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Hacker News (Dec 2025)

  1. Netherlands – Capital Growth Tax and Capital Gains Tax for Box 3

    78 points • comment • dec 02, 2025

  2. Show HN: Tripwire: A new anti evil maid defense

    78 points • comment • dec 11, 2025

  3. Sandbox: Run untrusted AI code safely, fast

    78 points • comment • dec 19, 2025

  4. Letta Code

    78 points • comment • dec 16, 2025

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

    78 points • comment • dec 13, 2025

  6. Mitsubishi Diatone D-160 (1985)

    78 points • comment • dec 29, 2025

  7. Ask HN: Who here is not working on web apps/server code?

    78 points • comment • dec 18, 2025

  8. Learning Fortran (2024)

    78 points • comment • dec 17, 2025

  9. Pingfs: Stores your data in ICMP ping packets (2020)

    78 points • comment • dec 14, 2025

  10. Go Gray, Not Cray: Why You Should Grayscale Your Phone

    78 points • comment • dec 21, 2025

  11. Creating custom yellow handshake emojis with zero-width joiners

    78 points • comment • dec 16, 2025

  12. Dogalog: A realtime Prolog-based livecoding music environment

    78 points • comment • dec 14, 2025

  13. Singapore Study Links Heavy Infant Screen Time to Teen Anxiety

    78 points • comment • dec 30, 2025

  14. The Absent Silence (2010)

    77 points • comment • dec 02, 2025

  15. Show HN: Learning a Language Using Only Words You Know

    77 points • comment • dec 15, 2025

  16. Applets are officially gone, but Java in the browser is better

    77 points • comment • dec 08, 2025

  17. CloudFlare is ruining the internet (for me)

    77 points • comment • dec 27, 2025

  18. The 70% AI productivity myth: why most companies aren't seeing the gains

    77 points • comment • dec 30, 2025

  19. VSCode rebrands as "The open source AI code editor"

    77 points • comment • dec 27, 2025

  20. Turning an old Amazon Kindle into a eInk development platform (2021)

    77 points • comment • dec 26, 2025

  21. Using AI Generated Code Will Make You a Bad Programmer

    77 points • comment • dec 19, 2025

  22. Fossils reveal anacondas have been giants for over 12 million years

    76 points • comment • dec 02, 2025

  23. Berkshire Hathaway Announces Leadership Appointments [pdf]

    76 points • comment • dec 08, 2025

  24. Using AI generated images to get refunds

    76 points • comment • dec 31, 2025

  25. Put a ring on it: a lock-free MPMC ring buffer

    76 points • comment • dec 16, 2025

  26. New Kindle feature uses AI to answer questions about books

    76 points • comment • dec 12, 2025

  27. P-computers can solve spin-glass problems faster than quantum systems

    76 points • comment • dec 07, 2025

  28. Senator endorses discredited book that claims chemical treats autism, cancer

    76 points • comment • dec 12, 2025

  29. When a driver challenges the kernel's assumptions

    76 points • comment • dec 26, 2025

  30. Kubernetes egress control with squid proxy

    76 points • comment • dec 29, 2025

  31. I have to give Fortnite my passport to use Bluesky

    76 points • comment • dec 19, 2025

  32. Brent's Encapsulated C Programming Rules (2020)

    76 points • comment • dec 09, 2025

  33. More than 100 rally against data centers at Michigan Capitol

    76 points • comment • dec 16, 2025

  34. Free Software Awards Winners Announced: Andy Wingo, Alx Sa, Govdirectory

    75 points • comment • dec 14, 2025

  35. Show HN: The Official National Train Map Sucked, So I Made My Own

    75 points • comment • dec 21, 2025

  36. Decompiling the New C# 14 field Keyword

    75 points • comment • dec 17, 2025

  37. US sanctions EU government officials behind the DSA

    75 points • comment • dec 24, 2025

  38. Show HN: I open-sourced my Go and Next B2B SaaS Starter (deploy anywhere, MIT)

    75 points • comment • dec 19, 2025

  39. Volcanic eruptions set off a chain of events that brought Black Death to Europe

    75 points • comment • dec 06, 2025

  40. Show HN: Replacing my OS process scheduler with an LLM

    75 points • comment • dec 30, 2025

  41. The next-gen mainboard designed with amigaos4 and morphos in mind

    75 points • comment • dec 25, 2025

  42. Miri: Practical Undefined Behavior Detection for Rust [pdf]

    75 points • comment • dec 28, 2025

  43. Geometric Algorithms for Translucency Sorting in Minecraft [pdf]

    75 points • comment • dec 26, 2025

  44. American Academy of Pediatrics loses HHS funding after criticizing RFK Jr.

    75 points • comment • dec 17, 2025

  45. The closer we look at time, the stranger it gets

    75 points • comment • dec 09, 2025

  46. Doublespeak: In-Context Representation Hijacking

    75 points • comment • dec 22, 2025

  47. Why Startups Die

    75 points • comment • dec 08, 2025

  48. Slaughtering Competition Problems with Quantifier Elimination (2021)

    74 points • comment • dec 28, 2025

  49. How I think about Kubernetes

    74 points • comment • dec 26, 2025

  50. 2 in 3 Americans think AI will cause major harm to humans in the next 20 years [pdf]

    74 points • comment • dec 28, 2025

  51. How the Creator Economy Destroyed the Internet

    74 points • comment • dec 08, 2025

  52. Cancer is surging, bringing a debate about whether to look for it

    74 points • comment • dec 08, 2025

  53. When irate product support customers demand to speak to Bill Gates

    74 points • comment • dec 23, 2025

  54. Dr. Richard Stallman to give free talk and QA at Georgia Tech Jan. 23rd 2-5pm

    74 points • comment • dec 21, 2025

  55. Memory Safety

    74 points • comment • dec 25, 2025

  56. Why isn't online age verification just like showing your ID in person?

    74 points • comment • dec 12, 2025

  57. Show HN: DuckDB for Kafka Stream Processing

    74 points • comment • dec 08, 2025

  58. A two-person method to simulate die rolls (2023)

    74 points • comment • dec 05, 2025

  59. Dagger: Define software delivery workflows and dev environments

    74 points • comment • dec 09, 2025

  60. Linux computer designed with AI boots on first attempt

    74 points • comment • dec 16, 2025

  61. Show HN: 100 Million splats, a whole town, rendered in M2 MacBook Air

    74 points • comment • dec 15, 2025

  62. Vanity activities

    74 points • comment • dec 01, 2025

  63. Lessons from a year of Postgres CDC in production

    74 points • comment • dec 20, 2025

  64. Loss of moist broadleaf forest in Africa has turned a carbon sink into source

    74 points • comment • dec 28, 2025

  65. 'Dracula's Chivito': Hubble reveals largest birthplace of planets ever observed

    74 points • comment • dec 24, 2025

  66. U.S. unemployment rose in November despite job gains

    73 points • comment • dec 16, 2025

  67. U.S. cybersecurity experts plead guilty for ransomware attacks

    73 points • comment • dec 30, 2025

  68. Steve wants us to make the Macintosh boot faster

    73 points • comment • dec 26, 2025

  69. ThingsBoard: Open-Source IoT Platform

    73 points • comment • dec 28, 2025

  70. Grokipedia Is the Antithesis of Wikipedia

    73 points • comment • dec 01, 2025

  71. Show HN: A 45x45 Connections Puzzle To Commemorate 2025=45*45

    73 points • comment • dec 24, 2025

  72. I cracked a $200 software protection with xcopy

    73 points • comment • dec 06, 2025

  73. How to complain (2024)

    72 points • comment • dec 28, 2025

  74. Mathematics Without Numbers (1959)

    72 points • comment • dec 02, 2025

  75. PG&E outages in S.F. leave 130k without electricity

    72 points • comment • dec 21, 2025

  76. AI Is Breaking the Moral Foundation of Modern Society

    72 points • comment • dec 03, 2025

  77. VRChat: “There are more Japanese creators than all other countries combined”

    72 points • comment • dec 17, 2025

  78. There's no such thing as a fake feather [video]

    72 points • comment • dec 18, 2025

  79. Parasites plagued Roman soldiers at Hadrian's Wall

    72 points • comment • dec 19, 2025

  80. Detainees at 'Alligator Alcatraz' facing 'harrowing human right violations'

    72 points • comment • dec 05, 2025

  81. The History of Xerox

    72 points • comment • dec 11, 2025

  82. Satellite captures the first detailed look at a giant tsunami

    72 points • comment • dec 03, 2025

  83. Willison on Merchant's "Copywriters reveal how AI has decimated their industry"

    72 points • comment • dec 14, 2025

  84. Could lockfiles just be SBOMs?

    72 points • comment • dec 24, 2025

  85. Finland gave two groups identical payments – one saw better mental health

    72 points • comment • dec 18, 2025

  86. History of Declarative Programming (2021)

    72 points • comment • dec 14, 2025

  87. Liskell – Haskell Semantics with Lisp Syntax [pdf]

    71 points • comment • dec 15, 2025

  88. Odoo: Open-Source ERP

    71 points • comment • dec 31, 2025

  89. Prototaxites

    71 points • comment • dec 20, 2025

  90. Why I think Valve’s retiring the Steam Deck LCD

    71 points • comment • dec 29, 2025

  91. Launch HN: BrowserBook (YC F24) – IDE for deterministic browser automation

    71 points • comment • dec 11, 2025

  92. Qualcomm acquires RISC-V focused Ventana Micro Systems

    71 points • comment • dec 10, 2025

  93. European Majority favours more social media regulation

    71 points • comment • dec 24, 2025

  94. Sending DMARC reports is somewhat hazardous

    71 points • comment • dec 03, 2025

  95. Extra Instructions Of The 65XX Series CPU (1996)

    71 points • comment • dec 06, 2025

  96. Slax: Live Pocket Linux

    70 points • comment • dec 08, 2025

  97. Foreign tech workers are avoiding travel to the US

    70 points • comment • dec 30, 2025

  98. Gaussian Splatting 3 Ways

    70 points • comment • dec 26, 2025

  99. Well being in times of algorithms

    70 points • comment • dec 22, 2025

  100. SMB Direct – SMB3 over RDMA

    70 points • comment • dec 19, 2025