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Tell HN: Happy New Year
https://app.ironcalc.com/?model=OIDKt-KaOnt-52CaU
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/after-the-spike-dean-spears/1146399816?ean=9781668057339
https://duti.dev/blog/2025/2025-in-a-nutshell/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_hand_of_God
https://github.com/chaosprint/hindsight
https://github.com/tirrenotechnologies/tirreno
https://github.com/VladSez/easy-invoice-pdf
https://www.linkedin.com/in/theosoti/
https://online-riichi.com
https://peterspath.net
https://picxstudio.com/share/DF9_t0T_EdciER5p
https://sharyphil.com/japanese/japanese.html
https://sololaunches.com
What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2026?
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B005MI33BS
https://www.amazon.com/Possible-Human-Enhancing-Physical-Abilities/dp/0874778727
https://arches-papers.com/arches-range-of-papers/watercolor-and-wet-techniques/arches-aquarelle/
https://blog.rahix.de/design-for-3d-printing/
https://claude.com/skills
https://codecrafters.io/
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/Vision/tracking-the-user-s-face-in-real-time
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/xcode-release-notes/xcode-26-release-notes
https://drawabox.com/lesson/0
https://www.drawright.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bumper_cars
https://www.escuela-hablamos.com/en/understanding-the-common-european-framework-of-reference-cefr-for-spanish-as-a-foreign-language/
https://www.forth.org/ansforth/ansforth.html
https://github.com/ankidroid/Anki-Android/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md#joining-our-community
https://github.com/drmpeg/gr-atsc3
https://github.com/jmaczan/torch-webgpu
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3828902-thinking-in-systems
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/systems-thinking-for-civil-servants
https://hbr.org/2025/08/you-need-to-be-bored-heres-why
https://www.jeanhouston.com/Social-Artistry/social-artistry.html
https://jjude.com/substack-for-apps/
https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/on-burnout-mental-health-and-not-being-okay/
https://www.nand2tetris.org/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38020654
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46395540
https://www.phasedj.com/
https://radi8.dev
https://rpstrength.com/
https://x.com/borakaizen/status/2004825887691153795
https://youtu.be/T71ibcZAX3I?si=5kEkLoUhHDkajlyy
https://youtu.be/YbDRl_xugJo
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCNJWVn9MJuPtPyljb-hewNfwEGES2oIW
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjXBXBgfKyk&list=PLrEMgOSrS_3cFJpM2gdw8EGFyRBZOyAKY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vo7_5CGcKek
What did you read in 2025?
https://3e.org/books/
https://www.alexanderlolis.com/my-2025-reads
https://www.amazon.com/Meditations-Penguin-Classics-Hardcover-Aurelius/dp/0141395869
https://antipsychiatry.yay.boo/
https://archive.org/details/bwb_P8-AVK-513/page/n4/mode/1up
https://axelscheffler.com/who-is-he
https://bcmullins.github.io/interesting-books-2025/
https://blog.fogus.me/2025/12/23/the-best-things-and-stuff-of-2025.html
https://www.book-filter.com/
https://brajeshwar.com/2025/books/
https://www.commentcastles.org/r/ireadthisbook
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berenstain_Bears#Name_discrepancy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Sky_Trilogy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_Weather_(Sterling_novel)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Award_for_Best_Novel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperion_Cantos
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luminous_(novel)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Housekeeper_and_the_Professor
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Matter_with_Things
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zodiac_(novel)
https://www.fnac.com/a21142694/Thierry-Augustin-Recits-des-temps-merovingiens-Ecrits-sur-l-Histoire
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/rebooting-nation-incredible-rise-estonia-e-government-and-startup-revolution
https://www.freesfonline.net/Magazines2.html
https://www.galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg_mod.html
https://goodreads-analyst.vercel.app/
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45166937-obviously-awesome
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5369411790
https://www.goodreads.com/series/112239-southern-reach
https://www.goodreads.com/series/53081-a-man-of-his-word
https://hn-books-2025.pagey.site/
https://kirubakaran.com/bookshelf/
https://literaryreview.co.uk
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46345897
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46365726
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46384109
https://pastebin.com/XVeacpHM
https://www.pbs.org/about/about-pbs/blogs/news/mondays-with-michelle-obama-story-times-with-penguin-random-house-and-pbs-kids-streaming-on-youtube-and-facebook-start-monday-april-20-12-noon-et/
https://quinnkeast.com/reading
https://raccaldin36.livejournal.com/1849917.html
https://reminder.dev
https://rohitjha.com/blog/reading-highlights-2025/
https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/w-somerset-maugham/of-human-bondage
https://vedabase.io/en/library/bg/
https://vtomole.com/
https://youtu.be/yQ54CpkUoaM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CKuiuc5cJM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmHh29UfAco
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIsHshR1Ig8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThMGf07UBHQ
Loneliness at 19, how to cope?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DSM-5
https://www.isthisautism.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46417195
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/catastrophizing
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/aug/15/booze-gen-z-sensible-relationship-alcohol-hedonism
https://youtu.be/6KGYCU_INVI?si=1Ds8Rez8vNbZAyV5
Any example of successful vibe-coded product?
https://www.agentsfordata.com
https://aldi-prices.lawruk.com/
https://alexjacobs08.github.io/lobsters-graph/
https://apps.apple.com/au/app/calmshows/id6749471333
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pantry-recipes/id6744589753
https://behavior.today
https://blazingbanana.com/
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ai-slop-canvas/doggimifoimhfgkiiinleldmnlkmaepk
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/great-filter/mbifgfgfbnemojmfkckodkikibihcgaj
https://cuckoo.team
https://dhee.apratiratha.in
https://www.donttellmethescore.com/nfl
https://gist.github.com/gatlin/4bee9645b96e8b9e733960453b972f49
https://github.com/adrianco/c11s-house-ios
https://github.com/DeepBlueDynamics/codex-container
https://github.com/doudar/Openpelo
https://github.com/lucianmarin/subnostr
https://github.com/mx7b7/codesnip-wpf/
https://github.com/pannous/goo
https://github.com/rabfulton/ChatGTK
https://github.com/therealtimex/realtimex-crm
https://h0p3.nekoweb.org/#sandworm
https://kau.sh/blog/container-traffic-control/
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jorgevaras_i-cave-in-and-i-tried-vibe-coding-this-activity-7374617183324246016-GPWz
https://lynxprompt.com
https://markshot.dev
https://mordenstar.com/projects/piece-together
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46339600
https://www.pickleballdinking.com/resources/schedule.html
https://www.pientensuomi.fi/
https://www.pixelhook.app/
https://qpingpong.codeinput.com
https://querypanel.io
https://ruptureware.com
https://screenshot2charts.com
https://securitybot.dev
https://skidmarks.club
https://sololaunches.com
https://spaceword.org
https://speakyourfind.com/
https://spikelog.com
https://sumbuddy.net
https://tangents.chat
https://thecrux.is/
https://volebneprieskumy.sk/
https://whatsonzwift.com/workouts
Tell HN: Merry Christmas
https://a.co/d/1QtQWCP
https://www.adoptimize.de/weihnachten/editor.php
https://biblehub.com/bsb/mark/1.htm
https://biblehub.com/luke/2-14.htm
https://britbrief.co.uk/education/schools/king-williams-college-quiz-2025-the-ultimate-test.html
https://codepen.io/LimeWub/full/yQWbNW
https://www.dwitter.net/d/34638
https://easylang.online/xmas.html
http://edwardfeser.blogspot.com/2011/09/modern-biology-and-original-sin-part-ii.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Stark
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NORAD_Tracks_Santa
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yalda_Night
https://festivegreeting.vercel.app/?id=90564ef5-f137-43be-b68f-da748c650af2&view=1
https://www.flightradar24.com/R3DN053/3d9fb50a
https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/oci-containers-on-freebsd/
https://gemini.google.com/share/3cbcbe1fd64c
https://gist.github.com/nrichards/edb3b3b42154340cdb52af6a2d09c787
https://github.com/bradly/christmas-lights.js
https://gregfjohnson.com/redblackbuilder.html
https://gricha.dev/happyholidays/terminal
https://historyforatheists.com/2024/12/pagan-christmas-again/
https://www.ioccc.org/
https://kwc.im/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/GKP_2025_26.pdf
https://music.gbraad.nl/revision/?program=threejs:christmas
https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12183263
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34121905
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38706167
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38839386
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38840473
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46266496
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46379541
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46385623
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
https://www.npr.org/2016/12/25/506715971/amy-grant-on-faith-songwriting-and-christmas-blues
https://oldcompcz.github.io/jgs/joan_stark/xmas.html#treewithbunn
https://www.pas.va/en/publications/scripta-varia/sv155pas.html
https://www.plough.com/en/topics/culture/holidays/christmas-readings/the-grand-miracle
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2025/10/15/die-twice/
https://share.cleanshot.com/vJZv6k03
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AluminumChristmasTrees
https://x.com/ATDrummond
https://x.com/jaredlholt/status/1757799398707188046
https://xcancel.com/IIruoje/status/679604760325033984#m
https://xe.dev/xmas
https://xkcd.com/835/
https://youtu.be/1njzgXSzA-A?si=KIQy9e39lofX0aYP
https://youtu.be/z84QdJlPpHE?si=2GIUu8vM5OarmdVx
https://www.youtube.com/live/MsUd-twzG2U?si=1HMiaD2-Le70-fch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjMNtEKHURU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amL8QRiDH2E
https://www.zmescience.com/feature-post/culture/bizarre-stories/for-over-500-years-oxford-graduates-pledged-to-hate-henry-symeonis-so-who-is-he/
Tell HN: Happy New Year!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46443744
How long before the first civilian cargo flights are AI piloted?
https://fallows.substack.com/p/a-positive-sign-for-flying-in-the
Happy New Year HN!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46443744
Does reading HN make you happy?
https://hn.algolia.com/?type=comment&sort=byDate&query=%s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BciS5krYL80&t=260s
How to do a Personal Cybersecurity audit
https://andrew-quinn.me/digital-resiliency-2025-checklist/
https://x.com/karpathy/status/1902046003567718810
TP-Link only works with a permanent internet connection
https://www.tp-link.com/us/support/faq/2680/
https://wiki.zoneminder.com/Hardware_Compatibility_List#IP_Cameras
How to go back to listening to MP3s?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMMS
https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin
https://github.com/jonsafari/mocp
https://winamp.com/player
What are you building as a side-project or side-hustle in 2026?
https://aisafe.io
https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/box-plot-summary-charts.html
https://www.fenra.io/
https://gethly.com
https://github.com/agis/wadec
https://github.com/zero-day-ai
https://hackernews.games/
https://inSolitaire.com
https://pdfling.com
https://querypanel.io
https://techtalksweekly.io/
https://www.techtalksweekly.io/p/100-most-watched-software-engineering
https://www.usesatori.sh/
https://www.uxwizz.com
https://valuehq.org
https://voiden.md
https://with.audio/
Tell HN: Merry Christmas
https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc
https://orionbrowser.com/
https://platform.edisonscientific.com/kosmos/ef0a71d0-ca4d-4749-9a85-b8e148941c36/results
How do you manage kids' accounts?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KeePass
How are you sandboxing coding agents?
https://docs.docker.com/ai/sandboxes/
https://gagor.pro/2025/10/running-gemini-cli-in-a-docker-container/
https://github.com/google/gvisor#why-does-gvisor-exist
https://github.com/grzegorzk/codeium_windsurf_in_podman
https://github.com/jacobsparts/agentlib/blob/main/src/agentlib/sandbox/sandbox_helper.c
https://github.com/longregen/claude-sandbox
https://github.com/skorokithakis/dox
https://github.com/wandb/catnip
https://github.com/webcoyote/sandvault
https://softwareengineeringstandard.com/2025/12/15/ai-agents-firejail-sandbox/
https://voratiq.com/blog/yolo-in-the-sandbox/
Tell HN: I am afraid AI will take my job at some point
https://economics.mit.edu/sites/default/files/inline-files/Why%20Are%20there%20Still%20So%20Many%20Jobs_0.pdf
https://www.folklore.org/Negative_2000_Lines_Of_Code.html
https://obie.medium.com/what-happens-when-the-coding-becomes-the-least-interesting-part-of-the-work-ab10c213c660
How do you get visibility if you're suuuuper bad at marketing?
https://clipnotebook.com/blog
https://codecrafters.io/blog/writing-for-developers
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46343355
Anyone still using RSS feeds?
https://brynet.ca/
How many HN'ers Celebrate Christmas vs. ?
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0765458/
https://julienchevalier.com/en/the-economy-of-the-7-deadly-sins/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33450094
What was the hardest bug you tracked down in 2025?
https://gethly.com/blog/how-of-gethly/event-sourcing-right-way
https://github.com/varshith-Git/Valori-Kernel
Looking for Decent Conversation?
https://library.kiwix.org
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46100511
https://xkcd.com/2270/
What is the international distribution/statistics of HN visitors?
https://meet.hn
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16633521
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30210378
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35567986
Book recommendations based on reading history
https://abooklike.foo/
https://book.sv
https://shepherd.com
https://shepherd.com/bboy/2025
https://shepherd.com/my-book-dna
Good uses cases for Fabrice's microquickjs
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46368706
Google Cloud Run cost me $4,676 in 6 weeks with zero traff
https://aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora/serverless/
https://cloud.google.com/products/calculator