top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-12-11

GPT-5.2

https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-2/

8 months ago

iPhone Typos? It's Not Just You – The iOS Keyboard Is Broken [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hksVvXONrIo

8 months ago

Patterns.dev

https://www.patterns.dev/

8 months ago

French supermarket's Christmas advert is worldwide hit (without AI) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Na9VmMNJvsA

8 months ago

What is the nicest thing a stranger has ever done for you?

https://louplummer.lol/nice-stranger/

8 months ago

Programmers and software developers lost the plot on naming their tools

https://larr.net/p/namings.html

8 months ago

Rivian Unveils Custom Silicon, R2 Lidar Roadmap, and Universal Hands Free

https://riviantrackr.com/news/rivian-unveils-custom-silicon-r2-lidar-roadmap-universal-hands-free-and-its-next-gen-autonomy-platform/

8 months ago

UK House of Lords attempting to ban use of VPNs by anyone under 16

https://alecmuffett.com/article/134925

8 months ago

Litestream VFS

https://fly.io/blog/litestream-vfs/

8 months ago

Meta shuts down global accounts linked to abortion advice and queer content

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/dec/11/meta-shuts-down-global-accounts-linked-to-abortion-advice-and-queer-content

8 months ago

An SVG is all you need

https://jon.recoil.org/blog/2025/12/an-svg-is-all-you-need.html

8 months ago

Denial of service and source code exposure in React Server Components

https://react.dev/blog/2025/12/11/denial-of-service-and-source-code-exposure-in-react-server-components

8 months ago

Craft software that makes people feel something

https://rapha.land/craft-software-that-makes-people-feel-something/

8 months ago

Disney making $1B investment in OpenAI, will allow characters on Sora AI

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/11/disney-openai-sora-characters-video.html

8 months ago

My productivity app is a never-ending .txt file (2020)

https://jeffhuang.com/productivity_text_file/

8 months ago

The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI Partner on Sora

https://openai.com/index/disney-sora-agreement/

8 months ago

Vibe coding is mad depressing

https://law.gmnz.xyz/vibe-coding-is-mad-depressing/

8 months ago

Show HN: I made a spreadsheet where formulas also update backwards

https://victorpoughon.github.io/bidicalc/

8 months ago

Things I want to say to my boss

https://www.ithoughtaboutthatalot.com/2025/the-things-i-want-to-say-to-my-boss

8 months ago

Going Through Snowden Documents, Part 1

https://libroot.org/posts/going-through-snowden-documents-part-1/

8 months ago

Show HN: Sim – Apache-2.0 n8n alternative

https://github.com/simstudioai/sim

8 months ago

The Cost of a Closure in C

https://thephd.dev/the-cost-of-a-closure-in-c-c2y

8 months ago

Days since last GitHub incident

https://github-incidents.pages.dev/

8 months ago

Incomplete list of mistakes in the design of CSS

https://wiki.csswg.org/ideas/mistakes

8 months ago

A “frozen” dictionary for Python

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1047238/25c270b077849dc0/

8 months ago

GPT-5.2

https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-2/

8 months ago

Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/12/eliminating-state-law-obstruction-of-national-artificial-intelligence-policy/

8 months ago

Pop_OS 24.04 LTS with COSMIC desktop environment

https://blog.system76.com/post/pop-os-letter-from-our-founder/

8 months ago

From text to token: How tokenization pipelines work

https://www.paradedb.com/blog/when-tokenization-becomes-token

8 months ago

The architecture of “not bad”: Decoding the Chinese source code of the void

https://suggger.substack.com/p/the-architecture-of-not-bad-decoding

8 months ago

A Developer Accidentally Found CSAM in AI Data. Google Banned Him for It

https://www.404media.co/a-developer-accidentally-found-csam-in-ai-data-google-banned-him-for-it/

8 months ago

High Performance SSH/SCP

https://www.psc.edu/hpn-ssh-home/

8 months ago

Just 0.001% hold 3 times the wealth of poorest half of humanity, report finds

https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2025/dec/10/just-0001-hold-three-times-the-wealth-of-poorest-half-of-humanity-report-finds

8 months ago

$5 whale listening hydrophone making workshop

https://exclav.es/2025/08/03/dinacon-2025-passive-acoustic-listening/

8 months ago

We built a resource hub to fight back against age verification

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/12/age-verification-coming-internet-we-built-you-resource-hub-fight-back

8 months ago

An Orbital House of Cards: Frequent Megaconstellation Close Conjunctions

https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.09643

8 months ago

VA Linux: The biggest dotcom IPO

https://dfarq.homeip.net/va-linux-the-biggest-dotcom-ipo/

8 months ago

Show HN: Tripwire: A new anti evil maid defense

https://github.com/fr33-sh/Tripwire

8 months ago

Launch HN: BrowserBook (YC F24) – IDE for deterministic browser automation

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46232434

8 months ago

The History of Xerox

https://www.abortretry.fail/p/the-history-of-xerox

8 months ago

Deprecate like you mean it

https://entropicthoughts.com/deprecate-like-you-mean-it

8 months ago

South Korea – A cautionary tale for the rest of humanity

https://worksinprogress.co/issue/two-is-already-too-many/

8 months ago

Confuse some SSH bots and make botters block you

https://mirror.newsdump.org/confuse-some-ssh-bots.html

8 months ago

Interview with Kent Overstreet (Bcachefs) [audio]

https://linuxunplugged.com/644

8 months ago

How geometry is fundamental for chess

https://lichess.org/@/RuyLopez1000/blog/how-geometry-is-fundamental-for-chess/h31wwhUX

8 months ago

Tell HN: AI coding is sexy, but accounting is the real low-hanging target

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46238354

8 months ago

Pop Goes the Population Count?

https://xania.org/202512/11-pop-goes-the-weasel-er-count

8 months ago

Creating C closures from Lua closures

https://lowkpro.com/blog/creating-c-closures-from-lua-closures.html

8 months ago

Crick and Watson Did Not Steal Franklin's Data

https://nautil.us/crick-and-watson-did-not-steal-franklins-data-1252663/

8 months ago