top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-12-10

Size of Life

https://neal.fun/size-of-life/

8 months ago

Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental

https://lwn.net/Articles/1049831/

8 months ago

Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Valve-HDMI-Forum-Continues-to-Block-HDMI-2-1-for-Linux-11107440.html

8 months ago

Getting a Gemini API key is an exercise in frustration

https://ankursethi.com/blog/gemini-api-key-frustration/

8 months ago

Auto-grading decade-old Hacker News discussions with hindsight

https://karpathy.bearblog.dev/auto-grade-hn/

8 months ago

Israel used Palantir technologies in pager attack in Lebanon

https://the307.substack.com/p/revealed-israel-used-palantir-technologies

8 months ago

In New York City, congestion pricing leads to marked drop in pollution

https://e360.yale.edu/digest/new-york-congestion-pricing-pollution

8 months ago

EFF launches Age Verification Hub

https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-launches-age-verification-hub-resource-against-misguided-laws

8 months ago

I got an Nvidia GH200 server for €7.5k on Reddit and converted it to a desktop

https://dnhkng.github.io/posts/hopper/

8 months ago

Useful patterns for building HTML tools

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/10/html-tools/

8 months ago

Is it a bubble?

https://www.oaktreecapital.com/insights/memo/is-it-a-bubble

8 months ago

DeepSeek uses banned Nvidia chips for AI model, report says

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/china-deepseek-uses-banned-nvidia-131207746.html

8 months ago

Qwen3-Omni-Flash-2025-12-01:a next-generation native multimodal large model

https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3-omni-flash-20251201

8 months ago

Super Mario 64 for the PS1

https://github.com/malucard/sm64-psx

8 months ago

Revisiting "Let's Build a Compiler"

https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2025/revisiting-lets-build-a-compiler/

8 months ago

Show HN: Automated license plate reader coverage in the USA

https://alpranalysis.com

8 months ago

Developing a food-safe finish for my wooden spoons

https://alinpanaitiu.com/blog/developing-hardwax-oil/

8 months ago

Cat Gap

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_gap

8 months ago

Nature's many attempts to evolve a Nostr

https://newsletter.squishy.computer/p/natures-many-attempts-to-evolve-a

8 months ago

Stop Breaking TLS

https://www.markround.com/blog/2025/12/09/stop-breaking-tls/

8 months ago

NYC congestion pricing cuts air pollution by a fifth in six months

https://airqualitynews.com/cars-freight-transport/nyc-congestion-pricing-cuts-air-pollution-by-22-in-six-months/

8 months ago

Getting into public speaking

https://james.brooks.page/blog/getting-into-public-speaking

8 months ago

Researchers seeking better measures of cognitive fatigue

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03974-w

8 months ago

Terrain Diffusion: A Diffusion-Based Successor to Perlin Noise

https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.08309

8 months ago

The future of Terraform CDK

https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-cdk

8 months ago

Factor 0.101 now available

https://re.factorcode.org/2025/12/factor-0-101-now-available.html

8 months ago

US could ask foreign tourists for five-year social media history before entry

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1dz0g2ykpeo

8 months ago

Apple Services Experiencing Outage

https://www.apple.com/support/systemstatus/

8 months ago

'Source available' is not open source, and that's okay

https://dri.es/source-available-is-not-open-source-and-that-is-okay

8 months ago

McDonald's pulls AI Christmas ad after backlash

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czdgrnvp082o

8 months ago

Pg_ClickHouse: A Postgres extension for querying ClickHouse

https://clickhouse.com/blog/introducing-pg_clickhouse

8 months ago

RoboCrop: Teaching robots how to pick tomatoes

https://phys.org/news/2025-12-robocrop-robots-tomatoes.html

8 months ago

New benchmark shows top LLMs struggle in real mental health care

https://swordhealth.com/newsroom/sword-introduces-mindeval

8 months ago

Common Lisp, ASDF, and Quicklisp: packaging explained

https://cdegroot.com/programming/commonlisp/2025/11/26/cl-ql-asdf.html

8 months ago

When would you ever want bubblesort? (2023)

https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/when-would-you-ever-want-bubblesort/

8 months ago

Internal RFCs saved us months of wasted work

https://highimpactengineering.substack.com/p/the-illusion-of-shared-understanding

8 months ago

Cloudflare error page generator

https://github.com/donlon/cloudflare-error-page

8 months ago

COM Like a Bomb: Rust Outlook Add-in

https://tritium.legal/blog/outlook

8 months ago

Leaving the U.S. for the Netherlands

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/12/15/how-to-leave-the-usa

8 months ago

Meta's new A.I. superstars are chafing against the rest of the company

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/technology/meta-ai-tbd-lab-friction.html

8 months ago

US seizes oil tanker off coast of Venezuela

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/12/10/us-venezuela-oil-tanker/87704943007/

8 months ago

Show HN: A 2-row, 16-key keyboard designed for smartphones

https://k-keyboard.com/Why-QWERTY-mini

8 months ago

The ultra-rich are claiming an increasing share of global wealth

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/economy/article/2025/12/10/the-ultra-rich-are-claiming-an-increasing-share-of-global-wealth-report-shows_6748335_19.html

8 months ago

Qualcomm acquires RISC-V focused Ventana Micro Systems

https://www.qualcomm.com/news/releases/2025/12/qualcomm-acquires-ventana-micro-systems--deepening-risc-v-cpu-ex

8 months ago

Show HN: Wirebrowser – A JavaScript debugger with breakpoint-driven heap search

https://github.com/fcavallarin/wirebrowser

8 months ago