top 20 hacker news stories for 2025-12-20

Backing up Spotify

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

8 months ago

Show HN: Jmail – Google Suite for Epstein files

https://www.jmail.world

8 months ago

Go ahead, self-host Postgres

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

8 months ago

Airbus to migrate critical apps to a sovereign Euro cloud

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

8 months ago

NTP at NIST Boulder Has Lost Power

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

8 months ago

The entire New Yorker archive is now digitized

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

8 months ago

Privacy doesn't mean anything anymore, anonymity does

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

8 months ago

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

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

8 months ago

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/

8 months ago

Charles Proxy

https://www.charlesproxy.com/

8 months ago

OpenSCAD is kinda neat

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

8 months ago

Programming languages used for music

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

8 months ago

Claude in Chrome

https://claude.com/chrome

8 months ago

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

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

8 months ago

Ireland’s Diarmuid Early wins world Microsoft Excel title

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

8 months ago

Skills Officially Comes to Codex

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

8 months ago

Big GPUs don't need big PCs

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

8 months ago

Reflections on AI at the End of 2025

https://antirez.com/news/157

8 months ago

Why do people leave comments on OpenBenches?

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

8 months ago

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

8 months ago