Gemini 3 Pro vs. 2.5 Pro in Pokemon Crystal https://blog.jcz.dev/gemini-3-pro-vs-25-pro-in-pokemon-crystal
Log level 'error' should mean that something needs to be fixed https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/ErrorsShouldRequireFixing
Ireland’s Diarmuid Early wins world Microsoft Excel title https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj4qzgvxxgvo
Bbc
'LeBron James of spreadsheets' wins world Microsoft Excel title
Ireland's 'LeBron James' of Microsoft Excel has won the 2025 world championship in Las Vegas.
Waymo halts service during S.F. blackout after causing traffic jams https://missionlocal.org/2025/12/sf-waymo-halts-service-blackout/
Mission Local
Waymo halts service during massive S.F. blackout after causing traffic jams
Numerous autonomous vehicles caused traffic jams across San Francisco after a PG&E outage hit 1/3 of the city.
The Illustrated Transformer https://jalammar.github.io/illustrated-transformer/
jalammar.github.io
The Illustrated Transformer
Discussions:
Hacker News (65 points, 4 comments), Reddit r/MachineLearning (29 points, 3 comments)
Translations: Arabic, Chinese (Simplified) 1, Chinese (Simplified) 2, French 1, French 2, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Russian, Spanish 1, Spanish…
Hacker News (65 points, 4 comments), Reddit r/MachineLearning (29 points, 3 comments)
Translations: Arabic, Chinese (Simplified) 1, Chinese (Simplified) 2, French 1, French 2, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Russian, Spanish 1, Spanish…
iOS 26.3 brings AirPods-like pairing to third-party devices in EU under DMA https://www.macrumors.com/2025/12/22/ios-26-3-dma-airpods-pairing/
MacRumors
iOS 26.3 Brings AirPods-Like Pairing to Third-Party Devices in EU Under DMA
The European Commission today praised the interoperability changes that Apple is introducing in iOS 26.3, once again crediting the Digital Markets Act (DMA) with bringing "new opportunities" to European users and developers. The Digital Markets Act requires…
Show HN: Vibium – Browser automation for AI and humans, by Selenium's creator https://github.com/VibiumDev/vibium
GitHub
GitHub - VibiumDev/vibium: Browser automation for AI agents and humans
Browser automation for AI agents and humans. Contribute to VibiumDev/vibium development by creating an account on GitHub.
Fabrice Bellard: Biography (2009) [pdf] https://www.ipaidia.gr/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/117-2020-fabrice-bellard.pdf
Show HN: Minimalist editor that lives in browser, stores everything in the URL https://github.com/antonmedv/textarea
GitHub
GitHub - antonmedv/textarea: A minimalist text editor that lives in URL
A minimalist text editor that lives in URL. Contribute to antonmedv/textarea development by creating an account on GitHub.
Phoenix: A modern X server written from scratch in Zig https://git.dec05eba.com/phoenix/about/
Who Watches the Waymos? I do [video] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYU2hAbx_Fc
YouTube
Who watches the Waymos?
I do.
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We invited a man into our home at Christmas and he stayed with us for 45 years https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdxwllqz1l0o
BBC News
Cardiff couple invited man in for Christmas, he stayed for 45 years
An arrangement Rob and Dianne Parsons thought would last a few days ended up changing their lives.
Python 3.15’s interpreter for Windows x86-64 should hopefully be 15% faster https://fidget-spinner.github.io/posts/no-longer-sorry.html
Ken Jin’s Blog
Python 3.15’s interpreter for Windows x86-64 should hopefully be 15% faster
The entire New Yorker archive is now digitized https://www.newyorker.com/news/press-room/the-entire-new-yorker-archive-is-now-fully-digitized
The New Yorker
The Entire New Yorker Archive Is Now Fully Digitized
For the first time, every cover, article, and issue in the magazine’s hundred-year history can be enjoyed on newyorker.com.
Package managers keep using Git as a database, it never works out https://nesbitt.io/2025/12/24/package-managers-keep-using-git-as-a-database.html
Andrew Nesbitt
Package managers keep using git as a database, it never works out
Git repositories seem like an elegant solution for package registry data. Pull requests for governance, version history for free, distributed by design. But as registries grow, the cracks appear.