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You can make up HTML tags https://maurycyz.com/misc/make-up-tags/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46416945)
You can make up HTML tags
maurycyz.com
December 29, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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Fathers’ choices may be packaged and passed down in sperm RNA https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-dads-fitness-may-be-packaged-and-passed-down-in-sperm-rna-20251222/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46407502)
How Dad’s Fitness May Be Packaged and Passed Down in Sperm RNA | Quanta Magazine
Research into how a father’s choices — such as diet, exercise, stress, nicotine use — may transfer traits to his children has become impossible to ignore.
www.quantamagazine.org
December 29, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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Janet Jackson had the power to crash laptop computers (2022) https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20220816-00/?p=106994 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46403291)
Janet Jackson had the power to crash laptop computers - The Old New Thing
Not an artistic judgement. Just a technical one.
devblogs.microsoft.com
December 29, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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What an unprocessed photo looks like https://maurycyz.com/misc/raw_photo/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46415225)
What an unprocessed photo looks like
maurycyz.com
December 29, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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Last Year on My Mac: Look Back in Disbelief https://eclecticlight.co/2025/12/28/last-year-on-my-mac-look-back-in-disbelief/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46409969)
Last Year on My Mac: Look back in disbelief
If someone had told me 12 months ago what was going to happen this past year, I wouldn’t have believed them. Skipping swiftly past all the political, economic and social turmoil, I come to th…
eclecticlight.co
December 28, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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Growing up in “404 Not Found”: China's nuclear city in the Gobi Desert https://substack.com/inbox/post/182743659 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46408988)
Error 404: Life in a Secret Chinese Nuclear City That Was Never on the Map
A memoir of growing up in China’s classified atomic bomb base in the Gobi Desert.
substack.com
December 28, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Ask HN: What did you read in 2025? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46391572
December 28, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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Say No to Palantir in the NHS https://notopalantir.goodlawproject.org/email-to-target/stop-palantir-in-the-nhs/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46405309)
Say no to Palantir in the NHS
NHS England is rolling out software to run our health records from Palantir - fight back
notopalantir.goodlawproject.org
December 28, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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Calendar https://neatnik.net/calendar/?year=2026 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46408613)
Calendar
neatnik.net
December 28, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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Replacing JavaScript with Just HTML https://www.htmhell.dev/adventcalendar/2025/27/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46407337)
Replacing JS with just HTML - HTMHell
A collection of bad practices in HTML, copied from real websites.
www.htmhell.dev
December 28, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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Publishing your work increases your luck https://github.com/readme/guides/publishing-your-work (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46397991)
Publishing your work increases your luck
In 12 months, @aarondfrancis changed his life by bypassing fear and embracing risk. Now, he’s working his dream job @tuple. Get his full story on The ReadME Project:
github.com
December 28, 2025 at 5:53 AM
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Gpg.fail https://gpg.fail/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46403200)
Gpg.fail
gpg.fail
December 28, 2025 at 4:15 AM
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How we lost communication to entertainment https://ploum.net/2025-12-15-communication-entertainment.html (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46404848)
How We Lost Communication to Entertainment
ploum.net
December 28, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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Nvidia's $20B antitrust loophole https://ossa-ma.github.io/blog/groq (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46403559)
Nvidia's $20B Antitrust Loophole
The Groq deal that dodged regulators, enriched Chamath, sidestepped Saudi entanglements and a whole bunch more
ossa-ma.github.io
December 28, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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Show HN: Ez FFmpeg – Video editing in plain English http://npmjs.com/package/ezff (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46400251)
Show HN: Ez FFmpeg – Video editing in plain English
npmjs.com
December 27, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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Floor796 https://floor796.com/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46401612)
Floor796
floor796.com
December 27, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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Apple releases open-source model that instantly turns 2D photos into 3D views https://github.com/apple/ml-sharp (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46401539)
GitHub - apple/ml-sharp: Sharp Monocular View Synthesis in Less Than a Second
Sharp Monocular View Synthesis in Less Than a Second - apple/ml-sharp
github.com
December 27, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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Always bet on text (2014) https://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/193447.html (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46397379)
Always bet on text (2014)
graydon2.dreamwidth.org
December 27, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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Exe.dev https://exe.dev/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46397609)
Exe.dev
exe.dev
December 27, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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Show HN: Witr – Explain why a process is running on your Linux system https://github.com/pranshuparmar/witr (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46392910)
GitHub - pranshuparmar/witr: Why is this running?
Why is this running? Contribute to pranshuparmar/witr development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
December 27, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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Toys with the highest play-time and lowest clean-up-time https://joannabregan.substack.com/p/toys-with-the-highest-play-time-and (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46395885)
Toys with the highest play-time and lowest clean-up-time
The worst toy is one with many pieces that my kids dump on the ground and then play with for only 2 minutes.
joannabregan.substack.com
December 27, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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My insulin pump controller uses the Linux kernel. It also violates the GPL https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1puojsr/the_device_that_controls_my_insulin_pump_uses_the/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46395184)
My insulin pump controller uses the Linux kernel. It also violates the GPL
old.reddit.com
December 27, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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FFmpeg has issued a DMCA takedown on GitHub https://twitter.com/FFmpeg/status/2004599109559496984 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46394327)
FFmpeg has issued a DMCA takedown on GitHub
twitter.com
December 27, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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How uv got so fast https://nesbitt.io/2025/12/26/how-uv-got-so-fast.html (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46393992)
How uv got so fast
uv’s speed comes from engineering decisions, not just Rust. Static metadata, dropping legacy formats, and standards that didn’t exist five years ago.
nesbitt.io
December 27, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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Package managers keep using Git as a database, it never works out https://nesbitt.io/2025/12/24/package-managers-keep-using-git-as-a-database.html (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46391514)
Package managers keep using git as a database, it never works out
Git repositories seem like an elegant solution for package registry data. Pull requests for governance, version history for free, distributed by design. But as registries grow, the cracks appear.
nesbitt.io
December 26, 2025 at 5:35 PM