HckrNews (First visit) All HN frontpage stories in chronological order YouTuber accidentally crashes the rare plant market with viral cloning technique 12 61 21d +1h dexerto.com/youtube/youtuber-accidentally-crashes-the-rare-plant-market-with-a-viral-cloning-technique-3289808 1SMS phishers pivot to points, taxes, fake retailers 19 51 21d +14m krebsonsecurity.com/2025/12/sms-phishers-pivot-to-points-taxes-fake-retailers 2We gave 5 LLMs $100K to trade stocks for 8 months 301 383 21d +2m aitradearena.com/research/we-ran-llms-for-8-months 3Countdown until the AI bubble bursts 35 78 21d +1h pop-the-bubble.xyz 4State of AI: An Empirical 100T Token Study with OpenRouter 93 204 21d +15m openrouter.ai/state-of-ai 5Some models of reality are bolder than others 18 24 23d +2d cjauvin.github.io/posts/metaphysical-boldness 6Thoughts on Go vs. Rust vs. Zig 548 440 21d +13m sinclairtarget.com/blog/2025/08/thoughts-on-go-vs.-rust-vs.-zig 7Django 6 180 370 21d +12m docs.djangoproject.com/en/6.0/releases/6.0 8CUDA-l2: Surpassing cuBLAS performance for matrix multiplication through RL 15 130 21d +17m github.com/deepreinforce-ai/CUDA-L2 9A most important mustard 1 45 24d +3d asimov.press/p/arabidopsis 10A Cozy Mk IV light aircraft crashed after 3D-printed part was weakened by heat 204 248 21d +8m bbc.com/news/articles/c1w932vqye0o 11Who Hooked Up a Laptop to a 1930s Dance Hall Machine? 12 58 21d +2h chrisbako.com/posts/2025-12-04-speelkok-museam 12CJEU has made it effectively impossible to run a user-generated platform legally 61 122 21d +52m techdirt.com/2025/12/04/eus-top-court-just-made-it-literally-impossible-to-run-a-user-generated-content-platform-legally 13Yawning abyss of the decimal labyrinth 0 17 28d +6d oh4.co/site/numogrammaticism.html 14Hammersmith Bridge – Where did 25k vehicles go? 50 63 21d +1h nickmaini.substack.com/p/hammersmith-bridge 15The RAM shortage comes for us all 394 375 21d +9m jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/ram-shortage-comes-us-all 16Show HN: Chess on a Donut/Torus and Deep-Dive 13 24 26d +5d mchess.io/donut 17PyTogether: Collaborative lightweight real-time Python IDE for teachers/learners 23 89 21d +1h github.com/SJRiz/pytogether 18Crucial shutting down as Micron wants to sell RAM/SSDs to AI companies instead 3 26 21d +22m theverge.com/news/837594/crucial-ram-ssd-micron-ai 19Why are 38 percent of Stanford students saying they're disabled? 1007 753 21d +17m reason.com/2025/12/04/why-are-38-percent-of-stanford-students-saying-theyre-disabled 20The long wait is over, Ganymede has arrived 35 32 26d +4d endeavouros.com/news/the-long-wait-is-over-ganymede-has-arrived 21The End of the Train-Test Split 4 35 21d +47m folio.benguzovsky.com/train-test 22Multivox: Volumetric Display 45 324 21d +22m github.com/AncientJames/multivox 23FLUX.2 1 14 25d +4d bfl.ai/models/flux-2 24Autism should not be treated as a single condition 317 264 21d +37m economist.com/science-and-technology/2025/12/03/why-autism-should-not-be-treated-as-a-single-condition 25Converge (YC S23) is hiring a martech expert in NYC 0 1 21d +31s runconverge.com/careers/technical-customer-success-manager 26Launch HN: Browser Buddy (YC W24) – A recommendation system for Internet writing 36 47 21d +1m browserbuddy.com 27Feynman vs. Computer 25 90 21d +45m entropicthoughts.com/feynman-vs-computer 28Bootloader Unlock Wall of Shame 87 173 21d +44m github.com/zenfyrdev/bootloader-unlock-wall-of-shame 29Show HN: Onlyrecipe 2.0 – I added all features HN requested – 4 years later 150 195 21d +1h onlyrecipeapp.com/?url=https://www.allrecipes.com/turkish-pasta-recipe-8754903 30Proxmox Datacenter Manager 1.0 available 40 144 21d +54m proxmox.com/en/about/company-details/press-releases/proxmox-datacenter-manager-1-0 31What Is "Open Recursion"? (2013) 9 44 23d +2d journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2013/08/26/what-is-open-recursion 32Microsoft drops AI sales targets in half after salespeople miss their quotas 333 433 21d +37m arstechnica.com/ai/2025/12/microsoft-slashes-ai-sales-growth-targets-as-customers-resist-unproven-agents 33The Math Legend Who Just Left Academia–For an AI Startup Run by a 24-Year-Old 41 31 21d +23m wsj.com/tech/ai/math-ken-ono-carina-hong-axiom-startup-649bc417 34Microsoft faces complaint in EU over Israeli surveillance data 0 38 21d +15m france24.com/en/live-news/20251204-microsoft-faces-complaint-in-eu-over-israeli-surveillance-data 35The Free Software Foundation Europe deleted its account on X 176 158 21d +4m fsfe.org/news/2025/news-20251204-01.en.html 36Contextualization Machines 3 26 24d +2d stochasm.blog/posts/contextualization-machines 37Show HN: I analyzed 8k near-death experiences with AI and made them listenable 11 24 21d +46m noeticmap.com 38Japanese four-cylinder engine is so reliable still in production after 25 years 153 172 21d +2h topspeed.com/reliable-japanese-four-cylinder-engine-still-in-production 39Imo.im – Instant Messenger 11 13 21d +1h imo.im 40A lost Amazon world just reappeared in Bolivia 29 110 24d +3d frontiersin.org/news/2025/11/06/landscapes-that-remember-indigenous-peoples-thrived-amazon 41Transparent leadership beats servant leadership 244 508 21d +22m entropicthoughts.com/transparent-leadership-beats-servant-leadership 42Fighting the age-gated internet 288 281 21d +25m wired.com/story/age-verification-is-sweeping-the-us-activists-are-fighting-back 43Human hair grows through 'pulling' not pushing, study shows 61 128 21d +24m phys.org/news/2025-12-human-hair.html 44RAM is so expensive, Samsung won't even sell it to Samsung 409 410 21d +16m pcworld.com/article/2998935/ram-is-so-expensive-samsung-wont-even-sell-it-to-samsung.html 45Functional Quadtrees 48 137 21d +12m lbjgruppen.com/en/posts/functional-quadtree-clojure 46Shrinking Elephants: Managing large projects with Gradle 0 8 26d +5d engineering.block.xyz/blog/shrinking-elephants 47NRC Completes Safety Review of TerraPower Natrium [pdf] 2 11 21d +2h nrc.gov/sites/default/files/cdn/doc-collection-news/2025/25-063.pdf 48I ignore the spotlight as a staff engineer 240 532 21d +1h lalitm.com/software-engineering-outside-the-spotlight 49Programming peaked 207 216 21d +2h functional.computer/blog/programming-peaked 50Show HN: MTXT – Music Text Format 39 120 25d +4d github.com/Daninet/mtxt 5130 years ago today "Netscape and Sun announce JavaScript" 96 209 21d +36m web.archive.org/web/20070916144913/http://wp.netscape.com/newsref/pr/newsrelease67.html 52Building optimistic UI in Rails (and learn custom elements) 14 86 21d +52m railsdesigner.com/custom-elements 53NextJS Security Vulnerability 5 34 21d +29m nextjs.org/blog/CVE-2025-66478 54Interop and MathML Core 3 39 25d +3d conflor.es/blog/2025-11-27-interop-and-mathml 55Tunnl.gg 107 245 21d +51m tunnl.gg 56Porn company fined £1M over inadequate age checks (UK) 74 26 21d +16m bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c93nll07z3go 57PGlite – Embeddable Postgres 112 595 21d +10m pglite.dev 58It’s time to free JavaScript (2024) 359 715 21d +1h javascript.tm/letter 59Recreating the lost SDK for a 42-year-old operating system: VisiCorp Visi On 1 29 21d +15m git.sr.ht/~nkali/vision-sdk/tree/main/item/note/index.md 60Unreal Tournament 2004 is back 199 468 21d +11m old.reddit.com/r/unrealtournament/comments/1pdbe69/breaking_unreal_tournament_2004_is_back 61Show HN: Walrus – a Kafka alternative written in Rust 48 151 24d +2d github.com/nubskr/walrus 62All the Way Down 45 96 26d +5d futilitycloset.com/2025/11/17/all-the-way-down-2 63The Mysterious Realm of JavaScriptCore (2021) 1 23 21d +29m cyberark.com/resources/threat-research-blog/the-mysterious-realm-of-javascriptcore 64How elites could shape mass preferences as AI reduces persuasion costs 654 691 21d +4m arxiv.org/abs/2512.04047 65How AI is transforming work at Anthropic 3 9 21d +1h anthropic.com/research/how-ai-is-transforming-work-at-anthropic 66In Northern Scotland, the Neolithic Age Never Ended 39 26 26d +4d newyorker.com/magazine/2025/12/01/in-northern-scotland-the-neolithic-age-never-ended 67Show HN: Mirror_bridge – C++ Reflection powered Python binding generation 7 29 21d +1h github.com/FranciscoThiesen/mirror_bridge 68Visualize 4B Years: The Trillions of Generations: LUCA to Modern Human 8 17 23d +1d g9n.com/tools/learning/evolution-visualisation 69Uncloud - Tool for deploying containerised apps across servers without k8s 179 400 21d +1h uncloud.run 70Saturn (YC S24) Is Hiring Senior AI Engineer 0 1 21d +16s ycombinator.com/companies/saturn/jobs/R9s9o5f-senior-ai-engineer 71Mirror_bridge – C++ reflection for generating Python/JS/Lua bindings 9 20 21d +1h chico.dev/Mirror-Bridge 72Show HN: A Minimal Monthly Task Planner (printable, offline, no signup) 32 93 21d +1h printcalendar.top 73Show HN: Identifiy test coverage gaps in your Go projects 2 11 25d +3d github.com/LeanerCloud/testvet 74Why WinQuake exists and how it works 51 153 22d +3h fabiensanglard.net/winquake/index.html 75The differences between an IndyCar and a F1 car 112 134 25d +3d openwheelworld.net/en/indycar101/76/IndyCar_vs_Formula_1_cars 76Russia Bans Roblox 155 69 21d +11m bbc.com/news/articles/cn41q11gy58o 77Euler Conjecture and CDC 6600 7 40 21d +25m fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/euler-conjecture-and-cdc-6600/10501 78The rapid growth of data centres is delaying new homes in London 56 109 21d +20m bbc.com/news/articles/c0mpr1mvwj3o 79Ethiopian volcano erupts for first time in nearly 12k years of records 30 90 25d +3d smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/ethiopian-volcano-erupts-for-the-first-time-in-nearly-12000-years-of-scientific-records-180987764 80Zmx: Session Persistence for Terminal Processes 12 46 22d +3h github.com/neurosnap/zmx 81Cellebrite to Acquire Corellium 1 16 21d +25m corellium.com/blog/cellebrite-to-acquire-corellium 82[dead] ? 4 23d +1d codeprot.com 83Apex GPU: Run CUDA Apps on AMD GPUs Without Recompilation 6 17 22d +14m github.com/kentstone84/APEX-GPU 84Apple’s head of user interface design, Alan Dye, will join Meta 62 82 22d +21m cnbc.com/2025/12/03/liquid-glass-alan-dye-leaving-apple.html 85Schubfach: The smallest floating point double-to-string impleme 3 32 25d +3d vitaut.net/posts/2025/smallest-dtoa 86PR adding custom progress bar themes to GNOME Bazaar rejected, citing "racism" 10 18 22d +1h github.com/kolunmi/bazaar/pull/724 87Average DRAM price in USD over last 18 months 402 512 22d +1h pcpartpicker.com/trends/price/memory 88Why doesn't Apple make a standalone Touch ID? 99 105 22d +2h jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/why-doesnt-apple-make-standalone-touch-id 89Preserving Snow Crystals 13 60 26d +4d its.caltech.edu/~atomic/snowcrystals/preserve/preserve.htm 90Kea DHCP: Modern, open source DHCPv4 and DHCPv6 server 52 129 22d +14m isc.org/kea 91What I don’t like about chains of thoughts (2023) 33 56 25d +3d samsja.github.io/blogs/cot/blog 92 More... 2025.12.03