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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
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Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions
https://resources.github.com/actions/2026-pricing-changes-for-github-actions/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46291156
No Graphics API
https://www.sebastianaaltonen.com/blog/no-graphics-api
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46293062
AI will make formal verification go mainstream
https://martin.kleppmann.com/2025/12/08/ai-formal-verification.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46294574
Announcing the Beta release of ty
https://astral.sh/blog/ty
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46294289
Thin desires are eating life
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/thin-desires-are-eating-your-life/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46283276
Mozilla appoints new CEO Anthony Enzor-Demeo
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/leadership/mozillas-next-chapter-anthony-enzor-demeo-new-ceo/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46288491
40 percent of fMRI signals do not correspond to actual brain activity
https://www.tum.de/en/news-and-events/all-news/press-releases/details/40-percent-of-mri-signals-do-not-correspond-to-actual-brain-activity
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46288415
GPT Image 1.5
https://openai.com/index/new-chatgpt-images-is-here/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46291941
No AI* Here – A Response to Mozilla's Next Chapter
https://www.waterfox.com/blog/no-ai-here-response-to-mozilla/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46295268
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8M users' AI conversations sold for profit by "privacy" extensions
https://www.koi.ai/blog/urban-vpn-browser-extension-ai-conversations-data-collection
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46284266
Secret Documents Show Pepsi and Walmart Colluded to Raise Food Prices
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/secret-documents-show-pepsi-and-walmart
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46280887
Ford kills the All-Electric F-150
https://www.wired.com/story/ford-kills-electric-f-150-lightning-for-hybrid/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46281182
“Are you the one?” is free money
https://blog.owenlacey.dev/posts/are-you-the-one-is-free-money/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46241500
SHARP, an approach to photorealistic view synthesis from a single image
https://apple.github.io/ml-sharp/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46284658
Quill OS: An open-source OS for Kobo's eReaders
https://quill-os.org/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46283016
JetBlue flight averts mid-air collision with US Air Force jet
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/jetblue-flight-averts-mid-air-collision-with-us-air-force-jet-2025-12-15/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46281944
Children with cancer scammed out of millions fundraised for their treatment
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgz318y8elo
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46285376
Umbrel – Personal Cloud
https://umbrel.com
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46279187
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Elevated errors across many models
https://status.claude.com/incidents/9g6qpr72ttbr
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46267385
Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46264491
Shai-Hulud compromised a dev machine and raided GitHub org access: a post-mortem
https://trigger.dev/blog/shai-hulud-postmortem
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46262021
Adafruit: Arduino’s Rules Are ‘Incompatible With Open Source’
https://thenewstack.io/adafruit-arduinos-rules-are-incompatible-with-open-source/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46265362
Microsoft Copilot AI Comes to LG TVs, and Can't Be Deleted
https://www.techpowerup.com/344075/microsoft-copilot-ai-comes-to-lg-tvs-and-cant-be-deleted
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46268844
Roomba maker goes bankrupt, Chinese owner emerges
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/bankruptcy-law/robot-vacuum-roomba-maker-files-for-bankruptcy-after-35-years
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46268854
JSDoc is TypeScript
https://culi.bearblog.dev/jsdoc-is-typescript/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46266102
Rio de Janeiro's talipot palm trees bloom for the first and only time
https://apnews.com/article/brazil-rio-talipot-palm-flamengo-park-dcfb1ce237af7a10ab72205fc9bbdc02
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46178966
In the Beginning was the Command Line (1999)
https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs81n/command.txt
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46189905
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VPN location claims don't match real traffic exits
https://ipinfo.io/blog/vpn-location-mismatch-report
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46257339
Ask HN: How can I get better at using AI for programming?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46255285
I tried Gleam for Advent of Code
https://blog.tymscar.com/posts/gleamaoc2025/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46255991
Useful patterns for building HTML tools
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/10/html-tools/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46223882
Why Twilio Segment moved from microservices back to a monolith
https://www.twilio.com/en-us/blog/developers/best-practices/goodbye-microservices
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46257714
Linux Sandboxes and Fil-C
https://fil-c.org/seccomp
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46259064
Recovering Anthony Bourdain's Li.st's
https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/bourdain/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46258163
Go Proposal: Secret Mode
https://antonz.org/accepted/runtime-secret/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46210705
I fed 24 years of my blog posts to a Markov model
https://susam.net/fed-24-years-of-posts-to-markov-model.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46257607
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macOS 26.2 enables fast AI clusters with RDMA over Thunderbolt
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/macos-release-notes/macos-26_2-release-notes#RDMA-over-Thunderbolt
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46248644
OpenAI are quietly adopting skills, now available in ChatGPT and Codex CLI
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/12/openai-skills/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46250332
Koralm Railway
https://infrastruktur.oebb.at/en/projects-for-austria/railway-lines/southern-line-vienna-villach/koralm-railway
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46242871
Sick of smart TVs? Here are your best options
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/12/the-ars-technica-guide-to-dumb-tvs/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46243655
Rats Play DOOM
https://ratsplaydoom.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46248323
GNU Unifont
https://unifoundry.com/unifont/index.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46248859
String theory inspires a brilliant, baffling new math proof
https://www.quantamagazine.org/string-theory-inspires-a-brilliant-baffling-new-math-proof-20251212/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46245622
Show HN: I made a spreadsheet where formulas also update backwards
https://victorpoughon.github.io/bidicalc/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46234734
Show HN: Tiny VM sandbox in C with apps in Rust, C and Zig
https://github.com/ringtailsoftware/uvm32
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46249538
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The highest quality codebase
https://gricha.dev/blog/the-highest-quality-codebase
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46197930
French supermarket's Christmas advert is worldwide hit (without AI) [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Na9VmMNJvsA
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46231187
EFF launches Age Verification Hub
https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-launches-age-verification-hub-resource-against-misguided-laws
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46223389
Rivian Unveils Custom Silicon, R2 Lidar Roadmap, and Universal Hands Free
https://riviantrackr.com/news/rivian-unveils-custom-silicon-r2-lidar-roadmap-universal-hands-free-and-its-next-gen-autonomy-platform/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46234920
Nokia N900 Necromancy
https://yaky.dev/2025-12-11-nokia-n900-necromancy/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46239177
Litestream VFS
https://fly.io/blog/litestream-vfs/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46234710
Craft software that makes people feel something
https://rapha.land/craft-software-that-makes-people-feel-something/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46231274
Programmers and software developers lost the plot on naming their tools
https://larr.net/p/namings.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46234806
Denial of service and source code exposure in React Server Components
https://react.dev/blog/2025/12/11/denial-of-service-and-source-code-exposure-in-react-server-components
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46236924
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Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/australia-social-media-ban-takes-effect-world-first-2025-12-09/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46208348
Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux
https://www.heise.de/en/news/Valve-HDMI-Forum-Continues-to-Block-HDMI-2-1-for-Linux-11107440.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46220488
Getting a Gemini API key is an exercise in frustration
https://ankursethi.com/blog/gemini-api-key-frustration/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46223311
Auto-grading decade-old Hacker News discussions with hindsight
https://karpathy.bearblog.dev/auto-grade-hn/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46220540
Rubio stages font coup: Times New Roman ousts Calibri
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/rubio-stages-font-coup-times-new-roman-ousts-calibri-2025-12-09/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46212438
Patterns.dev
https://www.patterns.dev/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46226483
Qwen3-Omni-Flash-2025-12-01：a next-generation native multimodal large model
https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3-omni-flash-20251201
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46219538
How Google Maps allocates survival across London's restaurants
https://laurenleek.substack.com/p/how-google-maps-quietly-allocates
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46203343
Is it a bubble?
https://www.oaktreecapital.com/insights/memo/is-it-a-bubble
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46220640