Hacker News Highlights

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 2, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Linux is good now
https://www.pcgamer.com/software/linux/im-brave-enough-to-say-it-linux-is-good-now-and-if-you-want-to-feel-like-you-actually-own-your-pc-make-2026-the-year-of-linux-on-your-desktop/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46457770

A website to destroy all websites
https://henry.codes/writing/a-website-to-destroy-all-websites/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46457784

Bluetooth Headphone Jacking: A Key to Your Phone [video]
https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-bluetooth-headphone-jacking-a-key-to-your-phone
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46453204

Show HN: OpenWorkers – Self-hosted Cloudflare workers in Rust
https://openworkers.com/introducing-openworkers
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46454693

Cameras and Lenses (2020)
https://ciechanow.ski/cameras-and-lenses/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46455872

Finland detains ship and its crew after critical undersea cable damaged
https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/31/europe/finland-estonia-undersea-cable-ship-detained-intl
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46456797

I rebooted my social life
https://takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/this-might-be-oversharing
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46453114

Python numbers every programmer should know
https://mkennedy.codes/posts/python-numbers-every-programmer-should-know/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46454470

Why users cannot create Issues directly
https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/issues/3558
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46460319

2025 Letter
https://danwang.co/2025-letter/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46454413

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 1, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Warren Buffett steps down as Berkshire Hathaway CEO after six decades
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2025-12-31/warren-buffett-steps-down-as-berkshire-hathaway-ceo-after-six-decades
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46448705

2025: The Year in LLMs
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/31/the-year-in-llms/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46449643

I canceled my book deal
https://austinhenley.com/blog/canceledbookdeal.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46446815

Show HN: Use Claude Code to Query 600 GB Indexes over Hacker News, ArXiv, etc.
https://exopriors.com/scry
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46442245

Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design (2011) [pdf]
https://www.ece.uvic.ca/~elec399/201409/Akin%27s%20Laws%20of%20Spacecraft%20Design.pdf
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46442903

Web Browsers have stopped blocking pop-ups
https://www.smokingonabike.com/2025/12/31/web-browsers-have-stopped-blocking-pop-ups/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46446366

Demystifying DVDs
https://hiddenpalace.org/News/One_Bad_Ass_Hedgehog_-_Shadow_the_Hedgehog#Demystifying_DVDs
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46417162

On privacy and control
https://toidiu.com/blog/2025-12-25-privacy-and-control/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46446938

Scientists unlock brain's natural clean-up system for new treatments for stroke
https://www.monash.edu/pharm/about/news/news-listing/latest/scientists-unlock-brains-natural-clean-up-system-to-develop-new-treatments-for-stroke-and-other-neurological-diseases
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46448894

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Dec 31, 2025.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Show HN: 22 GB of Hacker News in SQLite
https://hackerbook.dosaygo.com
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46435308

A faster heart for F-Droid
https://f-droid.org/2025/12/30/a-faster-heart-for-f-droid.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46436409

Non-Zero-Sum Games
https://nonzerosum.games/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46432311

OpenAI's cash burn will be one of the big bubble questions of 2026
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2025/12/30/openais-cash-burn-will-be-one-of-the-big-bubble-questions-of-2026
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46438390

FediMeteo: A €4 FreeBSD VPS Became a Global Weather Service
https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/02/26/fedimeteo-how-a-tiny-freebsd-vps-became-a-global-weather-service-for-thousands/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46436889

Loss32: Let's Build a Win32/Linux
https://loss32.org/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46424173

A Vulnerability in Libsodium
https://00f.net/2025/12/30/libsodium-vulnerability/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46435614

Times New American: A Tale of Two Fonts
https://hsu.cy/2025/12/times-new-american/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46432862

Honey's Dieselgate: Detecting and tricking testers
https://vptdigital.com/blog/honey-detecting-testers/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46438522

Five Years of Tinygrad
https://geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll/update/2025/12/29/five-years-of-tinygrad.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46422757

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Dec 30, 2025.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Kidnapped by Deutsche Bahn
https://www.theocharis.dev/blog/kidnapped-by-deutsche-bahn/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46419970

Google is dead. Where do we go now?
https://www.circusscientist.com/2025/12/29/google-is-dead-where-do-we-go-now/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46425198

GOG is getting acquired by its original co-founder
https://www.gog.com/blog/gog-is-getting-acquired-by-its-original-co-founder-what-it-means-for-you/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46422412

Karpathy on Programming: “I've never felt this much behind”
https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/2004607146781278521
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46395714

Tesla's 4680 battery supply chain collapses as partner writes down deal by 99%
https://electrek.co/2025/12/29/tesla-4680-battery-supply-chain-collapses-partner-writes-down-dea/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46423290

Linux DAW: Help Linux musicians to quickly and easily find the tools they need
https://linuxdaw.org/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46419968

ManusAI Joins Meta
https://manus.im/blog/manus-joins-meta-for-next-era-of-innovation
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46426534

I migrated to an almost all-EU stack and saved 500€ per year
https://www.zeitgeistofbytes.com/p/bye-bye-big-tech-how-i-migrated-to
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46427582

The future of software development is software developers
https://codemanship.wordpress.com/2025/11/25/the-future-of-software-development-is-software-developers/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46424233

Static Allocation with Zig
https://nickmonad.blog/2025/static-allocation-with-zig-kv/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46422009

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Dec 29, 2025.

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• (00:00) - Intro

What an unprocessed photo looks like
https://maurycyz.com/misc/raw_photo/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46415225

Growing up in “404 Not Found”: China's nuclear city in the Gobi Desert
https://substack.com/inbox/post/182743659
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46408988

You can make up HTML tags
https://maurycyz.com/misc/make-up-tags/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46416945

Software engineers should be a little bit cynical
https://www.seangoedecke.com/a-little-bit-cynical/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46414723

Unity's Mono problem: Why your C# code runs slower than it should
https://marekfiser.com/blog/mono-vs-dot-net-in-unity/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46414819

MongoBleed Explained Simply
https://bigdata.2minutestreaming.com/p/mongobleed-explained-simply
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46414475

PySDR: A Guide to SDR and DSP Using Python
https://pysdr.org/content/intro.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46413975

As AI gobbles up chips, prices for devices may rise
https://www.npr.org/2025/12/28/nx-s1-5656190/ai-chips-memory-prices-ram
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46415338

Show HN: Z80-μLM, a 'Conversational AI' That Fits in 40KB
https://github.com/HarryR/z80ai
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46417815

Staying ahead of censors in 2025
https://forum.torproject.org/t/staying-ahead-of-censors-in-2025-what-weve-learned-from-fighting-censorship-in-iran-and-russia/20898
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46417844

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Dec 28, 2025.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Floor796
https://floor796.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46401612

Nvidia's $20B antitrust loophole
https://ossa-ma.github.io/blog/groq
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46403559

How we lost communication to entertainment
https://ploum.net/2025-12-15-communication-entertainment.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46404848

Replacing JavaScript with Just HTML
https://www.htmhell.dev/adventcalendar/2025/27/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46407337

Calendar
https://neatnik.net/calendar/?year=2026
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46408613

Show HN: Ez FFmpeg – Video editing in plain English
http://npmjs.com/package/ezff
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46400251

Gpg.fail
https://gpg.fail
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46403200

Say No to Palantir in the NHS
https://notopalantir.goodlawproject.org/email-to-target/stop-palantir-in-the-nhs/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46405309

Janet Jackson had the power to crash laptop computers (2022)
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20220816-00/?p=106994
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46403291

Ask HN: Resources to get better at outbound sales?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46346648

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Dec 27, 2025.

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• (00:00) - Intro

How uv got so fast
https://nesbitt.io/2025/12/26/how-uv-got-so-fast.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46393992

Package managers keep using Git as a database, it never works out
https://nesbitt.io/2025/12/24/package-managers-keep-using-git-as-a-database.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46391514

Toys with the highest play-time and lowest clean-up-time
https://joannabregan.substack.com/p/toys-with-the-highest-play-time-and
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46395885

Show HN: Witr – Explain why a process is running on your Linux system
https://github.com/pranshuparmar/witr
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46392910

The best things and stuff of 2025
https://blog.fogus.me/2025/12/23/the-best-things-and-stuff-of-2025.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46365726

LearnixOS
https://www.learnix-os.com
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46391599

Ask HN: What did you read in 2025?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46391572

Always bet on text (2014)
https://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/193447.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46397379

Exe.dev
https://exe.dev/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46397609

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Dec 26, 2025.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Fabrice Bellard Releases MicroQuickJS
https://github.com/bellard/mquickjs/blob/main/README.md
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46367224

We invited a man into our home at Christmas and he stayed with us for 45 years
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdxwllqz1l0o
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46383552

Maybe the default settings are too high
https://www.raptitude.com/2025/12/maybe-the-default-settings-are-too-high/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46387657

I sell onions on the Internet (2019)
https://www.deepsouthventures.com/i-sell-onions-on-the-internet/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46385308

The entire New Yorker archive is now digitized
https://www.newyorker.com/news/press-room/the-entire-new-yorker-archive-is-now-fully-digitized
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46336577

Python 3.15’s interpreter for Windows x86-64 should hopefully be 15% faster
https://fidget-spinner.github.io/posts/no-longer-sorry.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46384167

Seven Diabetes Patients Die Due to Undisclosed Bug in Abbott's Glucose Monitors
https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2025/dec/23/seven-abbott-freestyle-libre-cgm-patients-dead/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46388040

Fahrplan – 39C3
https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2025/fahrplan/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46386211

Asahi Linux with Sway on the MacBook Air M2 (2024)
https://daniel.lawrence.lu/blog/2024-12-01-asahi-linux-with-sway-on-the-macbook-air-m2/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46384565

Show HN: Gaming Couch – a local multiplayer party game platform for 8 players
https://gamingcouch.com
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46344573

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Dec 25, 2025.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Tell HN: Merry Christmas
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46380168

Nvidia buying AI chip startup Groq for about $20B in cash
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/24/nvidia-buying-ai-chip-startup-groq-for-about-20-billion-biggest-deal.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46379183

Phoenix: A modern X server written from scratch in Zig
https://git.dec05eba.com/phoenix/about/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46380075

Show HN: Minimalist editor that lives in browser, stores everything in the URL
https://github.com/antonmedv/textarea
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46378554

Show HN: Vibium – Browser automation for AI and humans, by Selenium's creator
https://github.com/VibiumDev/vibium
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46377597

Ruby 4.0.0
https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2025/12/25/ruby-4-0-0-released/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46382011

Fabrice Bellard: Biography (2009) [pdf]
https://www.ipaidia.gr/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/117-2020-fabrice-bellard.pdf
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46377862

I'm returning my Framework 16
https://yorickpeterse.com/articles/im-returning-my-framework-16/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46375174

CSRF protection without tokens or hidden form fields
https://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/csrf-protection-without-tokens-or-hidden-form-fields
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46351666

Who Watches the Waymos? I do [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYU2hAbx_Fc
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46380758

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Dec 24, 2025.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Fabrice Bellard Releases MicroQuickJS
https://github.com/bellard/mquickjs/blob/main/README.md
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46367224

Some Epstein file redactions are being undone with hacks
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/23/epstein-unredacted-files-social-media
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46368946

X-ray: a Python library for finding bad redactions in PDF documents
https://github.com/freelawproject/x-ray
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46369923

We replaced H.264 streaming with JPEG screenshots (and it worked better)
https://blog.helix.ml/p/we-mass-deployed-15-year-old-screen
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46367475

What makes you senior
https://terriblesoftware.org/2025/11/25/what-actually-makes-you-senior/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46327692

Lua 5.5
https://lua.org/versions.html#5.5
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46354674

Unifi Travel Router
https://blog.ui.com/article/travel-in-style-unifi-style-unifi-travel-router
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46371135

Texas app store age verification law blocked by federal judge
https://www.macrumors.com/2025/12/23/texas-app-store-law-blocked/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46370012

Perfect Software – Software for an Audience of One
https://outofdesk.netlify.app/blog/perfect-software
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46334206

Fifty problems with standard web APIs in 2025
https://zerotrickpony.com/articles/browser-bugs/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46309007