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Monday, 15 December
HTML Building a Brainfuck DSL in Forth using code generation (newest submissions : Forth)
HTML Link (APOD)
HTML Link (APOD)
HTML Flooding at Kent site? (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
HTML Quoting Gemini thinking trace (Simon Willison's Weblog)
HTML SLF Announces Winners of 2025 Diverse Writers Grant and Diverse Worlds Grant (File 770)
HTML Pixel Scroll 12/15/25 You Gotta Find Some Pixels To Scroll (File 770)
HTML Quoting Kent Beck (Simon Willison's Weblog)
HTML Status Report 12/25 (Ether Diver)
HTML I ported JustHTML from Python to JavaScript with Codex CLI and GPT-5.2 in 4.5 hours (Simon Willison's Weblog)
HTML BE7 has an insane throttle capacity (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
HTML BE7 off to Florida for MK1 integration (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
HTML The Video of Dumb Investment (Matt Levine - Bloomberg Opinion Columnist)
HTML 2025 Word of the Year: Slop (Simon Willison's Weblog)
HTML Pluralistic: Break up bad companies; replace bad union bosses (15 Dec 2025) (Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow)
HTML How to levitate objects sans magic (Science News)
HTML Starfish Space announce Autonomous Rendezvous and Proximity mission success with Impulse Space (NASASpaceFlight.com)
HTML mostly successful build of gforth 0.7.9 on an m2 mac (newest submissions : Forth)
HTML Dark matter ‘nuggets’ could explain the Milky Way’s mysterious glow (Science News)
HTML a mouse angel (File 770)
HTML heresy comix (Dinosaur Comics!)
Sunday, 14 December
HTML Link (APOD)
HTML Link (APOD)
HTML Jumping Frog Radius (xkcd.com)
HTML Daddy-Daughter Podcast, 2025 Edition (Cory Doctorow's craphound.com)
HTML Pixel Scroll 12/14/25 One Pixel Makes You Stronger And The Other Pixel Always Tells The Truth (File 770)
HTML Monday 15 December, 2025 (Memex 1.1)
HTML John Varley, 1947-2025 (Flogging Babel)
HTML Roman telescope construction complete, moving into final testing ahead of 2027 launch (NASASpaceFlight.com)
HTML FCode resources (newest submissions : Forth)
HTML Blue Origin halfway through 4-flight certification to allow launch of national security missions (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
HTML JustHTML is a fascinating example of vibe engineering in action (Simon Willison's Weblog)
HTML For Hire: Director, New Glenn 7 Engine Stage 1 Aft & Mid Modules (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
HTML F83 on RP-Pico (newest submissions : Forth)
Saturday, 13 December
HTML Link (APOD)
HTML Orion and the Ocean of Storms (APOD)
HTML 8th ver. 25.09 released! (newest submissions : Forth)
HTML Copywriters reveal how AI has decimated their industry (Simon Willison's Weblog)
HTML Pixel Scroll 12/13/25 And Dr Strange At Ectoplasm The Trees (File 770)
HTML Curecoin Blockchain Flew on Blue Origin's New Shepard Mission NS-36 (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
HTML Pluralistic: Federal Wallet Inspectors (13 Dec 2025) (Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow)
HTML Quoting Obie Fernandez (Simon Willison's Weblog)
HTML JustWatch 2025 Rewind: United States (File 770)
Friday, 12 December
HTML Orion and the Ocean of Storms (APOD)
HTML Northern Fox Fires (APOD)
HTML Quoting OpenAI Codex CLI (Simon Willison's Weblog)
HTML SpaceX Roberts Road a focal point for East Coast Starship preparations (NASASpaceFlight.com)
HTML Pixel Scroll 12/12/25 I Think Only One Of Mars’ Two Moons Is A Harsh Mistress, But I Can’t Tell Which (File 770)
HTML Collections: Hoplite Wars, Part IIIb: A Phalanx By Any Other Name (A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry)
HTML OpenAI are quietly adopting skills, now available in ChatGPT and Codex CLI (Simon Willison's Weblog)
HTML What's the point of lightweight code with modern computers? (Liam on Linux)
HTML GS-2 SN-004 Successfully Test Fired (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
HTML LLM 0.28 (Simon Willison's Weblog)
HTML This Week on The Analog Antiquarian (The Digital Antiquarian)
HTML Chapter 9: A Late Bloomer (The Analog Antiquarian)
HTML Confused about Interpretation semantics and Execution semantics. (newest submissions : Forth)
HTML Overview of Blue Origin infrastructure projects on the Space Coast (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
HTML Mosquitos use it to suck blood. Researchers used it to 3-D print (Science News)
HTML ‘Black Religion in the Madhouse’ examines psychiatry and race post-Civil War (Science News)
HTML TGL - E398: Skywalker! (Fear of Tigers)
HTML OPM: Electro Eclectic (Ether Diver)
HTML Operation Bogeyman: The Folk Horror Landscape of 1970s Northern Ireland – A Film by Simon Aeppli (File 770)
HTML t-rex in: an art form most deer (Dinosaur Comics!)
Thursday, 11 December
HTML Northern Fox Fires (APOD)
HTML Galaxies in the River (APOD)
HTML The Game Awards 2025 Winners (File 770)
HTML Apples (xkcd.com)
HTML Pixel Scroll 12/11/25 Pixel Scroll Rock, Pixel Scrolls Swing And Pixel Scrolls Ring (File 770)
HTML How hard are the technical questions on 3rd round interviews? (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
HTML Friday 12 December, 2025 (Memex 1.1)
HTML All eight ISS docking ports occupied for the first time, Expedition 74 begins (NASASpaceFlight.com)
HTML GPT-5.2 (Simon Willison's Weblog)
HTML Video: Pigments Harmonic Engine Deep Dive (Ether Diver)
HTML Hi Bob - Checking In (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
HTML My new fave thing to go to is algoraves (Interconnected)
HTML A Stock Price Is Not a Prediction (Matt Levine - Bloomberg Opinion Columnist)
HTML Early Earth’s belly held onto its water (Science News)
HTML Blue Origin IPO? (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
HTML Pluralistic: Instacart reaches into your pocket and lops a third off your dollars (11 Dec 2025) (Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow)
HTML How these strange cells may explain the origin of complex life (Science News)
HTML Book Review: The Trident and The Pearl by Sarah K.L. Wilson (Lightspeed MagazineRSS - Lightspeed Magazine)
HTML Author Spotlight: Jonathan Olfert (Lightspeed MagazineRSS - Lightspeed Magazine)
HTML Crickets in Lost Light (Lightspeed MagazineRSS - Lightspeed Magazine)
HTML Us, in Another Universe (Lightspeed MagazineRSS - Lightspeed Magazine)
HTML Blanked – A Tale Of Two Books (Media Lens)
HTML 2026 Prometheus Hall of Fame Award Finalists Announced (File 770)
Wednesday, 10 December
HTML Galaxies in the River (APOD)
HTML The Horsehead Nebula (APOD)
HTML Issue #447 (Issues – Beneath Ceaseless Skies)
HTML Blue Origin’s Cape Campus continues to expand ahead of New Glenn ramp-up (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
HTML Blue Origin’s Cape Campus continues to expand ahead of New Glenn ramp-up (NASASpaceFlight.com)
HTML Pixel Scroll 12/10/25 Hey Pixel, Watch Me Pull A Scroll Out Of My File! (File 770)
HTML Blue Origin targets four-flight campaign for New Glenn’s path to Space Force certification (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
HTML Time to start some New Glenn dreaming??? (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
HTML Useful patterns for building HTML tools (Simon Willison's Weblog)
HTML The Normalization of Deviance in AI (Simon Willison's Weblog)
HTML Bezos and Musk Race to Bring Data Centers to Space (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
HTML The Warner Deal Will Take a While (Matt Levine - Bloomberg Opinion Columnist)
HTML Bats might be the next bird flu wild card (Science News)
HTML Dark mode (Simon Willison's Weblog)
HTML Neandertals mastered fire-making tools 400,000 years ago (Science News)
HTML A Thousand and One Nights in Italy: The Moorish Fantasias of Cesare Mattei and Ferdinando Panciatichi (The Public Domain Review)
HTML Nature Morte: Chaïm Soutine’s Still Lifes (ca. 1920s) (The Public Domain Review)
HTML From viruses to elephants, nature thrives on tiled patterns (Science News)
HTML t-rex in: a bloody good time (Dinosaur Comics!)
Tuesday, 09 December
HTML The Horsehead Nebula (APOD)
HTML Link (APOD)
HTML Fishing (xkcd.com)
HTML Pixel Scroll 12/9/25 Lex Luthor, Rod McBan Launch Competing Bids For DC/Warner Brothers (File 770)
HTML 10 Years of Let's Encrypt (Simon Willison's Weblog)
HTML The Panda Has Landed — Barkley’s 2023 Hugo Finally Arrives (File 770)
HTML Wednesday 10 December, 2023 (Memex 1.1)
HTML Blue Origin launch to mark first-ever wheelchair user in space (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
HTML Trucked-in honeybees may edge out bigger bumblebee foragers (Science News)
HTML Devstral 2 (Simon Willison's Weblog)
HTML Under the hood of Canada Spends with Brendan Samek (Simon Willison's Weblog)
HTML Microsoft Patch Tuesday, December 2025 Edition (Krebs on Security)
HTML Agentic AI Foundation (Simon Willison's Weblog)
HTML Lunar Outpost’s MAPP Rovers: From Commercial Exploration to Artemis Integration (NASASpaceFlight.com)
HTML mistralai/mistral-vibe (Simon Willison's Weblog)
HTML Private Indices Are the New Public Indices (Matt Levine - Bloomberg Opinion Columnist)
HTML The stack circuitry of the Intel 8087 floating point chip, reverse-engineered (Ken Shirriff's blog)
HTML A look under the hood of DeepSeek’s AI models doesn’t provide all the answers (Science News)
HTML Some irritability is normal. Here’s when it’s not (Science News)
HTML Quoting Claude (Simon Willison's Weblog)
HTML Pluralistic: Big Tech joins the race to build the world's heaviest airplane (09 Dec 2025) (Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow)
HTML 2025 Nommo Awards (File 770)
HTML What will you do with a New Glenn Rocket? (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
Monday, 08 December
HTML Link (APOD)
HTML Link (APOD)
HTML Eager Space NG video (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
HTML Prediction: AI will make formal verification go mainstream (Simon Willison's Weblog)
HTML Pixel Scroll 12/8/25 In Scrolladelphia It’s Worth Fifty Pixels (File 770)
HTML Books I'll Never Write: SCIENCE FICTION IN THE EIGHTIES (Flogging Babel)
HTML Deprecations via warnings don’t work for Python libraries (Simon Willison's Weblog)
HTML Launch Roundup: China, Russia, Rocket Lab, ULA join SpaceX in flying this week (NASASpaceFlight.com)
HTML 2026 Golden Globe Nominees (File 770)
HTML Huge relatives of white sharks lived earlier than thought (Science News)
HTML Monday 8 December, 2025 (Memex 1.1)
HTML A Bidding War for Warner Bros. (Matt Levine - Bloomberg Opinion Columnist)
HTML Hypothetical New Glenn upgrade renders (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
HTML GLP-1 drugs failed to slow Alzheimer’s in two big clinical trials (Science News)
HTML Pluralistic: Elon Musk's Blue Tick scam (08 Dec 2025) (Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow)
HTML The Magic Begging Bowl, Part 2 – Self-Inquiry (Media Lens)
HTML NASA Goddard and the dawn of international cooperation in space (The Space Review)
HTML The long arm of a European space law (The Space Review)
HTML Beyond launch: How in-space propulsion markets will determine winners in the $1 trillion space economy (The Space Review)
HTML In defense of Mark Kelly (The Space Review)
HTML Review: The Pale Blue Data Point (The Space Review)
HTML Review: The Pale Blue Data Point (The Space Review)
HTML Drought may have doomed the ‘hobbits’ of Flores (Science News)
HTML a tarot deck (File 770)
HTML to be fair I imagine most people who read this comic will forget its details on their death bed. or WILL they (Dinosaur Comics!)
Sunday, 07 December
HTML Link (APOD)
HTML Link (APOD)
HTML Hyperacute Interdynamics (xkcd.com)
HTML Niche Museums: The Museum of Jurassic Technology (Simon Willison's Weblog)
HTML Pixel Scroll 12/7/25 A Slow Glass For Observers (File 770)
HTML Probationary Period (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
HTML Blue Origin Rocket Engine Factory in Huntsville, Alabama, where BE-4 and BE-7 are manufactured (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
HTML Quoting Cory Doctorow (Simon Willison's Weblog)
HTML Using LLMs at Oxide (Simon Willison's Weblog)
HTML Quoting David Crespo (Simon Willison's Weblog)
HTML Reusable space rockets comparison (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
HTML There’s something very weird about Blue Origin’s device that generates electricity from moon dust (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
HTML Bidders for Future Worldcons and Smofcons Heard from in Smofcon 42 Q&A Session (File 770)
HTML Film and TV Nominees for the 31st Critics Choice Awards (File 770)
HTML Interview Process (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
Saturday, 06 December
HTML Link (APOD)
HTML Apollo 17 at Shorty Crater (APOD)
HTML LAcon V Announces 2026 Virtual Business Meeting Schedule (File 770)
HTML Toaplan v2 and the Birth of Raizing: Sorcer Striker! (Nicole Express)
HTML How is Blue’s work culture? (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
HTML Pixel Scroll 12/6/25 There Is Nothing Like A Dune (File 770)
HTML Health Insurance (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
HTML Pluralistic: Metabolizing the theory of "political capitalism" (06 Dec 2025) (Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow)
HTML The Unexpected Effectiveness of One-Shot Decompilation with Claude (Simon Willison's Weblog)
HTML SpaceX evaluation (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
HTML Huntsville Offer (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
HTML Drones to Diplomas: How Russia’s Largest Private University is Linked to a $25M Essay Mill (Krebs on Security)
HTML Quoting Daniel Lemire (Simon Willison's Weblog)
HTML Kindaforthless : forth-ish language that compiles to lua (newest submissions : Forth)
HTML rot vs return stack, "rules" for performance and or readability (newest submissions : Forth)
HTML Alleged leaked image of New Glenn's third stage (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
Friday, 05 December
HTML Apollo 17 at Shorty Crater (APOD)
HTML The Bipolar Jets of KX Andromedae (APOD)
HTML Pixel Scroll 12/5/25 There Are Pixels And Then There Are Pixels (File 770)
HTML Code size of words (newest submissions : Forth)
HTML Collections: Hoplite Wars, Part IIIa: An Archaic Phalanx? (A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry)
HTML SpaceX gets Environmental Approval for Starship at SLC-37 (NASASpaceFlight.com)
HTML A CDC panel has struck down universal newborn hepatitis B vaccination (Science News)
HTML Mr. Roberts Goes to Hollywood, Part 2: The Producer (The Digital Antiquarian)
HTML My mental model of the AI race (Interconnected)
HTML Big Neandertal noses weren’t made for cold (Science News)
HTML Pluralistic: The Reverse-Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI (05 Dec 2025) (Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow)
HTML How male seahorses tap into their mothering side (Science News)
HTML TGL E937: Strength. Power. Love 💪🔥❤️ (Fear of Tigers)
HTML OPM: In Darkness We Dwell & Dance (Ether Diver)
HTML Goodreads Choice 2025 Winners (File 770)
HTML sherlock holmes and the case of the problem of communication (Dinosaur Comics!)
Thursday, 04 December
HTML Can running a rocket engine at reduced power extend lifetimes? (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
HTML TIL: Subtests in pytest 9.0.0+ (Simon Willison's Weblog)
HTML The Bipolar Jets of KX Andromedae (APOD)
HTML Galaxies in the Furnace (APOD)
HTML Chessboard Alignment (xkcd.com)
HTML Thoughts on Go vs. Rust vs. Zig (Simon Willison's Weblog)
HTML Video: Sound Design with the H3000 (Ether Diver)
HTML Pixel Scroll 12/4/25 All We Need To Do Is Follow Pixel Through The Nearest Wall (File 770)
HTML The Resonant Computing Manifesto (Simon Willison's Weblog)
HTML Friday 5 December, 2025 (Memex 1.1)
HTML Django 6.0 released (Simon Willison's Weblog)
HTML Text a community college librarian (Simon Willison's Weblog)
HTML SMS Phishers Pivot to Points, Taxes, Fake Retailers (Krebs on Security)
HTML How Blue Origin Plans to Beat SpaceX to the Moon (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
HTML Your Free Holiday Gift. 50 Years In The Making. (Space Studies Institute)
HTML PocketMage Beta Kit - Full Build Guide (Ashtf)
HTML Supplemental Calibration System launched (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
HTML Buy Low, Sell to Yourself (Matt Levine - Bloomberg Opinion Columnist)
HTML Sweden Refuses African Worldcon Bidders Visas for Smofcon 42 In-Person Attendance (File 770)
HTML Chatbots spewing facts, and falsehoods, can sway voters (Science News)
HTML How a bacterial toxin linked to colon cancer messes with DNA (Science News)
HTML Nanotyrannus is still not a teenage T. rex (Science News)
HTML Deceit and Disrobing: The Schefer Maqāmāt (BNF Arabe 5847, ca. 1237) (The Public Domain Review)
HTML Had a great interview process but still got rejected — trying to understand why (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
HTML A volcanic eruption might have helped bring the Black Plague to Europe (Science News)
HTML Book Review: Sinister Societies: Six Novellas of Secrets and Horrors edited by Linda Hartley (Lightspeed MagazineRSS - Lightspeed Magazine)
HTML Editorial: December 2025 (Lightspeed MagazineRSS - Lightspeed Magazine)
HTML Blue Origin Unveils Six-Member Crew for New Shepard Mission NS-37 (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
HTML Author Spotlight: Nancy Kress (Lightspeed MagazineRSS - Lightspeed Magazine)
HTML You Always Told Her You’d Give Her the World (Lightspeed MagazineRSS - Lightspeed Magazine)
HTML Reality Check (Lightspeed MagazineRSS - Lightspeed Magazine)
HTML Is BlueGPT any good? (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
Wednesday, 03 December
HTML Blue Origin unveils new spacecraft and New Glenn upgrades (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
HTML Galaxies in the Furnace (APOD)
HTML Link (APOD)
HTML Video: Korg opsix Tour + review (Ether Diver)
HTML Pixel Scroll 12/3/25 The Scrolling Of Pixel 49 (File 770)
HTML Dave Limp on X: Another New Glenn's GS2 is being transported to LC-36 today in preparation for its upcoming hotfire. (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
HTML AWS re:Invent 2025 - Keynote with Dr. Swami Sivasubramanian (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
HTML Isaacman hearing overviews bold vision for NASA (NASASpaceFlight.com)
HTML Power Beaming. 4 plus 1. For Humans. (Space Studies Institute)
HTML Quoting Mitchell Hashimoto (Simon Willison's Weblog)
HTML Can the Lenders Stick Together? (Matt Levine - Bloomberg Opinion Columnist)
HTML Pluralistic: A year in illustration (2025 edition) (03 Dec 2025) (Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow)
HTML Ancient DNA reveals China’s first ‘pet’ cat wasn’t the house cat (Science News)
HTML Ancient southern Africans took genetic evolution in a new direction (Science News)
HTML Beginner question: definition of place (newest submissions : Forth)
HTML beginner question: forget unused words (newest submissions : Forth)
HTML Beginner question: are constants compiled when used in definitions (newest submissions : Forth)
HTML Why China has progressed so fast on reusable space rockets? (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
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