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Hacker News (Dec 2025)

  1. Software engineers should be a little bit cynical

    291 points • comment • dec 28, 2025

  2. Getting bitten by Intel's poor naming schemes

    289 points • comment • dec 19, 2025

  3. Learn computer graphics from scratch and for free

    288 points • comment • dec 28, 2025

  4. SoundCloud has banned VPN access

    287 points • comment • dec 15, 2025

  5. Influential study on glyphosate safety retracted 25 years after publication

    286 points • comment • dec 05, 2025

  6. Times New American: A Tale of Two Fonts

    286 points • comment • dec 30, 2025

  7. Rich Hickey: Thanks AI

    285 points • comment • dec 29, 2025

  8. Skills for organizations, partners, the ecosystem

    284 points • comment • dec 18, 2025

  9. I'm a laptop weirdo and that's why I like my new Framework 13

    283 points • comment • dec 26, 2025

  10. Hunting for North Korean Fiber Optic Cables

    282 points • comment • dec 08, 2025

  11. Interview with RollerCoaster Tycoon's Creator, Chris Sawyer (2024)

    281 points • comment • dec 03, 2025

  12. High-income job losses are cooling housing demand

    280 points • comment • dec 01, 2025

  13. Microsoft Copilot AI Comes to LG TVs, and Can't Be Deleted

    280 points • comment • dec 15, 2025

  14. Donating the Model Context Protocol and establishing the Agentic AI Foundation

    279 points • comment • dec 09, 2025

  15. Meta shuts down global accounts linked to abortion advice and queer content

    279 points • comment • dec 11, 2025

  16. Italy's longest-serving barista reflects on six decades behind the counter

    279 points • comment • dec 05, 2025

  17. Linux DAW: Help Linux musicians to quickly and easily find the tools they need

    279 points • comment • dec 29, 2025

  18. Steam Deck lead reveals Valve is funding ARM compatibility of Windows games

    279 points • comment • dec 03, 2025

  19. A16z-backed Doublespeed hacked, revealing what its AI-generated accounts promote

    279 points • comment • dec 17, 2025

  20. Big GPUs don't need big PCs

    278 points • comment • dec 20, 2025

  21. The biggest CRT ever made: Sony's PVM-4300

    278 points • comment • dec 22, 2025

  22. You can't design software you don't work on

    278 points • comment • dec 29, 2025

  23. Disney Imagineering Debuts Next-Generation Robotic Character, Olaf

    277 points • comment • dec 21, 2025

  24. Sega Channel: VGHF Recovers over 100 Sega Channel ROMs (and More)

    277 points • comment • dec 16, 2025

  25. Rainbow Six Siege hacked as players get billions of credits and random bans

    277 points • comment • dec 27, 2025

  26. My productivity app is a never-ending .txt file (2020)

    276 points • comment • dec 11, 2025

  27. Building a macOS app to know when my Mac is thermal throttling

    276 points • comment • dec 28, 2025

  28. Efficient method to capture carbon dioxide from the atmosphere

    276 points • comment • dec 31, 2025

  29. Fighting the age-gated internet

    275 points • comment • dec 04, 2025

  30. Google removes Sci-Hub domains from U.S. search results due to dated court order

    275 points • comment • dec 13, 2025

  31. Is America's jobs market nearing a cliff?

    274 points • comment • dec 01, 2025

  32. AMD GPU Debugger

    274 points • comment • dec 08, 2025

  33. QNX Self-Hosted Developer Desktop

    274 points • comment • dec 27, 2025

  34. Unity's Mono problem: Why your C# code runs slower than it should

    274 points • comment • dec 28, 2025

  35. Show HN: Vibe coding a bookshelf with Claude Code

    273 points • comment • dec 29, 2025

  36. Fix HDMI-CEC weirdness with a Raspberry Pi and a $7 cable

    272 points • comment • dec 15, 2025

  37. When a video codec wins an Emmy

    272 points • comment • dec 05, 2025

  38. Why Twilio Segment moved from microservices back to a monolith

    271 points • comment • dec 13, 2025

  39. Stepping down as Mockito maintainer after ten years

    271 points • comment • dec 28, 2025

  40. Kroger acknowledges that its bet on robotics went too far

    271 points • comment • dec 08, 2025

  41. The Anatomy of a macOS App

    271 points • comment • dec 07, 2025

  42. TikTok Deal Is the Shittiest Possible Outcome, Making Everything Worse

    270 points • comment • dec 19, 2025

  43. The Garbage Collection Handbook

    270 points • comment • dec 22, 2025

  44. Five Years of Tinygrad

    270 points • comment • dec 29, 2025

  45. Japan to revise romanization rules for first time in 70 years

    270 points • comment • dec 16, 2025

  46. Revisiting "Let's Build a Compiler"

    270 points • comment • dec 10, 2025

  47. Home Depot GitHub token exposed for a year, granted access to internal systems

    269 points • comment • dec 12, 2025

  48. Purrtran – ᓚᘏᗢ – A Programming Language for Cat People

    268 points • comment • dec 13, 2025

  49. Autoland saves King Air, everyone reported safe

    268 points • comment • dec 21, 2025

  50. I ported JustHTML from Python to JavaScript with Codex CLI and GPT-5.2 in hours

    267 points • comment • dec 16, 2025

  51. Computer animator and Amiga fanatic Dick van Dyke turns 100

    267 points • comment • dec 13, 2025

  52. One year of keeping a tada list

    267 points • comment • dec 22, 2025

  53. LearnixOS

    266 points • comment • dec 26, 2025

  54. Helldivers 2 on-disk size 85% reduction

    266 points • comment • dec 03, 2025

  55. Graphite is joining Cursor

    266 points • comment • dec 19, 2025

  56. 30 Year Anniversary of WarCraft II: Tides of Darkness

    265 points • comment • dec 09, 2025

  57. All Delisted Steam Games

    265 points • comment • dec 29, 2025

  58. Working quickly is more important than it seems (2015)

    265 points • comment • dec 15, 2025

  59. Addressing the adding situation

    263 points • comment • dec 02, 2025

  60. The healthcare market is taxing reproduction out of existence

    262 points • comment • dec 01, 2025

  61. The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI Partner on Sora

    262 points • comment • dec 11, 2025

  62. DeepSeekMath-V2: Towards Self-Verifiable Mathematical Reasoning

    262 points • comment • dec 01, 2025

  63. You can't fool the optimizer

    261 points • comment • dec 03, 2025

  64. USD share as global reserve currency drops to lowest since 1994

    260 points • comment • dec 27, 2025

  65. Using e-ink tablet as monitor for Linux

    260 points • comment • dec 09, 2025

  66. How getting richer made teenagers less free

    260 points • comment • dec 18, 2025

  67. HTML as an Accessible Format for Papers (2023)

    260 points • comment • dec 06, 2025

  68. Autism should not be treated as a single condition

    259 points • comment • dec 04, 2025

  69. Booting Linux in QEMU and Writing PID 1 in Go to Illustrate Kernel as Program

    259 points • comment • dec 04, 2025

  70. Asahi Linux with Sway on the MacBook Air M2 (2024)

    258 points • comment • dec 25, 2025

  71. The tiniest yet real telescope I've built

    258 points • comment • dec 12, 2025

  72. No strcpy either

    258 points • comment • dec 30, 2025

  73. Show HN: Exploring Mathematics with Python

    257 points • comment • dec 19, 2025

  74. Ask HN: What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2026?

    257 points • comment • dec 25, 2025

  75. If you care about security you might want to move the iPhone Camera app

    257 points • comment • dec 28, 2025

  76. Self-hosting a Matrix server for 5 years

    256 points • comment • dec 01, 2025

  77. Uber is turning data about trips and takeout into insights for marketers

    256 points • comment • dec 08, 2025

  78. Rob Pike got spammed with an AI slop "act of kindness"

    256 points • comment • dec 26, 2025

  79. I have been writing a niche history blog for 15 years

    255 points • comment • dec 04, 2025

  80. Scala 3 slowed us down?

    255 points • comment • dec 07, 2025

  81. Shai-Hulud compromised a dev machine and raided GitHub org access: a post-mortem

    255 points • comment • dec 14, 2025

  82. Trains cancelled over fake bridge collapse image

    255 points • comment • dec 07, 2025

  83. Tiled Art

    255 points • comment • dec 19, 2025

  84. Nvidia Nemotron 3 Family of Models

    254 points • comment • dec 15, 2025

  85. Don't Become the Machine

    254 points • comment • dec 24, 2025

  86. Bonsai: A Voxel Engine, from scratch

    253 points • comment • dec 16, 2025

  87. Indoor tanning makes youthful skin much older on a genetic level

    253 points • comment • dec 21, 2025

  88. I program on the subway

    253 points • comment • dec 16, 2025

  89. MIT professor shot at his Massachusetts home dies

    253 points • comment • dec 16, 2025

  90. AI and the ironies of automation – Part 2

    252 points • comment • dec 14, 2025

  91. Bad Dye Job

    251 points • comment • dec 08, 2025

  92. Twelve Days of Shell

    251 points • comment • dec 08, 2025

  93. Ryanair fined €256M over ‘abusive strategy’ to limit ticket sales by OTAs

    250 points • comment • dec 23, 2025

  94. White House pushes to dismantle leading climate and weather research center

    249 points • comment • dec 27, 2025

  95. The rise of industrial software

    249 points • comment • dec 31, 2025

  96. Rue: Higher level than Rust, lower level than Go

    249 points • comment • dec 21, 2025

  97. Debian's Git Transition

    248 points • comment • dec 22, 2025

  98. An Interactive Guide to the Fourier Transform

    247 points • comment • dec 02, 2025

  99. Vibe coding is mad depressing

    247 points • comment • dec 11, 2025

  100. He set out to walk around the world. After 27 years, his quest is nearly over

    247 points • comment • dec 07, 2025