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We invited a man into our home at Christmas and he stayed with us for 45 years

We invited a man into our home at Christmas and he stayed with us for 45 years | Hacker News

BBC News

Cardiff couple invited man in for Christmas, he stayed for 45 years

An arrangement Rob and Dianne Parsons thought would last a few days ended up changing their lives.

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Python Applied Mathematics Labs https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46381839

Introduction to ACME Labs — ACME Labs

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Who watches the Waymos? I do [video]

Who Watches the Waymos? I do [video] | Hacker News

Hacker News (RSS Feed) 3 months ago

Keystone (YC S25) is hiring engineer #1 to automate coding

Keystone (YC S25) is hiring engineer #1 to automate coding | Hacker News

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/keystone/jobs/J3t9XeM-founding-engineer

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Beijing is enforcing tough rules to ensure chatbots don’t misbehave https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46378747 https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/china-is-worried-ai-threatens-party-ruleand-is-trying-to-tame-it-bfdcda2d

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NYC Spends $200 Million on Cell Service for School Chromebooks https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46361496

New York Focus

Inside Eric Adams’s School Chromebook Spending Spree

The Adams administration is shelling out north of $320 million to give public school students Chromebooks that connect to the internet through cell…

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Cecot – 60 Minutes

Inside CECOT – 60 Minutes [video] | Hacker News

https://archive.org/details/insidececot

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NPM Package with 56K Downloads Caught Stealing WhatsApp Messages

Lotusbail npm package found to be harvesting WhatsApp messages and contacts | Hacker News

NPM Package With 56K Downloads Caught Stealing WhatsApp Messages

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Tc – Theodore Calvin's language-agnostic testing framework https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46359683

GitHub

GitHub - ahoward/tc: tc - theodore calvin's language-agnostic testing framework 🚁 | simple, portable, unix-style testing for any language

tc - theodore calvin's language-agnostic testing framework 🚁 | simple, portable, unix-style testing for any language - ahoward/tc

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Humankind's 10 million year love affair with booze might end https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46341035 https://www.economist.com/christmas-specials/2025/12/18/how-humankinds-10m-year-love-affair-with-booze-might-end

Hacker News (RSS Feed) 3 months ago

Depot (YC W23) Is Hiring an Enterprise Support Engineer (Remote/US) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46338156 https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/depot/jobs/jhGxVjO-enterprise-support-engineer

Hacker News (RSS Feed) 3 months ago

Approaching 50 Years of String Theory

Approaching 50 Years of String Theory | Hacker News

Not Even Wrong

Approaching 50 Years of String Theory

Brian Greene has a new video out today, of himself talking to Edward Witten, mainly about string theory. Pretty much the usual decades-old hype, wi...

Hacker News (RSS Feed) 3 months ago

More than half of researchers now use AI for peer review, often against guidance

More than half of researchers now use AI for peer review, often against guidance | Hacker News

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-04066-5

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Why many Asian megacities are miserable places

Why many Asian megacities are miserable places | Hacker News

https://www.economist.com/asia/2025/12/11/why-many-asian-megacities-are-miserable-places

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Robot Vacuum Roomba Maker Files for Bankruptcy After 35 Years

Roomba maker goes bankrupt, Chinese owner emerges | Hacker News

Roomba Maker iRobot Files for Bankruptcy and Will Go Private (2)

iRobot Corp., the company that revolutionized robot vacuum cleaners in the early 2000s with its Roomba model, filed for bankruptcy and proposed han...

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Going Through Snowden Documents, Part 1

Going Through Snowden Documents, Part 1 | Hacker News

Going Through Snowden Documents, Part 1 - Libroot.org

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Scientific and Technical Amateur Radio

Scientific and Technical Amateur Radio | Hacker News

Daniel Estévez – Scientific & Technical Amateur Radio — Home of EA4GPZ / M0HXM

Hacker News (RSS Feed) 3 months ago

Spinlocks vs. Mutexes: When to Spin and When to Sleep

Spinlocks vs. Mutexes: When to Spin and When to Sleep | Hacker News

Spinlocks vs. Mutexes: When to Spin and When to Sleep

You’re staring at perf top showing 60% CPU time in pthread_mutex_lock. Your latency is in the toilet. Someone suggests “just use a spinlock” ...

Hacker News (RSS Feed) 3 months ago

Estimates are difficult for developers and product owners

Estimates are difficult for developers and product owners | Hacker News

Erik Thorsell

Estimates – a necessary evil?

Product Owner: Hey, how long do you believe Feature F will take? Developer: Idk. We haven’t even started working on it and it’s bound to sti...

Hacker News (RSS Feed) 3 months ago

Wave of (Open Street Map) Vandalism in South Korea

Wave of (Open Street Map) Vandalism in South Korea | Hacker News

OpenStreetMap

Wave of vandalism in South Korea

About a week ago, vandals began defacing the map in South Korea. Over the course of that week, I rolled back hundreds of changes, and with the help...