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Hacker News (Dec 2025)
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Show HN: CommerceTXT – An open standard for AI shopping context (like llms.txt)
18 points • comment • dec 16, 2025
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How Kit Kat Was Killed: Video Shows What a Robot Taxi Couldn’t See
18 points • comment • dec 06, 2025
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Show HN: PasteClean – Desktop app to strip tracking parameters from clipboard
18 points • comment • dec 16, 2025
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Five archetypes of small-scale fisheries reveal a continuum of strategies
18 points • comment • dec 28, 2025
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Faith in the internet is fading among young Brits
18 points • comment • dec 20, 2025
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Solution to US debt crisis is severe austerity triggered by a fiscal calamity
18 points • comment • dec 08, 2025
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A framework for technical writing in the age of LLMs
18 points • comment • dec 25, 2025
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Acting CISA director failed a polygraph, career staff now under investigation
18 points • comment • dec 22, 2025
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Pen testers accused of 'blackmail' after reporting Eurostar chatbot flaws
18 points • comment • dec 25, 2025
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Claude Died
18 points • comment • dec 02, 2025
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My First Impression on HP Zbook Ultra G1a: Ryzen AI Max+ 395, Strix Halo 128GB
18 points • comment • dec 18, 2025
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A History of My Homelab
18 points • comment • dec 31, 2025
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The Beauty of Dissonance
18 points • comment • dec 12, 2025
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Huge undersea wall dating from 5000 BC found in France
18 points • comment • dec 11, 2025
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Show HN: Per-instance TSP Solver with No Pre-training (1.66% gap on d1291)
18 points • comment • dec 29, 2025
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Why the A.I. Boom Is Unlike the Dot-Com Boom
17 points • comment • dec 09, 2025
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The Texas Instruments CC-40 invades Gopherspace (plus TI-74 BASICALC)
17 points • comment • dec 21, 2025
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QStudio SQL Analysis tool now open source
17 points • comment • dec 15, 2025
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Oral History of Richard Greenblatt (2005) [pdf]
17 points • comment • dec 25, 2025
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Show HN: Orbit a systems level programming language that compiles .sh to LLVM
17 points • comment • dec 19, 2025
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Show HN: Deterministic PCIe Diagnostics for GPUs on Linux
17 points • comment • dec 16, 2025
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Ask HN: Why Do You Blog?
17 points • comment • dec 26, 2025
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Perron: A Static Site Generator for Ruby on Rails
17 points • comment • dec 18, 2025
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Porn company fined £1M over inadequate age checks (UK)
17 points • comment • dec 04, 2025
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Google Built Its Empire Scraping the Web. Now It's Suing a Scraper of Google
17 points • comment • dec 24, 2025
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I'm rejecting the next architecture PR that uses a Service Mesh for a team of 4
17 points • comment • dec 31, 2025
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The Authoritarian Stack
17 points • comment • dec 09, 2025
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Gitmal – a static pages generator for Git repos
17 points • comment • dec 02, 2025
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Microsoft Is Finally Killing RC4
17 points • comment • dec 25, 2025
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Suddenly Everyone Is Scared to Dance at Concerts and Clubs
17 points • comment • dec 31, 2025
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Apple Faces Scrutiny as Sanctioned Entities Slip Through App Store Controls
17 points • comment • dec 10, 2025
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Mamdani Will Be Sworn in at Abandoned Subway Station Beneath City Hall
17 points • comment • dec 30, 2025
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OpenAI Declares 'Code Red' as Google Threatens AI Lead
17 points • comment • dec 02, 2025
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The battle for Warner Bros is a prelude to the real streaming war
17 points • comment • dec 14, 2025
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Mesa shuts down credit card that rewarded cardholders for paying their mortgages
17 points • comment • dec 14, 2025
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Chinese foundry SMIC achieves 5nm production without EUV tools
17 points • comment • dec 12, 2025
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GitHub Notifications triggered by spam accounts are now correctly hidden
17 points • comment • dec 08, 2025
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Apples, Trees, and Quasimodes
17 points • comment • dec 15, 2025
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Ask HN: MIT grad, junior dev layoffs – watching my daughter lose faith in merit
17 points • comment • dec 25, 2025
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Interton Video Computer 4000
17 points • comment • dec 21, 2025
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GitHub cancels Actions price change for self-hosted runners
17 points • comment • dec 18, 2025
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Top Journal Retracts Study Predicting Catastrophic Climate Toll
17 points • comment • dec 04, 2025
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23,746 Patients Died on Waitlists in Past Year
17 points • comment • dec 11, 2025
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Beyond RC4 for Windows Authentication
17 points • comment • dec 17, 2025
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2026 resolution: if Mozilla tampers with "uBlock Origin", I'm giving it up
17 points • comment • dec 27, 2025
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Sid Meier: More Than Just Civilization
17 points • comment • dec 11, 2025
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Sperry/Ford Mark-6 Fire Control Computer (2022)
17 points • comment • dec 06, 2025
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Humans rank above meerkats but below beavers in monogamy league table
17 points • comment • dec 13, 2025
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Scientists link sugar substitute sorbitol to liver disease in zebrafish
17 points • comment • dec 07, 2025
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Truth Social parent to merge with nuclear fusion firm in $6B deal
17 points • comment • dec 18, 2025
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When exercising copyrights puts a gamedev under threat: My take on GBCOMPO 25
17 points • comment • dec 07, 2025
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Parallelizing ClickHouse aggregation merge for fixed hash map
17 points • comment • dec 16, 2025
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Silver rises 9% to hit fresh record high
17 points • comment • dec 26, 2025
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One agent isn't enough
17 points • comment • dec 13, 2025
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Top Open Source Authorization Libraries (2024)
17 points • comment • dec 15, 2025
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Apple Rocked by Executive Departures, with Chip Chief at Risk of Leaving Next
17 points • comment • dec 06, 2025
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Stephen Miller's Dark Plot to Build a MAGA Terror State
17 points • comment • dec 15, 2025
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GitHub postponing the announced billing change to GitHub Actions
17 points • comment • dec 17, 2025
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Why India's big cities are becoming unliveable
17 points • comment • dec 29, 2025
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Fairphone open-sources Fairphone 5 and 6 software, and Moments switch
17 points • comment • dec 04, 2025
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How AI is transforming work at Anthropic
17 points • comment • dec 02, 2025
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Firefox to create AI Window: Built for choice and control
17 points • comment • dec 10, 2025
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Iberian peninsula is rotating clockwise
17 points • comment • dec 15, 2025
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Show HN: I analyzed 8k near-death experiences with AI and made them listenable
17 points • comment • dec 04, 2025
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Airlines call in psychologists to stop passengers risking their lives for bags
17 points • comment • dec 27, 2025
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The power of proximity to coworkers [pdf]
17 points • comment • dec 09, 2025
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Survivors Clung to Wreckage for Some 45 Minutes Before U.S. Military Killed Them
17 points • comment • dec 08, 2025
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Nvidia deal a big win for Groq employees
17 points • comment • dec 28, 2025
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Man Asks $75M for 'Lambo.com,' Court Gives It to Lamborghini for Free
17 points • comment • dec 04, 2025
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KJS: A Complete Formal Semantics of JavaScript
17 points • comment • dec 07, 2025
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Unredact the Epstein Files
17 points • comment • dec 20, 2025
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The Peptide Craze
17 points • comment • dec 22, 2025
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Study: Everyday conversations can delay eye movement, essential for safe driving
17 points • comment • dec 27, 2025
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Pandas with Rows (2022)
16 points • comment • dec 26, 2025
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US Gaming Hardware Sales Reach 35-Year Low as Prices Soar
16 points • comment • dec 19, 2025
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LastPass fined £1.2M by ICO for data breach
16 points • comment • dec 12, 2025
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CC, a new AI productivity agent that connects your Gmail, Calendar and Drive
16 points • comment • dec 16, 2025
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Crowdsourced Linux and Steam Deck game compatibility reports
16 points • comment • dec 01, 2025
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UK to rejoin EU's Erasmus student exchange programme
16 points • comment • dec 16, 2025
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Oasis: Pooling PCIe Devices over CXL to Boost Utilization
16 points • comment • dec 12, 2025
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Deplatforming Backfired
16 points • comment • dec 23, 2025
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ADHD drugs don't work the way we thought
16 points • comment • dec 30, 2025
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Show HN: Euclidle – Guess the Coordinates in N‑Dimensional Space
16 points • comment • dec 26, 2025
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It's time to accept the US Supreme Court is illegitimate and must be replaced
16 points • comment • dec 20, 2025
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Time-Traveling to 1979: Advice for Designing 'C with Classes
16 points • comment • dec 16, 2025
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Ask HN: In the real world we pay for everything so why not software?
16 points • comment • dec 29, 2025
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Is Gen X the Greatest Generation?
16 points • comment • dec 08, 2025
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My HTML Web Component boilerplate for 2026
16 points • comment • dec 24, 2025
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Why Switzerland is weighing a 10M population limit
16 points • comment • dec 11, 2025
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Ask HN: Did anyone else notice that the OpenAI Labs website was completely gone?
16 points • comment • dec 12, 2025
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Why no fish wants a tongue-eating parasitic louse in its mouth
16 points • comment • dec 11, 2025
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YouTube Will Stop Submitting Data to U.S. Billboard Charts in 2026
16 points • comment • dec 21, 2025
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Toward a Grand Unified Theory of Snowflakes
16 points • comment • dec 24, 2025
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Intermission: Battle Pulses
16 points • comment • dec 26, 2025
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DNS over TLS with LetsEncrypt
16 points • comment • dec 06, 2025
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Europol and partners shut down Cryptomixer.io
16 points • comment • dec 01, 2025
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Hacking Google Chrome Source Code: Make Puppeteer work over Redis PubSub
16 points • comment • dec 13, 2025
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Life, Death and Mowing
16 points • comment • dec 19, 2025
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There Are No Cows in Louis Pasteur's Crypt
16 points • comment • dec 15, 2025
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Malicious VSCode Marketplace extensions hid trojan in fake PNG file
16 points • comment • dec 11, 2025