Project ideas to appreciate the art of programming (codecrafters.io)
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Braid Math Article (mathvoices.ams.org)
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HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) (hstspreload.org)
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Non-Zero-Sum Games (nonzerosum.games)
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Charm Ruby – Glamorous Terminal Libraries for Ruby (charm-ruby.dev)
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Netflix: Open Content (opencontent.netflix.com)
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Incremental Backups of Gmail Takeouts (baecher.dev)
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MongoDB Server Security Update, December 2025 (www.mongodb.com)
Stranger Things Creator Says Turn Off "Garbage" Settings (screenrant.com)
Donald Knuth''s Annual Christmas Lecture 2025 – Adventures with Knight''s Tours (www.youtube.com)
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Lead-Free Organic–Inorganic Halobismuthate for Large Piezoelectric Effect (pubs.acs.org)
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AI Employees Don''t Pay Taxes (alec.is)
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Why the Internet Is Bad for Democracy (2005) (dl.acm.org)
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Left Behind: Futurist Fetishists, Prepping and the Abandonment of Earth (www.boundary2.org)
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The Future of Software Development Is Software Developers (codemanship.wordpress.com)
Karpathy on Programming: "I''ve never felt this much behind" (twitter.com)
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Meta''s ads tools started switching out top-performing ads with AI-generated ones (www.businessinsider.com)
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All Delisted Steam Games (delistedgames.com)
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Aroma: Every TCP Proxy Is Detectable with RTT Fingerprinting (github.com)
LLMs Are Not Fun (orib.dev)
Flame Graphs vs. Tree Maps vs. Sunburst (2017) (www.brendangregg.com)
List of domains censored by German ISPs (cuiiliste.de)
The production bug that made me care about undefined behavior (gaultier.github.io)
Superset – Terminal to run 10 parallel coding agents (superset.sh)
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Nvidia takes 5B stake in Intel under September agreement (www.reuters.com)
Five Years of Tinygrad (geohot.github.io)
GOG is getting acquired by its original co-founder: What it means for you (www.gog.com)
My coworker''s 36 key Corne open-source keyboard setup (nuon.co)
Static Allocation with Zig (nickmonad.blog)
I switched to eSIM in 2025, and I am full of regret (arstechnica.com)
Are We Ready to Be Governed by Artificial Intelligence? (www.merionwest.com)
The Performance of Arch Linux Powered CachyOS on AMD EPYC Servers (www.phoronix.com)
Why India''s big cities are becoming unliveable (www.bbc.com)
Linux DAW: Help Linux musicians to quickly and easily find the tools they need (linuxdaw.org)
Spacelist, a TUI for Aerospace window manager (github.com)
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Libgodc: Write Go Programs for Sega Dreamcast (github.com)
Vibe coding a bookshelf with Claude Code (balajmarius.com)
UK accounting body to halt remote exams amid AI cheating (www.theguardian.com)
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Market design can feed the poor (worksinprogress.co)
You can''t design software you don''t work on (www.seangoedecke.com)
Kubernetes egress control with squid proxy (interlaye.red)
Feynman''s Hughes Lectures: 950 pages of notes (thehugheslectures.info)
CIA Star Gate Project: An Overview (1993) [pdf] (www.cia.gov)
Best practices for long-run LED strip installs (20–50M) to avoid flicker? (news.ycombinator.com)
EU to build no-fee payments service like Visa/Mastercard and Apple/Google Pay (www.independent.ie)
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Z80-μLM, a ''Conversational AI'' That Fits in 40KB (github.com)
Binaries (fzakaria.com)
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Formulaic Delimiters in the Iliad and the Odyssey (glthr.com)
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John Simpson: ''I''ve reported on 40 wars but I''ve never seen a year like 2025'' (www.bbc.com)
Fast GPU Interconnect over Radio (spectrum.ieee.org)
Line scan camera image processing (daniel.lawrence.lu)
Why I Think Valve''s Retiring the Steam Deck LCD (gardinerbryant.com)
A bitwise reproducible deep learning framework (github.com)
NextDNS is my new favourite DNS service (2020) (stanislas.blog)
Finding Jingle Town: Debugging an N64 Game Without Symbols (blog.chrislewis.au)
You can make up HTML tags (maurycyz.com)
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Private equity is killing private ownership: first it was housing, now it''s PCs (old.reddit.com)
Writing non-English languages with a QWERTY keyboard (altgr-weur.eu)
Fast Cvvdp Implementation in C (github.com)
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My app just won best iOS Japanese learning tool of 2025 award (skerritt.blog)
Intermission: Battle Pulses (acoup.blog)
Slaughtering Competition Problems with Quantifier Elimination (grossack.site)
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CEOs are hugely expensive. Why not automate them? (www.newstatesman.com)
62 years in the making: NYC''s newest water tunnel nears the finish line (ny1.com)
As AI gobbles up chips, prices for devices may rise (www.npr.org)
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Researchers Discover Molecular Difference in Autistic Brains (medicine.yale.edu)
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Unity''s Mono problem: Why your C# code runs slower than it should (marekfiser.com)
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Dolphin Progress Release 2512 (dolphin-emu.org)
Oral History of Richard Greenblatt (2005) [pdf] (archive.computerhistory.org)
John Malone and the Invention of Liquid-Based Engines (permalink.lanl.gov)
LoongArch Userspace Emulator (github.com)
Software engineers should be a little bit cynical (www.seangoedecke.com)
The Prison of Financial Mediocrity (twitter.com)
MongoBleed Explained Simply (bigdata.2minutestreaming.com)
Phantas – A browser-based binaural strobe engine (Web Audio API) (phantas.io)
Pion SCTP with RACK is 70% faster with 30% less latency (pion.ly)
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Stepping down as Mockito maintainer after 10 years (github.com)
PySDR: A Guide to SDR and DSP Using Python (pysdr.org)
Doublespeak: In-Context Representation Hijacking (mentaleap.ai)
No it''s not a Battleship (www.navalgazing.net)
Rust errors without dependencies (vincents.dev)
Vibration Isolation of Precision Objects (2005) [pdf] (www.sandv.com)
Remembering Lou Gerstner (newsroom.ibm.com)
Best Podcasts of 2025? (news.ycombinator.com)
Google ignores English searches and forces localized results (news.ycombinator.com)
Global Memory Shortage Crisis: Market Analysis (www.idc.com)
2D Signed Distance Functions (iquilezles.org)
Deathbed Advice/Regret (hazn.com)
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Hacker News made out of prime numbers (dosaygo-studio.github.io)
2 in 3 Americans think AI will cause major harm to humans in the next 20 years [pdf] (www.pewresearch.org)
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tc-ematch(8) extended matches for use with "basic", "cgroup" or "flow" filters (man7.org)
Designing Predictable LLM-Verifier Systems for Formal Method Guarantee (arxiv.org)
Streaming Uploads with LiveView (fly.io)
Scientists discover beer bottle in the Mariana Trench (2024) (www.unilad.com)
Never Use Pixelation to Hide Sensitive Text (2014) (dheera.net)
Astronomical Telescope “Hadley” – an easy assembly, high performance Newtonian (www.printables.com)
3D printable 6" f/5 compact travel telescope model (www.printables.com)
Last Year on My Mac: Look Back in Disbelief (eclecticlight.co)
Anti-AI Open Source License? (news.ycombinator.com)
''PromptQuest'' is the worst game of 2025 (trying to make chatbots work) (www.theregister.com)
Building a macOS app to know when my Mac is thermal throttling (stanislas.blog)
Hungry Fat Cells Could Someday Starve Cancer to Death (www.ucsf.edu)
Slate AX: Wi-Fi 6 Gigabit travel router (www.gl-inet.com)
One year of keeping a tada list (www.ducktyped.org)
Langfuse (YC W23) Is Hiring in Berlin, Germany (langfuse.com)
Claude Code creator says Claude wrote all his code for the last month (twitter.com)
I stayed in a 40 capsule hotel (London) (www.cnbc.com)
Salesforce pulls back from LLMs, pivots Agentforce to deterministic automation (completeaitraining.com)
An experiment in separating identity, memory, and tools (rcrdbl.com)
Growing up in "404 Not Found": China''s nuclear city in the Gobi Desert (substack.com)
C says "We have try at home." (devblogs.microsoft.com)
Hacking a Java Minecraft server with memory overflows using in-game mechanics (www.youtube.com)
By what percentage has AI changed your output as a software engineer? (news.ycombinator.com)
Manus AI 100M USD ARR (manus.im)
Multiscale Aperture Synthesis Imager (www.nature.com)
A new research shows that 21-33% of YouTube''s feed may consist of AI slop (www.kapwing.com)
The Origins of APL (1974) [video] (www.youtube.com)
Public Domain Day 2026 (web.law.duke.edu)
Rex is a safe kernel extension framework that allows Rust in the place of eBPF (github.com)
Calendar (neatnik.net)
C – Java ! Java – LLM (www.observationalhazard.com)
Dialtone – AOL 3.0 Server (dialtone.live)
Interton Video Computer 4000 (en.wikipedia.org)
Nvidia deal a big win for Groq employees and investors (www.axios.com)
Software ate the world. Federation will eat embeddings (www.gnanaguru.com)
Go Gray, Not Cray: Why You Should Grayscale Your Phone (sami.eljabali.org)
2025 was the year Xbox died (www.engadget.com)
Liberating Bluetooth on the ESP32 (exquisite.tube)
Dad''s Fitness May Be Packaged and Passed Down in Sperm RNA (www.quantamagazine.org)
What 4M posts reveal about going viral on Hacker News (hn-ph.vercel.app)
Replacing JavaScript with Just HTML (www.htmhell.dev)
Why Reliability Demands Functional Programming (blog.rastrian.dev)
Travel agents took 10 years to collapse. Developers are 3 years in (martinalderson.com)
immer – a library of persistent and immutable data structures written in C (github.com)
Say No to Palantir in the NHS (notopalantir.goodlawproject.org)
7- and 14-segment fonts "DSEG" (www.keshikan.net)
Rust the Process (www.amalbansode.com)
Waycore – an open-source, offline-first modular field computer (news.ycombinator.com)
The Dangers of SSL Certificates (surfingcomplexity.blog)
Yanis Varoufakis on the future of capitalism [video] (www.youtube.com)
Project Vend: Phase Two (www.anthropic.com)
Bankruptcies are exploding across the economy (www.businessinsider.com)
How Pfizer ended up passing on my GLP-1 work back in the early ''90s (www.statnews.com)
How We Found Out About COINTELPRO (2014) (monthlyreview.org)
In 1995, a Netscape employee wrote a hack in 10 days that now runs the Internet (arstechnica.com)
Richard Stallman at the First Hackers Conference in 1984 [video] (www.youtube.com)
An Ounce of Silver Is Now Worth More Than a Barrel of Oil (www.wsj.com)
Rainbow Six Siege hacked as players get billions of credits and random bans (www.shanethegamer.com)
Text rendering hates you (faultlore.com)
White House pushes to dismantle leading climate and weather research center (www.pbs.org)
''Off Switch'' Discovery Could Help Clear Our Brains of a Common Parasite (www.sciencealert.com)
Employee commits suicide after MongoDB fired her during mental health leave (www.linkedin.com)
Toll roads are spreading in America (www.economist.com)
They made me an offer I couldn''t refuse (1997) (jens.mooseyard.com)
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Love Actually is around Heathrow (2021) (www.heathrow.com)
Scientists Edited Genes Inside a Living Person for First Time, Saved His Life (www.popularmechanics.com)
Reflections and rantings from a system design interviewer (www.calvinbarker.com)
Windows 2 for the Apricot PC/Xi (www.ninakalinina.com)
Nvidia''s 20B Antitrust Loophole (Not an Acquisition) (ossa-ma.github.io)
Cleartext Signatures Considered Harmful (gnupg.org)
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USD Share as Global Reserve Currency Drops to Lowest Since 1994 (wolfstreet.com)
Janet Jackson had the power to crash laptop computers (2022) (devblogs.microsoft.com)
Gpg.fail (gpg.fail)
Nvidia Just Paid 20B for a Company That Missed Its Revenue Target by 75% (blog.drjoshcsimmons.com)
VSCode rebrands as "The open source AI code editor" (code.visualstudio.com)
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New York to require social media platforms to display mental health warnings (www.reuters.com)
A Century of Noether''s Theorem (arxiv.org)
We Automated Federal Retirements (ndstudio.gov)
NMH BASIC (t3x.org)
An immutable ostree-based Arch Linux image (github.com)
Floor796 (floor796.com)
Resources to get better at outbound sales? (news.ycombinator.com)
An exploration of playing three generations of windows games on macOS (carette.xyz)
Apple releases open-source model that instantly turns 2D photos into 3D views (github.com)
Verdichtung (alexeygy.github.io)
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OrangePi 6 Plus Review: The New Frontier for ARM64 SBC Performance (boilingsteam.com)
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The battle to stop clever people betting (www.economist.com)
Faster Practical Modular Inversion (purplesyringa.moe)
Splice a Fibre (react-networks-lib.rackout.net)
Mysti – Claude, Codex, and Gemini debate your code, then synthesize (github.com)
Cursed Bundler: Using go get to install Ruby Gems (nesbitt.io)
Intertapes – collection of found cassette tapes from different locations (intertapes.net)
Some Junk Theorems in Lean (github.com)
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