Yearly Favorites
1951.
Niri – A scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor (github.com)
1952.
Vodafone Germany is changing the open internet, one peering connection at a time (coffee.link)
1953.
Nokia N900 Necromancy (yaky.dev)
1954.
Anthropic takes legal action against OpenCode (github.com)
1955.
Doing gigabit Ethernet over my British phone wires (thehftguy.com)
1956.
Willow quantum chip demonstrates verifiable quantum advantage on hardware (blog.google)
1957.
Ants that seem to defy biology – They lay eggs that hatch into another species (smithsonianmag.com)
1958.
The Little Book of Linear Algebra (github.com)
1959.
Show HN: Dayflow – A git log for your day (github.com)
1960.
Austrian ministry kicks out Microsoft in favor of Nextcloud (news.itsfoss.com)
1961.
Downloadable movie posters from the 40s, 50s, 60s, and 70s (hrc.contentdm.oclc.org)
1962.
The entire New Yorker archive is now digitized (newyorker.com)
1963.
US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere (reuters.com)
1964.
Microsoft increases Office 365 and Microsoft 365 license prices (office365itpros.com)
1965.
Log level 'error' should mean that something needs to be fixed (utcc.utoronto.ca)
1966.
Dan Simmons, author of Hyperion, has died (dignitymemorial.com)
1967.
The librarian immediately attempts to sell you a vuvuzela (kaveland.no)
1968.
Uploading Pirated Books via BitTorrent Qualifies as Fair Use, Meta Argues (torrentfreak.com)
1969.
Toys with the highest play-time and lowest clean-up-time (joannabregan.substack.com)
1970.
What Is the Fourier Transform? (quantamagazine.org)
1971.
KDE Connect: Enabling communication between all your devices (community.kde.org)
1972.
Zigbook Is Plagiarizing the Zigtools Playground (zigtools.org)
1973.
108B Pixel Scan of Johannes Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring (hirox-europe.com)
1974.
Nobel Prize in Physics 2025 (nobelprize.org)
1975.
OkCupid gave 3M dating-app photos to facial recognition firm, FTC says (arstechnica.com)
1976.
12-factor Agents: Patterns of reliable LLM applications (github.com)
1977.
Proof of Corn (proofofcorn.com)
1978.
Japan Post launches 'digital address' system (japantimes.co.jp)
1979.
The Illusion of Thinking: Strengths and limitations of reasoning models [pdf] (ml-site.cdn-apple.com)
1980.
D4D4 (nmichaels.org)