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Bruce Perens: The Ham Radio Operator Who Made Trump Want Greenland

https://web.archive.org/web/20260115085443/https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ham-radio-operator-who-made-trump-want-greenland-bruce-perens-yiiec
1•weinzierl•1h ago

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weinzierl•1h ago
An archive.org link, since submitting LinkedIn articles doesn’t seem to be possible, and I think it’s an interesting story nevertheless.

There’s some irony in that Bruce Perens, of all people, posted it only on LinkedIn and not on his blog.

ZeroGravitas•50m ago
Interesting story but the actual person credited with starting this potentially catastrophic diplomatic embarrassment is billionaire nepo baby Ronald Lauder:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Lauder

Apparently the original discussion included trying to trade Puerto Rico for Greenland.

The 3D Software Rendering Technology of 1998's Thief: The Dark Project

https://nothings.org/gamedev/thief_rendering.html
1•suioir•59s ago•0 comments

Google's First TPU – Architecture (2024)

https://thechipletter.substack.com/p/googles-first-tpu-architecture
1•klelatti•6m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AI Code Guard – Detect security vulnerabilities in AI-generated code

https://github.com/ThorneShadowbane/ai-code-guard
2•ajujaans•7m ago•0 comments

How to (simply) host a production WordPress blog

https://docs.codecapsules.io/tutorials/how-to-simply-host-a-production-wordpress-blog
1•sixhobbits•12m ago•0 comments

Neural Scaling and the Quanta Hypothesis

https://ericjmichaud.com/quanta/
1•0lmer•13m ago•0 comments

Kahan on the 8087 and designing Intel's floating point (2016) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-QVgbdt_qg
1•bananaboy•16m ago•0 comments

The RTX 5070 Ti Has Been Killed Off [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yteN21aJEvE
1•mariuz•18m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: How can a new startup succeed in Europe in 2026?

1•roschdal•21m ago•0 comments

Building a Tweetdeck-style interface for LiveATC feeds

https://ianservin.com/2026/01/13/building-a-tweetdeck-style-interface-for-liveatc-feeds/
1•sdoering•22m ago•0 comments

Imperial Boomerang

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_boomerang
1•thunderbong•25m ago•0 comments

Why AI Divides Programmers

https://techne98.com/blog/why-ai-divides-programmers/
1•fixedprog•26m ago•0 comments

Ran a 5k queries on 50k documents to understand the file vs. vector RAG debate

1•gdad•31m ago•0 comments

Show HN: WinDaisy – Try retro Windows colors on an old-school LOB app UI

https://github.com/cnkt/WinDaisy
1•ayi•32m ago•0 comments

We'll get a bit more cold air from the north

https://www.ventusky.com/#p=42.1;-88.5;3&w=strong
1•datl25•35m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: Why does it still make sense to review stupid bugs at PR time?

1•moshetanzer•35m ago•1 comments

EV roadside repairs easier than petrol or diesel, new data suggests

https://www.am-online.com/news/ev-roadside-repairs-easier-than-petrol-or-diesel-aa-and-autotrader...
1•smurda•35m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Zonfig – Zod-based config with validation and encrypted secrets

https://www.npmjs.com/package/@zonfig/zonfig
1•emmaera•35m ago•0 comments

My Philosophy on Alerting from a Site Reliability Engineer at Google

https://docs.google.com/document/d/199PqyG3UsyXlwieHaqbGiWVa8eMWi8zzAn0YfcApr8Q/edit
1•vanyle•36m ago•0 comments

Amazon launches its 'sovereign' cloud in Europe and plots expansion

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/15/amazon-sovereign-cloud-europe-expansion.html
1•Latitude7973•37m ago•0 comments

Hypothetical Divine Signatures: Proving Omniscience via Computational Complexity

https://www.stephendiehl.com/posts/divinity/
1•pure_coder•39m ago•0 comments

Russian Footprints (2006)

https://www.nationalreview.com/2006/08/russian-footprints-ion-mihai-pacepa/
1•thomassmith65•41m ago•0 comments

Beyond chain-of-thought: Scaling reasoning width and depth via parallel thinking

https://twitter.com/Meituan_LongCat/status/2011515214521647603
1•mountainview•42m ago•0 comments

Wikipedia's 25th Birthday

https://wikimediafoundation.org/wikipedia25/
1•omegacombinator•44m ago•0 comments

Why CTOs Are Exhausted [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1_10-CjnFI
1•avivby•45m ago•0 comments

CEO-CTO Therapy (Part 2): Measuring Engineering

https://avivbenyosef.com/ceo-cto-therapy-part-2-measuring-engineering/
1•avivby•46m ago•0 comments

iKKO Partners with MediaTek and SIMO to Launch MindOne

1•alamando•46m ago•1 comments

Podclip

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.podclip.app&hl=en_US
1•ghostnoci•47m ago•0 comments

Show HN: SharpSkill – Forget your thoughts about Tech Interviews

https://sharpskill.fr/en
1•MakeMilk•48m ago•0 comments

AI Chrome Extension that copies UI components from live websites in your project

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ui-capture-by-landinghero/kdnhhppnjcfeedmlblmibigilaokfohd
1•samyakk•50m ago•0 comments

Horizontalization in Biotech

https://corinwagen.github.io/public/blog/20260113_horizontalization.html
1•sebg•50m ago•0 comments