top 50% 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

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

What's New in Python 3.15

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

8 months ago

How did IRC ping timeouts end up in a lawsuit?

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

8 months ago

GitHub postponing the announced billing change for self-hosted GitHub Actions

https://twitter.com/jaredpalmer/status/2001373329811181846

8 months ago

Tesla reports another Robotaxi crash

https://electrek.co/2025/12/15/tesla-reports-another-robotaxi-crash-even-with-supervisor/

8 months ago

FCC chair suggests agency isn't independent, word cut from mission statement

https://www.axios.com/2025/12/17/brendan-carr-fcc-independent-senate-testimony-website

8 months ago

Firefox is becoming an AI browser and the internet is not at all happy about it

https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/firefox-is-becoming-an-ai-browser-and-the-internet-is-not-at-all-happy-about-it/

8 months ago

The State of AI Coding Report 2025

https://www.greptile.com/state-of-ai-coding-2025

8 months ago

Linux Kernel Rust Code Sees Its First CVE Vulnerability

https://www.phoronix.com/news/First-Linux-Rust-CVE

8 months ago

TLA+ Modeling Tips

http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2025/12/tla-modeling-tips.html

8 months ago

A terminal emulator that runs in your terminal. Powered by Turbo Vision

https://github.com/magiblot/tvterm

8 months ago

Introduction to Software Development Tooling (2024)

https://bernsteinbear.com/isdt/

8 months ago

Cloudflare Radar 2025 Year in Review

https://radar.cloudflare.com/year-in-review/2025

8 months ago

Why do commercial spaces sit vacant?

https://archive.strongtowns.org/journal/2025/5/21/why-do-commercial-spaces-sit-vacant

8 months ago

Ask HN: What are your predictions for 2026?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46297348

8 months ago

US threatens EU digital services market access

https://twitter.com/ustraderep/status/2000990028835508258

8 months ago

Inside PostHog: SSRF, ClickHouse SQL Escape and Default Postgres Creds to RCE

https://mdisec.com/inside-posthog-how-ssrf-a-clickhouse-sql-escaping-0day-and-default-postgresql-credentials-formed-an-rce-chain-zdi-25-099-zdi-25-097-zdi-25-096/

8 months ago

Vm.overcommit_memory=2 is the right setting for servers

https://ariadne.space/2025/12/16/vmovercommitmemory-is-always-the-right.html

8 months ago

American Academy of Pediatrics loses HHS funding after criticizing RFK Jr.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/12/17/aap-hhs-funding-rfk/

8 months ago

AI Isn't Just Spying on You. It's Tricking You into Spending More

https://newrepublic.com/article/204525/artificial-intelligence-consumers-data-dynamic-pricing

8 months ago

Here is the 15 sec coding test I used to instantly filter out most applicants

https://josezarazua.com/im-a-former-cto-here-is-the-15-sec-coding-test-i-used-to-instantly-filter-out-50-of-unqualified-applicants/

8 months ago

Show HN: High-Performance Wavelet Matrix for Python, Implemented in Rust

https://pypi.org/project/wavelet-matrix/

8 months ago

Show HN: Learn Japanese contextually while browsing

https://lingoku.ai/learn-japanese

8 months ago

Ask HN: Was HN just down for anyone else?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46301903

8 months ago

How the RESISTORS put computing into 1960s counter-culture

https://spectrum.ieee.org/teenage-hackers

8 months ago

Learning Fortran (2024)

https://uncenter.dev/posts/learning-fortran/

8 months ago

Windows 11 will ask consent before sharing personal files with AI after outrage

https://www.windowslatest.com/2025/12/17/microsoft-confirms-windows-11-will-ask-for-consent-before-sharing-your-personal-files-with-ai-after-outrage/

8 months ago

VRChat: “There are more Japanese creators than all other countries combined”

https://twitter.com/chyadosensei/status/2001356290531156159

8 months ago

Decompiling the New C# 14 field Keyword

https://blog.ivankahl.com/decompiling-the-new-csharp-14-field-keyword/

8 months ago

Venezuela's Navy Begins Escorting Ships as U.S. Threatens Blockade

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12/17/us/trump-news

8 months ago

California judge rules that Tesla engaged in deceptive marketing for Autopilot

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/16/california-judge-says-tesla-engaged-in-deceptive-autopilot-marketing-.html

8 months ago

Learn Lisp/Fennel Programming Against Neovim

https://github.com/humorless/fennel-fp-neovim

8 months ago

Locked out: How a gift card purchase destroyed an Apple account

https://appleinsider.com/articles/25/12/13/locked-out-how-a-gift-card-purchase-destroyed-an-apple-account

8 months ago

Show HN: C-compiler to compile TCC for live-bootstrap

https://github.com/FransFaase/MES-replacement

8 months ago

Explaining the widening divides in us midlife mortality: Is there a smoking gun?

https://www.nber.org/papers/w34553

8 months ago

The US govt has revoked the non-immigrant visa of Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ple4xophXfM

8 months ago

FTX insider Caroline Ellison has been moved out of prison

https://www.businessinsider.com/caroline-ellison-prison-release-ftx-sam-bankman-fried-2025-12

8 months ago