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Hacker News (Dec 2025)

  1. Smartphone without a battery (2022)

    87 points • comment • dec 12, 2025

  2. Richard Stallman on ChatGPT

    87 points • comment • dec 09, 2025

  3. Approaching 50 Years of String Theory

    87 points • comment • dec 20, 2025

  4. AI Bathroom Monitors? Welcome to America's New Surveillance High Schools

    87 points • comment • dec 22, 2025

  5. AWS data centers' water use tied to spike in cancer and miscarriages in Oregon

    87 points • comment • dec 01, 2025

  6. Claude wrote a functional NES emulator using my engine's API

    87 points • comment • dec 31, 2025

  7. Canada's Carney called out for 'utilizing' British spelling

    86 points • comment • dec 15, 2025

  8. Systemd v259

    86 points • comment • dec 18, 2025

  9. Amp, Inc. – Amp is spinning out of Sourcegraph

    86 points • comment • dec 02, 2025

  10. How We Found Out About COINTELPRO (2014)

    86 points • comment • dec 27, 2025

  11. PyTogether: Collaborative lightweight real-time Python IDE for teachers/learners

    86 points • comment • dec 04, 2025

  12. A school locked down after AI flagged a gun. It was a clarinet

    86 points • comment • dec 18, 2025

  13. ZJIT is now available in Ruby 4.0

    86 points • comment • dec 26, 2025

  14. Proxmox delivers its software-defined datacenter contender and VMware escape

    86 points • comment • dec 07, 2025

  15. The Checkerboard

    86 points • comment • dec 13, 2025

  16. Cursed circuits: charge pump voltage halver

    86 points • comment • dec 02, 2025

  17. From devastation to wonder as Kangaroo Island bushfires lead to cave discoveries

    86 points • comment • dec 15, 2025

  18. Building an efficient hash table in Java

    86 points • comment • dec 13, 2025

  19. Building optimistic UI in Rails (and learn custom elements)

    86 points • comment • dec 04, 2025

  20. Qt, Linux and everything: Debugging Qt WebAssembly

    86 points • comment • dec 09, 2025

  21. Chernobyl protective shield can no longer confine radiation after drone strike

    85 points • comment • dec 06, 2025

  22. We ran Anthropic’s interviews through structured LLM analysis

    85 points • comment • dec 19, 2025

  23. Vacuum Is a Lie: About Your Indexes

    85 points • comment • dec 14, 2025

  24. Anthropic: You can't change your Claude account email address

    85 points • comment • dec 20, 2025

  25. An 11-qubit atom processor in silicon with all fidelities from 99.10% to 99.99%

    85 points • comment • dec 21, 2025

  26. Self-hosting is being enshittified

    85 points • comment • dec 29, 2025

  27. Show HN: GeneGuessr – a daily biology web puzzle

    85 points • comment • dec 23, 2025

  28. Bit flips: How cosmic rays grounded a fleet of aircraft

    85 points • comment • dec 08, 2025

  29. An initial analysis of the discovered Unix V4 tape

    85 points • comment • dec 23, 2025

  30. ImAnim: Modern animation capabilities to ImGui applications

    84 points • comment • dec 01, 2025

  31. World's largest functioning musical instrument: Wanamaker Organ in Philadelphia

    84 points • comment • dec 28, 2025

  32. Blogging in 2025: Screaming into the Void

    84 points • comment • dec 05, 2025

  33. Wave of (Open Street Map) Vandalism in South Korea

    84 points • comment • dec 06, 2025

  34. What is “literate programming”? (2024)

    84 points • comment • dec 02, 2025

  35. Poor Johnny still won't encrypt

    84 points • comment • dec 13, 2025

  36. Quake's Player Speed (2017)

    84 points • comment • dec 23, 2025

  37. Qntm's Power Tower Toy

    84 points • comment • dec 20, 2025

  38. Concurrent Hash Table Designs

    84 points • comment • dec 27, 2025

  39. We built a resource hub to fight back against age verification

    84 points • comment • dec 11, 2025

  40. Prompt Injection via Poetry

    84 points • comment • dec 03, 2025

  41. New mathematical framework reshapes debate over simulation hypothesis

    84 points • comment • dec 21, 2025

  42. The <time> element should do something

    83 points • comment • dec 16, 2025

  43. AI Can Write Your Code. It Can't Do Your Job

    83 points • comment • dec 19, 2025

  44. The AI Backlash Is Here: Why Public Patience with Tech Giants Is Running Out

    83 points • comment • dec 05, 2025

  45. map::operator[] should be nodiscard

    83 points • comment • dec 19, 2025

  46. Einstein: NewtonOS running on other operating systems

    83 points • comment • dec 08, 2025

  47. Laying out the 404 Media zine

    83 points • comment • dec 12, 2025

  48. URL Pattern API

    83 points • comment • dec 25, 2025

  49. Ask HN: How do I bridge the gap between PhD and SWE experiences?

    83 points • comment • dec 18, 2025

  50. AMD officially confirms fresh next-gen Zen 6 CPU details

    83 points • comment • dec 19, 2025

  51. Lean theorem prover mathlib

    82 points • comment • dec 14, 2025

  52. Tell HN: Merry Christmas

    82 points • comment • dec 24, 2025

  53. An attempt to articulate Forth's practical strengths and eternal usefulness

    82 points • comment • dec 08, 2025

  54. Show HN: Learn Japanese contextually while browsing

    82 points • comment • dec 17, 2025

  55. A 'toaster with a lens': The story behind the first handheld digital camera

    82 points • comment • dec 08, 2025

  56. Show HN: I was reintroduced to computers: Raspberry Pi

    82 points • comment • dec 02, 2025

  57. Show HN: Stepped Actions – distributed workflow orchestration for Rails

    82 points • comment • dec 14, 2025

  58. Slop Is Slop

    82 points • comment • dec 30, 2025

  59. Postponed '60 Minutes' segment on Salvadoran prison is streamed by Canadian news

    82 points • comment • dec 23, 2025

  60. Nvidia GB10's Memory Subsystem, from the CPU Side

    82 points • comment • dec 31, 2025

  61. Apple will not let me join the Developer Program – and will not say why

    82 points • comment • dec 03, 2025

  62. MIT Missing Semester 2026

    82 points • comment • dec 15, 2025

  63. Danish postal service to stop delivering letters

    82 points • comment • dec 22, 2025

  64. Jony Ive's OpenAI Device Barred From Using 'io' Name

    82 points • comment • dec 05, 2025

  65. Greeting Vocalizations in Domestic Cats Are More Frequent with Male Caregivers

    82 points • comment • dec 03, 2025

  66. The most banned books in U.S. schools

    82 points • comment • dec 18, 2025

  67. Good conversations have lots of doorknobs (2022)

    82 points • comment • dec 08, 2025

  68. Golfing Is Not Rowing

    82 points • comment • dec 24, 2025

  69. ICE's interest in high-tech gear raises new questions: 'What is it for?'

    82 points • comment • dec 26, 2025

  70. Australia's social media ban was pushed by ad agency focused on gambling ads

    82 points • comment • dec 15, 2025

  71. Librarians tired of being accused of hiding secret books that were made up by AI

    81 points • comment • dec 25, 2025

  72. All-optical synthesis chip for large-scale intelligent semantic vision

    81 points • comment • dec 31, 2025

  73. Workday project at Washington University hits $266M

    81 points • comment • dec 13, 2025

  74. Python Applied Mathematics Labs

    81 points • comment • dec 25, 2025

  75. Ask HN: Is building a calm, non-gamified learning app a mistake?

    81 points • comment • dec 15, 2025

  76. Socialist ends by market means: A history

    81 points • comment • dec 08, 2025

  77. TRELLIS.2: state-of-the-art large 3D generative model (4B)

    81 points • comment • dec 16, 2025

  78. Obscuring P2P Nodes with Dandelion

    81 points • comment • dec 08, 2025

  79. Beijing is enforcing tough rules to ensure chatbots don’t misbehave

    81 points • comment • dec 24, 2025

  80. VA Linux: The biggest dotcom IPO

    81 points • comment • dec 11, 2025

  81. Why Replicate is joining Cloudflare

    81 points • comment • dec 02, 2025

  82. Ask HN: How many people got VPNs in response to laws like UK Online Safety Act?

    81 points • comment • dec 06, 2025

  83. How the RESISTORS put computing into 1960s counter-culture

    81 points • comment • dec 17, 2025

  84. Ask HN: Was HN just down for anyone else?

    80 points • comment • dec 17, 2025

  85. Spinlocks vs. Mutexes: When to Spin and When to Sleep

    80 points • comment • dec 08, 2025

  86. Will West Coast Jazz Get Some Respect?

    80 points • comment • dec 06, 2025

  87. Nixtml: Static website and blog generator written in Nix

    80 points • comment • dec 02, 2025

  88. A deep dive into QEMU: The Tiny Code Generator (TCG), part 1 (2021)

    80 points • comment • dec 02, 2025

  89. Opus 1.6 Released – Interactive Audio Codec

    80 points • comment • dec 16, 2025

  90. Show HN: Aroma: Every TCP Proxy Is Detectable with RTT Fingerprinting

    80 points • comment • dec 25, 2025

  91. Show HN: Autograd.c – A tiny ML framework built from scratch

    79 points • comment • dec 16, 2025

  92. PyPI in 2025: A Year in Review

    79 points • comment • dec 31, 2025

  93. Advent of Swift

    79 points • comment • dec 14, 2025

  94. 'Three norths' alignment about to end

    79 points • comment • dec 24, 2025

  95. Mt. Gox CEO Karpelès Reveals Details of 2014 Collapse and Japanese Detention

    79 points • comment • dec 24, 2025

  96. Stanford Lecture: Dr. Don Knuth – Adventures with Knight's Tours [video]

    79 points • comment • dec 24, 2025

  97. Show HN: A 2-row, 16-key keyboard designed for smartphones

    79 points • comment • dec 10, 2025

  98. Designing a Passive Lidar Detector Device

    79 points • comment • dec 15, 2025

  99. Running on Empty: Copper

    79 points • comment • dec 08, 2025

  100. Oliver Sacks put himself into his case studies. What was the cost?

    78 points • comment • dec 13, 2025