HckrNews (First visit) All HN frontpage stories in chronological order Closures as Win32 Window Procedures 24 95 11d +8m nullprogram.com/blog/2025/12/12 1Cat Gap 58 211 15d +3d en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_gap 2Kids Rarely Read Whole Books Anymore. Even in English Class 318 97 11d +16m nytimes.com/2025/12/12/us/high-school-english-teachers-assigning-books.html 3Linux Sandboxes and Fil-C 150 338 11d +28m fil-c.org/seccomp 4[dead] ? 15 11d +3m brown.edu 5An off-grid, flat-packable washing machine 117 235 11d +21m positive.news/society/flat-pack-washing-machine-spins-a-fairer-future 6TigerBeetle as a File Storage 4 41 17d +6d aivarsk.com/2025/12/07/tigerbeetle-blob-storage 7Some surprising things about DuckDuckGo 129 158 11d +18m gabrielweinberg.com/p/some-surprising-things-about-duckduckgo 8Pig Video Arcades Critique Life in the Pen (1997) 3 10 16d +5d wired.com/1997/06/pig-video-arcades-critique-life-in-the-pen 9Recovering Anthony Bourdain's Li.st's 140 298 11d +20m sandyuraz.com/blogs/bourdain 10The Rise of Computer Games, Part I: Adventure 75 133 11d +1h technicshistory.com/2025/12/13/the-rise-of-computer-games-part-i-adventure 11Show HN: I'm building an open-source Amazon 29 49 12d +1d openship.org 12Purdue University approves new AI requirement for all undergrads 60 64 11d +29m forbes.com/sites/michaeltnietzel/2025/12/13/purdue-university-approves-new-ai-requirement-for-all-undergrads 13Why Twilio Segment moved from microservices back to a monolith 247 277 11d +51m twilio.com/en-us/blog/developers/best-practices/goodbye-microservices 14Workday project at Washington University hits $266M 103 88 11d +19m theregister.com/2025/12/12/washington_university_workday_costs_revealed 15Are we stuck with the same Desktop UX forever? [video] 2 9 12d +23h youtube.com/watch?v=1fZTOjd_bOQ 16Want to sway an election? Here’s how much fake online accounts cost 171 186 11d +18m science.org/content/article/want-sway-election-here-s-how-much-fake-online-accounts-cost 17I fed 24 years of my blog posts to a Markov model 120 301 11d +43m susam.net/fed-24-years-of-posts-to-markov-model.html 18We Lost Something: 1970s REPLs Were Better Than Modern Development Environments 46 45 11d +50m programmingsimplicity.substack.com/p/we-lost-something-1970s-repls-were 19What is a build system, anyway? 0 37 11d +46m jyn.dev/what-is-a-build-system-anyway 20From Azure Functions to FreeBSD 29 132 17d +5d jmmv.dev/2025/12/from-azure-functions-to-freebsd.html 21VPN location claims don't match real traffic exits 317 475 11d +45m ipinfo.io/blog/vpn-location-mismatch-report 22How to Watch the Radiant Geminid Meteor Shower Tonight 3 7 11d +2h smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/this-years-best-and-brightest-meteor-shower-peaks-this-weekend-heres-how-to-watch-the-radiant-geminids-180987858 23Purrtran – ᓚᘏᗢ – A Programming Language for Cat People 1 13 11d +2h github.com/cmontella/purrtran 24Are we stuck with the same Desktop UX forever? [video] 201 172 11d +1h youtube.com/watch?v=1fZTOjd_bOQ 25Ask HN: How do you handle release notes for multiple audiences? 49 37 11d +6m 26[dead] ? 12 18d +7d kanban.demo.codegres.com 27A giant ball will help this man survive a year on an iceberg 52 53 11d +4h outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/exploration-survival/how-giant-ball-will-help-man-survive-year-iceberg 28Dick Van Dyke turns 100 2 119 11d +28m theguardian.com/film/2025/dec/13/dick-van-dyke-centenarian-100-mary-poppins-chitty-chitty-bang-bang 29Show HN: I audited 500 K8s pods. Java wastes ~48% RAM, Go ~18% 47 36 11d +3h github.com/WozzHQ/wozz 30Hacking Google Chrome Source Code: Make Puppeteer work over Redis PubSub 5 17 11d +2h deadf00d.com/post/chromium-pub-sub-redis.html 31SSE sucks for transporting LLM tokens 45 36 15d +4d zknill.io/posts/sse-sucks-for-transporting-llm-tokens 32[dead] ? 16 11d +1h blog.lifebranches.com 33Building an efficient hash table in Java 10 74 11d +21m bluuewhale.github.io/posts/building-a-fast-and-memory-efficient-hash-table-in-java-by-borrowing-the-best-ideas 34Analysis finds anytime electricity from solar available as battery costs plummet 211 137 11d +18m pv-magazine-usa.com/2025/12/12/analysis-finds-anytime-electricity-from-solar-available-as-battery-costs-plummet 35Dynamic Pong Wars 14 41 18d +7d markodenic.tech/dynamic-pong-wars 36I tried Gleam for Advent of Code 203 346 11d +29m blog.tymscar.com/posts/gleamaoc2025 37Z8086: Rebuilding the 8086 from Original Microcode 24 50 11d +2h nand2mario.github.io/posts/2025/z8086 38EasyPost (YC S13) Is Hiring 0 1 11d +10s easypost.com/careers 39Researchers seeking better measures of cognitive fatigue 43 155 14d +2d nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03974-w 40Ask HN: How can I get better at using AI for programming? 453 450 11d +1h 41What is the nicest thing a stranger has ever done for you? 330 434 13d +1d louplummer.lol/nice-stranger 42Indexing 100M vectors in 20 minutes on PostgreSQL with 12GB RAM 25 91 16d +4d blog.vectorchord.ai/how-we-made-100m-vector-indexing-in-20-minutes-possible-on-postgresql 43Go Proposal: Secret Mode 114 234 15d +3d antonz.org/accepted/runtime-secret 44A Lisp Interpreter Implemented in Conway's Game of Life (2021) 7 104 12d +13h woodrush.github.io/blog/posts/2022-01-12-lisp-in-life.html 45Useful patterns for building HTML tools 94 346 14d +2d simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/10/html-tools 46JetBrains cancels Fleet 72 106 15d +4d blog.jetbrains.com/fleet/2025/12/the-future-of-fleet 47Show HN: LinkedQL – Live Queries over Postgres, MySQL, MariaDB 22 31 16d +5d github.com/linked-db/linked-ql 48Windows 3.1 in the Browser 4 55 12d +7h pcjs.org/software/pcx86/sys/windows/3.10 49Multiple Indicted on Charges of Theft and Re-Sale of Restaurant Cooking Oil 28 28 11d +17m justice.gov/usao-sdia/pr/multiple-chinese-nationals-indicted-charges-related-theft-and-re-sale-restaurant 50Show HN: Kinkora – A creative playground for experimenting with video models 21 9 11d +4m kinkora.fun 51LG TV's new software update installed MS Copilot, which cannot be deleted 162 192 11d +19m old.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/1plldqo/my_lg_tvs_new_software_update_installed_microsoft 52Cryptids 19 128 18d +7d wiki.bbchallenge.org/wiki/Cryptids 53Will West Coast Jazz Get Some Respect? 49 84 18d +6d honest-broker.com/p/will-west-coast-jazz-finally-get 54AI is bringing old nuclear plants out of retirement 74 53 11d +48m wbur.org/hereandnow/2025/12/09/nuclear-power-ai 55We built another object storage 47 131 11d +1h fractalbits.com/blog/why-we-built-another-object-storage 56Java FFM zero-copy transport using io_uring 51 100 17d +5d mvp.express 57The simple cult camera that inspired Instagram (2017) 2 7 12d +3h bbc.com/future/article/20171113-the-toy-camera-that-inspired-instagram 58Germany's train service is one of Europe's worst. How did it get so bad? 123 72 11d +1h npr.org/2025/12/12/g-s1-100794/germany-train-rail-deutsche-bahn 59How exchanges turn order books into distributed logs 69 135 16d +4d quant.engineering/exchange-order-book-distributed-logs.html 60YouTube's CEO limits his kids' social media use – other tech bosses do the same 189 206 11d +20m cnbc.com/2025/12/13/youtubes-ceo-is-latest-tech-boss-limiting-his-kids-social-media-use.html 61Optical context compression is just (bad) autoencoding 1 21 16d +4d arxiv.org/abs/2512.03643 62Bookmark for CAD/2d/3D Useful links 4 23 11d +15m github.com/yogananda-muthaiah/SAP-CPQ/tree/main/Integrations/CAD-2d-3d 63Obscuring P2P Nodes with Dandelion 6 83 16d +4d johndcook.com/blog/2025/12/08/dandelion 64A 'toaster with a lens': The story behind the first handheld digital camera 59 84 16d +4d bbc.com/future/article/20251205-how-the-handheld-digital-camera-was-born 65Computer animator and Amiga fanatic Dick van Dyke turns 100 91 276 12d +1h 66Photographer built a medium-format rangefinder 44 185 18d +6d petapixel.com/2025/12/06/this-photographer-built-an-awesome-medium-format-rangefinder-and-so-can-you 67Easel Now Has Stencils 5 13 16d +4d easel.games/blog/2025-dec-update 68Beautiful Abelian Sandpiles 27 152 15d +3d eavan.blog/posts/beautiful-sandpiles.html 69Gild Just One Lily 7 38 16d +4d smashingmagazine.com/2025/04/gild-just-one-lily 70Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help 1028 1686 12d +36m hey.paris/posts/appleid 71Show HN: A real-time 4D fractal explorer in the browser using WebGPU 5 12 13d +1d bryanjj.github.io/nebula 72Doxers posing as cops are tricking big tech firms into sharing people's data 31 139 12d +10m wired.com/story/doxers-posing-as-cops-are-tricking-big-tech-firms-into-sharing-peoples-private-data 73How the Bell Labs Holmdel Complex Inspired 'Severance' 4 19 12d +3h atlasobscura.com/articles/podcast-bell-labs-holmdel-complex 74Poor Johnny still won't encrypt 104 84 12d +30m bfswa.substack.com/p/poor-johnny-still-wont-encrypt 75[dead] ? 22 12d +39m github.com 76Slax: Live Pocket Linux 13 73 16d +4d slax.org 77The Coming Need for Formal Specification 50 59 12d +1h benjamincongdon.me/blog/2025/12/12/The-Coming-Need-for-Formal-Specification 781300 Still Images from the Animated Films of Hayao Miyazaki's Studio Ghibli (2023) 89 223 12d +1h ghibli.jp/info/013772 79Oliver Sacks put himself into his case studies. What was the cost? 26 80 12d +1h newyorker.com/magazine/2025/12/15/oliver-sacks-put-himself-into-his-case-studies-what-was-the-cost 80Google removes Sci-Hub domains from U.S. search results due to dated court order 63 286 12d +44m torrentfreak.com/google-removes-sci-hub-domains-from-u-s-search-results-due-to-dated-court-order 81Formula One Handovers and Handovers From Surgery to Intensive Care (2008) [pdf] 37 113 18d +6d gwern.net/doc/technology/2008-sower.pdf 82So What Should We Call This – A Grue Jay? 34 69 17d +5d cns.utexas.edu/news/research/so-what-should-we-call-grue-jay 83The Checkerboard 39 88 12d +1h 99percentinvisible.org/episode/650-the-checkerboard 84How we built context management for tab completion 3 7 16d +4d docs.getpochi.com/developer-updates/context-management-in-your-editor 85Go is portable, until it isn't 129 153 17d +5d simpleobservability.com/blog/go-portable-until-isnt 86 More... 2025.12.12