Daily Top Stories
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Stardew Valley developer made a $125k donation to the FOSS C# framework MonoGame (monogame.net)
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Warren Buffett steps down as Berkshire Hathaway CEO after six decades (latimes.com)
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I canceled my book deal (austinhenley.com)
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2025: The Year in LLMs (simonwillison.net)
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Show HN: Use Claude Code to Query 600 GB Indexes over Hacker News, ArXiv, etc. (exopriors.com)
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Tell HN: Happy New Year
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Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design (2011) [pdf] (ece.uvic.ca)
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Efficient method to capture carbon dioxide from the atmosphere (helsinki.fi)
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The rise of industrial software (chrisloy.dev)
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Meta created 'playbook' to fend off pressure to crack down on scammers (reuters.com)
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Stewart Cheifet, creator of The Computer Chronicles, has died (obits.goldsteinsfuneral.com)
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2025 was a disaster for Windows 11 (windowscentral.com)
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France targets Australia-style social media ban for children next year (theguardian.com)
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On privacy and control (toidiu.com)
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The compiler is your best friend (blog.daniel-beskin.com)
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The Delete Act (privacy.ca.gov)
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The most famous transcendental numbers (sprott.physics.wisc.edu)
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How AI labs are solving the power problem (newsletter.semianalysis.com)
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Scientists unlock brain's natural clean-up system for new treatments for stroke (monash.edu)
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Court report detailing ChatGPT's involvement with a recent murder suicide [pdf] (storage.courtlistener.com)
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Web Browsers have stopped blocking pop-ups (smokingonabike.com)
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Scaffolding to Superhuman: How Curriculum Learning Solved 2048 and Tetris (kywch.github.io)
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Iron Beam: Israel's first operational anti drone laser system (mod.gov.il)
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When square pixels aren't square (alexwlchan.net)
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Drugmakers raise US prices on 350 medicines despite pressure (reuters.com)
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Resistance training load does not determine hypertrophy (physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
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2026: The Year of Java in the Terminal? (xam.dk)
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OpenAI is paying employees more than any major tech startup in history (wsj.com)
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Nvidia GB10's Memory Subsystem, from the CPU Side (chipsandcheese.com)
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Claude wrote a functional NES emulator using my engine's API (carimbo.games)