top 50% 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

Claude in Chrome

https://claude.com/chrome

2 months ago

316 upvotes – 194 comments

Programming languages used for music

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

2 months ago

316 upvotes – 105 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

The Deviancy Signal: Having "Nothing to Hide" Is a Threat to Us All

https://thompson2026.com/blog/deviancy-signal/

2 months ago

216 upvotes – 168 comments

Perfect Software – Software for an Audience of One

https://outofdesk.netlify.app/blog/perfect-software

2 months ago

208 upvotes – 97 comments

You have reached the end of the internet (2006)

https://hmpg.net/

2 months ago

204 upvotes – 63 comments

Build Your Own React

https://pomb.us/build-your-own-react/

2 months ago

187 upvotes – 22 comments

I spent a week without IPv4 (2023)

https://www.apalrd.net/posts/2023/network_ipv6/

2 months ago

168 upvotes – 360 comments

Immersa: Open-source Web-based 3D Presentation Tool

https://github.com/ertugrulcetin/immersa

2 months ago

163 upvotes – 25 comments

Debian adds LoongArch as officially supported architecture

https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2025/12/msg00004.html

2 months ago

162 upvotes – 54 comments

Comptime – C# meta-programming with compile-time code generation and evaluation

https://github.com/sebastienros/comptime

2 months ago

150 upvotes – 66 comments

A train-sized tunnel is now carrying electricity under South London

https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/a-train-sized-tunnel-is-now-carrying-electricity-under-south-london-86221/

2 months ago

149 upvotes – 102 comments

What Does a Database for SSDs Look Like?

https://brooker.co.za/blog/2025/12/15/database-for-ssd.html

2 months ago

148 upvotes – 121 comments

The post-GeForce era: What if Nvidia abandons PC gaming?

https://www.pcworld.com/article/3013044/the-post-geforce-era-what-if-nvidia-abandons-pc-gaming.html

2 months ago

138 upvotes – 279 comments

The Polyglot NixOS

https://x86.lol/generic/2025/12/19/polyglot.html

2 months ago

134 upvotes – 53 comments

MIRA – An open-source persistent AI entity with memory

https://github.com/taylorsatula/mira-OSS

2 months ago

131 upvotes – 53 comments

Contrails Map

https://map.contrails.org/

2 months ago

128 upvotes – 63 comments

Perfect Aircrete, Kitchen Ingredients [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4_GxPHwqkA

2 months ago

100 upvotes – 46 comments

Anatomy of US inequality

https://www.nber.org/papers/w34558

2 months ago

94 upvotes – 81 comments

Approaching 50 Years of String Theory

https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=15401

2 months ago

91 upvotes – 132 comments

Anthropic: You can't change your Claude account email address

https://support.claude.com/en/articles/8452276-how-do-i-change-the-email-address-associated-with-my-account

2 months ago

89 upvotes – 72 comments

Qntm's Power Tower Toy

https://qntm.org/files/knuth/knuth.html

2 months ago

84 upvotes – 25 comments

The dawn of a world simulator

https://odyssey.ml/the-dawn-of-a-world-simulator

2 months ago

80 upvotes – 55 comments
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