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macOS 26.2 enables fast AI clusters with RDMA over Thunderbolt
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/macos-release-notes/macos-26_2-release-notes#RDMA-over-Thunderbolt
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46248644
OpenAI are quietly adopting skills, now available in ChatGPT and Codex CLI
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/12/openai-skills/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46250332
Koralm Railway
https://infrastruktur.oebb.at/en/projects-for-austria/railway-lines/southern-line-vienna-villach/koralm-railway
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46242871
Sick of smart TVs? Here are your best options
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/12/the-ars-technica-guide-to-dumb-tvs/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46243655
Rats Play DOOM
https://ratsplaydoom.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46248323
GNU Unifont
https://unifoundry.com/unifont/index.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46248859
String theory inspires a brilliant, baffling new math proof
https://www.quantamagazine.org/string-theory-inspires-a-brilliant-baffling-new-math-proof-20251212/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46245622
Show HN: I made a spreadsheet where formulas also update backwards
https://victorpoughon.github.io/bidicalc/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46234734
Show HN: Tiny VM sandbox in C with apps in Rust, C and Zig
https://github.com/ringtailsoftware/uvm32
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46249538
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The highest quality codebase
https://gricha.dev/blog/the-highest-quality-codebase
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46197930
French supermarket's Christmas advert is worldwide hit (without AI) [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Na9VmMNJvsA
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46231187
EFF launches Age Verification Hub
https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-launches-age-verification-hub-resource-against-misguided-laws
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46223389
Rivian Unveils Custom Silicon, R2 Lidar Roadmap, and Universal Hands Free
https://riviantrackr.com/news/rivian-unveils-custom-silicon-r2-lidar-roadmap-universal-hands-free-and-its-next-gen-autonomy-platform/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46234920
Nokia N900 Necromancy
https://yaky.dev/2025-12-11-nokia-n900-necromancy/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46239177
Litestream VFS
https://fly.io/blog/litestream-vfs/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46234710
Craft software that makes people feel something
https://rapha.land/craft-software-that-makes-people-feel-something/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46231274
Programmers and software developers lost the plot on naming their tools
https://larr.net/p/namings.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46234806
Denial of service and source code exposure in React Server Components
https://react.dev/blog/2025/12/11/denial-of-service-and-source-code-exposure-in-react-server-components
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46236924
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Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/australia-social-media-ban-takes-effect-world-first-2025-12-09/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46208348
Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux
https://www.heise.de/en/news/Valve-HDMI-Forum-Continues-to-Block-HDMI-2-1-for-Linux-11107440.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46220488
Getting a Gemini API key is an exercise in frustration
https://ankursethi.com/blog/gemini-api-key-frustration/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46223311
Auto-grading decade-old Hacker News discussions with hindsight
https://karpathy.bearblog.dev/auto-grade-hn/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46220540
Rubio stages font coup: Times New Roman ousts Calibri
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/rubio-stages-font-coup-times-new-roman-ousts-calibri-2025-12-09/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46212438
Patterns.dev
https://www.patterns.dev/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46226483
Qwen3-Omni-Flash-2025-12-01:a next-generation native multimodal large model
https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3-omni-flash-20251201
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46219538
How Google Maps allocates survival across London's restaurants
https://laurenleek.substack.com/p/how-google-maps-quietly-allocates
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46203343
Is it a bubble?
https://www.oaktreecapital.com/insights/memo/is-it-a-bubble
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46220640
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10 Years of Let's Encrypt
https://letsencrypt.org/2025/12/09/10-years
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46208962
Mistral releases Devstral2 and Mistral Vibe CLI
https://mistral.ai/news/devstral-2-vibe-cli
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46205437
Handsdown one of the coolest 3D websites
https://bruno-simon.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46206531
PeerTube is recognized as a digital public good by Digital Public Goods Alliance
https://www.digitalpublicgoods.net/r/peertube
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46207464
Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental
https://lwn.net/Articles/1049831/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46213585
Pebble Index 01 – External memory for your brain
https://repebble.com/blog/meet-pebble-index-01-external-memory-for-your-brain
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46205661
If you're going to vibe code, why not do it in C?
https://stephenramsay.net/posts/vibe-coding.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46207505
Django: what’s new in 6.0
https://adamj.eu/tech/2025/12/03/django-whats-new-6.0/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46210240
Donating the Model Context Protocol and establishing the Agentic AI Foundation
https://www.anthropic.com/news/donating-the-model-context-protocol-and-establishing-of-the-agentic-ai-foundation
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46207425
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Horses: AI progress is steady. Human equivalence is sudden
https://andyljones.com/posts/horses.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46199723
IBM to acquire Confluent
https://www.confluent.io/blog/ibm-to-acquire-confluent/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46192130
Microsoft increases Office 365 and Microsoft 365 license prices
https://office365itpros.com/2025/12/08/microsoft-365-pricing-increase/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46192186
Jepsen: NATS 2.12.1
https://jepsen.io/analyses/nats-2.12.1
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46196105
Paramount launches hostile bid for Warner Bros
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/08/paramount-skydance-hostile-bid-wbd-netflix.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46192459
Strong earthquake hits northern Japan, tsunami warning issued
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20251209_02/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46192846
Let's put Tailscale on a jailbroken Kindle
https://tailscale.com/blog/tailscale-jailbroken-kindle
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46194337
The universal weight subspace hypothesis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.05117
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46199623
Has the cost of building software dropped 90%?
https://martinalderson.com/posts/has-the-cost-of-software-just-dropped-90-percent/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46196228
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I failed to recreate the 1996 Space Jam website with Claude
https://j0nah.com/i-failed-to-recreate-the-1996-space-jam-website-with-claude/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46183294
Dollar-stores overcharge customers while promising low prices
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/03/customers-pay-more-rising-dollar-store-costs
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46181962
The C++ standard for the F-35 Fighter Jet [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gv4sDL9Ljww
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46183657
I wasted years of my life in crypto
https://twitter.com/kenchangh/status/1994854381267947640
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46181371
The Anatomy of a macOS App
https://eclecticlight.co/2025/12/04/the-anatomy-of-a-macos-app/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46181268
Scala 3 slowed us down?
https://kmaliszewski9.github.io/scala/2025/12/07/scala3-slowdown.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46182202
How I block all online ads
https://troubled.engineer/posts/no-ads/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46185816
An Interactive Guide to the Fourier Transform
https://betterexplained.com/articles/an-interactive-guide-to-the-fourier-transform/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46118358
Turtletoy
https://turtletoy.net/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46138459
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Tiny Core Linux: a 23 MB Linux distro with graphical desktop
http://www.tinycorelinux.net/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46173547
Using LLMs at Oxide
https://rfd.shared.oxide.computer/rfd/0576
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46178347
Kilauea erupts, destroying webcam [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TK2N99BDw7A
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46177645
Z-Image: Powerful and highly efficient image generation model with 6B parameters
https://github.com/Tongyi-MAI/Z-Image
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46095817
Screenshots from developers: 2002 vs. 2015 (2015)
https://anders.unix.se/2015/12/10/screenshots-from-developers--2002-vs.-2015/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46176905
Autism's confusing cousins
https://www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/autisms-confusing-cousins
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46172443
Perl's decline was cultural
https://www.beatworm.co.uk/blog/computers/perls-decline-was-cultural-not-technical
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46175112
HTML as an Accessible Format for Papers (2023)
https://info.arxiv.org/about/accessible_HTML.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46173825
The unexpected effectiveness of one-shot decompilation with Claude
https://blog.chrislewis.au/the-unexpected-effectiveness-of-one-shot-decompilation-with-claude/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46080498
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Cloudflare outage on December 5, 2025
https://blog.cloudflare.com/5-december-2025-outage/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46162656
Gemini 3 Pro: the frontier of vision AI
https://blog.google/technology/developers/gemini-3-pro-vision/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46163308
Self-hosting my photos with Immich
https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2025-11-29-self-hosting-photos-with-immich/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46095087
YouTube caught making AI-edits to videos and adding misleading AI summaries
https://www.ynetnews.com/tech-and-digital/article/bj1qbwcklg
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46169554
Patterns for Defensive Programming in Rust
https://corrode.dev/blog/defensive-programming/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46163609
Leaving Intel
https://www.brendangregg.com/blog//2025-12-05/leaving-intel.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46167552
I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46163121
Have I been Flocked? – Check if your license plate is being watched
https://haveibeenflocked.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46170302
Adenosine on the common path of rapid antidepressant action: The coffee paradox
https://genomicpress.kglmeridian.com/view/journals/brainmed/aop/article-10.61373-bm025c.0134/article-10.61373-bm025c.0134.xml
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46168057
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Why are 38 percent of Stanford students saying they're disabled?
https://reason.com/2025/12/04/why-are-38-percent-of-stanford-students-saying-theyre-disabled/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46150715
How elites could shape mass preferences as AI reduces persuasion costs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.04047
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46145180
I ignore the spotlight as a staff engineer
https://lalitm.com/software-engineering-outside-the-spotlight/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46146451
Transparent leadership beats servant leadership
https://entropicthoughts.com/transparent-leadership-beats-servant-leadership
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46147540
Thoughts on Go vs. Rust vs. Zig
https://sinclairtarget.com/blog/2025/08/thoughts-on-go-vs.-rust-vs.-zig/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46153466
Multivox: Volumetric Display
https://github.com/AncientJames/multivox
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46149813
BMW PHEV: Safety fuse replacement is extremely expensive
https://evclinic.eu/2025/12/04/2021-phev-bmw-ibmucp-21f37e-post-crash-recovery-when-eu-engineering-becomes-a-synonym-for-unrepairable-generating-waste/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46155619
Fighting the age-gated internet
https://www.wired.com/story/age-verification-is-sweeping-the-us-activists-are-fighting-back/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46147493
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Everyone in Seattle hates AI
https://jonready.com/blog/posts/everyone-in-seattle-hates-ai.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46138952
Valve reveals it’s the architect behind a push to bring Windows games to Arm
https://www.theverge.com/report/820656/valve-interview-arm-gaming-steamos-pierre-loup-griffais
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46126446
Reverse engineering a $1B Legal AI tool exposed 100k+ confidential files
https://alexschapiro.com/security/vulnerability/2025/12/02/filevine-api-100k
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46137514
Micron Announces Exit from Crucial Consumer Business
https://investors.micron.com/news-releases/news-release-details/micron-announces-exit-crucial-consumer-business
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46137783
RCE Vulnerability in React and Next.js
https://github.com/vercel/next.js/security/advisories/GHSA-9qr9-h5gf-34mp
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46136026
1D Conway's Life glider found, 3.7B cells long
https://conwaylife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?&p=222136#p222136
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46137253
Average DRAM price in USD over last 18 months
https://pcpartpicker.com/trends/price/memory/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46142100
Show HN: I built a dashboard to compare mortgage rates across 120 credit unions
https://finfam.app/blog/credit-union-mortgages
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46139761
How to Synthesize a House Loop
https://loopmaster.xyz/tutorials/how-to-synthesize-a-house-loop
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46072280
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