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  • 0 7

    Taiwan May Restart Nuclear Power Plant in 2028, Minister Says (www.energyconnects.com)
  • 4 29

    Upcoming Changes to Let's Encrypt Certificates (community.letsencrypt.org)
  • 2 19

    Google discontinuing their dark web report (support.google.com)
  • 16 83

    US TikTok investors in limbo as deal set to be delayed again (www.bbc.com)
  • 73 227

    “Super secure” MAGA-themed messaging app leaks everyone's phone number (ericdaigle.ca)
  • 16 29

    In Defense of Matlab Code (runmat.org)
  • 5 12

    We architected an edge caching layer to eliminate cold starts (www.mintlify.com)
  • 16 36

    Umbrel – Personal Cloud (umbrel.com)
  • 2 27

    Chafa: Terminal Graphics for the 21st Century (hpjansson.org)
  • 2 25

    Essential Semiconductor Physics [pdf] (nanohub.org)
  • 45 60

    United 777-200 fleet faces an uncertain future after Dulles engine failure (liveandletsfly.com)
  • 89 165

    D-Bus is a disgrace to the Linux desktop (blog.vaxry.net)
  • 9 52

    Australia's social media ban was pushed by ad agency focused on gambling ads (www.techdirt.com)
  • 5 15

    Show HN: I designed my own 3D printer motherboard (github.com)
  • 17 44

    Make images smaller using best-in-class codecs, right in the browser (github.com)
  • 32 52

    Show HN: 100 Million splats, a whole town, rendered in M2 MacBook Air (twitter.com)
  • 63 62

    Break up bad companies; replace bad union bosses (pluralistic.net)
  • 17 34

    Former CIA spy: agency's tools can takeover your phone, TV, and even your car (currentindia.com)
  • 123 95

    US Tech Force (techforce.gov)
  • 15 42

    Finnix (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 29 24

    Even in a Populist Moment, Democrats Are Split on the Problem of Corporate Power (www.thebignewsletter.com)
  • 10 53

    Cosmic-ray bath in a past supernova gives birth to Earth-like planets (www.science.org)
  • 5 11

    Podcast industry under siege as AI bots flood airways with programs (slashdot.org)
  • 0 8

    The Google Search homepage adds a 'plus' menu (9to5google.com)
  • 353 384

    Pro-democracy HK tycoon Jimmy Lai convicted in national security trial (www.bbc.com)
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  • 25 78

    P-computers can solve spin-glass problems faster than quantum systems (news.ucsb.edu)
  • 62 109

    $50 PlanetScale Metal Is GA for Postgres (planetscale.com)
  • 71 43

    Ask HN: Is building a calm, non-gamified learning app a mistake?
  • 28 108

    We put Flock under surveillance: Go make them behave differently [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 85 98

    Samsung may end SATA SSD production soon (www.techradar.com)
  • 11 38

    FBI Wanted List: Fraudulent Remote IT Workers from DPRK (www.fbi.gov)
  • 13 63

    Speech and Language Processing (3rd ed. draft) (web.stanford.edu)
  • 54 80

    MIT Missing Semester 2026 (missing.csail.mit.edu)
  • 248 338

    Thousands of U.S. farmers have Parkinson's. They blame a deadly pesticide (www.mlive.com)
  • 85 150

    It seems that OpenAI is scraping [certificate transparency] logs (benjojo.co.uk)
  • 119 308

    Carrier Landing in Top Gun for the NES (relaxing.run)
  • 13 33

    We are not here to make code (www.todepond.com)
  • 50 47

    Wall Street sees AI bubble coming and is betting on what pops it (www.bloomberg.com)
  • 20 69

    DNA Learning Center: Mechanism of Replication 3D Animation (dnalc.cshl.edu)
  • 60 34

    Largest U.S. recycling project to extend landfill life for Virginia residents (ampsortation.com)
  • 219 325

    I'm Kenyan. I don't write like ChatGPT, ChatGPT writes like me (marcusolang.substack.com)
  • 21 62

    Invader: Where to Spot the 8-Bit Street Art in London (londonist.com)
  • 36 57

    Copywriters reveal how AI has decimated their industry (www.bloodinthemachine.com)
  • Optery (YC W22) Hiring CISO, Release Manager, Tech Lead (Node), Full Stack Eng (www.optery.com)
  • 35 42

    The Java Ring: A Wearable Computer (1998) (www.nngroup.com)
  • 307 290

    Avoid UUID Version 4 Primary Keys in Postgres (andyatkinson.com)
  • 5 28

    A trip through the Graphics Pipeline (2011) (fgiesen.wordpress.com)
  • 20 21

    English vocabulary test – how many words do you know? (www.myvocab.info)
  • 34 93

    $5 whale listening hydrophone making workshop (exclav.es)
  • 57 107

    Common Rust Lifetime Misconceptions (github.com)
  • 2 14

    Risk of acute kidney injury and mortality in patients vaccinated for Covid-19 (www.medsci.org)
  • 19 65

    The History of Xerox (www.abortretry.fail)
  • 25 14

    Nvidia-backed Starcloud trains first AI model in space, orbital data centers (www.cnbc.com)
  • 2 16

    SVG Fullstack Website (github.com)
  • 184 283

    Rob Reiner has died (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
  • 34 72

    Why proteins fold and how GPUs help us fold (aval.bearblog.dev)
  • 42 295

    Unscii (viznut.fi)
  • 2 33

    Rob Reiner has died (www.rollingstone.com)
  • 84 86

    The Problem of Teaching Physics in Latin America (1963) (calteches.library.caltech.edu)
  • 81 141

    The Whole App is a Blob (drobinin.com)
  • 116 82

    How well do you know C++ auto type deduction? (www.volatileint.dev)
  • 214 405

    Adafruit: Arduino’s Rules Are ‘Incompatible With Open Source’ (thenewstack.io)
  • 30 170

    Read Something Wonderful (readsomethingwonderful.com)
  • 59 151

    John Varley has died (floggingbabel.blogspot.com)
  • 41 203

    Arborium: Tree-sitter code highlighting with Native and WASM targets (arborium.bearcove.eu)
  • 5 12

    The Generative AI Industry Is Fraudulent, Immoral and Dangerous (dianne.skoll.ca)
  • 7 21

    Metacode: The new standard for machine-readable comments for Python (github.com)
  • 157 223

    SoundCloud has banned VPN access (old.reddit.com)
  • 6 30

    Younger Futhorc (ᛡᛟᛝᛖᚱ᛬ᚠᚢᚦᚩᚱᚳ) (www.omniglot.com)
  • 20 54

    Mom and daughter find stranger in trunk of Waymo (abc7.com)
  • 20 35

    Show HN: I Ching simulator with accurate Yarrow Stalk probabilities (castiching.com)
  • 6 14

    Show HN: Dograh – an OSS Vapi alternative to quickly build and test voice agents (github.com)
  • 17 17

    Microsoft AI (microsoft.ai)
  • 17 27

    A fictional interview with Frances Allen (voxmeditantis.com)
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  • 27 48

    SPhotonix – 360TB into 5-inch glass disc with femtosecond laser (www.tomshardware.com)
  • 267 257

    Microsoft Copilot AI Comes to LG TVs, and Can't Be Deleted (www.techpowerup.com)
  • 51 101

    CapROS: Capability-Based Reliable Operating System (www.capros.org)
  • 0 14

    Checkpointing the Message Processing (event-driven.io)
  • 708 586

    Roomba maker goes bankrupt, Chinese owner emerges (news.bloomberglaw.com)
  • 16 51

    Generative Optogenetics (www.darpa.mil)
  • 793 477

    If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes? (english.elpais.com)
  • 6 16

    Scam Compounds Become Targets in Thai-Cambodian Border War (www.wsj.com)
  • 13 39

    Our emotional pain became a product (www.theguardian.com)
  • 333 330

    AI agents are starting to eat SaaS (martinalderson.com)
  • 54 82

    An attempt to articulate Forth's practical strengths and eternal usefulness (im-just-lee.ing)
  • 64 42

    Ask HN: Is starting a personal blog still worth it in the age of AI?
  • 18 69

    History of Declarative Programming (2021) (shenlanguage.org)
  • 204 240

    Claude CLI deleted my home directory and wiped my Mac (old.reddit.com)
  • 47 60

    Interview with Kent Overstreet (Bcachefs) [audio] (linuxunplugged.com)
  • 8 25

    From sci-fi to reality: Researchers realise quantum teleportation using tech (cordis.europa.eu)
  • 3 39

    Checkers Arcade (blog.fogus.me)
  • 151 314

    Elevated errors across many models (status.claude.com)
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  • 26 79

    Advent of Swift (leahneukirchen.org)
  • 136 204

    2002: Last.fm and Audioscrobbler Herald the Social Web (cybercultural.com)
  • 50 48

    Disks Lie: Building a WAL that actually survives (blog.canoozie.net)
  • 72 36

    Opus 4.5 is the first model that makes me fear for my job (old.reddit.com)
  • 238 199

    JSDoc is TypeScript (culi.bearblog.dev)
  • 49 153

    GNU recutils: Plain text database (www.gnu.org)
  • 2 8

    Freakpages (freakpages.org)
  • 65 56

    Do dyslexia fonts work? (2022) (www.edutopia.org)
  • 90 185

    In the Beginning was the Command Line (1999) (web.stanford.edu)
  • 3 21

    HyperCard on the Macintosh (stonetools.ghost.io)
  • 9 11

    Cisco Finally Did It (www.ft.com)
  • 11 22

    Six Big Bets (www.jerry.wtf)
  • 1218 367

    Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)
  • 78 186

    Price of a bot army revealed across online platforms (www.cam.ac.uk)
  • 13 8

    Update Now Warning Issued to All iPhone Users (www.forbes.com)
  • 131 120

    Stop crawling my HTML – use the API (shkspr.mobi)
  • 10 44

    More atmospheric rivers coming for flooded Washington and the West Coast (www.cnn.com)
  • 3 8

    Mass shooting in Australia – 16 dead -terrorist event (www.dailytelegraph.com.au)
  • 15 50

    Standalone Meshtastic Command Center – One HTML File Offline (github.com)
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  • 221 243

    GraphQL: The enterprise honeymoon is over (johnjames.blog)
  • 25 56

    Show HN: A pager (www.udp7777.com)
  • 41 33

    Sacrificing accessibility for not getting web scraped (tilschuenemann.de)
  • 41 121

    The Typeframe PX-88 Portable Computing System (www.typeframe.net)
  • 140 211

    Developing a food-safe finish for my wooden spoons (alinpanaitiu.com)
  • 133 95

    Rust Coreutils 0.5.0 Release: 87.75% compatibility with GNU Coreutils (github.com)
  • 177 373

    Hashcards: A plain-text spaced repetition system (borretti.me)
  • 54 23

    AI was not invented, it arrived (andrewarrow.dev)
  • 62 39

    Science Communications on YouTube (blogs.memphis.edu)
  • 87 48

    Claude Code's DX is too good. And that's a problem (www.bharath.sh)
  • 151 159

    iOS 26.2 fixes 20 security vulnerabilities, 2 actively exploited (www.macrumors.com)
  • 126 72

    Private Equity Finds a New Source of Profit: Volunteer Fire Departments (www.nytimes.com)
  • 40 36

    How Did the CIA Lose a Nuclear Device in the Himalayas? (www.nytimes.com)
  • 2 22

    The Secret Life of Moles: What They're Up to Underground (thenaturenetwork.co.uk)
  • 5 64

    Illuminating the processor core with LLVM-mca (abseil.io)
  • 50 85

    Vacuum Is a Lie: About Your Indexes (boringsql.com)
  • 8 38

    Building a Modern C64 Assembly AI Toolchain (medium.com)
  • 15 58

    Efficient Basic Coding for the ZX Spectrum (2020) (blog.jafma.net)
  • 89 79

    Willison on Merchant's "Copywriters reveal how AI has decimated their industry" (simonwillison.net)
  • 73 40

    Using Git add -p for fun (and profit) (techne98.com)
  • 173 255

    Shai-Hulud compromised a dev machine and raided GitHub org access: a post-mortem (trigger.dev)
  • 216 152

    The Gorman Paradox: Where Are All the AI-Generated Apps? (codemanship.wordpress.com)
  • 141 154

    Apple Maps claims it's 29,905 miles away (mathstodon.xyz)
  • 116 226

    Kimi K2 1T model runs on 2 512GB M3 Ultras (twitter.com)
  • 112 245

    AI and the ironies of automation – Part 2 (www.ufried.com)
  • 128 125

    Baumol's Cost Disease (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 7 60

    Show HN: Cargo-rail: graph-aware monorepo tooling for Rust; 11 deps (github.com)
  • 401 679

    Europeans' health data sold to US firm run by ex-Israeli spies (www.ftm.eu)
  • 30 128

    Compiler Engineering in Practice (chisophugis.github.io)
  • 74 77

    Dagger: Define software delivery workflows and dev environments (dagger.io)
  • 44 158

    Getting into public speaking (james.brooks.page)
  • 1 7

    University life: From 50 years ago to now (2019) (www.timeshighereducation.com)
  • 17 10

    Is P=NP? (adlrocha.substack.com)
  • 30 146

    Bye, Mom (aella.substack.com)
  • 95 61

    Twins reared apart do not exist (davidbessis.substack.com)
  • 45 59

    Surface Tension of Software (iamstelios.com)
  • 6 42

    Create a Markdown Editor in Ruby on Rails (blog.appsignal.com)
  • 0 15

    Branch, Test, Deploy: A Git-Inspired Approach for Data (motherduck.com)
  • 109 136

    “You should never build a CMS” (www.sanity.io)
  • 44 212

    Rio de Janeiro's talipot palm trees bloom for the first and only time (apnews.com)
  • 14 37

    No-Tifier (2017) (subject.space)
  • 35 117

    Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Definitive Oral History of a TV Masterpiece (www.wired.com)
  • 91 135

    If a Meta AI model can read a brain-wide signal, why wouldn't the brain? (1393.xyz)
  • 59 115

    Heavy metal is healing teens on the Blackfeet Nation (www.hcn.org)
  • 4 8

    Tiobe Index for December 2025: R Joins the Top as SQL Climbs (www.techrepublic.com)
  • 13 15

    1 html search engine (k8o5.github.io)
  • 81 59

    Therapeutic use of cannabis and cannabinoids: A review (jamanetwork.com)
  • 4 82

    Lean theorem prover mathlib (github.com)
  • 0 23

    Rocket Lab – 'Raise and Shine' Launch for JAXA [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 4 13

    First all-optical XPU processing system (www.akhetonics.com)
  • 16 64

    Dhtml Lemmings (2004) (www.elizium.nu)
  • 23 63

    Awesome-Jj: Jujutsu Things (github.com)
  • 39 87

    An Implementation of J (1992) (www.jsoftware.com)
  • 8 77

    Free Software Awards Winners Announced: Andy Wingo, Alx Sa, Govdirectory (www.fsf.org)
  • 101 261

    Using e-ink tablet as monitor for Linux (alavi.me)
  • 0 13

    How does the CPU cache work? (www.0xkato.xyz)
  • 4 11

    Show HN: Listened to your feedback, Critical CSS Generator (kigo.studio)
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  • 7 42

    llamafile: Distribute and Run LLMs with a Single File (github.com)
  • 59 70

    RemoveWindowsAI (github.com)