Daily Top Stories
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Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service (theregister.com)
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Ghostty is now non-profit (mitchellh.com)
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Accepting US car standards would risk European lives (etsc.eu)
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“Captain Gains” on Capitol Hill (nber.org)
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Everyone in Seattle hates AI (jonready.com)
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Reverse engineering a $1B Legal AI tool exposed 100k+ confidential files (alexschapiro.com)
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RCE Vulnerability in React and Next.js (github.com)
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MinIO is now in maintenance-mode (github.com)
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Micron Announces Exit from Crucial Consumer Business (investors.micron.com)
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Helldivers 2 devs slash install size from 154GB to 23GB (tomshardware.com)
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The "Mad Men" in 4K on HBO Max Debacle (fxrant.blogspot.com)
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1D Conway's Life glider found, 3.7B cells long (conwaylife.com)
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Japanese game devs face font dilemma as license increases from $380 to $20k (gamesindustry.biz)
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Steam Deck lead reveals Valve is funding ARM compatibility of Windows games (frvr.com)
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Anthropic taps IPO lawyers as it races OpenAI to go public (ft.com)
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Interview with RollerCoaster Tycoon's Creator, Chris Sawyer (2024) (medium.com)
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You can't fool the optimizer (xania.org)
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Are we repeating the telecoms crash with AI datacenters? (martinalderson.com)
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India scraps order to pre-install state-run cyber safety app on smartphones (bbc.com)
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Mapping the US healthcare system’s financial flows (healthisotherpeople.substack.com)
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Show HN: I built a dashboard to compare mortgage rates across 120 credit unions (finfam.app)
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Why are my headphones buzzing whenever I run my game? (alexene.dev)
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Critical RCE Vulnerabilities in React and Next.js (wiz.io)
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Show HN: Fresh – A new terminal editor built in Rust (sinelaw.github.io)
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Microsoft lowers AI software growth targets (finance.yahoo.com)
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AI Is Breaking the Moral Foundation of Modern Society (eyeofthesquid.com)
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GSWT: Gaussian Splatting Wang Tiles (yunfan.zone)
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VA staff flag dangerous errors in Oracle-built electronic health record (washingtonpost.com)
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Quad9 DOH HTTP/1.1 Retirement, December 15, 2025 (quad9.net)
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Lie groups are crucial to some of the most fundamental theories in physics (quantamagazine.org)