Growing up in “404 Not Found”: China's nuclear city in the Gobi Desert https://substack.com/inbox/post/182743659
Substack
Growing up in “404 Not Found”（Part I）: Life in a Secret Chinese Nuclear City That Was Never on the Map
A memoir of growing up in China’s classified atomic bomb base in the Gobi Desert.
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What an unprocessed photo looks like https://maurycyz.com/misc/raw_photo/
Tesla’s 4680 battery supply chain collapses as partner writes down deal by 99% https://electrek.co/2025/12/29/tesla-4680-battery-supply-chain-collapses-partner-writes-down-dea/
Electrek
Tesla’s 4680 battery supply chain collapses as partner writes down deal by 99%
A major link in Tesla’s 4680 battery supply chain has just snapped. South Korean battery material supplier L&F Co. announced...
The future of software development is software developers https://codemanship.wordpress.com/2025/11/25/the-future-of-software-development-is-software-developers/
Codemanship's Blog
The Future of Software Development is Software Developers
<ShamelessPlug> If you’re looking to get your development team AI-ready, my hands-on instructor-led training in the principles and practices that enable teams to rapidly, reliably and s…
No strcpy either https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/12/29/no-strcpy-either/
daniel.haxx.se
no strcpy either
Some time ago I mentioned that we went through the curl source code and eventually got rid of all strncpy() calls. strncpy() is a weird function with a crappy API. It might not null terminate the destination and it pads the target buffer with zeroes. Quite…
Times New American: A Tale of Two Fonts https://hsu.cy/2025/12/times-new-american/
neverland
Times New American: A Tale of Two Fonts
A less romantic truth is that aesthetic standards rarely travel alone; power tends to follow in their wake. An episode at the U.S. State Department this month makes exactly this point.
The British empire's resilient subsea telegraph network https://subseacables.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-british-empires-resilient-subsea.html
Blogspot
The British Empire's Resilient Subsea Telegraph Network
subsea cables, internet infrastructure, telecom infrastructure, 2Africa, new subsea cable projects, layer 1 pricing on key international routes,
Five Years of Tinygrad https://geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll/update/2025/12/29/five-years-of-tinygrad.html
the singularity is nearer
Five years of tinygrad
The first commit to tinygrad was October 17, 2020. It’s been almost three years since we raised money. The company is 6 people now. The codebase is 18,935 lines not including tests.
FediMeteo: A €4 FreeBSD VPS Became a Global Weather Service https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/02/26/fedimeteo-how-a-tiny-freebsd-vps-became-a-global-weather-service-for-thousands/
IT Notes
FediMeteo: How a Tiny €4 FreeBSD VPS Became a Global Weather Service for Thousands
How a simple idea turned into an international weather service on the Fediverse.
Show HN: 22 GB of Hacker News in SQLite https://hackerbook.dosaygo.com
A faster heart for F-Droid https://f-droid.org/2025/12/30/a-faster-heart-for-f-droid.html
f-droid.org
A faster heart for F-Droid. Our new server is here! | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository
Donations are a key part of what keeps F-Droid independent and reliable and our latest hardware update is a direct result of your support. Thanks to donation...
Show HN: Use Claude Code to Query 600 GB Indexes over Hacker News, ArXiv, etc. https://exopriors.com/scry
Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design (2011) [pdf] https://www.ece.uvic.ca/~elec399/201409/Akin%27s%20Laws%20of%20Spacecraft%20Design.pdf
Iron Beam: Israel's first operational anti drone laser system https://mod.gov.il/en/press-releases/press-room/israel-mod-and-rafael-deliver-first-operational-high-power-laser-system-iron-beam-to-the-idf
Ministry of Defense
Israel MOD and Rafael Deliver First Operational High-Power Laser System - Iron Beam to the IDF | Homepage
Portal website of the Ministry of Defense