top 50% 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

8 months ago

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/

8 months ago

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

https://tegabrain.com/Slop-Evader

8 months ago

Why xor eax, eax?

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

8 months ago

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/

8 months ago

It’s been a very hard year

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

8 months ago

Last Week on My Mac: Losing confidence

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

8 months ago

Ghostty compiled to WASM with xterm.js API compatibility

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

8 months ago

Google unkills JPEG XL?

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

8 months ago

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/

8 months ago

How to Attend Meetings

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

8 months ago

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

https://areweanticheatyet.com/

8 months ago

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2025)

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

8 months ago

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

8 months ago

High-income job losses are cooling housing demand

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

8 months ago

The healthcare market is taxing reproduction out of existence

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

8 months ago

DeepSeekMath-V2: Towards Self-Verifiable Mathematical Reasoning

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

8 months ago

Self-hosting a Matrix server for 5 years

https://yaky.dev/2025-11-30-self-hosting-matrix/

8 months ago

Google, Nvidia, and OpenAI

https://stratechery.com/2025/google-nvidia-and-openai/

8 months ago

Mozilla's latest quagmire

https://rubenerd.com/mozillas-latest-quagmire/

8 months ago

Netflix kills casting from its mobile app to most modern TVs

https://www.macrumors.com/2025/12/01/netflix-kills-casting-from-mobile-app-to-tvs/

8 months ago

AI agents find $4.6M in blockchain smart contract exploits

https://red.anthropic.com/2025/smart-contracts/

8 months ago

All about automotive lidar

https://mainstreetautonomy.com/blog/2025-08-29-all-about-automotive-lidar/

8 months ago

A vector graphics workstation from the 70s

https://justanotherelectronicsblog.com/?p=1429

8 months ago

The Penicillin Myth

https://www.asimov.press/p/penicillin-myth

8 months ago

A new AI winter is coming?

https://taranis.ie/llms-are-a-failure-a-new-ai-winter-is-coming/

8 months ago

UK Government plans new powers to label dissenting movements as 'subversion'

https://netpol.org/2025/11/28/government-plans-new-powers-to-label-dissenting-movements-as-subversion/

8 months ago

X210Ai is a new motherboard to upgrade ThinkPad X201/200

https://www.tpart.net/about-x210ai/

8 months ago

Apple AI chief John Giannandrea is retiring in spring 2026

https://www.macrumors.com/2025/12/01/apple-ai-chief-retiring-after-siri-failure/

8 months ago

After 40 years of adventure games, Ron Gilbert pivots to outrunning Death

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/12/after-40-years-of-adventure-games-ron-gilbert-pivots-to-outrunning-death/

8 months ago

Idempotency keys for exactly-once processing

https://www.morling.dev/blog/on-idempotency-keys/

8 months ago

Why I stopped using JSON for my APIs

https://aloisdeniel.com/blog/better-than-json

8 months ago

Tides are weirder than you think

https://signoregalilei.com/2025/11/12/tides-are-weirder-than-you-think/

8 months ago

1GB Raspberry Pi 5, and memory-driven price rises

https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/1gb-raspberry-pi-5-now-available-at-45-and-memory-driven-price-rises/

8 months ago

Sycophancy is the first LLM "dark pattern"

https://www.seangoedecke.com/ai-sycophancy/

8 months ago

SmartTube Compromised

https://www.aftvnews.com/smarttubes-official-apk-was-compromised-with-malware-what-you-should-do-if-you-use-it/

8 months ago

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2025)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46108940

8 months ago

Show HN: Walrus – a Kafka alternative written in Rust

https://github.com/nubskr/walrus

8 months ago

Stacked Diffs with git rebase —onto

https://dineshpandiyan.com/blog/stacked-diffs-with-rebase-onto/

8 months ago

John Giannandrea to retire from Apple

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/12/john-giannandrea-to-retire-from-apple/

8 months ago

Response to "Ruby Is Not a Serious Programming Language"

https://robbyonrails.com/articles/2025/12/01/why-so-serious/

8 months ago

Intel could return to Apple computers in 2027

https://www.theverge.com/news/832366/intel-apple-m-chip-low-end-processor

8 months ago

Constructing the Word's First JPEG XL MD5 Hash Quine

https://stackchk.fail/blog/jxl_hashquine_writeup

8 months ago

WordPress plugin quirk resulted in UK Gov OBR Budget leak [pdf]

https://obr.uk/docs/dlm_uploads/01122025-Investigation-into-November-2025-EFO-publication-error.pdf

8 months ago

'A full-blown crisis': Americans brace for a surge in healthcare costs

https://www.ft.com/content/beec76df-8e6d-4238-bae2-e51683b62aa4

8 months ago

Ask HN: Quality of recent gens of Dell/Lenovo laptops worse than 10 years ago?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46108071

8 months ago

A lost Amazon world just reappeared in Bolivia

https://www.frontiersin.org/news/2025/11/06/landscapes-that-remember-indigenous-peoples-thrived-amazon

8 months ago

WhatsApp will become interoperable with other messaging apps in Europe

https://tuta.com/blog/whatsapp-interoperable-in-europe

8 months ago

Lawmakers Want to Ban VPNs–and They Have No Idea What They're Doing

https://www.techdirt.com/2025/12/01/lawmakers-want-to-ban-vpns-and-they-have-no-idea-what-theyre-doing/

8 months ago

AWS data centers' water use tied to spike in cancer and miscarriages in Oregon

https://techoreon.com/oregon-data-centers-water-use-nitrates-cancer-miscarriage/

8 months ago

ImAnim: Modern animation capabilities to ImGui applications

https://github.com/soufianekhiat/ImAnim

8 months ago

Durin is a library for reading and writing the Dwarf debugging format

https://github.com/tmcgilchrist/durin

8 months ago

Vanity activities

https://quarter--mile.com/vanity-activities

8 months ago