Hacker News Highlights

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Dec 3, 2025.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Anthropic acquires Bun
https://bun.com/blog/bun-joins-anthropic
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46124267

OpenAI declares 'code red' as Google catches up in AI race
https://www.theverge.com/news/836212/openai-code-red-chatgpt
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46121870

IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending on AI data centers will pay off
https://www.businessinsider.com/ibm-ceo-big-tech-ai-capex-data-center-spending-2025-12
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46124324

I designed and printed a custom nose guard to help my dog with DLE
https://snoutcover.com/billie-story
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46094460

Accepting US car standards would risk European lives
https://etsc.eu/accepting-us-car-standards-would-risk-european-lives-warn-cities-and-civil-society/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46131330

Learning music with Strudel
https://terryds.notion.site/Learning-Music-with-Strudel-2ac98431b24180deb890cc7de667ea92
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46052478

Paged Out
https://pagedout.institute
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46126217

Zig's new plan for asynchronous programs
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1046084/4c048ee008e1c70e/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46121539

Japanese game devs face font dilemma as license increases from $380 to $20k
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/japanese-devs-face-font-licensing-dilemma-as-leading-provider-increases-annual-plan-price-from-380-to-20000
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46130187

Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service
https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/02/zig_quits_github_microsoft_ai_obsession/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46131406

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Dec 2, 2025.

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• (00:00) - Intro

DeepSeek-v3.2: Pushing the frontier of open large language models [pdf]
https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3.2/resolve/main/assets/paper.pdf
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46108780

India orders smartphone makers to preload state-owned cyber safety app
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/india-orders-mobile-phones-preloaded-with-government-app-ensure-cyber-safety-2025-12-01/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46104193

Ghostty compiled to WASM with xterm.js API compatibility
https://github.com/coder/ghostty-web
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46110842

Google unkills JPEG XL?
https://tonisagrista.com/blog/2025/google-unkills-jpegxl/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46108563

What will enter the public domain in 2026?
https://publicdomainreview.org/features/entering-the-public-domain/2026/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46117112

10 years of writing a blog nobody reads
https://flowtwo.io/post/on-10-years-of-writing-a-blog-nobody-reads
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46070883

Codex, Opus, Gemini try to build Counter Strike
https://www.instantdb.com/essays/agents_building_counterstrike
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46080835

Google, Nvidia, and OpenAI
https://stratechery.com/2025/google-nvidia-and-openai/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46108437

The Penicillin Myth
https://www.asimov.press/p/penicillin-myth
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46107658

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Dec 1, 2025.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Advent of Code 2025
https://adventofcode.com/2025/about
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46096337

Writing a good Claude.md
https://www.humanlayer.dev/blog/writing-a-good-claude-md
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46098838

Windows drive letters are not limited to A-Z
https://www.ryanliptak.com/blog/windows-drive-letters-are-not-limited-to-a-z/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46096556

Search tool that only returns content created before ChatGPT's public release
https://tegabrain.com/Slop-Evader
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46103376

Migrating Dillo from GitHub
https://dillo-browser.org/news/migration-from-github/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46096800

A Love Letter to FreeBSD
https://www.tara.sh/posts/2025/2025-11-25_freebsd_letter/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46100892

GitHub to Codeberg: my experience
https://eldred.fr/blog/forge-migration/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46097829

Algorithms for Optimization [pdf]
https://algorithmsbook.com/optimization/files/optimization.pdf
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46101492

Advent of Sysadmin 2025
https://sadservers.com/advent
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46102347

Google Antigravity just deleted the contents of whole drive
https://old.reddit.com/r/google_antigravity/comments/1p82or6/google_antigravity_just_deleted_the_contents_of/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46103532

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

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• (00:00) - Intro

Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/artificial-intelligence/leak-confirms-openai-is-preparing-ads-on-chatgpt-for-public-roll-out/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46086771

All it takes is for one to work out
https://alearningaday.blog/2025/11/28/all-it-takes-is-for-one-to-work-out-2/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46090433

Bazzite: The next generation of Linux gaming
https://bazzite.gg/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46091362

Show HN: Boing
https://boing.greg.technology/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46093473

Datacenters in space aren't going to work
https://taranis.ie/datacenters-in-space-are-a-terrible-horrible-no-good-idea/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46087616

Be Like Clippy
https://be-clippy.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46090172

Americans no longer see four-year college degrees as worth the cost
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/poll-dramatic-shift-americans-no-longer-see-four-year-college-degrees-rcna243672
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46091591

Anthony Bourdain's Lost Li.st's
https://bourdain.greg.technology/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46054879

Zigbook Is Plagiarizing the Zigtools Playground
https://zigtools.org/blog/zigbook-plagiarizing-playground/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46093518

Learning Feynman's Trick for Integrals
https://zackyzz.github.io/feynman.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46090269

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

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• (00:00) - Intro

28M Hacker News comments as vector embedding search dataset
https://clickhouse.com/docs/getting-started/example-datasets/hackernews-vector-search-dataset
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46081053

Imgur geo-blocked the UK, so I geo-unblocked my network
https://blog.tymscar.com/posts/imgurukproxy/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46081188

Molly: An Improved Signal App
https://molly.im/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46080916

How good engineers write bad code at big companies
https://www.seangoedecke.com/bad-code-at-big-companies/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46082223

Airbus A320 – intense solar radiation may corrupt data critical for flight
https://www.airbus.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2025-11-airbus-update-on-a320-family-precautionary-fleet-action
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46083004

So you wanna build a local RAG?
https://blog.yakkomajuri.com/blog/local-rag
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46080364

Confessions of a Software Developer: No More Self-Censorship
https://kerrick.blog/articles/2025/confessions-of-a-software-developer-no-more-self-censorship/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46083303

Airloom – 3D Flight Tracker
https://objectiveunclear.com/airloom.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46080289

System 7 natively boots on the Mac mini G4
https://macos9lives.com/smforum/index.php?topic=7711.0
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46084956

WinApps: Run Windows apps as if they were a part of the native Linux OS
https://github.com/winapps-org/winapps
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46045207

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

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• (00:00) - Intro

Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46065955

Same-day upstream Linux support for Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5
https://www.qualcomm.com/developer/blog/2025/10/same-day-snapdragon-8-elite-gen-5-upstream-linux-support
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46070668

TPUs vs. GPUs and why Google is positioned to win AI race in the long term
https://www.uncoveralpha.com/p/the-chip-made-for-the-ai-inference
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46069048

Pocketbase – open-source realtime back end in 1 file
https://pocketbase.io/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46075320

250MWh 'Sand Battery' to start construction in Finland
https://www.energy-storage.news/250mwh-sand-battery-to-start-construction-in-finland-for-both-heating-and-ancillary-services/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46073855

Quake Engine Indicators
https://fabiensanglard.net/quake_indicators/index.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46031552

Mixpanel Security Breach
https://mixpanel.com/blog/sms-security-incident/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46066522

GitLab discovers widespread NPM supply chain attack
https://about.gitlab.com/blog/gitlab-discovers-widespread-npm-supply-chain-attack/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46070203

Show HN: Glasses to detect smart-glasses that have cameras
https://github.com/NullPxl/banrays
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46075882

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

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• (00:00) - Intro

Voyager 1 is about to reach one light-day from Earth
https://scienceclock.com/voyager-1-is-about-to-reach-one-light-day-from-earth/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46057488

Bring bathroom doors back to hotels
https://bringbackdoors.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46063072

Migrating the main Zig repository from GitHub to Codeberg
https://ziglang.org/news/migrating-from-github-to-codeberg/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46064571

The EU made Apple adopt new Wi-Fi standards, and now Android can support AirDrop
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/11/the-eu-made-apple-adopt-new-wi-fi-standards-and-now-android-can-support-airdrop/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46062504

Penpot: The Open-Source Figma
https://github.com/penpot/penpot
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46064757

A Fast 64-Bit Date Algorithm (30–40% faster by counting dates backwards)
https://www.benjoffe.com/fast-date-64
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46020193

S&box is now an open source game engine
https://sbox.game/news/update-25-11-26
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46061682

Gemini CLI Tips and Tricks for Agentic Coding
https://github.com/addyosmani/gemini-cli-tips
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46060508

A cell so minimal that it challenges definitions of life
https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-cell-so-minimal-that-it-challenges-definitions-of-life-20251124/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46055935

DIY NAS: 2026 Edition
https://blog.briancmoses.com/2025/11/diy-nas-2026-edition.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46065034

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

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• (00:00) - Intro

Google Antigravity exfiltrates data via indirect prompt injection attack
https://www.promptarmor.com/resources/google-antigravity-exfiltrates-data
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46048996

Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been Fulfilled
https://jayd.ml/2025/11/10/someone-at-youtube-needs-glasses-prophecy-fulfilled.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46051340

Trillions spent and big software projects are still failing
https://spectrum.ieee.org/it-management-software-failures
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46045085

Jakarta is now the biggest city in the world
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/24/jakarta-tokyo-worlds-biggest-city-population
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46042810

Ilya Sutskever: We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of research
https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/ilya-sutskever-2
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46048125

Show HN: We built an open source, zero webhooks payment processor
https://github.com/flowglad/flowglad
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46048252

FLUX.2: Frontier Visual Intelligence
https://bfl.ai/blog/flux-2
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46046916

Show HN: KiDoom – Running DOOM on PCB Traces
https://www.mikeayles.com/#kidoom
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46051449

How to repurpose your old phone into a web server
https://far.computer/how-to/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46016902

Python is not a great language for data science
https://blog.genesmindsmachines.com/p/python-is-not-a-great-language-for
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46047580

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

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• (00:00) - Intro

Pebble Watch software is now open source
https://ericmigi.com/blog/pebble-watch-software-is-now-100percent-open-source
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46037626

Claude Opus 4.5
https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-5
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46037637

Shai-Hulud Returns: Over 300 NPM Packages Infected
https://helixguard.ai/blog/malicious-sha1hulud-2025-11-24
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46032539

Claude Advanced Tool Use
https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/advanced-tool-use
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46038047

Unpowered SSDs slowly lose data
https://www.xda-developers.com/your-unpowered-ssd-is-slowly-losing-your-data/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46038099

PS5 now costs less than 64GB of DDR5 memory. RAM jumps to $600 due to shortage
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ddr5/64gb-of-ddr5-memory-now-costs-more-than-an-entire-ps5-even-after-a-discount-trident-z5-neo-kit-jumps-to-usd600-due-to-dram-shortage-and-its-expected-to-get-worse-into-2026
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46038143

Show HN: I built an interactive HN Simulator
https://news.ysimulator.run/news
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46036908

Three Years from GPT-3 to Gemini 3
https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/three-years-from-gpt-3-to-gemini
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46019898

We stopped roadmap work for a week and fixed bugs
https://lalitm.com/fixits-are-good-for-the-soul/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46024541

Chrome Jpegxl Issue Reopened
https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40168998
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46033330

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

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• (00:00) - Intro

Fran Sans – font inspired by San Francisco light rail displays
https://emilysneddon.com/fran-sans-essay
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46025942

A time-travelling door bug in Half Life 2
https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@TomF/115589875974658415
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46009962

Native Secure Enclave backed SSH keys on macOS
https://gist.github.com/arianvp/5f59f1783e3eaf1a2d4cd8e952bb4acf
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46025721

Calculus for Mathematicians, Computer Scientists, and Physicists [pdf]
https://mathcs.holycross.edu/~ahwang/print/calc.pdf
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46024773

µcad: New open source programming language that can generate 2D sketches and 3D
https://microcad.xyz/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46027216

RuBee
https://computer.rip/2025-11-22-RuBee.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46029932

Ask HN: Hearing aid wearers, what's hot?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46029699

Disney Lost Roger Rabbit
https://pluralistic.net/2025/11/18/im-not-bad/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45968827

The Cloudflare outage might be a good thing
https://gist.github.com/jbreckmckye/32587f2907e473dd06d68b0362fb0048
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46029908

New magnetic component discovered in the Faraday effect after nearly 2 centuries
https://phys.org/news/2025-11-magnetic-component-faraday-effect-centuries.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45985008