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  • Topics Everyone Is Talking About No128

    Beyond Algebra: An Analytical View of Data Types • Deepnote Open-Sources the Next-Gen Successor to Jupyter • Michael Burry Bets 1.1B Against Nvidia and Palantir Amid AMD Surge • Whole Earth Index: A Digital Revival of Open Knowledge

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  • Topics Everyone Is Talking About No127

    Zohran Mamdani Wins the New York Mayoral Race • X Preloads Tweet Links in Webviews, Skewing Analytics • You Cant cURL a Border: Modeling Bureaucracy Through Code • Remembering the Morris Worm: The Internets First Major Cyber Outbreak • NoLongerEvil-Thermostat Nest Generation 1 and 2 Firmware…

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  • Topics Everyone Is Talking About No126

    Pain Points of OCaml • A Canvas for Collaborative AI Agent Orchestration • High-Performance 2D Graphics Rendering on the CPU Using Sparse Strips • What Is a Manifold? • Server DRAM Prices Surge 50 Amid AI-Driven Memory Crunch

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  • Topics Everyone Is Talking About No125

    Lessons from Deploying AI Agents in Production • Pg_lake: Postgres with Iceberg and Data Lake Access • A Visualization of the RGB Space Covered by Named Colors • RDSEED Failure on AMD Zen 5 Processors • We Found an Embedding Indexing Bottleneck in JSON Parsing

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  • Topics Everyone Is Talking About No124

    I Built My Own Google Drive • AIs Dial-Up Era • Ask HN: Who Wants to Be Hired? November 2025

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  • Topics Everyone Is Talking About No123

    Why Replacing Kafka with Postgres Is a Bad Idea • Decoding Arthur Whitneys Minimalist C Style • Understanding C Move Semantics from the Ground Up • Why Our Startup Switched from Python to Node.js

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  • Topics Everyone Is Talking About No122

    Why Nextcloud Feels Sluggish to Use • Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? November 2025 • The Case That AI Might Be Thinking • Google Suspended My Companys Cloud AccountAgain • When CASTx AS STRING Turns Into an Integer in SQLite…

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  • Topics Everyone Is Talking About No121

    180M Jobs Analyzed: What AI Is Really Replacing Today • The Case Against PGVector: Why It Struggles at Scale • How the Mayans Perfected Eclipse Prediction for 700 Years • First Recording of a Dying Human Brain Reveals Memory-Like Waves • Monster Splash: A Double-HiRes Technical Marvel for the Apple IIe

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  • Topics Everyone Is Talking About No120

    Why Swiss Cheese Has Holes: The Science Behind the Eyes • Rats Filmed Snatching Bats Mid-Flight • HyperRogue: A Journey Through Non-Euclidean Worlds • Absurd Workflows: Reliable Execution Using Only Postgres • Abstract Syntax Trees in C: A Hands-On Example

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  • Topics Everyone Is Talking About No119

    Paris Moving Sidewalk of 1900: A Glimpse into the Future of Transit • The Hidden Android Setting That Lies About Your Signal Strength • AWK Technical Notes: Inside the Design of a Classic Scripting Language

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