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A ruble stablecoin outpaced market leaders last year despite international sanctions

A ruble stablecoin outpaced market leaders last year despite international sanctions

A7A5, a ruble-linked stablecoin few outside Russia had heard of a year ago grew the most of any stablecoin, outpacing both USDT and USDC over the past 12 months.

Ethereum treasury firm SharpLink stakes $170M ETH on Linea network

Jan 9, 2026, 08:32 AM

The Oceans Just Keep Getting Hotter

Jan 9, 2026, 08:00 AM

4 Takeaways From Miami's CFP Semifinal Win Over Ole Miss

Jan 9, 2026, 07:09 AM

Bitcoin ETF optimism fades as three-day outflows streak erases early-month gains

Jan 9, 2026, 06:52 AM

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Latest Videos

I'm addicted to Claude Code (i get it now)

I'm addicted to Claude Code (i get it now)

Intel's Best Product in YEARS - Panther Lake Announcement

Intel's Best Product in YEARS - Panther Lake Announcement

OpenAI was dead… Then GPT-5.2 dropped

OpenAI was dead… Then GPT-5.2 dropped

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Hacker News

Surveillance Watch – a map that shows connections between surveillance companies

Hacker News•Jan 9, 2026, 09:34 AM

What Happened to WebAssembly

Hacker News•Jan 9, 2026, 07:38 AM

European Commission issues call for evidence on open source

Hacker News•Jan 9, 2026, 07:09 AM

Mathematics for Computer Science (2018) [pdf]

Hacker News•Jan 9, 2026, 07:06 AM

Do not mistake a resilient global economy for populist success

Hacker News•Jan 9, 2026, 06:43 AM

The No Fakes Act has a “fingerprinting” trap that kills open source?

Hacker News•Jan 9, 2026, 05:01 AM

Anthropic blocks third-party use of Claude Code subscriptions

Hacker News•Jan 9, 2026, 03:44 AM

Logistics Is Dying; Or – Dude, Where's My Mail?

Hacker News•Jan 9, 2026, 01:39 AM

Why I left iNaturalist

Hacker News•Jan 9, 2026, 01:17 AM

Embassy: Modern embedded framework, using Rust and async

Hacker News•Jan 8, 2026, 11:00 PM
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AI

NASA orders “controlled medical evacuation” from the International Space Station

NASA orders “controlled medical evacuation” from the International Space Station

"The crew is highly trained, and they came to the aid of their colleague right away."

ICE Agent Who Reportedly Shot Renee Good Was a Firearms Trainer, per Testimony

Jan 9, 2026, 03:19 AM

Xbox’s Towerborne is switching from a free-to-play game to a paid one

Jan 9, 2026, 01:05 AM

The best Apple Watch to buy

Jan 9, 2026, 12:00 AM

Pioneer Sphera is bringing Dolby Atmos in cars to the people

Jan 8, 2026, 11:38 PM

UK Prime Minister says ‘we will take action’ on Grok’s disgusting deepfakes

Jan 8, 2026, 11:23 PM

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Linux

KDE Gear 25.12.1 Released with Various Improvements for Your Favorite KDE Apps

KDE Gear 25.12.1 Released with Various Improvements for Your Favorite KDE Apps

KDE Gear 25.12.1 is now available as the first maintenance update to the latest KDE Gear 25.12 open-source software suite series with fixes for various KDE applications. The post KDE Gear 25.12.1 Released with Various Improvements for Your Favorite KDE Apps appeared first on 9to5Linux - do not reproduce this article without permission. This RSS feed is intended for readers, not scrapers.

TUXEDO InfinityBook Max 16 Gen10 Linux Laptop Unveiled with New OLED Display

Jan 7, 2026, 02:40 PM

IPFire Linux Firewall Distro Adds Wi-Fi 7 and Wi-Fi 6 Support, LLDP and CDPv2

Jan 7, 2026, 02:00 PM

Immutable Distro Nitrux 5.1 Released with Linux Kernel 6.18 LTS, New Tools

Jan 7, 2026, 06:24 AM

First Look at Devuan GNU+Linux 6 “Excalibur” on Raspberry Pi 5

Jan 6, 2026, 07:42 PM

StarBook Horizon Linux Laptop Now on Sale with 32GB RAM, Wi-Fi 6E, and Coreboot

Jan 6, 2026, 02:00 PM

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Crypto

A ruble stablecoin outpaced market leaders last year despite international sanctions

A ruble stablecoin outpaced market leaders last year despite international sanctions

A7A5, a ruble-linked stablecoin few outside Russia had heard of a year ago grew the most of any stablecoin, outpacing both USDT and USDC over the past 12 months.

Ethereum treasury firm SharpLink stakes $170M ETH on Linea network

Jan 9, 2026, 08:32 AM

Bitcoin ETF optimism fades as three-day outflows streak erases early-month gains

Jan 9, 2026, 06:52 AM

Builders behind popular Zcash wallet Zashi to launch new startup 'cashZ'

Jan 9, 2026, 05:29 AM

Truebit token crashes 99.9% after hacker drains $26.6 million in ether

Jan 9, 2026, 05:09 AM

XRP slips to $2.12 after liquidations clear both sides of the futures book

Jan 9, 2026, 04:52 AM

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Technology

The Oceans Just Keep Getting Hotter

The Oceans Just Keep Getting Hotter

For the eighth year in a row, the world’s oceans absorbed a record-breaking amount of heat in 2025. It was equivalent to the energy it would take to boil 2 billion Olympic swimming pools.

NordVPN Coupons and Deals: 77% Off in January 2026

Jan 9, 2026, 06:10 AM

Michigan man learns the hard way that “catch a cheater” spyware apps aren’t legal

Jan 8, 2026, 10:02 PM

Wi-Fi advocates get win from FCC with vote to allow higher-power devices

Jan 8, 2026, 09:13 PM

RFK Jr.’s dietary guidance: Food funnel features slab of red meat, butter

Jan 8, 2026, 08:26 PM

The coolest laptops we saw at CES 2026

Jan 8, 2026, 08:20 PM

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Development

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Compression in Big Data: Types and Techniques

Jan 8, 2026, 06:00 PM

Why The "Missing Middle" Is The Biggest Untapped Opportunity in 2026

Jan 8, 2026, 05:00 PM

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Tools

Skullcandy Discount Codes and Deals: Up to 47% Off Top Products

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Save on Skullcandy audio with 47% off Crusher Evo headphones, 36% off Crusher ANC 2 noise-canceling headphones, and more with top deals.

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Startups

MS Marks Significant Milestone as ADGM-Licensed Company Service Provider

MS Marks Significant Milestone as ADGM-Licensed Company Service Provider

The milestone positions MS to support private and institutional clients in expanding and structuring their businesses in the UAE’s premier financial centres.

The VC Funding Party Is Over

Jan 12, 2024, 12:00 PM

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World News

European Allies Working On Plan Should U.S. Move On Greenland

HuffPost World News•Jan 7, 2026, 02:19 PM

U.S. Seizes 2 Sanctioned Oil Tankers Linked To Venezuela In North Atlantic And Caribbean

HuffPost World News•Jan 7, 2026, 01:52 PM

Iran Army Chief Threatens Preemptive Attack Over 'Rhetoric' Targeting Country After Trump's Comments

HuffPost World News•Jan 7, 2026, 01:47 PM

Venezuela To Export $2 Billion Worth Of Oil To U.S. In Deal With Washington

HuffPost World News•Jan 7, 2026, 04:15 AM

How Delcy Rodríguez Courted Donald Trump And Rose To Power In Venezuela

HuffPost World News•Jan 7, 2026, 04:09 AM

In Post-Maduro Venezuela, U.S. Reportedly Eyes Security Chief As Potential Target

HuffPost World News•Jan 7, 2026, 04:05 AM

European Leaders Push Back On Trump's Comments About A U.S. Takeover Of Greenland

HuffPost World News•Jan 6, 2026, 06:00 PM
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Sports

4 Takeaways From Miami's CFP Semifinal Win Over Ole Miss

4 Takeaways From Miami's CFP Semifinal Win Over Ole Miss

Carson Beck and the Miami Hurricanes delivered when it mattered most, beating Ole Miss in an instant classic at the Fiesta Bowl on Thursday night.

Washington QB Demond Williams Jr. Reverses Course, Returns to Huskies

Jan 9, 2026, 01:13 AM

Fiesta Bowl Highlights: Carson Beck's Late TD Sends Miami to CFP Title Game

Jan 8, 2026, 11:02 PM

Touching Base: The Blue Jays Keeping Spending Big After World Series Heartbreak

Jan 8, 2026, 07:35 PM

How Tom Brady's Involvement in the Tuck Rule Game Almost Never Came to Be

Jan 8, 2026, 04:21 PM

Miami Dolphins Fire Head Coach Mike McDaniel After 4 Seasons

Jan 8, 2026, 03:43 PM

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Our World in Data

Child deaths outnumber homicides in the United States, but get far less public attention

Child deaths outnumber homicides in the United States, but get far less public attention

It’s a widespread view that child deaths are still a pressing problem in poorer countries, but not in rich ones.I don’t think this is true, and I want to illustrate it with one example from the United States.In 2023, 30,200 children died in the US. In the same year, 22,800 Americans of any age were killed through homicide. You can see this in the chart.Few Americans would argue that murders are a “solved problem”. And this is certainly not what you’d take away from the news. As we showed in a recent article, homicides receive disproportionate coverage in both left- and right-leaning media, relative to the number of people who die from them.The everyday tragedies of children dying from preterm births, neonatal sepsis, and asphyxia do not get nearly the same attention, but are no less important. These are problems that we can still make more progress on.I’ve recently written about what high-income countries can do to continue reducing child deaths.

On every continent, food supplies have grown faster than the population

Jan 6, 2026, 12:00 AM

South Korea has doubled its productivity since 2000, overtaking Japan

Dec 20, 2025, 12:00 AM

How the UK government spends £100 of its budget

Dec 18, 2025, 12:00 AM

GDP per capita has doubled in all three Baltic states since 2000

Dec 16, 2025, 12:50 AM

In most countries, imports from China account for less than 10% of GDP, even where China is the top partner

Dec 13, 2025, 12:00 AM

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Developer Blogs

Jon Skeet

Changing Immutable Collections

As I’ve written before, I’m leaning heavily into immutability in the election site code. Until September 2025 (it’s taken a long time to get round to writing this blog post) that meant a combination of records, ImmutableList<T> and ImmutableDictionary<TKey, TValue>. In an ECMA C# standards meeting, however, Joseph Musser passed on some really valuable feedback … Continue reading Changing Immutable Collections →

Dec 31, 2025, 10:32 AM

Records and the ‘with’ operator, redux

Jul 29, 2025, 08:00 PM

Unexpected inconsistency in records

Jul 19, 2025, 01:04 PM

Election 2029: Postcodes

Apr 13, 2025, 07:41 AM

George Hotz

tinygradcomma.ai

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. I have spent 5 years of my life working on 18,935 lines, and now many others have put years in as well. And there’s probably 5 more years to go. But this is the right process to compete with NVIDIA. Only a fool begins by taping out a chip; it’s expensive and not the hard part. Once you have a fully sovereign software stack capable of training SOTA models, the chip is so easy. Note that AMD, Amazon, Tesla, and Groq have taped out fine chips, but only Google and NVIDIA chips have ever been seriously used for training. Because they have the software. We are finally beginning to tackle LLVM removal, making tinygrad have 0 dependencies (except pure Python) to drive AMD GPUs. We have a frontend, we have a graph compiler, we have runtimes, and we have drivers. This is no longer a toy project, it outperforms PyTorch on many workloads. When this is finished and cleaned up, it’ll be about 20,000 lines. And that’s completely it. I think a lot of how software is thought about is wrong. All codebases have workarounds for issues in other parts of the codebase. Sometimes you are lucky and these workarounds are clear, but many times they are so deep and structural that you’ll never see them reading the code line by line. I think this is so bad that 98% of lines of software are basically this in some way shape or form. tinygrad is following the Elon process for software. Make the requirements less dumb. The best part is no part. Most requirements in software exist to maintain compatibility with other abstractions. Let’s look at an LLM server. The real requirement is that it provide an OpenAI compatible API for quickly running LLMs on GPUs. But when you look at these codebases and what they depend on, they are collectively millions and millions of lines. tinygrad is 1000x smaller. It’s because each piece of code in that stack isn’t focused on the goal. It’s focused on the other pieces of code. I believe this is the same dysfunction that exists in organizations too. The tiny corp is a company, but like how fancy chefs will deconstruct dishes, the tiny corp is a deconstructed company. We have almost nothing private, it’s a Discord and GitHub. To fund the operation, we have a computer sales division that makes about $2M revenue a year. We also have a contract with AMD to get MI350X on MLPerf for Llama 405B training. This was negotiated mostly in public on Twitter. People get hired by contributing to the repo. It’s a very self directed job, with one meeting a week and a goal of making tinygrad better. Our mission is to commoditize the petaflop.

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The opinion that pisses everyone off

Dec 22, 2025, 05:00 AM

Computer Use Models

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Bikeshedding, or why I want to build a laptop

Nov 29, 2025, 05:00 AM