766
1021
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/
2 months ago
720
367
It’s time to free JavaScript (2024)
https://javascript.tm/letter
704
661
How elites could shape mass preferences as AI reduces persuasion costs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.04047
605
115
PGlite – Embeddable Postgres
https://pglite.dev/
547
243
I ignore the spotlight as a staff engineer
https://lalitm.com/software-engineering-outside-the-spotlight/
514
253
Transparent leadership beats servant leadership
https://entropicthoughts.com/transparent-leadership-beats-servant-leadership
474
202
Unreal Tournament 2004 is back
https://old.reddit.com/r/unrealtournament/comments/1pdbe69/breaking_unreal_tournament_2004_is_back/
451
574
Thoughts on Go vs. Rust vs. Zig
https://sinclairtarget.com/blog/2025/08/thoughts-on-go-vs.-rust-vs.-zig/
444
337
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/
412
416
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
403
181
Uncloud - Tool for deploying containerised apps across servers without k8s
https://uncloud.run/
398
307
We gave 5 LLMs $100K to trade stocks for 8 months
https://www.aitradearena.com/research/we-ran-llms-for-8-months
391
186
Django 6
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/6.0/releases/6.0/
380
405
The RAM shortage comes for us all
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/ram-shortage-comes-us-all
327
45
Multivox: Volumetric Display
https://github.com/AncientJames/multivox
324
The "confident idiot" problem: Why AI needs hard rules, not vibe checks
https://steerlabs.substack.com/p/confident-idiot-problem
284
294
Fighting the age-gated internet
https://www.wired.com/story/age-verification-is-sweeping-the-us-activists-are-fighting-back/
271
90
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/
265
328
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
258
113
Tunnl.gg
https://tunnl.gg
257
49
I have been writing a niche history blog for 15 years
https://resobscura.substack.com/p/why-i-have-been-writing-a-niche-history
250
208
A Cozy Mk IV light aircraft crashed after 3D-printed part was weakened by heat
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1w932vqye0o
218
Programming peaked
https://functional.computer/blog/programming-peaked
211
99
30 years ago today "Netscape and Sun announce JavaScript"
https://web.archive.org/web/20070916144913/http://wp.netscape.com/newsref/pr/newsrelease67.html
207
95
State of AI: An Empirical 100T Token Study with OpenRouter
https://openrouter.ai/state-of-ai
201
157
Show HN: Onlyrecipe 2.0 – I added all features HN requested – 4 years later
https://onlyrecipeapp.com/?url=https://www.allrecipes.com/turkish-pasta-recipe-8754903
185
64
Map of all the buildings in the world
https://gizmodo.com/literally-a-map-showing-all-the-buildings-in-the-world-2000694696
183
62
Proxmox Datacenter Manager 1.0 available
https://www.proxmox.com/en/about/company-details/press-releases/proxmox-datacenter-manager-1-0
176
154
Japanese four-cylinder engine is so reliable still in production after 25 years
https://www.topspeed.com/reliable-japanese-four-cylinder-engine-still-in-production/
89
Bootloader Unlock Wall of Shame
https://github.com/zenfyrdev/bootloader-unlock-wall-of-shame
158
The Free Software Foundation Europe deleted its account on X
https://fsfe.org/news/2025/news-20251204-01.en.html
33
Show HN: Fanfa – Interactive and animated Mermaid diagrams
https://fanfa.dev/
140
Functional Quadtrees
https://lbjgruppen.com/en/posts/functional-quadtree-clojure
134
267
Cassette tapes are making a comeback?
https://theconversation.com/cassette-tapes-are-making-a-comeback-yes-really-268108
132
15
CUDA-l2: Surpassing cuBLAS performance for matrix multiplication through RL
https://github.com/deepreinforce-ai/CUDA-L2
129
63
Human hair grows through 'pulling' not pushing, study shows
https://phys.org/news/2025-12-human-hair.html
127
75
Show HN: Kraa – Writing App for Everything
https://kraa.io/about
126
31
Scientists create ultra fast memory using light
https://www.isi.edu/news/81186/scientists-create-ultra-fast-memory-using-light/
122
61
CJEU has made it effectively impossible to run a user-generated platform legally
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/12/04/eus-top-court-just-made-it-literally-impossible-to-run-a-user-generated-content-platform-legally/
118
9
StardustOS: Library operating system for building light-weight Unikernels
https://github.com/StardustOS
109
56
The rapid growth of data centres is delaying new homes in London
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0mpr1mvwj3o
101
172
The web runs on tolerance
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/12/the-web-runs-on-tolerance/
100
26
Super-Flat ASTs
https://jhwlr.io/super-flat-ast/
98
17
Recreating the lost SDK for a 42-year-old operating system: VisiCorp Visi On
https://git.sr.ht/~nkali/vision-sdk/tree/main/item/note/index.md
83
Uninitialized garbage on ia64 can be deadly (2004)
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20040119-00/?p=41003
94
32
Show HN: A Minimal Monthly Task Planner (printable, offline, no signup)
https://printcalendar.top/
91
23
PyTogether: Collaborative lightweight real-time Python IDE for teachers/learners
https://github.com/SJRiz/pytogether
25
Feynman vs. Computer
https://entropicthoughts.com/feynman-vs-computer
88
14
Building optimistic UI in Rails (and learn custom elements)
https://railsdesigner.com/custom-elements/
78
36
Countdown until the AI bubble bursts
https://pop-the-bubble.xyz/
71
24
AWS Trainium3 Deep Dive – A Potential Challenger Approaching
https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/aws-trainium3-deep-dive-a-potential
20
Rsync.net Technical Notes – Q4 2025
https://www.rsync.net/resources/notes/2025-q4-rsync.net_technotes.html
69
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Russia Bans Roblox
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn41q11gy58o
RAM is so expensive, Samsung won't even sell it to Samsung