Daily Top Stories
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Tell HN: Merry Christmas
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Nvidia buying AI chip startup Groq for about $20B in cash (cnbc.com)
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Phoenix: A modern X server written from scratch in Zig (git.dec05eba.com)
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Show HN: Minimalist editor that lives in browser, stores everything in the URL (github.com)
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Show HN: Vibium – Browser automation for AI and humans, by Selenium's creator (github.com)
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Fabrice Bellard: Biography (2009) [pdf] (ipaidia.gr)
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When Compilers Surprise You (xania.org)
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Google's year in review: areas with research breakthroughs in 2025 (blog.google)
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Why We Abandoned Matrix (2024) (forum.hackliberty.org)
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I'm returning my Framework 16 (yorickpeterse.com)
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The e-scooter isn't new – London was zooming around on Autopeds a century ago (ianvisits.co.uk)
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AMD entered the CPU market with reverse-engineered Intel 8080 clone 50 years ago (tomshardware.com)
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Games’ affordance of childlike wonder and reduced burnout risk in young adults (games.jmir.org)
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Avoid Mini-Frameworks (laike9m.com)
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Microsoft please get your tab to autocomplete shit together (ivanca.github.io)
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US sanctions EU government officials behind the DSA (mastodon.social)
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Spaced repetition for efficient learning (2019) (gwern.net)
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Researchers achieved 1,270 Wh/L in an anode-free lithium metal battery (postech.ac.kr)
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Help my website is too small (lukeplant.me.uk)
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The Ultimate Windows Utility (2022) (christitus.com)
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Permission Systems for Enterprise That Scale (eliocapella.com)
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My 2026 Open Social Web Predictions (timothychambers.net)
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Looking for Decent Conversation?
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Tell HN: Merry Christmas
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How I Left YouTube (zhach.news)
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Who Watches the Waymos? I do [video] (youtube.com)
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European Majority favours more social media regulation (yougov.co.uk)
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Mt. Gox CEO Karpelès Reveals Details of 2014 Collapse and Japanese Detention (bitcoinmagazine.com)
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Beijing is enforcing tough rules to ensure chatbots don’t misbehave (wsj.com)
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Former EU commissioner and activists barred from US (theguardian.com)