top 50% 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

★ 564 C MIT

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

I have been writing a niche history blog for 15 years

https://resobscura.substack.com/p/why-i-have-been-writing-a-niche-history

8 months ago

A Cozy Mk IV light aircraft crashed after 3D-printed part was weakened by heat

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1w932vqye0o

8 months ago

Programming peaked

https://functional.computer/blog/programming-peaked

8 months ago

30 years ago today "Netscape and Sun announce JavaScript"

https://web.archive.org/web/20070916144913/http://wp.netscape.com/newsref/pr/newsrelease67.html

8 months ago

State of AI: An Empirical 100T Token Study with OpenRouter

https://openrouter.ai/state-of-ai

8 months ago

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

8 months ago

Map of all the buildings in the world

https://gizmodo.com/literally-a-map-showing-all-the-buildings-in-the-world-2000694696

8 months ago

Proxmox Datacenter Manager 1.0 available

https://www.proxmox.com/en/about/company-details/press-releases/proxmox-datacenter-manager-1-0

8 months ago

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/

8 months ago

Bootloader Unlock Wall of Shame

https://github.com/zenfyrdev/bootloader-unlock-wall-of-shame

8 months ago

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The Free Software Foundation Europe deleted its account on X

https://fsfe.org/news/2025/news-20251204-01.en.html

8 months ago

Show HN: Fanfa – Interactive and animated Mermaid diagrams

https://fanfa.dev/

8 months ago

Functional Quadtrees

https://lbjgruppen.com/en/posts/functional-quadtree-clojure

8 months ago

Cassette tapes are making a comeback?

https://theconversation.com/cassette-tapes-are-making-a-comeback-yes-really-268108

8 months ago

CUDA-l2: Surpassing cuBLAS performance for matrix multiplication through RL

https://github.com/deepreinforce-ai/CUDA-L2

8 months ago

★ 438 Cuda MIT

Human hair grows through 'pulling' not pushing, study shows

https://phys.org/news/2025-12-human-hair.html

8 months ago

Show HN: Kraa – Writing App for Everything

https://kraa.io/about

8 months ago

Scientists create ultra fast memory using light

https://www.isi.edu/news/81186/scientists-create-ultra-fast-memory-using-light/

8 months ago

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/

8 months ago

StardustOS: Library operating system for building light-weight Unikernels

https://github.com/StardustOS

8 months ago

The rapid growth of data centres is delaying new homes in London

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0mpr1mvwj3o

8 months ago

The web runs on tolerance

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/12/the-web-runs-on-tolerance/

8 months ago

Super-Flat ASTs

https://jhwlr.io/super-flat-ast/

8 months ago

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

8 months ago

Uninitialized garbage on ia64 can be deadly (2004)

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20040119-00/?p=41003

8 months ago

Show HN: A Minimal Monthly Task Planner (printable, offline, no signup)

https://printcalendar.top/

8 months ago

PyTogether: Collaborative lightweight real-time Python IDE for teachers/learners

https://github.com/SJRiz/pytogether

8 months ago

★ 247 JavaScript MIT

Feynman vs. Computer

https://entropicthoughts.com/feynman-vs-computer

8 months ago

Building optimistic UI in Rails (and learn custom elements)

https://railsdesigner.com/custom-elements/

8 months ago

Countdown until the AI bubble bursts

https://pop-the-bubble.xyz/

8 months ago

AWS Trainium3 Deep Dive – A Potential Challenger Approaching

https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/aws-trainium3-deep-dive-a-potential

8 months ago

Rsync.net Technical Notes – Q4 2025

https://www.rsync.net/resources/notes/2025-q4-rsync.net_technotes.html

8 months ago

Russia Bans Roblox

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn41q11gy58o

8 months ago