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

8 months ago

alpr.watch

https://alpr.watch/

8 months ago

Announcing the Beta release of ty

https://astral.sh/blog/ty

8 months ago

No Graphics API

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

8 months ago

AI will make formal verification go mainstream

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

8 months ago

Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions

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

8 months ago

This is not the future

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

8 months ago

Mozilla appoints new CEO Anthony Enzor-Demeo

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

8 months ago

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

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

8 months ago

Children with cancer scammed out of millions fundraised for their treatment

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

8 months ago

GPT Image 1.5

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

8 months ago

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

8 months ago

I'm just having fun

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

8 months ago

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

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

8 months ago

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/

8 months ago

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

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

8 months ago

Gemini 3 Pro vs. 2.5 Pro in Pokemon Crystal

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

8 months ago

Prompt caching for cheaper LLM tokens

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

8 months ago

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

https://gamehistory.org/segachannel/

8 months ago

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

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

8 months ago