This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Dec 17, 2025.

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• (00:00) - Intro

alpr.watch
https://alpr.watch/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46290916

Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions
https://resources.github.com/actions/2026-pricing-changes-for-github-actions/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46291156

No Graphics API
https://www.sebastianaaltonen.com/blog/no-graphics-api
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46293062

AI will make formal verification go mainstream
https://martin.kleppmann.com/2025/12/08/ai-formal-verification.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46294574

Announcing the Beta release of ty
https://astral.sh/blog/ty
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46294289

Thin desires are eating life
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/thin-desires-are-eating-your-life/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46283276

Mozilla appoints new CEO Anthony Enzor-Demeo
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/leadership/mozillas-next-chapter-anthony-enzor-demeo-new-ceo/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46288491

40 percent of fMRI signals do not correspond to actual brain activity
https://www.tum.de/en/news-and-events/all-news/press-releases/details/40-percent-of-mri-signals-do-not-correspond-to-actual-brain-activity
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46288415

GPT Image 1.5
https://openai.com/index/new-chatgpt-images-is-here/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46291941

No AI* Here – A Response to Mozilla's Next Chapter
https://www.waterfox.com/blog/no-ai-here-response-to-mozilla/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46295268