Top News on 2025 Dec 26

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Rob Pike Goes Nuclear over GenAI / Alt

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Mattermost restricted access to old messages after 10000 limit is reached / Alt

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Maybe the default settings are too high / Alt

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I sell onions on the Internet (2019) / Alt

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Asahi Linux with Sway on the MacBook Air M2 (2024) / Alt

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Fahrplan – 39C3 / Alt

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Ask HN: What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2026? / Alt

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Google is 'gradually rolling out' option to change your gmail.com address / Alt

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Memory Safety / Alt

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Critical vulnerability in LangChain – CVE-2025-68664 / Alt

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Python 3.15’s interpreter for Windows x86-64 should hopefully be 15% faster / Alt

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No shares in company, but 550 employees received a $240M gift from their owner / Alt

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URL Pattern API / Alt

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Ultimate-Linux: Userspace for Linux in Pure JavaScript / Alt

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TurboDiffusion: 100–200× Acceleration for Video Diffusion Models / Alt

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When a driver challenges the kernel's assumptions / Alt

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Weight-loss pill approval set to accelerate food industry product overhauls / Alt

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Sad times StackOverflow takes down all its physical servers / Alt

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Blue-Green Marker Light Standard for Autonomous Vehicles Gets Approved / Alt

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Why Scandinavian Cabins Stayed Warm at -30°F While Modern Homes Freeze [video] / Alt

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Ruby Turns 30: A Celebration of Code, Community, and Creativity / Alt

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Unix V4 Update / Alt

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Fish-Inspired Filter That Removes over 99% of Microplastics / Alt

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Python Anti-Patterns / Alt

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Archlinux.org is down due to DDoS / Alt

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Line Scan Camera Image Processing / Alt

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DHS Changes Process for Awarding H-1B Work Visas to Protect American Workers / Alt

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Simple Is a Scam / Alt

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Psychopathy as a potential survival adaptation to early adversity / Alt

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OpenPGP Cleartext Signature Framework Susceptible to Format Confusion / Alt

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New image sensor breaks optical limits / Alt

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Data Structures in Practice / Alt

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One formula that demystifies 3D graphics [video] / Alt

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We invited a man into our home at Christmas and he stayed with us for 45 years / Alt

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Governments in the West Are Turning Their Sights on VPNs / Alt

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Ask HN: Pivot from SWE to What? / Alt

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MiniMax M2.1: Built for Real-World Complex Tasks, Multi-Language Programming / Alt

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Alzheimer’s disease can be reversed in animal models? Study / Alt

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Ask HN: What do you consider fun? / Alt

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Ask HN: Why Do You Blog? / Alt

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Pen testers accused of 'blackmail' after reporting Eurostar chatbot flaws / Alt

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Show HN: I embedded 10M StreetView images / Alt

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Show HN: I treated my brain like a buggy server and wrote a patch (Shi-Mo Model) / Alt

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The Mammoth Pirates – In Russia's Arctic north, a new kind of gold rush / Alt

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Cursor CEO warns vibe coding builds 'shaky foundations' / Alt

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Algerian law declares France's colonisation a crime / Alt

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China is building most powerful hydropower system deep in the Himalayas / Alt

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Show HN: I built an OCI container runtime in Python(for fun) / Alt

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Ask HN: What is the international distribution/statistics of HN visitors? / Alt

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Netflix NFL streaming quality issues / Alt

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We "solved" C10K years ago yet we keep reinventing it (2003) / Alt

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As HN: How do I route around Substack's age verification? / Alt

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What (I think) makes Gemini 3 Flash so good and fast / Alt

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The Computer Chronicles – Artificial Intelligence (1984) [video] / Alt

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Nvidia Acquires Groq's Assets / Alt

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Waymo is using the Honk app to pay $20-$24 to manually close doors / Alt

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Secure Key Storage (SKS) is a library for Go that abstracts Security Hardware / Alt

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I managed to get that lost UNIX v4 tape running on my Android tablet / Alt

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Clearspace (YC W23) Is Hiring a Founding Network Engineer (VPN and Proxy) / Alt

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Seven Diabetes Patients Die Due to Undisclosed Bug in Abbott's Glucose Monitors / Alt

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UBlockOrigin and UBlacklist AI Blocklist / Alt

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Geometric Algorithms for Translucency Sorting in Minecraft [pdf] / Alt

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Show HN: GenresFox v0.4 – Hand-Written, Zero-Dependency Rust WASM / Alt

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Building an AI agent inside a 7-year-old Rails monolith / Alt

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Donald Knuth's 2025 Christmas lecture: the Knight's Tours / Alt

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Grifters, Gaslighters and Puff the Magic Dragon / Alt

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A framework for technical writing in the age of LLMs / Alt

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Tech groups shift $120B of AI data centre debt off balance sheets / Alt

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Christmas – But I Wanted to Program / Alt

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Mouse Study Suggests Nose-Picking Has a Surprising Link with Alzheimer's / Alt

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The 'doorman fallacy': why careless adoption of AI backfires so easily / Alt

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Our king, our priest, our feudal lord – how AI is taking us back to dark ages / Alt

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Sierra Christmas Card 1986: A Computer Christmas / Alt

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Ask HN: MIT grad, junior dev layoffs – watching my daughter lose faith in merit / Alt

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Microsoft Is Finally Killing RC4 / Alt

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Show HN: ssh tiny.christmas / Alt

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Ask HN: What's the best lecture or talk you've seen in 2025? / Alt

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Show HN: Why many AI-generated websites don't show up on Google / Alt

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Starmer considers Australian-style ban on social media / Alt

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OpenAI is reportedly trying to raise $100B at an $830B valuation / Alt

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