in any fashion. Is there an open source license that prohibits this?

How we lost communication to entertainment

521 8organicbits 2025-12-27 20:43:43 UTC ploum.net Llama Share 270

The author argues that the Fediverse is not a communication network but a social media platform, and users don't mind losing messages due to their experience with algorithmic platforms.

One year of keeping a tada list

42 egonschiele 2025-12-28 09:43:43 UTC ducktyped.org Llama Share 16

The user keeps a tada list to track daily accomplishments, which helps focus on completed tasks and acknowledges new skills learned. The list also reveals forgotten projects and adds stress due to daily expectations.

Floor796

816 krtkush 2025-12-27 14:43:43 UTC floor796.com Full Share 103

A huge animation scene with many references to memes, games, films, series, anime, music groups

Rex is a safe kernel extension framework that allows Rust in the place of eBPF

83 zdw 2025-12-28 05:43:43 UTC github.com/rex-rs Llama Share 43

Rex is a kernel extension framework that allows loading Rust programs in place of eBPF, providing safety guarantees through Rust's compiler. It avoids eBPF's verifier restrictions and offers better optimization opportunities.

C++ says “We have try. . . finally at home”

77 ibobev 2025-12-28 06:43:43 UTC devblogs.microsoft.com Llama Share 66

Control structures for executing code when control leaves a block exist in Java, C#, Python, and JavaScript but not C++. C++ uses destructors for this purpose but has varying behavior when exceptions occur.

Langfuse (YC W23) Is Hiring in Berlin, Germany

0 2025-12-28 12:43:43 UTC langfuse.com Llama Share

Langfuse is a widely adopted LLM Engineering platform with 19,719 GitHub stars and 23.1M+ SDK installs per month. It's backed by top investors and trusted by 19 Fortune 50 and 63 Fortune 500 companies.

Fathers’ choices may be packaged and passed down in sperm RNA

223 vismit2000 2025-12-28 01:43:43 UTC quantamagazine.org Llama Share 140

Researchers have found that sperm cells carry more than just DNA, including molecules that convey information about a father's fitness, such as diet and stress levels, to his offspring. These non-DNA transfers may influence genomic activity and exert control over the embryo's development and the adult it will become.

Building a macOS app to know when my Mac is thermal throttling

6 angristan 2025-12-28 12:43:43 UTC stanislas.blog Prefix Share 0

I’ve been very happy with my M2 MacBook Air for the past few years. However, when using an external display, especially a very demanding one like a 4K 120Hz display, I’ve noticed it started struggling more. Since it lacks fans, you can’t hear it struggling, but you can feel it as everything becomes very slow or unresponsive: that’s when thermal throttling kicks in. I know it’s thermal ...

Gpg.fail

385 todsacerdoti 2025-12-27 17:43:43 UTC gpg.fail Full Share 220

"in the hurry of leaving i forgot the sites src at home, sorry, had to rewrite the whole thing. expect a nicer site by tomorrow. im patching as we speak." - reaper (<- to blame)

Rainbow Six Siege hacked as players get billions of credits and random bans

225 erhuve 2025-12-27 20:43:43 UTC shanethegamer.com Llama Share 78

Rainbow Six Siege is experiencing a major crisis with widespread hacks and exploits causing account disruptions and massive in-game credit gains. Ubisoft is investigating the issue but has not provided a timeline for recovery or confirmed the cause of the problem.

Functional programming and reliability: ADTs, safety, critical infrastructure

107 rastrian 2025-12-28 00:43:43 UTC blog.rastrian.dev Llama Share 98

Functional programming and Algebraic Data Types help prevent bugs by modeling domain rules in types, making invalid states unrepresentable and reducing production incidents. By using pure functions, immutability, and smart constructors, reliability is designed into the system, making it safer and more predictable.

Hungry Fat Cells Could Someday Starve Cancer to Death

10 mrtnmrtn 2025-12-28 10:43:43 UTC ucsf.edu Llama Share 0

Researchers at UC San Francisco used CRISPR to turn white fat cells into "beige" fat cells that consume calories to fight cancer. The approach, funded by NIH, uses engineered fat cells to deprive tumors of nutrients, showing promise in treating various types of cancer.

Dialtone – AOL 3.0 Server

66 rickcarlino 2025-12-28 03:43:43 UTC dialtone.live Llama Share 30

A fan-built server recreates AOL's 1990s P3 protocol for a retro internet experience. The Dialtone server, powered by Grok AI, allows users to chat and explore the early internet without dial-up or downloads.

The Origins of APL (1974) [video]

34 ofalkaed 2025-12-28 06:43:43 UTC youtube.com Embed Share 5

Project Vend: Phase Two

151 kubami 2025-12-27 21:43:43 UTC anthropic.com Llama Share 54

Anthropic's AI shopkeeper Claudius improved in phase two of Project Vend with new tools and a manager, but still struggled with business decisions and customer interactions. The experiment highlights the challenges of deploying AI agents in real-world settings and the need for guardrails to balance their autonomy and economic potential.

'PromptQuest' is the worst game of 2025 (trying to make chatbots work)

5 dijksterhuis 2025-12-28 13:43:43 UTC theregister.com Prefix Share 2

Opinion When Microsoft recently decided to open source the seminal text adventure game Zork, I contemplated revisiting it during the festive season... until I realized I've spent much of 2025 experiencing the worst of such games when using AI chatbots. Adventure games like Zork and its many imitators invited players to explore a virtual world, often a Tolkien-esque cave, that existed only ...

Text rendering hates you (2019)

159 andsoitis 2025-12-27 20:43:43 UTC faultlore.com Llama Share 60

Rendering text is incredibly hard due to the complexity of Unicode, fonts, and styling, requiring a robust system to cascade into other fonts and handle various nuances like ligatures and line-wrapping. A good text rendering system must support custom fonts, colors, and styles, handle platform-specific quirks, and provide a native "look and feel" while accommodating different user preferences ...

Windows 2 for the Apricot PC/Xi

140 todsacerdoti 2025-12-27 18:43:43 UTC ninakalinina.com Llama Share 31

The author ported Windows 2 to an Apricot PC, a 1980s computer with an Intel 8086 processor. They used the Windows DDK to create drivers for the Apricot's hardware.

Immer – A library of persistent and immutable data structures written in C++

95 smartmic 2025-12-27 22:43:43 UTC github.com/arximboldi Llama Share 10

Immer is a C++ library providing persistent and immutable data structures for interactive and concurrent programs. It enables simpler architectures with correctness and performance.

Liberating Bluetooth on the ESP32

92 todsacerdoti 2025-12-27 22:43:43 UTC exquisite.tube Full Share 13

Despite how widely used the ESP32 is, its Bluetooth stack remains closed source. Let’s dive into the low-level workings of a proprietary Bluetooth peripheral. Whether you are interested in reverse ...

Show HN: Ez FFmpeg – Video editing in plain English

379 josharsh 2025-12-27 14:43:43 UTC npmjs.com Llama Share 188

User wants to convert a video file using ffmpeg, selecting various options such as format, size, speed, and more. User installs ffmpeg on different operating systems.

An experiment in separating identity, memory, and tools

12 promptfluid 2025-12-28 08:43:43 UTC rcrdbl.com Full Share 11

RCRDBL is a PromptFluid™ transmission relay station. Signals preserved. Records archived. Intelligence from the autonomous frontier.

Nvidia's $20B antitrust loophole

492 ossa-ma 2025-12-27 17:43:43 UTC ossa-ma.github.io Llama Share 156

Nvidia paid $20 billion for Groq's IP and talent, but not the company, to avoid antitrust review and geopolitical entanglement. The deal enriched Chamath and Sacks, who promoted "American AI leadership" while cutting deals with foreign governments, while employees who built the technology were either hired or shafted.

Say No to Palantir in the NHS

418 _____k 2025-12-27 21:43:43 UTC notopalantir.goodlawproject.org Llama Share 134

NHS England is rolling out Palantir software, a US firm linked to mass deportation and genocide, despite one of its founders opposing the NHS. A tool has been set up to help people find and contact their local NHS trust to demand they reject Palantir.

Clock synchronization is a nightmare

200 grep_it 2025-12-27 17:43:43 UTC arpitbhayani.me Llama Share 133

Clock synchronization is a complex problem in distributed systems due to factors like temperature, manufacturing variation, and network delays, which can cause clocks to drift apart and lead to consistency issues. Various algorithms and approaches, such as NTP, PTP, Lamport timestamps, and vector clocks, are used to achieve synchronization, but the level of synchronization required depends on ...

OrangePi 6 Plus Review

181 ekianjo 2025-12-27 14:43:43 UTC boilingsteam.com Llama Share 155

The OrangePi 6 Plus is a powerful SBC with 16GB RAM, 12-core processor, and Immortalis G720 GPU, offering a fast desktop experience and good performance for gaming and server use. However, it has limitations with software support, power draw, and older Debian image, but its value proposition is still impressive and sets a high bar for future ARM64 SBCs.