HckrNews (First visit) All HN frontpage stories in chronological order Great ideas in theoretical computer science 45 196 6d +30m cs251.com 1Local WYSIWYG Markdown, mockup, data model editor powered by Claude Code 5 27 6d +2h nimbalyst.com 2History LLMs: Models trained exclusively on pre-1913 texts 402 849 6d +24m github.com/DGoettlich/history-llms 3Show HN: Learning a Language Using Only Words You Know 27 80 9d +3d simedw.com/2025/12/15/langseed 41.5 TB of VRAM on Mac Studio – RDMA over Thunderbolt 5 224 604 6d +36m jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/15-tb-vram-on-mac-studio-rdma-over-thunderbolt-5 5AI vending machine was tricked into giving away everything 13 145 6d +14m kottke.org/25/12/this-ai-vending-machine-was-tricked-into-giving-away-everything 6The Legacy of Nicaea 47 36 11d +5d hedgehogreview.com/web-features/thr/posts/the-legacy-of-nicaea 7Two kinds of vibe coding 100 133 6d +15m davidbau.com/archives/2025/12/16/vibe_coding.html 8Show HN: Picknplace.js, an alternative to drag-and-drop 148 440 8d +2d jgthms.com/picknplace.js 9Delty (YC X25) Is Hiring an ML Engineer 0 1 6d +13s ycombinator.com/companies/delty/jobs/MDeC49o-machine-learning-engineer 10[dead] ? 7 10d +4d hugdigi.com 11I've been writing ring buffers wrong all these years (2016) 65 161 8d +2d snellman.net/blog/archive/2016-12-13-ring-buffers 12Oliver Sacks put himself into his case studies – what was the cost? 97 47 6d +2m newyorker.com/magazine/2025/12/15/oliver-sacks-put-himself-into-his-case-studies-what-was-the-cost 13Show HN: Spice Cayenne – SQL acceleration built on Vortex 3 28 6d +1h spice.ai/blog/introducing-spice-cayenne-data-accelerator 14Ravaan.art 10 39 10d +3d ravaan.art/?seed=71dafa3svng 15Go-boot: bare metal Go UEFI boot manager 9 38 7d +20h github.com/usbarmory/go-boot 16How I wrote JustHTML, a Python-based HTML5 parser, using coding agents 21 58 10d +4d friendlybit.com/python/writing-justhtml-with-coding-agents 17TRELLIS.2: state-of-the-art large 3D generative model (4B) 16 83 8d +1d github.com/microsoft/TRELLIS.2 18The <time> element should do something 33 83 9d +2d nolanlawson.com/2025/12/14/the-time-element-should-actually-do-something 19Ask HN: What are your predictions for 2026? 186 100 7d +1d 20Show HN: Stop AI scrapers from hammering your self-hosted blog (using porn) 273 363 8d +1d github.com/vivienhenz24/fuzzy-canary 21One agent isn't enough 2 18 11d +5d benr.build/blog/one-agent-isnt-enough 22Texas is suing all of the big TV makers for spying on what you watch 624 1223 8d +1d theverge.com/news/845400/texas-tv-makers-lawsuit-samsung-sony-lg-hisense-tcl-spying 23T5Gemma 2: The next generation of encoder-decoder models 28 148 6d +30m blog.google/technology/developers/t5gemma-2 24Linux computer designed with AI boots on first attempt 22 75 8d +1d tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/dual-pcb-linux-computer-with-843-components-designed-by-ai-boots-on-first-attempt-project-speedrun-was-made-in-just-one-week-and-required-less-than-40-hours-of-human-work 25Show HN: Composify – Open-Source Visual Editor / Server-Driven UI for React 5 69 6d +4h github.com/composify-js/composify 26The Scottish Highlands, the Appalachians, Atlas are the same mountain range 53 153 6d +56m vividmaps.com/central-pangean-mountains 27Finland gave two groups identical payments – one saw better mental health 43 41 6d +4h scottsantens.substack.com/p/finland-basic-income-experiment-mental-health-ubi 28The immortality of Microsoft Word 96 67 6d +4h theredline.versionstory.com/p/on-the-immortality-of-microsoft-word 29Hell is other people's markup 3 22 9d +3d htmhell.dev/adventcalendar/2025/13 30Meta Segment Anything Model Audio 36 217 8d +2d ai.meta.com/samaudio 31Ringspace: A proposal for the human web 5 37 6d +16h taggart-tech.com/ringspace 32Interactive Fluid Typography 7 33 6d +7s electricmagicfactory.com/articles/interactive-fluid-typography 33How to hack Discord, Vercel and more with one easy trick 35 173 6d +14m kibty.town/blog/mintlify 34Making the most of bit arrays in Gleam 0 13 6d +3h gearsco.de/blog/bit-array-syntax 35Let a thousand societies bloom 25 37 6d +13h vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/12/17/societies.html 36How the RESISTORS put computing into 1960s counter-culture 1 9 7d +1d spectrum.ieee.org/teenage-hackers 37How did IRC ping timeouts end up in a lawsuit? 31 156 7d +1d mjg59.dreamwidth.org/73777.html 38Partial inlining 0 15 6d +6h xania.org/202512/18-partial-inlining 39Public Makes Millions on Plunging Crypto 22 29 6d +26m cepr.net/publications/public-makes-trillions-on-plunging-crypto 40How China built its ‘Manhattan Project’ to rival the West in AI chips 590 463 6d +46m japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/12/18/tech/china-west-ai-chips 41We pwned X, Vercel, Cursor, and Discord through a supply-chain attack 428 1136 6d +23m gist.github.com/hackermondev/5e2cdc32849405fff6b46957747a2d28 42FunctionGemma 270M Model 54 221 6d +51m blog.google/technology/developers/functiongemma 43The most banned books in U.S. schools 250 89 6d +7m pen.org/top-52-banned-books-since-2021 44Statistical Learning Theory and ChatGPT 0 22 9d +2d kamalikachaudhuri.substack.com/p/statistical-learning-theory-and-chat 45Show HN: Paper2Any – Open tool to generate editable PPTs from research papers 2 13 6d +2h github.com/OpenDCAI/DataFlow-Agent 46MIT nuclear science professor Nuno Loureiro found shot dead in home in Mass 29 37 6d +12m nypost.com/2025/12/16/us-news/mit-nuclear-science-professor-found-shot-dead-in-home-in-swanky-mass-neighborhood 47Firefox will have an option to disable all AI features 530 564 6d +3m mastodon.social/@firefoxwebdevs/115740500373677782 48GPT-5.2-Codex 310 581 6d +4m openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-2-codex 49Apples, Trees, and Quasimodes 1 20 9d +3d systemstack.dev/2025/09/humane-computing 50Skills for organizations, partners, the ecosystem 168 284 6d +25m claude.com/blog/organization-skills-and-directory 51Military standard on software control levels 31 68 6d +3m entropicthoughts.com/mil-std-882e-software-control 52Microscopic robots that sense, think, act, and compute 2 40 10d +4d science.org/doi/10.1126/scirobotics.adu8009 53Assange brings 'instrument of war' case against Nobel Foundation 17 35 6d +1h dailytelegraph.co.nz/news/assange-brings-instrument-of-war-case-against-nobel-foundation 54Valve is running Apple's playbook in reverse 184 145 6d +36m garbagecollected.dev/p/valve-the-reverse-apple 55Dogalog: A realtime Prolog-based livecoding music environment 18 81 10d +4d github.com/danja/dogalog 56Heart and Kidney Diseases and Type 2 Diabetes May Be One Ailment 45 69 6d +27m scientificamerican.com/article/heart-and-kidney-diseases-plus-type-2-diabetes-may-be-one-illness-treatable 57Launch HN: Pulse (YC S24) – Production-grade unstructured document extraction 36 38 6d +7m 58Beginning January 2026, all ACM publications will be made open access 237 1998 6d +2m dl.acm.org/openaccess 59Systemd v259 103 89 6d +1h github.com/systemd/systemd/releases/tag/v259 60Using TypeScript to obtain one of the rarest license plates 200 187 6d +9m jack.bio/blog/licenseplate 61Please just try HTMX 473 600 6d +42m pleasejusttryhtmx.comhttp:// 62Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work 652 838 6d +8m simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/18/code-proven-to-work 63Show HN: A local-first memory store for LLM agents (SQLite) 16 48 10d +4d github.com/CaviraOSS/OpenMemory 64Spain fines Airbnb €65M: Why the government is cracking down on illegal rentals 149 121 6d +1m euronews.com/travel/2025/12/15/spain-fines-airbnb-65-million-why-the-government-is-cracking-down-on-illegal-rentals 65Are Apple gift cards safe to redeem? 465 558 6d +15m daringfireball.net/linked/2025/12/17/are-apple-gift-cards-safe-to-redeem 66Show HN: X Writer – VS Code extension to post tweets from your editor 12 11 7d +18h github.com/Jawuilp/X-writer 67Virtualizing Nvidia HGX B200 GPUs with Open Source 27 113 6d +2m ubicloud.com/blog/virtualizing-nvidia-hgx-b200-gpus-with-open-source 68The Big City; Save the Flophouses (1996) 44 45 9d +3d nytimes.com/1996/01/14/magazine/the-big-city-save-the-flophouses.html 69AI helps ship faster but it produces 1.7× more bugs 166 206 6d +38m coderabbit.ai/blog/state-of-ai-vs-human-code-generation-report 70GitHub postponing the announced billing change for self-hosted GitHub Actions 123 156 7d +18h twitter.com/jaredpalmer/status/2001373329811181846 71Classical statues were not painted horribly 326 625 6d +49m worksinprogress.co/issue/were-classical-statues-painted-horribly 72Most parked domains now serving malicious content 58 143 6d +25m krebsonsecurity.com/2025/12/most-parked-domains-now-serving-malicious-content 73From profiling to kernel patch: the journey to an eBPF performance fix 2 49 11d +4d rovarma.com/articles/from-profiling-to-kernel-patch-the-journey-to-an-ebpf-performance-fix 74A school locked down after AI flagged a gun. It was a clarinet 130 102 6d +30m washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/12/17/ai-gun-school-detection 75Hightouch (YC S19) Is Hiring 0 1 6d +25s hightouch.com/careers 76Fluent: A Localization System for Natural-Sounding Translations 6 19 10d +3d projectfluent.org 77Independent review of UK national security law warns of overreach 274 415 6d +19m techradar.com/vpn/vpn-privacy-security/creating-apps-like-signal-or-whatsapp-could-be-hostile-activity-claims-uk-watchdog 78America's Dirtiest Carbon Polluters, Mapped to Ridiculous Precision 20 55 6d +19m gizmodo.com/americas-dirtiest-carbon-polluters-mapped-to-ridiculous-precision-2000700924 79We Let AI Run Our Office Vending Machine. It Lost Hundreds of Dollars 86 120 6d +20m wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-claude-ai-vending-machine-agent-b7e84e34 80Slowness is a virtue 86 250 6d +23m blog.jakobschwichtenberg.com/p/slowness-is-a-virtue 81After ruining a treasured water resource, Iran is drying up 319 349 6d +31m e360.yale.edu/features/iran-water-drought-dams-qanats 82Breaking Paragraphs into Lines [pdf] (1981) 7 37 12d +5d gwern.net/doc/design/typography/tex/1981-knuth.pdf 83Online Textbook for Braid groups and knots and tangles 5 49 6d +43m matthematics.com/redoak/redoak.html 84It's all about momentum 34 111 6d +12m combo.cc/posts/its-all-about-momentum-innit 85How getting richer made teenagers less free 320 258 6d +12m theargumentmag.com/p/how-getting-richer-made-teenagers 86Jonathan Blow has spent the past decade designing 1,400 puzzles 593 368 12d +6d arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/12/jonathan-blow-has-spent-the-past-decade-designing-1400-puzzles-for-you 87GitHub Actions for self-hosted runners price increase postponed 1 134 6d +1h pricetimeline.com/news/189 88Building a High-Performance OpenAPI Parser in Go 9 39 9d +2d speakeasy.com/blog/building-speakeasy-openapi-go-library 89RCE via ND6 Router Advertisements in FreeBSD 82 128 6d +32m freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-25:12.rtsold.asc 90Security vulnerability found in Rust Linux kernel code 18 36 6d +1h git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/?id=3e0ae02ba831da2b707905f4e602e43f8507b8cc 91Egyptian Hieroglyphs: Lesson 1 71 167 6d +1h egyptianhieroglyphs.net/egyptian-hieroglyphs/lesson-1 92What is an elliptic curve? (2019) 13 135 6d +30m johndcook.com/blog/2019/02/21/what-is-an-elliptic-curve 93Feather Detective (2016) 0 10 10d +3d audubon.org/magazine/behind-scenes-worlds-top-feather-detective 94'Ghost jobs' are on the rise – and so are calls to ban them 245 206 6d +1h bbc.com/news/articles/clyzvpp8g3vo 95SF lawmakers vote to create reparations fund $5M per Black resident 7 17 6d +31m reddit.com/r/sanfrancisco/s/ZUv2nywQgw 96Ask HN: Does anyone understand how Hacker News works? 226 161 7d +6h 97Oasis: Pooling PCIe Devices over CXL to Boost Utilization 2 17 12d +5d dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3731569.3764812 98Judge hints Vizio TV buyers may have rights to source code licensed under GPL 33 197 6d +1h theregister.com/2025/12/05/vizio_gpl_source_code_ruling 99Mozilla's New CEO Confirms Firefox Will Become an "AI Browser" 74 56 6d +30m omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/12/mozilla-new-ceo-firefox-ai-browser-strategy 100More than half of researchers now use AI for peer review, often against guidance 40 63 6d +1m nature.com/articles/d41586-025-04066-5 101Germany: Amazon is not allowed to force customers to watch ads on Prime Video 86 216 6d +1h zeit.de/wirtschaft/2025-12/amazon-urteil-video-kunden-werbung 102Opencoil – appropriating inductive charging pads in the wild (2020) [video] 0 13 9d +2d media.ccc.de/v/rc3-11575-opencoil_a_roaming_speedshow 103Don MacKinnon: Why Simplicity Beats Cleverness in Software Design [audio] 33 72 9d +2d maintainable.fm/episodes/don-mackinnon-why-simplicity-beats-cleverness-in-software-design 104Show HN: I built a fast RSS reader in Zig 32 90 8d +1d github.com/superstarryeyes/hys 105Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell 516 449 7d +1h 106[dead] ? 3 6d +53m trop.in 107The World of OCR (C. 1960) [video] 11 25 10d +3d youtube.com/watch?v=SekWFCZVLUk 108[dead] ? 11 6d +9m justice.gov 109The Revolution Will Not Make the Hacker News Front Page 4 25 6d +4m soatok.blog/2025/12/17/the-revolution-will-not-make-the-hacker-news-front-page 110A look back: LANPAR, the first spreadsheet 2 40 7d +3h technicallywewrite.com/2025/12/16/lanpar 111A Cosmic Offense: Elias Canetti's contest against death 0 10 10d +3d commonwealmagazine.org/cosmic-offense 112My payment agent is named George, not stripe-agent 44 51 10d +3d blog.kestrelsnest.social/posts/2025-12-14-why-my-payment-agent-is-named-george-not-stripe-agent 113TikTok unlawfully tracks shopping habits and use of dating apps? 135 231 7d +15m noyb.eu/en/tiktok-unlawfully-tracks-your-shopping-habits-and-your-use-dating-apps 114Gut bacteria from amphibians and reptiles achieve tumor elimination in mice 138 490 7d +1h jaist.ac.jp/english/whatsnew/press/2025/12/17-1.html 115Explaining the widening divides in us midlife mortality: Is there a smoking gun? 72 65 7d +1h nber.org/papers/w34553 116 More... 2025.12.17