fp.

An Orbital House of Cards: Frequent Megaconstellation Close Conjunctions

https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.09643

12•rapnie•25m ago•0 comments

Size of Life

https://neal.fun/size-of-life/

2283•eatonphil•23h ago•253 comments

A “frozen” dictionary for Python

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1047238/25c270b077849dc0/

124•jwilk•5h ago•84 comments

Show HN: Local Privacy Firewall-blocks PII and secrets before ChatGPT sees them

https://github.com/privacyshield-ai/privacy-firewall

53•arnabkarsarkar•1d ago•19 comments

Disney making $1B investment in OpenAI, will allow characters on Sora AI

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/11/disney-openai-sora-characters-video.html

76•tiahura•1h ago•29 comments

Oldest attestation of Austronesian language: Đông Yên Châu inscription

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%90%C3%B4ng_Y%C3%AAn_Ch%C3%A2u_inscription

12•teleforce•5d ago•0 comments

Getting a Gemini API key is an exercise in frustration

https://ankursethi.com/blog/gemini-api-key-frustration/

675•speckx•18h ago•266 comments

Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban

https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/australia-social-media-ban-takes-effect-world-first-2025...

879•chirau•1d ago•1308 comments

Patterns.dev

https://www.patterns.dev/

418•handfuloflight•14h ago•95 comments

The Cost of a Closure in C

https://thephd.dev/the-cost-of-a-closure-in-c-c2y

119•ingve•8h ago•39 comments

Helldivers 2 on-disk size 85% reduction

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/553850/view/491583942944621371

112•SergeAx•1w ago•93 comments

How can I read the standard output of an already-running process?

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20251204-00/?p=111841

28•ibobev•5d ago•10 comments

How the Brain Parses Language

https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-polyglot-neuroscientist-resolving-how-the-brain-parses-languag...

66•mylifeandtimes•3d ago•22 comments

Booting Linux in QEMU and Writing PID 1 in Go to Illustrate Kernel as Program

https://serversfor.dev/linux-inside-out/the-linux-kernel-is-just-a-program/

197•birdculture•1w ago•57 comments

Craft software that makes people feel something

https://rapha.land/craft-software-that-makes-people-feel-something/

13•lukeio•1h ago•5 comments

Auto-grading decade-old Hacker News discussions with hindsight

https://karpathy.bearblog.dev/auto-grade-hn/

494•__rito__•22h ago•222 comments

Show HN: oeis-tui – A TUI to search OEIS integer sequences in the terminal

https://github.com/hako/oeis-tui

18•wesleyhill•1w ago•1 comments

Python Workers redux: fast cold starts, packages, and a uv-first workflow

https://blog.cloudflare.com/python-workers-advancements/

93•dom96•3d ago•43 comments

Did that Colorado station sign say gas for only $1.69? Yes, it did

https://coloradosun.com/2025/12/11/colorado-gas-prices-falling-national-average/

9•mooreds•25m ago•1 comments

How Google Maps allocates survival across London's restaurants

https://laurenleek.substack.com/p/how-google-maps-quietly-allocates

327•justincormack•2d ago•167 comments

Show HN: WhatHappened – HN summaries, heatmaps, and contrarian picks

https://www.whathappened.tech/

43•marsw42•2d ago•17 comments

VCMI: An open-source engine for Heroes III

https://vcmi.eu/

147•eamag•4d ago•17 comments

Go's escape analysis and why my function return worked

https://bonniesimon.in/blog/go-escape-analysis

34•bonniesimon•6d ago•34 comments

Rubio stages font coup: Times New Roman ousts Calibri

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/rubio-stages-font-coup-times-new-roman-ousts-calibri-2025-12-09/

347•italophil•1d ago•576 comments

Super Mario 64 for the PS1

https://github.com/malucard/sm64-psx

267•LaserDiscMan•20h ago•102 comments

Show HN: Wirebrowser – A JavaScript debugger with breakpoint-driven heap search

https://github.com/fcavallarin/wirebrowser

52•fcavallarin•1d ago•11 comments

Qwen3-Omni-Flash-2025-12-01：a next-generation native multimodal large model

https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3-omni-flash-20251201

290•pretext•23h ago•96 comments

Flow Where You Want – Guidance for Flow Models

https://drscotthawley.github.io/blog/posts/FlowWhereYouWant.html

34•rundigen12•5d ago•1 comments

Show HN: Automated license plate reader coverage in the USA

https://alpranalysis.com

215•sodality2•21h ago•123 comments

Incomplete list of mistakes in the design of CSS

https://wiki.csswg.org/ideas/mistakes

162•OuterVale•11h ago•107 comments