HckrNews (First visit) All HN frontpage stories in chronological order Genesis DB is a event sourcing database and there are the technical insights 1 8 29d +5d docs.genesisdb.io/technical-insights 1Last Week on My Mac: Losing confidence 270 431 24d +14m eclecticlight.co/2025/11/30/last-week-on-my-mac-losing-confidence 2Codex, Opus, Gemini try to build Counter Strike 131 286 27d +3d instantdb.com/essays/agents_building_counterstrike 310 years of writing a blog nobody reads 178 345 28d +4d flowtwo.io/post/on-10-years-of-writing-a-blog-nobody-reads 4Apple AI chief John Giannandrea is retiring in spring 2026 8 194 24d +29m macrumors.com/2025/12/01/apple-ai-chief-retiring-after-siri-failure 5Help, My Java Object Vanished (and the GC Is Not at Fault) 6 68 27d +3d arraying.de/posts/markword 6Mozilla's latest quagmire 161 229 24d +35m rubenerd.com/mozillas-latest-quagmire 7Pose-free 3D Gaussian splatting via shape-ray estimation 3 36 24d +40m arxiv.org/abs/2505.22978 8The healthcare market is taxing reproduction out of existence 389 285 24d +12m aaronstannard.com/40k-baby 9Show HN: An AI zettelkasten that extracts ideas from articles, videos, and PDFs 8 36 24d +3h github.com/schoblaska/jargon 10Lawmakers Want to Ban VPNs–and They Have No Idea What They're Doing 24 100 24d +27m techdirt.com/2025/12/01/lawmakers-want-to-ban-vpns-and-they-have-no-idea-what-theyre-doing 11Ancestry and the NRS: when the corporate genealogy world turns ugly 1 11 28d +4d scottishgenes.blogspot.comhttp:///2025/09/ancestry-and-nrs-when-corporate.html 12Amazon faces FAA probe after delivery drone snaps internet cable in Texas 123 149 29d +5d cnbc.com/2025/11/25/amazon-faa-probe-delivery-drone-incident-texas.html 13Instagram chief orders staff back to the office five days a week in 2026 441 307 24d +9m businessinsider.com/instagram-chief-adam-mosseri-announces-five-day-office-return-2025-12 14How to Attend Meetings 175 339 24d +22m docs.google.com/presentation/d/1l7s1aAsNPlNhSye8OsMqmH6pMR32OYGGdLT6VKyFaQE/edit#slide=id.p 15Sycophancy is the first LLM "dark pattern" 103 166 24d +25m seangoedecke.com/ai-sycophancy 16Show HN: RFC Hub 12 30 24d +3h rfchub.app 17AI-Revived Cube World 0 5 26d +1d 18React and Remix choose different futures 48 64 24d +42m laconicwit.com/react-and-remix-choose-different-futures 19Ask HN: Do you believe aliens are visiting Earth? 79 24 24d +35m 20Why I stopped using JSON for my APIs 226 171 24d +7m aloisdeniel.com/blog/better-than-json 21Ghostty compiled to WASM with xterm.js API compatibility 114 389 24d +48m github.com/coder/ghostty-web 22Durin is a library for reading and writing the Dwarf debugging format 20 73 24d +21m github.com/tmcgilchrist/durin 23Intel could return to Apple computers in 2027 106 134 24d +8m theverge.com/news/832366/intel-apple-m-chip-low-end-processor 24Response to "Ruby Is Not a Serious Programming Language" 171 143 24d +12m robbyonrails.com/articles/2025/12/01/why-so-serious 25High-income job losses are cooling housing demand 509 289 24d +5m jbrec.com/insights/job-growth-housing-demand-metro-analysis-2026 26Runway rolls out new AI video model that beats Google, OpenAI in key benchmark 3 11 24d +4h cnbc.com/2025/12/01/runway-gen-4-5-video-model-google-open-ai.html 27India orders smartphone makers to preload state-owned cyber safety app 715 886 25d +11h reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/india-orders-mobile-phones-preloaded-with-government-app-ensure-cyber-safety-2025-12-01 28Spleen Monospaced Bitmap Fonts 9 32 30d +5d github.com/fcambus/spleen 29DeepSeek-v3.2: Pushing the frontier of open large language models [pdf] 460 970 24d +2h huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3.2/resolve/main/assets/paper.pdf 30Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2025) 344 152 24d +2h 31Isn't WSL2 just a VM? 110 171 31d +6d ssg.dev/isnt-wsl2-just-a-vm 32Better Auth (YC X25) Is Hiring 0 1 24d +16s ycombinator.com/companies/better-auth/jobs/eKk5nLt-developer-relation-engineer 33A new AI winter is coming? 278 198 24d +15m taranis.ie/llms-are-a-failure-a-new-ai-winter-is-coming 34Google unkills JPEG XL? 266 363 24d +56m tonisagrista.com/blog/2025/google-unkills-jpegxl 35ImAnim: Modern animation capabilities to ImGui applications 30 86 24d +12m github.com/soufianekhiat/ImAnim 36Show HN: I built a 1.8MB native app with self-built UI, vision and AI libraries 23 15 24d +23m github.com/Okery/Aivition 37Google, Nvidia, and OpenAI 237 253 24d +1h stratechery.com/2025/google-nvidia-and-openai 38Boring Laser Eyes Simulator: Add laser beams to your eyes with your webcam 4 23 34d +9d 39Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2025) 439 298 24d +5m 40Netflix kills casting from its mobile app to most modern TVs 210 214 24d +51m macrumors.com/2025/12/01/netflix-kills-casting-from-mobile-app-to-tvs 41The Penicillin Myth 108 197 24d +1h asimov.press/p/penicillin-myth 42Vibe coding is not the same as AI-Assisted engineering 3 18 24d +6m medium.com/@addyosmani/vibe-coding-is-not-the-same-as-ai-assisted-engineering-3f81088d5b98 43How to Run Profitable Pricing Experiments? 9 31 29d +5d cleancommit.io/blog/pricing-experiments 44WordPress plugin quirk resulted in UK Gov OBR Budget leak [pdf] 120 130 24d +8m obr.uk/docs/dlm_uploads/01122025-Investigation-into-November-2025-EFO-publication-error.pdf 45Ask HN: Quality of recent gens of Dell/Lenovo laptops worse than 10 years ago? 183 102 24d +21m 46How to Print a Human 1 12 24d +3h nautil.us/how-to-print-a-human-1250487 47A vector graphics workstation from the 70s 51 200 24d +1h justanotherelectronicsblog.com/?p=1429 48WW1 toxic compound sprayed on Georgian protesters, BBC evidence suggests 6 37 24d +1h bbc.com/news/articles/czrk7g50e1po 49Cartographers have been hiding illustrations inside Switzerland’s maps (2020) 79 348 24d +39m eyeondesign.aiga.org/for-decades-cartographers-have-been-hiding-covert-illustrations-inside-of-switzerlands-official-maps 50Historic Engineering Wonders: Photos That Reveal How They Pulled It Off 28 137 30d +6d rarehistoricalphotos.com/engineering-methods-from-the-past 51WhatsApp will become interoperable with other messaging apps in Europe 88 101 24d +30m tuta.com/blog/whatsapp-interoperable-in-europe 52Victorian-style lines for the web: Elements of identical width 4 47 31d +6d jacobfilipp.com/victorian-line 53Why xor eax, eax? 208 566 24d +44m xania.org/202512/01-xor-eax-eax 54Accenture dubs 800k staff 'reinventors' amid shift to AI 64 58 24d +1h theguardian.com/business/2025/dec/01/accenture-rebrands-staff-reinventors-ai-artificial-intelligence 55Why Is ChatGPT for Mac So Good? 20 26 24d +1h allenpike.com/2025/why-is-chatgpt-so-good-claude 56Cuddle Fish – A Soft Floating Robot for Safe Physical Interaction 10 16 31d +6d kaikunze.de/post/2025-11.18-cuddle-fish 57Has the AI Bubble Popped Yet? 11 15 24d +15m hastheaibubblepoppedyet.com 581GB Raspberry Pi 5, and memory-driven price rises 119 166 24d +4m raspberrypi.com/news/1gb-raspberry-pi-5-now-available-at-45-and-memory-driven-price-rises 59Self-hosting a Matrix server for 5 years 149 261 24d +14m yaky.dev/2025-11-30-self-hosting-matrix 60UK Government plans new powers to label dissenting movements as 'subversion' 197 198 24d +5m netpol.org/2025/11/28/government-plans-new-powers-to-label-dissenting-movements-as-subversion 61Dancing rope and braid into being (2017) [pdf] 0 21 31d +6d archive.bridgesmathart.org/2017/bridges2017-523.pdf 62KDE Plasma 6.8 Set to Drop X11 Support Completely 41 32 24d +29m itsfoss.com/news/kde-plasma-to-drop-x11-support 63AWS data centers' water use tied to spike in cancer and miscarriages in Oregon 54 99 24d +17m techoreon.com/oregon-data-centers-water-use-nitrates-cancer-miscarriage 64Xlibre is a fork of the Xorg Xserver with lots of code cleanups 98 59 24d +2m x11libre.net 65Trifold is a tool to quickly and cheaply host static websites using a CDN 42 99 31d +7d jpt.sh/projects/trifold 66Games using anti-cheats and their compatibility with GNU/Linux or Wine/Proton 470 319 25d +2h areweanticheatyet.com 67Detection of triboelectric discharges during dust events on Mars 52 96 29d +4d gizmodo.com/weve-detected-lightning-on-mars-for-the-first-time-2000691996 68DeepSeekMath-V2: Towards Self-Verifiable Mathematical Reasoning 87 263 24d +11m huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-Math-V2 69Engineers repurpose a mosquito proboscis to create a 3D printing nozzle 48 95 29d +4d techxplore.com/news/2025-11-repurpose-mosquito-proboscis-3d-nozzle.html 70Do the thinking models think? 87 31 25d +6m bytesauna.com/post/consciousness 71N-Body Simulator – Interactive 3 Body Problem and Gravitational Physics 19 111 30d +5d trisolarchaos.com/?pr=lagrange&n=3&s=5.0&so=0.01&im=verlet&dt=5.00e-4&rt=1.0e-6&at=1.0e-8&bs=0.50&sf=0&sv=0&cm=free&kt=1&st=1&ag=0&tl=1500&cp=0.0000,0.0000,10.0000&ct=0.0000,0.0000,0.0000 72Show HN: CurioQuest – A simple web trivia/fun facts game 11 6 25d +52m curioquest.fun 73Google Antigravity just deleted the contents of whole drive 476 527 25d +1h old.reddit.com/r/google_antigravity/comments/1p82or6/google_antigravity_just_deleted_the_contents_of 74Regarding Thien-Thi Nguyen 8 366 25d +4h 75NVMe driver for Windows 2000, targeting both x86 and Alpha AXP platforms 14 103 30d +5d github.com/techomancer/nvme2k 76It’s been a very hard year 652 438 25d +19m bell.bz/its-been-a-very-hard-year 77SmartTube Compromised 147 163 25d +53m aftvnews.com/smarttubes-official-apk-was-compromised-with-malware-what-you-should-do-if-you-use-it 78Google Antigravity Deletes D Drive 11 44 25d +22m mastodon.gamedev.place/@bastardsheep@aus.social/115641546248437052 79Show HN: A "Cram tests" script for windows shells 0 6 29d +4d github.com/NyuB/craw 80'A full-blown crisis': Americans brace for a surge in healthcare costs 250 126 25d +5m ft.com/content/beec76df-8e6d-4238-bae2-e51683b62aa4 81X210Ai is a new motherboard to upgrade ThinkPad X201/200 80 192 25d +1h tpart.net/about-x210ai 82Search tool that only returns content created before ChatGPT's public release 365 879 25d +42m tegabrain.com/Slop-Evader 83Ly – A lightweight TUI (ncurses-like) display manager for Linux and BSD 15 105 25d +4h codeberg.org/fairyglade/ly 84Replacing My Window Manager with Google Chrome 28 103 28d +3d foxmoss.com/blog/dote 85I Tested the M5 iPad Pro's Neural-Accelerated AI, and the Hype Is Real 5 32 25d +32m macstories.net/stories/ipad-pro-m5-neural-benchmarks-mlx 86Stopping evil and open source: thoughts 0 13 25d +2h blog.liw.fi/posts/2025/stop-evil 87Hacking on the ReMarkable 2 31 76 25d +7h sgt.hootr.club/blog/hacking-on-the-remarkable-2 88Seeing a Molecule's Quantum Shadow 3 21 31d +6d physics.aps.org/articles/v18/s149 89Mike Gordon and hardware verification (2023) 0 12 31d +6d lawrencecpaulson.github.io/2023/01/04/Hardware_Verification.html 90In Re: 23andMe, Inc. 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