HckrNews (First visit) All HN frontpage stories in chronological order Researchers achieved 1,270 Wh/L in an anode-free lithium metal battery 0 4 37m +34m postech.ac.kr/eng/research/research_results.do?mode=view&articleNo=43617&title=Anode-Free+Battery+Doubles+Electric+Vehicle+Driving+Range 1Show HN: Vibium – Browser automation for AI and humans, by Selenium's creator 5 9 58m +40m github.com/VibiumDev/vibium 2A Father, a Son and Their $108B Push for Media Moguldom (Larry Ellison) 10 13 57m +33m nytimes.com/2025/12/24/business/media/larry-david-ellison-warner-bros-discovery-cbs.html 3A faster path to container images in Bazel 0 14 5d +5d tweag.io/blog/2025-12-18-rules_img 4Microsoft Agent Framework 4 15 1h +36m learn.microsoft.com/en-us/agent-framework/overview/agent-framework-overview 5Show HN: No more writing shitty regexes to police usernames 29 16 2h +1h username.dev 6My 2026 Open Social Web Predictions 8 23 2h +1h timothychambers.net/2025/12/23/my-open-social-web-predictions.html 7LVM Thin Provisioning (2016) 0 10 2d +2d storageapis.wordpress.com/2016/06/24/lvm-thin-provisioning 8I'm returning my Framework 16 53 50 5h +4h yorickpeterse.com/articles/im-returning-my-framework-16 9Mt. Gox CEO Karpelès Reveals Details of 2014 Collapse and Japanese Detention 19 41 2h +14m bitcoinmagazine.com/business/former-mt-gox-ceo-mark-karpeles-reveals-details-of-2014-collapse-and-japanese-detention 10Show HN: LazyPromise = Observable – Signals 2 14 5d +5d github.com/lazy-promise/lazy-promise 11We Abandoned Matrix: The Dark Truth About User Security and Safety (2024) 96 135 3h +28m forum.hackliberty.org/t/why-we-abandoned-matrix-the-dark-truth-about-user-security-and-safety/224 12Making a game on a custom bytecode VM in 7 days and 3kB 7 39 5d +5d laurent.le-brun.eu/blog/making-a-game-on-a-custom-bytecode-vm-in-7-days-and-3kb 13Super Mario Bros. and Yoshi Games (Yields) Reduced Burnout Risk 67 87 5h +1h games.jmir.org/2025/1/e84219 14AMD entered the CPU market with reverse-engineered Intel 8080 clone 50 years ago 42 100 4h +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 15New reactor produces clean energy and carbon nanotubes from natural gas 29 41 4h +3m phys.org/news/2025-12-reactor-energy-carbon-nanotubes-natural.html 16When Compilers Surprise You 47 120 5h +1h xania.org/202512/24-cunning-clang 17Show HN: Does Information Density Cause Time Dilation? 10 8 5h +51m 18Your Inbox Is a Bandit 50 54 2d +2d parentheticallyspeaking.org/articles/bandit-inbox 19The EU's Fine Against X Is Not About Speech or 'Censorship' 78 43 5h +26m techpolicy.press/the-eus-fine-against-x-is-not-about-speech-or-censorship 20The Port I couldn't Ship 31 75 5d +5d ammil.industries/the-port-i-couldnt-ship 21The e-scooter isn't new – London was zooming around on Autopeds a century ago 69 95 10h +4h ianvisits.co.uk/articles/the-e-scooter-isnt-new-london-was-zooming-around-on-autopeds-a-century-ago-86263 22Avoid Mini-Frameworks 65 69 6h +32m laike9m.com/blog/avoid-mini-frameworks,171 23Map: Operator[] Should Be Nodiscard 45 58 5d +4d quuxplusone.github.io/blog/2025/12/18/nodiscard-operator-bracket 24Scaling Go Testing with Contract and Scenario Mocks 19 33 6d +5d funnelstory.ai/blog/engineering/scaling-go-testing-with-contract-and-scenario-mocks 25Google 2025 recap: Research breakthroughs of the year 108 144 9h +1h blog.google/technology/ai/2025-research-breakthroughs 26US sanctions EU government officials behind the DSA 116 106 9h +1h mastodon.social/@fj/115773761468906515 27The Ultimate Windows Utility (2022) 77 92 7h +15m christitus.com/windows-tool 28Former EU commissioner and activists barred from US 28 54 8h +46m theguardian.com/technology/2025/dec/24/us-state-department-visa-ban-former-eu-commissioner-europe 29Help my website is too small 13 87 10h +2h lukeplant.me.uk/blog/posts/help-my-website-is-too-small 30Permission Systems for Enterprise That Scale 26 61 8h +49m eliocapella.com/blog/permission-systems-for-enterprise 31Next JavaScript app is hacked, you just don't know it yet 8 9 9h +1h audits.blockhacks.io/audit/your-next-js-app-is-already-hacked 32I rebuilt FlashAttention in Triton to understand the performance archaeology 14 76 3d +2d aminediro.com/posts/flash_attn 33Show HN: Tonbo – an embedded database for serverless and edge runtimes 11 52 7d +6d github.com/tonbo-io/tonbo 34CEO killed at industrial site by worker operating forklift 59 51 12h +2h 12onyourside.com/2025/12/23/ceo-killed-industrial-site-by-worker-operating-forklift-while-talking-phone-osha-report-shows 35Life, Death and Mowing 11 16 5d +4d cam.ac.uk/stories/lawnmower-poetry 36Name That Part: 3D Part Segmentation and Naming 2 26 16h +4h name-that-part.github.io 37Custom Cross Compiler with Nix 1 34 13h +1h hobson.space/posts/nixcross 38Show HN: CodinIT, local open-source Lovable alternative (Electron desktop app) 2 18 4d +3d github.com/codinit-dev/codinit-dev 39Dutch rental fleet Mistergreen goes bankrupt after betting on Tesla self-driving 13 51 13h +1h guessingheadlights.com/dutch-tesla-fleet-goes-bust-after-betting-on-musks-self-driving-promises 40Time-Traveling to 1979: Advice for Designing 'C with Classes 20 16 7d +7d coderschmoder.com/i-time-traveled-1979-met-bjarne-stroustrup 41Don't Become the Machine 111 188 15h +1h armeet.bearblog.dev/becoming-the-machine 42Autonomously navigating the real world: lessons from the PG&E outage 103 122 16h +2h waymo.com/blog/2025/12/autonomously-navigating-the-real-world 43Proving Bounds for the Randomized MaxCut Approximation Algorithm in Lean4 3 55 4d +3d abhamra.com/blog/randomized-maxcut 44Show HN: Turn raw HTML into production-ready images for free 67 126 16h +1h html2png.dev 45'Dracula's Chivito': Hubble reveals largest birthplace of planets ever observed 12 64 16h +1h phys.org/news/2025-12-chaotic-dracula-chivito-hubble-reveals.html 46Charts in Slides 0 33 6d +6d ia.net/topics/charts-in-slides 47Donald E. Knuth and Peter van Emde Boas on priority deques (1977) [pdf] 5 55 16h +36m staff.fnwi.uva.nl/p.vanemdeboas/knuthnote.pdf 48Could lockfiles just be SBOMs? 51 62 16h +43m nesbitt.io/2025/12/23/could-lockfiles-just-be-sboms.html 49Open source USB to GPIB converter (for Test and Measurement instruments) 31 74 17h +1h github.com/xyphro/UsbGpib 50Show HN: I hired AI to fix my memory, but made it 100% Offline for privacy 6 8 18h +1h namememory.netlify.app 51Nabokov's guide to foreigners learning Russian 321 193 17h +1h twitter.com/haravayin_hogh/status/2003299405907247502 52AI Can Write Your Code. It Can't Do Your Job 68 84 5d +4d terriblesoftware.org/2025/12/11/ai-can-write-your-code-it-cant-do-your-job 53Jimmy Wales trusts the process 49 31 7d +6d theverge.com/tech/846184/jimmy-wales-trusts-the-process 54Some Epstein file redactions are being undone with hacks 631 812 22h +4h theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/23/epstein-unredacted-files-social-media 55Unifi Travel Router 349 407 18h +26m blog.ui.com/article/travel-in-style-unifi-style-unifi-travel-router 56US bars 5 Europeans it says pressured tech firms to censor American viewpoints 28 78 19h +1h apnews.com/article/state-department-trump-immigration-rubio-visas-87c8a4692f3184e4f83fdd8ed5093886 57Stronk.app – open-source gym lifts journal 25 54 18h +9m 58We Must Seize the Means of Compute 9 24 19h +56m thompson2026.com/blog/seize-the-means-of-compute 59Learn Lisp/Fennel Programming Against Neovim 9 68 6d +6d github.com/humorless/fennel-fp-neovim 60Is Northern Virginia still the least reliable AWS region? 74 96 19h +21m statusgator.com/blog/aws-least-reliable-region-in-2025 61Here you can find the contents of the Unix v4 tape ready for bootstrapping 2 32 4d +3d squoze.nethttp:///UNIX/v4/README 62Show HN: Claude Wrapped in the terminal, with a WASM raymarcher 1 15 20h +1h spader.zone/wrapped 63Texas app store age verification law blocked by federal judge 209 296 20h +51m macrumors.com/2025/12/23/texas-app-store-law-blocked 64Microspeak: North Star – The Old New Thing (2015) 10 26 20h +17m devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20151103-00/?p=91861 65I didn't realize my LG TV was spying on me until I turned off Live Plus 233 233 20h +25m pocket-lint.com/lg-tv-turn-off-live-plus 66X-ray: a Python library for finding bad redactions in PDF documents 105 611 20h +17m github.com/freelawproject/x-ray 67LAVD: Meta's New Default Scheduler [pdf] 1 27 23h +2h lpc.events/event/19/contributions/2099/attachments/1875/4020/lpc-2025-lavd-meta.pdf 68Fixed-Wing Runway Design 10 23 23h +1h wbdg.org/building/aviation/fixed-wing-runway-design 69Fifty problems with standard web APIs in 2025 91 193 6d +5d zerotrickpony.com/articles/browser-bugs 70Fuck You, I Won't Use Tailwind 39 47 21h +13m fuckyouiwontusetailwind.com 71HTTP Caching, a Refresher 26 159 23h +1h danburzo.ro/http-caching-refresher 72What makes you senior 183 374 5d +4d terriblesoftware.org/2025/11/25/what-actually-makes-you-senior 73Un-Redactor 49 52 23h +1h github.com/kvthweatt/unredactor 74Lua 5.5 120 374 2d +1d lua.org/versions.html#5.5 75Toad is a unified experience for AI in the terminal 75 216 2d +1d willmcgugan.github.io/toad-released 76iOS 26.2 lockscreen clock is slowly moving left 19 44 22h +27m twitter.com/ffaebi/status/2003548130936332519 77Help My c64 caught on fire 36 112 23h +1h c0de517e.com/026_c64fire.htm 78Perfect Software – Software for an Audience of One 83 188 4d +3d outofdesk.netlify.app/blog/perfect-software 79Terrence Malick's Disciples 26 95 23h +5m yalereview.org/article/bilge-ebiri-terrence-malick 80Volvo Centum is Dalton Maag's new typeface for Volvo 138 116 1d +38m wallpaper.com/design-interiors/corporate-design-branding/volvo-new-font-volvo-centum 81Space Math Academy 21 42 4d +3d space-math.academy 82An initial analysis of the discovered Unix V4 tape 4 87 1d +38m spinellis.gr/blog/20251223/?yc261223 83We replaced H.264 streaming with JPEG screenshots (and it worked better) 298 495 1d +26m blog.helix.ml/p/we-mass-deployed-15-year-old-screen 84Towards a secure peer-to-peer app platform for Clan 23 89 1d +46m clan.lol/blog/towards-app-platform-vmtech 85How did DOGE disrupt so much while saving so little? 162 246 1d +25m nytimes.com/2025/12/23/us/politics/doge-musk-trump-analysis.html 86When irate product support customers demand to speak to Bill Gates 34 75 1d +1h devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20251223-00/?p=111896 87Fabrice Bellard Releases MicroQuickJS 493 1304 1d +6m github.com/bellard/mquickjs/blob/main/README.md 88Meta is using the Linux scheduler designed for Valve's Steam Deck on its servers 373 666 1d +10m phoronix.com/news/Meta-SCX-LAVD-Steam-Deck-Server 89The Coffee Warehouse 51 51 4d +3d scopeofwork.net/the-coffee-warehouse 90Astrophotography Target Planner: Discover Hidden Nebulas 5 61 4d +3d astroimagery.com/techniques/imaging/astrophotography-target-planner 91Diary: Val McDermid, Deep Winter 1 13 5d +4d books.substack.com/p/diary-val-mcdermid-deep-winter 92Show HN: Yapi – FOSS terminal API client for power users 17 48 2d +1d yapi.run/blog/what-is-yapi 93Dancing around the rhythm space with Euclid 3 47 2d +1d pv.wtf/posts/euclidean-rhythms 94Stop Slopware 151 139 1d +25m stopslopware.net 95The last product to get cancelled 7 13 6d +5d ablg.io/blog/last-product-to-get-cancelled 96CBS 60 minutes on CECOT only aired in Canada 0 9 1d +5m archive.org/details/cecot-60mins 97Are We Loong Yet? 18 27 1d +5h areweloongyet.com/en 98Nearly 1 in 4 Americans think they have a personal social security account 46 28 1d +14m cato.org/blog/poll-nearly-1-4-americans-think-they-have-personal-social-security-account-3 99Deplatforming Backfired 41 34 1d +49m reason.com/2025/12/22/deplatforming-backfired 100Classical billiards can compute (2d billiard systems are Turing complete) 5 29 1d +4h arxiv.org/abs/2512.19156 101Test, don't just verify 132 190 1d +10m alperenkeles.com/posts/test-dont-verify 102Executorch: On-device AI across mobile, embedded and edge for PyTorch 18 118 6d +4d github.com/pytorch/executorch 103Postponed '60 Minutes' segment on Salvadoran prison is streamed by Canadian news 55 157 1d +21m nbcnews.com/news/us-news/cbs-news-el-salvador-cecot-prison-sharyn-alfonsi-bari-weiss-rcna250618 104Solving the Problems of HBM-on-Logic 4 18 7d +5d morethanmoore.substack.com/p/solving-the-problems-of-hbm-on-logic 105What Is (AI) Glaze? 23 24 1d +56m glaze.cs.uchicago.edu/what-is-glaze.html 106Font with Built-In Syntax Highlighting (2024) 36 146 1d +1h blog.glyphdrawing.club/font-with-built-in-syntax-highlighting 107Ryanair 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 108Gimp Source Code 19 24 1d +1h gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp 109Instant database clones with PostgreSQL 18 160 414 1d +2h boringsql.com/posts/instant-database-clones 11010 years bootstrapped: €6.5M revenue with a team of 13 122 313 1d +2h datocms.com/blog/a-look-back-at-2025 111Ask HN: What are the best engineering blogs with real-world depth? 125 415 1d +27m 112Show HN: I wrote a small lib to turn a USB gamepad into a Bluetooth one 44 26 7d +6d github.com/skorokithakis/bluetooth-gamepad 113Why were all stories about the '60 minutes' leak removed from HN? 27 36 1d +48m 114Carnap – A formal logic framework for Haskell 20 106 1d +34m carnap.io 115Adobe Photoshop 1.0 Source Code (1990) 148 431 6d +4d computerhistory.org/blog/adobe-photoshop-source-code 116[dead] ? 25 1d +8h bbc.com 117iOS 26.3 brings AirPods-like pairing to third-party devices in EU under DMA 282 304 1d +1h macrumors.com/2025/12/22/ios-26-3-dma-airpods-pairing 118A 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 119Show HN: CineCLI – Browse and torrent movies directly from your terminal 111 323 1d +1h github.com/eyeblech/cinecli 120[dead] ? 13 1d +3m daringfireball.net 121[dead] ? 21 1d +12m cbc.ca 122The Polyglot NixOS 51 126 4d +2d x86.lol/generic/2025/12/19/polyglot.html 123[dead] ? 21 1d +26m hollywoodreporter.com 124Remove Black Color with Shaders 18 54 6d +4d yuanchuan.dev/remove-black-color-with-shaders 125The Duodecimal Bulletin, Vol. 55, No. 1, Year 1209 [pdf] 36 63 1d +3h dozenal.org/drupal/sites_bck/default/files/DuodecimalBulletinIssue551.pdf 126Archivists 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 127FCC Updates Covered List to Include Foreign UAS and UAS Critical Components [pdf] 92 103 1d +30m docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-416839A1.pdf 128Plugins case study: mdBook preprocessors 12 22 6d +4d eli.thegreenplace.net/2025/plugins-case-study-mdbook-preprocessors 12960 Minutes: Cecot 10 162 1d +23m 130The 60 Minutes report that Bari Weiss censored is now internet contraband 43 159 1d +22m theverge.com/policy/849432/60-minutes-cecot-censored-canada-leak 131Diesel pollution particles impair lysosomal functions of iPSC-derived microglia 35 35 1d +29m sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160412025002181 132Show HN: Python SDK – forecasting with foundation time-series and tabular models 18 42 6d +4d github.com/S-FM/faim-python-client 133Local AI is driving the biggest change in laptops in decades 238 239 1d +2h spectrum.ieee.org/ai-models-locally 134Pulled 60 Minutes segment on CECOT 14 230 1d +51m archive.org/details/60minutes-cecotsegment 135Snitch – A friendlier ss/netstat 99 322 1d +1h github.com/karol-broda/snitch 136Our 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 137NYC Spends $200 Million on Cell Service for School Chromebooks 52 36 1d +9m nysfocus.com/2025/12/22/eric-adams-school-chromebooks-contract 138Ask HN: How are most people converting HEIC to jpg? 47 18 5d +3d 139Inside CECOT – 60 Minutes [video] 519 1590 1d +7m archive.org/details/insidececot 140Satellites 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 141Show HN: C-compiler to compile TCC for live-bootstrap 23 67 6d +5d github.com/FransFaase/MES-replacement 142 More... 2025.12.22