fp.

OpenAI are quietly adopting skills, now available in ChatGPT and Codex CLI

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/12/openai-skills/

461•simonw•14h ago•260 comments

How exchanges turn order books into distributed logs

https://quant.engineering/exchange-order-book-distributed-logs.html

21•rundef•5d ago•12 comments

macOS 26.2 enables fast AI clusters with RDMA over Thunderbolt

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/macos-release-notes/macos-26_2-release-notes#RDMA-over-...

451•guiand•17h ago•235 comments

Java FFM zero-copy transport using io_uring

https://www.mvp.express/

9•mands•5d ago•1 comments

Photographer built a medium-format rangefinder, and so can you

https://petapixel.com/2025/12/06/this-photographer-built-an-awesome-medium-format-rangefinder-and...

66•shinryuu•6d ago•7 comments

Sick of smart TVs? Here are your best options

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/12/the-ars-technica-guide-to-dumb-tvs/

393•fleahunter•1d ago•344 comments

A 'toaster with a lens': The story behind the first handheld digital camera

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20251205-how-the-handheld-digital-camera-was-born

33•selvan•5d ago•12 comments

GNU Unifont

https://unifoundry.com/unifont/index.html

281•remywang•16h ago•66 comments

We Built Another Object Storage (and Why It's Different)

https://fractalbits.com/blog/why-we-built-another-object-storage/

7•fractalbits•1h ago•1 comments

Rats Play DOOM

https://ratsplaydoom.com/

325•ano-ther•17h ago•121 comments

Show HN: Tiny VM sandbox in C with apps in Rust, C and Zig

https://github.com/ringtailsoftware/uvm32

157•trj•15h ago•11 comments

Beautiful Abelian Sandpiles

https://eavan.blog/posts/beautiful-sandpiles.html

70•eavan0•3d ago•12 comments

Formula One Handovers and Handovers From Surgery to Intensive Care (2008) [pdf]

https://gwern.net/doc/technology/2008-sower.pdf

76•bookofjoe•6d ago•25 comments

Germany's train service is one of Europe's worst. How did it get so bad?

https://www.npr.org/2025/12/12/g-s1-100794/germany-train-rail-deutsche-bahn

27•pseudolus•1h ago•13 comments

Show HN: I made a spreadsheet where formulas also update backwards

https://victorpoughon.github.io/bidicalc/

168•fouronnes3•1d ago•81 comments

Computer Animator and Amiga fanatic Dick Van Dyke turns 100

76•ggm•5h ago•17 comments

Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/12/eliminating-state-law-obstruction-of-nati...

159•andsoitis•1d ago•201 comments

Freeing a Xiaomi humidifier from the cloud

https://0l.de/blog/2025/11/xiaomi-humidifier/

112•stv0g•1d ago•48 comments

Go is portable, until it isn't

https://simpleobservability.com/blog/go-portable-until-isnt

109•khazit•6d ago•89 comments

50 years of proof assistants

https://lawrencecpaulson.github.io//2025/12/05/History_of_Proof_Assistants.html

104•baruchel•14h ago•15 comments

Slax: Live Pocket Linux

https://www.slax.org/

38•Ulf950•5d ago•4 comments

The Coming Need for Formal Specification

https://benjamincongdon.me/blog/2025/12/12/The-Coming-Need-for-Formal-Specification/

41•todsacerdoti•10h ago•31 comments

YouTube's CEO limits his kids' social media use – other tech bosses do the same

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/13/youtubes-ceo-is-latest-tech-boss-limiting-his-kids-social-media-u...

44•pseudolus•1h ago•39 comments

Obscuring P2P Nodes with Dandelion

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2025/12/08/dandelion/

48•ColinWright•4d ago•1 comments

Optical context compression is just (bad) autoencoding

https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.03643

11•unclefuzzy•4d ago•0 comments

Gild Just One Lily

https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/04/gild-just-one-lily/

24•serialx•5d ago•5 comments

The Checkerboard

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/650-the-checkerboard/

64•thread_id•13h ago•24 comments

Capsudo: Rethinking sudo with object capabilities

https://ariadne.space/2025/12/12/rethinking-sudo-with-object-capabilities.html

73•fanf2•16h ago•43 comments

Google removes Sci-Hub domains from U.S. search results due to dated court order

https://torrentfreak.com/google-removes-sci-hub-domains-from-u-s-search-results-due-to-dated-cour...

176•t-3•10h ago•31 comments

String theory inspires a brilliant, baffling new math proof

https://www.quantamagazine.org/string-theory-inspires-a-brilliant-baffling-new-math-proof-20251212/

160•ArmageddonIt•21h ago•151 comments