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  • Topics Everyone Is Talking About No325

    My First Win Building with AI Agents • LeaseGuard: Rethinking Raft Leader Leases • Finite-State Transducers for Substitution Tilings • 8-bit Boléro: The Worlds Most Ambitious Chiptune • Prompt Caching: Making LLM Inference 10 Cheaper

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  • Topics Everyone Is Talking About No324

    AI Speeds Up Developmentbut Causes 1.7 More Bugs • headson: headtail for Structured Data Summarize JSONYAML and Source Code • dogalog: A Prolog-Based Livecoding Music Environment • History LLMs: Models Trained on Pre-1913 Texts

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  • Topics Everyone Is Talking About No323

    Dear ACM: Youre Using AI Wrong But Theres Still Time to Fix It • Partial Inlining: Smarter Compiler Optimization Explained • Mastering Bit Arrays in Gleam • GPT-5.2-Codex • Inside Chinas Manhattan Project for AI Chips

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  • Topics Everyone Is Talking About No322

    Beginning January 2026, all ACM publications will be made open access • We Pwned X, Vercel, Cursor, and Discord Through a Supply-Chain Attack • Texas Sues Major TV Makers for Spying on Viewers • Please Just Try HTMX • Classical Statues Were Not Painted Horribly…

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  • Topics Everyone Is Talking About No321

    Jonathan Blows Decade-Long Journey to Craft 1,400 Intricate Puzzles • Irans Vanishing Water: How Mismanagement Drained an Ancient System • How Getting Richer Made Teenagers Less Free • Microsoft Retires IntelliCode to Push Developers Toward Paid Copilot • lightning-extra: PyTorch Lightning Plugins for Cloud-Native ML

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  • Topics Everyone Is Talking About No320

    Secure Local Configuration for Kakoune • Ringspace: Rebuilding the Human Web • I Got Hacked: My Hetzner Server Started Mining Monero • Ask HN: Side Projects Making 500Month in 2025 • TOML 1.1.0 Released

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  • Topics Everyone Is Talking About No319

    Genuary 2026: Creative Coding Prompts Unleashed • Selective Applicative Functors: Bridging Theory and Computation • Gut Bacteria from Reptiles Show Complete Tumor Elimination in Mice • A16z-Backed AI Startup Hacked, Exposing Synthetic Influencer Operations

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  • Topics Everyone Is Talking About No318

    The Wrong Question About Type Systems • AWS CEO: Replacing Junior Developers with AI Is a Terrible Idea • Tell HN: Hacker News Was Down • Yep, Passkeys Still Have Problems • Linux Kernels Rust Code Gets Its First CVE

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  • Topics Everyone Is Talking About No317

    Gemini 3 Flash: Frontier Intelligence Built for Speed • Coursera and Udemy Merge to Shape the AI-Era Workforce • Porting JustHTML to JavaScript with GPT-5.2 and Codex CLI • How Twitter May Be Secretly Crawling the Web for AI Training • Rethinking Databases for the SSD Era

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  • Topics Everyone Is Talking About No316

    The World Happiness Report Faces Serious Methodological Flaws • Exploring Dynamic Array Structures in Depth • Hidden Compiler Magic: How Cutlass Changes CUDATriton Performance • Minimum Viable Benchmark: Practical Evaluation for LLMs

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