800
504
I'm Kenyan. I don't write like ChatGPT, ChatGPT writes like me
https://marcusolang.substack.com/p/im-kenyan-i-dont-write-like-chatgpt
8 months ago
670
809
Roomba maker goes bankrupt, Chinese owner emerges
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/bankruptcy-law/robot-vacuum-roomba-maker-files-for-bankruptcy-after-35-years
623
304
“Super secure” messaging app leaks everyone's phone number
https://ericdaigle.ca/posts/super-secure-maga-messaging-app-leaks-everyones-phone-number/
601
161
Secret Documents Show Pepsi and Walmart Colluded to Raise Food Prices
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/secret-documents-show-pepsi-and-walmart
588
1012
If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes?
https://english.elpais.com/technology/2025-11-30/if-ai-replaces-workers-should-it-also-pay-taxes.html
456
351
Thousands of U.S. farmers have Parkinson's. They blame a deadly pesticide
https://www.mlive.com/news/2025/12/thousands-of-us-farmers-have-parkinsons-they-blame-a-deadly-pesticide.html
439
896
Ford kills the All-Electric F-150
https://www.wired.com/story/ford-kills-electric-f-150-lightning-for-hybrid/
438
483
Pro-democracy HK tycoon Jimmy Lai convicted in national security trial
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp844kjj37vo
381
163
Carrier Landing in Top Gun for the NES
https://relaxing.run/blag/posts/top-gun-landing/
378
319
JetBlue flight averts mid-air collision with US Air Force jet
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/jetblue-flight-averts-mid-air-collision-with-us-air-force-jet-2025-12-15/
377
449
Avoid UUID Version 4 Primary Keys in Postgres
https://andyatkinson.com/avoid-uuid-version-4-primary-keys
336
Problems with D-Bus on the Linux desktop
https://blog.vaxry.net/articles/2025-dbusSucks
326
240
Rob Reiner has died
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/rob-reiner-dead-harry-met-sally-princess-bride-all-in-family-1236450387/
321
322
Upcoming Changes to Let's Encrypt Certificates
https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/upcoming-changes-to-let-s-encrypt-certificates/243873
58
Unscii
http://viznut.fi/unscii/
302
Microsoft Copilot AI Comes to LG TVs, and Can't Be Deleted
https://www.techpowerup.com/344075/microsoft-copilot-ai-comes-to-lg-tvs-and-cant-be-deleted
293
212
SoundCloud has banned VPN access
https://old.reddit.com/r/SoundCloudMusic/comments/1pltd19/soundcloud_just_banned_vpn_access/
281
144
Fix HDMI-CEC weirdness with a Raspberry Pi and a $7 cable
https://johnlian.net/posts/hdmi-cec/
271
130
Working quickly is more important than it seems (2015)
https://jsomers.net/blog/speed-matters
257
59
Nvidia Nemotron 3 Family of Models
https://research.nvidia.com/labs/nemotron/Nemotron-3/
230
45
Arborium: Tree-sitter code highlighting with Native and WASM targets
https://arborium.bearcove.eu/
228
299
US Tech Force
https://techforce.gov/
33
Chafa: Terminal Graphics for the 21st Century
https://hpjansson.org/chafa/
220
122
Umbrel – Personal Cloud
https://umbrel.com
217
77
Full Unicode Search at 50× ICU Speed with AVX‑512
https://ashvardanian.com/posts/search-utf8/
215
110
It seems that OpenAI is scraping [certificate transparency] logs
https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/Gxy2qrCkn1Y327Y6D3
210
121
The appropriate amount of effort is zero
https://expandingawareness.org/blog/the-appropriate-amount-of-effort-is-zero/
195
276
Economics of Orbital vs. Terrestrial Data Centers
https://andrewmccalip.com/space-datacenters
190
42
Show HN: Sqlit – A lazygit-style TUI for SQL databases
https://github.com/Maxteabag/sqlit
189
34
Read Something Wonderful
https://readsomethingwonderful.com/
173
67
John Varley has died
http://floggingbabel.blogspot.com/2025/12/john-varley-1947-2025.html
164
96
The Whole App is a Blob
https://drobinin.com/posts/the-whole-app-is-a-blob/
56
We are discontinuing the dark web report
https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/16767242?hl=en
155
172
A quarter of US-trained scientists eventually leave
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.11146
137
81
Common Rust Lifetime Misconceptions
https://github.com/pretzelhammer/rust-blog/blob/master/posts/common-rust-lifetime-misconceptions.md
136
57
We put Flock under surveillance: Go make them behave differently [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W420BOqga_s
135
69
$50 PlanetScale Metal Is GA for Postgres
https://planetscale.com/blog/50-dollar-planetscale-metal-is-ga-for-postgres
120
18
A kernel bug froze my machine: Debugging an async-profiler deadlock
https://questdb.com/blog/async-profiler-kernel-bug/
114
73
Italian bears living near villages have evolved to be smaller and less agressive
https://phys.org/news/2025-12-italian-villages-evolved-smaller-aggressive.html
112
CapROS: Capability-Based Reliable Operating System
https://www.capros.org/
111
14
Fuzix on a Raspberry Pi Pico
https://ewpratten.com/blog/fuzix-pi-pico
109
Samsung may end SATA SSD production soon
https://www.techradar.com/computing/storage-backup/looking-for-a-cheap-ssd-dont-wait-samsung-could-stop-producing-budget-models-soon
104
Native vs. emulation: World of Warcraft game performance on Snapdragon X Elite
https://rkblog.dev/posts/pc-hardware/pc-on-arm/x86_versus_arm_native_game/
102
38
Cosmic-ray bath in a past supernova gives birth to Earth-like planets
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adx7892
101
71
Former CIA spy: agency's tools can takeover your phone, TV, and even your car
https://currentindia.com/channels/timesofindia/toi-world/yes-they-can-former-cia-spy-warns-agencys-tools-can-takeover-your-phone-tv-and-even-your-car/
99
United 777-200 fleet faces an uncertain future after Dulles engine failure
https://liveandletsfly.com/united-airlines-777-200-future/
98
23
Australia's social media ban was pushed by ad agency focused on gambling ads
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/12/15/australias-social-media-ban-was-pushed-by-ad-agency-focused-on-gambling-ads-it-didnt-want-banned/
91
MIT Missing Semester 2026
https://missing.csail.mit.edu/2026/
90
234
Canada's Carney called out for 'utilizing' British spelling
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj69d89l8l5o
87
19
From devastation to wonder as Kangaroo Island bushfires lead to cave discoveries
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12-13/more-than-150-caves-discovered-in-ki-after-devastating-bushfires/106095942
123
Ask HN: Is building a calm, non-gamified learning app a mistake?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46276019
84
29
Show HN: Learning a Language Using Only Words You Know
https://simedw.com/2025/12/15/langseed/
82
8
Designing a Passive Lidar Detector Device
https://www.atredis.com/blog/2025/11/20/designing-a-passive-lidar-detection-sensor
43
Show HN: 100 Million splats, a whole town, rendered in M2 MacBook Air
https://twitter.com/AKurian001/status/1986979144014701026
74
35
Why proteins fold and how GPUs help us fold
https://aval.bearblog.dev/nvidiaproteins/
25
Liskell – Haskell Semantics with Lisp Syntax [pdf]
http://clemens.endorphin.org/ILC07-Liskell-draft.pdf
Don MacKinnon: Why Simplicity Beats Cleverness in Software Design [audio]
https://maintainable.fm/episodes/don-mackinnon-why-simplicity-beats-cleverness-in-software-design
72
Break up bad companies; replace bad union bosses
https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/15/class-war-labor-peace/
46
Copywriters reveal how AI has decimated their industry
https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/i-was-forced-to-use-ai-until-the
65
12
2025 Word of the Year: Slop
https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/word-of-the-year
