top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-12-02

Anthropic acquires Bun

https://bun.com/blog/bun-joins-anthropic

8 months ago

Valve reveals it’s the architect behind a push to bring Windows games to Arm

https://www.theverge.com/report/820656/valve-interview-arm-gaming-steamos-pierre-loup-griffais

8 months ago

IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending on AI data centers will pay off

https://www.businessinsider.com/ibm-ceo-big-tech-ai-capex-data-center-spending-2025-12

8 months ago

Mistral 3 family of models released

https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-3

8 months ago

OpenAI declares 'code red' as Google catches up in AI race

https://www.theverge.com/news/836212/openai-code-red-chatgpt

8 months ago

Paged Out

https://pagedout.institute

8 months ago

LLM from scratch, part 28 – training a base model from scratch on an RTX 3090

https://www.gilesthomas.com/2025/12/llm-from-scratch-28-training-a-base-model-from-scratch

8 months ago

What will enter the public domain in 2026?

https://publicdomainreview.org/features/entering-the-public-domain/2026/

8 months ago

Apple Releases Open Weights Video Model

https://starflow-v.github.io

8 months ago

100k TPS over a billion rows: the unreasonable effectiveness of SQLite

https://andersmurphy.com/2025/12/02/100000-tps-over-a-billion-rows-the-unreasonable-effectiveness-of-sqlite.html

8 months ago

Advent of Compiler Optimisations 2025

https://xania.org/202511/advent-of-compiler-optimisation

8 months ago

Claude 4.5 Opus’ Soul Document

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/vpNG99GhbBoLov9og/claude-4-5-opus-soul-document

8 months ago

Zig's new plan for asynchronous programs

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1046084/4c048ee008e1c70e/

8 months ago

The Junior Hiring Crisis

https://people-work.io/blog/junior-hiring-crisis/

8 months ago

Python Data Science Handbook

https://jakevdp.github.io/PythonDataScienceHandbook/

8 months ago

Addressing the adding situation

https://xania.org/202512/02-adding-integers

8 months ago

An Interactive Guide to the Fourier Transform

https://betterexplained.com/articles/an-interactive-guide-to-the-fourier-transform/

8 months ago

Gundam is just the same as Jane Austen but happens to include giant mech suits

https://eli.li/gundam-is-just-the-same-as-jane-austen-but-happens-to-include-giant-mech-suits

8 months ago

How Brian Eno Created Ambient 1: Music for Airports (2019)

https://reverbmachine.com/blog/deconstructing-brian-eno-music-for-airports/

8 months ago

Peter Thiel's Apocalyptic Worldview Is a Dangerous Fantasy

https://jacobin.com/2025/11/peter-thiel-palantir-apocalypse-antichrist

8 months ago

School cell phone bans and student achievement

https://www.nber.org/digest/202512/school-cell-phone-bans-and-student-achievement

8 months ago

Cloth Simulation

https://cloth.mikail-khan.com/

8 months ago

Proximity to coworkers increases long-run development, lowers short-term output (2023)

https://pallais.scholars.harvard.edu/publications/power-proximity-coworkers-training-tomorrow-or-productivity-today

8 months ago

Amazon launches Trainium3

https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/02/amazon-releases-an-impressive-new-ai-chip-and-teases-a-nvidia-friendly-roadmap/

8 months ago

Microsoft won't let me pay a $24 bill, blocking thousands in Azure spending

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46124930

8 months ago

Free static site generator for small restaurants and cafes

https://lite.localcafe.org/

8 months ago

A series of vignettes from my childhood and early career

https://www.jasonscheirer.com/weblog/vignettes/

8 months ago

Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days

https://letsencrypt.org/2025/12/02/from-90-to-45.html

8 months ago

Frinkiac – 3M "The Simpsons" Screencaps

https://frinkiac.com/

8 months ago

Reverse math shows why hard problems are hard

https://www.quantamagazine.org/reverse-mathematics-illuminates-why-hard-problems-are-hard-20251201/

8 months ago

EmacsConf 2025

https://emacsconf.org/2025/

8 months ago

Is 2026 next year?

https://www.google.com/search?q=is+2026+next+year&oq=is+2026+next+year

8 months ago

Man unexpectedly cured of HIV after stem cell transplant

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2506595-man-unexpectedly-cured-of-hiv-after-stem-cell-transplant/

8 months ago

Kids who ran away to 1960s San Francisco

https://www.fieldnotes.nautilus.quest/p/the-kids-who-ran-away-to-1960s-san

8 months ago

Beej's Guide to Learning Computer Science

https://beej.us/guide/bglcs/html/split/

8 months ago

Ecosia: The greenest AI is here

https://blog.ecosia.org/ecosia-ai/

8 months ago

Comparing AWS Lambda ARM64 vs. x86_64 Performance Across Runtimes in Late 2025

https://chrisebert.net/comparing-aws-lambda-arm64-vs-x86_64-performance-across-multiple-runtimes-in-late-2025/

8 months ago

Rootless Pings in Rust

https://bou.ke/blog/rust-ping/

8 months ago

DOOM could have had PC Speaker Music

https://lenowo.org/viewtopic.php?t=45

8 months ago

Work disincentives hit the near-poor hardest (2022)

https://www.niskanencenter.org/work-disincentives-hit-the-near-poor-hardest-why-and-what-to-do-about-it/

8 months ago

Show HN: Marmot – Single-binary data catalog (no Kafka, no Elasticsearch)

https://github.com/marmotdata/marmot

8 months ago

Ivan Sutherland Sketchpad Demo 1963 [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6orsmFndx_o

8 months ago

4.3M Browsers Infected: Inside ShadyPanda's 7-Year Malware Campaign

https://www.koi.ai/blog/4-million-browsers-infected-inside-shadypanda-7-year-malware-campaign

8 months ago

Progress on TypeScript 7 – December 2025

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/progress-on-typescript-7-december-2025/

8 months ago

Anthropic Acquires Bun

https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-acquires-bun-as-claude-code-reaches-usd1b-milestone

8 months ago

AI generated font using Nano Banana

https://constanttime.notion.site/Worlds-first-Ai-generated-font-using-nano-banana-2ba6f8e15af18012864bdb760fa9c9ba?pvs=74

8 months ago

Cursed circuits: charge pump voltage halver

https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/cursed-circuits-charge-pump-voltage

8 months ago

Finding Gene Cernan's Missing Moon Camera

https://www.spacecamera.co/articles/2020/3/3/gene-cernans-missing-lunar-surface-camera

8 months ago

Apple to beat Samsung in smartphone shipments for first time in 14 years

https://sherwood.news/tech/apple-to-beat-samsung-in-smartphone-shipments-for-first-time-in-14-years/

8 months ago

What is “literate programming”? (2024)

https://pqnelson.github.io/2024/05/29/literate-programming.html

8 months ago

Amp, Inc. – Amp is spinning out of Sourcegraph

https://ampcode.com/news/amp-inc

8 months ago

Show HN: I was reintroduced to computers: Raspberry Pi

https://airoboticist.blog/2025/12/01/i-was-reintroduced-to-computers-raspberry-pi/

8 months ago

A deep dive into QEMU: The Tiny Code Generator (TCG), part 1 (2021)

https://airbus-seclab.github.io/qemu_blog/tcg_p1.html

8 months ago

Nixtml: Static website and blog generator written in Nix

https://github.com/arnarg/nixtml

8 months ago

Why Replicate is joining Cloudflare

https://blog.cloudflare.com/why-replicate-joining-cloudflare/

8 months ago

The Absent Silence (2010)

https://www.ursulakleguin.com/blog/3-the-absent-silence

8 months ago

AI Is Destroying the University and Learning Itself

https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-destroying-the-university-and-learning-itself

8 months ago

Fossils reveal anacondas have been giants for over 12 million years

https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/twelve-million-years-of-giant-anacondas

8 months ago

Frequently Asked Unicycling Questions

https://vale.rocks/posts/unicycle-faq

8 months ago

Removed rust to gain speed

https://www.prisma.io/blog/announcing-prisma-orm-7-0-0

8 months ago