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  1. Salesforce regrets firing 4000 experienced staff and replacing them with AI (maarthandam.com)
    ×6.58 89 | 141 points by whynotmaybe 2 hours ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Alzheimer's can be reversed to achieve full neurological recovery in animals (case.edu)
    ×4.29 3 #4 | 201 points by thunderbong 2 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. We invited a man into our home at Christmas and he stayed with us for 45 years (bbc.co.uk)
    ×5.92 6 #9 | 584 points by rajeshrajappan 7 hours ago | 144 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. I Sell Onions on the Internet (deepsouthventures.com)
    ×3.14 2 #2 | 38 points by sogen 1 hour ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Ask HN: MIT grad, junior dev layoffs – watching my daughter lose faith in merit
    ×3.18 74 | 17 points by MITfather 2 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Tell HN: Merry Christmas
    ×7.72 3 #11 | 1661 points by basilikum 18 hours ago | 377 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Asahi Linux with Sway on the MacBook Air M2 (lawrence.lu)
    ×2.43 7 #6 | 30 points by andsoitis 3 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Mattermost restricted access to old messages after 10000 limit is reached (github.com/mattermost)
    ×2.99 8 #14 | 268 points by xvilka 6 hours ago | 132 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Japanese pen maker Pilot raises price of bestseller for first time in 40 years (ft.com)
    ×3.74 59 | 7 points by bookofjoe 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ruby 4.0.0 (ruby-lang.org)
    ×5.07 6 #18 | 550 points by FBISurveillance 13 hours ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Toys with the highest play-time and lowest clean-up-time (joannabregan.substack.com)
    ×2.26 6 #5 | 83 points by surprisetalk 4 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Ask HN: What is the international distribution/statistics of HN visitors?
    ×2.10 #10 | 17 points by KellyCriterion 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Show HN: I treated my brain like a buggy server and wrote a patch (Shi-Mo Model) (github.com/317317317apple-a11y)
    ×3.06 75 | 6 points by ShiMo_Protocol 44 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. RFK Jr. says the U.S. should look to Europe on vaccines (politico.com)
    ×2.23 49 | 4 points by RickJWagner 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Free Software Foundation receives historic private donations (fsf.org)
    ×3.90 26 #44 | 186 points by pentagrama 12 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Achieving Lasting Remission for HIV (knowablemagazine.org)
    ×2.06 36 | 4 points by PaulHoule 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. The entire New Yorker Archive Is Now Fully Digitized (newyorker.com)
    ×1.77 6 #3 | 127 points by thm 4 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Sad times StackOverflow takes down all its physical servers (stackoverflow.blog)
    ×1.74 30 | 3 points by slroger 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Show HN: Tinykit – self-hosted Lovable, deploys to itself (tinykit.studio)
    ×1.72 26 | 3 points by mmmateo 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Python 3.15’s interpreter for Windows x86-64 should hopefully be 15% faster (fidget-spinner.github.io)
    ×1.57 4 #1 | 180 points by lumpa 4 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. The HTML Elements Time Forgot (htmhell.dev)
    ×1.54 16 | 3 points by todsacerdoti 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Available domain names for your next project (sneakydomains.com)
    ×2.66 69 | 4 points by starf1sh 39 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. PEP 686 – Make UTF-8 mode default (python.org)
    ×1.89 53 | 3 points by tosh 54 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Nvidia to buy assets from Groq for $20B cash (cnbc.com)
    ×4.92 18 #33 | 623 points by nickrubin 20 hours ago | 358 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Show HN: Why many AI-generated websites don't show up on Google (pagesmith.ai)
    ×1.61 48 | 3 points by manu_trustdom 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. US sanctions EU government officials behind the DSA (mastodon.social)
    ×9.37 9 | 121 points by pojntfx 1 day ago | 141 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Why do so many "agentic AI" systems collapse without persistent state?
    ×1.09 38 | 3 points by JohannesGlaser 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Microsoft Is Finally Killing RC4 (schneier.com)
    ×1.47 3 #59 | 7 points by jandeboevrie 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Donald Knuth's 2025 Christmas lecture: the Knight's Tours (thenewstack.io)
    ×2.77 71 | 4 points by MilnerRoute 30 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. The Inner-Platform Effect (2006) (thedailywtf.com)
    ×0.96 24 #16 | 5 points by birdculture 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Microsoft denies rewriting Windows 11 in Rust using AI (windowslatest.com)
    ×3.07 41 | 66 points by zdw 14 hours ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Inside CECOT – 60 Minutes [video] (archive.org)
    ×13.33 21 #69 | 1642 points by lawlessone 2 days ago | 543 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: Gwt-Claude – Parallel Claude Code sessions with Git worktrees (github.com/slowestmonkey)
    ×1.01 7 | 3 points by slowmonkey 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Silicon Valley's tone-deaf take on the AI backlash will matter in 2026 (fortune.com)
    ×3.14 23 | 66 points by howToTestFE 17 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Why FedRAMP Authorization and CMMC Level 2 Are Now Table Stakes for GovCon AI (procurementsciences.com)
    ×0.63 66 | 5 points by mooreds 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. 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 | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: Browser Based IDE for Love2D (github.com/Charmunks)
    ×1.82 32 | 5 points by Charmunk 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Microsoft please get your tab to autocomplete shit together (ivanca.github.io)
    ×2.82 26 #54 | 221 points by AmbroseBierce 18 hours ago | 132 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: ReadHn - Reading list for top HN posts (readhn.top)
    ×1.77 67 #67 | 5 points by taabishm2 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. The Fisher-Yates shuffle is backward (wordpress.com)
    ×1.12 4 #25 | 55 points by possiblywrong 7 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. How did DOGE disrupt so much while saving so little? (nytimes.com)
    ×7.24 3 | 305 points by JumpCrisscross 2 days ago | 186 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Steam Store is offline (steamstat.us)
    ×2.81 13 | 67 points by DetectDefect 19 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Ask HN: How do I bridge the gap between PhD and SWE experiences?
    ×0.94 7 #12 | 45 points by ecophyseis 6 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. US bars 5 Europeans it says pressured tech firms to censor American viewpoints (apnews.com)
    ×7.12 45 | 89 points by c420 1 day ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Show HN: Just Fucking Use Cloudflare – A satirical guide to the CF stack (justfuckingusecloudflare.com)
    ×3.04 18 | 33 points by MyNameIsTito 19 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Ask HN: At 34, can I aspire to being more than a JavaScript widget engineer?
    ×2.01 21 | 16 points by yesitcan 13 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Phoenix: A modern X server written from scratch in Zig (dec05eba.com)
    ×2.30 6 #8 | 553 points by snvzz 18 hours ago | 307 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Help my website is too small (lukeplant.me.uk)
    ×4.68 19 | 101 points by truxs 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Former EU commissioner and activists barred from US (theguardian.com)
    ×4.62 33 | 66 points by robin_reala 1 day ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. The EU's fine against X is not about speech or ‘censorship’ (techpolicy.press)
    ×4.36 34 | 51 points by saubeidl 1 day ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. How I Left YouTube (zhach.news)
    ×2.41 9 #50 | 179 points by dhashe 19 hours ago | 267 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Python Applied Mathematics Labs (byu.edu)
    ×1.75 47 | 81 points by vvin 14 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. European Majority favours more social media regulation (yougov.co.uk)
    ×2.74 14 | 85 points by snowpid 22 hours ago | 142 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Some Epstein file redactions are being undone (theguardian.com)
    ×4.98 8 #47 | 975 points by vinni2 1 day ago | 751 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Ask HN: Why is Hacker News red? Christmas?
    ×2.57 56 | 12 points by onesandofgrain 17 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. No Longer Evil – new life for dead/outdated Nest Generation 1 and 2 thermostats (nolongerevil.com)
    ×1.63 54 #34 | 28 points by pabs3 14 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Fabrice Bellard Releases MicroQuickJS (github.com/bellard)
    ×5.08 11 #23 | 1412 points by Aissen 2 days ago | 530 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. The First Photographs of Snowflakes Discover the Groundbreaking Microphotography (openculture.com)
    ×0.96 14 #13 | 62 points by _____k 9 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Google Cloud Run cost me $4,676 in 6 weeks with zero traff
    ×2.48 25 | 41 points by creativesage 22 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Dutch rental fleet Mistergreen goes bankrupt after betting on Tesla self-driving (guessingheadlights.com)
    ×4.36 53 | 54 points by toss1 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Epstein Files and images (4000 .png files) (epstein-files-browser.vercel.app)
    ×5.01 84 | 9 points by Gerome24 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Fuck You, I Won't Use Tailwind (fuckyouiwontusetailwind.com)
    ×6.37 68 | 48 points by csspurist 1 day ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. CSRF protection without tokens or hidden form fields (miguelgrinberg.com)
    ×1.83 6 #24 | 263 points by adevilinyc 20 hours ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. 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 | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: Kapso – WhatsApp for developers (kapso.ai)
    ×7.72 75 | 40 points by aamatte 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Ask HN: Did any projects succeed with crowdfunding?
    ×0.59 65 | 3 points by asim 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Show HN: Vibium – Browser automation for AI and humans, by Selenium's creator (github.com/VibiumDev)
    ×2.10 3 #26 | 371 points by hugs 23 hours ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Minimalist editor that lives in browser, stores everything in the URL (github.com/antonmedv)
    ×1.89 5 #19 | 397 points by medv 21 hours ago | 137 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. AMD entered the CPU market with reverse-engineered Intel 8080 clone 50 years ago (tomshardware.com)
    ×2.39 13 #76 | 187 points by ksec 1 day ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Project Dropstone: A Neuro-Symbolic Runtime for Long-Horizon Engineering [pdf] (blankline.org)
    ×0.45 16 #39 | 21 points by epicprogrammer 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Mt. Gox CEO Karpelès Reveals Details of 2014 Collapse and Japanese Detention (bitcoinmagazine.com)
    ×2.20 1 | 82 points by giuliomagnifico 1 day ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: Exploring Mathematics with Python (psu.ac.th)
    ×1.58 7 #29 | 186 points by Andrew2565 19 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. I'm returning my Framework 16 (yorickpeterse.com)
    ×2.36 16 #36 | 270 points by YorickPeterse 1 day ago | 482 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Who Watches the Waymos? I do [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.40 11 #15 | 229 points by notgloating 17 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Quantum Error Correction Goes FOOM (algassert.com)
    ×0.71 10 #21 | 44 points by EvgeniyZh 8 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: I built an open-source Linux-capable single-board computer with DDR3 (github.com/cheyao)
    ×3.37 78 | 13 points by Cyao 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. I didn't realize my LG TV was spying on me until I turned off Live Plus (pocket-lint.com)
    ×3.71 2 | 252 points by fcpguru 1 day ago | 239 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Redis vs. BoltCache (github.com/wutlu)
    ×0.83 34 #61 | 15 points by spotlayn 10 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Ask HN: How many HN'ers Celebrate Christmas vs. ?
    ×1.49 51 | 13 points by gist 17 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Looking for Decent Conversation?
    ×1.74 17 | 96 points by kmstout 22 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Show HN: RetroMol – Turn protein structures into pixel art (retromol.vercel.app)
    ×1.27 82 | 4 points by ss-13 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Fabrice Bellard: Biography (2009) [pdf] (ipaidia.gr)
    ×1.71 16 #17 | 318 points by lioeters 23 hours ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Beijing is enforcing tough rules to ensure chatbots don’t misbehave (wsj.com)
    ×1.58 15 | 82 points by bookofjoe 21 hours ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Show HN: Microsoft Agent Viewer (acs-viewer.pages.dev)
    ×1.20 69 | 6 points by ellg 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Using Vectorize to build an unreasonably good search engine in 160 lines of code (partykit.io)
    ×1.17 15 #30 | 107 points by ColinWright 16 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Spaced repetition for efficient learning (2019) (gwern.net)
    ×1.48 10 #64 | 131 points by tsenturk 20 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Why We Abandoned Matrix (2024) (hackliberty.org)
    ×1.89 31 | 190 points by Flere-Imsaho 1 day ago | 169 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Microsoft Agent Framework (microsoft.com)
    ×1.74 16 | 52 points by mooreds 23 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. 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 | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Tell HN: Merry Christmas
    ×2.25 15 | 88 points by franze 1 day ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???