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Hacker News (Dec 2025)

  1. Spice: A 40-year old open-source success story (2011)

    38 points • comment • dec 24, 2025

  2. Palantir CEO Says Making War Crimes Constitutional Would Be Good for Business

    38 points • comment • dec 03, 2025

  3. 'PromptQuest' is the worst game of 2025 (trying to make chatbots work)

    38 points • comment • dec 28, 2025

  4. Left Behind: Futurist Fetishists, Prepping and the Abandonment of Earth (2019)

    38 points • comment • dec 29, 2025

  5. The Prison of Financial Mediocrity

    38 points • comment • dec 28, 2025

  6. 'Life being stressful is not an illness' – GPs on mental health over-diagnosis

    38 points • comment • dec 06, 2025

  7. Our emotional pain became a product

    38 points • comment • dec 14, 2025

  8. Something Ominous Is Happening in the AI Economy

    38 points • comment • dec 11, 2025

  9. Intelligence – A Mystery Investigation Game

    38 points • comment • dec 25, 2025

  10. Light intensity steers molecular assemblies into 1D, 2D or 3D structures

    38 points • comment • dec 10, 2025

  11. Show HN: Private blogging and journaling with a simulated audience

    38 points • comment • dec 26, 2025

  12. 14yo won $25k for origami, discovered pattern that holds 10k times its weight

    38 points • comment • dec 01, 2025

  13. Finding Jingle Town: Debugging an N64 Game Without Symbols

    38 points • comment • dec 23, 2025

  14. Distributed ID formats are architectural commitments, not just data types

    38 points • comment • dec 06, 2025

  15. Beyond the Nat: Cgnat, Bandwidth, and Practical Tunneling

    38 points • comment • dec 27, 2025

  16. Why the Internet Is Bad for Democracy (2005)

    38 points • comment • dec 29, 2025

  17. TigerBeetle as a File Storage

    38 points • comment • dec 07, 2025

  18. Finnix

    38 points • comment • dec 08, 2025

  19. Does my key fob have more computing power than the Lunar lander?

    38 points • comment • dec 13, 2025

  20. Show HN: Waycore – an open-source, offline-first modular field computer

    38 points • comment • dec 27, 2025

  21. Feast Your Eyes on Japan's Fake Food

    37 points • comment • dec 16, 2025

  22. If You Quit Social Media, Will You Read More Books?

    37 points • comment • dec 11, 2025

  23. The Average Founder Ages 6 Months Each Year

    37 points • comment • dec 12, 2025

  24. UK to "encourage" Apple and Google to put nudity-blocking systems on phones

    37 points • comment • dec 15, 2025

  25. PS5 ROM Keys

    37 points • comment • dec 31, 2025

  26. Gild Just One Lily

    37 points • comment • dec 08, 2025

  27. Kicking Robots

    37 points • comment • dec 06, 2025

  28. Performance Hints – Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat

    37 points • comment • dec 19, 2025

  29. Dollar on track for steepest annual drop for almost a decade

    37 points • comment • dec 30, 2025

  30. Four Million U.S. Children Had No Health Insurance in 2024

    37 points • comment • dec 16, 2025

  31. Why are your models so big? (2023)

    37 points • comment • dec 02, 2025

  32. Cjanet

    37 points • comment • dec 26, 2025

  33. Show HN: TheAuditor v2.0 – A “Flight Computer” for AI Coding Agents

    37 points • comment • dec 16, 2025

  34. Why we can’t quit Excel

    37 points • comment • dec 05, 2025

  35. Mozilla's new CEO is doubling down on an AI future for Firefox

    37 points • comment • dec 16, 2025

  36. Manus AI 100M USD ARR

    37 points • comment • dec 28, 2025

  37. Atomic time source failure at NIST Gaithersburg campus

    37 points • comment • dec 10, 2025

  38. Meta's new EU regulator is contractually prohibited from hurting Meta's feelings

    37 points • comment • dec 01, 2025

  39. AI Withholds Life-or-Death Information Unless You Know the Magic Words

    37 points • comment • dec 25, 2025

  40. Programming language speed comparison using Leibniz formula for π

    37 points • comment • dec 15, 2025

  41. I created a publishing system for step-by-step coding guides in Typst

    37 points • comment • dec 13, 2025

  42. Should CSS be a constraint system instead?

    37 points • comment • dec 07, 2025

  43. Ravaan.art

    37 points • comment • dec 15, 2025

  44. Windows 11 October 2025 Update Triggers Major Gaming Performance Regression

    37 points • comment • dec 02, 2025

  45. The Inner-Platform Effect (2006)

    36 points • comment • dec 22, 2025

  46. South Korea – A cautionary tale for the rest of humanity

    36 points • comment • dec 11, 2025

  47. Show HN: Evidex – AI Clinical Search (RAG over PubMed/OpenAlex and SOAP Notes)

    36 points • comment • dec 29, 2025

  48. Agentic QA – Open-source middleware to fuzz-test agents for loops

    36 points • comment • dec 03, 2025

  49. Former Twitter Attorney Files for 'Twitter' Trademark

    36 points • comment • dec 09, 2025

  50. I'm tired of Hacker News slop

    36 points • comment • dec 22, 2025

  51. US air travelers without REAL IDs will be charged a $45 fee

    36 points • comment • dec 02, 2025

  52. Making the most of bit arrays in Gleam

    36 points • comment • dec 18, 2025

  53. Is Firefox Firefucked?

    36 points • comment • dec 19, 2025

  54. Market design can feed the poor

    36 points • comment • dec 29, 2025

  55. P: Formal Modeling and Analysis of Distributed (Event-Driven) Systems

    36 points • comment • dec 17, 2025

  56. Mozilla right now (Digital Painting)

    36 points • comment • dec 21, 2025

  57. The Rise and Fall of the H-1B Visa – American Affairs Journal

    36 points • comment • dec 02, 2025

  58. Building a High-Performance OpenAPI Parser in Go

    36 points • comment • dec 15, 2025

  59. Legal sports betting linked to sharp increases in violent crime

    36 points • comment • dec 27, 2025

  60. Show HN: I implemented generics in my programming language

    36 points • comment • dec 15, 2025

  61. Exploring Speculative JIT Compilation for Emacs Lisp with Java

    36 points • comment • dec 19, 2025

  62. White House website mysteriously streams personal finance YouTube creator

    36 points • comment • dec 20, 2025

  63. Europe Is Under Siege

    36 points • comment • dec 08, 2025

  64. Dhrystone

    36 points • comment • dec 02, 2025

  65. Microsoft is quietly walking back its diversity efforts

    36 points • comment • dec 08, 2025

  66. Show HN: An easy way of broadcasting radio around you (looking for feedback)

    36 points • comment • dec 17, 2025

  67. Washington state Medicare users could soon have claims denied by AI

    36 points • comment • dec 08, 2025

  68. Amazon pulls AI-powered Fallout recap after getting key story details wrong

    36 points • comment • dec 12, 2025

  69. No-Tifier (2017)

    36 points • comment • dec 10, 2025

  70. The Legacy of Nicaea

    35 points • comment • dec 13, 2025

  71. SSE sucks for transporting LLM tokens

    35 points • comment • dec 09, 2025

  72. Bedlam Cube Solved (ALL 19,186 solutions)

    35 points • comment • dec 22, 2025

  73. Open sourcing the Remix Store

    35 points • comment • dec 09, 2025

  74. How the 'hypnagogic state' of drowsiness could enhance your creativity

    35 points • comment • dec 06, 2025

  75. Head of Germany's Sovereign Tech Agency believes that Europe must invest in OSS

    35 points • comment • dec 02, 2025

  76. 3Duino helps you rapidly create interactive 3D-printed devices

    35 points • comment • dec 31, 2025

  77. I built a quiet site for finding ambient albums while working

    35 points • comment • dec 26, 2025

  78. Lottocracy: Democracy Without Elections

    35 points • comment • dec 30, 2025

  79. Shock Wave Formation Simulator

    35 points • comment • dec 30, 2025

  80. Devastated PC builder orders DDR5 RAM from Amazon receives DDR2 and some weights

    35 points • comment • dec 18, 2025

  81. Fast Median Filter over arbitrary datatypes

    35 points • comment • dec 06, 2025

  82. Getting serial port output on modern Macs

    35 points • comment • dec 16, 2025

  83. Oblast: A better Blasto game for the Commodore 64

    35 points • comment • dec 07, 2025

  84. Toxic Fumes on Planes Blamed for Deaths of Pilots and Crew

    35 points • comment • dec 22, 2025

  85. Microsoft faces complaint in EU over Israeli surveillance data

    35 points • comment • dec 04, 2025

  86. Science Communications on YouTube

    35 points • comment • dec 06, 2025

  87. Writing non-English languages with a QWERTY keyboard

    35 points • comment • dec 24, 2025

  88. Breaking Paragraphs into Lines [pdf] (1981)

    35 points • comment • dec 12, 2025

  89. Show HN: Gotui – a modern Go terminal dashboard library

    35 points • comment • dec 11, 2025

  90. US will now review H-1B applicants' social media – require them to make public

    35 points • comment • dec 04, 2025

  91. Pose-free 3D Gaussian splatting via shape-ray estimation

    35 points • comment • dec 01, 2025

  92. Valkey is an open source (BSD) high-performance key/value datastore

    35 points • comment • dec 03, 2025

  93. A trip through the Graphics Pipeline (2011)

    35 points • comment • dec 11, 2025

  94. Confessions to a Data Lake

    35 points • comment • dec 23, 2025

  95. The Mysterious Realm of JavaScriptCore (2021)

    35 points • comment • dec 04, 2025

  96. A geothermal amoeba sets a new upper temperature limit for eukaryotes

    35 points • comment • dec 07, 2025

  97. Time in C++: Inter-Clock Conversions, Epochs, and Durations

    35 points • comment • dec 26, 2025

  98. Gamers Are Overwhelmingly Negative About Gen AI in Video Games

    34 points • comment • dec 19, 2025

  99. Italians celebrate village's first baby in 30 years

    34 points • comment • dec 28, 2025

  100. Removing juries: 'A move towards an authoritarian state'

    34 points • comment • dec 08, 2025