top 20 hacker news stories for 2025-12-16

Texas is suing all of the big TV makers for spying on what you watch

https://www.theverge.com/news/845400/texas-tv-makers-lawsuit-samsung-sony-lg-hisense-tcl-spying

2 months ago

1268 upvotes – 642 comments

alpr.watch

https://alpr.watch/

2 months ago

915 upvotes – 443 comments

Announcing the Beta release of ty

https://astral.sh/blog/ty

2 months ago

854 upvotes – 179 comments

No Graphics API

https://www.sebastianaaltonen.com/blog/no-graphics-api

2 months ago

845 upvotes – 183 comments

AI will make formal verification go mainstream

https://martin.kleppmann.com/2025/12/08/ai-formal-verification.html

2 months ago

827 upvotes – 434 comments

Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions

https://resources.github.com/actions/2026-pricing-changes-for-github-actions/

2 months ago

802 upvotes – 819 comments

This is not the future

https://blog.mathieui.net/this-is-not-the-future.html

2 months ago

714 upvotes – 409 comments

Mozilla appoints new CEO Anthony Enzor-Demeo

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/leadership/mozillas-next-chapter-anthony-enzor-demeo-new-ceo/

2 months ago

593 upvotes – 932 comments

No AI* Here – A Response to Mozilla's Next Chapter

https://www.waterfox.com/blog/no-ai-here-response-to-mozilla/

2 months ago

564 upvotes – 329 comments

Children with cancer scammed out of millions fundraised for their treatment

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgz318y8elo

2 months ago

533 upvotes – 455 comments

GPT Image 1.5

https://openai.com/index/new-chatgpt-images-is-here/

2 months ago

522 upvotes – 256 comments

40 percent of fMRI signals do not correspond to actual brain activity

https://www.tum.de/en/news-and-events/all-news/press-releases/details/40-percent-of-mri-signals-do-not-correspond-to-actual-brain-activity

2 months ago

503 upvotes – 206 comments

I'm just having fun

https://jyn.dev/i-m-just-having-fun/

2 months ago

484 upvotes – 241 comments

Show HN: Picknplace.js, an alternative to drag-and-drop

https://jgthms.com/picknplace.js/

2 months ago

455 upvotes – 152 comments

Coming soon: Simpler pricing and a better experience for GitHub Actions

https://github.blog/changelog/2025-12-16-coming-soon-simpler-pricing-and-a-better-experience-for-github-actions/

2 months ago

454 upvotes – 2 comments

Show HN: Stop AI scrapers from hammering your self-hosted blog (using porn)

https://github.com/vivienhenz24/fuzzy-canary

2 months ago

373 upvotes – 277 comments

Gemini 3 Pro vs. 2.5 Pro in Pokemon Crystal

https://blog.jcz.dev/gemini-3-pro-vs-25-pro-in-pokemon-crystal

2 months ago

315 upvotes – 92 comments

Prompt caching for cheaper LLM tokens

https://ngrok.com/blog/prompt-caching/

2 months ago

306 upvotes – 72 comments

Sega Channel: VGHF Recovers over 100 Sega Channel ROMs (and More)

https://gamehistory.org/segachannel/

2 months ago

286 upvotes – 45 comments

I ported JustHTML from Python to JavaScript with Codex CLI and GPT-5.2 in hours

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/15/porting-justhtml/

2 months ago

278 upvotes – 146 comments
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