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Quick programming note - no issue next week. Merry Christmas if you celebrate it and wishing you a wonderful New Year's!
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#Favorites
Simulate your financial future and start 2026 off on the right path
//projectionlab.com
sponsored
alpr.watch
//alpr.watch comments→
Thin desires are eating life
//joanwestenberg.com comments→
Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work
//simonwillison.net comments→
AI agents are starting to eat SaaS
//martinalderson.com comments→
Carrier Landing in Top Gun for the NES
//relaxing.run comments→
Bonsai: A Voxel Engine, from scratch
//github.com comments→
30 years of
tags
//artmann.co comments→
The Rise of Computer Games, Part I: Adventure
//technicshistory.com comments→
Dogalog: A realtime Prolog-based livecoding music environment
//github.com comments→
Fizzy Design Evolution: A Flipbook from Git
//zolkos.com comments→
#Ask HN
How can I get better at using AI for programming?
What Are You Working On?
Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell
Does anyone understand how Hacker News works?
#Classifieds
Photo Palettes - Find color inspiration in the everyday //photopalettes.com
Diamond or Dud – Discover and vote on a new stock weekly //assetroom.net
Deploy your app before your coffee gets cold. The cloud for developers who ship. Sevalla. $50 free credit //sevalla.com
Cooking for the holidays? Preserve and share memories with Grandma's Recipes //grandmasrecipes.app
🎅 Gift a classified ad to yourself
#Show HN
Hashcards: A plain-text spaced repetition system //borretti.me comments→
AlgoDrill – Interactive drills to stop forgetting LeetCode patterns //algodrill.io comments→
A pager //udp7777.com comments→
Learn Japanese contextually while browsing //lingoku.ai comments→
I built a fast RSS reader in Zig //github.com comments→
#Code
Announcing the Beta release of ty //astral.sh comments→
If you're going to vibe code, why not do it in C? //stephenramsay.net comments→
Please just try HTMX //pleasejusttryhtmx.com comments→
I tried Gleam for Advent of Code //blog.tymscar.com comments→
#Data
SQLite JSON at full index speed using generated columns //dbpro.app comments→
History LLMs: Models trained exclusively on pre-1913 texts //github.com comments→
How SQLite is tested //sqlite.org comments→
Sqlit – A lazygit-style TUI for SQL databases //github.com comments→
Advent of SQL – A Daily SQL Puzzle Calendar Inspired by Advent of Code //dbpro.app comments→
#Design
Classical statues were not painted horribly //worksinprogress.co comments→
GNU Unifont //unifoundry.com comments→
Unscii //viznut.fi comments→
Google releases its new Google Sans Flex font as open source //omgubuntu.co.uk comments→
Picknplace.js, an alternative to drag-and-drop //jgthms.com comments→
A brief history of Times New Roman //typographyforlawyers.com comments→
#Books
2002: Last.fm and Audioscrobbler Herald the Social Web //cybercultural.com comments→
Kids Rarely Read Whole Books Anymore. Even in English Class //nytimes.com comments→
Online Textbook for Braid groups and knots and tangles //matthematics.com comments→
ML Systems Textbook by Havard //mlsysbook.ai comments→
#Working
AWS CEO says replacing junior devs with AI is 'one of the dumbest ideas' //finalroundai.com comments→
Working quickly is more important than it seems //jsomers.net comments→
US Tech Force //techforce.gov comments→
I'm a Tech Lead, and nobody listens to me. What should I do? //world.hey.com comments→
#Learn
Beginning January 2026, all ACM publications will be made open access //dl.acm.org comments→
Gut bacteria from amphibians and reptiles achieve tumor elimination in mice //jaist.ac.jp comments→
How China built its ‘Manhattan Project’ to rival the West in AI chips //japantimes.co.jp comments→
String theory inspires a brilliant, baffling new math proof //quantamagazine.org comments→
#Watching
Benn Jordan’s flock camera jammer will send you to jail in Florida now //youtube.com comments→
Are we stuck with the same Desktop UX forever? //youtube.com comments→
The Code That Revolutionized Orbital Simulation //youtube.com comments→
Hear Bach's Pieces Played on Original Baroque Instruments //openculture.com comments→
#Startup News
Roomba maker goes bankrupt, Chinese owner emerges //news.bloomberglaw.com comments→
Mozilla appoints new CEO Anthony Enzor-Demeo //blog.mozilla.org comments→
Coursera to combine with Udemy //investor.coursera.com comments→
A16z-backed Doublespeed hacked, revealing what its AI-generated accounts promote //404media.co comments→
#Fun
Rats Play DOOM //ratsplaydoom.com comments→
Noclip.website – A digital museum of video game levels //noclip.website comments→
My Tizen multiplayer drawing game flopped, but then hit 100M drawings //drawize.com comments→
A TSP game I wanted for 10 years - built in 4 hours //graphhopper.com comments→
Type to Race – a cyberpunk typing game (TypeRacer × Subway Surfers) //typetorace.com comments→
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