top 20 hacker news stories for 2025-12-17

Gemini 3 Flash: Frontier intelligence built for speed

https://blog.google/products/gemini/gemini-3-flash/

8 months ago

AWS CEO says replacing junior devs with AI is 'one of the dumbest ideas'

https://www.finalroundai.com/blog/aws-ceo-ai-cannot-replace-junior-developers

8 months ago

Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself?

https://infosec.press/brunomiguel/is-mozilla-trying-hard-to-kill-itself

8 months ago

I got hacked: My Hetzner server started mining Monero

https://blog.jakesaunders.dev/my-server-started-mining-monero-this-morning/

8 months ago

Tell HN: HN was down

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46301921

8 months ago

Coursera to combine with Udemy

https://investor.coursera.com/news/news-details/2025/Coursera-to-Combine-with-Udemy-to-Empower-the-Global-Workforce-with-Skills-for-the-AI-Era/default.aspx

8 months ago

Gut bacteria from amphibians and reptiles achieve tumor elimination in mice

https://www.jaist.ac.jp/english/whatsnew/press/2025/12/17-1.html

8 months ago

Log level 'error' should mean that something needs to be fixed

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/ErrorsShouldRequireFixing

8 months ago

A Safer Container Ecosystem with Docker: Free Docker Hardened Images

https://www.docker.com/blog/docker-hardened-images-for-every-developer/

8 months ago

How SQLite is tested

https://sqlite.org/testing.html

8 months ago

OBS Studio Gets a New Renderer

https://obsproject.com/blog/obs-studio-gets-a-new-renderer

8 months ago

A16z-backed Doublespeed hacked, revealing what its AI-generated accounts promote

https://www.404media.co/hack-reveals-the-a16z-backed-phone-farm-flooding-tiktok-with-ai-influencers/

8 months ago

AI's real superpower: consuming, not creating

https://msanroman.io/blog/ai-consumption-paradigm

8 months ago

Yep, Passkeys Still Have Problems

https://fy.blackhats.net.au/blog/2025-12-17-yep-passkeys-still-have-problems/

8 months ago

Developers can now submit apps to ChatGPT

https://openai.com/index/developers-can-now-submit-apps-to-chatgpt/

8 months ago

Ask HN: Does anyone understand how Hacker News works?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46307306

8 months ago

Pornhub extorted after hackers steal Premium member activity data

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/pornhub-extorted-after-hackers-steal-premium-member-activity-data/

8 months ago

What's New in Python 3.15

https://docs.python.org/3.15/whatsnew/3.15.html

8 months ago

NOAA deploys new generation of AI-driven global weather models

https://www.noaa.gov/news-release/noaa-deploys-new-generation-of-ai-driven-global-weather-models

8 months ago

How did IRC ping timeouts end up in a lawsuit?

https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/73777.html

8 months ago