HckrNews (First visit) All HN frontpage stories in chronological order Cassette tapes are making a comeback? 259 133 21d +4d theconversation.com/cassette-tapes-are-making-a-comeback-yes-really-268108 1It's ~2026 –. ChatGPT still doesn't allow email change 82 59 16d +9m help.openai.com/en/articles/4936827-how-to-change-your-email-address 2Amp, Inc. – Amp is spinning out of Sourcegraph 36 90 23d +6d ampcode.com/news/amp-inc 3Doctors' estimates of the feasibility of preserving the dying for future revival 105 55 16d +23m medrxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.03.25341583v1 4The consumption of AI-generated content at scale 31 32 23d +6d sh-reya.com/blog/consumption-ai-scale 5Delivery robots take over Chicago sidewalks 173 103 16d +32m blockclubchicago.org/2025/12/08/delivery-robots-take-over-chicago-sidewalks-sparking-debate-and-a-petition-to-hit-pause 6Running on Empty: Copper 40 43 16d +36s thehonestsorcerer.substack.com/p/running-on-empty-copper 7Icons in Menus Everywhere – Send Help 327 822 16d +2h blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/icons-in-menus 8Show HN: Fanfa – Interactive and animated Mermaid diagrams 32 147 21d +4d fanfa.dev 9GitHub no longer uses Toasts 66 123 16d +44m primer.style/accessibility/toasts 10Trials avoid high risk patients and underestimate drug harms 60 174 16d +1h nber.org/papers/w34534 11Word spacing 46 46 20d +3d en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_spacing 12IBM Z17 Time Synchronization Resiliency Enhancements 4 14 16d +1h planetmainframe.com/2025/10/ibm-z17-time-synchronization-resiliency-enhancements 13Cancer is surging, bringing a debate about whether to look for it 96 79 16d +35m nytimes.com/2025/12/08/health/cancer-young-people-deaths.html 14Myocardial Fibrosis in Athletes: Risk Marker or Physiological Adaptation? 7 12 16d +19m mdpi.com/2227-9059/13/11/2747 15Has the cost of building software dropped 90%? 678 413 17d +47m martinalderson.com/posts/has-the-cost-of-software-just-dropped-90-percent 16Show HN: Persistent memory for Claude Code sessions 15 21 22d +5d github.com/TonyStef/Grov 17NVIDIA frenemy relation with OpenAI and Oracle 169 300 17d +22m philippeoger.com/pages/deep-dive-into-nvidias-virtuous-cycle 18We collected 10k hours of neuro-language data in our basement 60 116 17d +1h condu.it/thought/10k-hours 19GitHub Notifications triggered by spam accounts are now correctly hidden 6 21 17d +5m github.blog/changelog/2025-12-04-notifications-triggered-by-spam-accounts-are-now-correctly-hidden 20Jepsen: NATS 2.12.1 163 430 17d +13m jepsen.io/analyses/nats-2.12.1 21Microsoft Download Center Archive 34 192 19d +2d legacyupdate.net/download-center 22Show HN: DuckDB for Kafka Stream Processing 13 75 17d +44m sql-flow.com/docs/tutorials/intro 23A series of tricks and techniques I learned doing tiny GLSL demos 26 199 17d +1h blog.pkh.me/p/48-a-series-of-tricks-and-techniques-i-learned-doing-tiny-glsl-demos.html 24Quanta to publish popular math and physics books by Terence Tao and David Tong 35 128 17d +24m simonsfoundation.org/2025/12/08/quanta-books-to-publish-popular-math-and-physics-titles-by-terence-tao-and-david-tong 25"The Matilda Effect": How Pioneering Women Are Written Out of Science History 4 9 17d +17m openculture.com/2025/12/matilda-effect.html 26How the Creator Economy Destroyed the Internet 38 84 17d +1h theverge.com/cs/features/810002/influencers-creator-economy-special-series 27[dead] ? 20 17d +36m loudersound.com 28AI should only run as fast as we can catch up 177 193 17d +6m higashi.blog/2025/12/07/ai-verification 29[dead] ? 25 17d +2h github.com 30Apex: Universal Markdown Processor 9 27 18d +1d brettterpstra.com/2025/12/06/introducing-apex-universal-markdown-processor 31Launch HN: Nia (YC S25) – Give better context to coding agents 85 130 17d +5m trynia.ai 32Legion Health (YC S21) is hiring a founding engineer (SF, in-person) 0 1 17d +8s 33Microsoft has a problem: lack of demand for its AI products 369 419 17d +4m windowscentral.com/artificial-intelligence/microsoft-has-a-problem-nobody-wants-to-buy-or-use-its-shoddy-ai 34Strong earthquake hits northern Japan, tsunami warning issued 159 346 17d +2h .nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20251209_02 35Google confirms Android attacks; no fix for most Samsung users 163 207 17d +21m forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2025/12/08/google-confirms-android-attacks-no-fix-for-most-samsung-users 36Hunting for North Korean Fiber Optic Cables 123 287 17d +14m nkinternet.com/2025/12/08/hunting-for-north-korean-fiber-optic-cables 37Let's put Tailscale on a jailbroken Kindle 86 327 17d +15m tailscale.com/blog/tailscale-jailbroken-kindle 38ActivityPub Fuzzer: Improving Testing in the Fediverse 4 12 17d +14m asml.cyber.harvard.edu/2025/10/01/introducing-the-asml-activitypub-fuzzer-improving-testing-in-the-fediverse 39No more O'Reilly subscriptions for me 162 171 17d +28m zerokspot.com/weblog/2025/12/05/no-more-oreilly-subscriptions-for-me 40Nova Programming Language 59 112 17d +1h nova-lang.net 41Cool Facilities – The David Taylor Model Basin 3 8 25d +8d navalgazing.net/David-Taylor-Model-Basin 42AMD GPU Debugger 51 276 17d +7m thegeeko.me/blog/amd-gpu-debugging 43Tsunami warning issued after 7.6-magnitude earthquake strikes Japan 4 133 17d +6m earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/?currentFeatureId=us6000rtdt&extent=-5.61599,111.26953&extent=70.40735,173.14453 44Berkshire Hathaway Announces Leadership Appointments [pdf] 40 78 17d +25m berkshirehathaway.com/news/dec0825.pdf 45I successfully recreated the 1996 Space Jam website with Claude 92 114 17d +2m theahura.substack.com/p/i-successfully-recreated-the-1996 467.6 earthquake off the coast of Japan 1 136 17d +26m data.jma.go.jp/multi/quake/quake_detail.html?eventID=20251208232600&lang=en 47Wayland Nvidia 102 64 21d +4d kextcache.com/wayland-nvidia-a-definite-2025-guide 48Paramount launches hostile bid for Warner Bros 403 364 17d +51m cnbc.com/2025/12/08/paramount-skydance-hostile-bid-wbd-netflix.html 49Uber is turning data about trips and takeout into insights for marketers 218 258 17d +5m businessinsider.com/uber-ads-launches-intelligence-insights-trips-takeout-data-marketers-2025-12 50Microsoft is quietly walking back its diversity efforts 115 60 17d +5m theverge.com/tech/838079/microsoft-diversity-and-inclusion-changes-notepad 51IBM to acquire Confluent 353 440 17d +43m confluent.io/blog/ibm-to-acquire-confluent 52C++ Enum Class and Error Codes, Part 3 0 20 21d +4d mropert.github.io/2025/12/03/enum_class_error_codes_part3 53Show HN: I wrote a book – Debugging TypeScript Applications (in beta) 8 12 17d +2m pragprog.com/titles/aodjs/debugging-typescript-applications 54AWS introduces Graviton5–the company's most powerful and efficient CPU 21 30 17d +37m aboutamazon.com/news/aws/aws-graviton-5-cpu-amazon-ec2 55Colors of Growth 18 51 17d +46m papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5804462 56Microsoft increases Office 365 and Microsoft 365 license prices 561 470 17d +7m office365itpros.com/2025/12/08/microsoft-365-pricing-increase 57Alignment is capability 90 106 17d +26m off-policy.com/alignment-is-capability 58Flow: Actor-based language for C++, used by FoundationDB 50 187 17d +40m github.com/apple/foundationdb/tree/main/flow 59Pantone Color of the Year 2026: Pantone 11-4201 Cloud Dancer 18 12 17d +23m pantone.com/color-of-the-year/2026 60One too many words on AT&T's $2k Korn shell and other Usenet topics 3 29 17d +2h blog.gabornyeki.com/2025-12-usenet 61Sperry/Ford Mark-6 Fire Control Computer (2022) 0 18 19d +2d glennsmuseum.com/items/mk6 62Solution to US debt crisis is severe austerity triggered by a fiscal calamity 83 30 17d +27m fortune.com/2025/12/06/us-debt-crisis-soution-severe-austerity-fiscal-calamity-default-rates-financial-repression 63Removing juries: 'A move towards an authoritarian state' 24 40 17d +11m theguardian.com/law/2025/dec/07/authoritarian-state-trial-by-jury-uk 64The "confident idiot" problem: Why AI needs hard rules, not vibe checks 379 320 20d +3d steerlabs.substack.com/p/confident-idiot-problem 65Optimize for momentum 6 52 22d +5d muratbuffalo.blogspot.comhttp:///2025/12/optimize-for-momentum.html 66Survivors Clung to Wreckage for Some 45 Minutes Before U.S. Military Killed Them 23 48 17d +48m theintercept.com/2025/12/05/boat-strike-survivors-double-tap 67Nango (YC W23) is hiring back-end engineers and dev-rels (remote) 0 1 17d +25s jobs.ashbyhq.com/Nango 68Bad Dye Job 121 252 17d +14m daringfireball.net/2025/12/bad_dye_job 69Show HN: Web app that lets you send email time capsules 28 44 17d +11m resurf.me 70Guidance: A cheat code for diffusion models 0 7 17d +3h sander.ai/2022/05/26/guidance.html 71Client-side GPU load balancing with Redis and Lua 11 54 23d +5d galileo.ai/blog/how-we-boosted-gpu-utilization-by-40-with-redis-lua 72Why Leftover Pizza Might Be Healthier 7 34 17d +1h scientificamerican.com/video/why-leftover-pizza-is-actually-healthier-the-science-of-resistant-starch 73'Extraordinary Discovery' at Orkney's Ness of Brodgar Neolithic Site 14 19 28d +10d bbc.com/news/articles/c7836wvx4q4o 74Twelve Days of Shell 81 254 17d +6m 12days.cmdchallenge.com 75Einstein: NewtonOS running on other operating systems 3 53 17d +22m github.com/pguyot/Einstein 76Migrating Burningboard.net Mastodon Instance to a Multi-Jail FreeBSD Setup 6 24 17d +32m blog.hofstede.it/migrating-burningboardnet-mastodon-instance-to-a-multi-jail-freebsd-setup/index.html 77Jujutsu worktrees are convenient (2024) 113 128 21d +4d shaddy.dev/notes/jj-worktrees 78The fuck off contact page 196 485 17d +18m nicchan.me/blog/the-f-off-contact-page 79GitHub Actions has a package manager, and it might be the worst 257 438 17d +46m nesbitt.io/2025/12/06/github-actions-package-manager.html 80Show HN: Lockenv – Simple encrypted secrets storage for Git 34 102 17d +1h github.com/illarion/lockenv 81Applets are officially gone, but Java in the browser is better 99 78 17d +7m frequal.com/java/AppletsGoneButJavaInTheBrowserBetterThanEver.html 82Show HN: PVAC FHE over hypergraphs with LPN security 0 5 23d +6d github.com/octra-labs/pvac_hfhe_cpp 83Show HN: ReadyKit – Superfast SaaS Starter with Multi-Tenant Workspaces 35 121 25d +8d readykit.dev 84Truemetrics (YC S23) Is Hiring 0 1 17d +30s ycombinator.com/companies/truemetrics/jobs/1EHTSyT-python-software-engineer-analystics-and-algorithms 85[dead] ? 5 17d +3h github.com 86Emacs is my new window manager (2015) 85 228 20d +2d howardism.org/Technical/Emacs/new-window-manager.html 87Solving Rush Hour, the Puzzle (2018) 10 63 26d +8d michaelfogleman.com/rush 88Palantir could be the most overvalued company that ever existed 121 164 17d +4m 247wallst.com/investing/2025/11/25/palantir-could-be-the-most-overvalued-company-that-ever-existed 89Damn Small Linux 69 240 17d +2h damnsmalllinux.org 90Impacts of working from home on mental health tracked in study of Australians 70 49 20d +3d abc.net.au/news/2025-12-05/australian-working-from-home-mental-health-impacts-tracked/106096688 91The era of jobs is ending 139 71 17d +3h thepavement.xyz/p/the-era-of-jobs-is-ending 92Turtletoy 60 315 22d +4d turtletoy.net 93Noninvasive imaging could replace finger pricks for measuring blood glucose 6 31 17d +18m news.mit.edu/2025/noninvasive-imaging-could-replace-finger-pricks-diabetes-1203 94Socialist ends by market means: A history 115 86 17d +36m lucasvance.github.io/2100/history 95Vibe coding: Empowering and imprisoning 49 65 22d +5d anildash.com/2025/12/02/vibe-coding-empowering-and-imprisoning 96Toyota unintended acceleration and the big bowl of "spaghetti" code (2013) 53 35 17d +1h safetyresearch.net/toyota-unintended-acceleration-and-the-big-bowl-of-spaghetti-code 97Show HN: Cdecl-dump - represent C declarations visually 13 35 17d +57m github.com/bbu/cdecl-dump 98Uninitialized garbage on ia64 can be deadly (2004) 81 97 21d +3d devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20040119-00/?p=41003 99Spinlocks vs. Mutexes: When to Spin and When to Sleep 42 83 17d +4m howtech.substack.com/p/spinlocks-vs-mutexes-when-to-spin 100How I block all online ads 286 348 17d +2h troubled.engineer/posts/no-ads 101When exercising copyrights puts a gamedev under threat: My take on GBCOMPO 25 5 17 17d +22m allalonegamez.itch.io/zoryad/devlog/1135761/when-exercising-copyrights-puts-a-gamedev-under-threat-my-take-on-gbcompo-25 102Work disincentives hit the near-poor hardest (2022) 117 111 22d +5d niskanencenter.org/work-disincentives-hit-the-near-poor-hardest-why-and-what-to-do-about-it 103Millions of Americans mess up their taxes, but a new law will help 63 71 18d +5h wakeuptopolitics.com/p/millions-of-americans-mess-up-their 104 More... 2025.12.07