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12

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70

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23

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25

Happy New Year HN (tenor.com)

10

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21

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10

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42

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10

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79

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18

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204

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127

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14

Ask HN: What are your plans for 2026?

107

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79

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29

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19

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19

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36

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36

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10

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13

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13

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14

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77

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163

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11

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101

2026: The Year of Java in the Terminal? (xam.dk)

52

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130

France targets Australia-style social media ban for children next year (theguardian.com)

312

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26

Xi Jinping Vows to Reunify China and Taiwan in New Year's Eve Speech (theguardian.com)

100

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46

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30

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18

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79

OpenAI is paying employees more than any major tech startup in history (wsj.com)

118

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186

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12

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94

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52

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17

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19

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156

Tell HN: Happy New Year

12

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16

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60

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30

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34

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12

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91

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11

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99

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108

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10

L1TF Reloaded (github.com/thijsray)

27

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86

Google Opal (opal.google)

15

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10

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11

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38

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133

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27

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10

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10

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106

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80

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198

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252

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14

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12

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68

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44

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111

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