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Hacker News (Dec 2025)
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Frances Elizabeth Allen: A woman who made code run fast
24 points • comment • dec 15, 2025
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Firewood Banks Aren't Inspiring. They're a Sign of Collapse
24 points • comment • dec 09, 2025
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The Organists Improvising Soundtracks to Silent Films
24 points • comment • dec 27, 2025
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Contextualization Machines
24 points • comment • dec 01, 2025
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The sword-wielding man hired to kick squatters out of empty Oakland homes
24 points • comment • dec 30, 2025
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Show HN: Shadowlight, a voice-driven murder mystery and heist inside Minecraft
24 points • comment • dec 31, 2025
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Pop _OS 24.04's New Scratch-Built Cosmic: Hands-On, with Screenshots
24 points • comment • dec 19, 2025
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Formulaic Delimiters in the Iliad and the Odyssey
24 points • comment • dec 27, 2025
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The World of OCR (C. 1960) [video]
23 points • comment • dec 14, 2025
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Show HN: Zs3 – S3 server in ~1K lines of Zig, 250KB binary, zero dependencies
23 points • comment • dec 29, 2025
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This Month in Ladybird – November 2025
23 points • comment • dec 03, 2025
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Gut microbial imbalance can impact memory, says study
23 points • comment • dec 13, 2025
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Show HN: Jsonic – Python JSON serialization that works
23 points • comment • dec 27, 2025
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Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal
23 points • comment • dec 10, 2025
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Notes on Gamma
23 points • comment • dec 12, 2025
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GLM-4.7
23 points • comment • dec 22, 2025
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How Much Wealth an AI Stock Market Crash Could Destroy
23 points • comment • dec 10, 2025
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CorsixTH – An open source clone of Theme Hospital
23 points • comment • dec 27, 2025
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The Arrival of Cheap 10GbE Realtek RTL8127 NIC Review
23 points • comment • dec 29, 2025
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Two new RSC protocol vulnerabilities uncovered
23 points • comment • dec 11, 2025
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Show HN: ZXC – Asymmetric, +40% decode vs. LZ4 on ARM (C, BSD-3, Fuzzed)
23 points • comment • dec 17, 2025
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Kernel Float: Unlocking Mixed-Precision GPU Programming
23 points • comment • dec 06, 2025
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How can I buy Office 365 without Copilot
23 points • comment • dec 18, 2025
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Censorship Whac-A-Mole: Google search exploited to scrub article on SF tech exec
23 points • comment • dec 05, 2025
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Luarrow – True pipeline operators and elegant Haskell-style function compositio
23 points • comment • dec 03, 2025
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I think I might be done for a while
23 points • comment • dec 13, 2025
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Wooden compass with single red arrow leads people with dementia to their homes
23 points • comment • dec 28, 2025
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What I learned building "comfortable" LED strip lighting
23 points • comment • dec 26, 2025
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The Arctic Is in Dire Straits, 20 Years of Reporting Show
23 points • comment • dec 16, 2025
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Cursed Bundler: Using go get to install Ruby Gems
23 points • comment • dec 27, 2025
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Show HN: An endless scrolling word search game
23 points • comment • dec 11, 2025
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IT consultant arrested after posing with gun on LinkedIn
23 points • comment • dec 02, 2025
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Why won't Steam Machine support HDMI 2.1?
23 points • comment • dec 04, 2025
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The state is making a list of transgender Texans, using driver licenses to help
23 points • comment • dec 29, 2025
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Show HN: Just Fucking Use Cloudflare – A satirical guide to the CF stack
23 points • comment • dec 24, 2025
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You gotta push if you wanna pull
23 points • comment • dec 08, 2025
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The Asahi Illusion
23 points • comment • dec 12, 2025
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Two decades of evolution: How Ext4 has changed
23 points • comment • dec 29, 2025
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Synit: A Reactive Operating System
23 points • comment • dec 12, 2025
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GenTabs
22 points • comment • dec 11, 2025
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Fixing HN comments with breadth-first navigation
22 points • comment • dec 24, 2025
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Nvidia Invests $2B in Synopsys
22 points • comment • dec 01, 2025
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Do the thinking models think?
22 points • comment • dec 01, 2025
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Texas sues biggest TV makers, alleging smart TVs spy on users without consent
22 points • comment • dec 16, 2025
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Claude Code changed my life
22 points • comment • dec 25, 2025
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Bookmark for CAD/2d/3D Useful links
22 points • comment • dec 13, 2025
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McDonald's removes AI-generated ad after backlash
22 points • comment • dec 11, 2025
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Opus 4.5 is the first model that makes me fear for my job
22 points • comment • dec 14, 2025
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Show HN: Mactop v2.0.0
22 points • comment • dec 22, 2025
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The Origin of the Terms Big-Endian and Little-Endian (2003)
22 points • comment • dec 27, 2025
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FBI Making List of American "Extremists," Leaked Memo Reveals
22 points • comment • dec 07, 2025
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Paramount launches hostile bid for Warner Bros. Discovery despite Netflix deal
22 points • comment • dec 08, 2025
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tc-ematch(8) extended matches for use with "basic", "cgroup" or "flow" filters
22 points • comment • dec 28, 2025
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I Died on DMT
22 points • comment • dec 23, 2025
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Formally Verifying Peephole Optimisations in Lean
22 points • comment • dec 23, 2025
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Multiple Indicted on Charges of Theft and Re-Sale of Restaurant Cooking Oil
22 points • comment • dec 13, 2025
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Show HN: GPULlama3.java Llama Compilied to PTX/OpenCL Now Integrated in Quarkus
22 points • comment • dec 11, 2025
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Show HN: RAG in 3 Lines of Python
22 points • comment • dec 04, 2025
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Meta's New A.I. Superstars Are Chafing Against the Rest of the Company
22 points • comment • dec 12, 2025
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Animating Quines for Larva Labs
22 points • comment • dec 22, 2025
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Waymo temporarily suspends service in SF amid power outage
22 points • comment • dec 21, 2025
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Why many Asian megacities are miserable places
22 points • comment • dec 17, 2025
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CDC vaccine panel realizes again it has no idea what it's doing, delays big vote
22 points • comment • dec 05, 2025
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Man dies of rabies after kidney transplant from donor who saved cat from skunk
22 points • comment • dec 09, 2025
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Micro QuickJS: a JavaScript engine for microcontroller
22 points • comment • dec 23, 2025
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Google's healthcare AI made up a body part – what if doctors don't notice?
22 points • comment • dec 22, 2025
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Frog gut bacterium eliminates cancer tumors in mice with a single dose
22 points • comment • dec 17, 2025
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Apex: Universal Markdown Processor
22 points • comment • dec 06, 2025
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Instacart uses AI to charge customers different prices for the same items [video]
22 points • comment • dec 09, 2025
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Flock Uses Overseas Gig Workers to Build Its Surveillance AI
22 points • comment • dec 01, 2025
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Puppy Linux
22 points • comment • dec 07, 2025
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Linux 7.0 Expected to Bring IO_uring Iopoll Polling Improvements
22 points • comment • dec 29, 2025
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Contact Sheet Prompting
22 points • comment • dec 08, 2025
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The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Criticizing AI
22 points • comment • dec 06, 2025
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Show HN: I made a tool to make PDFs look scanned because bureaucracy
22 points • comment • dec 06, 2025
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'Those who eat Chilean salmon can't imagine how much human blood it carries'
22 points • comment • dec 02, 2025
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Immigration Agents Are Using Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort
22 points • comment • dec 12, 2025
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Officials discover a million more documents potentially related to Epstein case
22 points • comment • dec 26, 2025
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Waymo cars ignored stopped school buses in Atlanta. What happens now?
22 points • comment • dec 12, 2025
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Show HN: Misata – synthetic data engine using LLM and Vectorized NumPy
22 points • comment • dec 16, 2025
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Show HN: Jottings; Anti-social microblog for your thoughts
22 points • comment • dec 12, 2025
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Ruby Turns 30: A Celebration of Code, Community, and Creativity
22 points • comment • dec 25, 2025
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Sam Altman says industry is wrong on OpenAI's competition, it is not from Google
22 points • comment • dec 10, 2025
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The Rise of AI Denialism
21 points • comment • dec 03, 2025
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Christmas Tree Exec
21 points • comment • dec 06, 2025
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Plugins case study: mdBook preprocessors
21 points • comment • dec 18, 2025
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You are dating an ecosystem
21 points • comment • dec 12, 2025
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Project Dropstone: A Neuro-Symbolic Runtime for Long-Horizon Engineering [pdf]
21 points • comment • dec 25, 2025
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EV battery leader CATL is gearing up for sodium-ion batteries in 2026
21 points • comment • dec 29, 2025
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FTX whistleblower Caroline Ellison set for early release next month
21 points • comment • dec 31, 2025
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How to Write a 21st Century Proof (2011) [pdf]
21 points • comment • dec 16, 2025
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Around The World, Part 27: Planting trees
21 points • comment • dec 02, 2025
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Teach Your Agents What You Know
21 points • comment • dec 23, 2025
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James Webb Space Telescope confirms first 'runaway' supermassive black hole
21 points • comment • dec 22, 2025
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U.S. Pauses Immigration Applications from Nations on Travel Ban List
21 points • comment • dec 03, 2025
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Show HN: Open-source customizable AI voice dictation built on Pipecat
21 points • comment • dec 14, 2025
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Swift Configuration 1.0 Released
21 points • comment • dec 17, 2025
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A middle-class family's only option: A $43,000 health insurance premium
21 points • comment • dec 22, 2025
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What Happens When an "Infinite-Money Machine" Unravels
21 points • comment • dec 11, 2025
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Nature Is Laughing at the AI Build Out
21 points • comment • dec 23, 2025