top 50% 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

Japan to revise romanization rules for first time in 70 years

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/21/japan/panel-hepburn-style-romanization/

8 months ago

MIT professor shot at his Massachusetts home dies

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly08y25688o

8 months ago

I program on the subway

https://www.scd31.com/posts/programming-on-the-subway

8 months ago

Bonsai: A Voxel Engine, from scratch

https://github.com/scallyw4g/bonsai

8 months ago

VS Code deactivates IntelliCode in favor of the paid Copilot

https://www.heise.de/en/news/VS-Code-deactivates-IntelliCode-in-favor-of-the-paid-Copilot-11115783.html

8 months ago

Meta Segment Anything Model Audio

https://ai.meta.com/samaudio/

8 months ago

The GitHub Actions control plane is no longer free

https://www.blacksmith.sh/blog/actions-pricing

8 months ago

Rust GCC backend: Why and how

https://blog.guillaume-gomez.fr/articles/2025-12-15+Rust+GCC+backend%3A+Why+and+how

8 months ago

Vibe coding creates fatigue?

https://www.tabulamag.com/p/too-fast-to-think-the-hidden-fatigue

8 months ago

ArkhamMirror: Airgapped investigation platform with CIA-style hypothesis testing

https://github.com/mantisfury/ArkhamMirror

8 months ago

Our new SAM audio model transforms audio editing

https://about.fb.com/news/2025/12/our-new-sam-audio-model-transforms-audio-editing/

8 months ago

I've been writing ring buffers wrong all these years (2016)

https://www.snellman.net/blog/archive/2016-12-13-ring-buffers/

8 months ago

A2UI: A Protocol for Agent-Driven Interfaces

https://a2ui.org/

8 months ago

I'm a Tech Lead, and nobody listens to me. What should I do?

https://world.hey.com/joaoqalves/i-m-a-tech-lead-and-nobody-listens-to-me-what-should-i-do-e16e454d

8 months ago

Overconsumption is a spiritual problem

https://www.sherryning.com/p/youre-overspending-because-you-lack-values

8 months ago

Writing a blatant Telegram clone using Qt, QML and Rust. And C++

https://kemble.net/blog/provoke/

8 months ago

AI is wiping out entry-level tech jobs, leaving graduates stranded

https://restofworld.org/2025/engineering-graduates-ai-job-losses/

8 months ago

The biggest heat pumps

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c17p44w87rno

8 months ago

Microsoft will finally kill obsolete cipher that has wreaked decades of havoc

https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/12/microsoft-will-finally-kill-obsolete-cipher-that-has-wreaked-decades-of-havoc/

8 months ago

FVWM-95 (2001)

https://fvwm95.sourceforge.net/

8 months ago

A brief history of Times New Roman

https://typographyforlawyers.com/a-brief-history-of-times-new-roman.html

8 months ago

Biscuit is a specialized PostgreSQL index for fast pattern matching LIKE queries

https://github.com/CrystallineCore/Biscuit

8 months ago

A linear-time alternative for Dimensionality Reduction and fast visualisation

https://medium.com/@roman.f/a-linear-time-alternative-to-t-sne-for-dimensionality-reduction-and-fast-visualisation-5cd1a7219d6f

8 months ago

Dafny: Verification-Aware Programming Language

https://dafny.org/

8 months ago

Let's write a toy UI library

https://nakst.gitlab.io/tutorial/ui-part-1.html

8 months ago

Devs say Apple still flouting EU's Digital Markets Act six months on

https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/16/apple_dma_complaint/

8 months ago

Functional Flocking Quadtree in ClojureScript

https://www.lbjgruppen.com/en/posts/flocking-quadtrees

8 months ago

Chat-tails: Throwback terminal chat, built on Tailscale

https://tailscale.com/blog/chat-tails-terminal-chat

8 months ago

Chomsky and the Two Cultures of Statistical Learning (2011)

https://norvig.com/chomsky.html

8 months ago

Thomas Piketty: 'The reality is the US is losing control of the world'

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/article/2025/04/12/thomas-piketty-the-reality-is-the-us-is-losing-control-of-the-world_6740140_23.html

8 months ago

Aliasing

https://xania.org/202512/15-aliasing-in-general

8 months ago

U.S. unemployment rose in November despite job gains

https://www.wsj.com/economy/jobs/jobs-report-october-november-2025-unemployment-economy-7f6eea90

8 months ago

The pitfalls of partitioning Postgres yourself

https://hatchet.run/blog/postgres-partitioning

8 months ago

Show HN: I built a fast RSS reader in Zig

https://github.com/superstarryeyes/hys

8 months ago

TRELLIS.2: state-of-the-art large 3D generative model (4B)

https://github.com/microsoft/TRELLIS.2

8 months ago

Show HN: Autograd.c – A tiny ML framework built from scratch

https://github.com/sueszli/autograd.c

8 months ago

Letta Code

https://www.letta.com/blog/letta-code

8 months ago