top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-12-19

Hacker News front page now, but the titles are honest

https://dosaygo-studio.github.io/hn-front-page-2035/news-honest.html

8 months ago

CSS Grid Lanes

https://webkit.org/blog/17660/introducing-css-grid-lanes/

8 months ago

Garage – An S3 object store so reliable you can run it outside datacenters

https://garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr/

8 months ago

Amazon will allow ePub and PDF downloads for DRM-free eBooks

https://www.kdpcommunity.com/s/article/New-eBook-Download-Options-for-Readers-Coming-in-2026?language=en_US

8 months ago

GotaTun – Mullvad's WireGuard Implementation in Rust

https://mullvad.net/en/blog/announcing-gotatun-the-future-of-wireguard-at-mullvad-vpn

8 months ago

Noclip.website – A digital museum of video game levels

https://noclip.website/

8 months ago

What makes you senior

https://terriblesoftware.org/2025/11/25/what-actually-makes-you-senior/

8 months ago

LLM Year in Review

https://karpathy.bearblog.dev/year-in-review-2025/

8 months ago

TP-Link Tapo C200: Hardcoded Keys, Buffer Overflows and Privacy

https://www.evilsocket.net/2025/12/18/TP-Link-Tapo-C200-Hardcoded-Keys-Buffer-Overflows-and-Privacy-in-the-Era-of-AI-Assisted-Reverse-Engineering/

8 months ago

8-bit Boléro

https://linusakesson.net/music/bolero/index.php

8 months ago

You can now play Grand Theft Auto Vice City in the browser

https://dos.zone/grand-theft-auto-vice-city/

8 months ago

TikTok Deal Is the Shittiest Possible Outcome, Making Everything Worse

https://www.techdirt.com/2025/12/19/tiktok-deal-done-and-its-somehow-the-shittiest-possible-outcome-making-everything-worse/

8 months ago

Getting bitten by Intel's poor naming schemes

https://lorendb.dev/posts/getting-bitten-by-poor-naming-schemes/

8 months ago

Graphite is joining Cursor

https://cursor.com/blog/graphite

8 months ago

Show HN: Exploring Mathematics with Python

https://coe.psu.ac.th/ad/explore/

8 months ago

Tiled Art

https://tiled.art/en/home/?id=SilverAndGold

8 months ago

2026 Apple introducing more ads to increase opportunity in search results

https://ads.apple.com/app-store/help/ad-placements/0082-search-results

8 months ago

Wall Street ruined the Roomba and then blamed Lina Khan

https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/how-wall-street-ruined-the-roomba

8 months ago

FPGAs Need a New Future

https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/industry-articles/fpgas-need-a-new-future/

8 months ago

Rust's Block Pattern

https://notgull.net/block-pattern/

8 months ago

CUDA Tile Open Sourced

https://github.com/NVIDIA/cuda-tile

8 months ago

The FreeBSD Foundation's Laptop Support and Usability Project

https://github.com/FreeBSDFoundation/proj-laptop

8 months ago

Brown/MIT shooting suspect found dead, officials say

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/12/18/brown-university-shooting-person-of-interest/

8 months ago

A better zip bomb (2019)

https://www.bamsoftware.com/hacks/zipbomb/

8 months ago

Show HN: Hacker News, but every headline is hysterical clickbait

https://dosaygo-studio.github.io/hn-front-page-2035/news-max.html

8 months ago

Reconstructed Commander Keen 1-3 Source Code

https://pckf.com/viewtopic.php?t=18248

8 months ago

Prepare for That Stupid World

https://ploum.net/2025-12-19-prepare-for-that-world.html

8 months ago

Believe the Checkbook

https://robertgreiner.com/believe-the-checkbook/

8 months ago

Cursor Acquires Graphite

https://graphite.com/blog/graphite-joins-cursor

8 months ago

Research team digitizes more than 100 years of Canadian infectious disease data

https://news.mcmaster.ca/mcmaster-research-team-digitizes-more-than-100-years-of-canadian-infectious-disease-data/

8 months ago

PBS News Hour West to go dark after ASU discontinues contract

https://www.statepress.com/article/2025/12/politics-pbs-newshour-west-closure

8 months ago

Is Proton leaving Switzerland?

https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-privacy-security/is-proton-leaving-switzerland-legal-uncertainty-of-proposed-surveillance-laws-is-pushing-them-to-make-several-changes

8 months ago

Performance Hints

https://abseil.io/fast/hints.html

8 months ago

Webb observes exoplanet that may have an exotic helium and carbon atmosphere

https://science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/nasas-webb-observes-exoplanet-whose-composition-defies-explanation/

8 months ago

Reverse Engineering US Airline's PNR System and Accessing All Reservations

https://alexschapiro.com/security/vulnerability/2025/11/20/avelo-airline-reservation-api-vulnerability

8 months ago

Qwen-Image-Layered: transparency and layer aware open diffusion model

https://huggingface.co/papers/2512.15603

8 months ago

Making Google Sans Flex

https://design.google/library/google-sans-flex-font

8 months ago

Kernighan's Lever

https://linusakesson.net/programming/kernighans-lever/index.php

8 months ago

Making a game on a custom bytecode VM in 7 days and 3kB

https://laurent.le-brun.eu/blog/making-a-game-on-a-custom-bytecode-vm-in-7-days-and-3kb

8 months ago

How to Reproduce This Book with LaTeX

https://github.com/BenjaminGor/Latex_Notes_Tutorial

8 months ago

AMD officially confirms fresh next-gen Zen 6 CPU details

https://overclock3d.net/news/cpu_mainboard/amd-officially-confirms-fresh-next-gen-zen-6-cpu-details/

8 months ago

Show HN: Netrinos – A keep it simple Mesh VPN for small teams

https://netrinos.com

8 months ago

Using AI Generated Code Will Make You a Bad Programmer

https://unsolicited-opinions.rudism.com/bad-programmer/

8 months ago

We ran Anthropic’s interviews through structured LLM analysis

https://www.playbookatlas.com/research/ai-adoption-explorer

8 months ago

AI Can Write Your Code. It Can't Do Your Job

https://terriblesoftware.org/2025/12/11/ai-can-write-your-code-it-cant-do-your-job/

8 months ago

I have to give Fortnite my passport to use Bluesky

https://spitfirenews.com/p/why-i-have-to-give-fortnite-my-passport-to-use-bluesky

8 months ago

map::operator[] should be nodiscard

https://quuxplusone.github.io/blog/2025/12/18/nodiscard-operator-bracket/

8 months ago

Show HN: I open-sourced my Go and Next B2B SaaS Starter (deploy anywhere, MIT)

https://github.com/moasq/production-saas-starter

8 months ago

Sandbox: Run untrusted AI code safely, fast

https://github.com/PwnFunction/sandbox

8 months ago

Building a Transparent Keyserver

https://words.filippo.io/keyserver-tlog/

8 months ago

SMB Direct – SMB3 over RDMA

https://docs.kernel.org/filesystems/smb/smbdirect.html

8 months ago

Engineers who dismiss AI

https://terriblesoftware.org/2025/12/19/the-strange-case-of-engineers-who-dismiss-ai/

8 months ago

The scariest boot loader code

http://miod.online.fr/software/openbsd/stories/boot_hppa.html

8 months ago

Parasites plagued Roman soldiers at Hadrian's Wall

https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/12/study-roman-soldiers-battled-parasites-at-hadrians-wall/

8 months ago

Buteyko Method

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buteyko_method

8 months ago

Show HN: I Made Loom for Mobile

https://demoscope.app

8 months ago

Evaluating chain-of-thought monitorability

https://openai.com/index/evaluating-chain-of-thought-monitorability/

8 months ago

AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D sells for more than 9800X3D, enthusiasts flock to AM4 DDR4

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/amds-legacy-ryzen-7-5800x3d-chips-now-sell-for-up-to-usd800-more-than-a-new-9800x3d-am4-chip-costs-twice-as-much-as-msrp-as-enthusiasts-flock-to-old-ddr4-memory

8 months ago

Why we're taking legal action against SerpApi's unlawful scraping

https://blog.google/technology/safety-security/serpapi-lawsuit/

8 months ago

The New Right-Wing Tech Intelligentsia

https://bayareacurrent.com/meet-the-new-right-wing-tech-intelligentsia/

8 months ago

At least $9B billed across 14 Medicaid services in Minnesota may be fraudulent

https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/billions-paid-out-by-medicaid-in-minnesota-may-be-fraudulent-us-attorney/

8 months ago

AI's Unpaid Debt: How LLM Scrapers Destroy the Social Contract of Open Source

https://www.quippd.com/writing/2025/12/17/AIs-unpaid-debt-how-llm-scrapers-destroy-the-social-contract-of-open-source.html

8 months ago

Astrophotography Target Planner: Discover Hidden Nebulas

https://astroimagery.com/techniques/imaging/astrophotography-target-planner/

8 months ago