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  • 1 6

    Dasharo TrustRoot Ephemeral Key Incident (blog.3mdeb.com)
  • 3 44

    Maybe the Default Settings Are Too High (www.raptitude.com)
  • 0 15

    Memory Safety (www.memorysafety.org)
  • 9 25

    Ask HN: Pivot from SWE to What?
  • 8 34

    Paperbacks and TikTok (calnewport.com)
  • 10 25

    The Program 2025 annual review: How much money does an audio drama podcast make? (programaudioseries.com)
  • 41 63

    Google is 'gradually rolling out' option to change your gmail.com address (9to5google.com)
  • 32 102

    UBlockOrigin and UBlacklist AI Blocklist (github.com)
  • 11 41

    URL Pattern API (developer.mozilla.org)
  • 6 27

    Geometric Algorithms for Translucency Sorting in Minecraft [pdf] (douira.dev)
  • 9 88

    Fahrplan – 39C3 (fahrplan.events.ccc.de)
  • 19 65

    Archiving Git branches as tags (etc.octavore.com)
  • 36 59

    All I Want for Christmas Is Your Secrets: LangGrinch hits LangChain Core (cyata.ai)
  • 8 57

    Show HN: Lamp Carousel – DIY kinetic sculpture powered by lamp heat (2024) (evan.widloski.com)
  • 33 126

    CUDA Tile Open Sourced (github.com)
  • 12 34

    The Inner-Platform Effect (2006) (thedailywtf.com)
  • 100 343

    I sell onions on the Internet (2019) (www.deepsouthventures.com)
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  • 23 57

    Ask HN: What is the international distribution/statistics of HN visitors?
  • Clearspace (YC W23) Is Hiring a Founding Network Engineer (VPN and Proxy) (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 137 160

    Asahi Linux with Sway on the MacBook Air M2 (2024) (daniel.lawrence.lu)
  • 6 7

    Show HN: I made you a Christmas present (arielche.net)
  • 5 5

    Rare look inside the secret Lego Museum (www.cbsnews.com)
  • 100 166

    Salesforce regrets firing 4000 experienced staff and replacing them with AI (maarthandam.com)
  • 102 410

    Alzheimer’s disease can be reversed in animal models? Study (case.edu)
  • 148 260

    Toys with the highest play-time and lowest clean-up-time (joannabregan.substack.com)
  • 63 28

    Ultra-Low-Latency Trading System (submicro.krishnabajpai.me)
  • 47 309

    The entire New Yorker archive is now digitized (www.newyorker.com)
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  • 97 297

    Python 3.15’s interpreter for Windows x86-64 should hopefully be 15% faster (fidget-spinner.github.io)
  • 52 72

    Ask HN: How do I bridge the gap between PhD and SWE experiences?
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  • 20 63

    The Fisher-Yates shuffle is backward (possiblywrong.wordpress.com)
  • 204 328

    Mattermost restricted access to old messages after 10000 limit is reached (github.com)
  • 0 4

    Why Community Translation Falls Short for Your Plugins and Themes (wpml.org)
  • 17 61

    Quantum Error Correction Goes FOOM (algassert.com)
  • 208 881

    We invited a man into our home at Christmas and he stayed with us for 45 years (www.bbc.co.uk)
  • 15 87

    The First Photographs of Snowflakes Discover the Groundbreaking Microphotography (2017) (www.openculture.com)
  • 15 15

    Why 'The Global Market' Is an Irresponsible Phrase (oswarld.com)
  • 9 56

    Self-referencing Page Tables for the x86-Architecture (0l.de)
  • 25 63

    Handheld PC Community Forums (www.hpcfactor.com)
  • 10 18

    Redis vs. BoltCache (github.com)
  • 1 20

    Coding Intelligence Asymptotics (fi-le.net)
  • 33 201

    Free Software Foundation receives historic private donations (www.fsf.org)
  • 4 15

    The subtle Red of HN and so minimalist and beautiful
  • 16 65

    JEDEC developing reduced pin count HBM4 standard to enable higher capacity (blocksandfiles.com)
  • 148 665

    Ruby 4.0.0 (www.ruby-lang.org)
  • 94 67

    Microsoft denies rewriting Windows 11 in Rust using AI (www.windowslatest.com)
  • 0 9

    A Child in the State of Nature (lareviewofbooks.org)
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  • 2 82

    Python Applied Mathematics Labs (labs.acme.byu.edu)
  • 15 72

    The next-gen mainboard designed with amigaos4 and morphos in mind (mirari.vitasys.nl)
  • 14 66

    Prototaxites (astrobiology.com)
  • 14 22

    Microsoft: "30% of Our Code Is AI." Also Microsoft: "Windows Is Broken." (michael-dev-tech.github.io)
  • 34 124

    Using Vectorize to build an unreasonably good search engine in 160 lines of code (blog.partykit.io)
  • 26 74

    Silicon Valley's tone-deaf take on the AI backlash will matter in 2026 (fortune.com)
  • 22 229

    Show HN: Exploring Mathematics with Python (coe.psu.ac.th)
  • 108 185

    Asterisk AI Voice Agent (github.com)
  • 96 262

    Who Watches the Waymos? I do [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 138 233

    Microsoft please get your tab to autocomplete shit together (ivanca.github.io)
  • 62 134

    Comptime – C# meta-programming with compile-time code generation and evaluation (github.com)
  • 0 9

    TOPS-10 in a Box (2011) (www.filfre.net)
  • 6 151

    Research team digitizes more than 100 years of Canadian infectious disease data (news.mcmaster.ca)
  • 295 192

    How I Left YouTube (zhach.news)
  • 404 1852

    Tell HN: Merry Christmas
  • 372 616

    Phoenix: A modern X server written from scratch in Zig (git.dec05eba.com)
  • 35 33

    Show HN: Just Fucking Use Cloudflare – A satirical guide to the CF stack (justfuckingusecloudflare.com)
  • 8 26

    Confessions to a Data Lake (confer.to)
  • 0 3

    A Distant Salutation: The moment the South lost the civil war (lessobvious.shorthandstories.com)
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  • 18 20

    Show HN: WebPtoPNG – I built a WebP to PNG tool, everything runs in the browser (webptopng.cc)
  • 11 34

    Show HN: A local-first, reversible PII scrubber for AI workflows (medium.com)
  • 1 20

    Groq and Nvidia Licensing Agreement (groq.com)
  • 19 46

    The IPv4 address swamp: The new normal (blog.apnic.net)
  • 106 288

    CSRF protection without tokens or hidden form fields (blog.miguelgrinberg.com)
  • 12 100

    How GNU Guile is 10x better (2021) (www.draketo.de)
  • 51 53

    Why did we use leaded petrol for so long? (2017) (www.bbc.com)
  • 6 34

    Pantograph: Building a preschool for robots (pantograph.com)
  • 4 20

    Rack makes Pion SCTP 71% faster with 27% less latency (pion.ly)
  • 50 75

    The dawn of a world simulator (odyssey.ml)
  • 52 116

    Jingle Bells (Batman Smells): An incomplete festive folk-rhyme taxonomy (loreandordure.com)
  • 20 68

    Steam Store is offline (steamstat.us)
  • 14 19

    Build Your Own 100TB NAS in 2025: Complete TrueNAS Storage Guide (techlife.blog)
  • 28 82

    Quake's Player Speed (2017) (rome.ro)
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  • 7 28

    Litex: Formal math for everyone – set theory examples with Lean comparison (litexlang.com)
  • 382 650

    Nvidia to buy assets from Groq for $20B cash (www.cnbc.com)
  • 58 135

    Spaced repetition for efficient learning (2019) (gwern.net)
  • Keystone (YC S25) is hiring engineer #1 to automate coding (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 25 84

    Qntm's Power Tower Toy (qntm.org)
  • 73 82

    Beijing is enforcing tough rules to ensure chatbots don’t misbehave (www.wsj.com)
  • 146 87

    European Majority favours more social media regulation (yougov.co.uk)
  • 157 427

    Show HN: Minimalist editor that lives in browser, stores everything in the URL (github.com)
  • 13 99

    Looking for Decent Conversation?
  • 4 36

    Spice: A 40-year old open-source success story (2011) (www.edn.com)
  • 1 6

    The lightest notes app implementation in 111 loc (github.com)
  • 2 16

    Lessons from Building an Indie App for Artists (shanehudson.net)
  • 4 20

    Fabrication Techniques Using Myco-Materials (encyclopedia.pub)
  • 119 343

    Fabrice Bellard: Biography (2009) [pdf] (www.ipaidia.gr)
  • 0 29

    Judge in Vizio Case Rules on Issue Irrelevant to Rights Under Copyleft (sfconservancy.org)
  • 54 111

    Researchers achieved 1,270 Wh/L in an anode-free lithium metal battery (postech.ac.kr)
  • 114 405

    Show HN: Vibium – Browser automation for AI and humans, by Selenium's creator (github.com)
  • 18 26

    A Father, a Son and Their $108B Push for Media Moguldom (Larry Ellison) (www.nytimes.com)
  • 56 100

    A faster path to container images in Bazel (www.tweag.io)
  • 26 54

    Microsoft Agent Framework (learn.microsoft.com)
  • 56 19

    Show HN: No more writing shitty regexes to police usernames (www.username.dev)
  • 108 108

    My 2026 Open Social Web Predictions (www.timothychambers.net)
  • 5 19

    LVM Thin Provisioning (2016) (storageapis.wordpress.com)
  • 522 302

    I'm returning my Framework 16 (yorickpeterse.com)
  • 35 84

    Mt. Gox CEO Karpelès Reveals Details of 2014 Collapse and Japanese Detention (bitcoinmagazine.com)
  • 6 33

    Show HN: LazyPromise = Observable – Signals (github.com)
  • 176 193

    Why We Abandoned Matrix (2024) (forum.hackliberty.org)
  • 17 106

    Making a game on a custom bytecode VM in 7 days and 3kB (laurent.le-brun.eu)
  • 129 166

    Games’ affordance of childlike wonder and reduced burnout risk in young adults (games.jmir.org)
  • 91 192

    AMD entered the CPU market with reverse-engineered Intel 8080 clone 50 years ago (www.tomshardware.com)
  • 41 62

    New reactor produces clean energy and carbon nanotubes from natural gas (phys.org)
  • 100 235

    When compilers surprise you (xania.org)
  • 14 10

    Show HN: Does Information Density Cause Time Dilation?
  • 76 99

    Your inbox is a bandit problem (parentheticallyspeaking.org)
  • 95 51

    The EU's fine against X is not about speech or ‘censorship’ (www.techpolicy.press)
  • 91 138

    The port I couldn't ship (ammil.industries)
  • 131 178

    The e-scooter isn't new – London was zooming around on Autopeds a century ago (www.ianvisits.co.uk)
  • 111 155

    Avoid Mini-Frameworks (laike9m.com)
  • 70 79

    map::operator[] should be nodiscard (quuxplusone.github.io)
  • 26 44

    Scaling Go Testing with Contract and Scenario Mocks (funnelstory.ai)
  • 157 219

    Google's year in review: areas with research breakthroughs in 2025 (blog.google)
  • 144 123

    US sanctions EU government officials behind the DSA (mastodon.social)
  • 37 66

    Former EU commissioner and activists barred from US (www.theguardian.com)
  • 82 97

    The Ultimate Windows Utility (2022) (christitus.com)
  • 14 103

    Help my website is too small (lukeplant.me.uk)
  • 30 97

    Permission Systems for Enterprise That Scale (eliocapella.com)
  • 8 10

    Next JavaScript app is hacked, you just don't know it yet (audits.blockhacks.io)
  • 17 90

    I rebuilt FlashAttention in Triton to understand the performance archaeology (aminediro.com)
  • 15 56

    Show HN: Tonbo – an embedded database for serverless and edge runtimes (github.com)
  • 61 55

    CEO killed at industrial site by worker operating forklift (www.12onyourside.com)
  • 11 16

    Life, Death and Mowing (www.cam.ac.uk)
  • 4 33

    Name That Part: 3D Part Segmentation and Naming (name-that-part.github.io)
  • 2 41

    Custom Cross Compiler with Nix (www.hobson.space)
  • 3 23

    Show HN: CodinIT, local open-source Lovable alternative (Electron desktop app) (github.com)
  • 18 54

    Dutch rental fleet Mistergreen goes bankrupt after betting on Tesla self-driving (guessingheadlights.com)
  • 22 16

    Time-Traveling to 1979: Advice for Designing 'C with Classes (coderschmoder.com)
  • 135 242

    Don't Become the Machine (armeet.bearblog.dev)
  • 150 159

    Lessons from the PG&E outage (waymo.com)
  • 3 62

    Proving Bounds for the Randomized MaxCut Approximation Algorithm in Lean4 (abhamra.com)
  • 80 143

    Show HN: Turn raw HTML into production-ready images for free (html2png.dev)
  • 13 75

    'Dracula's Chivito': Hubble reveals largest birthplace of planets ever observed (phys.org)
  • 0 34

    Charts in Slides (ia.net)
  • 5 62

    Donald E. Knuth and Peter van Emde Boas on priority deques (1977) [pdf] (staff.fnwi.uva.nl)
  • 59 72

    Could lockfiles just be SBOMs? (nesbitt.io)
  • 43 91

    Open source USB to GPIB converter (for Test and Measurement instruments) (github.com)
  • 6 8

    Show HN: I hired AI to fix my memory, but made it 100% Offline for privacy (namememory.netlify.app)
  • 459 219

    Nabokov's guide to foreigners learning Russian (twitter.com)
  • 74 87

    AI Can Write Your Code. It Can't Do Your Job (terriblesoftware.org)
  • 57 32

    Jimmy Wales trusts the process (www.theverge.com)
  • 759 988

    Some Epstein file redactions are being undone (www.theguardian.com)
  • 417 461

    Unifi Travel Router (blog.ui.com)
  • 30 90

    US bars 5 Europeans it says pressured tech firms to censor American viewpoints (apnews.com)
  • 29 62

    Stronk.app – open-source gym lifts journal
  • 9 24

    We Must Seize the Means of Compute (thompson2026.com)
  • 10 70

    Learn Lisp/Fennel Programming Against Neovim (github.com)