top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-12-21

The Going Dark initiative or ProtectEU is a Chat Control 3.0 attempt

https://mastodon.online/@mullvadnet/115742530333573065

2 months ago

648 upvotes – 283 comments

Show HN: Books mentioned on Hacker News in 2025

https://hackernews-readings-613604506318.us-west1.run.app

2 months ago

613 upvotes – 212 comments

A guide to local coding models

https://www.aiforswes.com/p/you-dont-need-to-spend-100mo-on-claude

2 months ago

607 upvotes – 351 comments

Flock and Cyble Inc. weaponize “cybercrime” takedowns to silence critics

https://haveibeenflocked.com/news/cyble-downtime

2 months ago

604 upvotes – 120 comments

Logging sucks

https://loggingsucks.com/

2 months ago

585 upvotes – 223 comments

I can't upgrade to Windows 11, now leave me alone

https://idiallo.com/byte-size/cant-update-to-windows-11-leave-me-alone

2 months ago

551 upvotes – 563 comments

Show HN: WalletWallet – create Apple passes from anything

https://walletwallet.alen.ro/

2 months ago

448 upvotes – 115 comments

Show HN: Gaming Couch – a local multiplayer party game platform for 8 players

https://gamingcouch.com

2 months ago

437 upvotes – 121 comments

Ruby website redesigned

https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/

2 months ago

427 upvotes – 194 comments

CO2 batteries that store grid energy take off globally

https://spectrum.ieee.org/co2-battery-energy-storage

2 months ago

370 upvotes – 311 comments

You’re not burnt out, you’re existentially starving

https://neilthanedar.com/youre-not-burnt-out-youre-existentially-starving/

2 months ago

355 upvotes – 413 comments

Waymo halts service during S.F. blackout after causing traffic jams

https://missionlocal.org/2025/12/sf-waymo-halts-service-blackout/

2 months ago

319 upvotes – 456 comments

Autoland saves King Air, everyone reported safe

https://avbrief.com/autoland-saves-king-air-everyone-reported-safe/

2 months ago

283 upvotes – 185 comments

Disney Imagineering Debuts Next-Generation Robotic Character, Olaf

https://disneyparksblog.com/disney-experiences/robotic-olaf-marks-new-era-of-disney-innovation/

2 months ago

280 upvotes – 143 comments

Indoor tanning makes youthful skin much older on a genetic level

https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2025/12/431206/indoor-tanning-makes-youthful-skin-much-older-genetic-level

2 months ago

258 upvotes – 197 comments

Rue: Higher level than Rust, lower level than Go

https://rue-lang.dev/

2 months ago

257 upvotes – 269 comments

Measuring AI Ability to Complete Long Tasks

https://metr.org/blog/2025-03-19-measuring-ai-ability-to-complete-long-tasks/

2 months ago

247 upvotes – 193 comments

Ask HN: Resources to get better at outbound sales?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46346648

2 months ago

240 upvotes – 68 comments

Coarse is better

https://borretti.me/article/coarse-is-better

2 months ago

216 upvotes – 115 comments

How I protect my Forgejo instance from AI web crawlers

https://her.esy.fun/posts/0031-how-i-protect-my-forgejo-instance-from-ai-web-crawlers/index.html

2 months ago

189 upvotes – 98 comments

Clair Obscur having its Indie Game Game Of The Year award stripped due to AI use

https://www.thegamer.com/clair-obscur-expedition-33-indie-game-awards-goty-stripped-ai-use/

2 months ago

186 upvotes – 403 comments

Inca Stone Masonry

https://www.earthasweknowit.com/pages/inca_construction

2 months ago

172 upvotes – 43 comments

Reasons not to become famous (2020)

https://tim.blog/2020/02/02/reasons-to-not-become-famous/

2 months ago

163 upvotes – 134 comments

Structured outputs create false confidence

https://boundaryml.com/blog/structured-outputs-create-false-confidence

2 months ago

155 upvotes – 66 comments

More on whether useful quantum computing is “imminent”

https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=9425

2 months ago

152 upvotes – 125 comments

I wish people were more public

https://borretti.me/article/i-wish-people-were-more-public

2 months ago

149 upvotes – 121 comments

ARIN Public Incident Report – 4.10 Misissuance Error

https://www.arin.net/announcements/20251212/

2 months ago

146 upvotes – 39 comments

Three ways to solve problems

https://andreasfragner.com/writing/three-ways-to-solve-problems

2 months ago

145 upvotes – 22 comments

E.W.Dijkstra Archive

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/welcome.html

2 months ago

143 upvotes – 14 comments

Using Vectorize to build an unreasonably good search engine in 160 lines of code

https://blog.partykit.io/posts/using-vectorize-to-build-search/

2 months ago

143 upvotes – 41 comments

Get an AI code review in 10 seconds

https://oldmanrahul.com/2025/12/19/ai-code-review-trick/

2 months ago

142 upvotes – 64 comments

I doubt that anything resembling genuine AGI is within reach of current AI tools

https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/115722360006034040

2 months ago

140 upvotes – 114 comments

Show HN: Shittp – Volatile Dotfiles over SSH

https://github.com/FOBshippingpoint/shittp

2 months ago

136 upvotes – 85 comments

The gift card accountability sink

https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/gift-card-accountability-sink/

2 months ago

132 upvotes – 110 comments

Immer – A library of persistent and immutable data structures written in C++

https://github.com/arximboldi/immer

2 months ago

127 upvotes – 18 comments

Jingle Bells (Batman Smells): An incomplete festive folk-rhyme taxonomy

https://loreandordure.com/2025/12/16/jingle-bells/

2 months ago

121 upvotes – 62 comments

Langjam-Gamejam Devlog: Making a language, compiler, VM and 5 games in 52 hours

https://github.com/Syn-Nine/gar-lang/blob/main/DEVLOG.md

2 months ago

121 upvotes – 10 comments

Never Use Pixelation to Hide Sensitive Text (2014)

https://dheera.net/posts/20140725-why-you-should-never-use-pixelation/

2 months ago

117 upvotes – 39 comments

Isengard in Oxford

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/isengard-in-oxford/

2 months ago

117 upvotes – 17 comments

Intertapes – collection of found cassette tapes from different locations

https://intertapes.net/

2 months ago

103 upvotes – 9 comments

How GNU Guile is 10x better (2021)

https://www.draketo.de/software/guile-10x

2 months ago

101 upvotes – 13 comments

Show HN: RenderCV – Open-source CV/resume generator, YAML to PDF

https://github.com/rendercv/rendercv

2 months ago

100 upvotes – 41 comments

I rebuilt FlashAttention in Triton to understand the performance archaeology

https://aminediro.com/posts/flash_attn/

2 months ago

95 upvotes – 19 comments

PG&E outages in S.F. leave 130k without electricity

https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/pg-e-outage-40-000-customers-without-power-21254326.php

2 months ago

88 upvotes – 62 comments

New mathematical framework reshapes debate over simulation hypothesis

https://www.santafe.edu/news-center/news/new-mathematical-framework-reshapes-debate-over-simulation-hypothesis

2 months ago

87 upvotes – 106 comments

An 11-qubit atom processor in silicon with all fidelities from 99.10% to 99.99%

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09827-w

2 months ago

86 upvotes – 58 comments

Dr. Richard Stallman to give free talk and QA at Georgia Tech Jan. 23rd 2-5pm

https://old.reddit.com/r/gatech/comments/1prm6if/free_event_meet_dr_richard_stallman_creator_of/

2 months ago

82 upvotes – 12 comments

Go Gray, Not Cray: Why You Should Grayscale Your Phone

https://sami.eljabali.org/go-gray-not-cray-why-you-should-grayscale-your-phone/

2 months ago

81 upvotes – 64 comments

Show HN: The Official National Train Map Sucked, So I Made My Own

https://www.bdzmap.com/

2 months ago

77 upvotes – 24 comments

Mountain home near Aspen, built for monks, sold to Palantir CEO for $120M

https://coloradosun.com/2025/12/19/monastery-sells-palantir-ceo/

2 months ago

75 upvotes – 64 comments

Handheld PC Community Forums

https://www.hpcfactor.com/forums/category-view.asp

2 months ago

74 upvotes – 32 comments

The WhatsApp Whisperer

https://www.whatsprivcy.com/

2 months ago

72 upvotes – 12 comments

ELF Crimes: Program Interpreter Fun

https://nytpu.com/gemlog/2025-12-21

2 months ago

67 upvotes – 14 comments

ISBN Visualization

https://annas-archive.li/isbn-visualization/

2 months ago

67 upvotes – 13 comments

Faster practical modular inversion

https://purplesyringa.moe/blog/faster-practical-modular-inversion/

2 months ago

65 upvotes – 3 comments

Day laborers protest noise machines installed at Home Depot

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-12-17/day-laborers-protest-noise-machines-home-depot

2 months ago

65 upvotes – 80 comments
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