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Hacker News (Dec 2025)

  1. Frances Elizabeth Allen: A woman who made code run fast

    24 points • comment • dec 15, 2025

  2. Firewood Banks Aren't Inspiring. They're a Sign of Collapse

    24 points • comment • dec 09, 2025

  3. The Organists Improvising Soundtracks to Silent Films

    24 points • comment • dec 27, 2025

  4. Contextualization Machines

    24 points • comment • dec 01, 2025

  5. The sword-wielding man hired to kick squatters out of empty Oakland homes

    24 points • comment • dec 30, 2025

  6. Show HN: Shadowlight, a voice-driven murder mystery and heist inside Minecraft

    24 points • comment • dec 31, 2025

  7. Pop _OS 24.04's New Scratch-Built Cosmic: Hands-On, with Screenshots

    24 points • comment • dec 19, 2025

  8. Formulaic Delimiters in the Iliad and the Odyssey

    24 points • comment • dec 27, 2025

  9. The World of OCR (C. 1960) [video]

    23 points • comment • dec 14, 2025

  10. Show HN: Zs3 – S3 server in ~1K lines of Zig, 250KB binary, zero dependencies

    23 points • comment • dec 29, 2025

  11. This Month in Ladybird – November 2025

    23 points • comment • dec 03, 2025

  12. Gut microbial imbalance can impact memory, says study

    23 points • comment • dec 13, 2025

  13. Show HN: Jsonic – Python JSON serialization that works

    23 points • comment • dec 27, 2025

  14. Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal

    23 points • comment • dec 10, 2025

  15. Notes on Gamma

    23 points • comment • dec 12, 2025

  16. GLM-4.7

    23 points • comment • dec 22, 2025

  17. How Much Wealth an AI Stock Market Crash Could Destroy

    23 points • comment • dec 10, 2025

  18. CorsixTH – An open source clone of Theme Hospital

    23 points • comment • dec 27, 2025

  19. The Arrival of Cheap 10GbE Realtek RTL8127 NIC Review

    23 points • comment • dec 29, 2025

  20. Two new RSC protocol vulnerabilities uncovered

    23 points • comment • dec 11, 2025

  21. Show HN: ZXC – Asymmetric, +40% decode vs. LZ4 on ARM (C, BSD-3, Fuzzed)

    23 points • comment • dec 17, 2025

  22. Kernel Float: Unlocking Mixed-Precision GPU Programming

    23 points • comment • dec 06, 2025

  23. How can I buy Office 365 without Copilot

    23 points • comment • dec 18, 2025

  24. Censorship Whac-A-Mole: Google search exploited to scrub article on SF tech exec

    23 points • comment • dec 05, 2025

  25. Luarrow – True pipeline operators and elegant Haskell-style function compositio

    23 points • comment • dec 03, 2025

  26. I think I might be done for a while

    23 points • comment • dec 13, 2025

  27. Wooden compass with single red arrow leads people with dementia to their homes

    23 points • comment • dec 28, 2025

  28. What I learned building "comfortable" LED strip lighting

    23 points • comment • dec 26, 2025

  29. The Arctic Is in Dire Straits, 20 Years of Reporting Show

    23 points • comment • dec 16, 2025

  30. Cursed Bundler: Using go get to install Ruby Gems

    23 points • comment • dec 27, 2025

  31. Show HN: An endless scrolling word search game

    23 points • comment • dec 11, 2025

  32. IT consultant arrested after posing with gun on LinkedIn

    23 points • comment • dec 02, 2025

  33. Why won't Steam Machine support HDMI 2.1?

    23 points • comment • dec 04, 2025

  34. The state is making a list of transgender Texans, using driver licenses to help

    23 points • comment • dec 29, 2025

  35. Show HN: Just Fucking Use Cloudflare – A satirical guide to the CF stack

    23 points • comment • dec 24, 2025

  36. You gotta push if you wanna pull

    23 points • comment • dec 08, 2025

  37. The Asahi Illusion

    23 points • comment • dec 12, 2025

  38. Two decades of evolution: How Ext4 has changed

    23 points • comment • dec 29, 2025

  39. Synit: A Reactive Operating System

    23 points • comment • dec 12, 2025

  40. GenTabs

    22 points • comment • dec 11, 2025

  41. Fixing HN comments with breadth-first navigation

    22 points • comment • dec 24, 2025

  42. Nvidia Invests $2B in Synopsys

    22 points • comment • dec 01, 2025

  43. Do the thinking models think?

    22 points • comment • dec 01, 2025

  44. Texas sues biggest TV makers, alleging smart TVs spy on users without consent

    22 points • comment • dec 16, 2025

  45. Claude Code changed my life

    22 points • comment • dec 25, 2025

  46. Bookmark for CAD/2d/3D Useful links

    22 points • comment • dec 13, 2025

  47. McDonald's removes AI-generated ad after backlash

    22 points • comment • dec 11, 2025

  48. Opus 4.5 is the first model that makes me fear for my job

    22 points • comment • dec 14, 2025

  49. Show HN: Mactop v2.0.0

    22 points • comment • dec 22, 2025

  50. The Origin of the Terms Big-Endian and Little-Endian (2003)

    22 points • comment • dec 27, 2025

  51. FBI Making List of American "Extremists," Leaked Memo Reveals

    22 points • comment • dec 07, 2025

  52. Paramount launches hostile bid for Warner Bros. Discovery despite Netflix deal

    22 points • comment • dec 08, 2025

  53. tc-ematch(8) extended matches for use with "basic", "cgroup" or "flow" filters

    22 points • comment • dec 28, 2025

  54. I Died on DMT

    22 points • comment • dec 23, 2025

  55. Formally Verifying Peephole Optimisations in Lean

    22 points • comment • dec 23, 2025

  56. Multiple Indicted on Charges of Theft and Re-Sale of Restaurant Cooking Oil

    22 points • comment • dec 13, 2025

  57. Show HN: GPULlama3.java Llama Compilied to PTX/OpenCL Now Integrated in Quarkus

    22 points • comment • dec 11, 2025

  58. Show HN: RAG in 3 Lines of Python

    22 points • comment • dec 04, 2025

  59. Meta's New A.I. Superstars Are Chafing Against the Rest of the Company

    22 points • comment • dec 12, 2025

  60. Animating Quines for Larva Labs

    22 points • comment • dec 22, 2025

  61. Waymo temporarily suspends service in SF amid power outage

    22 points • comment • dec 21, 2025

  62. Why many Asian megacities are miserable places

    22 points • comment • dec 17, 2025

  63. CDC vaccine panel realizes again it has no idea what it's doing, delays big vote

    22 points • comment • dec 05, 2025

  64. Man dies of rabies after kidney transplant from donor who saved cat from skunk

    22 points • comment • dec 09, 2025

  65. Micro QuickJS: a JavaScript engine for microcontroller

    22 points • comment • dec 23, 2025

  66. Google's healthcare AI made up a body part – what if doctors don't notice?

    22 points • comment • dec 22, 2025

  67. Frog gut bacterium eliminates cancer tumors in mice with a single dose

    22 points • comment • dec 17, 2025

  68. Apex: Universal Markdown Processor

    22 points • comment • dec 06, 2025

  69. Instacart uses AI to charge customers different prices for the same items [video]

    22 points • comment • dec 09, 2025

  70. Flock Uses Overseas Gig Workers to Build Its Surveillance AI

    22 points • comment • dec 01, 2025

  71. Puppy Linux

    22 points • comment • dec 07, 2025

  72. Linux 7.0 Expected to Bring IO_uring Iopoll Polling Improvements

    22 points • comment • dec 29, 2025

  73. Contact Sheet Prompting

    22 points • comment • dec 08, 2025

  74. The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Criticizing AI

    22 points • comment • dec 06, 2025

  75. Show HN: I made a tool to make PDFs look scanned because bureaucracy

    22 points • comment • dec 06, 2025

  76. 'Those who eat Chilean salmon can't imagine how much human blood it carries'

    22 points • comment • dec 02, 2025

  77. Immigration Agents Are Using Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort

    22 points • comment • dec 12, 2025

  78. Officials discover a million more documents potentially related to Epstein case

    22 points • comment • dec 26, 2025

  79. Waymo cars ignored stopped school buses in Atlanta. What happens now?

    22 points • comment • dec 12, 2025

  80. Show HN: Misata – synthetic data engine using LLM and Vectorized NumPy

    22 points • comment • dec 16, 2025

  81. Show HN: Jottings; Anti-social microblog for your thoughts

    22 points • comment • dec 12, 2025

  82. Ruby Turns 30: A Celebration of Code, Community, and Creativity

    22 points • comment • dec 25, 2025

  83. Sam Altman says industry is wrong on OpenAI's competition, it is not from Google

    22 points • comment • dec 10, 2025

  84. The Rise of AI Denialism

    21 points • comment • dec 03, 2025

  85. Christmas Tree Exec

    21 points • comment • dec 06, 2025

  86. Plugins case study: mdBook preprocessors

    21 points • comment • dec 18, 2025

  87. You are dating an ecosystem

    21 points • comment • dec 12, 2025

  88. Project Dropstone: A Neuro-Symbolic Runtime for Long-Horizon Engineering [pdf]

    21 points • comment • dec 25, 2025

  89. EV battery leader CATL is gearing up for sodium-ion batteries in 2026

    21 points • comment • dec 29, 2025

  90. FTX whistleblower Caroline Ellison set for early release next month

    21 points • comment • dec 31, 2025

  91. How to Write a 21st Century Proof (2011) [pdf]

    21 points • comment • dec 16, 2025

  92. Around The World, Part 27: Planting trees

    21 points • comment • dec 02, 2025

  93. Teach Your Agents What You Know

    21 points • comment • dec 23, 2025

  94. James Webb Space Telescope confirms first 'runaway' supermassive black hole

    21 points • comment • dec 22, 2025

  95. U.S. Pauses Immigration Applications from Nations on Travel Ban List

    21 points • comment • dec 03, 2025

  96. Show HN: Open-source customizable AI voice dictation built on Pipecat

    21 points • comment • dec 14, 2025

  97. Swift Configuration 1.0 Released

    21 points • comment • dec 17, 2025

  98. A middle-class family's only option: A $43,000 health insurance premium

    21 points • comment • dec 22, 2025

  99. What Happens When an "Infinite-Money Machine" Unravels

    21 points • comment • dec 11, 2025

  100. Nature Is Laughing at the AI Build Out

    21 points • comment • dec 23, 2025