December 2025 Archive
9541.
Knuth Christmas Lecture: Adventures with Knight's Tours (2025) [video] (youtube.com)
9542.
A Brief History of Roombas with Fart Spray (taylor.town)
9543.
Why ice skating is a miracle of physics (bigthink.com)
9544.
Brown shooting suspect: gruelling academic climate may have taken mental toll (theguardian.com)
9545.
Show HN: Why is ML inference still so ad-hoc in practice?
9546.
Show HN: Figma Alternative Free – [In Progress] (absl.design)
9547.
Our king, our priest, our feudal lord – AI is taking us back to the dark ages (theguardian.com)
9548.
Data Center Surge Reaches India as American Tech Giants Invest Billions (nytimes.com)
9549.
Don Knuth – Christmas Lecture 2025 [video] (youtube.com)
9550.
To get better at filtering the good ideas from the bad, by paying attention (thetimes.com)
9551.
Betty Reid Soskin, who became a park ranger at 85, dies aged 104 (theguardian.com)
9552.
Our king, our priest, our feudal lord; how AI is taking us back to the dark ages (theguardian.com)
9553.
Stop the slop by disabling AI features in Chrome (theregister.com)
9554.
Beyond Context: Large Language Models Failure to Grasp Users Intent (arxiv.org)
9555.
9556.
39C3 – To sign or not to sign: Practical vulnerabilities in GPG and friends [video] (youtube.com)
9557.
Scientists uncover why mRNA Covid vaccines can trigger heart inflammation (sciencedaily.com)
9558.
Show HN: Future Hacker News (future-hacker-news.succinct.link)
9559.
Meteorite crater hosts methane-making microbes–a clue to life on Mars? (phys.org)
9560.
Playing Factorio from 1k floppy disks (youtube.com)
9561.
Laid Off After 25 Years in Tech:The Anxiety,Sacrifice,Reality No One Talks About [video] (youtube.com)
9562.
The Mathematics of Tuning Systems (johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com)
9563.
The Ascendance of Algorithmic Tyranny (noemamag.com)
9564.
Lengthy trade route is peak globalization (wsj.com)
9565.
Fox's Laws of Software Development (gist.github.com)
9566.
'Better C' Playgrounds (antonz.org)
9567.
Data centers are West Virginia's new strip mines (salon.com)
9568.
Doom in Django: testing the limits of LiveView at 600.000 divs/segundo (en.andros.dev)
9569.
The brain decides what to remember with sequential molecular timers (medicalxpress.com)
9570.
Going Paperless (julianfalk.dev)