HckrNews (First visit) All HN frontpage stories in chronological order At least $9B billed across 14 Medicaid services in Minnesota may be fraudulent 33 64 5d +32m cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/billions-paid-out-by-medicaid-in-minnesota-may-be-fraudulent-us-attorney 1LLM Year in Review 143 375 5d +2h karpathy.bearblog.dev/year-in-review-2025 2Show HN: Misata – synthetic data engine using LLM and Vectorized NumPy 1 23 8d +3d github.com/rasinmuhammed/misata 3We ran Anthropic’s interviews through structured LLM analysis 87 89 5d +31m playbookatlas.com/research/ai-adoption-explorer 4The scariest boot loader code 5 72 5d +2h miod.online.frhttp:///software/openbsd/stories/boot_hppa.html 5Monumental snake engravings of the Orinoco River (2024) 2 20 12d +7d cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/monumental-snake-engravings-of-the-orinoco-river/147F83AA4381153C4D0F4EA4817B3766 6CSS Grid Lanes 223 735 5d +3m webkit.org/blog/17660/introducing-css-grid-lanes 7A better zip bomb (2019) 56 184 5d +40m bamsoftware.com/hacks/zipbomb 8Buteyko Method 46 68 5d +6m en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buteyko_method 9Qwen-Image-Layered: transparency and layer aware open diffusion model 21 127 5d +18h huggingface.co/papers/2512.15603 10Postfix Macros and Let Place 3 9 10d +5d nadrieril.github.io/blog/2025/12/09/postfix-macros-and-let-place.html 11Performance Hints 42 129 5d +3h abseil.io/fast/hints.html 12Ask HN: How are you LLM-coding in an established code base? 66 70 8d +3d 13The pitfalls of partitioning Postgres yourself 6 93 8d +3d hatchet.run/blog/postgres-partitioning 14Ask HN: Who here is not working on web apps/server code? 97 83 6d +1d 15Response Healing: Reduce JSON defects by 80%+ 47 49 6d +1d openrouter.ai/announcements/response-healing-reduce-json-defects-by-80percent 16Brown/MIT shooting suspect found dead, officials say 257 192 5d +17h washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/12/18/brown-university-shooting-person-of-interest 17Detailed balance in large language model-driven agents 5 48 8d +3d arxiv.org/abs/2512.10047 18NOAA deploys new generation of AI-driven global weather models 99 155 7d +1d noaa.gov/news-release/noaa-deploys-new-generation-of-ai-driven-global-weather-models 198-bit Boléro 46 334 5d +8h linusakesson.net/music/bolero/index.php 20Performance Hints 1 52 5d +1h abseil.io/fast/hints.html 21Show HN: TinyPDF – 3kb pdf library (70x smaller than jsPDF) 32 248 6d +1d github.com/Lulzx/tinypdf 22AI's Unpaid Debt: How LLM Scrapers Destroy the Social Contract of Open Source 18 62 5d +41m quippd.com/writing/2025/12/17/AIs-unpaid-debt-how-llm-scrapers-destroy-the-social-contract-of-open-source.html 23Rust's Block Pattern 112 215 5d +15h notgull.net/block-pattern 24Show HN: MCPShark Viewer (VS Code/Cursor extension)- view MCP traffic in-editor 0 27 7d +2d 25Mistral OCR 3 126 680 6d +1d mistral.ai/news/mistral-ocr-3 26Vm.overcommit_memory=2 is the right setting for servers 142 108 7d +2d ariadne.space/2025/12/16/vmovercommitmemory-is-always-the-right.html 27Show HN: Stickerbox, a kid-safe, AI-powered voice to sticker printer 60 44 5d +20m stickerbox.com 28Your AI is lying to you. 5 8 5d +37m withtofu.comWithTofu.com 29You can now play Grand Theft Auto Vice City in the browser 98 330 5d +26m dos.zone/grand-theft-auto-vice-city 30Wall Street ruined the Roomba and then blamed Lina Khan 196 246 5d +22m thebignewsletter.com/p/how-wall-street-ruined-the-roomba 31Cycle-accurate YM2149 PSG emulator 3 12 11d +6d github.com/slippyex/ym2149-rs 32Is Proton leaving Switzerland? 87 144 5d +6m techradar.com/vpn/vpn-privacy-security/is-proton-leaving-switzerland-legal-uncertainty-of-proposed-surveillance-laws-is-pushing-them-to-make-several-changes 33Show HN: Linggen – A local-first memory layer for your AI (Cursor, Zed, Claude) 10 36 5d +1h github.com/linggen/linggen 34The New Right-Wing Tech Intelligentsia 82 64 5d +11m bayareacurrent.com/meet-the-new-right-wing-tech-intelligentsia 35Why we're taking legal action against SerpApi's unlawful scraping 51 60 5d +18m blog.google/technology/safety-security/serpapi-lawsuit 36Reverse Engineering US Airline's PNR System and Accessing All Reservations 60 127 5d +26m alexschapiro.com/security/vulnerability/2025/11/20/avelo-airline-reservation-api-vulnerability 37TP-Link Tapo C200: Hardcoded Keys, Buffer Overflows and Privacy 119 339 5d +21m evilsocket.net/2025/12/18/TP-Link-Tapo-C200-Hardcoded-Keys-Buffer-Overflows-and-Privacy-in-the-Era-of-AI-Assisted-Reverse-Engineering 38AI will kill all the lawyers 65 26 5d +1h spectator.com/article/ai-will-kill-all-the-lawyers 39Where Is GPT in the Chomsky Hierarchy? 70 55 10d +4d fi-le.net/chomsky 40Gamers Are Overwhelmingly Negative About Gen AI in Video Games 54 39 5d +17m quanticfoundry.com/2025/12/18/gen-ai 41AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D sells for more than 9800X3D, enthusiasts flock to AM4 DDR4 71 66 5d +38m tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/amds-legacy-ryzen-7-5800x3d-chips-now-sell-for-up-to-usd800-more-than-a-new-9800x3d-am4-chip-costs-twice-as-much-as-msrp-as-enthusiasts-flock-to-old-ddr4-memory 42Show HN: I Made Loom for Mobile 40 68 5d +10m demoscope.app 43Programming language speed comparison using Leibniz formula for π 91 41 9d +4d niklas-heer.github.io/speed-comparison 44Prepare for That Stupid World 94 171 5d +9m ploum.net/2025-12-19-prepare-for-that-world.html 45I have to give Fortnite my passport to use Bluesky 66 84 5d +4m spitfirenews.com/p/why-i-have-to-give-fortnite-my-passport-to-use-bluesky 46TikTok Deal Is the Shittiest Possible Outcome, Making Everything Worse 374 319 5d +11m techdirt.com/2025/12/19/tiktok-deal-done-and-its-somehow-the-shittiest-possible-outcome-making-everything-worse 47Believe the Checkbook 78 169 5d +28m robertgreiner.com/believe-the-checkbook 48Cursor Acquires Graphite 11 167 5d +7m graphite.com/blog/graphite-joins-cursor 49Does my key fob have more computing power than the Lunar lander? 46 41 11d +5d buzzsprout.com/2469780/episodes/18340142-17-does-my-key-fob-have-more-computing-power-than-the-lunar-lander 50Is Firefox Firefucked? 91 52 5d +28m kevquirk.com/blog/is-firefox-firefucked 51Graphite is joining Cursor 253 268 5d +13m cursor.com/blog/graphite 52Garage – An S3 object store so reliable you can run it outside datacenters 165 704 5d +22m garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr 53Using AI Generated Code Will Make You a Bad Programmer 177 90 5d +11m unsolicited-opinions.rudism.com/bad-programmer 54The FreeBSD Foundation's Laptop Support and Usability Project 70 186 5d +29m github.com/FreeBSDFoundation/proj-laptop 55Building a Transparent Keyserver 26 72 5d +30m words.filippo.io/keyserver-tlog 56Hacker News front page now, but the titles are honest 320 1365 5d +22m dosaygo-studio.github.io/hn-front-page-2035/news-honest.html 57AMD officially confirms fresh next-gen Zen 6 CPU details 77 89 5d +27m overclock3d.net/news/cpu_mainboard/amd-officially-confirms-fresh-next-gen-zen-6-cpu-details 58Startup Playbook 1 7 10d +5d playbook.samaltman.com 59Pop _OS 24.04's New Scratch-Built Cosmic: Hands-On, with Screenshots 11 28 5d +1h fossforce.com/2025/12/pop_os-24-04s-new-scratch-built-cosmic-hands-on-with-screenshots 60XZ Utils Backdoor 21 25 5d +18m en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XZ_Utils_backdoor 61A proposed amendment to ban under 16s in the UK from common online services 124 55 5d +6m decoded.legal/blog/2025/12/a-proposed-legislative-amendment-to-attempt-to-ban-under-16s-in-the-uk-from-common-messaging-services-sharing-family-photos-using-wikipedia-and-doing-much-else-online-by-imposing-age-assurance-on-everyone 62Show HN: UK Butchers Meat Price Tracker 8 15 11d +5d offer-spider.onrender.com 63YouTube Is Degraded 10 16 5d +5m downdetector.co.uk/status/youtube 64[dead] ? 12 5d +27m cameronwestland.com 65Show HN: Stepped Actions – distributed workflow orchestration for Rails 15 85 10d +5d github.com/envirobly/stepped 66Engineers who dismiss AI 239 74 5d +4m terriblesoftware.org/2025/12/19/the-strange-case-of-engineers-who-dismiss-ai 67How to think about durable execution 37 96 12d +6d hatchet.run/blog/durable-execution 68Show HN: I implemented generics in my programming language 19 37 9d +4d axe-docs.pages.dev/features/generics 69Show HN: Hacker News, but every headline is hysterical clickbait 73 186 5d +41m dosaygo-studio.github.io/hn-front-page-2035/news-max.html 70Show HN: CommerceTXT – An open standard for AI shopping context (like llms.txt) 58 19 8d +2d commercetxt.org 71Show HN: I open-sourced my Go and Next B2B SaaS Starter (deploy anywhere, MIT) 35 82 5d +7m github.com/moasq/production-saas-starter 72GotaTun – Mullvad's WireGuard Implementation in Rust 129 618 5d +15m mullvad.net/en/blog/announcing-gotatun-the-future-of-wireguard-at-mullvad-vpn 73Amazon will allow ePub and PDF downloads for DRM-free eBooks 329 626 5d +1h kdpcommunity.com/s/article/New-eBook-Download-Options-for-Readers-Coming-in-2026?language=en_US 74Designing a Passive Lidar Detector Device 8 81 9d +3d atredis.com/blog/2025/11/20/designing-a-passive-lidar-detection-sensor 75Pingfs: Stores your data in ICMP ping packets (2020) 26 78 10d +5d github.com/yarrick/pingfs 76Show HN: Orbit a systems level programming language that compiles .sh to LLVM 13 17 5d +9m github.com/SIE-Libraries/orbit 77Top Open Source Authorization Libraries (2024) 6 18 9d +3d permify.co/post/open-source-authorization-libraries 78My First Impression on HP Zbook Ultra G1a: Ryzen AI Max+ 395, Strix Halo 128GB 2 19 6d +7h forum.level1techs.com/t/my-first-impression-on-hp-zbook-ultra-g1a-ryzen-ai-max-395-strix-halo-128-gb/232958 79Property-Based Testing Caught a Security Bug I Never Would Have Found 38 61 6d +7h kiro.dev/blog/property-based-testing-fixed-security-bug 80From Zero to QED: An informal introduction to formality with Lean 4 21 142 11d +5d sdiehl.github.io/zero-to-qed/01_introduction.html 81Making Google Sans Flex 92 114 5d +53m design.google/library/google-sans-flex-font 82C++ lowcode toolkit for ERP and Accounting Software 1 6 8d +2d fin.in.net 832026 Apple introducing more ads to increase opportunity in search results 274 258 5d +26m ads.apple.com/app-store/help/ad-placements/0082-search-results 84Reconstructed Commander Keen 1-3 Source Code 27 174 5d +2h pckf.com/viewtopic.php?t=18248 85Getting bitten by Intel's poor naming schemes 151 292 5d +11m lorendb.dev/posts/getting-bitten-by-poor-naming-schemes 86SMB Direct – SMB3 over RDMA 18 74 5d +3h docs.kernel.org/filesystems/smb/smbdirect.html 87The state of the kernel Rust experiment 128 118 11d +5d lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1050174/63aa7da43214c3ce 88Lite^3, a JSON-compatible zero-copy serialization format 37 150 11d +6d github.com/fastserial/lite3 89Noclip.website – A digital museum of video game levels 57 479 5d +49m noclip.website 90Telegraph chess: A 19th century tech marvel 18 44 12d +6d spectrum.ieee.org/telegraph-chess 91Show HN: Bithoven – A high-level, imperative language for Bitcoin Smart Contract 8 27 9d +3d github.com/ChrisCho-H/bithoven 92The Code That Revolutionized Orbital Simulation [video] 4 56 10d +4d youtube.com/watch?v=nCg3aXn5F3M 93Synit: A Reactive Operating System 5 27 12d +6d synit.org 94 More... 2025.12.18