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Hacker News (Dec 2025)

  1. In Defense of Matlab Code

    141 points • comment • dec 12, 2025

  2. C++ says “We have try... finally at home”

    141 points • comment • dec 28, 2025

  3. 60 Minutes: Cecot

    141 points • comment • dec 23, 2025

  4. When square pixels aren't square

    141 points • comment • dec 31, 2025

  5. What the heck is going on at Apple?

    140 points • comment • dec 07, 2025

  6. Employee commits suicide after MongoDB fired her during mental health leave

    140 points • comment • dec 27, 2025

  7. The Free Software Foundation Europe deleted its account on X

    140 points • comment • dec 04, 2025

  8. Using Vectorize to build an unreasonably good search engine in 160 lines of code

    140 points • comment • dec 21, 2025

  9. Postgres extension complements pgvector for performance and scale

    140 points • comment • dec 24, 2025

  10. From Zero to QED: An informal introduction to formality with Lean 4

    140 points • comment • dec 13, 2025

  11. Microservices should form a polytree

    140 points • comment • dec 08, 2025

  12. FCC chair suggests agency isn't independent, word cut from mission statement

    140 points • comment • dec 17, 2025

  13. 62 years in the making: NYC's newest water tunnel nears the finish line

    139 points • comment • dec 28, 2025

  14. The port I couldn't ship

    139 points • comment • dec 18, 2025

  15. Quality of drinking water varies significantly by airline

    139 points • comment • dec 31, 2025

  16. Get an AI code review in 10 seconds

    139 points • comment • dec 21, 2025

  17. The stack circuitry of the Intel 8087 floating point chip, reverse-engineered

    139 points • comment • dec 09, 2025

  18. Paperbacks and TikTok

    139 points • comment • dec 22, 2025

  19. 50 years of proof assistants

    138 points • comment • dec 12, 2025

  20. Court report detailing ChatGPT's involvement with a recent murder suicide [pdf]

    138 points • comment • dec 31, 2025

  21. What Does a Database for SSDs Look Like?

    138 points • comment • dec 20, 2025

  22. Of Boot Vectors and Double Glitches: Bypassing RP2350's Secure Boot

    138 points • comment • dec 27, 2025

  23. Python Workers redux: fast cold starts, packages, and a uv-first workflow

    137 points • comment • dec 08, 2025

  24. Three ways to solve problems

    137 points • comment • dec 21, 2025

  25. I wish people were more public

    137 points • comment • dec 21, 2025

  26. Webb observes exoplanet that may have an exotic helium and carbon atmosphere

    137 points • comment • dec 19, 2025

  27. The true story of the Windows 3.1 'Hot Dog Stand' color scheme

    137 points • comment • dec 12, 2025

  28. The Gorman Paradox: Where Are All the AI-Generated Apps?

    136 points • comment • dec 14, 2025

  29. Stop Slopware

    136 points • comment • dec 23, 2025

  30. Spaced repetition for efficient learning (2019)

    135 points • comment • dec 24, 2025

  31. Launch HN: Phind 3 (YC S22) – Every answer is a mini-app

    135 points • comment • dec 03, 2025

  32. AI vending machine was tricked into giving away everything

    135 points • comment • dec 18, 2025

  33. Nook Browser

    135 points • comment • dec 06, 2025

  34. Flame Graphs vs Tree Maps vs Sunburst (2017)

    134 points • comment • dec 27, 2025

  35. Why the Sanitizer API is just `setHTML()`

    134 points • comment • dec 08, 2025

  36. The differences between an IndyCar and a F1 car

    134 points • comment • dec 01, 2025

  37. I doubt that anything resembling genuine AGI is within reach of current AI tools

    134 points • comment • dec 21, 2025

  38. Is Proton leaving Switzerland?

    134 points • comment • dec 19, 2025

  39. Functional Quadtrees

    134 points • comment • dec 04, 2025

  40. What is an elliptic curve? (2019)

    134 points • comment • dec 18, 2025

  41. Escaping containment: A security analysis of FreeBSD jails [video]

    133 points • comment • dec 30, 2025

  42. Meta's ads tools started switching out top-performing ads with AI-generated ones

    133 points • comment • dec 29, 2025

  43. Proxmox Datacenter Manager 1.0 available

    133 points • comment • dec 04, 2025

  44. Two kinds of vibe coding

    133 points • comment • dec 18, 2025

  45. The post-GeForce era: What if Nvidia abandons PC gaming?

    133 points • comment • dec 20, 2025

  46. Baumol's Cost Disease

    133 points • comment • dec 14, 2025

  47. The future of Terraform CDK

    133 points • comment • dec 10, 2025

  48. How exchanges turn order books into distributed logs

    133 points • comment • dec 08, 2025

  49. From Azure Functions to FreeBSD

    132 points • comment • dec 08, 2025

  50. UBlockOrigin and UBlacklist AI Blocklist

    132 points • comment • dec 25, 2025

  51. Odin: Moving Towards a New "core:OS"

    132 points • comment • dec 26, 2025

  52. Show HN: Shittp – Volatile Dotfiles over SSH

    132 points • comment • dec 21, 2025

  53. From text to token: How tokenization pipelines work

    132 points • comment • dec 11, 2025

  54. Cassette tapes are making a comeback?

    132 points • comment • dec 04, 2025

  55. $50 PlanetScale Metal Is GA for Postgres

    132 points • comment • dec 15, 2025

  56. Sugars, Gum, Stardust Found in NASA's Asteroid Bennu Samples

    132 points • comment • dec 05, 2025

  57. Writing a blatant Telegram clone using Qt, QML and Rust. And C++

    132 points • comment • dec 16, 2025

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

    131 points • comment • dec 14, 2025

  59. Most parked domains now serving malicious content

    131 points • comment • dec 18, 2025

  60. Pop_OS 24.04 LTS with COSMIC desktop environment

    131 points • comment • dec 11, 2025

  61. We put Flock under surveillance: Go make them behave differently [video]

    131 points • comment • dec 15, 2025

  62. Analysis finds anytime electricity from solar available as battery costs plummet

    131 points • comment • dec 13, 2025

  63. Intel could return to Apple computers in 2027

    131 points • comment • dec 01, 2025

  64. Show HN: Circuit Artist – Circuit simulator with propagation animation, rewind

    131 points • comment • dec 31, 2025

  65. Vince Zampella, developer of Call of Duty and Battlefield has died

    131 points • comment • dec 22, 2025

  66. NYC congestion pricing cuts air pollution by a fifth in six months

    131 points • comment • dec 10, 2025

  67. Common Rust Lifetime Misconceptions

    131 points • comment • dec 15, 2025

  68. Perpetual futures, explained

    131 points • comment • dec 05, 2025

  69. Factor 0.101 now available

    131 points • comment • dec 10, 2025

  70. Saving Japan's exceptionally rare 'snow monsters'

    131 points • comment • dec 06, 2025

  71. Launch HN: Nia (YC S25) – Give better context to coding agents

    130 points • comment • dec 08, 2025

  72. GitHub Actions for self-hosted runners price increase postponed

    130 points • comment • dec 18, 2025

  73. Archiving Git branches as tags

    130 points • comment • dec 22, 2025

  74. CUDA-l2: Surpassing cuBLAS performance for matrix multiplication through RL

    130 points • comment • dec 04, 2025

  75. Drugmakers raise US prices on 350 medicines despite pressure

    129 points • comment • dec 31, 2025

  76. The Rise of Computer Games, Part I: Adventure

    129 points • comment • dec 13, 2025

  77. The missing standard library for multithreading in JavaScript

    129 points • comment • dec 05, 2025

  78. Overconsumption is a spiritual problem

    129 points • comment • dec 16, 2025

  79. Salesforce regrets firing 4000 experienced staff and replacing them with AI

    129 points • comment • dec 25, 2025

  80. Transformers know more than they can tell: Learning the Collatz sequence

    128 points • comment • dec 03, 2025

  81. “You should never build a CMS”

    128 points • comment • dec 14, 2025

  82. United States Antarctic Program Field Manual (2024) [pdf]

    128 points • comment • dec 06, 2025

  83. Show HN: AutoLISP interpreter in Rust/WASM – a CAD workflow invented 33 yrs ago

    128 points • comment • dec 26, 2025

  84. We built another object storage

    128 points • comment • dec 13, 2025

  85. All my Deutschlandtickets gone: Fraud at an industrial scale [video]

    128 points • comment • dec 28, 2025

  86. 7.6 earthquake off the coast of Japan

    128 points • comment • dec 08, 2025

  87. The State of AI Coding Report 2025

    128 points • comment • dec 17, 2025

  88. WordPress plugin quirk resulted in UK Gov OBR Budget leak [pdf]

    128 points • comment • dec 01, 2025

  89. Cryptids

    127 points • comment • dec 06, 2025

  90. Quanta to publish popular math and physics books by Terence Tao and David Tong

    127 points • comment • dec 08, 2025

  91. Typewriter Plotters (2022)

    127 points • comment • dec 05, 2025

  92. RCE via ND6 Router Advertisements in FreeBSD

    127 points • comment • dec 18, 2025

  93. Jujutsu worktrees are convenient (2024)

    127 points • comment • dec 03, 2025

  94. Tsunami warning issued after 7.6-magnitude earthquake strikes Japan

    127 points • comment • dec 08, 2025

  95. Qwen-Image-Layered: transparency and layer aware open diffusion model

    127 points • comment • dec 19, 2025

  96. Incremental Backups of Gmail Takeouts

    126 points • comment • dec 25, 2025

  97. Agentic AI Foundation

    126 points • comment • dec 09, 2025

  98. Async DNS

    126 points • comment • dec 12, 2025

  99. Compiler Engineering in Practice

    126 points • comment • dec 14, 2025

  100. Performance Hints

    126 points • comment • dec 19, 2025