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hacker news · January 6, 2026

Hacker News for Jan 6, 2026

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AWS GPU pricing surprise BGP anomalies and outages In-browser tools for developers

hacker news · January 5, 2026

Hacker News for Jan 5, 2026

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Giant cave spider megastructure Apple menu icon overload PostgreSQL eats the database world

hacker news · January 4, 2026

Hacker News for Jan 4, 2026

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Nightshade poisoning against AI scrapes Karpathy deep learning from scratch AI-assisted DSP plugin remake

hacker news · January 3, 2026

Hacker News for Jan 3, 2026

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US strike and oil shock IndieWeb POSSE syndication workflow RP2350 secure-boot bypasses

hacker news · January 2, 2026

Hacker News for Jan 2, 2026

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HPV vaccine long-term protection Public Domain Day 2026 Plain-text accounting with Beancount

hacker news · January 1, 2026

Hacker News for Jan 1, 2026

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PS5 boot keys leak ACM goes full open access Self-hosted Cloudflare Workers alternative

hacker news · December 31, 2025

Hacker News for Dec 31, 2025

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SQL + embeddings for alignment DOOM rendered with Django LiveView Open-source motion graphics toolkit

hacker news · December 30, 2025

Hacker News for Dec 30, 2025

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Netflix open Dolby Vision assets Win32 desktop atop Linux Curl’s safer string API

hacker news · December 29, 2025

Hacker News for Dec 29, 2025

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Chatbot running on Z80 Go runtime on Dreamcast The 2 GiB relocation barrier

hacker news · December 28, 2025

Hacker News for Dec 28, 2025

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Gene-edited fat starves tumors Native HTML replaces JS widgets Anti-AI open source licensing

hacker news · December 27, 2025

Hacker News for Dec 27, 2025

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Lean’s weird but valid theorems uv versus pip speed reasons C-extension leak hunting in Python

hacker news · December 26, 2025

Hacker News for Dec 26, 2025

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Git indexes collapsing at scale AI spam backlash and attribution Claude Code versus Codex workflows

hacker news · December 25, 2025

Hacker News for Dec 25, 2025

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Quantum error correction FOOM curve Python tail-call interpreter speedups Phoenix: new Zig X server

hacker news · December 24, 2025

Hacker News for Dec 24, 2025

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Reversible redactions in PDFs Tooling to catch bad redactions Google’s 2025 AI research push

hacker news · December 23, 2025

Hacker News for Dec 23, 2025

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Postgres zero-copy database cloning Photoshop 1.0.1 source released AI’s role in verification

hacker news · December 22, 2025

Hacker News for Dec 22, 2025

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Apple fined over ATT prompts Agentic coding changes workflows Local models vs cloud tradeoffs

hacker news · December 21, 2025

Hacker News for Dec 21, 2025

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300TB Spotify preservation torrents Measuring AI by task length Are new AI images dull?

hacker news · December 20, 2025

Hacker News for Dec 20, 2025

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NIST time servers go dark AI agents play Pokémon Codex Agent Skills standard

hacker news · December 19, 2025

Hacker News for Dec 19, 2025

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Supply-chain bug hits docs UK age checks expand internet Texas sues over TV spying

hacker news · December 18, 2025

Hacker News for Dec 18, 2025

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UK law versus encryption builders FreeBSD IPv6 RCE advisory Virtualizing NVIDIA B200 HGX

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