846
333
Icons in Menus Everywhere – Send Help
https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/icons-in-menus/
2 months ago
641
393
The highest quality codebase
https://gricha.dev/blog/the-highest-quality-codebase
494
199
The fuck off contact page
https://www.nicchan.me/blog/the-f-off-contact-page/
477
575
Microsoft increases Office 365 and Microsoft 365 license prices
https://office365itpros.com/2025/12/08/microsoft-365-pricing-increase/
449
362
IBM to acquire Confluent
https://www.confluent.io/blog/ibm-to-acquire-confluent/
444
262
GitHub Actions has a package manager, and it might be the worst
https://nesbitt.io/2025/12/06/github-actions-package-manager.html
432
165
Jepsen: NATS 2.12.1
https://jepsen.io/analyses/nats-2.12.1
427
372
Microsoft has a problem: lack of demand for its AI products
https://www.windowscentral.com/artificial-intelligence/microsoft-has-a-problem-nobody-wants-to-buy-or-use-its-shoddy-ai
421
702
Has the cost of building software dropped 90%?
https://martinalderson.com/posts/has-the-cost-of-software-just-dropped-90-percent/
367
406
Paramount launches hostile bid for Warner Bros
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/08/paramount-skydance-hostile-bid-wbd-netflix.html
349
160
Strong earthquake hits northern Japan, tsunami warning issued
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20251209_02/
329
86
Let's put Tailscale on a jailbroken Kindle
https://tailscale.com/blog/tailscale-jailbroken-kindle
302
169
NVIDIA frenemy relation with OpenAI and Oracle
https://philippeoger.com/pages/deep-dive-into-nvidias-virtuous-cycle
289
124
Hunting for North Korean Fiber Optic Cables
https://nkinternet.com/2025/12/08/hunting-for-north-korean-fiber-optic-cables/
279
51
AMD GPU Debugger
https://thegeeko.me/blog/amd-gpu-debugging/
276
330
Kroger acknowledges that its bet on robotics went too far
https://www.grocerydive.com/news/kroger-ocado-close-automated-fulfillment-centers-robotics-grocery-ecommerce/805931/
260
218
Uber is turning data about trips and takeout into insights for marketers
https://www.businessinsider.com/uber-ads-launches-intelligence-insights-trips-takeout-data-marketers-2025-12
258
Twelve Days of Shell
https://12days.cmdchallenge.com
257
121
Bad Dye Job
https://daringfireball.net/2025/12/bad_dye_job
242
70
Damn Small Linux
https://www.damnsmalllinux.org/
209
164
Google confirms Android attacks; no fix for most Samsung users
https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2025/12/08/google-confirms-android-attacks-no-fix-for-most-samsung-users/
204
26
A series of tricks and techniques I learned doing tiny GLSL demos
https://blog.pkh.me/p/48-a-series-of-tricks-and-techniques-i-learned-doing-tiny-glsl-demos.html
198
182
AI should only run as fast as we can catch up
https://higashi.blog/2025/12/07/ai-verification/
189
53
Flow: Actor-based language for C++, used by FoundationDB
https://github.com/apple/foundationdb/tree/main/flow
188
98
In the Beginning was the Command Line (1999)
https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs81n/command.txt
177
133
Show HN: I built a system for active note-taking in regular meetings like 1-1s
https://withdocket.com
175
173
No more O'Reilly subscriptions for me
https://zerokspot.com/weblog/2025/12/05/no-more-oreilly-subscriptions-for-me/
174
61
Trials avoid high risk patients and underestimate drug harms
https://www.nber.org/papers/w34534
108
Using Python for Scripting
https://hypirion.com/musings/use-python-for-scripting
123
Palantir could be the most overvalued company that ever existed
https://247wallst.com/investing/2025/11/25/palantir-could-be-the-most-overvalued-company-that-ever-existed/
152
How the Brain Parses Language
https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-polyglot-neuroscientist-resolving-how-the-brain-parses-language-20251205/
143
79
Python Workers redux: fast cold starts, packages, and a uv-first workflow
https://blog.cloudflare.com/python-workers-advancements/
142
119
Microservices should form a polytree
https://bytesauna.com/post/microservices
136
1
7.6 earthquake off the coast of Japan
https://www.data.jma.go.jp/multi/quake/quake_detail.html?eventID=20251208232600&lang=en
How exchanges turn order books into distributed logs
https://quant.engineering/exchange-order-book-distributed-logs.html
60
Why the Sanitizer API is just `setHTML()`
https://frederikbraun.de/why-sethtml.html
35
Quanta to publish popular math and physics books by Terence Tao and David Tong
https://www.simonsfoundation.org/2025/12/08/quanta-books-to-publish-popular-math-and-physics-titles-by-terence-tao-and-david-tong/
4
Tsunami warning issued after 7.6-magnitude earthquake strikes Japan
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/?currentFeatureId=us6000rtdt&extent=-5.61599,111.26953&extent=70.40735,173.14453
29
From Azure Functions to FreeBSD
https://jmmv.dev/2025/12/from-azure-functions-to-freebsd.html
131
87
Launch HN: Nia (YC S25) – Give better context to coding agents
https://www.trynia.ai/
128
67
GitHub no longer uses Toasts
https://primer.style/accessibility/toasts/
118
The Nova Programming Language
https://nova-lang.net
117
We collected 10k hours of neuro-language data in our basement
https://condu.it/thought/10k-hours
Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Definitive Oral History of a TV Masterpiece
https://www.wired.com/2014/04/mst3k-oral-history/
116
92
I successfully recreated the 1996 Space Jam website with Claude
https://theahura.substack.com/p/i-successfully-recreated-the-1996
107
90
Alignment is capability
https://www.off-policy.com/alignment-is-capability/
105
34
Show HN: Lockenv – Simple encrypted secrets storage for Git
https://github.com/illarion/lockenv
103
Delivery robots take over Chicago sidewalks
https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/12/08/delivery-robots-take-over-chicago-sidewalks-sparking-debate-and-a-petition-to-hit-pause/
25
Indexing 100M vectors in 20 minutes on PostgreSQL with 12GB RAM
https://blog.vectorchord.ai/how-we-made-100m-vector-indexing-in-20-minutes-possible-on-postgresql
89
22
Good conversations have lots of doorknobs (2022)
https://www.experimental-history.com/p/good-conversations-have-lots-of-doorknobs
38
How the Creator Economy Destroyed the Internet
https://www.theverge.com/cs/features/810002/influencers-creator-economy-special-series
Socialist ends by market means: A history
https://lucasvance.github.io/2100/history/
13
Einstein: NewtonOS running on other operating systems
https://github.com/pguyot/Einstein
85
Bit flips: How cosmic rays grounded a fleet of aircraft
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20251201-how-cosmic-rays-grounded-thousands-of-aircraft
65
An attempt to articulate Forth's practical strengths and eternal usefulness
https://im-just-lee.ing/forth-why-cb234c03.txt
84
42
Spinlocks vs. Mutexes: When to Spin and When to Sleep
https://howtech.substack.com/p/spinlocks-vs-mutexes-when-to-spin
A 'toaster with a lens': The story behind the first handheld digital camera
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20251205-how-the-handheld-digital-camera-was-born
83
Running on Empty: Copper
https://thehonestsorcerer.substack.com/p/running-on-empty-copper
6
Obscuring P2P Nodes with Dandelion
https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2025/12/08/dandelion/
81
97
Cancer is surging, bringing a debate about whether to look for it
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/health/cancer-young-people-deaths.html
Why Startups Die
https://www.techfounderstack.com/p/why-startups-die
99
Applets are officially gone, but Java in the browser is better
https://frequal.com/java/AppletsGoneButJavaInTheBrowserBetterThanEver.html
78
40
Berkshire Hathaway Announces Leadership Appointments [pdf]
https://berkshirehathaway.com/news/dec0825.pdf
77
Show HN: DuckDB for Kafka Stream Processing
https://sql-flow.com/docs/tutorials/intro/
74
7
Nearly 60% of Last Year's Graduates Still Haven't Landed Their First Job
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/nearly-60-last-years-graduates-230106983.html
73
14
Slax: Live Pocket Linux
https://www.slax.org/
The era of jobs is ending
https://www.thepavement.xyz/p/the-era-of-jobs-is-ending
68
31
Tesla Optimus robot takes a suspicious tumble in new demo
https://electrek.co/2025/12/07/tesla-optimus-robot-takes-suspicious-tumble-in-new-demo/
Golang optimizations for high‑volume services
https://packagemain.tech/p/golang-optimizations-for-highvolume
66
36
Show HN: WhatHappened – HN summaries, heatmaps, and contrarian picks
https://www.whathappened.tech/
16
Dhtml Lemmings (2004)
https://www.elizium.nu/scripts/lemmings/index.php
64
Speech and Language Processing (3rd ed. draft)
https://web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/slp3/
Python Workers redux: fast cold starts, packages, and a uv-first workflow