top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-12-08

Icons in Menus Everywhere – Send Help

https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/icons-in-menus/

8 months ago

The highest quality codebase

https://gricha.dev/blog/the-highest-quality-codebase

8 months ago

The fuck off contact page

https://www.nicchan.me/blog/the-f-off-contact-page/

8 months ago

Microsoft increases Office 365 and Microsoft 365 license prices

https://office365itpros.com/2025/12/08/microsoft-365-pricing-increase/

8 months ago

IBM to acquire Confluent

https://www.confluent.io/blog/ibm-to-acquire-confluent/

8 months ago

GitHub Actions has a package manager, and it might be the worst

https://nesbitt.io/2025/12/06/github-actions-package-manager.html

8 months ago

Jepsen: NATS 2.12.1

https://jepsen.io/analyses/nats-2.12.1

8 months ago

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

8 months ago

Has the cost of building software dropped 90%?

https://martinalderson.com/posts/has-the-cost-of-software-just-dropped-90-percent/

8 months ago

Paramount launches hostile bid for Warner Bros

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/08/paramount-skydance-hostile-bid-wbd-netflix.html

8 months ago

Strong earthquake hits northern Japan, tsunami warning issued

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20251209_02/

8 months ago

Let's put Tailscale on a jailbroken Kindle

https://tailscale.com/blog/tailscale-jailbroken-kindle

8 months ago

NVIDIA frenemy relation with OpenAI and Oracle

https://philippeoger.com/pages/deep-dive-into-nvidias-virtuous-cycle

8 months ago

Hunting for North Korean Fiber Optic Cables

https://nkinternet.com/2025/12/08/hunting-for-north-korean-fiber-optic-cables/

8 months ago

AMD GPU Debugger

https://thegeeko.me/blog/amd-gpu-debugging/

8 months ago

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/

8 months ago

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

8 months ago

Twelve Days of Shell

https://12days.cmdchallenge.com

8 months ago

Bad Dye Job

https://daringfireball.net/2025/12/bad_dye_job

8 months ago

Damn Small Linux

https://www.damnsmalllinux.org/

8 months ago

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/

8 months ago

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

8 months ago

AI should only run as fast as we can catch up

https://higashi.blog/2025/12/07/ai-verification/

8 months ago

Flow: Actor-based language for C++, used by FoundationDB

https://github.com/apple/foundationdb/tree/main/flow

8 months ago

In the Beginning was the Command Line (1999)

https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs81n/command.txt

8 months ago

Show HN: I built a system for active note-taking in regular meetings like 1-1s

https://withdocket.com

8 months ago

No more O'Reilly subscriptions for me

https://zerokspot.com/weblog/2025/12/05/no-more-oreilly-subscriptions-for-me/

8 months ago

Trials avoid high risk patients and underestimate drug harms

https://www.nber.org/papers/w34534

8 months ago

Using Python for Scripting

https://hypirion.com/musings/use-python-for-scripting

8 months ago

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/

8 months ago

How the Brain Parses Language

https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-polyglot-neuroscientist-resolving-how-the-brain-parses-language-20251205/

8 months ago

Python Workers redux: fast cold starts, packages, and a uv-first workflow

https://blog.cloudflare.com/python-workers-advancements/

8 months ago

Microservices should form a polytree

https://bytesauna.com/post/microservices

8 months ago

7.6 earthquake off the coast of Japan

https://www.data.jma.go.jp/multi/quake/quake_detail.html?eventID=20251208232600&lang=en

8 months ago

How exchanges turn order books into distributed logs

https://quant.engineering/exchange-order-book-distributed-logs.html

8 months ago

Why the Sanitizer API is just `setHTML()`

https://frederikbraun.de/why-sethtml.html

8 months ago

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/

8 months ago

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

8 months ago

From Azure Functions to FreeBSD

https://jmmv.dev/2025/12/from-azure-functions-to-freebsd.html

8 months ago

Launch HN: Nia (YC S25) – Give better context to coding agents

https://www.trynia.ai/

8 months ago

GitHub no longer uses Toasts

https://primer.style/accessibility/toasts/

8 months ago

The Nova Programming Language

https://nova-lang.net

8 months ago

We collected 10k hours of neuro-language data in our basement

https://condu.it/thought/10k-hours

8 months ago

Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Definitive Oral History of a TV Masterpiece

https://www.wired.com/2014/04/mst3k-oral-history/

8 months ago

I successfully recreated the 1996 Space Jam website with Claude

https://theahura.substack.com/p/i-successfully-recreated-the-1996

8 months ago

Alignment is capability

https://www.off-policy.com/alignment-is-capability/

8 months ago

Show HN: Lockenv – Simple encrypted secrets storage for Git

https://github.com/illarion/lockenv

8 months ago

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/

8 months ago

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

8 months ago

Good conversations have lots of doorknobs (2022)

https://www.experimental-history.com/p/good-conversations-have-lots-of-doorknobs

8 months ago

How the Creator Economy Destroyed the Internet

https://www.theverge.com/cs/features/810002/influencers-creator-economy-special-series

8 months ago

Socialist ends by market means: A history

https://lucasvance.github.io/2100/history/

8 months ago

Einstein: NewtonOS running on other operating systems

https://github.com/pguyot/Einstein

8 months ago

Bit flips: How cosmic rays grounded a fleet of aircraft

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20251201-how-cosmic-rays-grounded-thousands-of-aircraft

8 months ago

An attempt to articulate Forth's practical strengths and eternal usefulness

https://im-just-lee.ing/forth-why-cb234c03.txt

8 months ago

Spinlocks vs. Mutexes: When to Spin and When to Sleep

https://howtech.substack.com/p/spinlocks-vs-mutexes-when-to-spin

8 months ago

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

8 months ago

Running on Empty: Copper

https://thehonestsorcerer.substack.com/p/running-on-empty-copper

8 months ago

Obscuring P2P Nodes with Dandelion

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2025/12/08/dandelion/

8 months ago

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

8 months ago

Why Startups Die

https://www.techfounderstack.com/p/why-startups-die

8 months ago

Applets are officially gone, but Java in the browser is better

https://frequal.com/java/AppletsGoneButJavaInTheBrowserBetterThanEver.html

8 months ago

Berkshire Hathaway Announces Leadership Appointments [pdf]

https://berkshirehathaway.com/news/dec0825.pdf

8 months ago

Show HN: DuckDB for Kafka Stream Processing

https://sql-flow.com/docs/tutorials/intro/

8 months ago

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

8 months ago

Slax: Live Pocket Linux

https://www.slax.org/

8 months ago

The era of jobs is ending

https://www.thepavement.xyz/p/the-era-of-jobs-is-ending

8 months ago

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/

8 months ago

Golang optimizations for high‑volume services

https://packagemain.tech/p/golang-optimizations-for-highvolume

8 months ago

Show HN: WhatHappened – HN summaries, heatmaps, and contrarian picks

https://www.whathappened.tech/

8 months ago

Dhtml Lemmings (2004)

https://www.elizium.nu/scripts/lemmings/index.php

8 months ago

Speech and Language Processing (3rd ed. draft)

https://web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/slp3/

8 months ago