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Hacker News (Dec 2025)

  1. Read Something Wonderful

    186 points • comment • dec 15, 2025

  2. Judge hints Vizio TV buyers may have rights to source code licensed under GPL

    186 points • comment • dec 18, 2025

  3. 'Ghost jobs' are on the rise – and so are calls to ban them

    186 points • comment • dec 18, 2025

  4. Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence

    186 points • comment • dec 11, 2025

  5. After 40 years of adventure games, Ron Gilbert pivots to outrunning Death

    185 points • comment • dec 01, 2025

  6. YouTube's CEO limits his kids' social media use – other tech bosses do the same

    185 points • comment • dec 13, 2025

  7. VCMI: An open-source engine for Heroes III

    185 points • comment • dec 06, 2025

  8. In the Beginning was the Command Line (1999)

    185 points • comment • dec 08, 2025

  9. The FreeBSD Foundation's Laptop Support and Usability Project

    185 points • comment • dec 19, 2025

  10. The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine

    185 points • comment • dec 22, 2025

  11. Apple AI chief John Giannandrea is retiring in spring 2026

    185 points • comment • dec 01, 2025

  12. Flow: Actor-based language for C++, used by FoundationDB

    185 points • comment • dec 08, 2025

  13. Developers can now submit apps to ChatGPT

    184 points • comment • dec 17, 2025

  14. A better zip bomb (2019)

    184 points • comment • dec 19, 2025

  15. Eurydice: a Rust to C compiler

    183 points • comment • dec 07, 2025

  16. When someone says they hate your product

    183 points • comment • dec 29, 2025

  17. Map of all the buildings in the world

    183 points • comment • dec 04, 2025

  18. Photographer built a medium-format rangefinder

    183 points • comment • dec 06, 2025

  19. How I protect my Forgejo instance from AI web crawlers

    182 points • comment • dec 21, 2025

  20. Google Opal

    181 points • comment • dec 31, 2025

  21. The Joy of Playing Grandia, on Sega Saturn

    181 points • comment • dec 09, 2025

  22. Linear Address Spaces: Unsafe at any speed (2022)

    180 points • comment • dec 31, 2025

  23. Idempotency keys for exactly-once processing

    179 points • comment • dec 01, 2025

  24. Show HN: Sqlit – A lazygit-style TUI for SQL databases

    178 points • comment • dec 15, 2025

  25. The e-scooter isn't new – London was zooming around on Autopeds a century ago

    178 points • comment • dec 24, 2025

  26. The year of the 3D printed miniature and other lies we tell ourselves

    177 points • comment • dec 29, 2025

  27. On privacy and control

    177 points • comment • dec 31, 2025

  28. Build Your Own React

    177 points • comment • dec 20, 2025

  29. T-Ruby is Ruby with syntax for types

    176 points • comment • dec 26, 2025

  30. Easel Turns One One year of building my own IDE in Clojure

    176 points • comment • dec 27, 2025

  31. Yep, Passkeys Still Have Problems

    175 points • comment • dec 17, 2025

  32. String theory inspires a brilliant, baffling new math proof

    175 points • comment • dec 12, 2025

  33. Linux Instal Fest Belgrade

    175 points • comment • dec 06, 2025

  34. Show HN: Fresh – A new terminal editor built in Rust

    175 points • comment • dec 03, 2025

  35. Reconstructed Commander Keen 1-3 Source Code

    174 points • comment • dec 19, 2025

  36. Framework Sponsors CachyOS

    174 points • comment • dec 05, 2025

  37. A series of vignettes from my childhood and early career

    174 points • comment • dec 02, 2025

  38. Mapping the US healthcare system’s financial flows

    173 points • comment • dec 03, 2025

  39. Show HN: AlgoDrill – Interactive drills to stop forgetting LeetCode patterns

    173 points • comment • dec 09, 2025

  40. No, it's not a battleship

    173 points • comment • dec 28, 2025

  41. My role as a founder-CTO: year 8

    172 points • comment • dec 26, 2025

  42. Germany: Amazon is not allowed to force customers to watch ads on Prime Video

    172 points • comment • dec 18, 2025

  43. GPT-5.2

    172 points • comment • dec 11, 2025

  44. Clair Obscur having its Indie Game Game Of The Year award stripped due to AI use

    171 points • comment • dec 21, 2025

  45. Synadia and TigerBeetle Pledge $512k to the Zig Software Foundation

    171 points • comment • dec 05, 2025

  46. HTTP Caching, a Refresher

    171 points • comment • dec 23, 2025

  47. John Varley has died

    171 points • comment • dec 15, 2025

  48. Reverse math shows why hard problems are hard

    171 points • comment • dec 02, 2025

  49. Why I stopped using JSON for my APIs

    170 points • comment • dec 01, 2025

  50. Show HN: HCB Mobile – financial app built by 17 y/o, processing $6M/month

    170 points • comment • dec 03, 2025

  51. Guarding My Git Forge Against AI Scrapers

    170 points • comment • dec 12, 2025

  52. Trials avoid high risk patients and underestimate drug harms

    170 points • comment • dec 08, 2025

  53. Mechanical power generation using Earth's ambient radiation

    170 points • comment • dec 07, 2025

  54. Japanese four-cylinder engine is so reliable still in production after 25 years

    170 points • comment • dec 04, 2025

  55. No more O'Reilly subscriptions for me

    170 points • comment • dec 08, 2025

  56. How to hack Discord, Vercel and more with one easy trick

    170 points • comment • dec 18, 2025

  57. Bison return to Illinois' Kane County after 200 years

    170 points • comment • dec 30, 2025

  58. NeurIPS 2025 Best Paper Awards

    170 points • comment • dec 05, 2025

  59. Lie groups are crucial to some of the most fundamental theories in physics

    169 points • comment • dec 03, 2025

  60. Build Android apps using Rust and Iced

    168 points • comment • dec 22, 2025

  61. Believe the Checkbook

    168 points • comment • dec 19, 2025

  62. US TikTok investors in limbo as deal set to be delayed again

    168 points • comment • dec 12, 2025

  63. My First Meshtastic Network

    168 points • comment • dec 29, 2025

  64. Tides are weirder than you think

    167 points • comment • dec 01, 2025

  65. Things I learnt about passkeys when building passkeybot

    167 points • comment • dec 22, 2025

  66. Lessons from the PG&E outage

    167 points • comment • dec 24, 2025

  67. Games’ affordance of childlike wonder and reduced burnout risk in young adults

    167 points • comment • dec 24, 2025

  68. Vibe coding creates fatigue?

    167 points • comment • dec 16, 2025

  69. The most famous transcendental numbers

    166 points • comment • dec 31, 2025

  70. Frinkiac – 3M "The Simpsons" Screencaps

    166 points • comment • dec 02, 2025

  71. Prepare for That Stupid World

    166 points • comment • dec 19, 2025

  72. Egyptian Hieroglyphs: Lesson 1

    166 points • comment • dec 18, 2025

  73. 1GB Raspberry Pi 5, and memory-driven price rises

    166 points • comment • dec 01, 2025

  74. The World Happiness Report is beset with methodological problems

    165 points • comment • dec 16, 2025

  75. One million (small web) screenshots

    165 points • comment • dec 22, 2025

  76. Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days

    165 points • comment • dec 02, 2025

  77. Show HN: I built a system for active note-taking in regular meetings like 1-1s

    165 points • comment • dec 08, 2025

  78. I spent a week without IPv4 (2023)

    164 points • comment • dec 20, 2025

  79. A supersonic engine core makes the perfect power turbine

    164 points • comment • dec 09, 2025

  80. Want to sway an election? Here’s how much fake online accounts cost

    163 points • comment • dec 13, 2025

  81. Ÿnsect, a French insect farming startup, has been been placed into liquidation

    163 points • comment • dec 27, 2025

  82. Hungry Fat Cells Could Someday Starve Cancer

    162 points • comment • dec 28, 2025

  83. Our New Sam Audio Model Transforms Audio Editing

    162 points • comment • dec 16, 2025

  84. LG TV's new software update installed MS Copilot, which cannot be deleted

    162 points • comment • dec 13, 2025

  85. Stop Breaking TLS

    162 points • comment • dec 10, 2025

  86. Bootloader Unlock Wall of Shame

    162 points • comment • dec 04, 2025

  87. Cursor Acquires Graphite

    162 points • comment • dec 19, 2025

  88. Japan law opening phone app stores to go into effect

    162 points • comment • dec 12, 2025

  89. Getting into public speaking

    162 points • comment • dec 10, 2025

  90. I've been writing ring buffers wrong all these years (2016)

    161 points • comment • dec 16, 2025

  91. Sycophancy is the first LLM "dark pattern"

    161 points • comment • dec 01, 2025

  92. Windows 2 for the Apricot PC/Xi

    161 points • comment • dec 27, 2025

  93. ArkhamMirror: Airgapped investigation platform with CIA-style hypothesis testing

    161 points • comment • dec 16, 2025

  94. Inca Stone Masonry

    161 points • comment • dec 21, 2025

  95. Peter Thiel's Apocalyptic Worldview Is a Dangerous Fantasy

    161 points • comment • dec 02, 2025

  96. Avoid Mini-Frameworks

    160 points • comment • dec 24, 2025

  97. EmacsConf 2025

    160 points • comment • dec 02, 2025

  98. We are discontinuing the dark web report

    160 points • comment • dec 15, 2025

  99. Benn Jordan’s flock camera jammer will send you to jail in Florida now [video]

    160 points • comment • dec 12, 2025

  100. The Whole App is a Blob

    159 points • comment • dec 15, 2025