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HckrNews (First visit) All HN frontpage stories in chronological order ⚙ Show HN: Tidy Baby is a SET game but with words 0 4 1h +1h tidy.baby 1Igniting the GPU: From Kernel Plumbing to 3D Rendering on RISC-V 0 6 3h +3h mwilczynski.dev/posts/riscv-gpu-zink 2'Commuting Is Bad'–Particularly for Women 2 7 28m +15m theatlantic.com/family/2025/12/commute-gender-wage-gap-mothers/685265 3Ask HN: Any example of successful vibe-coded product? 9 14 1h +1h 4Toro: Deploy Applications as Unikernels 5 20 33m +10m github.com/torokernel/torokernel 5What Happened to Abit Motherboards 12 15 2h +2h dfarq.homeip.net/what-happened-to-abit-motherboards 6Reverse Engineering a Mysterious UDP Stream in My Hotel (2016) 3 38 7d +7d gkbrk.com/hotel-music 72025 Was Another Exceptionally Hot Year 20 33 2h +42m e360.yale.edu/digest/2025-second-hottest-year 8The Legacy of Undersea Cables 9 36 2h +34m blog.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/the-legacy-of-undersea-cables 9The 70% AI productivity myth: why most companies aren't seeing the gains 89 37 3h +29m sderosiaux.substack.com/p/the-70-ai-productivity-myth-why-most 10CSS-in-JS: The Great Betrayal of Front End Sanity 14 21 2h +14m thenewstack.io/css-in-js-the-great-betrayal-of-frontend-sanity 11Postgres extension complements pgvector for performance and scale 9 70 5d +5d github.com/timescale/pgvectorscale 12Public Sans – A strong, neutral typeface 86 209 3h +29m public-sans.digital.gov 13Singapore Study Links Heavy Infant Screen Time to Teen Anxiety 37 66 4h +2h bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-30/singapore-study-links-heavy-infant-screen-time-to-teen-anxiety 14Hive (YC S14) Is Hiring a Staff Software Engineer (Data Systems) 0 1 3h +8s jobs.ashbyhq.com/hive.co/cb0dc490-0e32-4734-8d91-8b56a31ed497 15The British empire's resilient subsea telegraph network 10 89 4h +47m subseacables.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-british-empires-resilient-subsea.html 16Concurrent Hash Table Designs 2 32 3d +2d bluuewhale.github.io/posts/concurrent-hashmap-designs 17Groq investor sounds alarm on data centers 54 60 4h +58m axios.com/2025/12/29/groq-alex-davis-data-center-concerns 18MH370 vanished in 2014.New search aims to find answers families desperately want 16 31 4h +11m abc.net.au/news/2025-12-30/mh370-search-resumes-for-malaysia-airlines-missing-plane/106186962 19Fucking Approachable Swift Concurrency 42 84 4h +33m fuckingapproachableswiftconcurrency.com/en 20Win32 is the stable Linux ABI 134 157 4h +8m loss32.org 21No strcpy either 67 139 4h +5m daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/12/29/no-strcpy-either 22Times New American: A Tale of Two Fonts 70 114 4h +15m hsu.cy/2025/12/times-new-american 23Easily Dealing with Any-Dimensional Planes 2 8 4d +4d gpfault.net/posts/hyperplanes.html 24Crimson (YC X25) is hiring founding engineers in London 0 1 5h +22s ycombinator.com/companies/crimson/jobs/kCikzj1-founding-engineer-full-stack 25Non-Zero-Sum Games 87 216 6h +13m nonzerosum.games 26Graph Algorithms in Rayon 0 41 4d +4d davidlattimore.github.io/posts/2025/11/27/graph-algorithms-in-rayon.html 27Nicolas Guillou, French ICC judge sanctioned by the US and “debanked” 212 259 6h +7m lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2025/11/19/nicolas-guillou-french-icc-judge-sanctioned-by-the-us-you-are-effectively-blacklisted-by-much-of-the-world-s-banking-system_6747628_4.html 28Charm Ruby – Glamorous Terminal Libraries for Ruby 11 91 10h +3h charm-ruby.dev 29Turning an old Amazon Kindle into a eInk development platform (2021) 12 57 4d +3d blog.lidskialf.net/2021/02/08/turning-an-old-kindle-into-a-eink-development-platform 30You Need to Ditch VS Code 99 41 8h +1h jrswab.com/blog/ditch-vs-code 31Go away Python 195 228 8h +1h lorentz.app/blog-item.html?id=go-shebang 32Netflix Open Content 82 447 7h +3m opencontent.netflix.com 33HSBC blocks its app due to F-Droid-installed Bitwarden 199 213 7h +6m mastodon.neilzone.co.uk/@neil/115807834298031971 34Librarians Tired of Being Accused of Hiding Secret Books That Were Made Up by AI 78 79 5d +5d gizmodo.com/librarians-arent-hiding-secret-books-from-you-that-only-ai-knows-about-2000698176 35Show HN: One clean, developer-focused page for every Unicode symbol 51 118 5d +4d fontgenerator.design/symbols 36UNIX Fourth Edition 8 90 7d +6d squoze.nethttp:///UNIX/v4/README 37The Signature Flicker 15 23 4d +3d steipete.me/posts/2025/signature-flicker 38Show HN: Euclidle – Guess the Coordinates in N‑Dimensional Space 4 15 4d +3d euclidle.com 39Streaming compression beats framed compression 15 28 4d +3d bou.ke/blog/compressed 40The AI Noise 5 13 4d +3d rishi.monster/posts/time-intelligence-economy-part-1-the-ai-noise 41Show HN: A Claude Code plugin that catch destructive Git and filesystem commands 44 42 4d +3d github.com/kenryu42/claude-code-safety-net 42Show HN: Cover letter generator with Ollama/local LLMs (Open source) 17 14 15h +30m coverlettermaker.co 43Hacking Washing Machines [video] 38 177 16h +17m media.ccc.de/v/39c3-hacking-washing-machines 44Incremental Backups of Gmail Takeouts 55 110 5d +4d baecher.dev/stdout/incremental-backups-of-gmail-takeouts 45Outside, Dungeon, Town: Integrating the Three Places in Videogames (2024) 48 100 16h +44m keithburgun.net/outside-dungeon-town-integrating-the-three-places-in-videogames 46100x (YC S22) Is Hiring a Front End Engineer 0 1 16h +26s 47I migrated to an almost all-EU stack and saved 500€ per year 217 304 17h +1h zeitgeistofbytes.com/p/bye-bye-big-tech-how-i-migrated-to 48Show HN: A 45x45 Connections Puzzle To Commemorate 2025=45*45 15 70 6d +5d thomaswc.com/2025.html 49Stanford Lecture: Dr. Don Knuth – Adventures with Knight's Tours [video] 9 74 6d +5d youtube.com/watch?v=MKiRte-tnMY 50MongoDB Server Security Update, December 2025 42 102 17h +16m mongodb.com/company/blog/news/mongodb-server-security-update-december-2025 51Stranger Things creator says turn off "garbage" settings 591 320 17h +47m screenrant.com/stranger-things-creator-turn-off-settings-premiere 52Vitest Browser Mode Guide 8 64 5d +5d howtotestfrontend.com/resources/vitest-browser-mode-guide-and-setup-info 53Geology of the Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary 15 50 18h +53m pubs.usgs.gov/fs/farallones 54Parsing Advances 15 96 18h +13m matklad.github.io/2025/12/28/parsing-advances.html 55Lead-Free Organic–Inorganic Halobismuthate for Large Piezoelectric Effect 6 16 18h +38m pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jacs.5c15484 56Intelligence – A Mystery Investigation Game 5 38 4d +4d intelligencegame.tech 57Show HN: Stop Claude Code from forgetting everything 206 173 19h +25m github.com/mutable-state-inc/ensue-skill 58AI employees don't pay taxes 170 105 19h +27m alec.is/posts/ai-employees-dont-pay-taxes 59ManusAI Joins Meta 185 289 19h +6m manus.im/blog/manus-joins-meta-for-next-era-of-innovation 60Pandas with Rows (2022) 1 16 4d +3d datapythonista.me/blog/pandas-with-hundreds-of-millions-of-rows 61Obelisk 0.32: Cancellation, WebAPI, Postgres 7 28 21h +2h obeli.sk/blog/announcing-obelisk-0-32 62Why the Internet Is Bad for Democracy (2005) 32 40 20h +58m dl.acm.org/doi/epdf/10.1145/1089107.1089138 63USPS announces changes to the postmark date system 75 56 19h +20m nstp.org/article/usps-announces-changes-postmark-date-system 64Static Allocation for Compilers 10 32 6d +5d matklad.github.io/2025/12/23/static-allocation-compilers.html 65Left Behind: Futurist Fetishists, Prepping and the Abandonment of Earth (2019) 34 39 22h +1h boundary2.org/2019/08/sarah-t-roberts-and-mel-hogan-left-behind-futurist-fetishists-prepping-and-the-abandonment-of-earth 66Which Humans? (2023) 20 41 21h +1h osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/5b26t_v1 67[dead] ? 5 20h +11m zenodo.org 68Binance's Trust Wallet extension hacked; users lose $7M 28 103 21h +45m web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=trust-wallet-hack 69Google is dead. Where do we go now? 783 985 21h +5m circusscientist.com/2025/12/29/google-is-dead-where-do-we-go-now 70The future of software development is software developers 384 339 22h +1h codemanship.wordpress.com/2025/11/25/the-future-of-software-development-is-software-developers 71High-performance C++ hash table using grouped SIMD metadata scanning 15 54 6d +5d github.com/Cranot/grouped-simd-hashtable 72Karpathy on Programming: “I've never felt this much behind” 549 492 3d +2d twitter.com/karpathy/status/2004607146781278521 73All Delisted Steam Games 124 252 22h +50m delistedgames.com/all-delisted-steam-games 74Why is calling my asm function from Rust slower than calling it from C? 41 116 3d +2d ohadravid.github.io/posts/2025-12-rav1d-faster-asm 75Meta's ads tools started switching out top-performing ads with AI-generated ones 88 134 21h +5m businessinsider.com/meta-ai-generating-bizarre-ads-advantage-plus-2025-10 76Show HN: Per-instance TSP Solver with No Pre-training (1.66% gap on d1291) 3 18 1d +6h 77Show HN: Aroma: Every TCP Proxy Is Detectable with RTT Fingerprinting 49 78 4d +3d github.com/Sakura-sx/Aroma 78When someone says they hate your product 121 165 22h +13m getflack.com/p/responding-to-negative-feedback 79AI is forcing us to write good code 197 270 22h +31m bits.logic.inc/p/ai-is-forcing-us-to-write-good-code 80Show HN: Evidex – AI Clinical Search (RAG over PubMed/OpenAlex and SOAP Notes) 30 36 1d +2h getevidex.com 81LLMs Are Not Fun 181 206 22h +9m orib.dev/nofun.html 82Flame Graphs vs Tree Maps vs Sunburst (2017) 34 128 3d +2d brendangregg.com/blog/2017-02-06/flamegraphs-vs-treemaps-vs-sunburst.html 83A production bug that made me care about undefined behavior 96 152 23h +45m gaultier.github.io/blog/the_production_bug_that_made_me_care_about_undefined_behavior.html 84Show HN: Superset – Terminal to run 10 parallel coding agents 84 88 6d +5d superset.sh 85List of domains censored by German ISPs 162 396 23h +17m cuiiliste.de/domains 86How Willie Nelson sees America 3 65 7d +6d newyorker.com/magazine/2025/12/29/willie-nelson-profile 87[dead] ? 16 23h +6m axios.com 88Tesla's 4680 battery supply chain collapses as partner writes down deal by 99% 648 587 23h +3m electrek.co/2025/12/29/tesla-4680-battery-supply-chain-collapses-partner-writes-down-dea 89Five Years of Tinygrad 48 83 1d +45m geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll/update/2025/12/29/five-years-of-tinygrad.html 90Nvidia takes $5B stake in Intel under September agreement 98 217 1d +11m reuters.com/legal/transactional/nvidia-takes-5-billion-stake-intel-under-september-agreement-2025-12-29 91GOG is getting acquired by its original co-founder 484 812 1d +18m gog.com/blog/gog-is-getting-acquired-by-its-original-co-founder-what-it-means-for-you 92US Confirms Strike on 'Big Facility' Inside Venezuela 61 46 1d +20m bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-29/trump-claims-us-strike-on-big-facility-inside-venezuela 93Sauron, home security startup, plucks CEO out of Sonos 18 13 1d +42m techcrunch.com/2025/12/28/from-sonos-to-sauron-new-ceo-takes-on-high-end-home-security-startup-still-in-development 94Static Allocation with Zig 101 202 1d +19m nickmonad.blog/2025/static-allocation-with-zig-kv 95Swapping SIM cards used to be easy, and then came eSIM 264 230 1d +47m arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/12/i-switched-to-esim-in-2025-and-i-am-full-of-regret 96The Cost of Allocation Errors 0 15 8d +7d varietyiq.com/blog/misallocation 97Are We Ready to Be Governed by Artificial Intelligence? 25 17 1d +6m merionwest.com/are-we-ready-to-be-governed-by-arti 98The Performance of Arch Linux Powered CachyOS on AMD EPYC Servers 1 12 1d +11m phoronix.com/review/epyc-cachyos-server-preview 99Why India's big cities are becoming unliveable 37 30 1d +57m bbc.com/news/articles/cp9kp2kx329o 100Show HN: Spacelist, a TUI for Aerospace window manager 6 40 3d +2d github.com/magicmark/spacelist 101Why Europe's night-train Renaissance derailed 1 9 1d +13m politico.eu/article/why-europe-night-train-renaissance-derailed 102Golfing Is Not Rowing 63 82 5d +4d taylor.town/golf-vs-rowing 103Libgodc: Write Go Programs for Sega Dreamcast 54 225 1d +14m github.com/drpaneas/libgodc 104Show HN: Vibe coding a bookshelf with Claude Code 198 273 1d +12m balajmarius.com/writings/vibe-coding-a-bookshelf-with-claude-code 105UK accounting body to halt remote exams amid AI cheating 199 187 1d +20m theguardian.com/business/2025/dec/29/uk-accounting-remote-exams-ai-cheating-acca 106Show HN: See what readers who loved your favorite book/author also loved to read 36 125 1d +1h shepherd.com/bboy/2025 107[dead] ? 4 7d +6d blog.vect.pro 108You can't design software you don't work on 103 278 1d +4h seangoedecke.com/you-cant-design-software-you-dont-work-on 109Linux DAW: Help Linux musicians to quickly and easily find the tools they need 116 278 1d +15m linuxdaw.org 110Market design can feed the poor 25 38 1d +1h worksinprogress.co/issue/how-market-design-can-feed-the-poor 111Kidnapped by Deutsche Bahn 984 1132 1d +7m theocharis.dev/blog/kidnapped-by-deutsche-bahn 112CIA Star Gate Project: An Overview (1993) [pdf] 118 109 1d +9h cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP96-00789R002800180001-2.pdf 113Kubernetes egress control with squid proxy 37 77 1d +45m interlaye.red/kubernetes_002degress_002dsquid.html 114A16Z Infra Reading List 1 9 1d +58m a16z-infra.github.io/reading-list 115I asked AI researchers and economists about SWE career strategies given AI 18 13 3d +1d chrisbarber.co/I+asked+AI+researchers+%26+economists+about+SWE+career+strategy+and+the+future+of+AI 116Feynman's Hughes Lectures: 950 pages of notes 42 193 1d +1h thehugheslectures.info/the-lectures 117Best practices for long-run LED strip installs (20–50M) to avoid flicker? 20 20 5d +4d 118Musk's DOGE Failed to Slash Government Spending, It Led to a 6% Increase 4 23 1d +29m offthefrontpage.com/musks-doge-failed-to-slash-government-spending-instead-leading-to-a-6-increase 119EU to build no-fee payments service like Visa/Mastercard and Apple/Google Pay 170 153 1d +33m independent.ie/business/digital-euro-what-it-is-and-how-we-will-use-the-new-form-of-cash/a165973061.html 120Asking Gemini 3 to generate Brainfuck code results in an infinite loop 89 119 1d +52m teodordyakov.github.io/brainfuck-agi 121Koine 8 31 4d +3d github.com/pattern-zones-co/koine 122Formally Verifying Peephole Optimisations in Lean 9 23 7d +6d l-m.dev/cs/formally-verifying-peephole-optimisations-in-lean 123Developing a Beautiful and Performant Block Editor in Qt C++ and QML 53 140 3d +2d rubymamistvalove.com/block-editor 124Mouse: Computer Programming Language (2006) 5 29 3d +2d mouse.davidgsimpson.comhttp:// 125Panoramas of Star Trek Sets 23 170 1d +1h mijofr.github.io/st-panorama 126Show HN: My not-for-profit search engine with no ads, no AI, & all DDG bangs 71 189 1d +1h nilch.org 127Show HN: Z80-μLM, a 'Conversational AI' That Fits in 40KB 111 485 1d +56m github.com/HarryR/z80ai 128My First Meshtastic Network 82 166 1d +1h rickcarlino.com/notes/electronics/my-first-meshtastic-network.html 129Huge Binaries 107 204 1d +38m fzakaria.com/2025/12/28/huge-binaries 130Formulaic Delimiters in the Iliad and the Odyssey 12 26 3d +1d glthr.com/formulaic-delimiters-in-the-iliad-and-the-odyssey 131John Simpson: 'I've reported on 40 wars but I've never seen a year like 2025' 107 86 1d +34m bbc.com/news/articles/cj4qp17e1lqo 132Staying ahead of censors in 2025 300 237 1d +6m forum.torproject.org/t/staying-ahead-of-censors-in-2025-what-weve-learned-from-fighting-censorship-in-iran-and-russia/20898 133Fast GPU Interconnect over Radio 11 92 1d +1h spectrum.ieee.org/rf-over-fiber 134Line scan camera image processing 3 64 5d +3d daniel.lawrence.lu/blog/2025-09-21-line-scan-camera-image-processing 135A bitwise reproducible deep learning framework 1 39 8d +6d github.com/microsoft/RepDL 136Why I think Valve’s retiring the Steam Deck LCD 66 71 1d +23m gardinerbryant.com/why-valves-retiring-the-steam-deck-lcd 137NextDNS is my new favourite DNS service (2020) 13 30 1d +1h stanislas.blog/2020/04/nextdns 138Finding Jingle Town: Debugging an N64 Game Without Symbols 5 39 6d +5d blog.chrislewis.au/finding-jingle-town-debugging-an-n64-game-without-symbols 139You can make up HTML tags 185 559 1d +14m maurycyz.com/misc/make-up-tags 140Self-hosting is being enshittified 111 102 1d +36m troubled.engineer/posts/selfhosting-in-2025 141Ask HN: Loneliness at 19, how to cope? 85 52 1d +2h 142Private equity is killing private ownership: first it was housing, now it's PCs 83 89 1d +23m old.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/1px9xwx/private_equity_is_killing_private_ownership_first 143Writing non-English languages with a QWERTY keyboard 27 36 5d +4d altgr-weur.eu/altgr-intl.html 144How to complain (2024) 17 74 1d +1h outerproduct.net/trivial/2024-03-25_complain.html 145Fast CVVDP implementation in C 9 52 1d +1h github.com/halidecx/fcvvdp 146Rich Hickey: Thanks AI 71 261 1d +18m gist.github.com/richhickey/ea94e3741ff0a4e3af55b9fe6287887f 147My app just won best iOS Japanese learning tool of 2025 award (blog) 27 118 1d +28m skerritt.blog/best-japanese-learning-tools-2025-award-show 148Intermission: Battle Pulses 2 16 4d +2d acoup.blog/2025/12/18/intermission-battle-pulses 149 More... 2025.12.28