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New Proofs Probe Soap-Film Singularities
https://www.quantamagazine.org/new-proofs-probe-soap-film-singularities-20251112/
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Precise geolocation via Wi-Fi Positioning System
https://www.amoses.dev/blog/wifi-location/
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The lost cause of the Lisp machines
https://www.tfeb.org/fragments/2025/11/18/the-lost-cause-of-the-lisp-machines/
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Implementation of a Java Processor on a FPGA
https://mavmatrix.uta.edu/electricaleng_theses/337/
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A surprise with how '#!' handles its program argument in practice
https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/ShebangRelativePathSurprise
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Verifying your Matrix devices is becoming mandatory
https://element.io/blog/verifying-your-devices-is-becoming-mandatory-2/
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CLI tool to check the Git status of multiple projects
https://github.com/uralys/check-projects
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Static Web Hosting on the Intel N150: FreeBSD, SmartOS, NetBSD, OpenBSD and Linu
https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/11/19/static-web-hosting-intel-n150-freebsd-smartos-netbsd-openbsd-linux/
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Researchers discover security vulnerability in WhatsApp
https://www.univie.ac.at/en/news/detail/forscherinnen-entdecken-grosse-sicherheitsluecke-in-whatsapp
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Vortex: An extensible, state of the art columnar file format
https://github.com/vortex-data/vortex
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Europe is scaling back GDPR and relaxing AI laws
https://www.theverge.com/news/823750/european-union-ai-act-gdpr-changes
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Loose wire leads to blackout, contact with Francis Scott Key bridge
https://www.ntsb.gov:443/news/press-releases/Pages/NR20251118.aspx
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Reproducible C++ builds by logging Git hashes
https://jgarby.uk/posts/git_repr/
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How to identify a prime number without a computer
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-to-identify-a-prime-number-without-a-computer/
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The peaceful transfer of power in open source projects
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/11/the-peaceful-transfer-of-power-in-open-source-projects/
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Show HN: I made a down detector for down detector
https://downdetectorsdowndetector.com
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Thunderbird adds native Microsoft Exchange email support
https://blog.thunderbird.net/2025/11/thunderbird-adds-native-microsoft-exchange-email-support/
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Itiner-e: A high-resolution dataset of roads of the Roman Empire
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-025-06140-z
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Learning to Boot from PXE
https://blog.imraniqbal.org/learning-to-boot-from-pxe/
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Your Smartphone, Their Rules: App Stores Enable Corporate-Government Censorship
https://www.aclu.org/news/free-speech/app-store-oligopoly
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Ultima VII Revisited
https://github.com/ViridianGames/U7Revisited
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Race optimization algorithms with good initializations (beat them with bonuses)
https://debargha.com
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I made a down detector for down detector
https://downdetectorsdowndetector.com
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A Rigorous Approach to the Algorithmic Composition of Iannis Xenakis(2009) [pdf]
https://monoskop.org/images/3/38/Hoffmann_Peter_Music_Out_of_Nothing_A_Rigorous_Approach_to_Algorithmic_Composition_by_Iannis_Xenakis_2009.pdf
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Even Realities Smart Glasses: G2
https://www.evenrealities.com/smart-glasses
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I wrote a Pong game in a 512-byte boot sector
https://akshatjoshi.com/i-wrote-a-pong-game-in-a-512-byte-boot-sector/
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A down detector for down detector's down detector
https://downdetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetector.com/
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Google Antigravity
https://antigravity.google/
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Show HN: RowboatX – open-source Claude Code for everyday automations
https://github.com/rowboatlabs/rowboat
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Mojo-V: Secret Computation for RISC-V
https://github.com/toddmaustin/mojo-v
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