top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-12-03

Ghostty is now non-profit

https://mitchellh.com/writing/ghostty-non-profit

8 months ago

1343 upvotes – 289 comments

Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service

https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/02/zig_quits_github_microsoft_ai_obsession/

8 months ago

1066 upvotes – 615 comments

Everyone in Seattle hates AI

https://jonready.com/blog/posts/everyone-in-seattle-hates-ai.html

8 months ago

967 upvotes – 1065 comments

Accepting US car standards would risk European lives

https://etsc.eu/accepting-us-car-standards-would-risk-european-lives-warn-cities-and-civil-society/

8 months ago

860 upvotes – 724 comments

“Captain Gains” on Capitol Hill

https://www.nber.org/papers/w34524

8 months ago

829 upvotes – 584 comments

Reverse engineering a $1B Legal AI tool exposed 100k+ confidential files

https://alexschapiro.com/security/vulnerability/2025/12/02/filevine-api-100k

8 months ago

821 upvotes – 288 comments

Micron Announces Exit from Crucial Consumer Business

https://investors.micron.com/news-releases/news-release-details/micron-announces-exit-crucial-consumer-business

8 months ago

763 upvotes – 392 comments

RCE Vulnerability in React and Next.js

https://github.com/vercel/next.js/security/advisories/GHSA-9qr9-h5gf-34mp

8 months ago

628 upvotes – 258 comments

1D Conway's Life glider found, 3.7B cells long

https://conwaylife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?&p=222136#p222136

8 months ago

526 upvotes – 215 comments

MinIO is now in maintenance-mode

https://github.com/minio/minio/commit/27742d469462e1561c776f88ca7a1f26816d69e2

8 months ago

511 upvotes – 322 comments

Helldivers 2 devs slash install size from 154GB to 23GB

https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/pc-gaming/helldivers-2-install-size-slashed-from-154gb-to-just-23gb-85-percent-reduction-accomplished-by-de-duplicating-game-data-an-optimization-for-older-mechanical-hard-drives

8 months ago

437 upvotes – 284 comments

The "Mad Men" in 4K on HBO Max Debacle

http://fxrant.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-mad-men-in-4k-on-hbo-max-debacle.html

8 months ago

403 upvotes – 169 comments

Show HN: I built a dashboard to compare mortgage rates across 120 credit unions

https://finfam.app/blog/credit-union-mortgages

8 months ago

393 upvotes – 130 comments

Anthropic taps IPO lawyers as it races OpenAI to go public

https://www.ft.com/content/3254fa30-5bdb-4c30-8560-7cd7ebbefc5f

8 months ago

367 upvotes – 305 comments

Japanese game devs face font dilemma as license increases from $380 to $20k

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/japanese-devs-face-font-licensing-dilemma-as-leading-provider-increases-annual-plan-price-from-380-to-20000

8 months ago

337 upvotes – 202 comments

Turtletoy

https://turtletoy.net/

8 months ago

317 upvotes – 60 comments

Steam Deck lead reveals Valve is funding ARM compatibility of Windows games

https://frvr.com/blog/news/steam-deck-lead-reveals-valve-is-funding-arm-compatibility-of-windows-games-to-expand-pc-gaming-and-release-ultraportables-in-the-future/

8 months ago

298 upvotes – 15 comments

Interview with RollerCoaster Tycoon's Creator, Chris Sawyer (2024)

https://medium.com/atari-club/interview-with-rollercoaster-tycoons-creator-chris-sawyer-684a0efb0f13

8 months ago

292 upvotes – 54 comments

Helldivers 2 on-disk size 85% reduction

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/553850/view/491583942944621371

8 months ago

276 upvotes – 311 comments

You can't fool the optimizer

https://xania.org/202512/03-more-adding-integers

8 months ago

267 upvotes – 189 comments

A compact camera built using an optical mouse

https://petapixel.com/2025/11/13/this-guy-built-a-compact-camera-using-an-optical-mouse/

8 months ago

246 upvotes – 49 comments

Are we repeating the telecoms crash with AI datacenters?

https://martinalderson.com/posts/are-we-really-repeating-the-telecoms-crash-with-ai-datacenters/

8 months ago

241 upvotes – 194 comments

Kohler Can Access Pictures from "End-to-End Encrypted" Toilet Camera

https://varlogsimon.leaflet.pub/3m6zrw6k2bs2p?interactionDrawer=quotes

8 months ago

237 upvotes – 219 comments

Why are my headphones buzzing whenever I run my game?

https://alexene.dev/2025/12/03/Why-do-my-headphones-buzz-when-i-run-my-game.html

8 months ago

226 upvotes – 142 comments

India scraps order to pre-install state-run cyber safety app on smartphones

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clydg2re4d1o

8 months ago

204 upvotes – 67 comments

Show HN: Fresh – A new terminal editor built in Rust

https://sinelaw.github.io/fresh/

8 months ago

187 upvotes – 150 comments

Mapping the US healthcare system’s financial flows

https://healthisotherpeople.substack.com/p/an-abominable-creature

8 months ago

178 upvotes – 169 comments

Show HN: HCB Mobile – financial app built by 17 y/o, processing $6M/month

https://hackclub.com/fiscal-sponsorship/mobile/

8 months ago

176 upvotes – 68 comments

Lie groups are crucial to some of the most fundamental theories in physics

https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-are-lie-groups-20251203/

8 months ago

174 upvotes – 59 comments

8086 Microcode Browser

https://nand2mario.github.io/posts/2025/8086_microcode_browser/

8 months ago

152 upvotes – 3 comments

Acme, a brief history of one of the protocols which has changed the Internet

https://blog.brocas.org/2025/12/01/ACME-a-brief-history-of-one-of-the-protocols-which-has-changed-the-Internet-Security/

8 months ago

146 upvotes – 89 comments

Show HN: Microlandia, a brutally honest city builder

https://microlandia.city

8 months ago

144 upvotes – 25 comments

Launch HN: Phind 3 (YC S22) – Every answer is a mini-app

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46137548

8 months ago

138 upvotes – 94 comments

Critical RCE Vulnerabilities in React and Next.js

https://www.wiz.io/blog/critical-vulnerability-in-react-cve-2025-55182

8 months ago

134 upvotes – 77 comments

Kea DHCP: Modern, open source DHCPv4 and DHCPv6 server

https://www.isc.org/kea/

8 months ago

130 upvotes – 53 comments

Microsoft lowers AI software growth targets

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/microsoft-lowers-ai-software-sales-141531121.html

8 months ago

130 upvotes – 97 comments

Transformers know more than they can tell: Learning the Collatz sequence

https://www.arxiv.org/pdf/2511.10811

8 months ago

129 upvotes – 45 comments

Jujutsu worktrees are convenient (2024)

https://shaddy.dev/notes/jj-worktrees/

8 months ago

128 upvotes – 113 comments

No ARIA is better than bad ARIA

https://www.w3.org/WAI/ARIA/apg/practices/read-me-first/

8 months ago

126 upvotes – 97 comments

Vanilla CSS is all you need

https://www.zolkos.com/2025/12/03/vanilla-css-is-all-you-need

8 months ago

126 upvotes – 17 comments

Building a Toast Component

https://emilkowal.ski/ui/building-a-toast-component

8 months ago

119 upvotes – 42 comments

GSWT: Gaussian Splatting Wang Tiles

https://yunfan.zone/gswt_webpage/

8 months ago

118 upvotes – 25 comments

AI Is Breaking the Moral Foundation of Modern Society

https://eyeofthesquid.com/ai-is-breaking-the-moral-foundation-of-modern-society-a145d471694f

8 months ago

111 upvotes – 191 comments

Putting email in its place with Emacs and Mu4e

https://eamonnsullivan.co.uk/posts-output/email-setup/2025-12-3-putting-email-in-its-place/

8 months ago

110 upvotes – 54 comments

Checked-size array parameters in C

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1046840/3eb9029084cc9e1e/

8 months ago

110 upvotes – 60 comments

Why doesn't Apple make a standalone Touch ID?

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/why-doesnt-apple-make-standalone-touch-id

8 months ago

107 upvotes – 101 comments

Researchers Find Microbe Capable of Producing Oxygen from Martian Soil

https://scienceclock.com/microbe-that-could-turn-martian-dust-into-oxygen/

8 months ago

105 upvotes – 41 comments

Quad9 DOH HTTP/1.1 Retirement, December 15, 2025

https://quad9.net/news/blog/doh-http-1-1-retirement/

8 months ago

103 upvotes – 61 comments

VA staff flag dangerous errors in Oracle-built electronic health record

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2025/12/03/veterans-administration-va-hospitals-health/

8 months ago

102 upvotes – 41 comments

OSHW: Small tablet based on RK3568 and AMOLED screen

https://oshwhub.com/oglggc/rui-xin-wei-rk3568-si-ceng-jia-li-chuang-mian-fei-gong-yi

8 months ago

101 upvotes – 40 comments

Understanding ECDSA

https://avidthinker.github.io/2025/11/28/understanding-ecdsa/

8 months ago

100 upvotes – 21 comments

Apple will not let me join the Developer Program – and will not say why

https://blog.kulman.sk/apple-developer-program/

8 months ago

98 upvotes – 44 comments

Greeting Vocalizations in Domestic Cats Are More Frequent with Male Caregivers

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/eth.70033

8 months ago

92 upvotes – 70 comments

Prompt Injection via Poetry

https://www.wired.com/story/poems-can-trick-ai-into-helping-you-make-a-nuclear-weapon/

8 months ago

90 upvotes – 35 comments

Satellite captures the first detailed look at a giant tsunami

https://www.earth.com/news/satellite-captures-the-first-detailed-look-at-a-giant-tsunami/

8 months ago

77 upvotes – 4 comments

Sending DMARC reports is somewhat hazardous

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/spam/DMARCSendingReportsProblems

8 months ago

76 upvotes – 29 comments

Agentic Development Environment by JetBrains

https://air.dev

8 months ago

74 upvotes – 64 comments

Critical Security Vulnerability in React Server Components

https://react.dev/blog/2025/12/03/critical-security-vulnerability-in-react-server-components

8 months ago

70 upvotes – 6 comments

Codeberg is down

https://status.codeberg.org/status/codeberg

8 months ago

69 upvotes – 47 comments

After nearly 30 years, Crucial will stop selling RAM to consumers

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/12/after-nearly-30-years-crucial-will-stop-selling-ram-to-consumers/

8 months ago

69 upvotes – 31 comments

The only winning move is not to play

https://gregg.io/the-only-winning-move

8 months ago

68 upvotes – 24 comments
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