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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://literaryreview.co.uk
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46345897
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://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=KIsHshR1Ig8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThMGf07UBHQ
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://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCNJWVn9MJuPtPyljb-hewNfwEGES2oIW
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vo7_5CGcKek
Book recommendations based on reading history
https://book.sv
How do you get visibility if you're suuuuper bad at marketing?
https://clipnotebook.com/blog
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46343355
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/
What are you building during the holiday break?
https://dvsj.in
https://floxtop.com
Tell HN: Google ignores English searches and forces localized results
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/google-search-arguments/
https://duckduckgo.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-2
https://www.google.com/advanced_search
https://www.google.com/ncr
https://www.google.com/preferences?lang=1
https://kagi.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46413797
https://searx.space/
https://youtube-no-translation.vercel.app/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mCXYfv-URg
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/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/
What are the best engineering blogs with real-world depth?
https://aosabook.org/en/index.html
https://bicortex.com/
https://blog.allegro.tech/
https://blog.janestreet.com/
https://brandur.org/
https://cbloomrants.blogspot.com/
https://clickhouse.com/blog?category=engineering
https://destevez.net/about/
https://devblogs.sh
https://discord.com/blog
https://dora.dev/research/2025/dora-report/
https://eblog.fly.dev/index.html
https://eli.thegreenplace.net/
https://www.embeddedrelated.com/showarticle/152.php
https://engineering.atspotify.com/feed
https://engineering.fb.com/
https://engineering.fb.com/feed
https://engineering.fyi/
https://engineering.linkedin.com/distributed-systems/log-what-every-software-engineer-should-know-about-real-time-datas-unifying
https://engineeringblogs.xyz/
https://fabiensanglard.net
https://feeds.carmo.io
https://github.com/primaprashant/ml-engineering-blogs
https://hardwarefyi.com
http://highscalability.squarespace.com/all-time-favorites/
https://infrequently.org
https://joinheader.com/
https://jurakovic.github.io/dev-links/#blogs-general
https://jvns.ca/
https://lcamtuf.substack.com/
https://lessnews.dev
https://lighthouseapp.io/
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-10-0119-2
https://www.linkedin.com/blog.rss
https://lucumr.pocoo.org/
https://lwn.net/
https://www.makingsoftware.com/
https://mazzo.li/archive.html
https://messwithdns.net
https://microkerneldude.org/
https://modal.com/blog/vprox
https://www.mongodb.com/company/blog/channel/engineering-blog
https://nepp.nasa.gov/whisker/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46110395
https://nullprogram.com/
https://peterc.org/misc/engblogs.opml
https://practical.engineering/
https://projectzero.google/archive.html
https://randomascii.wordpress.com/
https://rfd.shared.oxide.computer/
https://samwho.dev
https://scalingfastbook.com
https://shopify.engineering
https://stripe.com/blog/feed.rss
https://technology.riotgames.com/
https://tigerbeetle.com/blog/
https://til.simonwillison.net/
https://www.tweag.io/blog
https://wizardzines.com/
https://youtu.be/8yUsDnBXo_g?si=CXzWV9D5OvHcCBm3
https://youtube.com/@modernsoftwareengineeringyt
https://youtube.com/@physicsduck?si=WJS3UbDF0VWKwOgy
Best Podcasts of 2025?
https://www.betteroffline.com/
https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/
https://www.dancarlin.com/product/hardcore-history-73-mania-for-subjugation-iii/
https://fallofcivilizationspodcast.com/
https://feeds.listennotes.com/listen/rahim-nathwanis-listen-later-LTyY0R98mqF/rss/
https://www.ifbookspod.com
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1308-money-stuff-the-podcast-164725399/
https://letslearneverything.com
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/shell-game/id1753117762
https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/the-david-frum-show/
https://thehistoryofbyzantium.com/
https://www.theskepticsguide.org/podcasts
https://wooka.sh/
https://www.youtube.com/@thekoerneroffice
https://www.youtube.com/afterskool
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://obie.medium.com/what-happens-when-the-coding-becomes-the-least-interesting-part-of-the-work-ab10c213c660
The Epstein files downloaded today is different compared to before
https://news.sky.com/story/image-of-trump-among-documents-reposted-on-epstein-files-release-after-apparent-removal-13486310
What was the hardest bug you tracked down in 2025?
https://gethly.com/blog/how-of-gethly/event-sourcing-right-way
Why isn't there competition to LinkedIn yet?
https://www.coroflot.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WayUp
https://overreacted.io/open-social/
https://time.com/4062519/linkedn-spam-settlement/
https://whois-history.whoisxmlapi.com/
https://www.xing.com
Tell HN: Merry Christmas
https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc
https://orionbrowser.com/
https://platform.edisonscientific.com/kosmos/ef0a71d0-ca4d-4749-9a85-b8e148941c36/results
Looking for Decent Conversation?
https://library.kiwix.org
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46100511
https://xkcd.com/2270/
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 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
Stronk.app – open-source gym lifts journal
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-50809216
https://github.com/alshdavid/stronk/issues
https://stronk.app
Good uses cases for Fabrice's microquickjs
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46368706
My mother was scammed out of all her savings. What should I do?
https://www.419eater.com/
https://cybercrime.gov.in/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolina_effect
https://www.yubico.com/
Google Cloud Run cost me $4,676 in 6 weeks with zero traff
https://cloud.google.com/products/calculator
Oberon et al., vs. Rust
https://archive.org/details/Computer_Language_Issue_09_1985-05_CL_Publications_US
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_(programming_language)
https://github.com/rochus-keller/Oberon
https://plan9.io/wiki/plan9/lfaq/index.html#HARDWARE_AND_SOFTWARE
https://www.vidarholen.net/~vidar/An_Empirical_Investigation_into_Programming_Language_Syntax.pdf
Anti-AI Open Source License?
https://dieter.plaetinck.be/posts/open-source-undefined-part-1-the-alternative-origin-story/
https://docs.github.com/en/site-policy/github-terms/github-terms-of-service#4-license-grant-to-us
https://www.dw.com/en/openai-loses-song-lyrics-copyright-case-in-german-court/a-74698240
https://firstdonoharm.dev/
https://github.com/markqvist/Reticulum?tab=License-1-ov-file#readme
https://github.com/non-ai-licenses/non-ai-licenses
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/categories.html
https://opensource.org/about/authority
https://opensource.org/osd
https://opensource.org/pressreleases/certified-open-source.php
https://sso.agc.gov.sg/Act/CA2021?ProvIds=P15-#pr187-
https://www2.gov.bc.ca/assets/gov/government/services-for-government-and-broader-public-sector/information-technology-services/standards-files/1_02-v1_0-guidelines_on_the_use_of_open_source_software.pdf
At 34, can I aspire to being more than a JavaScript widget engineer?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Practice_of_Programming
Is Dart a particularly optimised language for front-end development?
https://docs.serverpod.dev/
I built two dozen single-file HTML tools that run offline and need no back end
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Storage_API
https://gist.github.com/rcanand/5a7e124acc2ac241cba4a629cc1b1b80
https://github.com/ajtracysk
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43358914
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46223882
https://til.andrew-quinn.me/posts/llm-javascript-github-pages-localstorage-a-recipe-for-free-apps-anyone-can-use/
Can you patent prompts?
https://www.retaildive.com/news/newegg-the-bane-of-patent-trolls-existence/415582/
https://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/mpep/s2104.html
What's the best lecture or talk you've seen in 2025?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTicYJDT1zE
What's the most open/hacker friendly Android phone for 2026?
https://devices.ubuntu-touch.io/device/sargo/
https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/1353-using-rcs-with-google-messages-on-grapheneos/1722
https://grapheneos.org/faq#supported-devices
https://shop.fairphone.com/home
Why Do You Blog?
https://kennethswindow.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42685534
What would you do if you didn't work in tech?
https://fortune.com/2025/11/12/ford-ceo-manufacturing-jobs-trade-schools-we-are-in-trouble-in-our-country/
https://mensshed.org/about-mens-sheds/what-is-a-mens-shed/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28924751
https://nicolasbouliane.com/projects/all-about-berlin
https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/agv5ol/why_programmers_like_cooking_you_peel_the_carrot/
https://www.youtube.com/@PerkinsBuilderBrothers/videos
What are you building in AI?
https://bsky.app/profile/verdverm.com