top 20 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

Uncloud - Tool for deploying containerised apps across servers without k8s

https://uncloud.run/

8 months ago

We gave 5 LLMs $100K to trade stocks for 8 months

https://www.aitradearena.com/research/we-ran-llms-for-8-months

8 months ago

Django 6

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/6.0/releases/6.0/

8 months ago

The RAM shortage comes for us all

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/ram-shortage-comes-us-all

8 months ago

Multivox: Volumetric Display

https://github.com/AncientJames/multivox

8 months ago

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The "confident idiot" problem: Why AI needs hard rules, not vibe checks

https://steerlabs.substack.com/p/confident-idiot-problem

8 months ago

Fighting the age-gated internet

https://www.wired.com/story/age-verification-is-sweeping-the-us-activists-are-fighting-back/

8 months ago

Booting Linux in QEMU and Writing PID 1 in Go to Illustrate Kernel as Program

https://serversfor.dev/linux-inside-out/the-linux-kernel-is-just-a-program/

8 months ago

Autism should not be treated as a single condition

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2025/12/03/why-autism-should-not-be-treated-as-a-single-condition

8 months ago

Tunnl.gg

https://tunnl.gg

8 months ago