Daily Top Stories
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Maybe the default settings are too high (raptitude.com)
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Rob Pike Goes Nuclear over GenAI (skyview.social)
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Rob Pike Goes Nuclear over GenAI (imgur.com)
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Seven Diabetes Patients Die Due to Undisclosed Bug in Abbott's Glucose Monitors (sfconservancy.org)
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Fahrplan – 39C3 (fahrplan.events.ccc.de)
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Package managers keep using Git as a database, it never works out (nesbitt.io)
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Google is 'gradually rolling out' option to change your gmail.com address (9to5google.com)
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MiniMax M2.1: Built for Real-World Complex Tasks, Multi-Language Programming (minimaxi.com)
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I'm a laptop weirdo and that's why I like my new Framework 13 (blog.matthewbrunelle.com)
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TurboDiffusion: 100–200× Acceleration for Video Diffusion Models (github.com)
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UBlockOrigin and UBlacklist AI Blocklist (github.com)
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ChatGPT conversations still lack timestamps after years of requests (community.openai.com)
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Critical vulnerability in LangChain – CVE-2025-68664 (cyata.ai)
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URL Pattern API (developer.mozilla.org)
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Ultimate-Linux: Userspace for Linux in Pure JavaScript (github.com)
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LearnixOS (learnix-os.com)
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Building an AI agent inside a 7-year-old Rails monolith (catalinionescu.dev)
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Governments in the West Are Turning Their Sights on VPNs (nakedcapitalism.com)
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Memory Safety (memorysafety.org)
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When a driver challenges the kernel's assumptions (miod.online.fr)
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Codex vs. Claude Code (today) (build.ms)
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High School Student Discovers 1.5M Potential New Astronomical Objects (smithsonianmag.com)
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Ask HN: What did you read in 2025?
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No shares in company, but 550 employees received a $240M gift from their owner (economictimes.indiatimes.com)
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Ask HN: Pivot from SWE to What?
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Weight-loss pill approval set to accelerate food industry product overhauls (reuters.com)
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Geometric Algorithms for Translucency Sorting in Minecraft [pdf] (douira.dev)
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Ask HN: What tech purchase did you regret even though reviews were great?
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Steve wants us to make the Macintosh boot faster (folklore.org)
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Donald Knuth's 2025 Christmas lecture: the Knight's Tours (thenewstack.io)