top 20 hacker news stories for 2025-12-18

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

https://dl.acm.org/openaccess

8 months ago

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

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

8 months ago

History LLMs: Models trained exclusively on pre-1913 texts

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

8 months ago

Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work

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

8 months ago

Mistral OCR 3

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

8 months ago

Classical statues were not painted horribly

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

8 months ago

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

8 months ago

Please just try HTMX

http://pleasejusttryhtmx.com/

8 months ago

GPT-5.2-Codex

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

8 months ago

Firefox will have an option to disable all AI features

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

8 months ago

Are Apple gift cards safe to redeem?

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/12/17/are-apple-gift-cards-safe-to-redeem

8 months ago

Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46307973

8 months ago

How China built its ‘Manhattan Project’ to rival the West in AI chips

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/12/18/tech/china-west-ai-chips/

8 months ago

Adobe Photoshop 1.0 Source Code (1990)

https://computerhistory.org/blog/adobe-photoshop-source-code/

8 months ago

Independent review of UK national security law warns of overreach

https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-privacy-security/creating-apps-like-signal-or-whatsapp-could-be-hostile-activity-claims-uk-watchdog

8 months ago

Toys with the highest play-time and lowest clean-up-time

https://joannabregan.substack.com/p/toys-with-the-highest-play-time-and

8 months ago

After ruining a treasured water resource, Iran is drying up

https://e360.yale.edu/features/iran-water-drought-dams-qanats

8 months ago

Deliberate Internet Shutdowns

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/12/deliberate-internet-shutdowns.html

8 months ago

Skills for organizations, partners, the ecosystem

https://claude.com/blog/organization-skills-and-directory

8 months ago

How getting richer made teenagers less free

https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/how-getting-richer-made-teenagers

8 months ago