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  1. Alzheimer's can be reversed to achieve full neurological recovery in animals (case.edu)
    ×4.25 3 #4 | 211 points by thunderbong 2 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Salesforce regrets firing 4000 experienced staff and replacing them with AI (maarthandam.com)
    ×6.72 89 | 144 points by whynotmaybe 2 hours ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. We invited a man into our home at Christmas and he stayed with us for 45 years (bbc.co.uk)
    ×5.94 5 #8 | 595 points by rajeshrajappan 7 hours ago | 147 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. I Sell Onions on the Internet (deepsouthventures.com)
    ×2.84 3 #1 | 51 points by sogen 1 hour ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Python 3.15’s interpreter for Windows x86-64 should hopefully be 15% faster (fidget-spinner.github.io)
    ×1.53 3 #2 | 181 points by lumpa 4 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Mattermost restricted access to old messages after 10000 limit is reached (github.com/mattermost)
    ×2.97 9 #15 | 270 points by xvilka 6 hours ago | 133 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Clearspace (YC W23) Is Hiring a Founding Network Engineer (VPN and Proxy) (ycombinator.com)
    44 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Tell HN: Merry Christmas
    ×7.75 3 #11 | 1671 points by basilikum 18 hours ago | 377 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. The entire New Yorker Archive Is Now Fully Digitized (newyorker.com)
    ×1.80 6 #3 | 134 points by thm 5 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Toys with the highest play-time and lowest clean-up-time (joannabregan.substack.com)
    ×2.29 5 #5 | 90 points by surprisetalk 4 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Ask HN: What is the international distribution/statistics of HN visitors?
    ×1.76 1 #10 | 19 points by KellyCriterion 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ruby 4.0.0 (ruby-lang.org)
    ×5.08 6 #18 | 556 points by FBISurveillance 13 hours ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Asahi Linux with Sway on the MacBook Air M2 (lawrence.lu)
    ×2.36 4 #9 | 35 points by andsoitis 3 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Phoenix: A modern X server written from scratch in Zig (dec05eba.com)
    ×2.32 8 #6 | 557 points by snvzz 19 hours ago | 308 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Nvidia to buy assets from Groq for $20B cash (cnbc.com)
    ×4.92 20 #35 | 624 points by nickrubin 20 hours ago | 358 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Show HN: I treated my brain like a buggy server and wrote a patch (Shi-Mo Model) (github.com/317317317apple-a11y)
    ×2.70 75 | 6 points by ShiMo_Protocol 50 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Ask HN: MIT grad, junior dev layoffs – watching my daughter lose faith in merit
    ×3.14 74 | 17 points by MITfather 2 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Free Software Foundation receives historic private donations (fsf.org)
    ×3.90 26 #44 | 187 points by pentagrama 12 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Ask HN: How do I bridge the gap between PhD and SWE experiences?
    ×0.97 6 #13 | 48 points by ecophyseis 6 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. The Fisher-Yates shuffle is backward (wordpress.com)
    ×1.10 5 #25 | 55 points by possiblywrong 7 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Donald Knuth's 2025 Christmas lecture: the Knight's Tours (thenewstack.io)
    ×2.57 70 | 4 points by MilnerRoute 37 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Project Dropstone: A Neuro-Symbolic Runtime for Long-Horizon Engineering [pdf] (blankline.org)
    ×0.47 11 #33 | 22 points by epicprogrammer 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Show HN: Minimalist editor that lives in browser, stores everything in the URL (github.com/antonmedv)
    ×1.88 4 #19 | 397 points by medv 22 hours ago | 137 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Available domain names for your next project (sneakydomains.com)
    ×2.49 67 | 4 points by starf1sh 46 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Who Watches the Waymos? I do [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.40 9 #16 | 231 points by notgloating 17 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. The First Photographs of Snowflakes Discover the Groundbreaking Microphotography (openculture.com)
    ×0.97 12 #14 | 64 points by _____k 9 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Why FedRAMP Authorization and CMMC Level 2 Are Now Table Stakes for GovCon AI (procurementsciences.com)
    ×0.62 64 | 5 points by mooreds 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Microsoft please get your tab to autocomplete shit together (ivanca.github.io)
    ×2.82 27 #55 | 222 points by AmbroseBierce 18 hours ago | 133 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Show HN: Vibium – Browser automation for AI and humans, by Selenium's creator (github.com/VibiumDev)
    ×2.10 3 #26 | 373 points by hugs 23 hours ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. CSRF protection without tokens or hidden form fields (miguelgrinberg.com)
    ×1.83 6 #24 | 265 points by adevilinyc 20 hours ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Quantum Error Correction Goes FOOM (algassert.com)
    ×0.71 11 #20 | 45 points by EvgeniyZh 8 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. The Inner-Platform Effect (2006) (thedailywtf.com)
    ×0.80 20 #12 | 6 points by birdculture 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Fabrice Bellard: Biography (2009) [pdf] (ipaidia.gr)
    ×1.70 16 #17 | 318 points by lioeters 23 hours ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Fabrice Bellard Releases MicroQuickJS (github.com/bellard)
    ×5.08 11 #23 | 1412 points by Aissen 2 days ago | 530 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Self-referencing Page Tables for the x86-Architecture (0l.de)
    ×0.53 13 #22 | 44 points by stv0g 8 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: Exploring Mathematics with Python (psu.ac.th)
    ×1.59 7 #29 | 188 points by Andrew2565 19 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Asterisk AI Voice Agent (github.com/hkjarral)
    ×1.13 16 #21 | 159 points by akrulino 18 hours ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Some Epstein file redactions are being undone (theguardian.com)
    ×4.98 9 #47 | 976 points by vinni2 1 day ago | 751 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. How I Left YouTube (zhach.news)
    ×2.40 11 #50 | 179 points by dhashe 19 hours ago | 269 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. PEP 686 – Make UTF-8 mode default (python.org)
    ×1.84 51 | 3 points by tosh 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. RFK Jr. says the U.S. should look to Europe on vaccines (politico.com)
    ×2.21 50 | 4 points by RickJWagner 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: Why many AI-generated websites don't show up on Google (pagesmith.ai)
    ×1.53 49 | 3 points by manu_trustdom 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Python Applied Mathematics Labs (byu.edu)
    ×1.75 48 | 81 points by vvin 14 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Handheld PC Community Forums (hpcfactor.com)
    ×0.73 14 #30 | 44 points by walterbell 10 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Using Vectorize to build an unreasonably good search engine in 160 lines of code (partykit.io)
    ×1.16 14 #31 | 107 points by ColinWright 16 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Research team digitizes more than 100 years of Canadian infectious disease data (mcmaster.ca)
    ×1.12 18 #28 | 141 points by XzetaU8 19 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Show HN: Tinykit – self-hosted Lovable, deploys to itself (tinykit.studio)
    ×2.33 44 | 4 points by mmmateo 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Inside CECOT – 60 Minutes [video] (archive.org)
    ×13.32 21 #69 | 1642 points by lawlessone 2 days ago | 543 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. X-ray: a Python library for finding bad redactions in PDF documents (github.com/freelawproject)
    ×3.13 8 #57 | 693 points by rendx 1 day ago | 121 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Microsoft Is Finally Killing RC4 (schneier.com)
    ×1.61 4 #54 | 8 points by jandeboevrie 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Microsoft denies rewriting Windows 11 in Rust using AI (windowslatest.com)
    ×3.07 40 | 66 points by zdw 14 hours ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. I'm returning my Framework 16 (yorickpeterse.com)
    ×2.38 16 #36 | 273 points by YorickPeterse 1 day ago | 483 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. JEDEC developing reduced pin count HBM4 standard to enable higher capacity (blocksandfiles.com)
    ×0.72 26 #27 | 60 points by rbanffy 13 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Spaced repetition for efficient learning (2019) (gwern.net)
    ×1.48 10 #64 | 131 points by tsenturk 20 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Comptime – C# meta-programming with compile-time code generation and evaluation (github.com/sebastienros)
    ×1.09 23 #32 | 121 points by bj-rn 20 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Why do so many "agentic AI" systems collapse without persistent state?
    ×1.08 35 | 3 points by JohannesGlaser 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. When compilers surprise you (xania.org)
    ×1.30 2 #59 | 231 points by brewmarche 1 day ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Achieving Lasting Remission for HIV (knowablemagazine.org)
    ×2.05 33 | 4 points by PaulHoule 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Meta is using the Linux scheduler designed for Valve's Steam Deck on its servers (phoronix.com)
    ×4.57 32 | 688 points by yellow_lead 2 days ago | 383 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Why We Abandoned Matrix (2024) (hackliberty.org)
    ×1.89 31 | 190 points by Flere-Imsaho 1 day ago | 169 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Unifi Travel Router (ui.com)
    ×2.68 18 #79 | 457 points by flurdy 1 day ago | 410 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. AMD entered the CPU market with reverse-engineered Intel 8080 clone 50 years ago (tomshardware.com)
    ×2.40 14 #76 | 188 points by ksec 1 day ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Prototaxites (astrobiology.com)
    ×0.84 24 #39 | 63 points by andsoitis 16 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Sad times StackOverflow takes down all its physical servers (stackoverflow.blog)
    ×1.73 27 | 3 points by slroger 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. The next-gen mainboard designed with amigaos4 and morphos in mind (vitasys.nl)
    ×0.95 27 #38 | 67 points by todsacerdoti 17 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Jingle Bells (Batman Smells): An incomplete festive folk-rhyme taxonomy (loreandordure.com)
    ×1.10 26 #40 | 112 points by helsinkiandrew 22 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Silicon Valley's tone-deaf take on the AI backlash will matter in 2026 (fortune.com)
    ×3.14 24 | 66 points by howToTestFE 17 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. We replaced H.264 streaming with JPEG screenshots (and it worked better) (helix.ml)
    ×3.11 19 #87 | 511 points by quesobob 1 day ago | 313 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Games’ affordance of childlike wonder and reduced burnout risk in young adults (jmir.org)
    ×1.61 4 #65 | 162 points by azalemeth 1 day ago | 125 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. AI Withholds Life-or-Death Information Unless You Know the Magic Words (substack.substack.com)
    ×2.40 21 | 37 points by llamataboot 13 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Google's year in review: areas with research breakthroughs in 2025 (blog.google)
    ×1.89 26 #45 | 213 points by Anon84 1 day ago | 156 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Researchers achieved 1,270 Wh/L in an anode-free lithium metal battery (postech.ac.kr)
    ×1.65 19 | 111 points by giuliomagnifico 23 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Looking for Decent Conversation?
    ×1.74 18 | 96 points by kmstout 22 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Beijing is enforcing tough rules to ensure chatbots don’t misbehave (wsj.com)
    ×1.58 17 | 82 points by bookofjoe 21 hours ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. European Majority favours more social media regulation (yougov.co.uk)
    ×2.74 16 | 85 points by snowpid 22 hours ago | 142 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Steam Store is offline (steamstat.us)
    ×2.81 15 | 67 points by DetectDefect 19 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Avoid Mini-Frameworks (laike9m.com)
    ×1.37 29 #48 | 147 points by laike9m 1 day ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. A faster path to container images in Bazel (tweag.io)
    ×0.77 35 #43 | 97 points by malt3 1 day ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. My 2026 Open Social Web Predictions (timothychambers.net)
    ×0.94 30 #49 | 106 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. The dawn of a world simulator (odyssey.ml)
    ×0.74 39 #41 | 73 points by olivercameron 21 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. The e-scooter isn't new – London was zooming around on Autopeds a century ago (ianvisits.co.uk)
    ×1.61 9 #72 | 176 points by zeristor 1 day ago | 125 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Texas app store age verification law blocked by federal judge (macrumors.com)
    ×1.91 9 | 314 points by danso 1 day ago | 243 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Don't Become the Machine (bearblog.dev)
    ×2.18 25 #58 | 233 points by armeetj 1 day ago | 133 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. No Longer Evil – new life for dead/outdated Nest Generation 1 and 2 thermostats (nolongerevil.com)
    ×1.76 50 #34 | 31 points by pabs3 14 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. The port I couldn't ship (ammil.industries)
    ×0.89 48 #37 | 134 points by cjlm 1 day ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Qntm's Power Tower Toy (qntm.org)
    ×0.69 40 #46 | 79 points by ravenical 22 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. We Tracked Ourselves (404media.co)
    ×4.45 1 #88 | 808 points by chaps 3 days ago | 470 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Mt. Gox CEO Karpelès Reveals Details of 2014 Collapse and Japanese Detention (bitcoinmagazine.com)
    ×2.20 3 | 82 points by giuliomagnifico 1 day ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Ask HN: What are the best engineering blogs with real-world depth?
    ×2.83 2 | 435 points by nishilpatel 2 days ago | 127 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Nabokov's guide to foreigners learning Russian (twitter.com/haravayin_hogh)
    ×1.72 1 | 216 points by flaxxen 1 day ago | 448 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???