top 50% 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/

8 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/

8 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

8 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/

8 months ago

481 upvotes – 115 comments

Nokia N900 Necromancy

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

8 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/

8 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/

8 months ago

433 upvotes – 346 comments

Rats Play DOOM

https://ratsplaydoom.com/

8 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

8 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/

8 months ago

372 upvotes – 613 comments

The Tor Project is switching to Rust

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

8 months ago

348 upvotes – 267 comments

GNU Unifont

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

8 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

8 months ago

339 upvotes – 368 comments

Koralm Railway

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

8 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

8 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/

8 months ago

276 upvotes – 162 comments

The tiniest yet real telescope I've built

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

8 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

8 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

8 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

8 months ago

211 upvotes – 64 comments

Show HN: Tiny VM sandbox in C with apps in Rust, C and Zig

https://github.com/ringtailsoftware/uvm32

8 months ago

196 upvotes – 12 comments

String theory inspires a brilliant, baffling new math proof

https://www.quantamagazine.org/string-theory-inspires-a-brilliant-baffling-new-math-proof-20251212/

8 months ago

185 upvotes – 169 comments

Japan law opening phone app stores to go into effect

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20251210_B1/

8 months ago

185 upvotes – 34 comments

Guarding My Git Forge Against AI Scrapers

https://vulpinecitrus.info/blog/guarding-git-forge-ai-scrapers/

8 months ago

182 upvotes – 131 comments

Benn Jordan’s flock camera jammer will send you to jail in Florida now [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEllWdK4l_A

8 months ago

182 upvotes – 178 comments

US TikTok investors in limbo as deal set to be delayed again

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp34442z25ko

8 months ago

169 upvotes – 151 comments

Berlin Approves New Expansion of Police Surveillance Powers

https://reclaimthenet.org/berlin-approves-new-expansion-of-police-surveillance-powers

8 months ago

158 upvotes – 116 comments

Freeing a Xiaomi humidifier from the cloud

https://0l.de/blog/2025/11/xiaomi-humidifier/

8 months ago

156 upvotes – 87 comments

Young journalists expose Russian-linked vessels off the Dutch and German coast

https://www.digitaldigging.org/p/they-droned-back

8 months ago

149 upvotes – 138 comments

The true story of the Windows 3.1 'Hot Dog Stand' color scheme

https://www.pcgamer.com/software/windows/windows-3-1-included-a-red-and-yellow-hot-dog-stand-color-scheme-so-garish-it-was-long-assumed-to-be-a-joke-so-i-tracked-down-the-original-designer-to-get-the-true-story/

8 months ago

148 upvotes – 56 comments

50 years of proof assistants

https://lawrencecpaulson.github.io//2025/12/05/History_of_Proof_Assistants.html

8 months ago

144 upvotes – 30 comments

In Defense of Matlab Code

https://runmat.org/blog/in-defense-of-matlab-whiteboard-style-code

8 months ago

144 upvotes – 167 comments

Oracle made a $300B bet on OpenAI. It's paying the price

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/oracle-made-a-300-billion-bet-on-openai-its-paying-the-price-205441863.html

8 months ago

136 upvotes – 127 comments

Async DNS

https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/async-dns

8 months ago

135 upvotes – 48 comments

Using secondary school maths to demystify AI

https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/secondary-school-maths-showing-that-ai-systems-dont-think/

8 months ago

133 upvotes – 248 comments

Nuclear energy key to decarbonising Europe, says EESC

https://www.eesc.europa.eu/en/news-media/news/nuclear-energy-key-decarbonising-europe-says-eesc

8 months ago

130 upvotes – 218 comments

Fedora: Open-source repository for long-term digital preservation

https://fedorarepository.org/

8 months ago

121 upvotes – 54 comments

Stoolap: High-performance embedded SQL database in pure Rust

https://github.com/stoolap/stoolap

8 months ago

113 upvotes – 41 comments

Smartphone without a battery (2022)

https://yaky.dev/2022-09-06-smartphone-without-battery/

8 months ago

97 upvotes – 35 comments

How to think about durable execution

https://hatchet.run/blog/durable-execution

8 months ago

96 upvotes – 37 comments

Capsudo: Rethinking sudo with object capabilities

https://ariadne.space/2025/12/12/rethinking-sudo-with-object-capabilities.html

8 months ago

93 upvotes – 58 comments

Security issues with electronic invoices

https://invoice.secvuln.info/

8 months ago

92 upvotes – 64 comments

Laying out the 404 Media zine

https://tedium.co/2025/12/10/404-media-zine-linux-affinity/?

8 months ago

90 upvotes – 14 comments

Senator endorses discredited book that claims chemical treats autism, cancer

https://www.propublica.org/article/ron-johnson-wisconsin-chlorine-dioxide-pierre-kory-endorsement

8 months ago

88 upvotes – 62 comments

Why isn't online age verification just like showing your ID in person?

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/12/why-isnt-online-age-verification-just-showing-your-id-person

8 months ago

85 upvotes – 116 comments

New Kindle feature uses AI to answer questions about books

https://reactormag.com/new-kindle-feature-ai-answer-questions-books-authors/

8 months ago

84 upvotes – 130 comments

Tesla US sales drop to nearly 4-year low in November

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tesla-us-sales-drop-nearly-3-year-low-november-despite-launch-cheaper-versions-2025-12-11/

8 months ago

84 upvotes – 60 comments

Building small Docker images faster

https://sgt.hootr.club/blog/docker-protips/

8 months ago

73 upvotes – 27 comments

Cadmium Zinc Telluride: The wonder material powering a medical 'revolution'

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c24l223d9n7o

8 months ago

70 upvotes – 24 comments

Training LLMs for honesty via confessions

https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.08093

8 months ago

70 upvotes – 58 comments

America's betting craze has spread to its news networks

https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/americas-betting-craze-has-spread-to-its-news-networks

8 months ago

69 upvotes – 97 comments

Testing a cheaper laminar flow hood

https://chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com/p/testing-a-cheaper-laminar-flow-hood

8 months ago

64 upvotes – 17 comments

Wine 11.0 RC2 – Run Windows Applications on Linux, BSD, Solaris and macOS

https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/releases/wine-11.0-rc2

8 months ago

63 upvotes – 0 comments

BpfJailer: eBPF Mandatory Access Control [pdf]

https://lpc.events/event/19/contributions/2159/attachments/1833/3929/BpfJailer%20LPC%202025.pdf

8 months ago

63 upvotes – 5 comments
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