January 2026 Archive
14011.
What's so hard about PDF text extraction? (filingdb.com)
14012.
Smaller Grains Are Not Stronger: Microcrystalline Metals at High Strain Rates (journals.aps.org)
14013.
Windows 8 had a 30-second ad with more creativity than Windows 11 (windowslatest.com)
14014.
The case for optimism in South Africa (economist.com)
14015.
The cautionary tale of Yoon Suk Yeol and the 'abuse of power' (japantimes.co.jp)
14016.
Beware: Government Using Image Manipulation for Propaganda (eff.org)
14017.
Many of the Uber-rich pay next to no income tax (2019) (apnews.com)
14018.
GNU gettext Reaches Version 1.0 After 30 Years (phoronix.com)
14019.
Show HN: HN Zeitgeist – what 40M HN comments reveal about 20 years of tech (hn.mrzepa.com)
14020.
Show HN: Daily Cat (daily.cat)
14021.
Why the concrete in data centers is a hidden source of carbon emissions (latimes.com)
14022.
Porkchop: A Tamagotchi‑Style WiFi Pig That Levels Up While You Hack (github.com)
14023.
We Dropped Vue for Gleam and Lustre (blog.nestful.app)
14024.
The AI problem no one is talking about (morrick.me)
14025.
The imminent risk of vibe coding (basta.substack.com)
14026.
Minimum Viable Knowledge: How AI Becomes Your Ultimate Leverage (makershub.dev)
14027.
Show HN: Apple II(e) emulator in Rust for native and web (github.com)
14028.
Community Considerations Around AI Contributions (blog.scientific-python.org)
14029.
Show HN: A Local OS for LLMs. MIT License. Zero Hallucinations. Infinite Memory (github.com)
14030.
Some Data Should Be Code (borretti.me)
14031.
The Saddest Moment: Distributed systems and the reliability illusion (2014)[pdf] (usenix.org)
14032.
I'm not an academic, I'm an engineer (bits-chips.com)
14033.
The User Guide for Elite, the Tool Palantir Made for ICE (404media.co)
14034.
Learning New Tech with AI Assistance Might Backfire (anup.io)
14035.
CATL and BYD bet on sodium-ion EV batteries to overcome rising lithium prices (electrek.co)
14036.
Al-Biruni's classic experiment: How to calculate the radius of the earth (owlcation.com)
14037.
People are swayed by AI-generated videos even when they know they're fake (phys.org)
14038.
There Can Be Only Two (epsilontheory.com)
14039.
Unified multi-modal MLX engine architecture in LM Studio (lmstudio.ai)
14040.
Best of Moltbook (astralcodexten.com)