HckrNews (First visit) All HN frontpage stories in chronological order Mt. Gox CEO Karpelès Reveals Details of 2014 Collapse and Japanese Detention 4 16 42m +14m bitcoinmagazine.com/business/former-mt-gox-ceo-mark-karpeles-reveals-details-of-2014-collapse-and-japanese-detention 1Show HN: LazyPromise = Observable – Signals 0 4 5d +5d github.com/lazy-promise/lazy-promise 2We Abandoned Matrix: The Dark Truth About User Security and Safety (2024) 44 69 1h +28m forum.hackliberty.org/t/why-we-abandoned-matrix-the-dark-truth-about-user-security-and-safety/224 3Making a game on a custom bytecode VM in 7 days and 3kB 2 20 5d +5d laurent.le-brun.eu/blog/making-a-game-on-a-custom-bytecode-vm-in-7-days-and-3kb 4Super Mario Bros. and Yoshi Games (Yields) Reduced Burnout Risk 47 61 3h +1h games.jmir.org/2025/1/e84219 5AMD entered the CPU market with reverse-engineered Intel 8080 clone 50 years ago 19 63 2h +30m tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/amd-first-entered-the-cpu-market-with-reverse-engineered-intel-8080-clone-50-years-ago-the-am9080-cost-50-cents-apiece-to-make-but-sold-for-usd700 6New reactor produces clean energy and carbon nanotubes from natural gas 21 30 2h +3m phys.org/news/2025-12-reactor-energy-carbon-nanotubes-natural.html 7When Compilers Surprise You 35 87 3h +1h xania.org/202512/24-cunning-clang 8Show HN: Does Information Density Cause Time Dilation? 10 7 3h +51m 9Your Inbox Is a Bandit 34 48 2d +2d parentheticallyspeaking.org/articles/bandit-inbox 10The EU's Fine Against X Is Not About Speech or 'Censorship' 75 39 3h +26m techpolicy.press/the-eus-fine-against-x-is-not-about-speech-or-censorship 11The Port I couldn't Ship 18 64 5d +5d ammil.industries/the-port-i-couldnt-ship 12The e-scooter isn't new – London was zooming around on Autopeds a century ago 47 70 8h +4h ianvisits.co.uk/articles/the-e-scooter-isnt-new-london-was-zooming-around-on-autopeds-a-century-ago-86263 13Avoid Mini-Frameworks 61 65 4h +32m laike9m.com/blog/avoid-mini-frameworks,171 14Map: Operator[] Should Be Nodiscard 36 51 5d +4d quuxplusone.github.io/blog/2025/12/18/nodiscard-operator-bracket 15Scaling Go Testing with Contract and Scenario Mocks 12 25 5d +5d funnelstory.ai/blog/engineering/scaling-go-testing-with-contract-and-scenario-mocks 16Google 2025 recap: Research breakthroughs of the year 101 139 7h +1h blog.google/technology/ai/2025-research-breakthroughs 17US sanctions EU government officials behind the DSA 107 102 7h +1h mastodon.social/@fj/115773761468906515 18The Ultimate Windows Utility (2022) 73 92 6h +15m christitus.com/windows-tool 19Former EU commissioner and activists barred from US 23 53 6h +46m theguardian.com/technology/2025/dec/24/us-state-department-visa-ban-former-eu-commissioner-europe 20Help my website is too small 13 79 8h +2h lukeplant.me.uk/blog/posts/help-my-website-is-too-small 21Permission Systems for Enterprise That Scale 17 47 7h +49m eliocapella.com/blog/permission-systems-for-enterprise 22Next JavaScript app is hacked, you just don't know it yet 8 9 7h +1h audits.blockhacks.io/audit/your-next-js-app-is-already-hacked 23I rebuilt FlashAttention in Triton to understand the performance archaeology 8 67 3d +2d aminediro.com/posts/flash_attn 24Show HN: Tonbo – an embedded database for serverless and edge runtimes 11 48 6d +6d github.com/tonbo-io/tonbo 25CEO killed at industrial site by worker operating forklift 58 51 10h +2h 12onyourside.com/2025/12/23/ceo-killed-industrial-site-by-worker-operating-forklift-while-talking-phone-osha-report-shows 26Life, Death and Mowing 11 16 5d +4d cam.ac.uk/stories/lawnmower-poetry 27Name That Part: 3D Part Segmentation and Naming 2 26 14h +4h name-that-part.github.io 28Custom Cross Compiler with Nix 1 33 11h +1h hobson.space/posts/nixcross 29Show HN: CodinIT, local open-source Lovable alternative (Electron desktop app) 2 18 4d +3d github.com/codinit-dev/codinit-dev 30Dutch rental fleet Mistergreen goes bankrupt after betting on Tesla self-driving 12 51 11h +1h guessingheadlights.com/dutch-tesla-fleet-goes-bust-after-betting-on-musks-self-driving-promises 31Time-Traveling to 1979: Advice for Designing 'C with Classes 20 16 7d +7d coderschmoder.com/i-time-traveled-1979-met-bjarne-stroustrup 32Don't Become the Machine 100 165 13h +1h armeet.bearblog.dev/becoming-the-machine 33Autonomously navigating the real world: lessons from the PG&E outage 100 118 14h +2h waymo.com/blog/2025/12/autonomously-navigating-the-real-world 34Proving Bounds for the Randomized MaxCut Approximation Algorithm in Lean4 2 52 4d +3d abhamra.com/blog/randomized-maxcut 35Show HN: Turn raw HTML into production-ready images for free 60 121 14h +1h html2png.dev 36'Dracula's Chivito': Hubble reveals largest birthplace of planets ever observed 12 61 15h +1h phys.org/news/2025-12-chaotic-dracula-chivito-hubble-reveals.html 37Charts in Slides 0 33 6d +6d ia.net/topics/charts-in-slides 38Donald E. Knuth and Peter van Emde Boas on priority deques (1977) [pdf] 5 54 14h +36m staff.fnwi.uva.nl/p.vanemdeboas/knuthnote.pdf 39Could lockfiles just be SBOMs? 51 61 14h +43m nesbitt.io/2025/12/23/could-lockfiles-just-be-sboms.html 40Open source USB to GPIB converter (for Test and Measurement instruments) 29 65 15h +1h github.com/xyphro/UsbGpib 41Show HN: I hired AI to fix my memory, but made it 100% Offline for privacy 6 8 16h +1h namememory.netlify.app 42Nabokov's guide to foreigners learning Russian 299 172 15h +1h twitter.com/haravayin_hogh/status/2003299405907247502 43AI Can Write Your Code. It Can't Do Your Job 67 83 5d +4d terriblesoftware.org/2025/12/11/ai-can-write-your-code-it-cant-do-your-job 44Jimmy Wales trusts the process 48 31 6d +6d theverge.com/tech/846184/jimmy-wales-trusts-the-process 45Some Epstein file redactions are being undone with hacks 595 762 20h +4h theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/23/epstein-unredacted-files-social-media 46Unifi Travel Router 331 381 16h +26m blog.ui.com/article/travel-in-style-unifi-style-unifi-travel-router 47US bars 5 Europeans it says pressured tech firms to censor American viewpoints 27 77 17h +1h apnews.com/article/state-department-trump-immigration-rubio-visas-87c8a4692f3184e4f83fdd8ed5093886 48Stronk.app – open-source gym lifts journal 25 54 16h +9m 49We Must Seize the Means of Compute 9 23 17h +56m thompson2026.com/blog/seize-the-means-of-compute 50Learn Lisp/Fennel Programming Against Neovim 7 67 6d +6d github.com/humorless/fennel-fp-neovim 51Is Northern Virginia still the least reliable AWS region? 73 96 17h +21m statusgator.com/blog/aws-least-reliable-region-in-2025 52Here you can find the contents of the Unix v4 tape ready for bootstrapping 2 32 4d +3d squoze.nethttp:///UNIX/v4/README 53Show HN: Claude Wrapped in the terminal, with a WASM raymarcher 1 15 19h +1h spader.zone/wrapped 54Texas app store age verification law blocked by federal judge 205 277 19h +51m macrumors.com/2025/12/23/texas-app-store-law-blocked 55Microspeak: North Star – The Old New Thing (2015) 10 26 18h +17m devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20151103-00/?p=91861 56I didn't realize my LG TV was spying on me until I turned off Live Plus 226 226 19h +25m pocket-lint.com/lg-tv-turn-off-live-plus 57X-ray: a Python library for finding bad redactions in PDF documents 101 575 19h +17m github.com/freelawproject/x-ray 58LAVD: Meta's New Default Scheduler [pdf] 1 27 21h +2h lpc.events/event/19/contributions/2099/attachments/1875/4020/lpc-2025-lavd-meta.pdf 59Fixed-Wing Runway Design 10 23 21h +1h wbdg.org/building/aviation/fixed-wing-runway-design 60Fifty problems with standard web APIs in 2025 85 185 6d +5d zerotrickpony.com/articles/browser-bugs 61Fuck You, I Won't Use Tailwind 36 46 20h +13m fuckyouiwontusetailwind.com 62HTTP Caching, a Refresher 23 148 21h +1h danburzo.ro/http-caching-refresher 63What makes you senior 180 369 5d +4d terriblesoftware.org/2025/11/25/what-actually-makes-you-senior 64Un-Redactor 46 51 21h +1h github.com/kvthweatt/unredactor 65Lua 5.5 114 365 2d +1d lua.org/versions.html#5.5 66Toad is a unified experience for AI in the terminal 74 212 2d +1d willmcgugan.github.io/toad-released 67iOS 26.2 lockscreen clock is slowly moving left 19 44 21h +27m twitter.com/ffaebi/status/2003548130936332519 68Help My c64 caught on fire 36 110 21h +1h c0de517e.com/026_c64fire.htm 69Perfect Software – Software for an Audience of One 75 177 4d +3d outofdesk.netlify.app/blog/perfect-software 70Terrence Malick's Disciples 25 95 21h +5m yalereview.org/article/bilge-ebiri-terrence-malick 71Volvo Centum is Dalton Maag's new typeface for Volvo 126 113 22h +38m wallpaper.com/design-interiors/corporate-design-branding/volvo-new-font-volvo-centum 72Space Math Academy 21 42 3d +3d space-math.academy 73An initial analysis of the discovered Unix V4 tape 4 85 22h +38m spinellis.gr/blog/20251223/?yc261223 74We replaced H.264 streaming with JPEG screenshots (and it worked better) 291 485 23h +26m blog.helix.ml/p/we-mass-deployed-15-year-old-screen 75Towards a secure peer-to-peer app platform for Clan 23 88 23h +46m clan.lol/blog/towards-app-platform-vmtech 76How did DOGE disrupt so much while saving so little? 153 235 23h +25m nytimes.com/2025/12/23/us/politics/doge-musk-trump-analysis.html 77When irate product support customers demand to speak to Bill Gates 32 75 1d +1h devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20251223-00/?p=111896 78Fabrice Bellard Releases MicroQuickJS 474 1273 23h +6m github.com/bellard/mquickjs/blob/main/README.md 79Meta is using the Linux scheduler designed for Valve's Steam Deck on its servers 372 662 23h +10m phoronix.com/news/Meta-SCX-LAVD-Steam-Deck-Server 80The Coffee Warehouse 50 51 4d +3d scopeofwork.net/the-coffee-warehouse 81Astrophotography Target Planner: Discover Hidden Nebulas 5 60 4d +3d astroimagery.com/techniques/imaging/astrophotography-target-planner 82Diary: Val McDermid, Deep Winter 1 13 5d +4d books.substack.com/p/diary-val-mcdermid-deep-winter 83Show HN: Yapi – FOSS terminal API client for power users 17 48 2d +1d yapi.run/blog/what-is-yapi 84Dancing around the rhythm space with Euclid 3 47 2d +1d pv.wtf/posts/euclidean-rhythms 85Stop Slopware 151 138 1d +25m stopslopware.net 86The last product to get cancelled 7 13 6d +5d ablg.io/blog/last-product-to-get-cancelled 87CBS 60 minutes on CECOT only aired in Canada 0 9 1d +5m archive.org/details/cecot-60mins 88Are We Loong Yet? 18 27 1d +5h areweloongyet.com/en 89Nearly 1 in 4 Americans think they have a personal social security account 46 27 1d +14m cato.org/blog/poll-nearly-1-4-americans-think-they-have-personal-social-security-account-3 90Deplatforming Backfired 41 34 1d +49m reason.com/2025/12/22/deplatforming-backfired 91Classical billiards can compute (2d billiard systems are Turing complete) 5 29 1d +4h arxiv.org/abs/2512.19156 92Test, don't just verify 132 190 1d +10m alperenkeles.com/posts/test-dont-verify 93Executorch: On-device AI across mobile, embedded and edge for PyTorch 17 118 6d +4d github.com/pytorch/executorch 94Postponed '60 Minutes' segment on Salvadoran prison is streamed by Canadian news 54 157 1d +21m nbcnews.com/news/us-news/cbs-news-el-salvador-cecot-prison-sharyn-alfonsi-bari-weiss-rcna250618 95Solving the Problems of HBM-on-Logic 4 18 7d +5d morethanmoore.substack.com/p/solving-the-problems-of-hbm-on-logic 96What Is (AI) Glaze? 23 24 1d +56m glaze.cs.uchicago.edu/what-is-glaze.html 97Font with Built-In Syntax Highlighting (2024) 36 146 1d +1h blog.glyphdrawing.club/font-with-built-in-syntax-highlighting 98Ryanair fined €256M over ‘abusive strategy’ to limit ticket sales by OTAs 265 250 1d +16m theguardian.com/business/2025/dec/23/ryanair-fined-limit-online-travel-agencies-ticket-sales-ota 99Gimp Source Code 19 23 1d +1h gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp 100Instant database clones with PostgreSQL 18 159 411 1d +2h boringsql.com/posts/instant-database-clones 10110 years bootstrapped: €6.5M revenue with a team of 13 121 312 1d +2h datocms.com/blog/a-look-back-at-2025 102Ask HN: What are the best engineering blogs with real-world depth? 125 410 1d +27m 103Show HN: I wrote a small lib to turn a USB gamepad into a Bluetooth one 44 26 7d +6d github.com/skorokithakis/bluetooth-gamepad 104Why were all stories about the '60 minutes' leak removed from HN? 27 36 1d +48m 105Carnap – A formal logic framework for Haskell 20 105 1d +34m carnap.io 106Adobe Photoshop 1.0 Source Code (1990) 147 431 6d +4d computerhistory.org/blog/adobe-photoshop-source-code 107[dead] ? 25 1d +8h bbc.com 108iOS 26.3 brings AirPods-like pairing to third-party devices in EU under DMA 278 300 1d +1h macrumors.com/2025/12/22/ios-26-3-dma-airpods-pairing 109A centennial look back at Edward Gorey's macabre art and guarded life 6 30 7d +6d washingtonpost.com/books/2025/12/13/edward-gorey-centennial-gregory-hischak-review 110Show HN: CineCLI – Browse and torrent movies directly from your terminal 112 318 1d +1h github.com/eyeblech/cinecli 111[dead] ? 13 1d +3m daringfireball.net 112[dead] ? 21 1d +12m cbc.ca 113The Polyglot NixOS 51 126 4d +2d x86.lol/generic/2025/12/19/polyglot.html 114[dead] ? 21 1d +26m hollywoodreporter.com 115Remove Black Color with Shaders 18 54 5d +4d yuanchuan.dev/remove-black-color-with-shaders 116The Duodecimal Bulletin, Vol. 55, No. 1, Year 1209 [pdf] 36 62 1d +3h dozenal.org/drupal/sites_bck/default/files/DuodecimalBulletinIssue551.pdf 117Archivists posted the 60 minutes CECOT segment Bari Weiss killed 11 241 1d +57m 404media.co/archivists-posted-the-60-minutes-cecot-segment-bari-weiss-killed 118FCC Updates Covered List to Include Foreign UAS and UAS Critical Components [pdf] 92 103 1d +30m docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-416839A1.pdf 119Plugins case study: mdBook preprocessors 12 22 6d +4d eli.thegreenplace.net/2025/plugins-case-study-mdbook-preprocessors 12060 Minutes: Cecot 10 162 1d +23m 121The 60 Minutes report that Bari Weiss censored is now internet contraband 42 159 1d +22m theverge.com/policy/849432/60-minutes-cecot-censored-canada-leak 122Diesel pollution particles impair lysosomal functions of iPSC-derived microglia 35 35 1d +29m sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160412025002181 123Show HN: Python SDK – forecasting with foundation time-series and tabular models 18 42 6d +4d github.com/S-FM/faim-python-client 124Local AI is driving the biggest change in laptops in decades 235 238 1d +2h spectrum.ieee.org/ai-models-locally 125Pulled 60 Minutes segment on CECOT 14 229 1d +51m archive.org/details/60minutes-cecotsegment 126Snitch – A friendlier ss/netstat 99 321 1d +1h github.com/karol-broda/snitch 127Our New Sam Audio Model Transforms Audio Editing 60 164 7d +6d about.fb.com/news/2025/12/our-new-sam-audio-model-transforms-audio-editing 128NYC Spends $200 Million on Cell Service for School Chromebooks 52 36 1d +9m nysfocus.com/2025/12/22/eric-adams-school-chromebooks-contract 129Ask HN: How are most people converting HEIC to jpg? 47 18 5d +3d 130Inside CECOT – 60 Minutes [video] 509 1578 1d +7m archive.org/details/insidececot 131Satellites reveal heat leaking from largest US cryptocurrency mining center 158 158 1d +39m space.com/space-exploration/satellites/satellites-reveal-heat-leaking-from-largest-us-cryptocurrency-mining-center 132Show HN: C-compiler to compile TCC for live-bootstrap 23 67 6d +5d github.com/FransFaase/MES-replacement 133 More... 2025.12.22