top 20 hacker news stories for 2025-12-20

Backing up Spotify

https://annas-archive.li/blog/backing-up-spotify.html

2 months ago

1980 upvotes – 701 comments

Show HN: Jmail – Google Suite for Epstein files

https://www.jmail.world

2 months ago

1557 upvotes – 363 comments

Go ahead, self-host Postgres

https://pierce.dev/notes/go-ahead-self-host-postgres#user-content-fn-1

2 months ago

683 upvotes – 396 comments

Airbus to migrate critical apps to a sovereign Euro cloud

https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/19/airbus_sovereign_cloud/

2 months ago

519 upvotes – 498 comments

NTP at NIST Boulder Has Lost Power

https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/ACADD3NKOG2QRWZ56OSNNG7UIEKKTZXL/

2 months ago

488 upvotes – 210 comments

The entire New Yorker archive is now digitized

https://www.newyorker.com/news/press-room/the-entire-new-yorker-archive-is-now-fully-digitized

2 months ago

481 upvotes – 68 comments

Privacy doesn't mean anything anymore, anonymity does

https://servury.com/blog/privacy-is-marketing-anonymity-is-architecture/

2 months ago

458 upvotes – 290 comments

Pure Silicon Demo Coding: No CPU, No Memory, Just 4k Gates

https://www.a1k0n.net/2025/12/19/tiny-tapeout-demo.html

2 months ago

429 upvotes – 73 comments

Over 40% of deceased drivers in vehicle crashes test positive for THC: Study

https://www.facs.org/media-center/press-releases/2025/over-40-of-deceased-drivers-in-motor-vehicle-crashes-test-positive-for-thc-study-shows/

2 months ago

345 upvotes – 502 comments

Charles Proxy

https://www.charlesproxy.com/

2 months ago

331 upvotes – 119 comments

OpenSCAD is kinda neat

https://nuxx.net/blog/2025/12/20/openscad-is-kinda-neat/

2 months ago

327 upvotes – 253 comments

Programming languages used for music

https://timthompson.com/plum/cgi/showlist.cgi?sort=name&concise=yes

2 months ago

316 upvotes – 105 comments

Claude in Chrome

https://claude.com/chrome

2 months ago

316 upvotes – 194 comments

Show HN: HN Wrapped 2025 - an LLM reviews your year on HN

https://hn-wrapped.kadoa.com?year=2025

2 months ago

313 upvotes – 153 comments

Ireland’s Diarmuid Early wins world Microsoft Excel title

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj4qzgvxxgvo

2 months ago

310 upvotes – 124 comments

Skills Officially Comes to Codex

https://developers.openai.com/codex/skills/

2 months ago

304 upvotes – 130 comments

Big GPUs don't need big PCs

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/big-gpus-dont-need-big-pcs

2 months ago

285 upvotes – 123 comments

Reflections on AI at the End of 2025

https://antirez.com/news/157

2 months ago

243 upvotes – 364 comments

Why do people leave comments on OpenBenches?

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/12/why-do-people-leave-comments-on-openbenches/

2 months ago

235 upvotes – 27 comments

Android introduces $2-4 install fee and 10–20% cut for US external content links

https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answer/16470497?hl=en

2 months ago

224 upvotes – 201 comments
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