HckrNews (First visit) All HN frontpage stories in chronological order Should CSS be constraints? 44 21 21d +6d pavpanchekha.com/blog/why-css-bad.html 1Common Lisp, ASDF, and Quicklisp: packaging explained 35 108 15d +11h cdegroot.com/programming/commonlisp/2025/11/26/cl-ql-asdf.html 2How Google Maps allocates survival across London's restaurants 210 397 16d +1d laurenleek.substack.com/p/how-google-maps-quietly-allocates 3Rubio orders return to Times New Roman font over 'wasteful' Calibri 5 64 14d +6m bbc.com/news/articles/cgkez3367xmo 4Show HN: VoxCSS – A DOM based voxel engine 5 52 22d +7d github.com/LayoutitStudio/voxcss 5When would you ever want bubblesort? (2023) 86 107 14d +17m buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/when-would-you-ever-want-bubblesort 6Getting a Gemini API key is an exercise in frustration 323 827 14d +1h ankursethi.com/blog/gemini-api-key-frustration 7I got an Nvidia GH200 server for €7.5k on Reddit and converted it to a desktop 105 362 14d +2h dnhkng.github.io/posts/hopper 8Yadea is coming to the Western market 74 52 19d +4d newatlas.com/motorcycles/yadea-comes-to-europe 9AI chatbots can sway voters with remarkable ease 11 35 14d +30m nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03975-9#ref-CR1 10Apple Services Experiencing Outage 64 129 14d +12m apple.com/support/systemstatus 11EFF launches Age Verification Hub 332 362 14d +21m eff.org/press/releases/eff-launches-age-verification-hub-resource-against-misguided-laws 12Scientists create ultra fast memory using light 31 125 20d +6d isi.edu/news/81186/scientists-create-ultra-fast-memory-using-light 13[dead] ? 18 14d +33m theguardian.com 14Intermittent hypoxia increases blood flow and benefits executive function 63 60 14d +1h onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/psyp.70161 15Terrain Diffusion: A Diffusion-Based Successor to Perlin Noise 42 151 14d +49m arxiv.org/abs/2512.08309 16The future of Terraform CDK 131 134 14d +11m github.com/hashicorp/terraform-cdk 17Super Mario 64 for the PS1 114 298 14d +22m github.com/malucard/sm64-psx 18Kernel Float: Unlocking Mixed-Precision GPU Programming 1 26 19d +4d dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3779120 19Show HN: Automated license plate reader coverage in the USA 146 237 14d +1h alpranalysis.com 20Show HN: A 2-row, 16-key keyboard designed for smartphones 68 81 14d +55m k-keyboard.com/Why-QWERTY-mini 21Show HN: MCPShark – Traffic Inspector for Model Context Protocol 4 34 14d +1h 22Gundam is just the same as Jane Austen but happens to include giant mech suits 188 240 22d +8d eli.li/gundam-is-just-the-same-as-jane-austen-but-happens-to-include-giant-mech-suits 23Is it a bubble? 562 322 14d +27m oaktreecapital.com/insights/memo/is-it-a-bubble 24Auto-grading decade-old Hacker News discussions with hindsight 264 646 14d +30m karpathy.bearblog.dev/auto-grade-hn 25Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux 475 879 14d +19m heise.de/en/news/Valve-HDMI-Forum-Continues-to-Block-HDMI-2-1-for-Linux-11107440.html 26Cloudspecs: Cloud Hardware Evolution Through the Looking Glass [pdf] 0 14 20d +5d cs.cit.tum.de/fileadmin/w00cfj/dis/papers/cloudspecs-final.pdf 27RoboCrop: Teaching robots how to pick tomatoes 61 109 14d +1h phys.org/news/2025-12-robocrop-robots-tomatoes.html 28Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban 1483 951 15d +22h reuters.com/legal/litigation/australia-social-media-ban-takes-effect-world-first-2025-12-09 29Typewriter Plotters (2022) 12 130 19d +5d biosrhythm.com/?p=2143 30Exploiting silent delivery receipts to monitor users on instant messengers 4 20 26d +11d arxiv.org/abs/2411.11194 319 Mothers (YC X26) Is Hiring 0 1 14d +27s app.dover.com/jobs/9mothers 32Deprecations via warnings don't work for Python libraries 87 61 16d +1d sethmlarson.dev/deprecations-via-warnings-dont-work-for-python-libraries 33Factor 0.101 now available 25 132 15d +5h re.factorcode.org/2025/12/factor-0-101-now-available.html 34Super-Flat ASTs 26 98 20d +5d jhwlr.io/super-flat-ast 35Why the Sanitizer API is just `setHTML()` 58 135 16d +1d frederikbraun.de/why-sethtml.html 36Golang's big miss on memory arenas 148 149 21d +6d avittig.medium.com/golangs-big-miss-on-memory-arenas-f1375524cc90 37DeepSeek uses banned Nvidia chips for AI model, report says 315 324 14d +19m finance.yahoo.com/news/china-deepseek-uses-banned-nvidia-131207746.html 38Data Infrastructure for All: Free Kafka and $5 PostgreSQL 2 33 15d +2h aiven.io/blog/data-infrastructure-for-all 39England Historic Aerial Photo Explorer 4 51 14d +24m historicengland.org.uk/images-books/archive/collections/aerial-photos 40Show HN: Bloodhound – Grey-box attack-path discovery in Rust/Go/C++ binaries 8 5 15d +19h bloodhoundsecurity.ca 41Qualcomm acquires RISC-V focused Ventana Micro Systems 76 73 14d +1h qualcomm.com/news/releases/2025/12/qualcomm-acquires-ventana-micro-systems--deepening-risc-v-cpu-ex 42Qwen3-Omni-Flash-2025-12-01:a next-generation native multimodal large model 102 311 14d +21m qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3-omni-flash-20251201 43Size of Life 277 2561 14d +22m neal.fun/size-of-life 44Launch HN: InspectMind (YC W24) – AI agent for reviewing construction drawings 51 57 14d +9m inspectmind.ai 45Volcanic eruptions set off a chain of events that brought Black Death to Europe 10 75 19d +4d cam.ac.uk/stories/volcanoes-black-death 46COM Like a Bomb: Rust Outlook Add-in 58 100 15d +58m tritium.legal/blog/outlook 47Leaving the U.S. for the Netherlands 251 94 14d +7m newyorker.com/magazine/2025/12/15/how-to-leave-the-usa 48[dead] ? 16 14d +4m the307.substack.com 49In New York City, congestion pricing leads to marked drop in pollution 500 468 15d +6m e360.yale.edu/digest/new-york-congestion-pricing-pollution 50Why AGI Will Not Happen 50 46 15d +12m timdettmers.com/2025/12/10/why-agi-will-not-happen 51Israel used Palantir technologies in pager attack in Lebanon 640 537 15d +2m the307.substack.com/p/revealed-israel-used-palantir-technologies 52Rust: Proof of Concept, Not Replacement 11 11 20d +5d files.neoon.com/rust-game-over-203X.html 53How Much Wealth an AI Stock Market Crash Could Destroy 103 41 15d +8m economist.com/interactive/graphic-detail/2025/11/05/how-much-wealth-would-be-destroyed-by-an-ai-stockmarket-crash 54New benchmark shows top LLMs struggle in real mental health care 157 113 15d +1h swordhealth.com/newsroom/sword-introduces-mindeval 55The New Kindle Scribes Are Great, but Not Great Enough 55 25 15d +5m wired.com/review/kindle-scribe-colorsoft-2025 56I Tried the New Android XR Smart Glasses from Google and XReal 4 15 15d +44m pcmag.com/news/i-tried-the-new-android-xr-smart-glasses-from-google-they-impressed-me 57Adobe Brings Photoshop, Express and Acrobat Features to ChatGPT 7 8 15d +17m techcrunch.com/2025/12/10/adobe-brings-photoshop-express-and-acrobat-features-to-chatgpt 58Tech for Small vs. Big Firms 11 15 19d +4d lexifina.com/blog/technology-for-firms-big-and-small 59Taxing Growth 61 22 15d +6m equitileconversations.com/2459100/episodes/18312924-taxing-growth 60[dead] ? 8 15d +7m nypost.com 61Apple Faces Scrutiny as Sanctioned Entities Slip Through App Store Controls 5 20 15d +23m washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/12/10/us-sanctions-apple-google 62Sam Altman says industry is wrong on OpenAI's competition, it is not from Google 38 26 15d +1h timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/tech-news/sam-altman-says-industry-is-wrong-on-openais-competition-it-is-not-from-google-but-/articleshow/125868910.cms 63McDonald's pulls AI Christmas ad after backlash 160 119 15d +16m bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czdgrnvp082o 64Map of all the buildings in the world 64 184 20d +5d gizmodo.com/literally-a-map-showing-all-the-buildings-in-the-world-2000694696 65US could ask foreign tourists for five-year social media history before entry 272 129 15d +16m bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1dz0g2ykpeo 66First PC Emulator Launched for Galaxy XR 10 8 15d +35m github.com/SimonJGillespie/AnjinVirtualComputer/releases/tag/1.0 67Running Linux on a RiscPC – why is it so hard? 15 51 22d +7d thejpster.org.uk/blog/blog-2025-12-02 68Passing the Torch: James Gross on the Next Chapter of Micromobility Industries 4 22 21d +6d micromobility.io/news/how-charging-is-reshaping-the-business-of-shared-scooters-and-e-bikes 69Amazon EC2 M9g Instances 82 154 19d +4d aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/m9g 70Big Tech are the new Soviets 126 54 15d +45m unherd.com/2025/12/big-tech-are-the-new-soviets 71Cloth Simulation 41 205 22d +7d cloth.mikail-khan.com 72Stop Breaking TLS 166 169 15d +1h markround.com/blog/2025/12/09/stop-breaking-tls 73Are the Three Musketeers allergic to muskets? (2014) 53 60 15d +2h ox.ac.uk/news/arts-blog/are-three-musketeers-allergic-muskets 74Putting email in its place with Emacs and Mu4e 54 110 21d +6d eamonnsullivan.co.uk/posts-output/email-setup/2025-12-3-putting-email-in-its-place 75Revisiting "Let's Build a Compiler" 50 273 15d +44m eli.thegreenplace.net/2025/revisiting-lets-build-a-compiler 76Very Important People 32 36 19d +3d dirt.fyi/article/2025/11/very-important-people 77Dependable C 65 64 15d +1h dependablec.org 78Are We over the "Jaws Effect?" 57 26 19d +4d nautil.us/are-we-finally-over-the-jaws-effect-1253001 79'Source available' is not open source, and that's okay 162 130 15d +1h dri.es/source-available-is-not-open-source-and-that-is-okay 80Distributed ID formats are architectural commitments, not just data types 9 38 19d +3d piljoong.dev/posts/distributed-id-generation-complicated 81Atomic time source failure at NIST Gaithersburg campus 10 42 15d +1h groups.google.com/a/list.nist.gov/g/internet-time-service/c/Zd7VaR-vqV4?pli=1 82Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental 791 955 15d +26m lwn.net/Articles/1049831 83NYC congestion pricing cuts air pollution by a fifth in six months 202 166 15d +18m airqualitynews.com/cars-freight-transport/nyc-congestion-pricing-cuts-air-pollution-by-22-in-six-months 84Making macOS Bearable 89 58 15d +25m seg6.space/posts/making-macos-bearable 85When a video codec wins an Emmy 92 276 19d +4d blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/av1-video-codec-wins-emmy 86Google kills Gemini Cloud Services (2035) 0 15 15d +1h sw.vtom.net/hn35/item.html?id=90099555 87Cloudflare error page generator 15 98 15d +38m github.com/donlon/cloudflare-error-page 88Post-transformer inference: 224× compression of Llama-70B with improved accuracy 51 72 15d +1h zenodo.org/records/17873275 89The AI-Education Death Spiral a.k.a. Let the Kids Cheat 93 68 15d +56m anandsanwal.me/ai-education-death-spiral 90Rubio Deletes Calibri as the State Department's Official Typeface 1 67 15d +1h nytimes.com/2025/12/09/us/politics/rubio-state-department-font.html 91Writing our own cheat engine (2021) 28 113 20d +4d lonami.dev/blog/woce-1 92Show HN: Fate, a new data framework for React and tRPC, inspired by Relay 3 29 15d +2h github.com/nkzw-tech/fate 93Rubio stages font coup: Times New Roman ousts Calibri 677 394 15d +52m reuters.com/world/us/rubio-stages-font-coup-times-new-roman-ousts-calibri-2025-12-09 94Operando interlayer expansion of curved graphene for dense supercapacitors 3 32 21d +5d nature.com/articles/s41467-025-63485-0 95Show HN: Gemini 3 imagines Hacker News as a HyperCard stack in 1994 11 13 15d +1h hyper-card-hacker-news.vercel.app 96US International Trade Administration Shaped EU Censorship Against US Companies 6 11 15d +22m foundationforfreedomonline.com/us-international-trade-administration-shaped-eu-censorship-law 97 More... 2025.12.09