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Tiobe Index for December 2025: R Joins the Top as SQL Climbs

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-tiobe-commentary-dec-2025/
7•smurda•5h ago

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muglug•5h ago
As a reminder, this is an index that ranks Perl, Object Pascal and Fortran above Go and PHP. It means absolutely nothing.
spacedcowboy•25m ago
If you’re going to program a Mac or an iOS device, you’re going to use Swift or ObjC. The former is at 0.87%, the latter at 0.45%

Those figures seem rather low for one of the larger platforms on the planet.

Surface Tension of Software

https://iamstelios.com/blog/surface-tension-of-software/
27•i8s•50m ago•3 comments

Linux Sandboxes and Fil-C

https://fil-c.org/seccomp
226•pizlonator•10h ago•61 comments

Using E-Ink tablet as monitor for Linux

https://alavi.me/blog/e-ink-tablet-as-monitor-linux/
119•yolkedgeek•4d ago•51 comments

I fed 24 years of my blog posts to a Markov model

https://susam.net/fed-24-years-of-posts-to-markov-model.html
181•zdw•13h ago•80 comments

Recovering Anthony Bourdain's Li.st's

https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/bourdain/
204•thecsw•12h ago•67 comments

I tried Gleam for Advent of Code

https://blog.tymscar.com/posts/gleamaoc2025/
285•tymscar•16h ago•159 comments

Closures as Win32 Window Procedures

https://nullprogram.com/blog/2025/12/12/
69•ibobev•10h ago•11 comments

Cat Gap

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_gap
110•Petiver•4d ago•21 comments

An Implementation of J (1992)

https://www.jsoftware.com/ioj/ioj.htm
59•ofalkaed•9h ago•21 comments

Lean theorem prover mathlib

https://github.com/leanprover-community/mathlib4
33•downboots•7h ago•0 comments

No-Tifier (2017)

https://subject.space/projects/no-tifier/
19•aebtebeten•3d ago•1 comments

If a Meta AI model can read a brain-wide signal, why wouldn't the brain?

https://1393.xyz/writing/if-a-meta-ai-model-can-read-a-brain-wide-signal-why-wouldnt-the-brain
83•rdgthree•8h ago•43 comments

Therapeutic use of cannabis and cannabinoids: A review

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2842072?guestAccessKey=a368e622-e374-4a0c-8d3b-...
48•bookofjoe•8h ago•35 comments

“You should never build a CMS”

https://www.sanity.io/blog/you-should-never-build-a-cms
59•handfuloflight•4h ago•40 comments

The Rise of Computer Games, Part I: Adventure

https://technicshistory.com/2025/12/13/the-rise-of-computer-games-part-i-adventure/
94•cfmcdonald•13h ago•35 comments

Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Definitive Oral History of a TV Masterpiece

https://www.wired.com/2014/04/mst3k-oral-history/
46•indigodaddy•6d ago•6 comments

VPN location claims don't match real traffic exits

https://ipinfo.io/blog/vpn-location-mismatch-report
363•mmaia•13h ago•229 comments

Useful patterns for building HTML tools

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/10/html-tools/
286•simonw•3d ago•81 comments

Heavy metal is healing teens on the Blackfeet Nation

https://www.hcn.org/issues/57-11/heavy-metal-is-healing-teens-on-the-blackfeet-nation/
64•cdrnsf•5h ago•23 comments

Dhtml Lemmings (2004)

https://www.elizium.nu/scripts/lemmings/index.php
28•tetris11•5d ago•9 comments

Go Proposal: Secret Mode

https://antonz.org/accepted/runtime-secret/
193•enz•4d ago•89 comments

Why Twilio Segment moved from microservices back to a monolith

https://www.twilio.com/en-us/blog/developers/best-practices/goodbye-microservices
229•birdculture•13h ago•197 comments

An off-grid, flat-packable washing machine

https://www.positive.news/society/flat-pack-washing-machine-spins-a-fairer-future/
89•ohjeez•11h ago•49 comments

Ask HN: How can I get better at using AI for programming?

332•lemonlime227•18h ago•349 comments

Cryptids

https://wiki.bbchallenge.org/wiki/Cryptids
111•frozenseven•1w ago•16 comments

Create a Markdown Editor in Ruby on Rails

https://blog.appsignal.com/2025/12/10/create-a-markdown-editor-in-ruby-on-rails.html
4•amalinovic•3d ago•0 comments

From Azure Functions to FreeBSD

https://jmmv.dev/2025/12/from-azure-functions-to-freebsd.html
93•todsacerdoti•6d ago•16 comments

Branch, Test, Deploy: A Git-Inspired Approach for Data

https://motherduck.com/blog/git-for-data-part-1/
6•surprisetalk•5d ago•0 comments

Using Python for Scripting

https://hypirion.com/musings/use-python-for-scripting
131•birdculture•6d ago•91 comments

Researchers seeking better measures of cognitive fatigue

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03974-w
138•bikenaga•3d ago•36 comments