top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-12-05

Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros

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

8 months ago

Cloudflare was down

https://www.cloudflare.com/

8 months ago

Cloudflare outage on December 5, 2025

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

8 months ago

Gemini 3 Pro: the frontier of vision AI

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

8 months ago

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

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

8 months ago

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/

8 months ago

Most technical problems are people problems

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

8 months ago

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/

8 months ago

UniFi 5G

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

8 months ago

Kenyan court declares law banning seed sharing unconstitutional

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

8 months ago

Leaving Intel

https://www.brendangregg.com/blog//2025-12-05/leaving-intel.html

8 months ago

Trick users and bypass warnings – Modern SVG Clickjacking attacks

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

8 months ago

Patterns for Defensive Programming in Rust

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

8 months ago

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

8 months ago

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

8 months ago

Cloudflare Down Again – and DownDetector Is Also Down

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

8 months ago

Italy's longest-serving barista reflects on six decades behind the counter

https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/culture-current/anna-possi-six-decades-behind-counter-italys-bar-centrale-2025-11-20/

8 months ago

When a video codec wins an Emmy

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/av1-video-codec-wins-emmy/

8 months ago

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

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

8 months ago

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

8 months ago

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/

8 months ago

Jolla Phone Pre-Order

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

8 months ago

Emacs is my new window manager (2015)

https://www.howardism.org/Technical/Emacs/new-window-manager.html

8 months ago

I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46163121

8 months ago

Making RSS More Fun

https://matduggan.com/making-rss-more-fun/

8 months ago

Judge Signals Win for Software Freedom Conservancy in Vizio GPL Case

https://fossforce.com/2025/12/judge-signals-win-for-software-freedom-conservancy-in-vizio-gpl-case/

8 months ago

Advertising as a major source of human dissatisfaction (2019) [pdf]

https://www.andrewoswald.com/docs/AdvertisingMicheletal2019EasterlinVolume.pdf

8 months ago

Why we built Lightpanda in Zig

https://lightpanda.io/blog/posts/why-we-built-lightpanda-in-zig

8 months ago

Adenosine on the common path of rapid antidepressant action: The coffee paradox

https://genomicpress.kglmeridian.com/view/journals/brainmed/aop/article-10.61373-bm025c.0134/article-10.61373-bm025c.0134.xml

8 months ago

The effect of shingles vaccination at different stages of dementia

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

8 months ago

Frank Gehry has died

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y2p22z9gno

8 months ago

Microsoft Download Center Archive

https://legacyupdate.net/download-center/

8 months ago

Synadia and TigerBeetle Pledge $512k to the Zig Software Foundation

https://tigerbeetle.com/blog/2025-10-25-synadia-and-tigerbeetle-pledge-512k-to-the-zig-software-foundation/

8 months ago

Framework Sponsors CachyOS

https://discuss.cachyos.org/t/framework-sponsorship-for-cachyos/19376

8 months ago

NeurIPS 2025 Best Paper Awards

https://blog.neurips.cc/2025/11/26/announcing-the-neurips-2025-best-paper-awards/

8 months ago

Perpetual futures, explained

https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/perpetual-futures-explained/

8 months ago

The missing standard library for multithreading in JavaScript

https://github.com/W4G1/multithreading

8 months ago

Sugars, Gum, Stardust Found in NASA's Asteroid Bennu Samples

https://www.nasa.gov/missions/osiris-rex/sugars-gum-stardust-found-in-nasas-asteroid-bennu-samples/

8 months ago

Typewriter Plotters (2022)

https://biosrhythm.com/?p=2143

8 months ago

Writing our own cheat engine (2021)

https://lonami.dev/blog/woce-1/

8 months ago

Fizz Buzz in CSS

https://susam.net/fizz-buzz-in-css.html

8 months ago

The AI Backlash Is Here: Why Public Patience with Tech Giants Is Running Out

https://www.newsweek.com/ai-backlash-openai-meta-friend-10807425

8 months ago

WikiFlix: Full Movies Hosted on Wikimedia Commons

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Spinster/WikiFlix

8 months ago

The Ofcom Files, Part 4: Ofcom Rides Again

https://prestonbyrne.com/2025/12/04/the-ofcom-files-part-4-ofcom-rides-again/

8 months ago

Blogging in 2025: Screaming into the Void

https://askmike.org/articles/blogging-in-2025-screaming-into-the-void/

8 months ago

Jony Ive's OpenAI Device Barred From Using 'io' Name

https://www.macrumors.com/2025/12/05/openai-device-barred-from-io-name/

8 months ago

Detainees at 'Alligator Alcatraz' facing 'harrowing human right violations'

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/04/alligator-alcatraz-human-right-violations-amnesty-report

8 months ago

Linus Torvalds thinks Elon Musk is 'too stupid' to be working at a tech company

https://www.neowin.net/news/linux-creator-torvalds-thinks-elon-musk-is-too-stupid-to-be-working-at-a-tech-company/

8 months ago

A two-person method to simulate die rolls (2023)

https://blog.42yeah.is/algorithm/2023/08/05/two-person-die.html

8 months ago

Wall Street races to protect itself from AI bubble

https://rollingout.com/2025/12/05/wall-street-protects-itself-ai-bubble/

8 months ago

Rats Snatching Bats Out of the Air and Eating Them–Researchers Got It on Video

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/rats-are-snatching-bats-out-of-the-air-and-eating-them-and-researchers-got-it-on-video-180987610/

8 months ago