Weekly Best
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Beginning January 2026, all ACM publications will be made open access (dl.acm.org)
2.
Backing up Spotify (annas-archive.li)
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Inside CECOT – 60 Minutes [video] (archive.org)
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Show HN: Jmail – Google Suite for Epstein files (jmail.world)
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Hacker News front page now, but the titles are honest (dosaygo-studio.github.io)
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Fabrice Bellard Releases MicroQuickJS (github.com)
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We pwned X, Vercel, Cursor, and Discord through a supply-chain attack (gist.github.com)
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Some Epstein file redactions are being undone (theguardian.com)
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History LLMs: Models trained exclusively on pre-1913 texts (github.com)
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Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work (simonwillison.net)
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Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. We Tracked Ourselves (404media.co)
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CSS Grid Lanes (webkit.org)
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Garage – An S3 object store so reliable you can run it outside datacenters (garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr)
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Mistral OCR 3 (mistral.ai)
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Go ahead, self-host Postgres (pierce.dev)
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Meta is using the Linux scheduler designed for Valve's Steam Deck on its servers (phoronix.com)
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X-ray: a Python library for finding bad redactions in PDF documents (github.com)
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The Going Dark initiative or ProtectEU is a Chat Control 3.0 attempt (mastodon.online)
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Amazon will allow ePub and PDF downloads for DRM-free eBooks (kdpcommunity.com)
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Classical statues were not painted horribly (worksinprogress.co)
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GotaTun – Mullvad's WireGuard Implementation in Rust (mullvad.net)
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1.5 TB of VRAM on Mac Studio – RDMA over Thunderbolt 5 (jeffgeerling.com)
23.
Please just try HTMX (pleasejusttryhtmx.com)
24.
Show HN: Books mentioned on Hacker News in 2025 (hackernews-readings-613604506318.us-west1.run.app)
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US blocks all offshore wind construction, says reason is classified (arstechnica.com)
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Flock and Cyble Inc. weaponize “cybercrime” takedowns to silence critics (haveibeenflocked.com)
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A guide to local coding models (aiforswes.com)
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GPT-5.2-Codex (openai.com)
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Firefox will have an option to disable all AI features (mastodon.social)
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Logging sucks (loggingsucks.com)