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Trees have an extra climate benefit thanks to methane-eating microbes

newscientist.com — Methane, a potent greenhouse gas, is converted to CO2 by microbes in tree bark, meaning trees are even better for the climate than we thought TREES, 1

Friedman Podcast with Zelenskyy

Our Sun may once have had a twin. What happened to this stellar sibling?

bbc.com — Many stars in our galaxy exist in pairs, but our Sun is a notable exception. Now scientists are finding clues that it may once have had a companion of its own. The question is, where did it go? OUR, 3

Reliable Undo/Redo in Document-Based Applications

voyonic-systems.de — Document-based applications are software systems that are centred around creating and editing documents. What constitutes a “document” depends on the application. For a text editor, it may be as simple as a single text file. A CAD application most likely has its own file format to efficiently contain all the data associated with a given project in one place. RELIABLE, 4

Elon Musk Is Posting Nonstop Falsehoods About 'Grooming Gangs'

wired.com — In 2024, Elon Musk’s attention was focused squarely on the US presidential election. But in the early days of 2025, the X owner has turned his gaze toward the UK. Musk has feverishly spent the past few days boosting disinformation and divisive rhetoric on X about Muslim grooming gangs in the UK, posting almost 200 times, a WIRED review of the centibillionaire’s output has found. ELON, 5

Emerging AI at Brooklyn Academy of Music

nytimes.com — Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker EMERGING, 6

Lying, Theory of Mind and Autism

aptus-slt.com — Lying is difficult for many children and adults with autism to understand and to do. Many individuals with autism are known to be direct and to ‘tell things as they are’. LYING, 7

Linux is free and your mind is valuable

amontalenti.com — One of my favorite old Linux jokes is, “Linux is free… if your time is worthless.” This quote is possibly adapted from a jwz interview dating back to 1998. In it, he said: LINUX, 8

Most cars registered in Texas won't need to pass a safety inspection

texastribune.org — Noncommercial cars in 17 counties will still have to pass an emissions test to obtain a state registration. MOST, 9

Taiwan suspects China of latest attack on undersea cables

politico.eu — A Cameroon-flagged tanker could not be boarded due to rough seas and steamed on toward South Korea. TAIWAN, 10

Temperature shapes language sonority: Revalidation from a large dataset

oup.com — Enable JavaScript and cookies to continue TEMPERATURE, 11

How Much Formaldehyde Is in Your Car, Your Kitchen or Your Furniture?

propublica.org — ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. HOW, 12

Kubernetes as a Distro

matduggan.com — I recently read this great piece by Timur Tukaev discussing how to approach the growing complexity of Kubernetes. You can read it here. Basically as Kubernetes continues to expand to be the everything platform, the amount of functionality it contains is taking longer and longer to learn. KUBERNETES, 13

The Inevitable Future of Kubernetes: Why the Orchestrator Should Follow Linux

aenix.io — At KubeCon + CloudNativeCon in Chicago on November 9, Tim Hockin, one of the early developers of Kubernetes, delivered a talk (here’s a summary) highlighting one of the orchestrator’s major challenges: the relentless growth in complexity. His main point was straightforward: Kubernetes is being applied to an ever-widening range of specialized use cases, such as machine learning. THE, 14

WSJ: Chinese hackers gained control of US ports and critical infrastructure

wsj.com — Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker WSJ, 15

Rewilding the Self

worldsensorium.com — Photo by Erik Karits, pixabay.com REWILDING, 16

Scent Makes a Place

nautil.us — Women in Science & Engineering SCENT, 17

National Reconnaisance Office Patch Madness

nro.gov — NRO Launch (NROL) patches are a highlight of every mission. Every patch meaning has a story and is unique to each launch. Starting March 21, NRO will conduct the first Patch Madness competition. Like March Madness, there will be head-to-head matches to reveal which patch is the most beloved. There will be daily polls on Twitter (@natreconofc) where you can vote for your favorite NROL patch. As some patches are from years ago, below is detailed look at each NROL patch that will be a part of this year’s Patch Madness. NATIONAL, 18

Ask HN: Is it a bad idea to make an email domain with an uncommon TLD?

news.ycombinator.com — I want to make a lifelong email domain, but don't want to pay an enormous amount for a .com. BAD, 19

Dassie, the new .NET programming language I have been working on

github.com — The Dassie compiler and core library DASSIE, 20

Awk CheatSheet

notion.site — AWK, 21

List of 14 Major Cybersecurity Incidents in 2024

bleepingcomputer.com — Bad Tenable plugin updates take down Nessus agents worldwide LIST, 22

Virtual reality: Providing injured Gazans an alternative space to heal

middleeastmonitor.com — Enable JavaScript and cookies to continue VIRTUAL, 23

AI extension for IPython to make it work like Cursor

vinayak.io — Recently, I've been exploring geospatial data about Paris. Although I've seen others work with this type of data and know basic terms like shapefiles and polygons, this is my first time working with it myself. I've been looking up terms and going through docs to learn how various geospatial data libraries work. EXTENSION, 24

Show HN: GNC Trainer – A Landing Simulator for Tinkering with Control Systems

news.ycombinator.com — I built a small game where you write control algorithms to land a spacecraft in increasingly challenging scenarios. GNC, 25

Vlang adds Windows support for hot code reloading feature

twitter.com — VLANG, 26

1M Watts of RF – How the FM Supertower Works

jeffgeerling.com — As the son of a radio engineer, I've seen my share of radio towers. From small, rural AM and FM towers to urban 'constellation' towers serving dozens or even hundreds of services, there's a lot more than meets the eye. WATTS, 27

Infisical (YC W23) Is Hiring Solutions Engineers

Extend (YC W23) is hiring engineers to build LLM document processing

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