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  1. Salesforce regrets firing 4000 experienced staff and replacing them with AI (maarthandam.com)
    ×7.18 87 | 155 points by whynotmaybe 4 hours ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Alzheimer's can be reversed to achieve full neurological recovery in animals (case.edu)
    ×4.23 2 #4 | 280 points by thunderbong 3 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. I Sell Onions on the Internet (deepsouthventures.com)
    ×3.39 #1 | 186 points by sogen 2 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. We invited a man into our home at Christmas and he stayed with us for 45 years (bbc.co.uk)
    ×6.01 7 #10 | 659 points by rajeshrajappan 8 hours ago | 169 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Tell HN: Merry Christmas
    ×7.82 5 #12 | 1715 points by basilikum 20 hours ago | 381 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Toys with the highest play-time and lowest clean-up-time (joannabregan.substack.com)
    ×2.52 4 #6 | 134 points by surprisetalk 5 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Donald Knuth's 2025 Christmas lecture: the Knight's Tours (thenewstack.io)
    ×2.38 23 #39 | 9 points by MilnerRoute 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Asahi Linux with Sway on the MacBook Air M2 (lawrence.lu)
    ×2.23 8 #5 | 67 points by andsoitis 4 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Ruby 4.0.0 (ruby-lang.org)
    ×5.03 6 #18 | 580 points by FBISurveillance 14 hours ago | 123 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Mattermost restricted access to old messages after 10000 limit is reached (github.com/mattermost)
    ×2.94 13 #19 | 288 points by xvilka 7 hours ago | 158 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Show HN: I treated my brain like a buggy server and wrote a patch (Shi-Mo Model) (github.com/317317317apple-a11y)
    ×2.20 63 | 6 points by ShiMo_Protocol 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. EV sales in Norway increased from 1% of sales in 2010 to 96% in early 2025 (balkanweb.com)
    ×2.70 67 | 4 points by bookofjoe 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Available domain names for your next project (sneakydomains.com)
    ×2.18 49 | 4 points by starf1sh 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. PEP 686 – Make UTF-8 mode default (python.org)
    ×2.29 42 | 4 points by tosh 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. The entire New Yorker Archive Is Now Fully Digitized (newyorker.com)
    ×2.00 5 #3 | 183 points by thm 6 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Ask HN: What is the international distribution/statistics of HN visitors?
    ×1.33 #11 | 35 points by KellyCriterion 2 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Roots of milk drinking revealed by South Asian genomes (science.org)
    ×1.91 47 | 3 points by bikenaga 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. The 'doorman fallacy': why careless adoption of AI backfires so easily (theconversation.com)
    ×1.97 51 | 3 points by scentoni 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. The Mammoth Pirates – In Russia's Arctic north, a new kind of gold rush (rferl.org)
    ×1.63 34 | 3 points by ece20 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Free Software Foundation receives historic private donations (fsf.org)
    ×3.75 29 #46 | 187 points by pentagrama 14 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. All I Want for Xmas Is Your Secrets: LangGrinch Hits LangChain (CVE-2025-68664) (cyata.ai)
    ×1.94 57 | 3 points by shahartal 51 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. CUDA Tile Open Sourced (github.com/NVIDIA)
    ×1.30 21 #8 | 9 points by JonChesterfield 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Show HN: Why many AI-generated websites don't show up on Google (pagesmith.ai)
    ×1.29 27 | 3 points by manu_trustdom 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Nvidia to buy assets from Groq for $20B cash (cnbc.com)
    ×4.88 19 #34 | 628 points by nickrubin 21 hours ago | 361 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. US sanctions EU government officials behind the DSA (mastodon.social)
    ×9.25 1 | 121 points by pojntfx 1 day ago | 142 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Python 3.15’s interpreter for Windows x86-64 should hopefully be 15% faster (fidget-spinner.github.io)
    ×1.53 3 #2 | 207 points by lumpa 5 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Microsoft Is Finally Killing RC4 (schneier.com)
    ×1.44 3 #55 | 10 points by jandeboevrie 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Inside CECOT – 60 Minutes [video] (archive.org)
    ×13.27 23 #70 | 1642 points by lawlessone 2 days ago | 543 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Microsoft denies rewriting Windows 11 in Rust using AI (windowslatest.com)
    ×3.05 38 | 66 points by zdw 15 hours ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Show HN: Gwt-Claude – Parallel Claude Code sessions with Git worktrees (github.com/slowestmonkey)
    ×0.95 20 | 3 points by slowmonkey 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Silicon Valley's tone-deaf take on the AI backlash will matter in 2026 (fortune.com)
    ×3.17 25 | 67 points by howToTestFE 18 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. AI Withholds Life-or-Death Information Unless You Know the Magic Words (substack.substack.com)
    ×2.39 20 | 37 points by llamataboot 14 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Microsoft please get your tab to autocomplete shit together (ivanca.github.io)
    ×2.79 33 #59 | 223 points by AmbroseBierce 19 hours ago | 134 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. The Inner-Platform Effect (2006) (thedailywtf.com)
    ×0.65 8 #13 | 12 points by birdculture 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: Browser Based IDE for Love2D (github.com/Charmunks)
    ×1.77 32 | 5 points by Charmunk 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. US bars 5 Europeans it says pressured tech firms to censor American viewpoints (apnews.com)
    ×7.03 38 | 89 points by c420 1 day ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Steam Store is offline (steamstat.us)
    ×2.80 16 | 67 points by DetectDefect 21 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Ask HN: How do I bridge the gap between PhD and SWE experiences?
    ×0.97 49 #67 | 53 points by ecophyseis 7 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: Just Fucking Use Cloudflare – A satirical guide to the CF stack (justfuckingusecloudflare.com)
    ×3.00 14 | 33 points by MyNameIsTito 20 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Ask HN: At 34, can I aspire to being more than a JavaScript widget engineer?
    ×2.07 15 | 17 points by yesitcan 14 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Phoenix: A modern X server written from scratch in Zig (dec05eba.com)
    ×2.34 7 #7 | 570 points by snvzz 20 hours ago | 322 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Help my website is too small (lukeplant.me.uk)
    ×4.64 12 | 101 points by truxs 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Former EU commissioner and activists barred from US (theguardian.com)
    ×4.58 27 | 66 points by robin_reala 1 day ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. The EU's fine against X is not about speech or ‘censorship’ (techpolicy.press)
    ×4.31 28 | 51 points by saubeidl 1 day ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. The Phone-Based Retirement Is Here (theatlantic.com)
    ×2.91 21 | 32 points by JumpCrisscross 21 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. How I Left YouTube (zhach.news)
    ×2.36 14 #53 | 180 points by dhashe 21 hours ago | 275 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. European Majority favours more social media regulation (yougov.co.uk)
    ×2.76 19 | 86 points by snowpid 23 hours ago | 144 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Python Applied Mathematics Labs (byu.edu)
    ×1.75 46 | 81 points by vvin 15 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. The Fisher-Yates shuffle is backward (wordpress.com)
    ×1.02 7 #26 | 58 points by possiblywrong 8 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Show HN: ReadHn - Reading list for top HN posts (readhn.top)
    ×1.29 58 #78 | 5 points by taabishm2 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Some Epstein file redactions are being undone (theguardian.com)
    ×4.98 10 #47 | 981 points by vinni2 1 day ago | 752 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. No Longer Evil – new life for dead/outdated Nest Generation 1 and 2 thermostats (nolongerevil.com)
    ×1.64 48 #33 | 34 points by pabs3 15 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Fabrice Bellard Releases MicroQuickJS (github.com/bellard)
    ×5.09 9 #22 | 1416 points by Aissen 2 days ago | 533 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Ask HN: Why is Hacker News red? Christmas?
    ×2.53 54 | 12 points by onesandofgrain 18 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Google Cloud Run cost me $4,676 in 6 weeks with zero traff
    ×2.49 22 | 42 points by creativesage 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Dutch rental fleet Mistergreen goes bankrupt after betting on Tesla self-driving (guessingheadlights.com)
    ×4.31 51 | 54 points by toss1 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Kapso – WhatsApp for developers (kapso.ai)
    ×7.66 68 | 41 points by aamatte 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. The First Photographs of Snowflakes Discover the Groundbreaking Microphotography (openculture.com)
    ×0.94 9 #14 | 70 points by _____k 10 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Fuck You, I Won't Use Tailwind (fuckyouiwontusetailwind.com)
    ×6.25 62 | 48 points by csspurist 1 day ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Epstein Files and images (4000 .png files) (epstein-files-browser.vercel.app)
    ×5.01 78 | 9 points by Gerome24 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. CSRF protection without tokens or hidden form fields (miguelgrinberg.com)
    ×1.82 3 #24 | 271 points by adevilinyc 21 hours ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Show HN: Vibium – Browser automation for AI and humans, by Selenium's creator (github.com/VibiumDev)
    ×2.12 #25 | 383 points by hugs 1 day ago | 109 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. AMD entered the CPU market with reverse-engineered Intel 8080 clone 50 years ago (tomshardware.com)
    ×2.38 16 #76 | 188 points by ksec 1 day ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Minimalist editor that lives in browser, stores everything in the URL (github.com/antonmedv)
    ×1.89 4 #16 | 403 points by medv 23 hours ago | 142 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Mt. Gox CEO Karpelès Reveals Details of 2014 Collapse and Japanese Detention (bitcoinmagazine.com)
    ×2.24 3 | 84 points by giuliomagnifico 1 day ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. I'm returning my Framework 16 (yorickpeterse.com)
    ×2.43 15 #35 | 283 points by YorickPeterse 1 day ago | 487 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. US denies visas to ex-EU commissioner and others over social media rules (bbc.co.uk)
    ×6.75 66 | 33 points by mellosouls 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Ask HN: Did any projects succeed with crowdfunding?
    ×0.57 59 | 3 points by asim 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Exploring Mathematics with Python (psu.ac.th)
    ×1.57 7 #29 | 193 points by Andrew2565 20 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. I didn't realize my LG TV was spying on me until I turned off Live Plus (pocket-lint.com)
    ×3.70 2 | 252 points by fcpguru 1 day ago | 240 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Who Watches the Waymos? I do [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.41 7 #15 | 239 points by notgloating 18 hours ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: I built an open-source Linux-capable single-board computer with DDR3 (github.com/cheyao)
    ×3.33 72 | 13 points by Cyao 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Ask HN: How many HN'ers Celebrate Christmas vs. ?
    ×1.53 44 | 14 points by gist 18 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Looking for Decent Conversation?
    ×1.75 21 | 97 points by kmstout 23 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Show HN: Microsoft Agent Viewer (acs-viewer.pages.dev)
    ×1.39 61 | 7 points by ellg 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Quantum Error Correction Goes FOOM (algassert.com)
    ×0.70 12 #21 | 49 points by EvgeniyZh 9 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Show HN: RetroMol – Turn protein structures into pixel art (retromol.vercel.app)
    ×1.25 79 | 4 points by ss-13 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Fabrice Bellard: Biography (2009) [pdf] (ipaidia.gr)
    ×1.70 15 #17 | 324 points by lioeters 1 day ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Project Dropstone: A Neuro-Symbolic Runtime for Long-Horizon Engineering [pdf] (blankline.org)
    ×0.43 14 #44 | 21 points by epicprogrammer 5 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Redis vs. BoltCache (github.com/wutlu)
    ×0.80 33 #60 | 16 points by spotlayn 12 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Beijing is enforcing tough rules to ensure chatbots don’t misbehave (wsj.com)
    ×1.57 18 | 82 points by bookofjoe 22 hours ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Why We Abandoned Matrix (2024) (hackliberty.org)
    ×1.90 33 | 191 points by Flere-Imsaho 1 day ago | 170 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Microsoft Agent Framework (microsoft.com)
    ×1.77 10 | 53 points by mooreds 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. X-ray: a Python library for finding bad redactions in PDF documents (github.com/freelawproject)
    ×3.12 9 #57 | 693 points by rendx 1 day ago | 121 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Using Vectorize to build an unreasonably good search engine in 160 lines of code (partykit.io)
    ×1.18 13 #28 | 114 points by ColinWright 17 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Spaced repetition for efficient learning (2019) (gwern.net)
    ×1.47 11 #65 | 131 points by tsenturk 22 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Tell HN: Merry Christmas
    ×2.23 9 | 88 points by franze 1 day ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Researchers achieved 1,270 Wh/L in an anode-free lithium metal battery (postech.ac.kr)
    ×1.65 22 | 111 points by giuliomagnifico 1 day ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Show HN: Native iOS version of The Brutalist Report to clean up reading news (apple.com)
    ×2.04 82 | 6 points by cylo 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Handheld PC Community Forums (hpcfactor.com)
    ×0.74 12 #31 | 48 points by walterbell 11 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???