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Hacker News (Dec 2025)
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I don't think Lindley's paradox supports p-circling
43 points • comment • dec 16, 2025
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Show HN: I built a WebMIDI sequencer to control my hardware synths
43 points • comment • dec 11, 2025
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Pantograph: Building a preschool for robots
43 points • comment • dec 23, 2025
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What Is "Open Recursion"? (2013)
43 points • comment • dec 02, 2025
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The Mammoth Pirates – In Russia's Arctic north, a new kind of gold rush
43 points • comment • dec 25, 2025
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A proposed amendment to ban under 16s in the UK from common online services
43 points • comment • dec 19, 2025
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Jim Beam halts production at main distillery for a year
43 points • comment • dec 23, 2025
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C –> Java != Java –> LLM
43 points • comment • dec 28, 2025
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What folk can do
42 points • comment • dec 08, 2025
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Space Math Academy
42 points • comment • dec 20, 2025
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Disks Lie: Building a WAL that actually survives
42 points • comment • dec 12, 2025
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Google Antigravity Deletes D Drive
42 points • comment • dec 01, 2025
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SpaceX in Talks for Share Sale That Would Boost Valuation to $800B
42 points • comment • dec 05, 2025
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How to translate a ROM: The mysteries of the game cartridge [video]
42 points • comment • dec 31, 2025
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O'saasy License Agreement
42 points • comment • dec 16, 2025
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A font with built-in TeX syntax highlighting
42 points • comment • dec 27, 2025
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Show HN: Web app that lets you send email time capsules
42 points • comment • dec 08, 2025
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Go's escape analysis and why my function return worked
42 points • comment • dec 05, 2025
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Checkers Arcade
42 points • comment • dec 12, 2025
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Playing Santa changed Bob Rutan profoundly
42 points • comment • dec 13, 2025
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Feds demand compromise on Colorado River while states flounder
42 points • comment • dec 22, 2025
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Data Bank – Nuforc – Latest UFO Sightings
42 points • comment • dec 20, 2025
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Beating myself at chess
42 points • comment • dec 30, 2025
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Advent of Code 2025: The AI Edition – By Peter Norvig
42 points • comment • dec 06, 2025
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Show HN: Spice Cayenne – SQL acceleration built on Vortex
42 points • comment • dec 18, 2025
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Why your early 2000s photos are probably lost forever
42 points • comment • dec 29, 2025
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New York to require social media platforms to display mental health warnings
42 points • comment • dec 27, 2025
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Stop talking
41 points • comment • dec 03, 2025
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America's richest 10% now hold 60% of the nation's wealth
41 points • comment • dec 27, 2025
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Which Humans? (2023)
41 points • comment • dec 29, 2025
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No shares in company, but 550 employees received a $240M gift from their owner
41 points • comment • dec 25, 2025
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Show HN: Python SDK – forecasting with foundation time-series and tabular models
41 points • comment • dec 18, 2025
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Ask HN: Why isn't there competition to LinkedIn yet?
41 points • comment • dec 22, 2025
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Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (1923)
41 points • comment • dec 27, 2025
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Dynamic Pong Wars
41 points • comment • dec 06, 2025
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Google Starts Sharing All Your Text Messages with Your Employer
41 points • comment • dec 01, 2025
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Minimum Viable Arduino Project: Aeropress Timer
41 points • comment • dec 02, 2025
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Microsoft kills IntelliCode in favor of the paid Copilot
41 points • comment • dec 18, 2025
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Should we fear Microsoft's monopoly?
41 points • comment • dec 16, 2025
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Abstract Interpretation in the Toy Optimizer
41 points • comment • dec 04, 2025
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FBI Wanted List: Fraudulent Remote IT Workers from DPRK
41 points • comment • dec 15, 2025
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Google Tells Advertisers It'll Bring Ads to Gemini in 2026
41 points • comment • dec 08, 2025
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'Vampire Squid from Hell' Reveals the Ancient Origins of Octopuses
41 points • comment • dec 01, 2025
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Is the golden age of Indie software over?
41 points • comment • dec 22, 2025
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Weight loss jabs: What happens when you stop taking them
41 points • comment • dec 21, 2025
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Geometric Algorithms for Translucency Sorting in Minecraft [pdf]
41 points • comment • dec 18, 2025
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Physicists prove the Universe isn't a simulation after all
40 points • comment • dec 06, 2025
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Flow Where You Want – Guidance for Flow Models
40 points • comment • dec 06, 2025
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Still using Firefox – but not because of its vision
40 points • comment • dec 30, 2025
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Torch.ts – building PyTorch in TypeScript from scratch to learn
40 points • comment • dec 31, 2025
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Opinion: US Authorities Have Far-Reaching Access to European Cloud Data
40 points • comment • dec 11, 2025
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Steam on Linux Use Easily Hits an All-Time High in November
40 points • comment • dec 02, 2025
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Create a Markdown Editor in Ruby on Rails
40 points • comment • dec 10, 2025
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Microscopic robots that sense, think, act, and compute
40 points • comment • dec 14, 2025
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In 1995, a Netscape employee wrote a hack in 10 days that now runs the Internet
40 points • comment • dec 27, 2025
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Weight-loss pill approval set to accelerate food industry product overhauls
40 points • comment • dec 25, 2025
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Using Git add -p for fun (and profit)
40 points • comment • dec 10, 2025
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Show HN: Tascli, a command line based (human) task and record manager
40 points • comment • dec 06, 2025
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Show HN: Spacelist, a TUI for Aerospace window manager
40 points • comment • dec 26, 2025
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Make images smaller using best-in-class codecs, right in the browser
40 points • comment • dec 06, 2025
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Europe: WhatsApp opens for third-party apps
40 points • comment • dec 07, 2025
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Former ULA President and CEO Tory Bruno Joins Blue Origin
40 points • comment • dec 27, 2025
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Zuckerberg Cut Ties with Pro-Immigration Organization He Founded
40 points • comment • dec 19, 2025
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Super-Emitter of the Most Damaging Greenhouse Gas Found in Germany
40 points • comment • dec 12, 2025
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HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS)
40 points • comment • dec 29, 2025
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Ziglings: Learn the Zig programming language by fixing tiny broken programs
40 points • comment • dec 07, 2025
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CEO killed at industrial site by worker operating forklift
40 points • comment • dec 24, 2025
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South Korea police say 120k home cameras hacked for 'sexploitation' footage
40 points • comment • dec 02, 2025
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The Legacy of Undersea Cables
40 points • comment • dec 30, 2025
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Instacart director says she was fired for Democratic congressional campaign
40 points • comment • dec 15, 2025
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Custom Cross Compiler with Nix
39 points • comment • dec 24, 2025
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We Lost Something: 1970s REPLs Were Better Than Modern Development Environments
39 points • comment • dec 13, 2025
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Flow – A Programmer's Text Editor
39 points • comment • dec 17, 2025
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When did the job market get so rude?
39 points • comment • dec 12, 2025
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Tc – Theodore Calvin's language-agnostic testing framework
39 points • comment • dec 22, 2025
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llamafile: Distribute and Run LLMs with a Single File
39 points • comment • dec 13, 2025
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Spirograph style Lego drawing machine
39 points • comment • dec 08, 2025
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Ask HN: Pivot from SWE to What?
39 points • comment • dec 25, 2025
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Microsoft Teams will tell your boss when you're out of the office
39 points • comment • dec 01, 2025
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Cleartext signatures considered harmful
39 points • comment • dec 27, 2025
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A Starlink Satellite Exploded
39 points • comment • dec 18, 2025
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Yanis Varoufakis on the future of capitalism [video]
39 points • comment • dec 27, 2025
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Show HN: Solving the ~95% legislative coverage gap using LLM's
39 points • comment • dec 16, 2025
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Questions engineers should ask future employers in interviews
39 points • comment • dec 26, 2025
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The Gamma Language
39 points • comment • dec 06, 2025
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A look back: LANPAR, the first spreadsheet
39 points • comment • dec 17, 2025
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An amateur codebreaker may have just solved the Black Dahlia and Zodiac killings
39 points • comment • dec 23, 2025
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Instacart reaches into your pocket and lops a third off your dollars
39 points • comment • dec 12, 2025
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Periodic Spaces
39 points • comment • dec 03, 2025
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The Mysterious Forces Steering Views on Hacker News
39 points • comment • dec 18, 2025
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Cursed circuits #3: true mathematics
39 points • comment • dec 22, 2025
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US seizes oil tanker off coast of Venezuela
39 points • comment • dec 10, 2025
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Salesforce pulls back from LLMs, pivots Agentforce to deterministic automation
38 points • comment • dec 28, 2025
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TigerBeetle as a File Storage
38 points • comment • dec 07, 2025
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'PromptQuest' is the worst game of 2025 (trying to make chatbots work)
38 points • comment • dec 28, 2025
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Russian Ghost Ship Sank Smuggling Nuclear Reactor Parts Likely Bound for N Korea
38 points • comment • dec 29, 2025
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Left Behind: Futurist Fetishists, Prepping and the Abandonment of Earth (2019)
38 points • comment • dec 29, 2025
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Finnix
38 points • comment • dec 08, 2025
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Launch HN: Pulse (YC S24) – Production-grade unstructured document extraction
38 points • comment • dec 18, 2025
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Show HN: Epstein's emails reconstructed in a message-style UI (OCR and LLMs)
38 points • comment • dec 12, 2025