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Hacker News (Dec 2025)

  1. EU launches antitrust probe into Google's use of online content for AI purposes

    16 points • comment • dec 09, 2025

  2. Kids Rarely Read Whole Books Anymore. Even in English Class

    16 points • comment • dec 13, 2025

  3. WikiFlix shows us what Netflix would have been like 100 years ago

    16 points • comment • dec 17, 2025

  4. Wayland is flawed at its core and the community needs to talk about it

    16 points • comment • dec 30, 2025

  5. SCOTUS swats NBA shot to limit class actions over data sharing with Meta

    16 points • comment • dec 09, 2025

  6. Show HN: TapeHead – A CLI tool for stateful random access of file streams

    16 points • comment • dec 06, 2025

  7. FrontierScience Benchmark by OpenAI

    16 points • comment • dec 20, 2025

  8. Apple Chip Chief Johny Srouji Could Be Next to Go as Exodus Continues

    16 points • comment • dec 07, 2025

  9. Lead-Free Organic–Inorganic Halobismuthate for Large Piezoelectric Effect

    16 points • comment • dec 29, 2025

  10. Belarusian Secret Service spied on cell phones

    16 points • comment • dec 17, 2025

  11. Plugins case study: mdBook preprocessors

    16 points • comment • dec 22, 2025

  12. Using floating point numbers as hash keys (2017)

    16 points • comment • dec 03, 2025

  13. YouTube Is Degraded

    16 points • comment • dec 19, 2025

  14. It's not censorship. It's democratic self-defense

    16 points • comment • dec 09, 2025

  15. NASA loses contact with Maven – spacecraft orbiting Mars for more than a decade

    16 points • comment • dec 10, 2025

  16. A Chinese whistleblower living in the US is being hunted by Beijing with US tech

    16 points • comment • dec 12, 2025

  17. The Honey Files Expose Major Fraud

    16 points • comment • dec 30, 2025

  18. ICE is using smartwatches to track pregnant women, even during labor

    16 points • comment • dec 10, 2025

  19. Slate AX: Wi-Fi 6 Gigabit travel router

    16 points • comment • dec 24, 2025

  20. Show HN: Diesel-guard – Lint Diesel migrations for unsafe PostgreSQL patterns

    16 points • comment • dec 08, 2025

  21. Australia's social media ban in chaos as youths flock to Chinese alternatives

    16 points • comment • dec 15, 2025

  22. Show HN: Magic CSV – Transform CSVs with plain English, no formulas

    16 points • comment • dec 31, 2025

  23. Show HN: Cordon – Reduce large log files to anomalous sections

    16 points • comment • dec 15, 2025

  24. Linus - kernel copyright licence covers software, does not extend to hardware

    16 points • comment • dec 25, 2025

  25. AI was not invented, it arrived

    16 points • comment • dec 14, 2025

  26. Zimbabwe's only female heart surgeon on medicine, misogyny & making a difference

    16 points • comment • dec 10, 2025

  27. Ads are showing up on Google's AI Mode now

    16 points • comment • dec 09, 2025

  28. Chinese desalination plant makes fresh water cheaper than tap water

    16 points • comment • dec 10, 2025

  29. TikTok signs deal to sell US unit to American investor-led venture

    16 points • comment • dec 19, 2025

  30. How the Bell Labs Holmdel Complex Inspired 'Severance'

    16 points • comment • dec 13, 2025

  31. Roko's Dancing Basilisk

    16 points • comment • dec 03, 2025

  32. Be aware when opening "take home challenges" from untrusted recruiters

    16 points • comment • dec 31, 2025

  33. Do 8051/8031 assembly like its 1984

    16 points • comment • dec 11, 2025

  34. Man shocks doctors with 254/150 blood pressure, stroke from energy drinks

    16 points • comment • dec 13, 2025

  35. Ask HN: Is Cloudflare Down for You?

    16 points • comment • dec 03, 2025

  36. Bell Labs 'Unix' Tape from 1974 Dumped to a Tarball

    16 points • comment • dec 21, 2025

  37. Framework Laptop 16 DIY OCuLink x8 expansion module adds desktop GPU support

    16 points • comment • dec 22, 2025

  38. The Weeb Economy

    16 points • comment • dec 31, 2025

  39. Tech leaders fill $1T AI bubble, insist it doesn't exist

    16 points • comment • dec 07, 2025

  40. You Have Billions Invested in Generative AI

    16 points • comment • dec 10, 2025

  41. Indian government reveals GPS spoofing at eight major airports

    15 points • comment • dec 03, 2025

  42. Lot of software engineers don't understand basic networking

    15 points • comment • dec 12, 2025

  43. China mandates 50% domestic equipment rule for chipmakers

    15 points • comment • dec 31, 2025

  44. The Internet Is a Net Negative

    15 points • comment • dec 28, 2025

  45. Artificial sweetener found in Diet Coke and gum could trigger heart brain damage

    15 points • comment • dec 20, 2025

  46. FWS – pip-installable embedded process supervisor with PTY/pipe/dtach back ends

    15 points • comment • dec 18, 2025

  47. EU agrees to indefinitely immobilise €210B of Russian assets

    15 points • comment • dec 12, 2025

  48. Lithium-ion battery pack prices fall to $108/kWh

    15 points • comment • dec 10, 2025

  49. Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days

    15 points • comment • dec 02, 2025

  50. Warner Bros to rebuff $108B Paramount hostile offer

    15 points • comment • dec 16, 2025

  51. Engineers: Stop trying to win other people's game

    15 points • comment • dec 09, 2025

  52. Visualize 4B Years: The Trillions of Generations: LUCA to Modern Human

    15 points • comment • dec 02, 2025

  53. Engineering dogmas it's time to retire

    15 points • comment • dec 21, 2025

  54. The mysterious MS-DOS reboot (2021)

    15 points • comment • dec 14, 2025

  55. Groq and Nvidia Licensing Agreement

    15 points • comment • dec 24, 2025

  56. Ask HN: What are the ethics at YC?

    15 points • comment • dec 04, 2025

  57. Semiquincentennial $1 Coin Candidate Designs

    15 points • comment • dec 18, 2025

  58. API GitHub Meta

    15 points • comment • dec 02, 2025

  59. They Get Wheeled on Flights and Miraculously Walk Off. Praise ‘Jetway Jesus.

    15 points • comment • dec 18, 2025

  60. SF lawmakers vote to create reparations fund $5M per Black resident

    15 points • comment • dec 18, 2025

  61. Search for long-missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 to resume

    15 points • comment • dec 03, 2025

  62. Stanford Medicine study shows mRNA-based Covid-19 vaccines can cause myocarditis

    15 points • comment • dec 12, 2025

  63. Show HN: I built a 1.8MB native app with self-built UI, vision and AI libraries

    15 points • comment • dec 01, 2025

  64. People negatively judge others who glitch on video calls, according to study

    15 points • comment • dec 29, 2025

  65. Ask HN: By what percentage has AI changed your output as a software engineer?

    15 points • comment • dec 28, 2025

  66. Codex is a Slytherin, Claude is a Hufflepuff

    15 points • comment • dec 23, 2025

  67. Armenia’s ancient 'dragon stones' are the work of a 6,000-year-old water cult

    15 points • comment • dec 12, 2025

  68. Ask HN: How are most people converting HEIC to jpg?

    15 points • comment • dec 19, 2025

  69. BehindTheMedspeak: A Spinal Tap

    15 points • comment • dec 07, 2025

  70. Wax Figure of Idris Elba Unlocks Face ID

    15 points • comment • dec 23, 2025

  71. Customs: Council agrees to levy customs duty on small parcels as of 1 July 2026

    15 points • comment • dec 29, 2025

  72. Microsoft: "30% of Our Code Is AI." Also Microsoft: "Windows Is Broken."

    15 points • comment • dec 24, 2025

  73. Signal1996.net

    15 points • comment • dec 15, 2025

  74. Europe's new carbon tax on imported goods will change global trade

    15 points • comment • dec 20, 2025

  75. Chatbot-powered toys rebuked for discussing sexual, dangerous topics with kids

    15 points • comment • dec 12, 2025

  76. Reinventing the dial-up modem (2019)

    15 points • comment • dec 19, 2025

  77. Belated Liquid Glass on iPhone first impressions

    15 points • comment • dec 21, 2025

  78. Show HN: Search the lyrics of 500 HÖR Berlin techno sets

    15 points • comment • dec 12, 2025

  79. Is this code clean? A critical look at Clean Code 2nd Edition

    15 points • comment • dec 03, 2025

  80. The Cost of Allocation Errors

    15 points • comment • dec 22, 2025

  81. RunAgent Genie – Ultimate Prompt Engineering Game with Advanced Guardrails

    15 points • comment • dec 31, 2025

  82. Four Post-Modern Masterpieces Mapped the Future. They Tried to Warn Us

    15 points • comment • dec 08, 2025

  83. US seizes tanker near Venezuela, Trump says

    15 points • comment • dec 10, 2025

  84. The Epstein Files: Why Half the Internet Is Wrong About Those Redactions

    15 points • comment • dec 26, 2025

  85. Nvidia 800 Gbps ConnectX-8 SuperNIC

    15 points • comment • dec 17, 2025

  86. Show HN: I got 50% of my traffic from ChatGPT instead of Google

    15 points • comment • dec 09, 2025

  87. Constructing the Word's First JPEG XL MD5 Hash Quine

    15 points • comment • dec 01, 2025

  88. GameNative: PC Gaming on Android

    15 points • comment • dec 21, 2025

  89. Australia's first 6 GWh battery to be built as part of grid resiliency hub

    15 points • comment • dec 03, 2025

  90. Love Actually is around Heathrow (2021)

    15 points • comment • dec 25, 2025

  91. Velato

    15 points • comment • dec 02, 2025

  92. 24/192 Music Downloads are Silly Indeed (2012)

    15 points • comment • dec 22, 2025

  93. Semiconductor industry enters 'giga cycle' – scale of AI is rewriting economics

    15 points • comment • dec 09, 2025

  94. Joe Lonsdale Calls for Public Hangings

    15 points • comment • dec 07, 2025

  95. Man Made Troubles (1953) [video]

    15 points • comment • dec 15, 2025

  96. It Is Happening Here

    15 points • comment • dec 24, 2025

  97. Ask HN: How to go back to listening to MP3s?

    15 points • comment • dec 27, 2025

  98. TIL: Restarting systemd services on sustained CPU abuse

    15 points • comment • dec 28, 2025

  99. AI will kill all the lawyers

    15 points • comment • dec 19, 2025

  100. Stimulant medications affect arousal and reward, not attention networks

    15 points • comment • dec 27, 2025