top 20 hacker news stories for 2025-12-01

DeepSeek-v3.2: Pushing the frontier of open large language models [pdf]

https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3.2/resolve/main/assets/paper.pdf

4 days ago

978 upvotes – 464 comments

India orders smartphone makers to preload state-owned cyber safety app

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/india-orders-mobile-phones-preloaded-with-government-app-ensure-cyber-safety-2025-12-01/

5 days ago

894 upvotes – 729 comments

Search tool that only returns content created before ChatGPT's public release

https://tegabrain.com/Slop-Evader

5 days ago

883 upvotes – 367 comments

Why xor eax, eax?

https://xania.org/202512/01-xor-eax-eax

4 days ago

572 upvotes – 211 comments

Google Antigravity just deleted the contents of whole drive

https://old.reddit.com/r/google_antigravity/comments/1p82or6/google_antigravity_just_deleted_the_contents_of/

5 days ago

537 upvotes – 480 comments

It’s been a very hard year

https://bell.bz/its-been-a-very-hard-year/

5 days ago

443 upvotes – 671 comments

Last Week on My Mac: Losing confidence

https://eclecticlight.co/2025/11/30/last-week-on-my-mac-losing-confidence/

4 days ago

438 upvotes – 283 comments

Ghostty compiled to WASM with xterm.js API compatibility

https://github.com/coder/ghostty-web

4 days ago

393 upvotes – 115 comments

Regarding Thien-Thi Nguyen

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46102451

5 days ago

368 upvotes – 8 comments

Advent of Sysadmin 2025

https://sadservers.com/advent

5 days ago

364 upvotes – 131 comments

Google unkills JPEG XL?

https://tonisagrista.com/blog/2025/google-unkills-jpegxl/

4 days ago

364 upvotes – 270 comments

Cartographers have been hiding illustrations inside Switzerland’s maps (2020)

https://eyeondesign.aiga.org/for-decades-cartographers-have-been-hiding-covert-illustrations-inside-of-switzerlands-official-maps/

4 days ago

351 upvotes – 79 comments

How to Attend Meetings

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1l7s1aAsNPlNhSye8OsMqmH6pMR32OYGGdLT6VKyFaQE/edit#slide=id.p

4 days ago

340 upvotes – 183 comments

Games using anti-cheats and their compatibility with GNU/Linux or Wine/Proton

https://areweanticheatyet.com/

5 days ago

321 upvotes – 473 comments

Instagram chief orders staff back to the office five days a week in 2026

https://www.businessinsider.com/instagram-chief-adam-mosseri-announces-five-day-office-return-2025-12

4 days ago

310 upvotes – 456 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2025)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46108941

4 days ago

309 upvotes – 481 comments

High-income job losses are cooling housing demand

https://jbrec.com/insights/job-growth-housing-demand-metro-analysis-2026/

4 days ago

292 upvotes – 512 comments

Is America's jobs market nearing a cliff?

https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2025/11/30/is-americas-jobs-market-nearing-a-cliff

5 days ago

290 upvotes – 657 comments

The healthcare market is taxing reproduction out of existence

https://aaronstannard.com/40k-baby/

4 days ago

286 upvotes – 404 comments

DeepSeekMath-V2: Towards Self-Verifiable Mathematical Reasoning

https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-Math-V2

4 days ago

263 upvotes – 88 comments
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