HN Daily Digest episodes:

• December 08, 2025Hacker News – 08 Dec 2025

  Table of Contents

  Design & User Experience

  The f*** off contact page

  Damn Small Linux

  Development Tools & Practices

  GitHub Actions Has a Package Manager, and It Might Be the Worst

  Lockenv – Simple encrypted secrets storage for Git

  Programming & Technology

  Turtletoy

  Emacs is my new window manager

  AI & Machine Learning

  Google Titans architecture, helping AI have long-term memory

  Bag of words, have mercy on us

  Reflections & Insights

  I wasted years of my life in crypto

  An Interactive Guide to the Fourier Transform

  ...more

  

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• December 07, 2025Hacker News – 07 Dec 2025

  Table of Contents

  Tech Innovations and DIY Projects

  Using LLMs at Oxide

  Z2 – Lithographically fabricated IC in a garage fab

  Eurydice: a Rust to C compiler (yes)

  Natural Wonders and Environmental Insights

  Kilauea erupts, destroying webcam [video]

  Why does the Salish Sea glow in the dark?

  Evolution of Technology and Culture

  Screenshots from developers: 2002 vs. 2015 (2015)

  Perl's decline was cultural

  Tiny Core Linux: a 23 MB Linux distro with graphical desktop

  Accessibility and Education

  OMSCS Open Courseware

  HTML as an Accessible Format for Papers (2023)

  ...more

  

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• December 06, 2025Hacker News – 06 Dec 2025

  Table of Contents

  Self-Hosting & Cloud Innovations

  Self-hosting my photos with Immich

  Wolfram Compute Services

  Infracost is hiring Sr Node Eng to make $600B/yr cloud spend proactive

  Tech Creativity & Retro Inspirations

  Guy Built a Compact Camera Using an Optical Mouse

  PalmOS on FisherPrice Pixter Toy

  PC-Man (IBM PC 1983) and the spark of childhood wonder

  Privacy & Industry Concerns

  Have I been Flocked? – Check if your license plate is being watched

  Cloudflare outage on December 5, 2025

  Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros

  Technical Deep Dives & Innovations

  Adenosine on the common path of rapid antidepressant action: The coffee paradox

  Netflix’s AV1 Journey: From Android to TVs and Beyond

  Making tiny 0.1cc two stroke engine from scratch

  ...more

  

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• December 05, 2025Hacker News – 05 Dec 2025

  Table of Contents

  Tech Innovations and Trends

  UniFi 5G

  Netflix’s AV1 Journey: From Android to TVs and Beyond

  CSS now has an if() conditional function

  Cloudflare Outages

  Cloudflare Down Again – and DownDetector Is Also Down

  Cloudflare is down

  Gaming and Content Evolution

  After 40 Years of Adventure Games, Ron Gilbert Pivots to Outrunning Death

  Warner Bros Begins Exclusive Deal Talks With Netflix

  Security Concerns and Research

  Trick users and bypass warnings – Modern SVG Clickjacking attacks

  Elites Could Shape Mass Preferences as AI Reduces Persuasion Costs

  Exciting Developments in Science

  Rats Snatching Bats Out of the Air and Eating Them–Researchers Got It on Video

  Multivox: Volumetric Display

  ...more

  

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• December 04, 2025Hacker News – 04 Dec 2025

  Table of Contents

  AI and Influence

  Elites Could Shape Mass Preferences as AI Reduces Persuasion Costs

  Tech Innovations and Developments

  Ghostty is now non-profit

  Valve reveals it’s the architect behind a push to bring Windows games to Arm

  Security Vulnerabilities

  Reverse engineering a $1B Legal AI tool exposed 100k+ confidential files

  RCE Vulnerability in React and Next.js

  Hardware and Market Dynamics

  Average DRAM price in USD over last 18 months

  Micron Announces Exit from Crucial Consumer Business

  Historical Insights

  8086 Microcode Browser

  Acme, a brief history of one of the protocols which has changed the Internet

  ...more

  

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• December 03, 2025Hacker News – 03 Dec 2025

  Table of Contents

  AI and Tech Updates

  Anthropic acquires Bun

  OpenAI declares 'code red' as Google catches up in AI race

  IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending on AI data centers will pay off

  Programming Language and Tools

  Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service

  Super fast aggregations in PostgreSQL 19

  Trying Out C++26 Executors

  Innovative Solutions

  I designed and printed a custom nose guard to help my dog with DLE

  Sending DMARC reports is somewhat hazardous

  Scientific Breakthroughs

  Researchers Find Microbe Capable of Producing Oxygen from Martian Soil

  AI agents break rules under everyday pressure

  Cultural Reflections

  Interview with RollerCoaster Tycoon's Creator, Chris Sawyer (2024)

  Learning music with Strudel

  ...more

  

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• December 02, 2025Hacker News – 02 Dec 2025

  Table of Contents

  Public Domain Insights

  What will enter the public domain in 2026?

  AI Advancements

  Apple Releases Open Weights Video Model

  DeepSeek-v3.2: Pushing the frontier of open large language models [pdf]

  Why Replicate is joining Cloudflare

  Tech Innovations

  Rootless Pings in Rust

  Ghostty compiled to WASM with xterm.js API compatibility

  Cultural Reflections

  Tom Stoppard has died

  Frequently Asked Unicycling Questions

  Miscellaneous Tidbits

  Cartographers have been hiding illustrations inside Switzerland’s maps (2020)

  ...more

  

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• December 01, 2025Hacker News – 01 Dec 2025

  Table of Contents

  Search Innovations

  Search tool that only returns content created before ChatGPT's public release

  Programmer Puzzles

  Advent of Code 2025

  Advent of Sysadmin 2025

  Tech Developments

  DeepSeek releases open-weights math model with IMO gold medal performance

  SmartTube Compromised

  Mars Discoveries

  We've Detected Lightning on Mars

  Community Insights

  Migrating Dillo from GitHub

  GitHub to Codeberg: my experience

  ...more

  

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• November 30, 2025Hacker News – 30 Nov 2025

  Table of Contents

  Interactive Projects & Tools

  Show HN: Boing

  Meshtastic

  Blender facial animation tool. What else should it do?

  Gaming & Software Innovations

  Bazzite: The next generation of Linux gaming

  Landlock-Ing Linux

  Tech Industry Insights

  Americans no longer see four-year college degrees as worth the cost

  Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out

  Science & Environment

  Our Phosphorescent World

  The HTTP Query Method

  ...more

  

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• November 29, 2025Hacker News – 29 Nov 2025

  Table of Contents

  Retro Computing Revival

  System 7 natively boots on the Mac mini G4

  Garfield's Proof of the Pythagorean Theorem

  Innovative Software Solutions

  WinApps: Run Windows apps as if they were a part of the native Linux OS

  Molly: An Improved Signal App

  Privacy and Data Security

  Show HN: Explore what the browser exposes about you

  Airloom – 3D Flight Tracker

  Geometry and Urban Planning

  A triangle whose interior angles sum to zero

  The Great Downzoning

  Learning and Development

  Confessions of a Software Developer: No More Self-Censorship

  So you wanna build a local RAG?

  ...more

  

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