Archive
Dec 2025
- 2025: The Year in LLMs
- Resistance training load does not determine hypertrophy
- Warren Buffett steps down as Berkshire Hathaway CEO after six decades
- On privacy and control
- Meta created 'playbook' to fend off pressure to crack down on scammers
- I canceled my book deal
- Court report detailing ChatGPT's involvement with a recent murder suicide [pdf]
- Web Browsers have stopped blocking pop-ups
- 2025 was a disaster for Windows 11
- 2026: The Year of Java in the Terminal?
- The compiler is your best friend
- Stardew Valley developer made a $125k donation to the FOSS C# framework MonoGame
- France targets Australia-style social media ban for children next year
- Drugmakers raise US prices on 350 medicines despite pressure
- Iron Beam: Israel's first operational anti drone laser system
- Efficient method to capture carbon dioxide from the atmosphere
- How AI labs are solving the power problem
- Tell HN: Happy New Year
- The most famous transcendental numbers
- The rise of industrial software
- Show HN: Use Claude Code to Query 600 GB Indexes over Hacker News, ArXiv, etc.
- Google Opal
- LLVM AI tool policy: human in the loop
- Quality of drinking water varies significantly by airline
- NYC Mayoral Inauguration bans Raspberry Pi and Flipper Zero alongside explosives
- Honey's Dieselgate: Detecting and tricking testers
- OpenAI's cash burn will be one of the big bubble questions of 2026
- Sabotaging Bitcoin
- Professional software developers don't vibe, they control
- Everything as code: How we manage our company in one monorepo
- A faster heart for F-Droid
- America's economy looks set to accelerate
- Toro: Deploy Applications as Unikernels
- Show HN: 22 GB of Hacker News in SQLite
- Ask HN: Any example of successful vibe-coded product?
- The 70% AI productivity myth: why most companies aren't seeing the gains
- Public Sans – A strong, neutral typeface
- No strcpy either
- Times New American: A Tale of Two Fonts
- Non-Zero-Sum Games
- Nicolas Guillou, French ICC judge sanctioned by the US and “debanked”
- Netflix Open Content
- HSBC blocks its app due to F-Droid-installed Bitwarden
- You Need to Ditch VS Code
- Go away Python
- Stranger Things creator says turn off “garbage” settings
- I migrated to an almost all-EU stack and saved 500€ per year
- Show HN: Stop Claude Code from forgetting everything
- AI employees don't pay taxes
- ManusAI Joins Meta
- Google is dead. Where do we go now?
- When someone says they hate your product
- All Delisted Steam Games
- The future of software development is software developers
- AI is forcing us to write good code
- Loss32: Let's Build a Win32/Linux
- LLMs Are Not Fun
- List of domains censored by German ISPs
- A production bug that made me care about undefined behavior
- Tesla’s 4680 battery supply chain collapses as partner writes down deal by 99%
- Nvidia takes $5B stake in Intel under September agreement
- Five Years of Tinygrad
- GOG is getting acquired by its original co-founder
- Static Allocation with Zig
- Swapping SIM cards used to be easy, and then came eSIM
- Show HN: Vibe coding a bookshelf with Claude Code
- UK accounting body to halt remote exams amid AI cheating
- Kidnapped by Deutsche Bahn
- Linux DAW: Help Linux musicians to quickly and easily find the tools they need
- EU to build no-fee payments service like Visa/Mastercard and Apple/Google Pay
- You can't design software you don't work on
- Staying ahead of censors in 2025
- Show HN: Z80-μLM, a 'Conversational AI' That Fits in 40KB
- Huge Binaries
- John Simpson: 'I've reported on 40 wars but I've never seen a year like 2025'
- CIA Star Gate Project: An Overview (1993) [pdf]
- You can make up HTML tags
- Self-hosting is being enshittified
- CEOs are hugely expensive. Why not automate them? (2021)
- 62 years in the making: NYC's newest water tunnel nears the finish line
- As AI gobbles up chips, prices for devices may rise
- What an unprocessed photo looks like
- Researchers discover molecular difference in autistic brains
- Why I Disappeared – My week with minimal internet in a remote island chain
- Unity's Mono problem: Why your C# code runs slower than it should
- Software engineers should be a little bit cynical
- MongoBleed Explained Simply
- Stepping down as Mockito maintainer after ten years
- No, it's not a battleship
- 2 in 3 Americans think AI will cause major harm to humans in the next 20 years [pdf] (2024)
- Global Memory Shortage Crisis: Market Analysis
- Building a macOS app to know when my Mac is thermal throttling
- Last Year on My Mac: Look Back in Disbelief
- AI Slop Report: The Global Rise of Low-Quality AI Videos
- Growing up in “404 Not Found”: China's nuclear city in the Gobi Desert
- C++ says “We have try... finally at home”
- Calendar
- Fathers’ choices may be packaged and passed down in sperm RNA
- Replacing JavaScript with Just HTML
- Functional programming and reliability: ADTs, safety, critical infrastructure
- The Dangers of SSL Certificates
- Say No to Palantir in the NHS
- An ounce of silver is now worth more than a barrel of oil
- How we lost communication to entertainment
- Rainbow Six Siege hacked as players get billions of credits and random bans
- Toll roads are spreading in America
- Nvidia's $20B antitrust loophole
- Janet Jackson had the power to crash laptop computers (2022)
- USD share as global reserve currency drops to lowest since 1994
- Gpg.fail
- Nvidia just paid $20B for a company that missed its revenue target by 75%
- Floor796
- Apple releases open-source model that instantly turns 2D photos into 3D views
- OrangePi 6 Plus Review
- Show HN: Ez FFmpeg – Video editing in plain English
- Pre-commit hooks are broken
- CEO of health care software company sentenced for $1B fraud conspiracy
- QNX Self-Hosted Developer Desktop
- The battle to stop clever people betting
- Publishing your work increases your luck
- Exe.dev
- Always bet on text (2014)
- Toys with the highest play-time and lowest clean-up-time
- T-Ruby is Ruby with syntax for types
- NYC phone ban reveals some students can't read clocks
- My insulin pump controller uses the Linux kernel. It also violates the GPL
- Rob Pike got spammed with an AI slop "act of kindness"
- FFmpeg has issued a DMCA takedown on GitHub
- ICE's interest in high-tech gear raises new questions: 'What is it for?'
- A Proclamation Regarding the Restoration of the Dash
- How uv got so fast
- Experts explore new mushroom which causes fairytale-like hallucinations
- High school student discovers 1.5M potential new astronomical objects
- Steve wants us to make the Macintosh boot faster
- Rob Pike goes nuclear over GenAI
- LearnixOS
- Ask HN: What did you read in 2025?
- Package managers keep using Git as a database, it never works out
- ChatGPT conversations still lack timestamps after years of requests
- I'm a laptop weirdo and that's why I like my new Framework 13
- Seven Diabetes Patients Die Due to Undisclosed Bug in Abbott's Glucose Monitors
- Ask HN: What tech purchase did you regret even though reviews were great?
- Maybe the default settings are too high
- Google is 'gradually rolling out' option to change your gmail.com address
- Memory Safety
- Fahrplan – 39C3
- I sell onions on the Internet (2019)
- Ask HN: What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2026?
- Alzheimer’s disease can be reversed in animal models? Study
- Salesforce regrets firing 4000 experienced staff and replacing them with AI
- Asahi Linux with Sway on the MacBook Air M2 (2024)
- Python 3.15’s interpreter for Windows x86-64 should hopefully be 15% faster
- Mattermost restricted access to old messages after 10000 limit is reached
- We invited a man into our home at Christmas and he stayed with us for 45 years
- Ruby 4.0.0
- Microsoft denies rewriting Windows 11 in Rust using AI
- Who Watches the Waymos? I do [video]
- Microsoft please get your tab to autocomplete shit together
- Asterisk AI Voice Agent
- Tell HN: Merry Christmas
- Phoenix: A modern X server written from scratch in Zig
- How I Left YouTube
- Nvidia to buy assets from Groq for $20B cash
- Show HN: Minimalist editor that lives in browser, stores everything in the URL
- European Majority favours more social media regulation
- Fabrice Bellard: Biography (2009) [pdf]
- Show HN: Vibium – Browser automation for AI and humans, by Selenium's creator
- My 2026 Open Social Web Predictions
- Why We Abandoned Matrix (2024)
- Games’ affordance of childlike wonder and reduced burnout risk in young adults
- When compilers surprise you
- I'm returning my Framework 16
- Avoid Mini-Frameworks
- US sanctions EU government officials behind the DSA
- Google's year in review: areas with research breakthroughs in 2025
- The e-scooter isn't new – London was zooming around on Autopeds a century ago
- Don't Become the Machine
- Lessons from the PG&E outage
- Nabokov's guide to foreigners learning Russian
- Unifi Travel Router
- Texas app store age verification law blocked by federal judge
- X-ray: a Python library for finding bad redactions in PDF documents
- I didn't realize my LG TV was spying on me until I turned off Live Plus
- Some Epstein file redactions are being undone
- Volvo Centum is Dalton Maag's new typeface for Volvo
- We replaced H.264 streaming with JPEG screenshots (and it worked better)
- Fabrice Bellard Releases MicroQuickJS
- How did DOGE disrupt so much while saving so little?
- Meta is using the Linux scheduler designed for Valve's Steam Deck on its servers
- Stop Slopware
- Show HN: CineCLI – Browse and torrent movies directly from your terminal
- Inside CECOT – 60 Minutes [video]
- Local AI is driving the biggest change in laptops in decades
- Satellites reveal heat leaking from largest US cryptocurrency mining center
- Lotusbail npm package found to be harvesting WhatsApp messages and contacts
- It's Always TCP_NODELAY
- US destroying its reputation as a scientific leader – European science diplomat
- US blocks all offshore wind construction, says reason is classified
- Things I learnt about passkeys when building passkeybot
- GLM-4.7: Advancing the Coding Capability
- I know you didn't write this
- AI Bathroom Monitors? Welcome to America's New Surveillance High Schools
- NIST was 5 μs off UTC after last week's power cut
- Jimmy Lai Is a Martyr for Freedom
- Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. We Tracked Ourselves
- Ask HN: What would you do if you didn't work in tech?
- Claude Code gets native LSP support
- Ask HN: Why Did Python Win?
- The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine
- Scaling LLMs to Larger Codebases
- Lua 5.5
- The biggest CRT ever made: Sony's PVM-4300
- Italian Competition Authority Fines Apple $115M for Abusing Dominant Position
- If you don't design your career, someone else will (2014)
- A year of vibes
- BMW Patents Proprietary Screws That Only Dealerships Can Remove
- Debian's Git Transition
- I announced my divorce on Instagram and then AI impersonated me
- I wish people were more public
- Disney Imagineering Debuts Next-Generation Robotic Character, Olaf
- The gift card accountability sink
- A guide to local coding models
- More on whether useful quantum computing is “imminent”
- Rue: Higher level than Rust, lower level than Go
- Weight loss jabs: What happens when you stop taking them
- I can't upgrade to Windows 11, now leave me alone
- The Going Dark initiative or ProtectEU is a Chat Control 3.0 attempt
- You’re not burnt out, you’re existentially starving
- Logging sucks
- Autoland saves King Air, everyone reported safe
- Show HN: Books mentioned on Hacker News in 2025
- Show HN: WalletWallet – create Apple passes from anything
- CO2 batteries that store grid energy take off globally
- Reasons not to become famous (2020)
- Coarse is better
- New mathematical framework reshapes debate over simulation hypothesis
- Clair Obscur having its Indie Game Game Of The Year award stripped due to AI use
- Ruby website redesigned
- Indoor tanning makes youthful skin much older on a genetic level
- Waymo halts service during S.F. blackout after causing traffic jams
- I doubt that anything resembling genuine AGI is within reach of current AI tools
- Measuring AI Ability to Complete Long Tasks
- Flock and Cyble Inc. weaponize “cybercrime” takedowns to silence critics
- Claude in Chrome
- Show HN: Jmail – Google Suite for Epstein files
- Ireland’s Diarmuid Early wins world Microsoft Excel title
- I spent a week without IPv4 (2023)
- Backing up Spotify
- Big GPUs don't need big PCs
- OpenSCAD is kinda neat
- Over 40% of deceased drivers in vehicle crashes test positive for THC: Study
- Go ahead, self-host Postgres
- Show HN: HN Wrapped 2025 - an LLM reviews your year on HN
- Approaching 50 Years of String Theory
- What Does a Database for SSDs Look Like?
- Reflections on AI at the End of 2025
- Airbus to migrate critical apps to a sovereign Euro cloud
- A train-sized tunnel is now carrying electricity under South London
- Skills Officially Comes to Codex
- NTP at NIST Boulder Has Lost Power
- Privacy doesn't mean anything anymore, anonymity does
- Charles Proxy
- The Deviancy Signal: Having "Nothing to Hide" Is a Threat to Us All
- Android introduces $2-4 install fee and 10–20% cut for US external content links
- CSS Grid Lanes
- LLM Year in Review
- Wall Street ruined the Roomba and then blamed Lina Khan
- TP-Link Tapo C200: Hardcoded Keys, Buffer Overflows and Privacy
- TikTok Deal Is the Shittiest Possible Outcome, Making Everything Worse
- Graphite is joining Cursor
- Using AI Generated Code Will Make You a Bad Programmer
- Garage – An S3 object store so reliable you can run it outside datacenters
- Hacker News front page now, but the titles are honest
- A proposed amendment to ban under 16s in the UK from common online services
- Engineers who dismiss AI
- GotaTun – Mullvad's WireGuard Implementation in Rust
- Amazon will allow ePub and PDF downloads for DRM-free eBooks
- 2026 Apple introducing more ads to increase opportunity in search results
- Getting bitten by Intel's poor naming schemes
- Rust's Block Pattern
- Brown/MIT shooting suspect found dead, officials say
- History LLMs: Models trained exclusively on pre-1913 texts
- 1.5 TB of VRAM on Mac Studio – RDMA over Thunderbolt 5
- We pwned X, Vercel, Cursor, and Discord through a supply-chain attack
- The most banned books in U.S. schools
- How China built its ‘Manhattan Project’ to rival the West in AI chips
- Firefox will have an option to disable all AI features
- GPT-5.2-Codex
- Skills for organizations, partners, the ecosystem
- Valve is running Apple's playbook in reverse
- Beginning January 2026, all ACM publications will be made open access
- Mistral OCR 3
- Using TypeScript to obtain one of the rarest license plates
- Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work
- Spain fines Airbnb €65M: Why the government is cracking down on illegal rentals
- Are Apple gift cards safe to redeem?
- Systemd v259
- Please just try HTMX
- Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell
- TikTok unlawfully tracks shopping habits and use of dating apps?
- Ask HN: Does anyone understand how Hacker News works?
- Gut bacteria from amphibians and reptiles achieve tumor elimination in mice
- Developers can now submit apps to ChatGPT
- I got hacked: My Hetzner server started mining Monero
- Why do commercial spaces sit vacant?
- GitHub postponing the announced billing change for self-hosted GitHub Actions
- A16z-backed Doublespeed hacked, revealing what its AI-generated accounts promote
- FCC chair suggests agency isn't independent, word cut from mission statement
- Linux Kernel Rust Code Sees Its First CVE Vulnerability
- AWS CEO says replacing junior devs with AI is 'one of the dumbest ideas'
- Firefox is becoming an AI browser and the internet is not at all happy about it
- Tell HN: HN was down
- The State of AI Coding Report 2025
- Gemini 3 Flash: Frontier intelligence built for speed
- Yep, Passkeys Still Have Problems
- Coursera to combine with Udemy
- Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself?
- AI's real superpower: consuming, not creating
- US threatens EU digital services market access
- Tesla reports another Robotaxi crash
- I ported JustHTML from Python to JavaScript with Codex CLI and GPT-5.2 in hours
- No AI* Here – A Response to Mozilla's Next Chapter
- MIT professor shot at his Massachusetts home dies
- AI will make formal verification go mainstream
- Announcing the Beta release of ty
- No Graphics API
- Vibe coding creates fatigue?
- GPT Image 1.5
- AI is wiping out entry-level tech jobs, leaving graduates stranded
- Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions
- alpr.watch
- Four Million U.S. Children Had No Health Insurance in 2024
- Mozilla appoints new CEO Anthony Enzor-Demeo
- 40 percent of fMRI signals do not correspond to actual brain activity
- This is not the future
- Rust GCC backend: Why and how
- Thomas Piketty: 'The reality is the US is losing control of the world'
- I'm a Tech Lead, and nobody listens to me. What should I do?
- VS Code deactivates IntelliCode in favor of the paid Copilot
- Japan to revise romanization rules for first time in 70 years
- The biggest heat pumps
- Children with cancer scammed out of millions fundraised for their treatment
- SHARP, an approach to photorealistic view synthesis from a single image
- 8M users' AI conversations sold for profit by "privacy" extensions
- Thin desires are eating life
- Quill OS: An open-source OS for Kobo's eReaders
- The World Happiness Report is beset with methodological problems
- JetBlue flight averts mid-air collision with US Air Force jet
- Economics of Orbital vs. Terrestrial Data Centers
- Ford kills the All-Electric F-150
- Fix HDMI-CEC weirdness with a Raspberry Pi and a $7 cable
- Secret Documents Show Pepsi and Walmart Colluded to Raise Food Prices
- Canada's Carney called out for 'utilizing' British spelling
- A quarter of US-trained scientists eventually leave
- The appropriate amount of effort is zero
- Upcoming Changes to Let's Encrypt Certificates
- Umbrel – Personal Cloud
- “Super secure” messaging app leaks everyone's phone number
- United 777-200 fleet faces an uncertain future after Dulles engine failure
- Problems with D-Bus on the Linux desktop
- Break up bad companies; replace bad union bosses
- US Tech Force
- Pro-democracy HK tycoon Jimmy Lai convicted in national security trial
- Ask HN: Is building a calm, non-gamified learning app a mistake?
- Samsung may end SATA SSD production soon
- Thousands of U.S. farmers have Parkinson's. They blame a deadly pesticide
- Carrier Landing in Top Gun for the NES
- It seems that OpenAI is scraping [certificate transparency] logs
- I'm Kenyan. I don't write like ChatGPT, ChatGPT writes like me
- Avoid UUID Version 4 Primary Keys in Postgres
- Rob Reiner has died
- SoundCloud has banned VPN access
- Roomba maker goes bankrupt, Chinese owner emerges
- Microsoft Copilot AI Comes to LG TVs, and Can't Be Deleted
- If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes?
- AI agents are starting to eat SaaS
- Claude CLI deleted my home directory and wiped my Mac
- Elevated errors across many models
- 2002: Last.fm and Audioscrobbler Herald the Social Web
- The Problem of Teaching Physics in Latin America (1963)
- JSDoc is TypeScript
- Stop crawling my HTML – use the API
- Adafruit: Arduino’s Rules Are ‘Incompatible With Open Source’
- GraphQL: The enterprise honeymoon is over
- Hashcards: A plain-text spaced repetition system
- Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)
- Rust Coreutils 0.5.0 Release: 87.75% compatibility with GNU Coreutils
- iOS 26.2 fixes 20 security vulnerabilities, 2 actively exploited
- Private Equity Finds a New Source of Profit: Volunteer Fire Departments
- Apple Maps claims it's 29,905 miles away
- AI and the ironies of automation – Part 2
- Kimi K2 1T model runs on 2 512GB M3 Ultras
- Baumol's Cost Disease
- The Gorman Paradox: Where Are All the AI-Generated Apps?
- Europeans' health data sold to US firm run by ex-Israeli spies
- Shai-Hulud compromised a dev machine and raided GitHub org access: a post-mortem
- “You should never build a CMS”
- Kids Rarely Read Whole Books Anymore. Even in English Class
- Linux Sandboxes and Fil-C
- An off-grid, flat-packable washing machine
- Some surprising things about DuckDuckGo
- Recovering Anthony Bourdain's Li.st's
- Workday project at Washington University hits $266M
- Want to sway an election? Here’s how much fake online accounts cost
- Why Twilio Segment moved from microservices back to a monolith
- I fed 24 years of my blog posts to a Markov model
- VPN location claims don't match real traffic exits
- Are we stuck with the same Desktop UX forever? [video]
- Analysis finds anytime electricity from solar available as battery costs plummet
- I tried Gleam for Advent of Code
- LG TV's new software update installed MS Copilot, which cannot be deleted
- Ask HN: How can I get better at using AI for programming?
- Germany's train service is one of Europe's worst. How did it get so bad?
- YouTube's CEO limits his kids' social media use – other tech bosses do the same
- Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help
- Poor Johnny still won't encrypt
- OpenAI are quietly adopting skills, now available in ChatGPT and Codex CLI
- US TikTok investors in limbo as deal set to be delayed again
- macOS 26.2 enables fast AI clusters with RDMA over Thunderbolt
- New Kindle feature uses AI to answer questions about books
- Rats Play DOOM
- In Defense of Matlab Code
- Benn Jordan’s flock camera jammer will send you to jail in Florida now [video]
- Home Depot GitHub token exposed for a year, granted access to internal systems
- Id Software devs form "wall-to-wall" union
- Google releases its new Google Sans Flex font as open source
- Nuclear energy key to decarbonising Europe, says EESC
- Oracle made a $300B bet on OpenAI. It's paying the price
- Using secondary school maths to demystify AI
- String theory inspires a brilliant, baffling new math proof
- Epic celebrates "the end of the Apple Tax" after court win in iOS payments case
- Framework Raises DDR5 Memory Prices by 50% for DIY Laptops
- Berlin Approves New Expansion of Police Surveillance Powers
- SQLite JSON at full index speed using generated columns
- Why isn't online age verification just like showing your ID in person?
- Sick of smart TVs? Here are your best options
- The Tor Project is switching to Rust
- Koralm Railway
- Young journalists expose Russian-linked vessels off the Dutch and German coast
- Guarding My Git Forge Against AI Scrapers
- “Are you the one?” is free money
- Google de-indexed Bear Blog and I don't know why
- CRISPR fungus: Protein-packed, sustainable, and tastes like meat
- Nokia N900 Necromancy
- Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence
- Denial of service and source code exposure in React Server Components
- UK House of Lords attempting to ban use of VPNs by anyone under 16
- My productivity app is a never-ending .txt file (2020)
- What is the nicest thing a stranger has ever done for you?
- An SVG is all you need
- Going Through Snowden Documents, Part 1
- Rivian Unveils Custom Silicon, R2 Lidar Roadmap, and Universal Hands Free
- Programmers and software developers lost the plot on naming their tools
- GPT-5.2
- Show HN: I made a spreadsheet where formulas also update backwards
- Days since last GitHub incident
- Things I want to say to my boss
- Deprecate like you mean it
- iPhone Typos? It's Not Just You – The iOS Keyboard Is Broken [video]
- The architecture of “not bad”: Decoding the Chinese source code of the void
- The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI Partner on Sora
- Craft software that makes people feel something
- French supermarket's Christmas advert is worldwide hit (without AI) [video]
- South Korea – A cautionary tale for the rest of humanity
- Meta shuts down global accounts linked to abortion advice and queer content
- A “frozen” dictionary for Python
- Just 0.001% hold 3 times the wealth of poorest half of humanity, report finds
- The Cost of a Closure in C
- Incomplete list of mistakes in the design of CSS
- Vibe coding is mad depressing
- Patterns.dev
- Nature's many attempts to evolve a Nostr
- Developing a food-safe finish for my wooden spoons
- EFF launches Age Verification Hub
- Getting a Gemini API key is an exercise in frustration
- US seizes oil tanker off coast of Venezuela
- I got an Nvidia GH200 server for €7.5k on Reddit and converted it to a desktop
- The future of Terraform CDK
- Super Mario 64 for the PS1
- Show HN: Automated license plate reader coverage in the USA
- Is it a bubble?
- Auto-grading decade-old Hacker News discussions with hindsight
- Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux
- DeepSeek uses banned Nvidia chips for AI model, report says
- Qwen3-Omni-Flash-2025-12-01：a next-generation native multimodal large model
- Size of Life
- Leaving the U.S. for the Netherlands
- In New York City, congestion pricing leads to marked drop in pollution
- Israel used Palantir technologies in pager attack in Lebanon
- How Much Wealth an AI Stock Market Crash Could Destroy
- New benchmark shows top LLMs struggle in real mental health care
- McDonald's pulls AI Christmas ad after backlash
- US could ask foreign tourists for five-year social media history before entry
- Big Tech are the new Soviets
- Stop Breaking TLS
- 'Source available' is not open source, and that's okay
- Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental
- NYC congestion pricing cuts air pollution by a fifth in six months
- Rubio stages font coup: Times New Roman ousts Calibri
- How well do you know C++ auto type deduction?
- Go Proposal: Secret Mode
- I misused LLMs to diagnose myself and ended up bedridden for a week
- Django: what’s new in 6.0
- We Need to Die
- 10 Years of Let's Encrypt
- So you want to speak at software conferences?
- Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban
- How private equity is changing housing
- If you're going to vibe code, why not do it in C?
- PeerTube is recognized as a digital public good by Digital Public Goods Alliance
- Donating the Model Context Protocol and establishing the Agentic AI Foundation
- Bruno Simon – 3D Portfolio
- Ask HN: Should "I asked $AI, and it said" replies be forbidden in HN guidelines?
- A supersonic engine core makes the perfect power turbine
- EU investigates Google over AI-generated summaries in search results
- Apple's slow AI pace becomes a strength as market grows weary of spending
- Pebble Index 01 – External memory for your brain
- Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now
- Kaiju – General purpose 3D/2D game engine in Go and Vulkan with built in editor
- Mistral releases Devstral2 and Mistral Vibe CLI
- Using e-ink tablet as monitor for Linux
- Rahm Emanuel says U.S. should follow Australia's youth social media ban
- Where are you supposed to go if you don't care about growth?
- Richard Stallman on ChatGPT
- Show HN: AlgoDrill – Interactive drills to stop forgetting LeetCode patterns
- How Google Maps allocates survival across London's restaurants
- The Joy of Playing Grandia, on Sega Saturn
- 30 Year Anniversary of WarCraft II: Tides of Darkness
- The closer we look at time, the stranger it gets
- Modern Walkmans
- Horses: AI progress is steady. Human equivalence is sudden
- The universal weight subspace hypothesis
- Kroger acknowledges that its bet on robotics went too far
- Show HN: I built a system for active note-taking in regular meetings like 1-1s
- Doctors' estimates of the feasibility of preserving the dying for future revival
- The highest quality codebase
- Delivery robots take over Chicago sidewalks
- Icons in Menus Everywhere – Send Help
- Has the cost of building software dropped 90%?
- Jepsen: NATS 2.12.1
- NVIDIA frenemy relation with OpenAI and Oracle
- Twins reared apart do not exist
- AI should only run as fast as we can catch up
- Microsoft has a problem: lack of demand for its AI products
- Hunting for North Korean Fiber Optic Cables
- Google confirms Android attacks; no fix for most Samsung users
- No more O'Reilly subscriptions for me
- Uber is turning data about trips and takeout into insights for marketers
- Microsoft is quietly walking back its diversity efforts
- Strong earthquake hits northern Japan, tsunami warning issued
- Paramount launches hostile bid for Warner Bros
- Microsoft increases Office 365 and Microsoft 365 license prices
- IBM to acquire Confluent
- Bad Dye Job
- The fuck off contact page
- Using Python for Scripting
- GitHub Actions has a package manager, and it might be the worst
- Microservices should form a polytree
- Palantir could be the most overvalued company that ever existed
- Socialist ends by market means: A history
- The era of jobs is ending
- Bag of words, have mercy on us
- How I block all online ads
- XKeyscore
- Evidence from the One Laptop per Child program in rural Peru
- Estimates are difficult for developers and product owners
- The C++ standard for the F-35 Fighter Jet [video]
- I failed to recreate the 1996 Space Jam website with Claude
- What the heck is going on at Apple?
- The AI wildfire is coming. it's going to be painful and healthy
- He set out to walk around the world. After 27 years, his quest is nearly over
- Scala 3 slowed us down?
- Dollar-stores overcharge customers while promising low prices
- The state of Schleswig-Holstein is consistently relying on open source
- Over fifty new hallucinations in ICLR 2026 submissions
- I wasted years of my life in crypto
- Google Titans architecture, helping AI have long-term memory
- Go is portable, until it isn't
- Eurydice: a Rust to C compiler
- Using LLMs at Oxide
- Trains cancelled over fake bridge collapse image
- Kilauea erupts, destroying webcam [video]
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