top 20 hacker news stories for 2025-12-05

Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros

https://about.netflix.com/en/news/netflix-to-acquire-warner-bros

16 hours ago

1494 upvotes – 1161 comments

Cloudflare was down

https://www.cloudflare.com/

19 hours ago

814 upvotes – 518 comments

Cloudflare outage on December 5, 2025

https://blog.cloudflare.com/5-december-2025-outage/

12 hours ago

576 upvotes – 439 comments

Netflix’s AV1 Journey: From Android to TVs and Beyond

https://netflixtechblog.com/av1-now-powering-30-of-netflix-streaming-02f592242d80

a day ago

488 upvotes – 256 comments

BMW PHEV: Safety fuse replacement is extremely expensive

https://evclinic.eu/2025/12/04/2021-phev-bmw-ibmucp-21f37e-post-crash-recovery-when-eu-engineering-becomes-a-synonym-for-unrepairable-generating-waste/

a day ago

423 upvotes – 483 comments

The US polluters that are rewriting the EU's human rights and climate law

https://www.somo.nl/the-secretive-cabal-of-us-polluters-that-is-rewriting-the-eus-human-rights-and-climate-law/

18 hours ago

422 upvotes – 249 comments

Gemini 3 Pro: the frontier of vision AI

https://blog.google/technology/developers/gemini-3-pro-vision/

12 hours ago

373 upvotes – 193 comments

UniFi 5G

https://blog.ui.com/article/introducing-unifi-5g

21 hours ago

353 upvotes – 285 comments

Most technical problems are people problems

https://blog.joeschrag.com/2023/11/most-technical-problems-are-really.html

15 hours ago

343 upvotes – 253 comments

Trick users and bypass warnings – Modern SVG Clickjacking attacks

https://lyra.horse/blog/2025/12/svg-clickjacking/

a day ago

323 upvotes – 55 comments

Cloudflare Down Again – and DownDetector Is Also Down

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46158200

19 hours ago

306 upvotes – 163 comments

Kenyan court declares law banning seed sharing unconstitutional

https://apnews.com/article/kenya-seed-sharing-law-ruling-ad4df5a364299b3a9f8515c0f52d5f80

19 hours ago

303 upvotes – 100 comments

Framework Laptop 13 gets ARM processor with 12 cores via upgrade kit

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Framework-Laptop-13-gets-ARM-processor-with-12-cores-via-upgrade-kit.1177930.0.html

12 hours ago

286 upvotes – 134 comments

Covid-19 mRNA Vaccination and 4-Year All-Cause Mortality

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2842305

13 hours ago

255 upvotes – 277 comments

Influential study on glyphosate safety retracted 25 years after publication

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/environment/article/2025/12/03/influential-study-on-glyphosate-safety-retracted-25-years-after-publication_6748114_114.html

14 hours ago

252 upvotes – 231 comments

State Department to deny visas to fact checkers and others, citing 'censorship'

https://www.npr.org/2025/12/04/nx-s1-5633444/trump-content-moderation-visas-censorship

a day ago

250 upvotes – 260 comments

Patterns for Defensive Programming in Rust

https://corrode.dev/blog/defensive-programming/

11 hours ago

224 upvotes – 41 comments

Jolla Phone Pre-Order

https://commerce.jolla.com/products/jolla-phone-preorder

13 hours ago

219 upvotes – 216 comments

A $20 drug in Europe requires a prescription and $800 in the U.S.

https://www.statnews.com/2025/10/31/why-miebo-costs-40-times-more-than-its-european-version/

7 hours ago

210 upvotes – 204 comments

The effect of shingles vaccination at different stages of dementia

https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(25)01256-5

10 hours ago

197 upvotes – 163 comments
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