top 20 hacker news stories for 2025-12-12

Sick of smart TVs? Here are your best options

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/12/the-ars-technica-guide-to-dumb-tvs/

2 months ago

636 upvotes – 532 comments

OpenAI are quietly adopting skills, now available in ChatGPT and Codex CLI

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/12/openai-skills/

2 months ago

587 upvotes – 324 comments

macOS 26.2 enables fast AI clusters with RDMA over Thunderbolt

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/macos-release-notes/macos-26_2-release-notes#RDMA-over-Thunderbolt

2 months ago

540 upvotes – 291 comments

“Are you the one?” is free money

https://blog.owenlacey.dev/posts/are-you-the-one-is-free-money/

2 months ago

481 upvotes – 115 comments

Nokia N900 Necromancy

https://yaky.dev/2025-12-11-nokia-n900-necromancy/

2 months ago

480 upvotes – 190 comments

Google de-indexed Bear Blog and I don't know why

https://journal.james-zhan.com/google-de-indexed-my-entire-bear-blog-and-i-dont-know-why/

2 months ago

433 upvotes – 189 comments

Epic celebrates "the end of the Apple Tax" after court win in iOS payments case

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/12/epic-celebrates-the-end-of-the-apple-tax-after-appeals-court-win-in-ios-payments-case/

2 months ago

433 upvotes – 346 comments

Rats Play DOOM

https://ratsplaydoom.com/

2 months ago

428 upvotes – 159 comments

SQLite JSON at full index speed using generated columns

https://www.dbpro.app/blog/sqlite-json-virtual-columns-indexing

2 months ago

381 upvotes – 114 comments

Jonathan Blow has spent the past decade designing 1,400 puzzles

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/12/jonathan-blow-has-spent-the-past-decade-designing-1400-puzzles-for-you/

2 months ago

372 upvotes – 613 comments

The Tor Project is switching to Rust

https://itsfoss.com/news/tor-rust-rewrite-progress/

2 months ago

348 upvotes – 267 comments

GNU Unifont

https://unifoundry.com/unifont/index.html

2 months ago

347 upvotes – 79 comments

Id Software devs form "wall-to-wall" union

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/id-software-devs-form-wall-to-wall-union-with-165-workers-at-doom-studio-the-latest-to-vote-in-favour

2 months ago

339 upvotes – 368 comments

Koralm Railway

https://infrastruktur.oebb.at/en/projects-for-austria/railway-lines/southern-line-vienna-villach/koralm-railway

2 months ago

317 upvotes – 197 comments

CRISPR fungus: Protein-packed, sustainable, and tastes like meat

https://www.isaaa.org/kc/cropbiotechupdate/article/default.asp?ID=21607

2 months ago

314 upvotes – 236 comments

Home Depot GitHub token exposed for a year, granted access to internal systems

https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/12/home-depot-exposed-access-to-internal-systems-for-a-year-says-researcher/

2 months ago

276 upvotes – 162 comments

The tiniest yet real telescope I've built

https://lucassifoni.info/blog/miniscope-tiny-telescope/

2 months ago

272 upvotes – 72 comments

Google releases its new Google Sans Flex font as open source

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/11/google-sans-flex-font-ubuntu

2 months ago

243 upvotes – 110 comments

Framework Raises DDR5 Memory Prices by 50% for DIY Laptops

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Framework-50p-DDR5-Memory

2 months ago

242 upvotes – 221 comments

CM0 – A new Raspberry Pi you can't buy

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/cm0-new-raspberry-pi-you-cant-buy

2 months ago

211 upvotes – 64 comments
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