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1.		Phoenix: A modern X server written from scratch in Zig (dec05eba.com)
		674 points by snvzz 49 days ago \| 435 comments
2.		Tell HN: Merry Christmas
		1958 points by basilikum 49 days ago \| 430 comments
3.		Some Epstein file redactions are being undone (theguardian.com)
		1029 points by vinni2 50 days ago \| 780 comments
4.		Show HN: Minimalist editor that lives in browser, stores everything in the URL (github.com/antonmedv)
		468 points by medv 49 days ago \| 168 comments
5.		Fabrice Bellard: Biography (2009) [pdf] (ipaidia.gr)
		360 points by lioeters 49 days ago \| 126 comments
6.		Show HN: Vibium – Browser automation for AI and humans, by Selenium's creator (github.com/vibiumdev)
		443 points by hugs 49 days ago \| 124 comments
7.		Nvidia to buy assets from Groq for $20B cash (cnbc.com)
		699 points by nickrubin 49 days ago \| 404 comments
8.		Unifi Travel Router (ui.com)
		472 points by flurdy 50 days ago \| 430 comments
9.		The port I couldn't ship (ammil.industries)
		140 points by cjlm 55 days ago \| 94 comments
10.		Research team digitizes more than 100 years of Canadian infectious disease data (mcmaster.ca)
		158 points by XzetaU8 55 days ago \| 6 comments
11.		Nabokov's guide to foreigners learning Russian (twitter.com/haravayin_hogh)
		223 points by flaxxen 50 days ago \| 470 comments
12.		I'm returning my Framework 16 (yorickpeterse.com)
		313 points by YorickPeterse 50 days ago \| 608 comments
13.		Comptime – C# meta-programming with compile-time code generation and evaluation (github.com/sebastienros)
		150 points by bj-rn 53 days ago \| 66 comments
14.		When compilers surprise you (xania.org)
		244 points by brewmarche 50 days ago \| 104 comments
15.		The e-scooter isn't new – London was zooming around on Autopeds a century ago (ianvisits.co.uk)
		184 points by zeristor 50 days ago \| 145 comments
16.		A faster path to container images in Bazel (tweag.io)
		104 points by malt3 55 days ago \| 58 comments
17.		Show HN: Turn raw HTML into production-ready images for free (html2png.dev)
		152 points by alvinunreal 50 days ago \| 81 comments
18.		Jingle Bells (Batman Smells): An incomplete festive folk-rhyme taxonomy (loreandordure.com)
		121 points by helsinkiandrew 53 days ago \| 62 comments
19.		Open source USB to GPIB converter (for Test and Measurement instruments) (github.com/xyphro)
		91 points by v15w 50 days ago \| 45 comments
20.		Don't Become the Machine (armeet.bearblog.dev)
		262 points by armeet 50 days ago \| 143 comments
21.		Qntm's Power Tower Toy (qntm.org)
		84 points by ravenical 54 days ago \| 25 comments
22.		The dawn of a world simulator (odyssey.ml)
		80 points by olivercameron 53 days ago \| 55 comments
23.		My 2026 Open Social Web Predictions (timothychambers.net)
		115 points by todsacerdoti 49 days ago \| 122 comments
24.		Lessons from the PG&E outage (waymo.com)
		171 points by scoofy 50 days ago \| 166 comments
25.		Learn Lisp/Fennel Programming Against Neovim (github.com/humorless)
		70 points by veqq 56 days ago \| 11 comments
26.		Proving Bounds for the Randomized MaxCut Approximation Algorithm in Lean4 (abhamra.com)
		63 points by todsacerdoti 54 days ago \| 3 comments
27.		How I Left YouTube (zhach.news)
		218 points by dhashe 49 days ago \| 324 comments
28.		Is Northern Virginia still the least reliable AWS region? (statusgator.com)
		104 points by colinbartlett 50 days ago \| 80 comments
29.		Donald E. Knuth and Peter van Emde Boas on priority deques (1977) [pdf] (uva.nl)
		62 points by vismit2000 50 days ago \| 5 comments
30.		Google's year in review: areas with research breakthroughs in 2025 (blog.google)
		245 points by Anon84 50 days ago \| 168 comments
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