top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-12-15

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

2 months ago

800 upvotes – 504 comments

Roomba maker goes bankrupt, Chinese owner emerges

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/bankruptcy-law/robot-vacuum-roomba-maker-files-for-bankruptcy-after-35-years

2 months ago

670 upvotes – 809 comments

“Super secure” messaging app leaks everyone's phone number

https://ericdaigle.ca/posts/super-secure-maga-messaging-app-leaks-everyones-phone-number/

2 months ago

623 upvotes – 304 comments

Secret Documents Show Pepsi and Walmart Colluded to Raise Food Prices

https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/secret-documents-show-pepsi-and-walmart

2 months ago

601 upvotes – 161 comments

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

2 months ago

588 upvotes – 1012 comments

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

2 months ago

456 upvotes – 351 comments

Ford kills the All-Electric F-150

https://www.wired.com/story/ford-kills-electric-f-150-lightning-for-hybrid/

2 months ago

439 upvotes – 896 comments

Pro-democracy HK tycoon Jimmy Lai convicted in national security trial

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp844kjj37vo

2 months ago

438 upvotes – 483 comments

Carrier Landing in Top Gun for the NES

https://relaxing.run/blag/posts/top-gun-landing/

2 months ago

381 upvotes – 163 comments

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/

2 months ago

378 upvotes – 319 comments

Avoid UUID Version 4 Primary Keys in Postgres

https://andyatkinson.com/avoid-uuid-version-4-primary-keys

2 months ago

377 upvotes – 449 comments

Problems with D-Bus on the Linux desktop

https://blog.vaxry.net/articles/2025-dbusSucks

2 months ago

336 upvotes – 319 comments

Rob Reiner has died

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/rob-reiner-dead-harry-met-sally-princess-bride-all-in-family-1236450387/

2 months ago

326 upvotes – 240 comments

Upcoming Changes to Let's Encrypt Certificates

https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/upcoming-changes-to-let-s-encrypt-certificates/243873

2 months ago

321 upvotes – 322 comments

Unscii

http://viznut.fi/unscii/

2 months ago

321 upvotes – 58 comments

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

2 months ago

302 upvotes – 319 comments

SoundCloud has banned VPN access

https://old.reddit.com/r/SoundCloudMusic/comments/1pltd19/soundcloud_just_banned_vpn_access/

2 months ago

293 upvotes – 212 comments

Fix HDMI-CEC weirdness with a Raspberry Pi and a $7 cable

https://johnlian.net/posts/hdmi-cec/

2 months ago

281 upvotes – 144 comments

Working quickly is more important than it seems (2015)

https://jsomers.net/blog/speed-matters

2 months ago

271 upvotes – 130 comments

Nvidia Nemotron 3 Family of Models

https://research.nvidia.com/labs/nemotron/Nemotron-3/

2 months ago

257 upvotes – 59 comments

Arborium: Tree-sitter code highlighting with Native and WASM targets

https://arborium.bearcove.eu/

2 months ago

230 upvotes – 45 comments

US Tech Force

https://techforce.gov/

2 months ago

228 upvotes – 299 comments

Chafa: Terminal Graphics for the 21st Century

https://hpjansson.org/chafa/

2 months ago

228 upvotes – 33 comments

Umbrel – Personal Cloud

https://umbrel.com

2 months ago

220 upvotes – 122 comments

Full Unicode Search at 50× ICU Speed with AVX‑512

https://ashvardanian.com/posts/search-utf8/

2 months ago

217 upvotes – 77 comments

It seems that OpenAI is scraping [certificate transparency] logs

https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/Gxy2qrCkn1Y327Y6D3

2 months ago

215 upvotes – 110 comments

The appropriate amount of effort is zero

https://expandingawareness.org/blog/the-appropriate-amount-of-effort-is-zero/

2 months ago

210 upvotes – 121 comments

Economics of Orbital vs. Terrestrial Data Centers

https://andrewmccalip.com/space-datacenters

2 months ago

195 upvotes – 276 comments

Show HN: Sqlit – A lazygit-style TUI for SQL databases

https://github.com/Maxteabag/sqlit

2 months ago

190 upvotes – 42 comments

Read Something Wonderful

https://readsomethingwonderful.com/

2 months ago

189 upvotes – 34 comments

John Varley has died

http://floggingbabel.blogspot.com/2025/12/john-varley-1947-2025.html

2 months ago

173 upvotes – 67 comments

The Whole App is a Blob

https://drobinin.com/posts/the-whole-app-is-a-blob/

2 months ago

164 upvotes – 96 comments

We are discontinuing the dark web report

https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/16767242?hl=en

2 months ago

163 upvotes – 56 comments

A quarter of US-trained scientists eventually leave

https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.11146

2 months ago

155 upvotes – 172 comments

Common Rust Lifetime Misconceptions

https://github.com/pretzelhammer/rust-blog/blob/master/posts/common-rust-lifetime-misconceptions.md

2 months ago

137 upvotes – 81 comments

We put Flock under surveillance: Go make them behave differently [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W420BOqga_s

2 months ago

136 upvotes – 57 comments

$50 PlanetScale Metal Is GA for Postgres

https://planetscale.com/blog/50-dollar-planetscale-metal-is-ga-for-postgres

2 months ago

135 upvotes – 69 comments

A kernel bug froze my machine: Debugging an async-profiler deadlock

https://questdb.com/blog/async-profiler-kernel-bug/

2 months ago

120 upvotes – 18 comments

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

2 months ago

114 upvotes – 73 comments

CapROS: Capability-Based Reliable Operating System

https://www.capros.org/

2 months ago

112 upvotes – 59 comments

Fuzix on a Raspberry Pi Pico

https://ewpratten.com/blog/fuzix-pi-pico

2 months ago

111 upvotes – 14 comments

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

2 months ago

109 upvotes – 114 comments

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/

2 months ago

104 upvotes – 58 comments

Cosmic-ray bath in a past supernova gives birth to Earth-like planets

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adx7892

2 months ago

102 upvotes – 38 comments

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/

2 months ago

101 upvotes – 71 comments

United 777-200 fleet faces an uncertain future after Dulles engine failure

https://liveandletsfly.com/united-airlines-777-200-future/

2 months ago

99 upvotes – 102 comments

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/

2 months ago

98 upvotes – 23 comments

MIT Missing Semester 2026

https://missing.csail.mit.edu/2026/

2 months ago

91 upvotes – 69 comments

Canada's Carney called out for 'utilizing' British spelling

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj69d89l8l5o

2 months ago

90 upvotes – 234 comments

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

2 months ago

87 upvotes – 19 comments

Ask HN: Is building a calm, non-gamified learning app a mistake?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46276019

2 months ago

87 upvotes – 123 comments

Show HN: Learning a Language Using Only Words You Know

https://simedw.com/2025/12/15/langseed/

2 months ago

84 upvotes – 29 comments

Designing a Passive Lidar Detector Device

https://www.atredis.com/blog/2025/11/20/designing-a-passive-lidar-detection-sensor

2 months ago

82 upvotes – 8 comments

Show HN: 100 Million splats, a whole town, rendered in M2 MacBook Air

https://twitter.com/AKurian001/status/1986979144014701026

2 months ago

81 upvotes – 43 comments

Why proteins fold and how GPUs help us fold

https://aval.bearblog.dev/nvidiaproteins/

2 months ago

74 upvotes – 35 comments

Liskell – Haskell Semantics with Lisp Syntax [pdf]

http://clemens.endorphin.org/ILC07-Liskell-draft.pdf

2 months ago

73 upvotes – 25 comments

Don MacKinnon: Why Simplicity Beats Cleverness in Software Design [audio]

https://maintainable.fm/episodes/don-mackinnon-why-simplicity-beats-cleverness-in-software-design

2 months ago

73 upvotes – 33 comments

Break up bad companies; replace bad union bosses

https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/15/class-war-labor-peace/

2 months ago

72 upvotes – 109 comments

Copywriters reveal how AI has decimated their industry

https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/i-was-forced-to-use-ai-until-the

2 months ago

71 upvotes – 46 comments

2025 Word of the Year: Slop

https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/word-of-the-year

2 months ago

65 upvotes – 12 comments
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