Monthly Highlights
781.
Is 2026 next year? (google.com)
782.
Sycophancy is the first LLM "dark pattern" (seangoedecke.com)
783.
Broccoli Man, Remastered (mbleigh.dev)
784.
Coq: The World's Best Macro Assembler? (2013) [pdf] (nickbenton.name)
785.
The World Happiness Report is beset with methodological problems (yaschamounk.substack.com)
786.
NYC congestion pricing cuts air pollution by a fifth in six months (airqualitynews.com)
787.
Using TypeScript to obtain one of the rarest license plates (jack.bio)
788.
2026 Apple introducing more ads to increase opportunity in search results (ads.apple.com)
789.
Syncthing-Android have had a change of owner/maintainer (github.com)
790.
SmartTube Compromised (aftvnews.com)
791.
A woman on a mission to photograph every species of hummingbird (audubon.org)
792.
Modern Walkmans (walkman.land)
793.
Palantir could be the most overvalued company that ever existed (247wallst.com)
794.
Using Python for Scripting (hypirion.com)
795.
Europe's New War on Privacy (unherd.com)
796.
ArkhamMirror: Airgapped investigation platform with CIA-style hypothesis testing (github.com)
797.
EU Council approves Chat Control mandate for negotiation with Parliament (techradar.com)
798.
The Whole App is a Blob (drobinin.com)
799.
Getting into public speaking (james.brooks.page)
800.
iOS 26.2 fixes 20 security vulnerabilities, 2 actively exploited (macrumors.com)
801.
Some surprising things about DuckDuckGo (gabrielweinberg.com)
802.
Pornhub extorted after hackers steal Premium member activity data (bleepingcomputer.com)
803.
We are discontinuing the dark web report (support.google.com)
804.
Boom, bubble, bust, boom. Why should AI be different? (crazystupidtech.com)
805.
Egyptian Hieroglyphs: Lesson 1 (egyptianhieroglyphs.net)
806.
Cloudflare Is Down (cloudflare.com)
807.
Erdős Problem #1026 (terrytao.wordpress.com)
808.
Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2025)
809.
Cloudflare outage should not have happened (ebellani.github.io)
810.
Is Matrix Multiplication Ugly? (mathenchant.wordpress.com)