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Hacker News (Dec 2025)
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Read Something Wonderful
186 points • comment • dec 15, 2025
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Judge hints Vizio TV buyers may have rights to source code licensed under GPL
186 points • comment • dec 18, 2025
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'Ghost jobs' are on the rise – and so are calls to ban them
186 points • comment • dec 18, 2025
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Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence
186 points • comment • dec 11, 2025
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After 40 years of adventure games, Ron Gilbert pivots to outrunning Death
185 points • comment • dec 01, 2025
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YouTube's CEO limits his kids' social media use – other tech bosses do the same
185 points • comment • dec 13, 2025
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VCMI: An open-source engine for Heroes III
185 points • comment • dec 06, 2025
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In the Beginning was the Command Line (1999)
185 points • comment • dec 08, 2025
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The FreeBSD Foundation's Laptop Support and Usability Project
185 points • comment • dec 19, 2025
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The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine
185 points • comment • dec 22, 2025
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Apple AI chief John Giannandrea is retiring in spring 2026
185 points • comment • dec 01, 2025
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Flow: Actor-based language for C++, used by FoundationDB
185 points • comment • dec 08, 2025
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Developers can now submit apps to ChatGPT
184 points • comment • dec 17, 2025
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A better zip bomb (2019)
184 points • comment • dec 19, 2025
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Eurydice: a Rust to C compiler
183 points • comment • dec 07, 2025
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When someone says they hate your product
183 points • comment • dec 29, 2025
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Map of all the buildings in the world
183 points • comment • dec 04, 2025
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Photographer built a medium-format rangefinder
183 points • comment • dec 06, 2025
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How I protect my Forgejo instance from AI web crawlers
182 points • comment • dec 21, 2025
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Google Opal
181 points • comment • dec 31, 2025
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The Joy of Playing Grandia, on Sega Saturn
181 points • comment • dec 09, 2025
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Linear Address Spaces: Unsafe at any speed (2022)
180 points • comment • dec 31, 2025
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Idempotency keys for exactly-once processing
179 points • comment • dec 01, 2025
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Show HN: Sqlit – A lazygit-style TUI for SQL databases
178 points • comment • dec 15, 2025
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The e-scooter isn't new – London was zooming around on Autopeds a century ago
178 points • comment • dec 24, 2025
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The year of the 3D printed miniature and other lies we tell ourselves
177 points • comment • dec 29, 2025
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On privacy and control
177 points • comment • dec 31, 2025
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Build Your Own React
177 points • comment • dec 20, 2025
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T-Ruby is Ruby with syntax for types
176 points • comment • dec 26, 2025
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Easel Turns One One year of building my own IDE in Clojure
176 points • comment • dec 27, 2025
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Yep, Passkeys Still Have Problems
175 points • comment • dec 17, 2025
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String theory inspires a brilliant, baffling new math proof
175 points • comment • dec 12, 2025
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Linux Instal Fest Belgrade
175 points • comment • dec 06, 2025
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Show HN: Fresh – A new terminal editor built in Rust
175 points • comment • dec 03, 2025
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Reconstructed Commander Keen 1-3 Source Code
174 points • comment • dec 19, 2025
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Framework Sponsors CachyOS
174 points • comment • dec 05, 2025
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A series of vignettes from my childhood and early career
174 points • comment • dec 02, 2025
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Mapping the US healthcare system’s financial flows
173 points • comment • dec 03, 2025
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Show HN: AlgoDrill – Interactive drills to stop forgetting LeetCode patterns
173 points • comment • dec 09, 2025
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No, it's not a battleship
173 points • comment • dec 28, 2025
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My role as a founder-CTO: year 8
172 points • comment • dec 26, 2025
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Germany: Amazon is not allowed to force customers to watch ads on Prime Video
172 points • comment • dec 18, 2025
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GPT-5.2
172 points • comment • dec 11, 2025
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Clair Obscur having its Indie Game Game Of The Year award stripped due to AI use
171 points • comment • dec 21, 2025
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Synadia and TigerBeetle Pledge $512k to the Zig Software Foundation
171 points • comment • dec 05, 2025
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HTTP Caching, a Refresher
171 points • comment • dec 23, 2025
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John Varley has died
171 points • comment • dec 15, 2025
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Reverse math shows why hard problems are hard
171 points • comment • dec 02, 2025
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Why I stopped using JSON for my APIs
170 points • comment • dec 01, 2025
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Show HN: HCB Mobile – financial app built by 17 y/o, processing $6M/month
170 points • comment • dec 03, 2025
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Guarding My Git Forge Against AI Scrapers
170 points • comment • dec 12, 2025
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Trials avoid high risk patients and underestimate drug harms
170 points • comment • dec 08, 2025
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Mechanical power generation using Earth's ambient radiation
170 points • comment • dec 07, 2025
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Japanese four-cylinder engine is so reliable still in production after 25 years
170 points • comment • dec 04, 2025
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No more O'Reilly subscriptions for me
170 points • comment • dec 08, 2025
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How to hack Discord, Vercel and more with one easy trick
170 points • comment • dec 18, 2025
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Bison return to Illinois' Kane County after 200 years
170 points • comment • dec 30, 2025
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NeurIPS 2025 Best Paper Awards
170 points • comment • dec 05, 2025
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Lie groups are crucial to some of the most fundamental theories in physics
169 points • comment • dec 03, 2025
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Build Android apps using Rust and Iced
168 points • comment • dec 22, 2025
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Believe the Checkbook
168 points • comment • dec 19, 2025
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US TikTok investors in limbo as deal set to be delayed again
168 points • comment • dec 12, 2025
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My First Meshtastic Network
168 points • comment • dec 29, 2025
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Tides are weirder than you think
167 points • comment • dec 01, 2025
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Things I learnt about passkeys when building passkeybot
167 points • comment • dec 22, 2025
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Lessons from the PG&E outage
167 points • comment • dec 24, 2025
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Games’ affordance of childlike wonder and reduced burnout risk in young adults
167 points • comment • dec 24, 2025
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Vibe coding creates fatigue?
167 points • comment • dec 16, 2025
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The most famous transcendental numbers
166 points • comment • dec 31, 2025
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Frinkiac – 3M "The Simpsons" Screencaps
166 points • comment • dec 02, 2025
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Prepare for That Stupid World
166 points • comment • dec 19, 2025
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Egyptian Hieroglyphs: Lesson 1
166 points • comment • dec 18, 2025
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1GB Raspberry Pi 5, and memory-driven price rises
166 points • comment • dec 01, 2025
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The World Happiness Report is beset with methodological problems
165 points • comment • dec 16, 2025
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One million (small web) screenshots
165 points • comment • dec 22, 2025
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Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days
165 points • comment • dec 02, 2025
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Show HN: I built a system for active note-taking in regular meetings like 1-1s
165 points • comment • dec 08, 2025
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I spent a week without IPv4 (2023)
164 points • comment • dec 20, 2025
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A supersonic engine core makes the perfect power turbine
164 points • comment • dec 09, 2025
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Want to sway an election? Here’s how much fake online accounts cost
163 points • comment • dec 13, 2025
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Ÿnsect, a French insect farming startup, has been been placed into liquidation
163 points • comment • dec 27, 2025
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Hungry Fat Cells Could Someday Starve Cancer
162 points • comment • dec 28, 2025
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Our New Sam Audio Model Transforms Audio Editing
162 points • comment • dec 16, 2025
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LG TV's new software update installed MS Copilot, which cannot be deleted
162 points • comment • dec 13, 2025
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Stop Breaking TLS
162 points • comment • dec 10, 2025
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Bootloader Unlock Wall of Shame
162 points • comment • dec 04, 2025
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Cursor Acquires Graphite
162 points • comment • dec 19, 2025
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Japan law opening phone app stores to go into effect
162 points • comment • dec 12, 2025
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Getting into public speaking
162 points • comment • dec 10, 2025
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I've been writing ring buffers wrong all these years (2016)
161 points • comment • dec 16, 2025
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Sycophancy is the first LLM "dark pattern"
161 points • comment • dec 01, 2025
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Windows 2 for the Apricot PC/Xi
161 points • comment • dec 27, 2025
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ArkhamMirror: Airgapped investigation platform with CIA-style hypothesis testing
161 points • comment • dec 16, 2025
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Inca Stone Masonry
161 points • comment • dec 21, 2025
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Peter Thiel's Apocalyptic Worldview Is a Dangerous Fantasy
161 points • comment • dec 02, 2025
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Avoid Mini-Frameworks
160 points • comment • dec 24, 2025
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EmacsConf 2025
160 points • comment • dec 02, 2025
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We are discontinuing the dark web report
160 points • comment • dec 15, 2025
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Benn Jordan’s flock camera jammer will send you to jail in Florida now [video]
160 points • comment • dec 12, 2025
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The Whole App is a Blob
159 points • comment • dec 15, 2025