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It also violates the GPL 256 495 4d +14m old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1puojsr/the_device_that_controls_my_insulin_pump_uses_the 16Perfect Aircrete, Kitchen Ingredients [video] 46 100 10d +6d youtube.com/watch?v=z4_GxPHwqkA 17How Lewis Carroll computed determinants (2023) 71 208 4d +7m johndcook.com/blog/2023/07/10/lewis-carroll-determinants 18Rob Pike got spammed with an AI slop "act of kindness" 238 300 4d +18m simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/26/slop-acts-of-kindness 19Experts explore new mushroom which causes fairytale-like hallucinations 315 483 4d +1h nhmu.utah.edu/articles/experts-explore-new-mushroom-which-causes-fairytale-hallucinations 20Sandbox: Run untrusted AI code safely, fast 28 79 11d +7d github.com/PwnFunction/sandbox 21A Proclamation Regarding the Restoration of the Dash 139 122 4d +48m blog.nawaz.org/posts/2025/Dec/a-proclamation-regarding-the-restoration-of-the-dash 22ZJIT is now available in Ruby 4.0 27 88 4d +1h railsatscale.com/2025-12-24-launch-zjit 23FFmpeg has issued a DMCA takedown on GitHub 183 543 4d +12m twitter.com/FFmpeg/status/2004599109559496984 24My coworker's 36 key Corne open-source keyboard setup 11 18 4d +2h nuon.co/blog/nuon-keyboard-culture 25ICE's interest in high-tech gear raises new questions: 'What is it for?' 102 102 4d +11m politico.com/news/2025/12/26/ice-high-tech-surveillance-lower-privacy-guardrails-00705401 26Targeting by Reference in the Shadow DOM 1 19 10d +6d meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2025/12/19/targeting-by-reference-in-the-shadow-dom 27C/C++ Embedded Files (2013) 48 49 4d +7m 4rknova.com//blog/2013/01/27/cpp-embedded-files 28Show HN: Xcc700: Self-hosting mini C compiler for ESP32 (Xtensa) in 700 lines 36 148 4d +1h github.com/valdanylchuk/xcc700 29Bedlam Cube Solved (ALL 19,186 solutions) 7 35 8d +4d scottkurowski.comhttp:///BedlamCube 30Show HN: Private blogging and journaling with a simulated audience 48 43 4d +19m tempblog-psi.vercel.app 31Show HN: AutoLISP interpreter in Rust/WASM – a CAD workflow invented 33 yrs ago 43 135 4d +6m acadlisp.de/noscript.html 32Steve wants us to make the Macintosh boot faster 105 79 4d +1h folklore.org/Saving_Lives.html 33High school student discovers 1.5M potential new astronomical objects 110 115 4d +7m smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/high-school-student-discovers-1-5-million-potential-new-astronomical-objects-by-developing-an-ai-algorithm-180986429 34Calibre adds AI "discussion" feature 32 26 4d +4h lwn.net/Articles/1049886 35Officials discover a million more documents potentially related to Epstein case 1 35 4d +1h bbc.com/news/articles/czdgz84dn35o 36How Postmodernism Killed Great Literature 16 16 4d +2h jamesgmartin.center/2025/12/how-postmodernism-killed-great-literature 37Unix "find" expressions compiled to bytecode 17 123 4d +1h nullprogram.com/blog/2025/12/23 38Rob Pike goes nuclear over GenAI 1776 1514 4d +12m skyview.social/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbsky.app%2Fprofile%2Frobpike.io%2Fpost%2F3matwg6w3ic2s&viewtype=tree 39LearnixOS 106 268 4d +1h learnix-os.com 40What happened to all the gold Spain got from the New World? 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