2031
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Beginning January 2026, all ACM publications will be made open access
https://dl.acm.org/openaccess
2 months ago
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434
We pwned X, Vercel, Cursor, and Discord through a supply-chain attack
https://gist.github.com/hackermondev/5e2cdc32849405fff6b46957747a2d28
897
421
History LLMs: Models trained exclusively on pre-1913 texts
https://github.com/DGoettlich/history-llms
859
658
Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/18/code-proven-to-work/
694
130
Mistral OCR 3
https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-ocr-3
631
332
Classical statues were not painted horribly
https://worksinprogress.co/issue/were-classical-statues-painted-horribly/
617
228
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
616
515
Please just try HTMX
http://pleasejusttryhtmx.com/
589
318
GPT-5.2-Codex
https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-2-codex/
586
546
Firefox will have an option to disable all AI features
https://mastodon.social/@firefoxwebdevs/115740500373677782
562
467
Are Apple gift cards safe to redeem?
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/12/17/are-apple-gift-cards-safe-to-redeem
485
560
Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46307973
470
607
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/
440
152
Adobe Photoshop 1.0 Source Code (1990)
https://computerhistory.org/blog/adobe-photoshop-source-code/
417
281
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
354
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Toys with the highest play-time and lowest clean-up-time
https://joannabregan.substack.com/p/toys-with-the-highest-play-time-and
351
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After ruining a treasured water resource, Iran is drying up
https://e360.yale.edu/features/iran-water-drought-dams-qanats
327
173
Deliberate Internet Shutdowns
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/12/deliberate-internet-shutdowns.html
289
170
Skills for organizations, partners, the ecosystem
https://claude.com/blog/organization-skills-and-directory
272
331
How getting richer made teenagers less free
https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/how-getting-richer-made-teenagers
254
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Slowness is a virtue
https://blog.jakobschwichtenberg.com/p/slowness-is-a-virtue
253
33
Show HN: TinyPDF – 3kb pdf library (70x smaller than jsPDF)
https://github.com/Lulzx/tinypdf
226
56
FunctionGemma 270M Model
https://blog.google/technology/developers/functiongemma/
217
Germany: Amazon is not allowed to force customers to watch ads on Prime Video
https://www.zeit.de/wirtschaft/2025-12/amazon-urteil-video-kunden-werbung
209
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'Ghost jobs' are on the rise – and so are calls to ban them
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyzvpp8g3vo
208
99
Fifty problems with standard web APIs in 2025
https://zerotrickpony.com/articles/browser-bugs/
207
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AI helps ship faster but it produces 1.7× more bugs
https://www.coderabbit.ai/blog/state-of-ai-vs-human-code-generation-report
203
46
Great ideas in theoretical computer science
https://www.cs251.com/
200
Judge hints Vizio TV buyers may have rights to source code licensed under GPL
https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/05/vizio_gpl_source_code_ruling/
197
206
Using TypeScript to obtain one of the rarest license plates
https://www.jack.bio/blog/licenseplate
178
35
How to hack Discord, Vercel and more with one easy trick
https://kibty.town/blog/mintlify/
169
72
Egyptian Hieroglyphs: Lesson 1
https://www.egyptianhieroglyphs.net/egyptian-hieroglyphs/lesson-1/
158
55
The Scottish Highlands, the Appalachians, Atlas are the same mountain range
https://vividmaps.com/central-pangean-mountains/
156
134
The Rise of SQL:the second programming language everyone needs to know
https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-rise-of-sql
153
28
T5Gemma 2: The next generation of encoder-decoder models
https://blog.google/technology/developers/t5gemma-2/
148
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Valve is running Apple's playbook in reverse
https://www.garbagecollected.dev/p/valve-the-reverse-apple
146
58
Most parked domains now serving malicious content
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/12/most-parked-domains-now-serving-malicious-content/
145
13
AI vending machine was tricked into giving away everything
https://kottke.org/25/12/this-ai-vending-machine-was-tricked-into-giving-away-everything
140
94
The port I couldn't ship
https://ammil.industries/the-port-i-couldnt-ship/
139
What is an elliptic curve? (2019)
https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2019/02/21/what-is-an-elliptic-curve/
137
106
Two kinds of vibe coding
https://davidbau.com/archives/2025/12/16/vibe_coding.html
GitHub Actions for self-hosted runners price increase postponed
https://pricetimeline.com/news/189
128
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RCE via ND6 Router Advertisements in FreeBSD
https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-25:12.rtsold.asc
125
We Let AI Run Our Office Vending Machine. It Lost Hundreds of Dollars
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-claude-ai-vending-machine-agent-b7e84e34
121
Spain fines Airbnb €65M: Why the government is cracking down on illegal rentals
https://www.euronews.com/travel/2025/12/15/spain-fines-airbnb-65-million-why-the-government-is-cracking-down-on-illegal-rentals
120
21
Executorch: On-device AI across mobile, embedded and edge for PyTorch
https://github.com/pytorch/executorch
116
Virtualizing Nvidia HGX B200 GPUs with Open Source
https://www.ubicloud.com/blog/virtualizing-nvidia-hgx-b200-gpus-with-open-source
113
34
It's all about momentum
https://combo.cc/posts/its-all-about-momentum-innit/
104
A faster path to container images in Bazel
https://www.tweag.io/blog/2025-12-18-rules_img/
103
133
A school locked down after AI flagged a gun. It was a clarinet
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/12/17/ai-gun-school-detection/
91
109
Systemd v259
https://github.com/systemd/systemd/releases/tag/v259
18
The First Photographs of Snowflakes Discover the Groundbreaking Microphotography (2017)
https://www.openculture.com/2017/12/the-first-photographs-of-snowflakes.html
89
256
The most banned books in U.S. schools
https://pen.org/top-52-banned-books-since-2021/
87
68
Ask HN: How do I bridge the gap between PhD and SWE experiences?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46315658
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Ask HN: Who here is not working on web apps/server code?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46316562
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