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GenAI experts replace 'Halo: Evolved' staff to impact Xbox game development (notebookcheck.net)

×0.91 | 1 points by MilnerRoute 4 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Netflix automated its DVD operations (maxmautner.com)

×0.88 | 1 points by mslate 5 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI, Tariffs and Box Office – 14 Charts That Explain 2025 (nytimes.com)

×0.78 | 1 points by Mehuleo 9 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Pay Remote Workers a Premium (maxmautner.com)

×1.82 | 2 points by mslate 10 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Compiler Is Your Best Friend, Stop Lying to It (daniel-beskin.com)

×0.80 | 1 points by sothatsit 10 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Learn Your Way – Re-imagining textbooks for every learner (learnyourway.withgoogle.com)

×0.79 | 1 points by the-mitr 11 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Rust GUI Dev on an Ancient Laptop with Zed and Waypipe (pedaldrivenprogramming.com)

×1.59 | 2 points by WD-42 18 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Her daughter was unraveling, and she didn't know why. Then she found the AI chat (washingtonpost.com)

×2.42 62 | 3 points by impish9208 21 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Can Apple's AirPod Translation Get You Through Tokyo? We Tested It. (nytimes.com)

×1.52 | 2 points by mitchbob 25 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Economy Avoided a Recession in 2025 (nytimes.com)

×0.60 | 1 points by Mehuleo 31 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Just Fucking Use Markdown (justfuckingusemarkdown.com)

×2.30 55 | 3 points by Charmunk 32 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What was the hardest bug you tracked down in 2025?

×0.89 | 2 points by varshith17 42 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Encore: TypeScript Infrastructure Framework (encore.dev)

×0.59 | 1 points by handfuloflight 43 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
HUML – YAML Without Ambiguity (huml.io)

×0.57 | 1 points by itsfarseen-1 47 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Move Over, Genghis Khan. Many Other Men Left Genetic Legacies (smithsonianmag.com)

×0.56 | 1 points by thunderbong 51 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Before This Physicist Studied the Stars, He Was One (nytimes.com)

×0.56 | 1 points by quapster 54 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Building Team. One 26MB Primitive. Air-Gapped. Deterministic. Runs Anywhere (getarbiter.dev)

×1.32 | 2 points by getarbiter 55 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Next Generation File System? (github.com/hydra-nexus)

×1.28 | 2 points by phboot 55 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Finding Where to Compromise with LLM's (trueml.org)

×0.50 | 1 points by ramenlover 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Claude Use Cases (claude.com)

×1.22 | 2 points by Anon84 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What Disappointed You in 2025?

×0.53 | 1 points by adrianwaj 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Velox – A <3kb reactive framework with O(1) updates (No VDOM) (github.com/TheRemyyy)

×0.49 | 1 points by TheRemyyy 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: JSON Editors – Online JSON Editor and Developer Toolbox (jsoneditors.com)

×1.20 | 2 points by DerekDragon 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Quadratrix of Hippias (wikipedia.org)

×1.16 | 2 points by MaysonL 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Spreadsheet Simulators Are Unstoppable (youtube.com)

×0.49 | 1 points by exBarrelSpoiler 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Half-Life: Alyx's level designer prefers Black Mesa to original Half-Life (2020) (pcgamer.com)

×1.12 | 2 points by TMWNN 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
At The Limits of Design (mwells.substack.com)

×0.44 | 1 points by braecroft 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
My Three Strikes Rule for Blogging (swyx.io)

×2.21 38 | 4 points by gmays 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Jobswithgpt.com Semantic Job Search

×1.05 | 2 points by jobswithgptcom 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Shut-In Society (wikipedia.org)

×1.34 10 #61 | 3 points by sieep 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Alloy: React for Codegen, like Stripe's internal framework (github.com/alloy-framework)

×1.65 18 | 3 points by johnathon023 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Macro Photography Highlights: The Best of 2025 (nickybay.com)

×0.40 | 1 points by kianN 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
We Saved Reboot (youtube.com)

×0.98 | 2 points by bane 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tell HN: I am afraid AI will take my job at some point

×1.34 35 | 4 points by funnyfoobar 1 hour ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Not Everything Should Be Easy (rastrian.dev)

×1.01 | 2 points by rastrian 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I documented a local 20B LLM perceiving its hardware state without data access (github.com/Lux1984-oss)

×0.44 | 1 points by loukalacasse 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
LLM Conversations Viewer (github.com/TomzxCode)

×0.45 | 1 points by tomzx 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
USB 3.0* Radio Frequency Interference Impact on 2.4 GHz Wireless Devices (2012) [pdf] (usb.org)

×0.47 | 1 points by davikr 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Installing Podman on OS X with Homebrew (atamanroman.dev)

×1.10 | 2 points by toomuchtodo 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Looking back on 2025: The events that defined this year – AFP (youtube.com)

×0.48 | 1 points by Bondi_Blue 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Automation and Validation (johndcook.com)

×1.09 | 2 points by vismit2000 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: An AI collaboration playbook(AGENTS.md and code map and template) (privydrop.app)

×0.49 | 1 points by david_bai 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Agentic Design Patterns: A Hands on Guide to Building Intelligent Systems [pdf] (github.com/sarwarbeing-ai)

×1.73 7 | 3 points by wrycoder 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
$6 Michelin Stock in 60 Minutes (youtube.com)

×1.11 | 2 points by bane 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Word Wizardry – Dijkstra-powered sentences, crafted from LLM magic (github.com/skorotkiewicz)

×1.12 | 2 points by modinfo 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Southern Cross Cable Network (wikipedia.org)

×0.49 | 1 points by sieep 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Pre-commit hooks are fundamentally broken (jyn.dev)

×1.82 6 | 3 points by todsacerdoti 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Pyleak: Detect asyncio event loop blocking with stack traces in Python (github.com/deepankarm)

×1.18 | 2 points by tanelpoder 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Haven Ahead (laphamsquarterly.org)

×0.49 | 1 points by treetalker 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why does VirusTotal give different results depending on how I upload the file?

×0.50 | 1 points by nilslindemann 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Waymo updates fleet in response to Bay Area outage chaos (theregister.com)

×1.85 11 #54 | 7 points by raybb 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
FFmpeg files DMCA takedown request against Rockchip MPP for LGPL violation (github.com/github)

×0.49 | 1 points by csmantle 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Make a Moon Phases Calendar and Calculator (nasa.gov)

×0.50 | 1 points by tzury 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Why delegation beats memory in AI Agents (getseer.dev)

×0.51 | 1 points by akshay326 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Some snapshot memories from the film "Alien" (2009) (archive.org)

×1.20 | 2 points by exvi 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Neuro‑IDE: A Visual Surgical Environment for Kernel Analysis

×0.49 | 1 points by neuro-os 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Qron0B: A sleek and low-power binary wirstwatch (github.com/qewer33)

×1.71 13 | 4 points by thunderbong 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ideal isn't real: Stress testing CockroachDB's resilience (cockroachlabs.com)

×0.48 | 1 points by LittleCat38 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
CEO of Health Care Software Company Sentenced for $1B Fraud Conspiracy (justice.gov)

×3.84 12 #19 | 34 points by healsdata 2 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
CorsixTH – An open source clone of Theme Hospital (corsixth.com)

×1.12 | 2 points by ibobev 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Emergent temporal abstractions in autoregressive models enable hierarchical RL (arxiv.org)

×0.48 | 1 points by simonpure 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Aichat for SSH (github.com/au-zen)

×0.50 | 1 points by auzen 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Proton, the 'Most Complicated Thing You Could Possibly Imagine' (quantamagazine.org)

×1.79 12 | 3 points by tzury 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Former ULA President and CEO Tory Bruno Joins Blue Origin (spaceflightnow.com)

×1.92 10 #26 | 25 points by geeB 3 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
We're Delegating More and More Thinking to AI (railly.dev)

×1.68 16 | 3 points by Hunter17 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Non-native speaker here – how to avoid sounding like ChatGPT?

×1.08 | 2 points by haebom 3 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
State of Vibe 2025 – Vibe Creation Ecosystem Report of China (stateofvibe.ai)

×0.39 | 1 points by kalasoo 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Probably Post More (aadillpickle.com)

×0.91 | 2 points by aadillpickle 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
All my senses are being tortured simultaneously (lettersofnote.com)

×1.43 29 | 3 points by animal_spirits 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Santa Claus on delivering 99% Uptime [video] (youtube.com)

×1.98 11 | 5 points by vismit2000 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ukraine After 4 Years of War [video] (youtube.com)

×1.53 30 | 3 points by dralley 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Circuit Artist – Pixel art circuit design with NANDs, now with rewind and layers (github.com/lets-all-be-stupid-forever)

×1.55 31 | 3 points by rafinha 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Christian Marclay on Why 'The Clock' Challenges a Digitally Obsessed Generation (artnet.com)

×1.50 34 | 3 points by bookofjoe 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Crosspost Automatically between X and Bluesky (microposter.so)

×0.40 | 1 points by ProgrammerByDay 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ukraine delivers humiliating Christmas Day blow to Putin by recapturing key city (nypost.com)

×1.94 10 | 4 points by MilnerRoute 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Rapace – RPC over SHM / WS / TCP / Mem (bearcove.eu)

×1.47 36 | 3 points by todsacerdoti 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
DockBridge – Run Docker on cheap cloud servers, pay only when you use it (github.com/Max-Levitskiy)

×2.05 11 | 4 points by FunShot 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Sorting Tutor: sorting algorithm visualizer (tilde.team)

×0.93 | 2 points by movezig 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Apps by AI (Claude Opus 4.5) (lawrencehook.github.io)

×0.37 | 1 points by lawrencehook 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Retreating from EVs could be hazardous for Western carmakers (economist.com)

×3.42 69 | 26 points by smurda 4 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Mysterious quantum computing restrictions spread across multiple nations (2024) (tomshardware.com)

×2.52 37 | 11 points by kome 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
An experiment in separating identity, memory, and tools (rcrdbl.com)

×0.93 | 2 points by promptfluid 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: DStream (bespoke music player for web) non-web clients (github.com/DusteDdk)

×0.96 | 2 points by dusted 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Large Causal Models from Large Language Models (arxiv.org)

×0.40 | 1 points by Anon84 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
We may never be able to tell if AI becomes conscious (techxplore.com)

×2.59 3 | 5 points by gmays 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Loki Mode (github.com/asklokesh)

×1.49 41 | 3 points by handfuloflight 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Human Processor Model (wikipedia.org)

×1.54 19 | 4 points by Sir_Twist 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Betty Reid Soskin, who became a park ranger at 85, dies aged 104 (theguardian.com)

×1.57 42 | 3 points by herbertl 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why is it easier to whistle in tune than to sing in tune?(2018) (nih.gov)

×1.93 23 | 4 points by BiraIgnacio 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How to Use the Linux Uniq Command (With Examples) [video] (youtube.com)

×0.91 44 | 3 points by billybuckwheat 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???