news, !paper 2025-11-21

845 Helping Valve to power up Steam devices / igalia.com / 311

669 Show HN: Wealthfolio 2.0- Open source investment tracker. Now Mobile and Docker / wealthfolio.app / 213

651 Personal blogs are back, should niche blogs be next? / disassociated.com / 380

504 A time-travelling door bug in Half Life 2 / mastodon.gamedev.place / 83

485 We should all be using dependency cooldowns / blog.yossarian.net / 271

477 How a French judge was digitally cut off by the USA / heise.de / 530

388 Olmo 3: Charting a path through the model flow to lead open-source AI / allenai.org / 125

348 Arduino published updated terms and conditions: no longer an open commons / molecularist.com / 107

315 You can make PS2 games in JavaScript / jslegenddev.substack.com / 76

286 Childhood Friends, Not Moms, Shape Attachment Styles Most / nautil.us / 104

261 HP and Dell disable HEVC support built into their laptops' CPUs / arstechnica.com / 157

255 WebAssembly from the Ground Up / wasmgroundup.com / 56

246 California DMV approves map increase in Waymo driverless operations / dmv.ca.gov / 161

241 LAPD helicopter tracker with real-time operating costs / lapdhelicoptertracker.com / 298

239 Making a Small RPG / jslegenddev.substack.com / 36

235 It's hard to build an oscillator / lcamtuf.substack.com / 88

232 Ultima VII Revisited / github.com/ViridianGames / 93

230 FAWK: LLMs can write a language interpreter / martin.janiczek.cz / 190

222 McDonald's is losing its low-income customers / latimes.com / 565

215 How Cops Are Using Flock's ALPR Network to Surveil Protesters and Activists / eff.org / 85

212 Shop Sans is a typeface for curved text paths / futurefonts.com / 51

211 Solving Fizz Buzz with Cosines / susam.net / 64

208 Discontinuation of ARM Notebook with Snapdragon X Elite SoC / tuxedocomputers.com / 157

199 XBMC 4.0 for the Original Xbox / xbox-scene.info / 92

195 How I learned Vulkan and wrote a small game engine with it (2024) / edw.is / 103

182 Moss Survives 9 Months in Space Vacuum / scienceclock.com / 72

179 Pixar: The Early Days A never-before-seen 1996 interview / stevejobsarchive.com / 21

174 Make product worse, get money / dynomight.net / 169

174 Building a Durable Execution Engine with SQLite / morling.dev / 53

167 I converted a rotary phone into a meeting handset / stavros.io / 70

160 Boom, bubble, bust, boom. Why should AI be different? / crazystupidtech.com / 207

159 Sharper MRI scans may be on horizon thanks to new physics-based model / news.rice.edu / 35

156 Is Matrix Multiplication Ugly? / mathenchant.wordpress.com / 109

148 The New AI Consciousness Paper / astralcodexten.com / 293

138 Ditch your mutex, you deserve better / chrispenner.ca / 203

119 Performance hacks for faster Python code / blog.jetbrains.com / 64

107 Arduino Terms of Service and Privacy Policy update: setting the record straight / blog.arduino.cc / 87

105 EXIF orientation info in PNGs isn't used for image-orientation: from-image / bugzilla.mozilla.org / 86

100 Brexit Hit to UK Economy Double Official Estimate, Study Finds / bloomberg.com / 147

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