top 10 hacker news stories for 2025-12-04

Why are 38 percent of Stanford students saying they're disabled?

https://reason.com/2025/12/04/why-are-38-percent-of-stanford-students-saying-theyre-disabled/

8 months ago

It’s time to free JavaScript (2024)

https://javascript.tm/letter

8 months ago

How elites could shape mass preferences as AI reduces persuasion costs

https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.04047

8 months ago

PGlite – Embeddable Postgres

https://pglite.dev/

8 months ago

I ignore the spotlight as a staff engineer

https://lalitm.com/software-engineering-outside-the-spotlight/

8 months ago

Transparent leadership beats servant leadership

https://entropicthoughts.com/transparent-leadership-beats-servant-leadership

8 months ago

Unreal Tournament 2004 is back

https://old.reddit.com/r/unrealtournament/comments/1pdbe69/breaking_unreal_tournament_2004_is_back/

8 months ago

Thoughts on Go vs. Rust vs. Zig

https://sinclairtarget.com/blog/2025/08/thoughts-on-go-vs.-rust-vs.-zig/

8 months ago

Microsoft drops AI sales targets in half after salespeople miss their quotas

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/12/microsoft-slashes-ai-sales-growth-targets-as-customers-resist-unproven-agents/

8 months ago

RAM is so expensive, Samsung won't even sell it to Samsung

https://www.pcworld.com/article/2998935/ram-is-so-expensive-samsung-wont-even-sell-it-to-samsung.html

8 months ago