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  • Topics Everyone Is Talking About No148

    From Imperative Thinking to Relational Mindset • Handling 16-bit Data Pointers on RV32 • Boosting Pythons JIT: 510 Faster by Version 3.16 • The Digital Archive of Edsger W. Dijkstra • Python Foundation Gains Support After Declining Federal Grant

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  • Topics Everyone Is Talking About No147

    Ask HN: What Are You Working On? Nov 2025 • Marble Fountain: A Procedural Kinetic Sculpture • Montana Enshrines the Right to Compute Into Law • Rust-Based du Command Reports Wrong Sizes on Ubuntu 25.10 • Inside KeePassXCs Code Quality and AI Contribution Policy…

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  • Topics Everyone Is Talking About No146

    AI isnt replacing jobs the spending on it is • Study finds rising memory decline among young adults • Reverse engineering the Codex CLI to make GPT-5-Codex-Mini draw a pelican • Forth is it still relevant today? • Building a vector search engine with adjustable precision at query time

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  • Topics Everyone Is Talking About No145

    Worlds Largest Cargo Sailboat Crosses the Atlantic for the First Time • Why Im Not in Love with Rust • Ofcom vs. the Internet: U.S. Lawyer Fights UKs Online Safety Act Reach

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  • Topics Everyone Is Talking About No144

    52-Year-Old Tape May Reveal Lost Chapter of Unix History • Building a CICD Pipeline Runner from Scratch in Python • Dijkstras Algorithm in JavaScript

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  • Topics Everyone Is Talking About No143

    Oxford Study Exposes Flaws in AI Benchmarking • Marko: A Type-Safe, HTML-Driven Frontend Framework • Apples Notarization Under Fire for Restricting Software Freedom • Local-First HTMX: Offline-Ready Web Simplicity • OpenCloud: A Go-Powered Alternative to Nextcloud…

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  • Topics Everyone Is Talking About No142

    Ticker: How Not to Die of Heart Disease • AI Benchmarks Are a Bad Joke and Model Makers Are Laughing • 1T in Tech Stocks Sold Off as Market Grows Skeptical of AI • Cerebras Code Adds GLM 4.6 Support Reaching 1000 Tokens per Second • Small Language Models Are the Future of Agentic AI

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  • Topics Everyone Is Talking About No141

    Apple Crosses a Steve Jobs Red Line • Why Zig Is So Cool • Bootc Brings Containerized Linux to the Workstation • The State of the Rust Dependency Ecosystem • FFmpeg Assembly Language Lessons…

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  • Topics Everyone Is Talking About No140

    Why I Love OCaml 2023 • James Watson Has Died • Gmails AI Is Getting Too Intrusive • A.I. and Social Media Contribute to Brain Rot • SelfHostLLM GPU Memory Calculator for LLM Inference

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  • Topics Everyone Is Talking About No139

    Denmark Plans to Ban Social Media for Kids Under 15 • YouTube Pulls Windows 11 Tutorials Over Risk of Harm Claim • Rockstar Faces Allegations of Union-Busting Amid Mass Firings • Google Launches Magika 1.0 Faster, Smarter, and Rebuilt in Rust • Rethinking Error Codes and Control Flow in Zig…

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