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The latest edition of Tech and Startups has dropped! Check out all the latest news and posts from the tech and startup community in a single digest.

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Tech and Startups
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Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46264491

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Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)
Summary: Ask HN: developers share diverse projects—from game engine rewrite to AI transcriptions and CAD collaboration
news.ycombinator.com
December 20, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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How Tally Bootstrapped to 1.3M Users With a Calm, Product-Led Strategy

https://tinyempires.substack.com/p/how-tally-bootstrapped-to-13m-users

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How Tally Bootstrapped to 1.3M Users With a Calm, Product-Led Strategy
Summary: Marie Martens discusses Tally’s calm, product-led growth, free plan, social listening, and hiring choices that scaled to 1.3M users.
tinyempires.substack.com
December 20, 2025 at 6:15 AM
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Writing Fragments

https://martinfowler.com/articles/writing-fragments.html

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Writing Fragments
Summary: Fragments posts with short, unconnected segments; references to web content; RSS visibility; social media shift from Twitter to X, LinkedIn, Fediverse, Bluesky.
martinfowler.com
December 20, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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It’s not a GUI – The CGrateS Web UI

https://nickvsnetworking.com/its-not-a-gui-the-cgrates-web-ui/

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It’s not a GUI – The CGrateS Web UI
Summary: React-based CGrateS Web UI for CDRs, balances, roaming packs, actions, and simulations in a toolbox-like Postman-style interface
nickvsnetworking.com
December 19, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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The Pulse: Cloudflare’s latest outage proves dangers of global configuration changes (again)

https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/the-pulse-cloudflares-latest-outage/

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The Pulse: Cloudflare’s latest outage proves dangers of global configuration changes (again)
Summary: Global Cloudflare config changes trigger another outage; staged rollouts and reliability tradeoffs discussed.
blog.pragmaticengineer.com
December 19, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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Why tech companies encourage their software engineers to use LLMs

https://www.dzombak.com/blog/2025/12/why-tech-companies-encourage-their-software-engineers-to-use-llms/

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Why tech companies encourage their software engineers to use LLMs
Summary: Tech firms push LLM coding tools to speed delivery, support juniors, and tolerate ‘impure’ software engineering over perfect code.
www.dzombak.com
December 19, 2025 at 6:15 AM
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My favorite software in 2025

https://luke.hsiao.dev/blog/favorite-software-2025/

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My favorite software in 2025
Summary: A personal toolbox of 2025: editors, shells, terminals, diags, doc systems, and performance tools
luke.hsiao.dev
December 19, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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Lessons from the frontiers of AI adoption – The Economist – circa i licenziamenti giustificati con l’AI…

https://blog.quintarelli.it/2025/12/lessons-from-the-frontiers-of-ai-adoption-the-economist-circa-i-licenziamenti-giustificati-con-lai/

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Lessons from the frontiers of AI adoption – The Economist – circa i licenziamenti giustificati con l’AI…
Summary: AI-driven layoffs and corporate rhetoric: HP and ABN AMRO cite AI adoption to justify staff cuts.
blog.quintarelli.it
December 18, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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Fragments: December 16

https://martinfowler.com/fragments/2025-12-16.html

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Fragments: December 16
Summary: Gitanjali Venkatraman illustrates mainframe modernization; insights from Willison, Orosz, Obie Fernandez, Emil Stenström on AI tools, tests, and agentic loops
martinfowler.com
December 18, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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JustHTML is a fascinating example of vibe engineering in action

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/14/justhtml/#atom-everything

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JustHTML is a fascinating example of vibe engineering in action
Summary: JustHTML, a Python HTML parser, analyzed via AI-assisted coding and vibe engineering by Emil Stenström and Simon Willison
simonwillison.net
December 18, 2025 at 6:15 AM
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More of Silicon Valley is building on free Chinese AI – NBC News – (modelli Open weight cinesi – per la precisione)

https://blog.quintarelli.it/2025/12/more-of-silicon-valley-is-building-on-free-chinese-ai-nbc-news-modelli-open-weight-cinesi-per-la-precisione/

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More of Silicon Valley is building on free Chinese AI – NBC News – (modelli Open weight cinesi – per la precisione)
Summary: Silicon Valley leans on open, free Chinese AI models and traces the shift from Netscape-era server scaling to modern AI strategies.
blog.quintarelli.it
December 18, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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Leftover research from 2025

https://howtomarketagame.com/2025/12/15/leftover-research-from-2025/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=leftover-research-from-2025

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Leftover research from 2025
Summary: Half-researched ideas on marketing a game: Chocolate-tier, holiday releases, Midweek Madness, pixel art, Reddit mods, slow builds, and black-background strategies
howtomarketagame.com
December 17, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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Pluralistic: Federal Wallet Inspectors (13 Dec 2025)

https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/13/uncle-sucker/

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Pluralistic: Federal Wallet Inspectors (13 Dec 2025)
Summary: Critiques fintech hype, privacy law limits, and how corruption and incentives shape regulation and policy responses.
pluralistic.net
December 17, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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Time and a Hoff.

https://adaged.blogspot.com/2025/12/time-and-hoff.html

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Time and a Hoff.
Summary: Advertising veteran rails against 'content' buzz, recounts Syd Hoff inspiration and Calvert ads, with memory of Chicago liquor-store shifts.
adaged.blogspot.com
December 17, 2025 at 6:15 AM
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Refactoring English: Month 12

https://mtlynch.io/retrospectives/2025/12/

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Refactoring English: Month 12
Summary: Monthly retrospective on Refactoring English: writing for developers, book progress, site tools, and tech experiments (Hacker News game, TinyBeans, Awesome Window Manager).
mtlynch.io
December 17, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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Launch vs. Land: Why Shipping Code Isn’t Enough

https://dougseven.com/2025/12/15/launch-vs-land-why-shipping-code-isnt-enough/

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Launch vs. Land: Why Shipping Code Isn’t Enough
Summary: Explore landing vs. launching, telemetry, and product-led success with fictional firms FiveNode, SevenStack, and SevenFlow.
dougseven.com
December 16, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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LLM 0.28

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/12/llm-028/#atom-everything

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LLM 0.28
Summary: LLM 0.28 introduces a Python library and CLI for interacting with large language models, including uv test integration and dev dependency groups.
simonwillison.net
December 16, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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The Machine Learning Engineer 🤖 #365 - PyTorch Hardware Acceleration in 2025, Anthropic MCP now in Linux Foundation, The State of MLOps 2025 Survey 🔥, OpenAI Enterprise...

https://kill-the-newsletter.com/feeds/clgdkag7vq1e4pl4shei/entries/7g5qfgzfqnw10ehji8g7.html

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The Machine Learning Engineer 🤖 #365 - PyTorch Hardware Acceleration in 2025, Anthropic MCP now in Linux Foundation, The State of MLOps 2025 Survey 🔥, OpenAI Enterprise AI Report, AI Eats the World 2025 + more 🚀
Summary: PyTorch hardware acceleration in 2025, Linux Foundation MCP, State of MLOps 2025 survey insights, OpenAI Enterprise AI report, and AI Eats the World 2025.
kill-the-newsletter.com
December 16, 2025 at 6:15 AM
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Building boring webthings for lazy maintainers

https://overengineer.dev/blog/2025/12/10/boring-webthings/

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Building boring webthings for lazy maintainers
Summary: Lazy, defensive, and production-grade webthings: using static site generators (Astro) with Rust backends for boring, maintainable servers
overengineer.dev
December 16, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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Peer Lab Community Shut Down

https://ashfurrow.com/blog/peer-lab-community-shut-down/

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Peer Lab Community Shut Down
Summary: Shutting down Peer Lab Community sites and a NYC-based programmer meetup, reflecting on pandemic impact and archival pause.
ashfurrow.com
December 15, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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2025 Year in Review

https://eugeneyan.com/writing/2025-review/

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2025 Year in Review
Summary: Health, career progress, travel, and prototyping with RecSys and LLMs; includes ARC, semantic IDs, and visa news.
eugeneyan.com
December 15, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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Keynote opening Digital Commons EDIC: Moving beyond the Digital Uncommons

https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/keynote-opening-digital-commons-edic-eu/

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Keynote opening Digital Commons EDIC: Moving beyond the Digital Uncommons
Summary: Digital Commons EDIC launch, European autonomy, OpenDesk/LaSuite demos, OpenStreetMap, email as commons, marketing for open tech, critique of US-dominated clouds
berthub.eu
December 15, 2025 at 6:15 AM
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Visualizing a YAML value files overlay

https://blog.balthazar-rouberol.com/visualizing-a-yaml-value-files-overlay

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Visualizing a YAML value files overlay
Summary: Visualizing YAML value file overlays with yaml-overlay to track provenance across multiple Kubernetes value files using a colorized CLI.
blog.balthazar-rouberol.com
December 15, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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What does it mean to be a designer in the age of AI?

https://www.figma.com/blog/double-click-what-does-it-mean-to-be-a-designer-in-the-age-of-ai/

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What does it mean to be a designer in the age of AI?
Summary: Explores how AI expands design roles, blurs boundaries, and prompts new titles like 'builder' while discussing identity and workflows.
www.figma.com
December 14, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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The Bet On Juniors Just Got Better

https://tidyfirst.substack.com/p/the-bet-on-juniors-just-got-better

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The Bet On Juniors Just Got Better
Summary: Kent Beck argues AI-assisted junior learning accelerates value, reduces ramp time, and boosts retention and growth for engineering teams.
tidyfirst.substack.com
December 14, 2025 at 12:17 PM