HN Daily Digest

Hacker News – 19 Dec 2025


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Table of Contents
  • Open Access and Academic Publishing
    • Beginning January 2026, all ACM publications will be made open access
    • Texas is suing all of the big TV makers for spying on what you watch
    • Hardware and Compatibility
      • Getting bitten by Intel's poor naming schemes
      • 1.5 TB of VRAM on Mac Studio – RDMA over Thunderbolt 5
      • Security Vulnerabilities and Testing
        • We pwned X, Vercel, Cursor, and Discord through a supply-chain attack
        • Property-Based Testing Caught a Security Bug I Never Would Have Found
        • Innovations in Programming Languages
          • Show HN: Orbit a systems level programming language that compiles .sh to LLVM
          • From Zero to QED: An informal introduction to formality with Lean 4
          • Nostalgia and Cultural Impact
            • Reconstructed Commander Keen 1-3 Source Code
            • Noclip.website – A digital museum of video game levels
            • ...more
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