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Hacker News (Dec 2025)

  1. The scariest boot loader code

    70 points • comment • dec 19, 2025

  2. Durin is a library for reading and writing the Dwarf debugging format

    70 points • comment • dec 01, 2025

  3. After the Bubble

    70 points • comment • dec 09, 2025

  4. Gaussian Splatting 3 Ways

    70 points • comment • dec 26, 2025

  5. Foreign tech workers are avoiding travel to the US

    70 points • comment • dec 30, 2025

  6. Hardware Touch, Stronger SSH

    70 points • comment • dec 22, 2025

  7. Private equity is killing private ownership: first it was housing, now it's PCs

    70 points • comment • dec 29, 2025

  8. Slax: Live Pocket Linux

    70 points • comment • dec 08, 2025

  9. Why proteins fold and how GPUs help us fold

    69 points • comment • dec 15, 2025

  10. Quantum Error Correction Goes FOOM

    69 points • comment • dec 25, 2025

  11. Handheld PC Community Forums

    69 points • comment • dec 21, 2025

  12. Arcee Trinity Mini: US-Trained Moe Model

    69 points • comment • dec 02, 2025

  13. So What Should We Call This – A Grue Jay?

    69 points • comment • dec 07, 2025

  14. Oldest attestation of Austronesian language: Đông Yên Châu inscription

    69 points • comment • dec 05, 2025

  15. Learn Lisp/Fennel Programming Against Neovim

    69 points • comment • dec 17, 2025

  16. Frequently Asked Unicycling Questions

    68 points • comment • dec 02, 2025

  17. Apple’s head of user interface design, Alan Dye, will join Meta

    68 points • comment • dec 04, 2025

  18. Show HN: I Made Loom for Mobile

    68 points • comment • dec 19, 2025

  19. Inverse Parentheses

    68 points • comment • dec 22, 2025

  20. Post-transformer inference: 224× compression of Llama-70B with improved accuracy

    68 points • comment • dec 10, 2025

  21. Building a Transparent Keyserver

    68 points • comment • dec 19, 2025

  22. Windows 11 will ask consent before sharing personal files with AI after outrage

    68 points • comment • dec 17, 2025

  23. Rats Snatching Bats Out of the Air and Eating Them–Researchers Got It on Video

    68 points • comment • dec 05, 2025

  24. Detect memory leaks of C extensions with psutil and psleak

    68 points • comment • dec 24, 2025

  25. DNA Learning Center: Mechanism of Replication 3D Animation

    68 points • comment • dec 07, 2025

  26. Don MacKinnon: Why Simplicity Beats Cleverness in Software Design [audio]

    68 points • comment • dec 15, 2025

  27. Copy-Item is slower than File Explorer

    68 points • comment • dec 06, 2025

  28. EU hits X with €120M fine for breaching the Digital Services Act

    68 points • comment • dec 06, 2025

  29. Evaluating chain-of-thought monitorability

    68 points • comment • dec 19, 2025

  30. Agentic Development Environment by JetBrains

    67 points • comment • dec 03, 2025

  31. Show HN: C-compiler to compile TCC for live-bootstrap

    67 points • comment • dec 17, 2025

  32. Deprecate like you mean it

    67 points • comment • dec 11, 2025

  33. They made me an offer I couldn't refuse (1997)

    67 points • comment • dec 23, 2025

  34. Anatomy of US inequality

    67 points • comment • dec 20, 2025

  35. Psilocybin triggers activity-dependent rewiring of large-scale cortical networks

    67 points • comment • dec 30, 2025

  36. Silicon Valley's tone-deaf take on the AI backlash will matter in 2026

    67 points • comment • dec 25, 2025

  37. No Longer Evil – new life for dead/outdated Nest Generation 1 and 2 thermostats

    66 points • comment • dec 25, 2025

  38. Vitest Browser Mode Guide

    66 points • comment • dec 25, 2025

  39. Wall Street races to protect itself from AI bubble

    66 points • comment • dec 05, 2025

  40. ULID: Universally Unique Lexicographically Sortable Identifier

    66 points • comment • dec 01, 2025

  41. Buteyko Method

    66 points • comment • dec 19, 2025

  42. OpenAI disables ChatGPT app suggestions that looked like ads

    66 points • comment • dec 07, 2025

  43. The Cost of a Closure in C: The Rest

    66 points • comment • dec 31, 2025

  44. Show HN: Composify – Open-Source Visual Editor / Server-Driven UI for React

    65 points • comment • dec 18, 2025

  45. PNG in Chrome shows a different image than in Safari or any desktop app

    65 points • comment • dec 27, 2025

  46. Building small Docker images faster

    65 points • comment • dec 12, 2025

  47. In Re: 23andMe, Inc. Customer Data Security Breach Litigation

    65 points • comment • dec 01, 2025

  48. Prove It All Night: With no fame or fortune, what keeps a band onstage? (1999)

    65 points • comment • dec 02, 2025

  49. JEDEC developing reduced pin count HBM4 standard to enable higher capacity

    65 points • comment • dec 18, 2025

  50. Countdown until the AI bubble bursts

    65 points • comment • dec 04, 2025

  51. Show HN: Pbnj – A minimal, self-hosted pastebin you can deploy in 60 seconds

    65 points • comment • dec 05, 2025

  52. Training LLMs for honesty via confessions

    65 points • comment • dec 12, 2025

  53. Observed Agent Sandbox Bypasses

    65 points • comment • dec 28, 2025

  54. Simple 3D Packing

    65 points • comment • dec 27, 2025

  55. Hybrid Aerial Underwater Drone – Bachelor Project [video]

    65 points • comment • dec 22, 2025

  56. Steam Store is offline

    65 points • comment • dec 24, 2025

  57. Mountain home near Aspen, built for monks, sold to Palantir CEO for $120M

    65 points • comment • dec 21, 2025

  58. Build Software. Build Users

    65 points • comment • dec 28, 2025

  59. Ask HN: Any example of successful vibe-coded product?

    64 points • comment • dec 30, 2025

  60. Groq investor sounds alarm on data centers

    64 points • comment • dec 30, 2025

  61. Illuminating the processor core with LLVM-mca

    64 points • comment • dec 14, 2025

  62. Show HN: Detail, a Bug Finder

    64 points • comment • dec 09, 2025

  63. Show HN: Wirebrowser – A JavaScript debugger with breakpoint-driven heap search

    64 points • comment • dec 10, 2025

  64. Ask HN: How are you LLM-coding in an established code base?

    64 points • comment • dec 16, 2025

  65. How Willie Nelson sees America

    64 points • comment • dec 23, 2025

  66. What on earth is Kubernetes? (a beginners intro)

    64 points • comment • dec 26, 2025

  67. Show HN: WhatHappened – HN summaries, heatmaps, and contrarian picks

    64 points • comment • dec 08, 2025

  68. Break up bad companies; replace bad union bosses

    64 points • comment • dec 15, 2025

  69. Nearly 60% of Last Year's Graduates Still Haven't Landed Their First Job

    64 points • comment • dec 08, 2025

  70. Tesla US sales drop to nearly 4-year low in November

    64 points • comment • dec 12, 2025

  71. Military standard on software control levels

    63 points • comment • dec 18, 2025

  72. Confuse some SSH bots and make botters block you

    63 points • comment • dec 11, 2025

  73. Annual Production of 1/72 (22mm) scale plastic soldiers, 1958-2025

    63 points • comment • dec 13, 2025

  74. React and Remix Choose Different Futures

    63 points • comment • dec 01, 2025

  75. The uncertain origins of aspirin

    63 points • comment • dec 16, 2025

  76. Can I throw a C++ exception from a structured exception?

    63 points • comment • dec 29, 2025

  77. The Duodecimal Bulletin, Vol. 55, No. 1, Year 1209 [pdf]

    63 points • comment • dec 23, 2025

  78. BMW Patents Proprietary Screws That Only Dealerships Can Remove

    63 points • comment • dec 22, 2025

  79. The immortality of Microsoft Word

    63 points • comment • dec 18, 2025

  80. ELF Crimes: Program Interpreter Fun

    63 points • comment • dec 21, 2025

  81. Faster practical modular inversion

    63 points • comment • dec 21, 2025

  82. Waymo suspends service in San Francisco as robotaxis stall during blackout

    62 points • comment • dec 21, 2025

  83. Vibe Coding: Empowering and Imprisoning

    62 points • comment • dec 02, 2025

  84. Line scan camera image processing

    62 points • comment • dec 25, 2025

  85. Chain Flinger

    62 points • comment • dec 28, 2025

  86. Zellij: A terminal workspace with batteries included

    62 points • comment • dec 05, 2025

  87. Self-referencing Page Tables for the x86-Architecture

    62 points • comment • dec 25, 2025

  88. Proving Bounds for the Randomized MaxCut Approximation Algorithm in Lean4

    62 points • comment • dec 20, 2025

  89. The Fisher-Yates shuffle is backward

    62 points • comment • dec 20, 2025

  90. Testing a cheaper laminar flow hood

    62 points • comment • dec 12, 2025

  91. Semantic Compression (2014)

    62 points • comment • dec 07, 2025

  92. Locked out: How a gift card purchase destroyed an Apple account

    62 points • comment • dec 17, 2025

  93. Dhtml Lemmings (2004)

    62 points • comment • dec 08, 2025

  94. Purdue University approves new AI requirement for all undergrads

    62 points • comment • dec 13, 2025

  95. Millions of Americans mess up their taxes, but a new law will help

    62 points • comment • dec 07, 2025

  96. Uxn32: Uxn Emulator for Windows and Wine

    62 points • comment • dec 28, 2025

  97. How geometry is fundamental for chess

    62 points • comment • dec 11, 2025

  98. Donald E. Knuth and Peter van Emde Boas on priority deques (1977) [pdf]

    62 points • comment • dec 24, 2025

  99. AI Is Destroying the University and Learning Itself

    62 points • comment • dec 02, 2025

  100. Awesome-Jj: Jujutsu Things

    61 points • comment • dec 14, 2025