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Size of Life

https://neal.fun/size-of-life/
1725•eatonphil•14h ago•202 comments

Getting a Gemini API key is an exercise in frustration

https://ankursethi.com/blog/gemini-api-key-frustration/
427•speckx•10h ago•173 comments

Patterns.dev

https://www.patterns.dev/
153•handfuloflight•5h ago•35 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...
680•chirau•1d ago•1080 comments

Auto-grading decade-old Hacker News discussions with hindsight

https://karpathy.bearblog.dev/auto-grade-hn/
403•__rito__•13h ago•186 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/
18•birdculture•6d ago•3 comments

Incomplete list of mistakes in the design of CSS

https://wiki.csswg.org/ideas/mistakes
49•OuterVale•2h ago•15 comments

Fossils reveal anacondas have been giants for over 12 million years

https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/twelve-million-years-of-giant-anacondas
32•ashishgupta2209•1w ago•12 comments

Super Mario 64 for the PS1

https://github.com/malucard/sm64-psx
207•LaserDiscMan•12h ago•78 comments

How Google Maps allocates survival across London's restaurants

https://laurenleek.substack.com/p/how-google-maps-quietly-allocates
198•justincormack•1d ago•98 comments

3D-printed carotid artery-on-chips for personalized thrombosis investigation

https://advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adma.202508890
16•PaulHoule•1w ago•2 comments

VCMI: An open-source engine for Heroes III

https://vcmi.eu/
48•eamag•4d ago•7 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/
231•italophil•1d ago•366 comments

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

https://blog.cloudflare.com/python-workers-advancements/
20•dom96•2d ago•4 comments

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

https://github.com/fcavallarin/wirebrowser
9•fcavallarin•16h ago•1 comments

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

https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3-omni-flash-20251201
243•pretext•14h ago•89 comments

Show HN: Automated license plate reader coverage in the USA

https://alpranalysis.com
161•sodality2•13h ago•92 comments

When would you ever want bubblesort? (2023)

https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/when-would-you-ever-want-bubblesort/
83•atan2•9h ago•59 comments

Common Lisp, ASDF, and Quicklisp: packaging explained

https://cdegroot.com/programming/commonlisp/2025/11/26/cl-ql-asdf.html
71•todsacerdoti•19h ago•15 comments

Scientists create ultra fast memory using light

https://www.isi.edu/news/81186/scientists-create-ultra-fast-memory-using-light/
82•giuliomagnifico•6d ago•17 comments

Terrain Diffusion: A Diffusion-Based Successor to Perlin Noise

https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.08309
120•kelseyfrog•12h ago•33 comments

Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Valve-HDMI-Forum-Continues-to-Block-HDMI-2-1-for-Linux-11107440.html
628•OsrsNeedsf2P•13h ago•343 comments

Is it a bubble?

https://www.oaktreecapital.com/insights/memo/is-it-a-bubble
201•saigrandhi•13h ago•301 comments

Gundam is just the same as Jane Austen but happens to include giant mech suits

https://eli.li/gundam-is-just-the-same-as-jane-austen-but-happens-to-include-giant-mech-suits
192•surprisetalk•1w ago•128 comments

The future of Terraform CDK

https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-cdk
101•mfornasa•11h ago•106 comments

Launch HN: InspectMind (YC W24) – AI agent for reviewing construction drawings

47•aakashprasad91•14h ago•44 comments

Golang's big miss on memory arenas

https://avittig.medium.com/golangs-big-miss-on-memory-arenas-f1375524cc90
121•andr3wV•1w ago•100 comments

RoboCrop: Teaching robots how to pick tomatoes

https://phys.org/news/2025-12-robocrop-robots-tomatoes.html
84•smurda•15h ago•38 comments

Yadea is coming to the Western market

https://newatlas.com/motorcycles/yadea-comes-to-europe/
40•breve•5d ago•59 comments

Typewriter Plotters (2022)

https://biosrhythm.com/?p=2143
114•LaSombra•5d ago•8 comments
Open in hackernews

Berkeley professor's camera caught student allegedly sabotaging another student

https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/12/08/uc-berkeley-professor-installed-secret-camera-allegedly-catching-phd-candidate-sabotaging-fellow-students-work/
32•justin66•1d ago

Comments

progbits•1d ago
https://archive.is/09tyU

Without the email-wall

OkayPhysicist•1d ago
What a stupid way to piss away all the time spent on a PhD.
OutOfHere•1d ago
Overall I think we need a lot more cameras in a lot more places. Their presence should be the default, but their feeds should not be monitored if there isn't a reported crime or a suspicion of one. I am not saying that the government should have default access to these feeds either.

A camera also helps exonerate someone who is not guilty, which is not an unimportant benefit.

koeng•1d ago
“The Panopticon is good”
thih9•1d ago
While I like the positives of that (easier to catch some criminals), I fear the abuse potential and the negatives overall way more.
OutOfHere•1d ago
It's not just to catch criminals. It's also to free those who get unfairly witch-hunted and accused of a crime when the evidence (camera) shows otherwise.
ale42•1d ago
It sounds great until someone starts abusing. And the room for abuse seem very ample in such a case.
IAmBroom•1d ago
Counterpoint: cops.

A society that abides by its own laws should require police to keep their bodycams operative, under severe penalty.

We aren't that good, but being videotaped by civilians is moving the needle slightly, making them more accountable. It's the reason George Floyd's murders were (surprisingly) convicted.

ale42•18h ago
Cops are working for the public and should be accountable for what they do. Exposing what cops do is not problematic, except maybe in some specific cases like a cop infiltrating some drug-dealer network.
OutOfHere•1d ago
Law enforcement can abuse more if a camera is not present. Often a camera is what exonerates a person, setting them free.
mingus88•1d ago
It’s 2025. You can deploy a camera anywhere you want. This article is a perfect example.

I’m instantly suspicious when I see a random phone charger plugged in a common area.

AR glasses are perpetually just around the corner. Everyone will be streaming video all the time.

charcircuit•1d ago
This strategy doesn't make sense. What was the end goal? To have the other person keep buying new computers.
readthenotes1•1d ago
You can't logic your way out of a crazy box.

Trying to understand the root cause motivation of people with mental illness is usually futile and almost always fruitless

OkayPhysicist•1d ago
The goal was definitely to impede the other researcher's work, and I can imagine a few possible reasons for that. In descending order of probability, interpersonal conflict (in my experience, graduate students in the same lab tend to either become best friends or hate each other, with little in-between), trying to beat the other student to the punch w.r.t publication, or good ol' schizophrenic delusions that the person's work needs to be stopped (mid 20's is a pretty standard age for onset in men).
amypetrik8•1d ago
> interpersonal conflict low probability in this case because this guy seems a repeat offender but absolutely things can get that toxic and ugly

> trying to beat the other student to the punch w.r.t publication, this is my highest suspicion. Why is anxiety. Deep anxiety. Anxiety about failing. Anxiety about the other guy beating you. Sabotaging other guys's computer alleviates the anxiety so thusly becomes a repeat pattern. Anxiety can be quite insidious and nasty and is more pervasive in more ways than many are aware.

> good ol' schizophrenic delusions that the person's work needs to be stopped possible but more rare

palmotea•12h ago
> This strategy doesn't make sense. What was the end goal? To have the other person keep buying new computers.

I would assume it was to interfere with the other student's research. That other person almost certainly had data on the destroyed computers that he either lost completely, or had to do extra work to recover when they failed.

mingus88•1d ago
Sounds like a USB kill style device. Something you can easily plug in and blow the circuit

https://hackerwarehouse.com/product/usb-kill-v4/

> When plugged in power is taken from the USB power lines, multiplied, and discharged into the data lines, typically disabling an unprotected device.

burnt-resistor•13h ago
Photo for posterity so people can choose not to make the mistake of hiring this criminal:

https://web.archive.org/web/20251209222458/https://ieeexplor...

via

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/author/37089387158