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65% of Hacker News Posts Have Negative Sentiment, and They Outperform

https://philippdubach.com/standalone/hn-sentiment/

Show HN: Prism.Tools – Free and privacy-focused developer utilities

https://blgardner.github.io/prism.tools/

enclose.horse

https://enclose.horse/

Why German Strings Are Everywhere?

https://cedardb.com/blog/german_strings/

AWS raises GPU prices 15% on a Saturday, hopes you weren't paying attention

https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/05/aws_price_i...

There were BGP anomalies during the Venezuela blackout

https://loworbitsecurity.com/radar/radar16/

SCiZE's Classic Warez Collection

https://scenelist.org/

Repair a ship’s hull still in the river in -50˚C (2022)

https://eugene.kaspersky.com/2022/04/26/how-to-rep...

"Inspector Dangerfuck", ANSI art comic from 1994

https://breakintochat.com/blog/2025/12/31/ansi-art...

Show HN: DDL to Data – Generate realistic test data from SQL schemas

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C Is Best

https://sqlite.org/whyc.html

System: Control your Mac from anywhere using natural language

https://system.surf/

Try to take my position: The best promotion advice I ever got

https://andrew.grahamyooll.com/blog/Try-to-Take-My...

I/O is no longer the bottleneck? (2022)

https://stoppels.ch/2022/11/27/io-is-no-longer-the...

Interpreter – Offline screen translator for Japanese retro games

https://github.com/bquenin/interpreter

GBC Boot Animation 88×31 Web Button

https://zakhary.dev/blog/gbc-web-button

Shipping at Inference-Speed

https://steipete.me/posts/2025/shipping-at-inferen...

Six-decade math puzzle solved by Korean mathematician

https://www.koreaherald.com/article/10648326

The Post-American Internet

https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/01/39c3/

Tube trains could navigate the Underground using the rules of Quantum Physics

https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/tube-trains-c...

How Y Combinator made it smart to trust founders

https://elbowgreasegames.substack.com/p/when-good-...

Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers, cutting memory 75%

https://brave.com/privacy-updates/36-adblock-memor...

GoGoGrandparent (YC S16) is hiring back end engineers

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/gogograndpar...

Strange.website

https://strange.website/

JavaScript's For-Of Loops Are Fast

https://waspdev.com/articles/2026-01-01/javascript...

Intel Core Ultra Series 3 Debut as First Built on Intel 18A

https://newsroom.intel.com/client-computing/ces-20...

I switched from VSCode to Zed

https://tenthousandmeters.com/blog/i-switched-from...

Databases in 2025: A Year in Review

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pavlo/blog/2026/01/2025-da...

The Lottery Ticket Hypothesis: Finding Sparse, Trainable Neural Networks (2018)

https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.03635

Why didn't AI “join the workforce” in 2025?

https://calnewport.com/why-didnt-ai-join-the-workf...