top 10 hacker news stories for 2025-12-18

Beginning January 2026, all ACM publications will be made open access

https://dl.acm.org/openaccess

2 months ago

2031 upvotes – 239 comments

We pwned X, Vercel, Cursor, and Discord through a supply-chain attack

https://gist.github.com/hackermondev/5e2cdc32849405fff6b46957747a2d28

2 months ago

1167 upvotes – 434 comments

History LLMs: Models trained exclusively on pre-1913 texts

https://github.com/DGoettlich/history-llms

2 months ago

897 upvotes – 421 comments

Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/18/code-proven-to-work/

2 months ago

859 upvotes – 658 comments

Mistral OCR 3

https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-ocr-3

2 months ago

694 upvotes – 130 comments

Classical statues were not painted horribly

https://worksinprogress.co/issue/were-classical-statues-painted-horribly/

2 months ago

631 upvotes – 332 comments

1.5 TB of VRAM on Mac Studio – RDMA over Thunderbolt 5

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/15-tb-vram-on-mac-studio-rdma-over-thunderbolt-5

2 months ago

617 upvotes – 228 comments

Please just try HTMX

http://pleasejusttryhtmx.com/

2 months ago

616 upvotes – 515 comments

GPT-5.2-Codex

https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-2-codex/

2 months ago

589 upvotes – 318 comments

Firefox will have an option to disable all AI features

https://mastodon.social/@firefoxwebdevs/115740500373677782

2 months ago

586 upvotes – 546 comments
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