HckrNews (First visit) All HN frontpage stories in chronological order The Number That Turned Sideways 34 57 11d +4d zuriby.github.io/math.github.io/the-number-that-turned-sideways.html 1Venezuela's Navy Begins Escorting Ships as U.S. Threatens Blockade 86 74 7d +34m nytimes.com/live/2025/12/17/us/trump-news 2Show HN: GitForms – Zero-cost contact forms using GitHub Issues as database 28 39 7d +3h gitforms-landing.vercel.app 3OBS Studio Gets a New Renderer 76 306 7d +2h obsproject.com/blog/obs-studio-gets-a-new-renderer 4American Academy of Pediatrics loses HHS funding after criticizing RFK Jr. 47 105 7d +7m washingtonpost.com/health/2025/12/17/aap-hhs-funding-rfk 5Ditch the Chain-of-Thought Hacks: A Modular System for Composing AI Operations 2 4 10d +3d vibboai.com 6Working quickly is more important than it seems (2015) 124 264 9d +2d jsomers.net/blog/speed-matters 7Developers can now submit apps to ChatGPT 121 185 7d +15m openai.com/index/developers-can-now-submit-apps-to-chatgpt 8Here is the 15 sec coding test I used to instantly filter out most applicants 104 89 7d +30m josezarazua.com/im-a-former-cto-here-is-the-15-sec-coding-test-i-used-to-instantly-filter-out-50-of-unqualified-applicants 9Cloudflare Radar 2025 Year in Review 45 116 7d +15m radar.cloudflare.com/year-in-review/2025 10Fast SEQUENCE iteration in Common Lisp 11 58 11d +4d world-playground-deceit.net/blog/2025/12/fast-sequence-iteration-in-common-lisp.html 11Nvidia 800 Gbps ConnectX-8 SuperNIC 5 20 7d +10m servethehome.com/nvidia-connectx-8-dual-400gbe-400g-nic-review/3 12Pornhub extorted after hackers steal Premium member activity data 96 163 7d +1h bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/pornhub-extorted-after-hackers-steal-premium-member-activity-data 13I got hacked: My Hetzner server started mining Monero 387 590 7d +18m blog.jakesaunders.dev/my-server-started-mining-monero-this-morning 14Inside PostHog: SSRF, ClickHouse SQL Escape and Default Postgres Creds to RCE 35 108 7d +23m mdisec.com/inside-posthog-how-ssrf-a-clickhouse-sql-escaping-0day-and-default-postgresql-credentials-formed-an-rce-chain-zdi-25-099-zdi-25-097-zdi-25-096 15AI Isn't Just Spying on You. It's Tricking You into Spending More 65 104 7d +13m newrepublic.com/article/204525/artificial-intelligence-consumers-data-dynamic-pricing 16Why do commercial spaces sit vacant? 143 119 7d +30m archive.strongtowns.org/journal/2025/5/21/why-do-commercial-spaces-sit-vacant 17VRChat: “There are more Japanese creators than all other countries combined” 60 76 7d +18m twitter.com/chyadosensei/status/2001356290531156159 18GitHub postponing the announced billing change to GitHub Actions 1 20 7d +5m github.com/orgs/community/discussions/182186 19FIFA Arrives on Netflix Games 49 37 7d +17m netflix.com/tudum/articles/fifa-mens-world-cup-2026-game-on-netflix 20The State of AI Coding Report 2025 111 131 7d +3h greptile.com/state-of-ai-coding-2025 21Show HN: High-Performance Wavelet Matrix for Python, Implemented in Rust 10 91 7d +10m pypi.org/project/wavelet-matrix 22AI capability isn't humanness 53 50 7d +2h research.roundtable.ai/capabilities-humanness 23Put SSH keys in .git to make repos USB-portable 41 24 7d +1h dansjots.github.io/posts/per-repo-ssh-key 24Make Me CEO of Mozilla 23 43 7d +10m blog.kingcons.io/posts/make-me-ceo-of-mozilla.html 25A16z-backed Doublespeed hacked, revealing what its AI-generated accounts promote 167 287 7d +41m 404media.co/hack-reveals-the-a16z-backed-phone-farm-flooding-tiktok-with-ai-influencers 26Why outcome-billing makes sense for AI Agents 66 33 7d +48m valmi.io/blog/an-imperative-for-ai-agents-outcome-billing-with-valmi 27Zmij: Faster floating point double-to-string conversion 38 148 10d +3d vitaut.net/posts/2025/faster-dtoa 28How SQLite is tested 82 314 7d +25m sqlite.org/testing.html 29FCC chair suggests agency isn't independent, word cut from mission statement 164 151 7d +6m axios.com/2025/12/17/brendan-carr-fcc-independent-senate-testimony-website 30Ford Has Steered Its Former EV Truck and Plant Plans in to a Ditch 64 36 7d +1h 512pixels.net/2025/12/ford-ev-changes 31Linux Kernel Rust Code Sees Its First CVE Vulnerability 149 124 7d +27m phoronix.com/news/First-Linux-Rust-CVE 32How, and why, I invented OnlyFans. In 2004 5 21 7d +7m themosthandsomemanintheworld.com/how-and-why-i-invented-onlyfans-in-2004 33I created a publishing system for step-by-step coding guides in Typst 9 38 11d +3d press.knowledge.dev/p/new-150-pages-rust-guide-create-a 34A Safer Container Ecosystem with Docker: Free Docker Hardened Images 96 356 7d +15m docker.com/blog/docker-hardened-images-for-every-developer 35Tiffany lamp coveted by Steve Jobs sells for $4.4M 11 9 7d +11m semafor.com/article/12/16/2025/tiffany-lamp-coveted-by-steve-jobs-sells-for-44-million 36Beyond RC4 for Windows Authentication 2 19 7d +2m microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/blog/2025/12/03/beyond-rc4-for-windows-authentication 37AWS CEO says replacing junior devs with AI is 'one of the dumbest ideas' 527 1051 7d +6m finalroundai.com/blog/aws-ceo-ai-cannot-replace-junior-developers 38Launch HN: Kenobi (YC W22) – Personalize your website for every visitor 56 46 7d +27m 39Yep, Passkeys Still Have Problems 208 183 7d +3h fy.blackhats.net.au/blog/2025-12-17-yep-passkeys-still-have-problems 40Firefox is becoming an AI browser and the internet is not at all happy about it 147 132 7d +4m pcgamer.com/hardware/firefox-is-becoming-an-ai-browser-and-the-internet-is-not-at-all-happy-about-it 41Flick (YC F25) Is Hiring Founding Engineer to Build Figma for AI Filmmaking 0 1 7d +18s ycombinator.com/companies/flick/jobs/Tdu6FH6-founding-frontend-engineer 42Ask HN: Was HN just down for anyone else? 2 84 7d +3m 43Tell HN: HN was down 326 595 7d +1m 44Gemini 3 Flash: Frontier intelligence built for speed 577 1091 7d +2m blog.google/products/gemini/gemini-3-flash 45Notes on Sorted Data 7 54 13d +5d amit.prasad.me/blog/sorted-data 46The Coupang data breach that hit two-thirds of South Korea 2 5 11d +4d ft.com/content/df4042fa-3e56-410f-b905-4aed8fd434ac 47Learning Fortran (2024) 83 80 7d +3m uncenter.dev/posts/learning-fortran 48Short-Circuiting Correlated Subqueries in SQLite 0 20 7d +2h emschwartz.me/short-circuiting-correlated-subqueries-in-sqlite 49Prompt caching for cheaper LLM tokens 67 264 8d +20h ngrok.com/blog/prompt-caching 50Coursera to combine with Udemy 372 580 7d +8m investor.coursera.com/news/news-details/2025/Coursera-to-Combine-with-Udemy-to-Empower-the-Global-Workforce-with-Skills-for-the-AI-Era/default.aspx 51Ask HN: Has anyone been able to renew their IEEE this month? 2 21 13d +5d 52Show HN: Mephisto – A RAM-only, ad-free disposable email PWA built with React 33 21 7d +1h mephistomail.site 53Modern SID chip substitutes [video] 12 70 11d +3d youtube.com/watch?v=nooPmXxO6K0 54Playing Santa changed Bob Rutan profoundly 15 44 11d +3d esquire.com/lifestyle/a69597294/santaland-bob-rutan 55AI's real superpower: consuming, not creating 177 250 7d +1h msanroman.io/blog/ai-consumption-paradigm 56Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself? 809 920 7d +30m infosec.press/brunomiguel/is-mozilla-trying-hard-to-kill-itself 57Living Particle System 3 33 12d +4d creative-art-points.vercel.app 58P: Formal Modeling and Analysis of Distributed (Event-Driven) Systems 5 36 7d +1h github.com/p-org/P 59TLA+ Modeling Tips 32 126 7d +47m muratbuffalo.blogspot.comhttp:///2025/12/tla-modeling-tips.html 60Venezuela explained in 10 maps and charts 86 60 11d +3d aljazeera.com/news/2025/11/28/venezuela-explained-in-10-maps-and-charts 61US threatens EU digital services market access 132 115 7d +25m twitter.com/ustraderep/status/2000990028835508258 62Show HN: I built a WebMIDI sequencer to control my hardware synths 22 43 13d +5d simplychris.ai/droplets 63Subsets (YC S23) is hiring engineers in Copenhagen, Denmark 0 1 7d +3s workatastartup.com/companies/subsets 64Annual Production of 1/72 (22mm) scale plastic soldiers, 1958-2025 52 64 11d +3d plasticsoldierreview.com/ShowFeature.aspx?id=27 65Various locale mismatch scenarios in Windows clipboard text format synthesis 7 29 12d +4d devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20251211-37/?p=111858 66FTX insider Caroline Ellison has been moved out of prison 39 62 7d +47m businessinsider.com/caroline-ellison-prison-release-ftx-sam-bankman-fried-2025-12 67A Guide to Magnetizing N48 Magnets in Ansys Maxwell 3 39 7d +1h blog.ozeninc.com/resources/from-datasheet-to-demagnetization-a-guide-to-magnetizing-n48-magnets-in-ansys-maxwell 68VA Linux: The biggest dotcom IPO 51 83 13d +5d dfarq.homeip.net/va-linux-the-biggest-dotcom-ipo 69Show HN: Titan – JavaScript-first framework that compiles into a Rust server 26 49 13d +5d npmjs.com/package/@ezetgalaxy/titan 70Tesla reports another Robotaxi crash 153 154 8d +31m electrek.co/2025/12/15/tesla-reports-another-robotaxi-crash-even-with-supervisor 71Why many Asian megacities are miserable places 28 32 8d +9m economist.com/asia/2025/12/11/why-many-asian-megacities-are-miserable-places 72Twin suction turbines and 3-Gs in slow corners? 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