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Hacker News (Dec 2025)

  1. Microsoft will finally kill obsolete cipher that has wreaked decades of havoc

    126 points • comment • dec 16, 2025

  2. The Polyglot NixOS

    126 points • comment • dec 20, 2025

  3. Performance Hints

    126 points • comment • dec 19, 2025

  4. Apple Services Experiencing Outage

    126 points • comment • dec 10, 2025

  5. Compiler Engineering in Practice

    126 points • comment • dec 14, 2025

  6. State regulators vote to keep utility profits high angering customers across CA

    126 points • comment • dec 22, 2025

  7. Universal Reasoning Model (53.8% pass 1 ARC1 and 16.0% ARC 2)

    126 points • comment • dec 22, 2025

  8. Doxers posing as cops are tricking big tech firms into sharing people's data

    126 points • comment • dec 13, 2025

  9. Incremental Backups of Gmail Takeouts

    126 points • comment • dec 25, 2025

  10. Dolphin Progress Report: Release 2512

    125 points • comment • dec 28, 2025

  11. Comparing AWS Lambda ARM64 vs. x86_64 Performance Across Runtimes in Late 2025

    125 points • comment • dec 02, 2025

  12. The gift card accountability sink

    125 points • comment • dec 21, 2025

  13. TLA+ Modeling Tips

    125 points • comment • dec 17, 2025

  14. From silicon to Darude – Sandstorm: breaking famous synthesizer DSPs [video]

    125 points • comment • dec 30, 2025

  15. Show HN: I designed my own 3D printer motherboard

    125 points • comment • dec 06, 2025

  16. Ecosia: The greenest AI is here

    125 points • comment • dec 02, 2025

  17. Constructing the Word's First JPEG XL MD5 Hash Quine

    125 points • comment • dec 01, 2025

  18. Microtonal Spiral Piano

    125 points • comment • dec 26, 2025

  19. Volvo Centum is Dalton Maag's new typeface for Volvo

    125 points • comment • dec 23, 2025

  20. No ARIA is better than bad ARIA

    125 points • comment • dec 03, 2025

  21. Reverse Engineering US Airline's PNR System and Accessing All Reservations

    125 points • comment • dec 19, 2025

  22. The biggest heat pumps

    125 points • comment • dec 16, 2025

  23. Critical vulnerability in LangChain – CVE-2025-68664

    125 points • comment • dec 25, 2025

  24. Spherical Cow

    124 points • comment • dec 28, 2025

  25. The Typeframe PX-88 Portable Computing System

    124 points • comment • dec 14, 2025

  26. FVWM-95 (2001)

    124 points • comment • dec 16, 2025

  27. Show HN: Kraa – Writing App for Everything

    124 points • comment • dec 04, 2025

  28. Rootless Pings in Rust

    124 points • comment • dec 02, 2025

  29. Scientists create ultra fast memory using light

    124 points • comment • dec 04, 2025

  30. AI is wiping out entry-level tech jobs, leaving graduates stranded

    124 points • comment • dec 16, 2025

  31. Kea DHCP: Modern, open source DHCPv4 and DHCPv6 server

    124 points • comment • dec 03, 2025

  32. Why Speed Matters

    124 points • comment • dec 06, 2025

  33. Immer – A library of persistent and immutable data structures written in C++

    124 points • comment • dec 21, 2025

  34. Human hair grows through 'pulling' not pushing, study shows

    124 points • comment • dec 04, 2025

  35. What happened to all the gold Spain got from the New World? (1985)

    123 points • comment • dec 22, 2025

  36. Contrails Map

    123 points • comment • dec 20, 2025

  37. Tesla reports another Robotaxi crash

    123 points • comment • dec 17, 2025

  38. Unix "find" expressions compiled to bytecode

    123 points • comment • dec 26, 2025

  39. A brief history of Times New Roman

    122 points • comment • dec 16, 2025

  40. Biscuit is a specialized PostgreSQL index for fast pattern matching LIKE queries

    122 points • comment • dec 16, 2025

  41. 2D Signed Distance Functions

    122 points • comment • dec 24, 2025

  42. Asking Gemini 3 to generate Brainfuck code results in an infinite loop

    122 points • comment • dec 29, 2025

  43. Show HN: Microlandia, a brutally honest city builder

    122 points • comment • dec 03, 2025

  44. Love your customers

    122 points • comment • dec 31, 2025

  45. Evidence from the One Laptop per Child program in rural Peru

    121 points • comment • dec 07, 2025

  46. Nuclear energy key to decarbonising Europe, says EESC

    121 points • comment • dec 12, 2025

  47. Critical RCE Vulnerabilities in React and Next.js

    121 points • comment • dec 03, 2025

  48. Oracle made a $300B bet on OpenAI. It's paying the price

    121 points • comment • dec 12, 2025

  49. The architecture of “not bad”: Decoding the Chinese source code of the void

    120 points • comment • dec 11, 2025

  50. Public Domain Day 2026

    120 points • comment • dec 27, 2025

  51. A Proclamation Regarding the Restoration of the Dash

    120 points • comment • dec 26, 2025

  52. Scientists edited genes in a living person and saved his life

    120 points • comment • dec 27, 2025

  53. A terminal emulator that runs in your terminal. Powered by Turbo Vision

    119 points • comment • dec 17, 2025

  54. Jingle Bells (Batman Smells): An incomplete festive folk-rhyme taxonomy

    119 points • comment • dec 21, 2025

  55. DOOM could have had PC Speaker Music

    119 points • comment • dec 02, 2025

  56. Executorch: On-device AI across mobile, embedded and edge for PyTorch

    119 points • comment • dec 18, 2025

  57. Fedora: Open-source repository for long-term digital preservation

    119 points • comment • dec 12, 2025

  58. Langjam-Gamejam Devlog: Making a language, compiler, VM and 5 games in 52 hours

    119 points • comment • dec 21, 2025

  59. CEO of Health Care Software Company Sentenced for $1B Fraud Conspiracy

    119 points • comment • dec 27, 2025

  60. Help My c64 caught on fire

    118 points • comment • dec 23, 2025

  61. Drawing with zero-width characters

    117 points • comment • dec 26, 2025

  62. A super fast website using Cloudflare workers

    117 points • comment • dec 28, 2025

  63. GSWT: Gaussian Splatting Wang Tiles

    117 points • comment • dec 03, 2025

  64. The general who refused to crush Tiananmen's protesters

    117 points • comment • dec 06, 2025

  65. Stop crawling my HTML – use the API

    117 points • comment • dec 14, 2025

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

    117 points • comment • dec 08, 2025

  67. GitHub no longer uses Toasts

    117 points • comment • dec 08, 2025

  68. Germany votes to bring in voluntary military service programme for 18-year-olds

    117 points • comment • dec 06, 2025

  69. My app just won best iOS Japanese learning tool of 2025 award (blog)

    116 points • comment • dec 29, 2025

  70. Introduction to Software Development Tooling (2024)

    116 points • comment • dec 17, 2025

  71. We collected 10k hours of neuro-language data in our basement

    116 points • comment • dec 08, 2025

  72. A linear-time alternative for Dimensionality Reduction and fast visualisation

    116 points • comment • dec 16, 2025

  73. Why is calling my asm function from Rust slower than calling it from C?

    116 points • comment • dec 27, 2025

  74. Contact the ISS

    116 points • comment • dec 27, 2025

  75. A kernel bug froze my machine: Debugging an async-profiler deadlock

    115 points • comment • dec 15, 2025

  76. StardustOS: Library operating system for building light-weight Unikernels

    115 points • comment • dec 04, 2025

  77. The story of Squeak, a practical Smalltalk written in itself (1997) [pdf]

    115 points • comment • dec 24, 2025

  78. How private equity is changing housing

    114 points • comment • dec 09, 2025

  79. Dick Van Dyke turns 100

    114 points • comment • dec 13, 2025

  80. UNIX Fourth Edition

    114 points • comment • dec 23, 2025

  81. Pfizer ended up passing on my GLP-1 work back in the early '90s (2024)

    113 points • comment • dec 27, 2025

  82. We Let AI Run Our Office Vending Machine. It Lost Hundreds of Dollars

    113 points • comment • dec 18, 2025

  83. US destroying its reputation as a scientific leader – European science diplomat

    113 points • comment • dec 22, 2025

  84. Pg_ClickHouse: A Postgres extension for querying ClickHouse

    113 points • comment • dec 10, 2025

  85. The AI wildfire is coming. it's going to be painful and healthy

    113 points • comment • dec 07, 2025

  86. Dialtone – AOL 3.0 Server

    113 points • comment • dec 28, 2025

  87. The state of the kernel Rust experiment

    113 points • comment • dec 13, 2025

  88. Exploring Dithering on Spectra 6-color E-Ink Displays

    113 points • comment • dec 31, 2025

  89. Italian bears living near villages have evolved to be smaller and less agressive

    113 points • comment • dec 15, 2025

  90. McDonald's pulls AI Christmas ad after backlash

    112 points • comment • dec 10, 2025

  91. High Performance SSH/SCP

    112 points • comment • dec 11, 2025

  92. Never Use Pixelation to Hide Sensitive Text (2014)

    112 points • comment • dec 21, 2025

  93. Building a Toast Component

    112 points • comment • dec 03, 2025

  94. Manual: Spaces

    112 points • comment • dec 09, 2025

  95. Firefox is becoming an AI browser and the internet is not at all happy about it

    112 points • comment • dec 17, 2025

  96. Isengard in Oxford

    112 points • comment • dec 21, 2025

  97. Ideas aren't getting harder to find

    112 points • comment • dec 16, 2025

  98. Writing our own cheat engine (2021)

    112 points • comment • dec 05, 2025

  99. Cloudflare Radar 2025 Year in Review

    112 points • comment • dec 17, 2025

  100. Outside, Dungeon, Town: Integrating the Three Places in Videogames (2024)

    112 points • comment • dec 30, 2025