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39c3: In-house electronics manufacturing from scratch: How hard can it be? [video]

media.ccc.de

Why is electronics manufacturing hard? Can it ever be made easy and more accessible? What will it take to relocate industrial production ...

Game is a single 13 KiB file that runs on Windows, Linux and in the Browser

iczelia.net

A Portable Executable (.EXE), ELF64 and HTML polyglot that runs natively on Windows, Linux and in the Browser.

Open-source iCloud Photos Downloader (AKA escape from iCloud)

github.com

A command-line tool to download photos from iCloud - icloud-photos-downloader/icloud_photos_downloader

Conbini Wars – map of Japanese convenience store ratios

conbini.kikkia.dev

XMPP and Metadata

blog.mathieui.net

I'm making a game engine based on dynamic signed distance fields (SDFs) [video]

youtube.com

Uncrossy

uncrossy.com

Clear the board by sliding words. A puzzle game by Rob Jagnow.

The next two years of software engineering

addyosmani.com

Exploring five critical questions shaping software engineering through 2026, with contrasting scenarios for each. These lenses help prepare for the evolving ...

FUSE is All You Need – Giving agents access to anything via filesystems

jakobemmerling.de

Giving agents access to a sandboxed environment with a shell and a filesystem has been the latest hype when it comes to agentic harnesses. Recent examples of this include: Turso’s AgentFS Anthropic’s Agent SDK, which brings Claude Code’s harness to non-coding domains Vercel rebuilding their text-to-SQL agent on top of a sandbox Anthropic’s Agent Skills for filesystem-based progressive disclosure The argument for why this is good goes something like this: The big labs are doing heavy RL for coding tasks in these kinds of environments. Aligning more closely with such a harness brings free gains from the coding domain to other problem spaces.

Sampling at negative temperature

cavendishlabs.org

Perfectly Replicating Coca Cola [video]

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Insights into Claude Opus 4.5 from Pokémon

lesswrong.com

Credit: Nano Banana, with some text provided. You may be surprised to learn that ClaudePlaysPokemon is still running today, and that Claude still has…

Himalayas bare and rocky after reduced winter snowfall, scientists warn

bbc.com

Experts say dwindling snowfall during winter will impact the lives and livelihoods of millions.

Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (January 2026)

news.ycombinator.com

Garbage collection is contrarian

trynova.dev

Modeling unrooted handles to garbage collected data using contravariant lifetimes.

Elo – A data expression language which compiles to JavaScript, Ruby, and SQL

elo-lang.org

Gadget Exposed a Spy Camera [video]

youtube.com

Don't fall into the anti-AI hype

antirez.com

XFCE Is Great

rubenerd.com

A post from David Gerard reminded me why I still use Xfce almost everywhere.

AI industry insiders launch site to poison the data that feeds them

rnsaffn.com

Show HN: Shellock, a real-time CLI flag explainer for fish shell

github.com

Real-time CLI flag explainer for fish shell. Contribute to ibehnam/shellock development by creating an account on GitHub.

A set of Idiomatic prod-grade katas for experienced devs transitioning to Go

github.com

A collection of daily coding challenges designed to help you master idiomatic Go through deliberate, repetitive practice. - MedUnes/go-kata

Erich von Däniken has died

daniken.com

Google's Universal Commerce Protocol aims to make shopping AI-native

news.ycombinator.com

Show HN: An LLM-optimized programming language

github.com

Contribute to imjasonh/imjasonh development by creating an account on GitHub.