Hot Topics by Week - IdeaWell (HN)

2026, January, 4th week

France Aiming to Replace Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, etc.

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Qwen3-Max-Thinking

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Google AI Overviews cite YouTube more than any medical site for health queries

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The Holy Grail of Linux Binary Compatibility: Musl and Dlopen

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The browser is the sandbox

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2026, January, 3rd week

First, make me care

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ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data

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A macOS app that blurs your screen when you slouch

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Adoption of EVs tied to real-world reductions in air pollution: study

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Comma openpilot – Open source driver-assistance

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Some C habits I employ for the modern day

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Banned C++ features in Chromium

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New YC homepage

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Unrolling the Codex agent loop

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Proof of Corn

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Microsoft gave FBI set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops

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Gas Town's agent patterns, design bottlenecks, and vibecoding at scale

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Radicle: The Sovereign Forge

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European Alternatives

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What has Docker become?

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AI Usage Policy

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AI is a horse (2024)

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Updates to our web search products and Programmable Search Engine capabilities

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Proton spam and the AI consent problem

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Why medieval city-builder video games are historically inaccurate (2020)

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Turso is an in-process SQL database, compatible with SQLite

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Capital One to acquire Brex for $5.15B

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'Askers' vs. 'Guessers' (2010)

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Why does SSH send 100 packets per keystroke?

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I was banned from Claude for scaffolding a Claude.md file?

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Show HN: isometric.nyc – giant isometric pixel art map of NYC

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GPTZero finds 100 new hallucinations in NeurIPS 2025 accepted papers

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In Europe, wind and solar overtake fossil fuels

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Qwen3-TTS family is now open sourced: Voice design, clone, and generation

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Douglas Adams on the English–American cultural divide over "heroes"

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We will ban you and ridicule you in public if you waste our time on crap reports

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Your app subscription is now my weekend project

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Significant US farm losses persist, despite federal assistance

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Your brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of cognitive debt when using an AI assistant

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eBay explicitly bans AI "buy for me" agents in user agreement update

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Claude's new constitution

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Waiting for dawn in search: Search index, Google rulings and impact on Kagi

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Skip is now free and open source

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Show HN: ChartGPU – WebGPU-powered charting library (1M points at 60fps)

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EU–INC – A new pan-European legal entity

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Can you slim macOS down?

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200 MB RAM FreeBSD desktop

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cURL removes bug bounties

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California is free of drought for the first time in 25 years

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Our approach to age prediction

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Nvidia Stock Crash Prediction

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IP Addresses Through 2025

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Porsche sold more electrified cars in Europe in 2025 than pure gas-powered cars

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Nanolang: A tiny experimental language designed to be targeted by coding LLMs

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I was a top 0.01% Cursor user, then switched to Claude Code 2.0

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Level S4 solar radiation event

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Threads edges out X in daily mobile users, new data shows

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Nearly a third of social media research has undisclosed ties to industry

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Notes on Apple's Nano Texture (2025)

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Letter from a Birmingham Jail (1963)

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What came first: the CNAME or the A record?

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Apple testing new App Store design that blurs the line between ads and results

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The microstructure of wealth transfer in prediction markets

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Amazon is ending all inventory commingling as of March 31, 2026

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A decentralized peer-to-peer messaging application that operates over Bluetooth

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2026, January, 2nd week

Gas Town Decoded

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Show HN: Dock – Slack minus the bloat, tax, and 90-day memory loss

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Dead Internet Theory

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Gaussian Splatting – A$AP Rocky "Helicopter" music video

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Predicting OpenAI's ad strategy

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Software engineers can no longer neglect their soft skills

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Command-line Tools can be 235x Faster than your Hadoop Cluster (2014)

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Erdos 281 solved with ChatGPT 5.2 Pro

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If you put Apple icons in reverse it looks like someone getting good at design

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2025 was the third hottest year on record

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We put Claude Code in Rollercoaster Tycoon

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The recurring dream of replacing developers

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PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch

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US electricity demand surged in 2025 – solar handled 61% of it

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ClickHouse acquires Langfuse

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The 'untouchable hacker god' behind Finland's biggest crime

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Ask HN: Is it still worth pursuing a software startup?

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High-Level Is the Goal

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Releasing rainbow tables to accelerate Net-NTLMv1 protocol deprecation

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East Germany balloon escape

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Dell UltraSharp 52 Thunderbolt Hub Monitor

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STFU

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Cursor's latest “browser experiment” implied success without evidence

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6-Day and IP Address Certificates Are Generally Available

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Cloudflare acquires Astro

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Lock-Picking Robot

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Dev-owned testing: Why it fails in practice and succeeds in theory

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Song banned from Swedish charts for being AI creation

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Michelangelo's first painting, created when he was 12 or 13

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Just the Browser

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On Being a Human Being in the Time of Collapse (2022) [pdf]

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List of individual trees

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Briar keeps Iran connected via Bluetooth and Wi-Fi when the internet goes dark

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Pocket TTS: A high quality TTS that gives your CPU a voice

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‘ELITE’: The Palantir app ICE uses to find neighborhoods to raid

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Ask HN: How can we solve the loneliness epidemic?

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Apple is fighting for TSMC capacity as Nvidia takes center stage

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25 Years of Wikipedia

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Photos capture the breathtaking scale of China's wind and solar buildout

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To those who fired or didn't hire tech writers because of AI

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Ask HN: How are you doing RAG locally?

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Ask HN: What did you find out or explore today?

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The URL shortener that makes your links look as suspicious as possible

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Bubblewrap: A nimble way to prevent agents from accessing your .env files

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Scaling long-running autonomous coding

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Claude Cowork exfiltrates files

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You Can Just Buy Far-UVC

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Ask HN: Share your personal website

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So, you’ve hit an age gate. What now?

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Find a pub that needs you

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Roam 50GB is now Roam 100GB

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Why some clothes shrink in the wash and how to unshrink them

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SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation

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Is Rust faster than C?

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When hardware goes end-of-life, companies need to open-source the software

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The insecure evangelism of LLM maximalists

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We can't have nice things because of AI scrapers

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No management needed: anti-patterns in early-stage engineering teams

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Confer – End to end encrypted AI chat

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Let's be honest, Generative AI isn't going all that well

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AI generated music barred from Bandcamp

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Influencers and OnlyFans models are dominating U.S. O-1 visa requests

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Apple picks Gemini to power Siri

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2026, January, 1st week

CLI agents make self-hosting on a home server easier and fun

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The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe

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iCloud Photos Downloader

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Anthropic: Developing a Claude Code competitor using Claude Code is banned

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Meta announces nuclear energy projects

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Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)

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I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too

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C++ std::move doesn't move anything: A deep dive into Value Categories

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Overdose deaths are falling in America because of a 'supply shock': study

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Code and Let Live

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Show HN: I used Claude Code to discover connections between 100 books

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AI is a business model stress test

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I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great

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Why Is Greenland Part of the Kingdom of Denmark? A Short History

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Oh My Zsh adds bloat

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Changes to Android Open Source Project

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Start your meetings at 5 minutes past

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“Erdos problem #728 was solved more or less autonomously by AI”

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How Markdown took over the world

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My article on why AI is great (or terrible) or how to use it

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Show HN: I made a memory game to teach you to play piano by ear

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Cloudflare CEO on the Italy fines

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How will the miracle happen today?

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Do not mistake a resilient global economy for populist success

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Anthropic blocks third-party use of Claude Code subscriptions

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How to code Claude Code in 200 lines of code

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Replit founder Amjad Masad isn’t afraid of Silicon Valley

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AI coding assistants are getting worse?

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The Jeff Dean Facts

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ChatGPT Health

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Claude Code CLI was broken

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Tailscale state file encryption no longer enabled by default

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US will ban Wall Street investors from buying single-family homes

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Eat Real Food

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Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team

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US Job Openings Decline to Lowest Level in More Than a Year

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Sugar industry influenced researchers and blamed fat for CVD (2016)

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A4 Paper Stories

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“Stop Designing Languages. Write Libraries Instead” (2016)

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Sergey Brin's Unretirement

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The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup

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Comparing AI agents to cybersecurity professionals in real-world pen testing

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Stop Doom Scrolling, Start Doom Coding: Build via the terminal from your phone

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Dude, where's my supersonic jet?

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Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far

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Vietnam bans unskippable ads

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AWS raises GPU prices 15% on a Saturday, hopes you weren't paying attention

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Donut Lab’s all-solid-state battery delivers 400 Wh/kg of energy density

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Google broke my heart

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Welcome to Gas Town

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Jensen: 'We've done our country a great disservice' by offshoring

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It's hard to justify Tahoe icons

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Anna's Archive loses .org domain after surprise suspension

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Databases in 2025: A Year in Review

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2025, December, 5th week

Lessons from 14 years at Google

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The unbearable joy of sitting alone in a café

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Web development is fun again

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Jeffgeerling.com has been migrated to Hugo

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Maybe comments should explain 'what' (2017)

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The suck is why we're here

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Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time

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Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes

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2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop

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Publish on your own site, syndicate elsewhere

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Fighting Fire with Fire: Scalable Oral Exams

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Clicks Communicator

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Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2026)

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Punkt. Unveils MC03 Smartphone

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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2026)

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IPv6 just turned 30 and still hasn't taken over the world

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Parental controls aren't for parents

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What you need to know before touching a video file

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I'm a developer for a major food delivery app

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A website to destroy all websites

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Linux is good now

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Finland detains ship and its crew after critical undersea cable damaged

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iOS allows alternative browser engines in Japan

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BYD Sells 4.6M Vehicles in 2025, Meets Revised Sales Goal

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50% of U.S. vinyl buyers don't own a record player

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2025 Letter

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I rebooted my social life

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Worlds largest electric ship launched by Tasmanian boatbuilder

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2025: The Year in LLMs

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Resistance training load does not determine hypertrophy

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Web Browsers have stopped blocking pop-ups

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Warren Buffett steps down as Berkshire Hathaway CEO after six decades

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Ÿnsect, a French insect farming startup, has been been placed into liquidation

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I canceled my book deal

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The compiler is your best friend

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Stardew Valley developer made a $125k donation to the FOSS C# framework MonoGame

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Iron Beam: Israel's first operational anti drone laser system

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How AI labs are solving the power problem

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Tell HN: Happy New Year

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The most famous transcendental numbers

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A faster heart for F-Droid

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Professional software developers don't vibe, they control

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Everything as code: How we manage our company in one monorepo

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Show HN: 22 GB of Hacker News in SQLite

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Loss32: Let's Build a Win32/Linux

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Non-Zero-Sum Games

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Stranger Things creator says turn off “garbage” settings

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The future of software development is software developers

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Google is dead. Where do we go now?

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Karpathy on Programming: “I've never felt this much behind”

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GOG is getting acquired by its original co-founder

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