HN Daily Digest episodes:

• December 18, 2025Hacker News – 18 Dec 2025

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  Mathematics and Cryptography

  What is an elliptic curve? (2019)

  RCE via ND6 Router Advertisements in FreeBSD

  AI Innovations and Impacts

  Gemini 3 Flash: Frontier intelligence built for speed

  AWS CEO says replacing junior devs with AI is 'one of the dumbest ideas'

  Developers can now submit apps to ChatGPT

  Education and Ethical Concerns

  Coursera to combine with Udemy

  'Ghost jobs' are on the rise – and so are calls to ban them

  Personal Experiences and Insights

  I got hacked: My Hetzner server started mining Monero

  Jonathan Blow has spent the past decade designing 1,400 puzzles for you

  Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell

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• December 17, 2025Hacker News – 17 Dec 2025

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  AI and Software Reliability

  AI will make formal verification go mainstream

  Announcing the Beta release of ty

  Privacy Concerns

  alpr.watch

  No AI* Here – A Response to Mozilla's Next Chapter

  Graphics and Computing Evolution

  No Graphics API

  I ported JustHTML from Python to JavaScript with Codex CLI and GPT-5.2 in hours

  Market Trends and Innovations

  Annual Production of 1/72 (22mm) scale plastic soldiers, 1958-2025

  Subsets (YC S23) is hiring engineers in Copenhagen, Denmark

  Neuroscience and Philosophy

  40 percent of fMRI signals do not correspond to actual brain activity

  Thin desires are eating life

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• December 16, 2025Hacker News – 16 Dec 2025

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  Innovations in Technology

  SHARP, an approach to photorealistic view synthesis from a single image

  A linear-time alternative for Dimensionality Reduction and fast visualisation

  7 Years, 2 Rebuilds, 40K+ Stars: Milvus Recap and Roadmap

  Scams and Ethics

  Children with cancer scammed out of millions fundraised for their treatment

  8M users' AI conversations sold for profit by "privacy" extensions

  O'saasy License Agreement

  Gaming and Performance

  Native vs. emulation: World of Warcraft game performance on Snapdragon X Elite

  Creating C closures from Lua closures

  Reflections on Leadership

  I'm a Tech Lead, and nobody listens to me. What should I do?

  Internal RFCs saved us months of wasted work

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• December 15, 2025Hacker News – 15 Dec 2025

  Table of Contents

  Open Source & Community Concerns

  Adafruit: Arduino’s Rules Are ‘Incompatible With Open Source’

  Roomba Maker Goes Bankrupt, Chinese Owner Emerges

  Innovative Tools & Techniques

  Arborium: Tree-sitter Code Highlighting with Native and WASM Targets

  Unscii

  Hashcards: A Plain-Text Spaced Repetition System

  Language, Learning & Education

  The Whole App is a Blob

  Common Rust Lifetime Misconceptions

  Teaching Challenges in Latin America (1963)

  Industry Insights & Reflections

  If AI Replaces Workers, Should It Also Pay Taxes?

  Running on Empty: Copper

  John Varley Has Died

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• December 14, 2025Hacker News – 14 Dec 2025

  Table of Contents

  Surface Tension in Software Design

  Surface Tension of Software

  Sandboxing and Memory Safety

  Linux Sandboxes and Fil-C

  E-Ink Displays for Productivity

  Using e-ink tablet as monitor for Linux

  Generative Text and Language Models

  I fed 24 years of my blog posts to a Markov model

  Cultural Reflections in Gaming and Music

  The Rise of Computer Games, Part I: Adventure

  Heavy metal is healing teens on the Blackfeet Nation

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• December 13, 2025Hacker News – 13 Dec 2025

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  OpenAI Innovations

  OpenAI are quietly adopting skills, now available in ChatGPT and Codex CLI

  macOS 26.2 enables fast AI clusters with RDMA over Thunderbolt

  Creative Tech

  Photographer Built a Medium-Format Rangefinder, and So Can You

  1300 Still Images from the Animated Films of Hayao Miyazaki's Studio Ghibli (2023)

  Technical Developments

  GNU Unifont

  Show HN: Tiny VM sandbox in C with apps in Rust, C and Zig

  Fun and Quirky Projects

  Rats Play DOOM

  A 'toaster with a lens': The story behind the first handheld digital camera

  Design and Policy Insights

  Gild Just One Lily

  Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence

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• December 12, 2025Hacker News – 12 Dec 2025

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  Telescope Innovations

  The tiniest yet real telescope I've built

  Nokia N900 Necromancy

  AI and Machine Learning Developments

  GPT-5.2

  Guarding My Git Forge Against AI Scrapers

  Sustainable Tech and Innovations

  CRISPR fungus: Protein-packed, sustainable, and tastes like meat

  Stoolap: High-performance embedded SQL database in pure Rust

  Tech Critiques and Reflections

  Programmers and software developers lost the plot on naming their tools

  Denial of service and source code exposure in React Server Components

  Miscellaneous Adventures

  He set out to walk around the world. After 27 years, his quest is nearly over

  Google de-indexed Bear Blog and I don't know why

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• December 11, 2025Hacker News – 11 Dec 2025

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  The Evolution of Life and Tech

  Size of Life

  How the Brain Parses Language

  Programming Insights

  The Cost of a Closure in C

  Go's Escape Analysis and Why My Function Return Worked

  Cloud Innovations and Challenges

  Python Workers Redux: Fast Cold Starts, Packages, and a Uv-First Workflow

  Getting a Gemini API Key is an Exercise in Frustration

  Design and User Experience

  Incomplete List of Mistakes in the Design of CSS

  Rubio Stages Font Coup: Times New Roman Ousts Calibri

  Gaming and AI Developments

  Super Mario 64 for the PS1

  Qwen3-Omni-Flash-2025-12-01: A Next-Generation Native Multimodal Large Model

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• December 10, 2025Hacker News – 10 Dec 2025

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  Kernel Innovations

  Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental

  Stop Breaking TLS

  Creative Tech Explorations

  Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 hallucinates the HN front page 10 years from now

  Handsdown one of the coolest 3D websites

  Programming Paradigms

  Revisiting "Let's Build a Compiler"

  Writing our own Cheat Engine in Rust

  Emerging Technologies

  Mistral releases Devstral2 and Mistral Vibe CLI

  10 Years of Let's Encrypt

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• December 09, 2025Hacker News – 09 Dec 2025

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  AI and Machine Learning Breakthroughs

  The universal weight subspace hypothesis

  Horses: AI progress is steady. Human equivalence is sudden

  Epsilon: A WASM virtual machine written in Go

  Design and User Experience

  Icons in Menus Everywhere – Send Help

  No ARIA is better than bad ARIA

  Retail and Robotics

  Kroger acknowledges that its bet on robotics went too far

  IBM to acquire Confluent

  Historical and Cultural Insights

  The Lost Machine Automats and Self-Service Cafeterias of NYC (2023)

  A thousand-year-long composition turns 25 (2024)

  Industry Trends and Perspectives

  Microsoft increases Office 365 and Microsoft 365 license prices

  Has the cost of building software dropped 90%?

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