Hacker News Highlights

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Dec 19, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:19) - Beginning January 2026, all ACM publications will be made open access (01:30) - We pwned X, Vercel, Cursor, and Discord through a supply-chain attack (02:49) - Texas is suing all of the big TV makers for spying on what you watch (04:06) - History LLMs: Models trained exclusively on pre-1913 texts (05:21) - GPT-5.2-Codex (06:26) - Firefox will have an option to disable all AI features (07:28) - 1.5 TB of VRAM on Mac Studio – RDMA over Thunderbolt 5 (08:43) - How China built its ‘Manhattan Project’ to rival the West in AI chips (09:58) - Show HN: Picknplace.js, an alternative to drag-and-drop (11:07) - Skills for organizations, partners, the ecosystem (12:12) - Outro Beginning January 2026, all ACM publications will be made open accesshttps://dl.acm.org/openaccesshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46313991We pwned X, Vercel, Cursor, and Discord through a supply-chain attackhttps://gist.github.com/hackermondev/5e2cdc32849405fff6b46957747a2d28https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46317098Texas is suing all of the big TV makers for spying on what you watchhttps://www.theverge.com/news/845400/texas-tv-makers-lawsuit-samsung-sony-lg-hisense-tcl-spyinghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46294456History LLMs: Models trained exclusively on pre-1913 textshttps://github.com/DGoettlich/history-llmshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46319826GPT-5.2-Codexhttps://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-2-codex/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46316367Firefox will have an option to disable all AI featureshttps://mastodon.social/@firefoxwebdevs/115740500373677782https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=463164091.5 TB of VRAM on Mac Studio – RDMA over Thunderbolt 5https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/15-tb-vram-on-mac-studio-rdma-over-thunderbolt-5https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46319657How China built its ‘Manhattan Project’ to rival the West in AI chipshttps://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/12/18/tech/china-west-ai-chips/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46316907Show HN: Picknplace.js, an alternative to drag-and-drophttps://jgthms.com/picknplace.js/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46290349Skills for organizations, partners, the ecosystemhttps://claude.com/blog/organization-skills-and-directoryhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46315414

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Dec 18, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:17) - Gemini 3 Flash: Frontier intelligence built for speed (01:21) - AWS CEO says replacing junior devs with AI is 'one of the dumbest ideas' (02:40) - Tell HN: HN was down (03:47) - Coursera to combine with Udemy (04:51) - Gut bacteria from amphibians and reptiles achieve tumor elimination in mice (06:10) - I got hacked: My Hetzner server started mining Monero (07:19) - A Safer Container Ecosystem with Docker: Free Docker Hardened Images (08:31) - How SQLite is tested (09:42) - OBS Studio Gets a New Renderer (10:48) - Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell (11:48) - Outro Gemini 3 Flash: Frontier intelligence built for speedhttps://blog.google/products/gemini/gemini-3-flash/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46301851AWS CEO says replacing junior devs with AI is 'one of the dumbest ideas'https://www.finalroundai.com/blog/aws-ceo-ai-cannot-replace-junior-developershttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46302267Tell HN: HN was downhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46301921Coursera to combine with Udemyhttps://investor.coursera.com/news/news-details/2025/Coursera-to-Combine-with-Udemy-to-Empower-the-Global-Workforce-with-Skills-for-the-AI-Era/default.aspxhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46301346Gut bacteria from amphibians and reptiles achieve tumor elimination in micehttps://www.jaist.ac.jp/english/whatsnew/press/2025/12/17-1.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46306894I got hacked: My Hetzner server started mining Monerohttps://blog.jakesaunders.dev/my-server-started-mining-monero-this-morning/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46305585A Safer Container Ecosystem with Docker: Free Docker Hardened Imageshttps://www.docker.com/blog/docker-hardened-images-for-every-developer/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46302337How SQLite is testedhttps://sqlite.org/testing.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46303277OBS Studio Gets a New Rendererhttps://obsproject.com/blog/obs-studio-gets-a-new-rendererhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46305428Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tellhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46307973

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Dec 17, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:17) - alpr.watch (01:32) - Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions (02:44) - No Graphics API (03:52) - AI will make formal verification go mainstream (05:13) - Announcing the Beta release of ty (06:16) - Thin desires are eating life (07:22) - Mozilla appoints new CEO Anthony Enzor-Demeo (08:24) - 40 percent of fMRI signals do not correspond to actual brain activity (09:39) - GPT Image 1.5 (10:47) - No AI* Here – A Response to Mozilla's Next Chapter (11:59) - Outro alpr.watchhttps://alpr.watch/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46290916Pricing Changes for GitHub Actionshttps://resources.github.com/actions/2026-pricing-changes-for-github-actions/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46291156No Graphics APIhttps://www.sebastianaaltonen.com/blog/no-graphics-apihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46293062AI will make formal verification go mainstreamhttps://martin.kleppmann.com/2025/12/08/ai-formal-verification.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46294574Announcing the Beta release of tyhttps://astral.sh/blog/tyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46294289Thin desires are eating lifehttps://www.joanwestenberg.com/thin-desires-are-eating-your-life/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46283276Mozilla appoints new CEO Anthony Enzor-Demeohttps://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/leadership/mozillas-next-chapter-anthony-enzor-demeo-new-ceo/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4628849140 percent of fMRI signals do not correspond to actual brain activityhttps://www.tum.de/en/news-and-events/all-news/press-releases/details/40-percent-of-mri-signals-do-not-correspond-to-actual-brain-activityhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46288415GPT Image 1.5https://openai.com/index/new-chatgpt-images-is-here/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46291941No AI* Here – A Response to Mozilla's Next Chapterhttps://www.waterfox.com/blog/no-ai-here-response-to-mozilla/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46295268

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Dec 16, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:14) - I'm Kenyan. I don't write like ChatGPT, ChatGPT writes like me (01:26) - 8M users' AI conversations sold for profit by "privacy" extensions (02:40) - Secret Documents Show Pepsi and Walmart Colluded to Raise Food Prices (03:51) - Ford kills the All-Electric F-150 (05:04) - “Are you the one?” is free money (06:18) - SHARP, an approach to photorealistic view synthesis from a single image (07:25) - Quill OS: An open-source OS for Kobo's eReaders (08:32) - JetBlue flight averts mid-air collision with US Air Force jet (09:31) - Children with cancer scammed out of millions fundraised for their treatment (10:38) - Umbrel – Personal Cloud (11:40) - Outro I'm Kenyan. I don't write like ChatGPT, ChatGPT writes like mehttps://marcusolang.substack.com/p/im-kenyan-i-dont-write-like-chatgpthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=462734668M users' AI conversations sold for profit by "privacy" extensionshttps://www.koi.ai/blog/urban-vpn-browser-extension-ai-conversations-data-collectionhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46284266Secret Documents Show Pepsi and Walmart Colluded to Raise Food Priceshttps://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/secret-documents-show-pepsi-and-walmarthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46280887Ford kills the All-Electric F-150https://www.wired.com/story/ford-kills-electric-f-150-lightning-for-hybrid/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46281182“Are you the one?” is free moneyhttps://blog.owenlacey.dev/posts/are-you-the-one-is-free-money/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46241500SHARP, an approach to photorealistic view synthesis from a single imagehttps://apple.github.io/ml-sharp/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46284658Quill OS: An open-source OS for Kobo's eReadershttps://quill-os.org/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46283016JetBlue flight averts mid-air collision with US Air Force jethttps://www.reuters.com/world/americas/jetblue-flight-averts-mid-air-collision-with-us-air-force-jet-2025-12-15/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46281944Children with cancer scammed out of millions fundraised for their treatmenthttps://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgz318y8elohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46285376Umbrel – Personal Cloudhttps://umbrel.comhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46279187

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Dec 15, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:18) - Hashcards: A plain-text spaced repetition system (01:24) - Elevated errors across many models (02:20) - Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025) (03:15) - Shai-Hulud compromised a dev machine and raided GitHub org access: a post-mortem (04:30) - Adafruit: Arduino’s Rules Are ‘Incompatible With Open Source’ (05:35) - Microsoft Copilot AI Comes to LG TVs, and Can't Be Deleted (06:38) - Roomba maker goes bankrupt, Chinese owner emerges (07:41) - JSDoc is TypeScript (08:47) - Rio de Janeiro's talipot palm trees bloom for the first and only time (09:51) - In the Beginning was the Command Line (1999) (11:02) - Outro Hashcards: A plain-text spaced repetition systemhttps://borretti.me/article/hashcards-plain-text-spaced-repetitionhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46264492Elevated errors across many modelshttps://status.claude.com/incidents/9g6qpr72ttbrhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46267385Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46264491Shai-Hulud compromised a dev machine and raided GitHub org access: a post-mortemhttps://trigger.dev/blog/shai-hulud-postmortemhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46262021Adafruit: Arduino’s Rules Are ‘Incompatible With Open Source’https://thenewstack.io/adafruit-arduinos-rules-are-incompatible-with-open-source/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46265362Microsoft Copilot AI Comes to LG TVs, and Can't Be Deletedhttps://www.techpowerup.com/344075/microsoft-copilot-ai-comes-to-lg-tvs-and-cant-be-deletedhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46268844Roomba maker goes bankrupt, Chinese owner emergeshttps://news.bloomberglaw.com/bankruptcy-law/robot-vacuum-roomba-maker-files-for-bankruptcy-after-35-yearshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46268854JSDoc is TypeScripthttps://culi.bearblog.dev/jsdoc-is-typescript/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46266102Rio de Janeiro's talipot palm trees bloom for the first and only timehttps://apnews.com/article/brazil-rio-talipot-palm-flamengo-park-dcfb1ce237af7a10ab72205fc9bbdc02https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46178966In the Beginning was the Command Line (1999)https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs81n/command.txthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46189905

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Dec 14, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:17) - What is the nicest thing a stranger has ever done for you? (01:21) - VPN location claims don't match real traffic exits (02:37) - Ask HN: How can I get better at using AI for programming? (03:47) - I tried Gleam for Advent of Code (04:57) - Useful patterns for building HTML tools (06:00) - Why Twilio Segment moved from microservices back to a monolith (07:14) - Linux Sandboxes and Fil-C (08:21) - Recovering Anthony Bourdain's Li.st's (09:26) - Go Proposal: Secret Mode (10:35) - I fed 24 years of my blog posts to a Markov model (11:43) - Outro What is the nicest thing a stranger has ever done for you?https://louplummer.lol/nice-stranger/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46236001VPN location claims don't match real traffic exitshttps://ipinfo.io/blog/vpn-location-mismatch-reporthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46257339Ask HN: How can I get better at using AI for programming?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46255285I tried Gleam for Advent of Codehttps://blog.tymscar.com/posts/gleamaoc2025/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46255991Useful patterns for building HTML toolshttps://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/10/html-tools/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46223882Why Twilio Segment moved from microservices back to a monolithhttps://www.twilio.com/en-us/blog/developers/best-practices/goodbye-microserviceshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46257714Linux Sandboxes and Fil-Chttps://fil-c.org/seccomphttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46259064Recovering Anthony Bourdain's Li.st'shttps://sandyuraz.com/blogs/bourdain/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46258163Go Proposal: Secret Modehttps://antonz.org/accepted/runtime-secret/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46210705I fed 24 years of my blog posts to a Markov modelhttps://susam.net/fed-24-years-of-posts-to-markov-model.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46257607

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Dec 13, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:20) - Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help (01:24) - macOS 26.2 enables fast AI clusters with RDMA over Thunderbolt (02:37) - OpenAI are quietly adopting skills, now available in ChatGPT and Codex CLI (03:42) - Koralm Railway (04:41) - Sick of smart TVs? Here are your best options (05:53) - Rats Play DOOM (06:47) - GNU Unifont (08:00) - String theory inspires a brilliant, baffling new math proof (09:11) - Show HN: I made a spreadsheet where formulas also update backwards (10:25) - Show HN: Tiny VM sandbox in C with apps in Rust, C and Zig (11:29) - Outro Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for helphttps://hey.paris/posts/appleid/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46252114macOS 26.2 enables fast AI clusters with RDMA over Thunderbolthttps://developer.apple.com/documentation/macos-release-notes/macos-26_2-release-notes#RDMA-over-Thunderbolthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46248644OpenAI are quietly adopting skills, now available in ChatGPT and Codex CLIhttps://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/12/openai-skills/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46250332Koralm Railwayhttps://infrastruktur.oebb.at/en/projects-for-austria/railway-lines/southern-line-vienna-villach/koralm-railwayhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46242871Sick of smart TVs? Here are your best optionshttps://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/12/the-ars-technica-guide-to-dumb-tvs/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46243655Rats Play DOOMhttps://ratsplaydoom.com/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46248323GNU Unifonthttps://unifoundry.com/unifont/index.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46248859String theory inspires a brilliant, baffling new math proofhttps://www.quantamagazine.org/string-theory-inspires-a-brilliant-baffling-new-math-proof-20251212/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46245622Show HN: I made a spreadsheet where formulas also update backwardshttps://victorpoughon.github.io/bidicalc/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46234734Show HN: Tiny VM sandbox in C with apps in Rust, C and Zighttps://github.com/ringtailsoftware/uvm32https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46249538

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Dec 12, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:16) - GPT-5.2 (01:23) - The highest quality codebase (02:34) - French supermarket's Christmas advert is worldwide hit (without AI) [video] (03:27) - EFF launches Age Verification Hub (04:42) - Rivian Unveils Custom Silicon, R2 Lidar Roadmap, and Universal Hands Free (05:54) - Nokia N900 Necromancy (07:06) - Litestream VFS (08:16) - Craft software that makes people feel something (09:26) - Programmers and software developers lost the plot on naming their tools (10:37) - Denial of service and source code exposure in React Server Components (11:40) - Outro GPT-5.2https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-2/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46234788The highest quality codebasehttps://gricha.dev/blog/the-highest-quality-codebasehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46197930French supermarket's Christmas advert is worldwide hit (without AI) [video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Na9VmMNJvsAhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46231187EFF launches Age Verification Hubhttps://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-launches-age-verification-hub-resource-against-misguided-lawshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46223389Rivian Unveils Custom Silicon, R2 Lidar Roadmap, and Universal Hands Freehttps://riviantrackr.com/news/rivian-unveils-custom-silicon-r2-lidar-roadmap-universal-hands-free-and-its-next-gen-autonomy-platform/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46234920Nokia N900 Necromancyhttps://yaky.dev/2025-12-11-nokia-n900-necromancy/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46239177Litestream VFShttps://fly.io/blog/litestream-vfs/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46234710Craft software that makes people feel somethinghttps://rapha.land/craft-software-that-makes-people-feel-something/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46231274Programmers and software developers lost the plot on naming their toolshttps://larr.net/p/namings.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46234806Denial of service and source code exposure in React Server Componentshttps://react.dev/blog/2025/12/11/denial-of-service-and-source-code-exposure-in-react-server-componentshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46236924

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Dec 11, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:17) - Size of Life (01:17) - Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban (02:24) - Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux (03:34) - Getting a Gemini API key is an exercise in frustration (04:42) - Auto-grading decade-old Hacker News discussions with hindsight (05:53) - Rubio stages font coup: Times New Roman ousts Calibri (07:07) - Patterns.dev (07:59) - Qwen3-Omni-Flash-2025-12-01：a next-generation native multimodal large model (09:11) - How Google Maps allocates survival across London's restaurants (10:17) - Is it a bubble? (11:26) - Outro Size of Lifehttps://neal.fun/size-of-life/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46219346Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media banhttps://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/australia-social-media-ban-takes-effect-world-first-2025-12-09/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46208348Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linuxhttps://www.heise.de/en/news/Valve-HDMI-Forum-Continues-to-Block-HDMI-2-1-for-Linux-11107440.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46220488Getting a Gemini API key is an exercise in frustrationhttps://ankursethi.com/blog/gemini-api-key-frustration/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46223311Auto-grading decade-old Hacker News discussions with hindsighthttps://karpathy.bearblog.dev/auto-grade-hn/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46220540Rubio stages font coup: Times New Roman ousts Calibrihttps://www.reuters.com/world/us/rubio-stages-font-coup-times-new-roman-ousts-calibri-2025-12-09/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46212438Patterns.devhttps://www.patterns.dev/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46226483Qwen3-Omni-Flash-2025-12-01：a next-generation native multimodal large modelhttps://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3-omni-flash-20251201https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46219538How Google Maps allocates survival across London's restaurantshttps://laurenleek.substack.com/p/how-google-maps-quietly-allocateshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46203343Is it a bubble?https://www.oaktreecapital.com/insights/memo/is-it-a-bubblehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46220640

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Dec 10, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:20) - Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 hallucinates the HN front page 10 years from now (01:25) - 10 Years of Let's Encrypt (02:45) - Mistral releases Devstral2 and Mistral Vibe CLI (04:01) - Handsdown one of the coolest 3D websites (05:06) - PeerTube is recognized as a digital public good by Digital Public Goods Alliance (06:12) - Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental (07:16) - Pebble Index 01 – External memory for your brain (08:23) - If you're going to vibe code, why not do it in C? (09:39) - Django: what’s new in 6.0 (10:44) - Donating the Model Context Protocol and establishing the Agentic AI Foundation (11:48) - Outro Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 hallucinates the HN front page 10 years from nowhttps://dosaygo-studio.github.io/hn-front-page-2035/newshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4620563210 Years of Let's Encrypthttps://letsencrypt.org/2025/12/09/10-yearshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46208962Mistral releases Devstral2 and Mistral Vibe CLIhttps://mistral.ai/news/devstral-2-vibe-clihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46205437Handsdown one of the coolest 3D websiteshttps://bruno-simon.com/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46206531PeerTube is recognized as a digital public good by Digital Public Goods Alliancehttps://www.digitalpublicgoods.net/r/peertubehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46207464Rust in the kernel is no longer experimentalhttps://lwn.net/Articles/1049831/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46213585Pebble Index 01 – External memory for your brainhttps://repebble.com/blog/meet-pebble-index-01-external-memory-for-your-brainhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46205661If you're going to vibe code, why not do it in C?https://stephenramsay.net/posts/vibe-coding.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46207505Django: what’s new in 6.0https://adamj.eu/tech/2025/12/03/django-whats-new-6.0/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46210240Donating the Model Context Protocol and establishing the Agentic AI Foundationhttps://www.anthropic.com/news/donating-the-model-context-protocol-and-establishing-of-the-agentic-ai-foundationhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46207425

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Dec 9, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:20) - Icons in Menus Everywhere – Send Help (01:28) - Horses: AI progress is steady. Human equivalence is sudden (02:44) - IBM to acquire Confluent (03:54) - Microsoft increases Office 365 and Microsoft 365 license prices (05:12) - Jepsen: NATS 2.12.1 (06:20) - Paramount launches hostile bid for Warner Bros (07:33) - Strong earthquake hits northern Japan, tsunami warning issued (08:34) - Let's put Tailscale on a jailbroken Kindle (09:41) - The universal weight subspace hypothesis (10:56) - Has the cost of building software dropped 90%? (12:16) - Outro Icons in Menus Everywhere – Send Helphttps://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/icons-in-menus/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46196688Horses: AI progress is steady. Human equivalence is suddenhttps://andyljones.com/posts/horses.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46199723IBM to acquire Confluenthttps://www.confluent.io/blog/ibm-to-acquire-confluent/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46192130Microsoft increases Office 365 and Microsoft 365 license priceshttps://office365itpros.com/2025/12/08/microsoft-365-pricing-increase/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46192186Jepsen: NATS 2.12.1https://jepsen.io/analyses/nats-2.12.1https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46196105Paramount launches hostile bid for Warner Broshttps://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/08/paramount-skydance-hostile-bid-wbd-netflix.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46192459Strong earthquake hits northern Japan, tsunami warning issuedhttps://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20251209_02/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46192846Let's put Tailscale on a jailbroken Kindlehttps://tailscale.com/blog/tailscale-jailbroken-kindlehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46194337The universal weight subspace hypothesishttps://arxiv.org/abs/2512.05117https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46199623Has the cost of building software dropped 90%?https://martinalderson.com/posts/has-the-cost-of-software-just-dropped-90-percent/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46196228

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Dec 8, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:21) - Google Titans architecture, helping AI have long-term memory (01:33) - I failed to recreate the 1996 Space Jam website with Claude (02:46) - Dollar-stores overcharge customers while promising low prices (04:01) - The C++ standard for the F-35 Fighter Jet [video] (05:10) - I wasted years of my life in crypto (06:15) - The Anatomy of a macOS App (07:27) - Scala 3 slowed us down? (08:35) - How I block all online ads (09:42) - An Interactive Guide to the Fourier Transform (10:49) - Turtletoy (11:44) - Outro Google Titans architecture, helping AI have long-term memoryhttps://research.google/blog/titans-miras-helping-ai-have-long-term-memory/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46181231I failed to recreate the 1996 Space Jam website with Claudehttps://j0nah.com/i-failed-to-recreate-the-1996-space-jam-website-with-claude/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46183294Dollar-stores overcharge customers while promising low priceshttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/03/customers-pay-more-rising-dollar-store-costshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46181962The C++ standard for the F-35 Fighter Jet [video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gv4sDL9Ljwwhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46183657I wasted years of my life in cryptohttps://twitter.com/kenchangh/status/1994854381267947640https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46181371The Anatomy of a macOS Apphttps://eclecticlight.co/2025/12/04/the-anatomy-of-a-macos-app/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46181268Scala 3 slowed us down?https://kmaliszewski9.github.io/scala/2025/12/07/scala3-slowdown.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46182202How I block all online adshttps://troubled.engineer/posts/no-ads/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46185816An Interactive Guide to the Fourier Transformhttps://betterexplained.com/articles/an-interactive-guide-to-the-fourier-transform/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46118358Turtletoyhttps://turtletoy.net/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46138459

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Dec 7, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:16) - GrapheneOS is the only Android OS providing full security patches (01:29) - Tiny Core Linux: a 23 MB Linux distro with graphical desktop (02:38) - Using LLMs at Oxide (03:57) - Kilauea erupts, destroying webcam [video] (04:53) - Z-Image: Powerful and highly efficient image generation model with 6B parameters (05:54) - Screenshots from developers: 2002 vs. 2015 (2015) (07:06) - Autism's confusing cousins (08:19) - Perl's decline was cultural (09:31) - HTML as an Accessible Format for Papers (2023) (10:41) - The unexpected effectiveness of one-shot decompilation with Claude (11:48) - Outro GrapheneOS is the only Android OS providing full security patcheshttps://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/115647408229616018https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46173407Tiny Core Linux: a 23 MB Linux distro with graphical desktophttp://www.tinycorelinux.net/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46173547Using LLMs at Oxidehttps://rfd.shared.oxide.computer/rfd/0576https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46178347Kilauea erupts, destroying webcam [video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TK2N99BDw7Ahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46177645Z-Image: Powerful and highly efficient image generation model with 6B parametershttps://github.com/Tongyi-MAI/Z-Imagehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46095817Screenshots from developers: 2002 vs. 2015 (2015)https://anders.unix.se/2015/12/10/screenshots-from-developers--2002-vs.-2015/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46176905Autism's confusing cousinshttps://www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/autisms-confusing-cousinshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46172443Perl's decline was culturalhttps://www.beatworm.co.uk/blog/computers/perls-decline-was-cultural-not-technicalhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46175112HTML as an Accessible Format for Papers (2023)https://info.arxiv.org/about/accessible_HTML.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46173825The unexpected effectiveness of one-shot decompilation with Claudehttps://blog.chrislewis.au/the-unexpected-effectiveness-of-one-shot-decompilation-with-claude/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46080498

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Dec 6, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:16) - Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros (01:18) - Cloudflare outage on December 5, 2025 (02:29) - Gemini 3 Pro: the frontier of vision AI (03:38) - Self-hosting my photos with Immich (04:48) - YouTube caught making AI-edits to videos and adding misleading AI summaries (05:55) - Patterns for Defensive Programming in Rust (07:09) - Leaving Intel (08:05) - I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA (09:14) - Have I been Flocked? – Check if your license plate is being watched (10:14) - Adenosine on the common path of rapid antidepressant action: The coffee paradox (11:28) - Outro Netflix to Acquire Warner Broshttps://about.netflix.com/en/news/netflix-to-acquire-warner-broshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46160315Cloudflare outage on December 5, 2025https://blog.cloudflare.com/5-december-2025-outage/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46162656Gemini 3 Pro: the frontier of vision AIhttps://blog.google/technology/developers/gemini-3-pro-vision/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46163308Self-hosting my photos with Immichhttps://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2025-11-29-self-hosting-photos-with-immich/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46095087YouTube caught making AI-edits to videos and adding misleading AI summarieshttps://www.ynetnews.com/tech-and-digital/article/bj1qbwcklghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46169554Patterns for Defensive Programming in Rusthttps://corrode.dev/blog/defensive-programming/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46163609Leaving Intelhttps://www.brendangregg.com/blog//2025-12-05/leaving-intel.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46167552I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMAhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46163121Have I been Flocked? – Check if your license plate is being watchedhttps://haveibeenflocked.com/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46170302Adenosine on the common path of rapid antidepressant action: The coffee paradoxhttps://genomicpress.kglmeridian.com/view/journals/brainmed/aop/article-10.61373-bm025c.0134/article-10.61373-bm025c.0134.xmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46168057

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Dec 5, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:18) - Cloudflare is down (01:23) - Why are 38 percent of Stanford students saying they're disabled? (02:44) - How elites could shape mass preferences as AI reduces persuasion costs (03:59) - I ignore the spotlight as a staff engineer (05:14) - Transparent leadership beats servant leadership (06:24) - Thoughts on Go vs. Rust vs. Zig (07:29) - Multivox: Volumetric Display (08:32) - BMW PHEV: Safety fuse replacement is extremely expensive (09:52) - Fighting the age-gated internet (11:02) - Outro Cloudflare is downhttps://www.cloudflare.com/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46158191Why are 38 percent of Stanford students saying they're disabled?https://reason.com/2025/12/04/why-are-38-percent-of-stanford-students-saying-theyre-disabled/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46150715How elites could shape mass preferences as AI reduces persuasion costshttps://arxiv.org/abs/2512.04047https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46145180I ignore the spotlight as a staff engineerhttps://lalitm.com/software-engineering-outside-the-spotlight/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46146451Transparent leadership beats servant leadershiphttps://entropicthoughts.com/transparent-leadership-beats-servant-leadershiphttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46147540Thoughts on Go vs. Rust vs. Zighttps://sinclairtarget.com/blog/2025/08/thoughts-on-go-vs.-rust-vs.-zig/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46153466Multivox: Volumetric Displayhttps://github.com/AncientJames/multivoxhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46149813BMW PHEV: Safety fuse replacement is extremely expensivehttps://evclinic.eu/2025/12/04/2021-phev-bmw-ibmucp-21f37e-post-crash-recovery-when-eu-engineering-becomes-a-synonym-for-unrepairable-generating-waste/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46155619Fighting the age-gated internethttps://www.wired.com/story/age-verification-is-sweeping-the-us-activists-are-fighting-back/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46147493

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Dec 4, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:18) - Ghostty is now non-profit (01:24) - Everyone in Seattle hates AI (02:43) - Valve reveals it’s the architect behind a push to bring Windows games to Arm (03:56) - Reverse engineering a $1B Legal AI tool exposed 100k+ confidential files (05:13) - Micron Announces Exit from Crucial Consumer Business (06:24) - RCE Vulnerability in React and Next.js (07:35) - 1D Conway's Life glider found, 3.7B cells long (08:44) - Average DRAM price in USD over last 18 months (09:43) - Show HN: I built a dashboard to compare mortgage rates across 120 credit unions (10:47) - How to Synthesize a House Loop (11:34) - Outro Ghostty is now non-profithttps://mitchellh.com/writing/ghostty-non-profithttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46138238Everyone in Seattle hates AIhttps://jonready.com/blog/posts/everyone-in-seattle-hates-ai.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46138952Valve reveals it’s the architect behind a push to bring Windows games to Armhttps://www.theverge.com/report/820656/valve-interview-arm-gaming-steamos-pierre-loup-griffaishttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46126446Reverse engineering a $1B Legal AI tool exposed 100k+ confidential fileshttps://alexschapiro.com/security/vulnerability/2025/12/02/filevine-api-100khttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46137514Micron Announces Exit from Crucial Consumer Businesshttps://investors.micron.com/news-releases/news-release-details/micron-announces-exit-crucial-consumer-businesshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46137783RCE Vulnerability in React and Next.jshttps://github.com/vercel/next.js/security/advisories/GHSA-9qr9-h5gf-34mphttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=461360261D Conway's Life glider found, 3.7B cells longhttps://conwaylife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?&p=222136#p222136https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46137253Average DRAM price in USD over last 18 monthshttps://pcpartpicker.com/trends/price/memory/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46142100Show HN: I built a dashboard to compare mortgage rates across 120 credit unionshttps://finfam.app/blog/credit-union-mortgageshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46139761How to Synthesize a House Loophttps://loopmaster.xyz/tutorials/how-to-synthesize-a-house-loophttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46072280

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Dec 3, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:23) - Anthropic acquires Bun (01:33) - OpenAI declares 'code red' as Google catches up in AI race (02:42) - IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending on AI data centers will pay off (04:02) - I designed and printed a custom nose guard to help my dog with DLE (05:08) - Accepting US car standards would risk European lives (06:18) - Learning music with Strudel (07:11) - Paged Out (08:08) - Zig's new plan for asynchronous programs (09:26) - Japanese game devs face font dilemma as license increases from $380 to $20k (10:43) - Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service (12:01) - Outro Anthropic acquires Bunhttps://bun.com/blog/bun-joins-anthropichttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46124267OpenAI declares 'code red' as Google catches up in AI racehttps://www.theverge.com/news/836212/openai-code-red-chatgpthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46121870IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending on AI data centers will pay offhttps://www.businessinsider.com/ibm-ceo-big-tech-ai-capex-data-center-spending-2025-12https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46124324I designed and printed a custom nose guard to help my dog with DLEhttps://snoutcover.com/billie-storyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46094460Accepting US car standards would risk European liveshttps://etsc.eu/accepting-us-car-standards-would-risk-european-lives-warn-cities-and-civil-society/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46131330Learning music with Strudelhttps://terryds.notion.site/Learning-Music-with-Strudel-2ac98431b24180deb890cc7de667ea92https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46052478Paged Outhttps://pagedout.institutehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46126217Zig's new plan for asynchronous programshttps://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1046084/4c048ee008e1c70e/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46121539Japanese game devs face font dilemma as license increases from $380 to $20khttps://www.gamesindustry.biz/japanese-devs-face-font-licensing-dilemma-as-leading-provider-increases-annual-plan-price-from-380-to-20000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46130187Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the servicehttps://www.theregister.com/2025/12/02/zig_quits_github_microsoft_ai_obsession/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46131406

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Dec 2, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:21) - DeepSeek-v3.2: Pushing the frontier of open large language models [pdf] (01:42) - India orders smartphone makers to preload state-owned cyber safety app (02:48) - Ghostty compiled to WASM with xterm.js API compatibility (03:47) - Google unkills JPEG XL? (05:03) - What will enter the public domain in 2026? (06:10) - 10 years of writing a blog nobody reads (07:09) - Codex, Opus, Gemini try to build Counter Strike (08:18) - Google, Nvidia, and OpenAI (09:34) - The Penicillin Myth (10:43) - Outro DeepSeek-v3.2: Pushing the frontier of open large language models [pdf]https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3.2/resolve/main/assets/paper.pdfhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46108780India orders smartphone makers to preload state-owned cyber safety apphttps://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/india-orders-mobile-phones-preloaded-with-government-app-ensure-cyber-safety-2025-12-01/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46104193Ghostty compiled to WASM with xterm.js API compatibilityhttps://github.com/coder/ghostty-webhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46110842Google unkills JPEG XL?https://tonisagrista.com/blog/2025/google-unkills-jpegxl/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46108563What will enter the public domain in 2026?https://publicdomainreview.org/features/entering-the-public-domain/2026/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4611711210 years of writing a blog nobody readshttps://flowtwo.io/post/on-10-years-of-writing-a-blog-nobody-readshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46070883Codex, Opus, Gemini try to build Counter Strikehttps://www.instantdb.com/essays/agents_building_counterstrikehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46080835Google, Nvidia, and OpenAIhttps://stratechery.com/2025/google-nvidia-and-openai/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46108437The Penicillin Mythhttps://www.asimov.press/p/penicillin-mythhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46107658

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Dec 1, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:16) - Advent of Code 2025 (01:20) - Writing a good Claude.md (02:26) - Windows drive letters are not limited to A-Z (03:34) - Search tool that only returns content created before ChatGPT's public release (04:45) - Migrating Dillo from GitHub (05:45) - A Love Letter to FreeBSD (06:54) - GitHub to Codeberg: my experience (08:03) - Advent of Sysadmin 2025 (09:04) - Google Antigravity just deleted the contents of whole drive (10:14) - Outro Advent of Code 2025https://adventofcode.com/2025/abouthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46096337Writing a good Claude.mdhttps://www.humanlayer.dev/blog/writing-a-good-claude-mdhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46098838Windows drive letters are not limited to A-Zhttps://www.ryanliptak.com/blog/windows-drive-letters-are-not-limited-to-a-z/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46096556Search tool that only returns content created before ChatGPT's public releasehttps://tegabrain.com/Slop-Evaderhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46103376Migrating Dillo from GitHubhttps://dillo-browser.org/news/migration-from-github/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46096800A Love Letter to FreeBSDhttps://www.tara.sh/posts/2025/2025-11-25_freebsd_letter/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46100892GitHub to Codeberg: my experiencehttps://eldred.fr/blog/forge-migration/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46097829Algorithms for Optimization [pdf]https://algorithmsbook.com/optimization/files/optimization.pdfhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46101492Advent of Sysadmin 2025https://sadservers.com/adventhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46102347Google Antigravity just deleted the contents of whole drivehttps://old.reddit.com/r/google_antigravity/comments/1p82or6/google_antigravity_just_deleted_the_contents_of/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46103532

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Nov 30, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:17) - Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out (01:29) - All it takes is for one to work out (02:34) - Bazzite: The next generation of Linux gaming (03:42) - Show HN: Boing (04:37) - Datacenters in space aren't going to work (05:47) - Be Like Clippy (06:53) - Americans no longer see four-year college degrees as worth the cost (08:07) - Anthony Bourdain's Lost Li.st's (09:16) - Zigbook Is Plagiarizing the Zigtools Playground (10:14) - Learning Feynman's Trick for Integrals (11:18) - Outro Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll outhttps://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/artificial-intelligence/leak-confirms-openai-is-preparing-ads-on-chatgpt-for-public-roll-out/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46086771All it takes is for one to work outhttps://alearningaday.blog/2025/11/28/all-it-takes-is-for-one-to-work-out-2/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46090433Bazzite: The next generation of Linux gaminghttps://bazzite.gg/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46091362Show HN: Boinghttps://boing.greg.technology/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46093473Datacenters in space aren't going to workhttps://taranis.ie/datacenters-in-space-are-a-terrible-horrible-no-good-idea/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46087616Be Like Clippyhttps://be-clippy.com/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46090172Americans no longer see four-year college degrees as worth the costhttps://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/poll-dramatic-shift-americans-no-longer-see-four-year-college-degrees-rcna243672https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46091591Anthony Bourdain's Lost Li.st'shttps://bourdain.greg.technology/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46054879Zigbook Is Plagiarizing the Zigtools Playgroundhttps://zigtools.org/blog/zigbook-plagiarizing-playground/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46093518Learning Feynman's Trick for Integralshttps://zackyzz.github.io/feynman.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46090269