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What is the international distribution/statistics of HN visitors?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16633521
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35567986
Tell HN: Merry Christmas
https://a.co/d/1QtQWCP
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
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=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://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/
How do I bridge the gap between PhD and SWE experiences?
https://37signals.com/13
https://www.esri.com/en-us/about/careers/job-search
https://society-rse.org/careers/rse-stories/
https://us-rse.org/jobs/
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 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://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
Looking for Decent Conversation?
https://library.kiwix.org
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46100511
Tell HN: Merry Christmas
https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc
https://orionbrowser.com/
https://platform.edisonscientific.com/kosmos/ef0a71d0-ca4d-4749-9a85-b8e148941c36/results
Google Cloud Run cost me $4,676 in 6 weeks with zero traff
https://cloud.google.com/products/calculator
Stronk.app – open-source gym lifts journal
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-50809216
https://github.com/alshdavid/stronk/issues
https://stronk.app
Why isn't there competition to LinkedIn yet?
https://www.coroflot.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WayUp
https://time.com/4062519/linkedn-spam-settlement/
https://whois-history.whoisxmlapi.com/
https://www.xing.com
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/
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
What developer tool do you wish existed in 2026?
https://github.com/usebruno/bruno
https://hub.docker.com/r/linuxserver/openssh-server
https://posting.sh/
https://voiden.md
https://yaak.app/
Why is Hacker News red? Christmas?
https://diehard.fandom.com/wiki/Nakatomi_Plaza
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46382452
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
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/
Which is the best sync engine?
https://tanstack.com/db/latest/docs/overview
https://vitess.io/
What's the most open/hacker friendly Android phone for 2026?
https://devices.ubuntu-touch.io/device/sargo/
https://grapheneos.org/faq#supported-devices
https://shop.fairphone.com/home
Resources to get better at outbound sales?
https://training.kalzumeus.com/newsletters/archive/consulting_1
Do you have an exit plan for Slack?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46383980
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
SSH Tiny.christmas
https://eieio.games/blog/tiny-christmas/
Why are we accepting silent data corruption in Vector Search? (x86 vs. ARM)
https://github.com/varshith-Git/Valori-Kernel
Who here is not working on web apps/server code?
https://floxtop.com
https://github.com/BinSquare/ERA
https://ironcore.dev/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46007814
https://terminal.click
https://www.youtube.com/@soncsd
https://youtube.com/watch?v=rJuRTZOE99g
Is GitHub becoming more and more unstable?
https://thenewstack.io/github-will-prioritize-migrating-to-azure-over-feature-development/