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Databases in 2025: A Year in Review
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pavlo/blog/2026/01/2025-databases-retrospective.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46496103
Try to take my position: The best promotion advice I ever got
https://andrew.grahamyooll.com/blog/Try-to-Take-My-Position/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46466027
Pebble Round 2
https://repebble.com/blog/pebble-round-2-the-most-stylish-pebble-ever
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46465335
I switched from VSCode to Zed
https://tenthousandmeters.com/blog/i-switched-from-vscode-to-zed/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46498735
Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers, cutting memory 75%
https://brave.com/privacy-updates/36-adblock-memory-reduction/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46501894
enclose.horse
https://enclose.horse/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46509211
Show HN: DoNotNotify – Log and intelligently block notifications on Android
https://donotnotify.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46499646
Welcome to Gas Town
https://steve-yegge.medium.com/welcome-to-gas-town-4f25ee16dd04
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46458936
Show HN: Tailsnitch – A security auditor for Tailscale
https://github.com/Adversis/tailsnitch
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46501137
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The unbearable joy of sitting alone in a café
https://candost.blog/the-unbearable-joy-of-sitting-alone-in-a-cafe/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46488355
Web development is fun again
https://ma.ttias.be/web-development-is-fun-again/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46488576
Street Fighter II, the World Warrier (2021)
https://fabiensanglard.net/sf2_warrier/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46488278
Claude Code On-the-Go
https://granda.org/en/2026/01/02/claude-code-on-the-go/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46491486
Show HN: Terminal UI for AWS
https://github.com/huseyinbabal/taws
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46491749
I charged $18k for a Static HTML Page (2019)
https://idiallo.com/blog/18000-dollars-static-web-page
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46469877
Why does a least squares fit appear to have a bias when applied to simple data?
https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/674129/why-does-a-linear-least-squares-fit-appear-to-have-a-bias-when-applied-to-simple
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46491821
Show HN: An interactive guide to how browsers work
https://howbrowserswork.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46488654
During Helene, I just wanted a plain text website
https://sparkbox.com/foundry/helene_and_mobile_web_performance
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46494734
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The Most Popular Blogs of Hacker News in 2025
https://refactoringenglish.com/blog/2025-hn-top-5/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46478377
The C3 Programming Language
https://c3-lang.org
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46478647
The suck is why we're here
https://nik.art/the-suck-is-why-were-here/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46482877
Neural Networks: Zero to Hero
https://karpathy.ai/zero-to-hero.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46485090
Swift on Android: Full Native App Development Now Possible
https://docs.swifdroid.com/app/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46483023
Corroded: Illegal Rust
https://github.com/buyukakyuz/corroded
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46483531
KDE onboarding is good now
https://rabbitictranslator.com/kde-onboarding/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46483432
Exploring Dithering on Spectra 6-color E-Ink Displays
https://myembeddedstuff.com/e-ink-spectra-6-color
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46440037
Take One Small Step
https://thinkhuman.com/take-one-small-step/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46482107
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2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop
https://xeiaso.net/notes/2026/year-linux-desktop/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46471199
Daft Punk Easter Egg in the BPM Tempo of Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger?
https://www.madebywindmill.com/tempi/blog/hbfs-bpm/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46469577
IPv6 just turned 30 and still hasn't taken over the world
https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/31/ipv6_at_30/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46465327
Clicks Communicator
https://www.clicksphone.com/en/communicator
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46467057
Assorted less(1) tips
https://blog.thechases.com/posts/assorted-less-tips/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46464120
Show HN: Website that plays the lottery every second
https://lotteryeverysecond.lffl.me/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46471171
Jank Lang Hit Alpha
https://github.com/jank-lang/jank
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46468517
Fighting Fire with Fire: Scalable Oral Exams
https://www.behind-the-enemy-lines.com/2025/12/fighting-fire-with-fire-scalable-oral.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46467677
Punkt. Unveils MC03 Smartphone
https://www.punkt.ch/blogs/news/punkt-unveils-mc03
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46466364
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A website to destroy all websites
https://henry.codes/writing/a-website-to-destroy-all-websites/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46457784
Bluetooth Headphone Jacking: A Key to Your Phone [video]
https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-bluetooth-headphone-jacking-a-key-to-your-phone
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46453204
Show HN: OpenWorkers – Self-hosted Cloudflare workers in Rust
https://openworkers.com/introducing-openworkers
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46454693
Cameras and Lenses (2020)
https://ciechanow.ski/cameras-and-lenses/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46455872
Finland detains ship and its crew after critical undersea cable damaged
https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/31/europe/finland-estonia-undersea-cable-ship-detained-intl
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46456797
I rebooted my social life
https://takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/this-might-be-oversharing
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46453114
Python numbers every programmer should know
https://mkennedy.codes/posts/python-numbers-every-programmer-should-know/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46454470
Why users cannot create Issues directly
https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/issues/3558
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46460319
2025 Letter
https://danwang.co/2025-letter/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46454413
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2025: The Year in LLMs
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/31/the-year-in-llms/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46449643
I canceled my book deal
https://austinhenley.com/blog/canceledbookdeal.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46446815
Show HN: Use Claude Code to Query 600 GB Indexes over Hacker News, ArXiv, etc.
https://exopriors.com/scry
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46442245
Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design (2011) [pdf]
https://www.ece.uvic.ca/~elec399/201409/Akin%27s%20Laws%20of%20Spacecraft%20Design.pdf
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46442903
Web Browsers have stopped blocking pop-ups
https://www.smokingonabike.com/2025/12/31/web-browsers-have-stopped-blocking-pop-ups/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46446366
Demystifying DVDs
https://hiddenpalace.org/News/One_Bad_Ass_Hedgehog_-_Shadow_the_Hedgehog#Demystifying_DVDs
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46417162
On privacy and control
https://toidiu.com/blog/2025-12-25-privacy-and-control/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46446938
Scientists unlock brain's natural clean-up system for new treatments for stroke
https://www.monash.edu/pharm/about/news/news-listing/latest/scientists-unlock-brains-natural-clean-up-system-to-develop-new-treatments-for-stroke-and-other-neurological-diseases
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46448894
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A faster heart for F-Droid
https://f-droid.org/2025/12/30/a-faster-heart-for-f-droid.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46436409
Non-Zero-Sum Games
https://nonzerosum.games/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46432311
OpenAI's cash burn will be one of the big bubble questions of 2026
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2025/12/30/openais-cash-burn-will-be-one-of-the-big-bubble-questions-of-2026
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46438390
FediMeteo: A €4 FreeBSD VPS Became a Global Weather Service
https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/02/26/fedimeteo-how-a-tiny-freebsd-vps-became-a-global-weather-service-for-thousands/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46436889
Loss32: Let's Build a Win32/Linux
https://loss32.org/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46424173
A Vulnerability in Libsodium
https://00f.net/2025/12/30/libsodium-vulnerability/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46435614
Times New American: A Tale of Two Fonts
https://hsu.cy/2025/12/times-new-american/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46432862
Honey's Dieselgate: Detecting and tricking testers
https://vptdigital.com/blog/honey-detecting-testers/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46438522
Five Years of Tinygrad
https://geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll/update/2025/12/29/five-years-of-tinygrad.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46422757
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Google is dead. Where do we go now?
https://www.circusscientist.com/2025/12/29/google-is-dead-where-do-we-go-now/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46425198
GOG is getting acquired by its original co-founder
https://www.gog.com/blog/gog-is-getting-acquired-by-its-original-co-founder-what-it-means-for-you/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46422412
Karpathy on Programming: “I've never felt this much behind”
https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/2004607146781278521
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46395714
Tesla's 4680 battery supply chain collapses as partner writes down deal by 99%
https://electrek.co/2025/12/29/tesla-4680-battery-supply-chain-collapses-partner-writes-down-dea/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46423290
Linux DAW: Help Linux musicians to quickly and easily find the tools they need
https://linuxdaw.org/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46419968
ManusAI Joins Meta
https://manus.im/blog/manus-joins-meta-for-next-era-of-innovation
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46426534
I migrated to an almost all-EU stack and saved 500€ per year
https://www.zeitgeistofbytes.com/p/bye-bye-big-tech-how-i-migrated-to
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46427582
The future of software development is software developers
https://codemanship.wordpress.com/2025/11/25/the-future-of-software-development-is-software-developers/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46424233
Static Allocation with Zig
https://nickmonad.blog/2025/static-allocation-with-zig-kv/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46422009
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Growing up in “404 Not Found”: China's nuclear city in the Gobi Desert
https://substack.com/inbox/post/182743659
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46408988
You can make up HTML tags
https://maurycyz.com/misc/make-up-tags/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46416945
Software engineers should be a little bit cynical
https://www.seangoedecke.com/a-little-bit-cynical/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46414723
Unity's Mono problem: Why your C# code runs slower than it should
https://marekfiser.com/blog/mono-vs-dot-net-in-unity/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46414819
MongoBleed Explained Simply
https://bigdata.2minutestreaming.com/p/mongobleed-explained-simply
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46414475
PySDR: A Guide to SDR and DSP Using Python
https://pysdr.org/content/intro.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46413975
As AI gobbles up chips, prices for devices may rise
https://www.npr.org/2025/12/28/nx-s1-5656190/ai-chips-memory-prices-ram
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46415338
Show HN: Z80-μLM, a 'Conversational AI' That Fits in 40KB
https://github.com/HarryR/z80ai
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46417815
Staying ahead of censors in 2025
https://forum.torproject.org/t/staying-ahead-of-censors-in-2025-what-weve-learned-from-fighting-censorship-in-iran-and-russia/20898
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46417844
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Nvidia's $20B antitrust loophole
https://ossa-ma.github.io/blog/groq
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46403559
How we lost communication to entertainment
https://ploum.net/2025-12-15-communication-entertainment.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46404848
Replacing JavaScript with Just HTML
https://www.htmhell.dev/adventcalendar/2025/27/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46407337
Calendar
https://neatnik.net/calendar/?year=2026
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46408613
Show HN: Ez FFmpeg – Video editing in plain English
http://npmjs.com/package/ezff
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46400251
Gpg.fail
https://gpg.fail
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46403200
Say No to Palantir in the NHS
https://notopalantir.goodlawproject.org/email-to-target/stop-palantir-in-the-nhs/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46405309
Janet Jackson had the power to crash laptop computers (2022)
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20220816-00/?p=106994
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46403291
Ask HN: Resources to get better at outbound sales?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46346648
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Package managers keep using Git as a database, it never works out
https://nesbitt.io/2025/12/24/package-managers-keep-using-git-as-a-database.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46391514
Toys with the highest play-time and lowest clean-up-time
https://joannabregan.substack.com/p/toys-with-the-highest-play-time-and
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46395885
Show HN: Witr – Explain why a process is running on your Linux system
https://github.com/pranshuparmar/witr
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46392910
The best things and stuff of 2025
https://blog.fogus.me/2025/12/23/the-best-things-and-stuff-of-2025.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46365726
LearnixOS
https://www.learnix-os.com
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46391599
Ask HN: What did you read in 2025?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46391572
Always bet on text (2014)
https://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/193447.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46397379
Exe.dev
https://exe.dev/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46397609
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We invited a man into our home at Christmas and he stayed with us for 45 years
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdxwllqz1l0o
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46383552
Maybe the default settings are too high
https://www.raptitude.com/2025/12/maybe-the-default-settings-are-too-high/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46387657
I sell onions on the Internet (2019)
https://www.deepsouthventures.com/i-sell-onions-on-the-internet/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46385308
The entire New Yorker archive is now digitized
https://www.newyorker.com/news/press-room/the-entire-new-yorker-archive-is-now-fully-digitized
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46336577
Python 3.15’s interpreter for Windows x86-64 should hopefully be 15% faster
https://fidget-spinner.github.io/posts/no-longer-sorry.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46384167
Seven Diabetes Patients Die Due to Undisclosed Bug in Abbott's Glucose Monitors
https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2025/dec/23/seven-abbott-freestyle-libre-cgm-patients-dead/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46388040
Fahrplan – 39C3
https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2025/fahrplan/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46386211
Asahi Linux with Sway on the MacBook Air M2 (2024)
https://daniel.lawrence.lu/blog/2024-12-01-asahi-linux-with-sway-on-the-macbook-air-m2/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46384565
Show HN: Gaming Couch – a local multiplayer party game platform for 8 players
https://gamingcouch.com
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46344573
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Nvidia buying AI chip startup Groq for about $20B in cash
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/24/nvidia-buying-ai-chip-startup-groq-for-about-20-billion-biggest-deal.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46379183
Phoenix: A modern X server written from scratch in Zig
https://git.dec05eba.com/phoenix/about/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46380075
Show HN: Minimalist editor that lives in browser, stores everything in the URL
https://github.com/antonmedv/textarea
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46378554
Show HN: Vibium – Browser automation for AI and humans, by Selenium's creator
https://github.com/VibiumDev/vibium
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46377597
Ruby 4.0.0
https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2025/12/25/ruby-4-0-0-released/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46382011
Fabrice Bellard: Biography (2009) [pdf]
https://www.ipaidia.gr/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/117-2020-fabrice-bellard.pdf
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46377862
I'm returning my Framework 16
https://yorickpeterse.com/articles/im-returning-my-framework-16/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46375174
CSRF protection without tokens or hidden form fields
https://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/csrf-protection-without-tokens-or-hidden-form-fields
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46351666
Who Watches the Waymos? I do [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYU2hAbx_Fc
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46380758
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Some Epstein file redactions are being undone with hacks
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/23/epstein-unredacted-files-social-media
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46368946
X-ray: a Python library for finding bad redactions in PDF documents
https://github.com/freelawproject/x-ray
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46369923
We replaced H.264 streaming with JPEG screenshots (and it worked better)
https://blog.helix.ml/p/we-mass-deployed-15-year-old-screen
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46367475
What makes you senior
https://terriblesoftware.org/2025/11/25/what-actually-makes-you-senior/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46327692
Lua 5.5
https://lua.org/versions.html#5.5
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46354674
Unifi Travel Router
https://blog.ui.com/article/travel-in-style-unifi-style-unifi-travel-router
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46371135
Texas app store age verification law blocked by federal judge
https://www.macrumors.com/2025/12/23/texas-app-store-law-blocked/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46370012
Perfect Software – Software for an Audience of One
https://outofdesk.netlify.app/blog/perfect-software
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46334206
Fifty problems with standard web APIs in 2025
https://zerotrickpony.com/articles/browser-bugs/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46309007
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Claude Code gets native LSP support
https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46355165
The Illustrated Transformer
https://jalammar.github.io/illustrated-transformer/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46357675
GLM-4.7: Advancing the Coding Capability
https://z.ai/blog/glm-4.7
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46357287
It's Always TCP_NODELAY
https://brooker.co.za/blog/2024/05/09/nagle.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46359120
NIST was 5 μs off UTC after last week's power cut
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/nist-was-5-μs-utc-after-last-weeks-power-cut
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46355949
Scaling LLMs to Larger Codebases
https://blog.kierangill.xyz/oversight-and-guidance
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46354970
Ultrasound Cancer Treatment: Sound Waves Fight Tumors
https://spectrum.ieee.org/ultrasound-cancer-treatment
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46357945
The biggest CRT ever made: Sony's PVM-4300
https://dfarq.homeip.net/the-biggest-crt-ever-made-sonys-pvm-4300/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46353777
The Garbage Collection Handbook
https://gchandbook.org/index.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46357870
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Show HN: Books mentioned on Hacker News in 2025
https://hackernews-readings-613604506318.us-west1.run.app
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46345897
A guide to local coding models
https://www.aiforswes.com/p/you-dont-need-to-spend-100mo-on-claude
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46348329
Show HN: WalletWallet – create Apple passes from anything
https://walletwallet.alen.ro/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46345745
I'm just having fun
https://jyn.dev/i-m-just-having-fun/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46287253
CO2 batteries that store grid energy take off globally
https://spectrum.ieee.org/co2-battery-energy-storage
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46345506
I program on the subway
https://www.scd31.com/posts/programming-on-the-subway
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46294694
Disney Imagineering Debuts Next-Generation Robotic Character, Olaf
https://disneyparksblog.com/disney-experiences/robotic-olaf-marks-new-era-of-disney-innovation/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46348847
Deliberate Internet Shutdowns
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/12/deliberate-internet-shutdowns.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46316050
Rue: Higher level than Rust, lower level than Go
https://rue-lang.dev/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46348262
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Show HN: Jmail – Google Suite for Epstein files
https://www.jmail.world
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46339600
Go ahead, self-host Postgres
https://pierce.dev/notes/go-ahead-self-host-postgres#user-content-fn-1
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46336947
Flock and Cyble Inc. weaponize "cybercrime" takedowns to silence critics
https://haveibeenflocked.com/news/cyble-downtime
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46341305
Log level 'error' should mean that something needs to be fixed
https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/ErrorsShouldRequireFixing
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46301059
Pure Silicon Demo Coding: No CPU, No Memory, Just 4k Gates
https://www.a1k0n.net/2025/12/19/tiny-tapeout-demo.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46337438
Gemini 3 Pro vs. 2.5 Pro in Pokemon Crystal
https://blog.jcz.dev/gemini-3-pro-vs-25-pro-in-pokemon-crystal
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46287848
Skills Officially Comes to Codex
https://developers.openai.com/codex/skills/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46334424
OpenSCAD is kinda neat
https://nuxx.net/blog/2025/12/20/openscad-is-kinda-neat/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46337984
Ireland’s Diarmuid Early wins world Microsoft Excel title
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj4qzgvxxgvo
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46339031
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Mistral OCR 3
https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-ocr-3
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46313390
CSS Grid Lanes
https://webkit.org/blog/17660/introducing-css-grid-lanes/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46331586
TP-Link Tapo C200: Hardcoded Keys, Buffer Overflows and Privacy
https://www.evilsocket.net/2025/12/18/TP-Link-Tapo-C200-Hardcoded-Keys-Buffer-Overflows-and-Privacy-in-the-Era-of-AI-Assisted-Reverse-Engineering/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46329038
8-bit Boléro
https://linusakesson.net/music/bolero/index.php
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46324702
Graphite is joining Cursor
https://cursor.com/blog/graphite
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46327206
LLM Year in Review
https://karpathy.bearblog.dev/year-in-review-2025/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46330726
Show HN: TinyPDF – 3kb pdf library (70x smaller than jsPDF)
https://github.com/Lulzx/tinypdf
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46316968
Rust's Block Pattern
https://notgull.net/block-pattern/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46322391
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We pwned X, Vercel, Cursor, and Discord through a supply-chain attack
https://gist.github.com/hackermondev/5e2cdc32849405fff6b46957747a2d28
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46317098
Texas is suing all of the big TV makers for spying on what you watch
https://www.theverge.com/news/845400/texas-tv-makers-lawsuit-samsung-sony-lg-hisense-tcl-spying
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46294456
History LLMs: Models trained exclusively on pre-1913 texts
https://github.com/DGoettlich/history-llms
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46319826
GPT-5.2-Codex
https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-2-codex/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46316367
Firefox will have an option to disable all AI features
https://mastodon.social/@firefoxwebdevs/115740500373677782
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46316409
1.5 TB of VRAM on Mac Studio – RDMA over Thunderbolt 5
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/15-tb-vram-on-mac-studio-rdma-over-thunderbolt-5
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46319657
How China built its ‘Manhattan Project’ to rival the West in AI chips
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/12/18/tech/china-west-ai-chips/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46316907
Show HN: Picknplace.js, an alternative to drag-and-drop
https://jgthms.com/picknplace.js/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46290349
Skills for organizations, partners, the ecosystem
https://claude.com/blog/organization-skills-and-directory
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46315414
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AWS CEO says replacing junior devs with AI is 'one of the dumbest ideas'
https://www.finalroundai.com/blog/aws-ceo-ai-cannot-replace-junior-developers
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46302267
Tell HN: HN was down
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46301921
Coursera to combine with Udemy
https://investor.coursera.com/news/news-details/2025/Coursera-to-Combine-with-Udemy-to-Empower-the-Global-Workforce-with-Skills-for-the-AI-Era/default.aspx
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46301346
Gut bacteria from amphibians and reptiles achieve tumor elimination in mice
https://www.jaist.ac.jp/english/whatsnew/press/2025/12/17-1.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46306894
I got hacked: My Hetzner server started mining Monero
https://blog.jakesaunders.dev/my-server-started-mining-monero-this-morning/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46305585
A Safer Container Ecosystem with Docker: Free Docker Hardened Images
https://www.docker.com/blog/docker-hardened-images-for-every-developer/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46302337
How SQLite is tested
https://sqlite.org/testing.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46303277
OBS Studio Gets a New Renderer
https://obsproject.com/blog/obs-studio-gets-a-new-renderer
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46305428
Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46307973