top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-12-14

Europeans' health data sold to US firm run by ex-Israeli spies

https://www.ftm.eu/articles/europe-health-data-us-firm-israel-spies

8 months ago

Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46264491

8 months ago

Adafruit: Arduino’s Rules Are ‘Incompatible With Open Source’

https://thenewstack.io/adafruit-arduinos-rules-are-incompatible-with-open-source/

8 months ago

AI agents are starting to eat SaaS

https://martinalderson.com/posts/ai-agents-are-starting-to-eat-saas/

8 months ago

Hashcards: A plain-text spaced repetition system

https://borretti.me/article/hashcards-plain-text-spaced-repetition

8 months ago

Elevated errors across many models

https://status.claude.com/incidents/9g6qpr72ttbr

8 months ago

Shai-Hulud compromised a dev machine and raided GitHub org access: a post-mortem

https://trigger.dev/blog/shai-hulud-postmortem

8 months ago

AI and the ironies of automation – Part 2

https://www.ufried.com/blog/ironies_of_ai_2/

8 months ago

GraphQL: The enterprise honeymoon is over

https://johnjames.blog/posts/graphql-the-enterprise-honeymoon-is-over

8 months ago

Claude CLI deleted my home directory and wiped my Mac

https://old.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1pgxckk/claude_cli_deleted_my_entire_home_directory_wiped/

8 months ago

Kimi K2 1T model runs on 2 512GB M3 Ultras

https://twitter.com/awnihannun/status/1943723599971443134

8 months ago

JSDoc is TypeScript

https://culi.bearblog.dev/jsdoc-is-typescript/

8 months ago

2002: Last.fm and Audioscrobbler Herald the Social Web

https://cybercultural.com/p/lastfm-audioscrobbler-2002/

8 months ago

Price of a bot army revealed across online platforms

https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/price-bot-army-global-index

8 months ago

iOS 26.2 fixes 20 security vulnerabilities, 2 actively exploited

https://www.macrumors.com/2025/12/12/ios-26-2-security-vulnerabilities/

8 months ago

GNU recutils: Plain text database

https://www.gnu.org/software/recutils/

8 months ago

The Gorman Paradox: Where Are All the AI-Generated Apps?

https://codemanship.wordpress.com/2025/12/14/the-gorman-paradox-where-are-all-the-ai-generated-apps/

8 months ago

Apple Maps claims it's 29,905 miles away

https://mathstodon.xyz/@dpiponi/115651419771418748

8 months ago

Bye, Mom

https://aella.substack.com/p/bye-mom

8 months ago

Zmij: Faster floating point double-to-string conversion

https://vitaut.net/posts/2025/faster-dtoa/

8 months ago

Carolina Cloud – One third the cost of AWS for data science workloads

https://carolinacloud.io/

8 months ago

“You should never build a CMS”

https://www.sanity.io/blog/you-should-never-build-a-cms

8 months ago

If a Meta AI model can read a brain-wide signal, why wouldn't the brain?

https://1393.xyz/writing/if-a-meta-ai-model-can-read-a-brain-wide-signal-why-wouldnt-the-brain

8 months ago

Baumol's Cost Disease

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

8 months ago

Compiler Engineering in Practice

https://chisophugis.github.io/2025/12/08/compiler-engineering-in-practice-part-1-what-is-a-compiler.html

8 months ago

Stop crawling my HTML – use the API

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/12/stop-crawling-my-html-you-dickheads-use-the-api/

8 months ago

The Typeframe PX-88 Portable Computing System

https://www.typeframe.net/

8 months ago

Heavy metal is healing teens on the Blackfeet Nation

https://www.hcn.org/issues/57-11/heavy-metal-is-healing-teens-on-the-blackfeet-nation/

8 months ago

My Gift to the Rustdoc Team

https://fasterthanli.me/articles/my-gift-to-the-rust-docs-team

8 months ago

Show HN: A pager

https://www.udp7777.com/

8 months ago

The Problem of Teaching Physics in Latin America (1963)

https://calteches.library.caltech.edu/46/2/LatinAmerica.htm

8 months ago

Show HN: Interactive Common Lisp: An Enhanced REPL

https://github.com/atgreen/icl

8 months ago

Pizlix: Memory Safe Linux from Scratch

https://fil-c.org/pizlix

8 months ago

Rust Coreutils 0.5.0 Release: 87.75% compatibility with GNU Coreutils

https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/releases/tag/0.5.0

8 months ago

An Implementation of J (1992)

https://www.jsoftware.com/ioj/ioj.htm

8 months ago

Vacuum Is a Lie: About Your Indexes

https://boringsql.com/posts/vacuum-is-lie/

8 months ago

Advent of Swift

https://leahneukirchen.org/blog/archive/2025/12/advent-of-swift.html

8 months ago

Show HN: Stepped Actions – distributed workflow orchestration for Rails

https://github.com/envirobly/stepped

8 months ago

Lean theorem prover mathlib

https://github.com/leanprover-community/mathlib4

8 months ago

Dogalog: A realtime Prolog-based livecoding music environment

https://github.com/danja/dogalog

8 months ago

Free Software Awards Winners Announced: Andy Wingo, Alx Sa, Govdirectory

https://www.fsf.org/news/2024-free-software-awards-winners

8 months ago

Willison on Merchant's "Copywriters reveal how AI has decimated their industry"

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/14/copywriters-reveal-how-ai-has-decimated-their-industry/

8 months ago

Pingfs: Stores your data in ICMP ping packets (2020)

https://github.com/yarrick/pingfs

8 months ago

History of Declarative Programming (2021)

https://shenlanguage.org/TBoS/tbos_15.html

8 months ago

Private Equity Finds a New Source of Profit: Volunteer Fire Departments

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/us/fire-department-software-private-equity.html

8 months ago

Modern SID chip substitutes [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nooPmXxO6K0

8 months ago

Illuminating the processor core with LLVM-mca

https://abseil.io/fast/99

8 months ago

Awesome-Jj: Jujutsu Things

https://github.com/Necior/awesome-jj

8 months ago

Show HN: I Ching simulator with accurate Yarrow Stalk probabilities

https://castiching.com/

8 months ago

Ask HN: Is starting a personal blog still worth it in the age of AI?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46268055

8 months ago

Hash tables in Go and advantage of self-hosted compilers

https://rushter.com/blog/go-and-hashmaps/

8 months ago

Denmark sees US as potential security concern

https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/10/europe/denmark-intelligence-report-intl

8 months ago

Do dyslexia fonts work? (2022)

https://www.edutopia.org/article/do-dyslexia-fonts-actually-work/

8 months ago

Therapeutic use of cannabis and cannabinoids: A review

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2842072?guestAccessKey=a368e622-e374-4a0c-8d3b-22a976500305

8 months ago

Efficient Basic Coding for the ZX Spectrum (2020)

https://blog.jafma.net/2020/02/24/efficient-basic-coding-for-the-zx-spectrum/

8 months ago

Surface Tension of Software

https://iamstelios.com/blog/surface-tension-of-software/

8 months ago

How I wrote JustHTML, a Python-based HTML5 parser, using coding agents

https://friendlybit.com/python/writing-justhtml-with-coding-agents/

8 months ago

The Code That Revolutionized Orbital Simulation [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCg3aXn5F3M

8 months ago