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Welcome to the Weird, Wonderful British Ritual of Panto Theater

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-22/welcome-to-the-weird-wonderful-british-ritual-of-panto-theater
4•helsinkiandrew•2h ago

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helsinkiandrew•2h ago
https://archive.ph/i84m2
defrost•2h ago
Oh no it isn't.

It's totally behind them now.

ggm•1h ago
Seen a few. Enjoyed fewer. The ugly sisters strip tease through about 10 layers of underwear with more and more salacious jokes on their voluminous bottoms probably the best.

I hope somebody reviews "the gang show" which I suspect is past it's use by, we're saturated with talent shows online.

The culture which kept "down at the old bull and bush" alive on TV up to the 80s has a lot to do with this. We ditched harlequin despite it lying at the heart of panto, and kept the dance numbers.

Cursor vs Warp: 3x Faster and 1/6th of the cost of Cursor

https://medium.com/realworld-ai-use-cases/cursor-vs-warp-review-warp-3x-faster-1-6th-of-the-cost-...
1•biscuit1v9•1m ago•0 comments

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love The Sort

https://arealsociety.substack.com/p/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-sort
1•NavinF•1m ago•0 comments

Layout-Aware Text Editing for Efficient Conversion of Academic PDFs to Markdown

https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.18115
1•50kIters•3m ago•0 comments

Nissan says customers exposed in Red Hat breach

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/nissan-says-thousands-of-customers-exposed-in-red-...
1•thunderbong•5m ago•0 comments

Japan Set to Participate in EU R&D Framework, Boost Cooperation in Tech, Energy

https://japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/science-nature/science/20251220-299664/
2•saubeidl•7m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Gonc – Serverless P2P dual reverse proxy with NAT traversal

https://www.gonc.cc
2•gonc_cc•8m ago•0 comments

Z-Image-Turbo – Fast text-to-image with native CJK text rendering

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1•xbaicai•9m ago•1 comments

Trump Isn't Building a Ballroom

https://thedreydossier.substack.com/p/trump-isnt-building-a-ballroom
1•flockyflock•9m ago•0 comments

Reducing OpenTelemetry Bundle Size in Browser Front End

https://newsletter.signoz.io/p/reducing-opentelemetry-bundle-size
1•birdculture•11m ago•0 comments

Ori Umbrella

https://oriworld.co/
1•rossant•13m ago•0 comments

Hardening a VPS after IP exposure – Cloudflare and firewall sufficient?

1•omifarhan75•19m ago•0 comments

An uncomfortable but necessary discussion about the Debian bug tracker

https://nibblestew.blogspot.com/2025/12/an-uncomfortable-but-necessary.html
1•signa11•19m ago•0 comments

Agentic AI: Building Autonomous AI Systems That Plan and Act

https://substack.com/inbox/post/182398278
1•sonamMG•20m ago•0 comments

Show HN: VideoToScreenshots – Auto-extract sharp frames from videos

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1•sooryagangaraj•26m ago•0 comments

Another Unified AI API

https://www.apipod.ai
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Write code that you can understand when you get paged at 2am

https://www.pcloadletter.dev/blog/clever-code/
2•signa11•29m ago•0 comments

Nano Banana AI Image Editor Advanced Image Generation and Edit

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Instant database clones with PostgreSQL 18

https://boringsql.com/posts/instant-database-clones/
4•radimm•32m ago•0 comments

Horace Fletcher

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace_Fletcher
1•Petiver•35m ago•0 comments

Self-Hosted GenesisDB: Deploy GenesisDB on your infrastructure at minimal cost

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4•patriceckhart•40m ago•0 comments

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3•steffoz•40m ago•0 comments

Steve Allen on hippies, and coining the word "Hippie" (1989)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwxpjKp94H0
2•thomassmith65•41m ago•0 comments

The Pentagon and A.I. Giants Have a Weakness. Both Need China's Batteries, Badly

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2•KnuthIsGod•42m ago•0 comments

The Dark Data Tax: How Hoarding is Poisoning Your AI

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We Saved Reboot

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The lightest notes app implementation in 111 loc

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32-bit x86 Position Independent Code – It's that bad (2015)

http://ewontfix.com/18/
2•Tomte•56m ago•1 comments

Paperbacks and TikTok

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1•ahamez•56m ago•0 comments

How to Eat a Tomato (2011) [pdf]

https://ruhlman.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Tomatoes.pdf
1•Tomte•56m ago•1 comments