calmer news

  1. The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI Partner on Sora (openai.com)
  2. A “frozen” dictionary for Python (lwn.net)
  3. Size of Life (neal.fun)
  4. Show HN: Local Privacy Firewall-blocks PII and secrets before ChatGPT sees them (github.com/privacyshield-ai)
  5. Show HN: WhatHappened – HN summaries, heatmaps, and contrarian picks (whathappened.tech)
  6. Disney making $1B investment in OpenAI, will allow characters on Sora AI (cnbc.com)
  7. Getting a Gemini API key is an exercise in frustration (ankursethi.com)
  8. Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban (reuters.com)
  9. Patterns.dev (patterns.dev)
  10. The Cost of a Closure in C (thephd.dev)
  11. Helldivers 2 on-disk size 85% reduction (steampowered.com)
  12. Oldest attestation of Austronesian language: Đông Yên Châu inscription (wikipedia.org)
  13. Booting Linux in QEMU and Writing PID 1 in Go to Illustrate Kernel as Program (serversfor.dev)
  14. How can I read the standard output of an already-running process? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing)
  15. How the Brain Parses Language (quantamagazine.org)
  16. Show HN: oeis-tui – A TUI to search OEIS integer sequences in the terminal (github.com/hako)
  17. Auto-grading decade-old Hacker News discussions with hindsight (karpathy.bearblog.dev)
  18. Craft software that makes people feel something (rapha.land)
  19. Python Workers redux: fast cold starts, packages, and a uv-first workflow (cloudflare.com)
  20. French supermarket's Christmas advert is worldwide hit (without AI) [video] (youtube.com)
  21. How Google Maps allocates survival across London's restaurants (laurenleek.substack.com)
  22. VCMI: An open-source engine for Heroes III (vcmi.eu)
  23. Go's escape analysis and why my function return worked (bonniesimon.in)
  24. Rubio stages font coup: Times New Roman ousts Calibri (reuters.com)
  25. Super Mario 64 for the PS1 (github.com/malucard)
  26. Show HN: Wirebrowser – A JavaScript debugger with breakpoint-driven heap search (github.com/fcavallarin)
  27. Flow Where You Want – Guidance for Flow Models (drscotthawley.github.io)
  28. Qwen3-Omni-Flash-2025-12-01：a next-generation native multimodal large model (qwen.ai)
  29. Incomplete list of mistakes in the design of CSS (csswg.org)
  30. Show HN: Automated license plate reader coverage in the USA (alpranalysis.com)