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Hacker News (Dec 2025)
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GitHub will begin charging for self-hosted action runners on March 2026
442 points • comment • dec 16, 2025
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IBM to acquire Confluent
440 points • comment • dec 08, 2025
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GitHub Actions has a package manager, and it might be the worst
438 points • comment • dec 08, 2025
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Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)
437 points • comment • dec 14, 2025
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BMW PHEV: Safety fuse replacement is extremely expensive
437 points • comment • dec 05, 2025
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Thoughts on Go vs. Rust vs. Zig
436 points • comment • dec 04, 2025
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Tell HN: Happy New Year
436 points • comment • dec 31, 2025
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It’s been a very hard year
435 points • comment • dec 01, 2025
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Adobe Photoshop 1.0 Source Code (1990)
435 points • comment • dec 18, 2025
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Non-Zero-Sum Games
435 points • comment • dec 30, 2025
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Ask HN: How can I get better at using AI for programming?
434 points • comment • dec 13, 2025
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Ford kills the All-Electric F-150
433 points • comment • dec 15, 2025
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If you don't design your career, someone else will (2014)
433 points • comment • dec 22, 2025
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Gpg.fail
433 points • comment • dec 27, 2025
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Most technical problems are people problems
432 points • comment • dec 05, 2025
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Thousands of U.S. farmers have Parkinson's. They blame a deadly pesticide
432 points • comment • dec 15, 2025
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Stranger Things creator says turn off “garbage” settings
432 points • comment • dec 29, 2025
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Show HN: WalletWallet – create Apple passes from anything
431 points • comment • dec 21, 2025
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Show HN: Vibium – Browser automation for AI and humans, by Selenium's creator
431 points • comment • dec 24, 2025
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Adafruit: Arduino’s Rules Are ‘Incompatible With Open Source’
431 points • comment • dec 14, 2025
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Jepsen: NATS 2.12.1
429 points • comment • dec 08, 2025
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Seven Diabetes Patients Die Due to Undisclosed Bug in Abbott's Glucose Monitors
429 points • comment • dec 26, 2025
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Show HN: Picknplace.js, an alternative to drag-and-drop
428 points • comment • dec 16, 2025
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What is the nicest thing a stranger has ever done for you?
428 points • comment • dec 11, 2025
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The past was not that cute
427 points • comment • dec 06, 2025
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Show HN: Gaming Couch – a local multiplayer party game platform for 8 players
425 points • comment • dec 21, 2025
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Microsoft drops AI sales targets in half after salespeople miss their quotas
424 points • comment • dec 04, 2025
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Last Week on My Mac: Losing confidence
424 points • comment • dec 01, 2025
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Instant database clones with PostgreSQL 18
423 points • comment • dec 23, 2025
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Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell
422 points • comment • dec 18, 2025
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List of domains censored by German ISPs
420 points • comment • dec 29, 2025
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Ask HN: What are the best engineering blogs with real-world depth?
420 points • comment • dec 23, 2025
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Google de-indexed Bear Blog and I don't know why
420 points • comment • dec 12, 2025
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Helldivers 2 devs slash install size from 154GB to 23GB
418 points • comment • dec 03, 2025
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GLM-4.7: Advancing the Coding Capability
418 points • comment • dec 22, 2025
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Pure Silicon Demo Coding: No CPU, No Memory, Just 4k Gates
417 points • comment • dec 20, 2025
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Ruby website redesigned
417 points • comment • dec 21, 2025
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The US polluters that are rewriting the EU's human rights and climate law
416 points • comment • dec 05, 2025
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Programmers and software developers lost the plot on naming their tools
416 points • comment • dec 11, 2025
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Rats Play DOOM
414 points • comment • dec 12, 2025
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Nicolas Guillou, French ICC judge sanctioned by the US and “debanked”
414 points • comment • dec 30, 2025
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Pro-democracy HK tycoon Jimmy Lai convicted in national security trial
413 points • comment • dec 15, 2025
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Epic celebrates "the end of the Apple Tax" after court win in iOS payments case
410 points • comment • dec 12, 2025
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Independent review of UK national security law warns of overreach
410 points • comment • dec 18, 2025
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100k TPS over a billion rows: the unreasonable effectiveness of SQLite
409 points • comment • dec 02, 2025
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Show HN: Ez FFmpeg – Video editing in plain English
408 points • comment • dec 27, 2025
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Has the cost of building software dropped 90%?
408 points • comment • dec 08, 2025
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The future of software development is software developers
407 points • comment • dec 29, 2025
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The best things and stuff of 2025
403 points • comment • dec 23, 2025
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YouTube caught making AI-edits to videos and adding misleading AI summaries
402 points • comment • dec 06, 2025
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RAM is so expensive, Samsung won't even sell it to Samsung
402 points • comment • dec 04, 2025
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Microsoft has a problem: lack of demand for its AI products
401 points • comment • dec 08, 2025
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AI agents are starting to eat SaaS
399 points • comment • dec 14, 2025
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What makes you senior
399 points • comment • dec 19, 2025
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Go away Python
397 points • comment • dec 30, 2025
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How Google Maps allocates survival across London's restaurants
396 points • comment • dec 09, 2025
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Python 3.15’s interpreter for Windows x86-64 should hopefully be 15% faster
396 points • comment • dec 25, 2025
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Rubio stages font coup: Times New Roman ousts Calibri
393 points • comment • dec 10, 2025
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Uncloud - Tool for deploying containerised apps across servers without k8s
392 points • comment • dec 04, 2025
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Rivian Unveils Custom Silicon, R2 Lidar Roadmap, and Universal Hands Free
391 points • comment • dec 11, 2025
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We gave 5 LLMs $100K to trade stocks for 8 months
388 points • comment • dec 04, 2025
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The "Mad Men" in 4K on HBO Max Debacle
386 points • comment • dec 03, 2025
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FediMeteo: A €4 FreeBSD VPS Became a Global Weather Service
386 points • comment • dec 30, 2025
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Lua 5.5
384 points • comment • dec 22, 2025
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Perl's decline was cultural
384 points • comment • dec 06, 2025
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Apple releases open-source model that instantly turns 2D photos into 3D views
384 points • comment • dec 27, 2025
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Show HN: Use Claude Code to Query 600 GB Indexes over Hacker News, ArXiv, etc.
384 points • comment • dec 31, 2025
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Hashcards: A plain-text spaced repetition system
383 points • comment • dec 14, 2025
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Ghostty compiled to WASM with xterm.js API compatibility
382 points • comment • dec 01, 2025
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Honey's Dieselgate: Detecting and tricking testers
381 points • comment • dec 30, 2025
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Fahrplan – 39C3
378 points • comment • dec 25, 2025
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Show HN: I built a dashboard to compare mortgage rates across 120 credit unions
378 points • comment • dec 03, 2025
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Web Browsers have stopped blocking pop-ups
377 points • comment • dec 31, 2025
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Jimmy Lai Is a Martyr for Freedom
374 points • comment • dec 22, 2025
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Carrier Landing in Top Gun for the NES
373 points • comment • dec 15, 2025
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LLM Year in Review
372 points • comment • dec 19, 2025
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Advent of Compiler Optimisations 2025
370 points • comment • dec 02, 2025
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Mattermost restricted access to old messages after 10000 limit is reached
370 points • comment • dec 25, 2025
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Jonathan Blow has spent the past decade designing 1,400 puzzles
368 points • comment • dec 12, 2025
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UniFi 5G
368 points • comment • dec 05, 2025
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Django: what’s new in 6.0
368 points • comment • dec 09, 2025
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JetBlue flight averts mid-air collision with US Air Force jet
365 points • comment • dec 15, 2025
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The RAM shortage comes for us all
365 points • comment • dec 04, 2025
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SQLite JSON at full index speed using generated columns
364 points • comment • dec 12, 2025
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Avoid UUID Version 4 Primary Keys in Postgres
364 points • comment • dec 15, 2025
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CO2 batteries that store grid energy take off globally
364 points • comment • dec 21, 2025
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Django 6
364 points • comment • dec 04, 2025
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What you need to know before touching a video file
363 points • comment • dec 27, 2025
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EFF launches Age Verification Hub
361 points • comment • dec 10, 2025
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I migrated to an almost all-EU stack and saved 500€ per year
360 points • comment • dec 29, 2025
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Show HN: Stop AI scrapers from hammering your self-hosted blog (using porn)
359 points • comment • dec 16, 2025
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Paramount launches hostile bid for Warner Bros
359 points • comment • dec 08, 2025
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Anthropic taps IPO lawyers as it races OpenAI to go public
357 points • comment • dec 03, 2025
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Advent of Sysadmin 2025
357 points • comment • dec 01, 2025
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A Safer Container Ecosystem with Docker: Free Docker Hardened Images
356 points • comment • dec 17, 2025
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Apple's slow AI pace becomes a strength as market grows weary of spending
354 points • comment • dec 09, 2025
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The universal weight subspace hypothesis
354 points • comment • dec 09, 2025
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Loss32: Let's Build a Win32/Linux
354 points • comment • dec 29, 2025
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Litestream VFS
353 points • comment • dec 11, 2025
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Google unkills JPEG XL?
353 points • comment • dec 01, 2025