HN Daily Digest episodes:

• December 28, 2025Hacker News – 28 Dec 2025

  Table of Contents

  Productivity Tools and Innovations

  Calendar

  Replacing JavaScript with Just HTML

  AI and Business Insights

  Manus AI 100M USD ARR

  Project Vend: Phase Two

  Communication and Social Media

  How we lost communication to entertainment

  Ask HN: By what percentage has AI changed your output as a software engineer?

  Technical Developments and Nostalgia

  Rex is a safe kernel extension framework that allows Rust in the place of eBPF

  Windows 2 for the Apricot PC/Xi

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• December 27, 2025Hacker News – 27 Dec 2025

  Table of Contents

  AI and Ethics in Law Enforcement

  AI Police Reports: Year in Review

  Experts explore new mushroom which causes fairytale-like hallucinations

  Developer Tools and Innovations

  Show HN: Ez FFmpeg – Video editing in plain English

  Exe.dev

  Show HN: Witr – Explain why a process is running on your Linux system

  Programming and Technical Insights

  How uv got so fast

  More Dynamic Cronjobs

  Pre-commit hooks are fundamentally broken

  Technical Advances and Discoveries

  Researchers develop a camera that can focus on different distances at once

  SIMD City: Auto-Vectorisation

  Curiosities and Reflections

  The best things and stuff of 2025

  Always bet on text (2014)

  ...more

  

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• December 26, 2025Hacker News – 26 Dec 2025

  Table of Contents

  Mindful Consumption

  Maybe the default settings are too high

  Innovations in Tech

  Geometric Algorithms for Translucency Sorting in Minecraft [pdf]

  Building an AI agent inside a 7-year-old Rails monolith

  AI Advancements

  MiniMax M2.1: Built for Real-World Complex Tasks, Multi-Language Programming

  TurboDiffusion: 100–200× Acceleration for Video Diffusion Models

  Creative Projects and Community

  Show HN: GeneGuessr – a daily biology web puzzle

  Show HN: Gaming Couch – a local multiplayer party game platform for 8 players

  Ultimate-Linux: Userspace for Linux in Pure JavaScript

  ...more

  

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• December 25, 2025Hacker News – 25 Dec 2025

  Table of Contents

  Innovative Technologies

  Phoenix: A modern X server written from scratch in Zig

  Ruby 4.0.0

  Fabrice Bellard Releases MicroQuickJS

  AI and Automation

  Asterisk AI Voice Agent

  Show HN: Vibium – Browser automation for AI and humans

  Data and Research

  Research team digitizes more than 100 years of Canadian infectious disease data

  CSRF protection without tokens or hidden form fields

  Industry News

  Nvidia buying AI chip startup Groq for about $20B in cash

  JEDEC developing reduced pin count HBM4 standard to enable higher capacity

  Community Spirit

  Tell HN: Merry Christmas

  ...more

  

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• December 24, 2025Hacker News – 24 Dec 2025

  Table of Contents

  Embedded Innovations

  Fabrice Bellard Releases MicroQuickJS

  Show HN: Tonbo – an embedded database for serverless and edge runtimes

  Lua 5.5

  Legal and Ethical Dilemmas

  Some Epstein file redactions are being undone with hacks

  Texas app store age verification law blocked by federal judge

  Automation and Safety

  Autonomously navigating the real world: lessons from the PG&E outage

  CEO killed at industrial site by worker operating forklift

  Software Development Insights

  What makes you senior

  Perfect Software – Software for an Audience of One

  Tools for Transparency

  X-ray: a Python library for finding bad redactions in PDF documents

  Show HN: Turn raw HTML into production-ready images for free

  ...more

  

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• December 23, 2025Hacker News – 23 Dec 2025

  Table of Contents

  Tech Innovations and Tools

  Show HN: CineCLI – Browse and torrent movies directly from your terminal

  Snitch – A friendlier ss/netstat

  Claude Code gets native LSP support

  Software and Systems

  Adobe Photoshop 1.0 Source Code (2013)

  The Polyglot NixOS

  Debian adds LoongArch as officially supported architecture

  AI and Machine Learning

  GLM-4.7: Advancing the Coding Capability

  The Illustrated Transformer

  Our New Sam Audio Model Transforms Audio Editing

  Health Tech and Research

  Ultrasound Cancer Treatment: Sound Waves Fight Tumors

  NIST was 5 μs off UTC after last week's power cut

  Regulatory Changes

  FCC Updates Covered List to Include Foreign UAS and UAS Critical Components

  iOS 26.3 Brings AirPods-Like Pairing to Third-Party Devices in EU Under DMA

  ...more

  

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• December 22, 2025Hacker News – 22 Dec 2025

  Table of Contents

  Programming Innovations

  Inverse Parentheses

  A guide to local coding models

  Programming languages used for music

  Internet and Privacy Issues

  Deliberate Internet Shutdowns

  How I protect my Forgejo instance from AI web crawlers

  I announced my divorce on Instagram and then AI impersonated me

  Tech and Energy Solutions

  CO2 batteries that store grid energy take off globally

  Cultural Insights

  The ancient monuments saluting the winter solstice

  Disney Imagineering Debuts Next-Generation Robotic Character, Olaf

  Engineering Perspectives

  Engineering dogmas it's time to retire

  Kernighan's Lever

  Aliasing

  ...more

  

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• December 21, 2025Hacker News – 21 Dec 2025

  Table of Contents

  AI and Technology Trends

  Measuring AI Ability to Complete Long Tasks

  I doubt that anything resembling genuine AGI is within reach of current AI tools

  Claude in Chrome

  Creative Innovations

  Show HN: Jmail – Google Suite for Epstein files

  Show HN: Open-source Markdown research tool written in Rust – Ekphos

  Pure Silicon Demo Coding: No CPU, No Memory, Just 4k Gates

  Cultural Insights

  Backing up Spotify

  Isengard in Oxford

  From devastation to wonder as Kangaroo Island bushfires lead to cave discoveries

  Software and Development

  Log level 'error' should mean that something needs to be fixed

  Big GPUs don't need big PCs

  Go ahead, self-host Postgres

  Health and Safety

  Indoor tanning makes youthful skin much older on a genetic level

  Ireland’s Diarmuid Early wins world Microsoft Excel title

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• December 20, 2025Hacker News – 20 Dec 2025

  Table of Contents

  Tech Tools and Innovations

  Charles Proxy

  CSS Grid Lanes

  Garage – An S3 object store so reliable you can run it outside datacenters

  Infrastructure Advancements

  A train-sized tunnel is now carrying electricity under South London

  Airbus to migrate critical apps to a sovereign Euro cloud

  AI and Future Tech

  Reflections on AI at the End of 2025

  LLM Year in Review

  Security and Privacy

  TP-Link Tapo C200: Hardcoded Keys, Buffer Overflows and Privacy

  Privacy doesn't mean anything anymore, anonymity does

  Cultural Innovations

  Feast Your Eyes on Japan's Fake Food

  8-bit Boléro

  ...more

  

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• December 19, 2025Hacker News – 19 Dec 2025

  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

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