Dad’s Fitness May Be Packaged and Passed Down in Sperm RNA
The standard sperm-meets-egg story posits that sperm cells are hardly more than bundles of shrink-wrapped DNA with tails. Their mission is simple: Deliver a father’s genes into a mother’s egg for sexual reproduction. Just about all other aspects of a developing embryo, including its cellular and environmental components, have nothing to do with dad. Those […]
Replacing JavaScript with Just HTML
by Aaron T. Grogg published on Dec 27, 2025 For many years now, JavaScript has been the workhorse of the web. If you wanted to do something that couldn’t be done with just HTML and CSS, you could usually find a way to do it with JS.And that is great! JS has helped push user […]
Why Reliability Demands Functional Programming
In banking, telecom, and payments, reliability is not a nice to have. It is table stakes. The most reliable systems I have worked on reduce entire classes of bugs before the code even runs. Functional programming and Algebraic Data Types (ADTs) let you push correctness into the type system, so illegal states cannot be constructed […]
Show HN: Waycore – an open-source, offline-first modular field computer
Hi HN, I’m building Waycore, an open-source project exploring what a flexible, offline-first field computer should look like for outdoor, survival, and off-grid scenarios. The core goals are adaptability and resilience: modular hardware (external sensor/tool modules) extensible OS with support for external apps (guidelines in progress) no required internet connection — maps, models, and knowledge […]
White House pushes to dismantle leading climate and weather research center
William Brangham: The Trump administration says it plans to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, which is the nation’s premier atmospheric science center. In announcing the closing, Budget Director Russell Vought called the center — quote — “one of the largest sources of climate alarmism in the country.” NCAR, as the center […]
How we lost communication to entertainment
by Ploum on 2025-12-15 All our communication channels are morphed into content distribution networks. We are more and more entertained but less and less connected. A few days ago, I did a controversial blog post about Pixelfed hurting the Fediverse. I defended the theory that, in a communication network, you hurt the trust in the […]
Rainbow Six Siege hacked as players get billions of credits and random bans
Rainbow Six Siege is currently facing a major crisis, with mounting evidence pointing to a large scale hack or exploit, even as Ubisoft continues to describe the situation as a server incident. The disruption has now escalated into full service outages across all platforms, according to Ubisoft’s own service status page. Players across PC and […]
Windows 2 for the Apricot PC/Xi
(and Word, and Excel, and so much more) by Nina Kalinina, December 27th, 2025 (rev. 1.01 2025-12-27) I bought my first Apricot PC about three years ago, when I realised I wanted an 8086-based computer. At the time, I knew nothing about it and simply bought it because it looked rad and the price was […]
Nvidia’s $20B Antitrust Loophole (Not an Acquisition)
“You’re taking on a giant. What gives you the audacity?” On November 5th, 2025, Groq CEO Jonathan Ross was asked why he was even bothering to challenge Nvidia. He didn’t blink: “I think that was a polite way to ask why in the world are we competing with Nvidia, so we’re not. Competition is a […]
Gpg.fail
“in the hurry of leaving i forgot the sites src at home, sorry, had to rewrite the whole thing. expect a nicer site by tomorrow. im patching as we speak.” – crackticker (