top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-12-22

Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. We Tracked Ourselves

https://www.404media.co/flock-exposed-its-ai-powered-cameras-to-the-internet-we-tracked-ourselves/

8 months ago

US blocks all offshore wind construction, says reason is classified

https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/12/us-government-finds-new-excuse-to-stop-construction-of-offshore-wind/

8 months ago

Claude Code gets native LSP support

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md

8 months ago

The Illustrated Transformer

https://jalammar.github.io/illustrated-transformer/

8 months ago

It's Always TCP_NODELAY

https://brooker.co.za/blog/2024/05/09/nagle.html

8 months ago

If you don't design your career, someone else will (2014)

https://gregmckeown.com/if-you-dont-design-your-career-someone-else-will/

8 months ago

GLM-4.7: Advancing the Coding Capability

https://z.ai/blog/glm-4.7

8 months ago

Lua 5.5

https://lua.org/versions.html#5.5

8 months ago

Jimmy Lai Is a Martyr for Freedom

https://reason.com/2025/12/19/jimmy-lai-is-a-martyr-for-freedom/

8 months ago

Ultrasound Cancer Treatment: Sound Waves Fight Tumors

https://spectrum.ieee.org/ultrasound-cancer-treatment

8 months ago

NIST was 5 μs off UTC after last week's power cut

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/nist-was-5-μs-utc-after-last-weeks-power-cut

8 months ago

Lotusbail npm package found to be harvesting WhatsApp messages and contacts

https://www.koi.ai/blog/npm-package-with-56k-downloads-malware-stealing-whatsapp-messages

8 months ago

Scaling LLMs to Larger Codebases

https://blog.kierangill.xyz/oversight-and-guidance

8 months ago

CSRF protection without tokens or hidden form fields

https://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/csrf-protection-without-tokens-or-hidden-form-fields

8 months ago

The Garbage Collection Handbook

https://gchandbook.org/index.html

8 months ago

The biggest CRT ever made: Sony's PVM-4300

https://dfarq.homeip.net/the-biggest-crt-ever-made-sonys-pvm-4300/

8 months ago

One year of keeping a tada list

https://www.ducktyped.org/p/one-year-of-keeping-a-tada-list

8 months ago

Benn Jordan – This Flock Camera Leak Is Like Netflix for Stalkers [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vU1-uiUlHTo

8 months ago

Debian's Git Transition

https://diziet.dreamwidth.org/20436.html

8 months ago

Toad is a unified experience for AI in the terminal

https://willmcgugan.github.io/toad-released/

8 months ago

The Algebra of Loans in Rust

https://nadrieril.github.io/blog/2025/12/21/the-algebra-of-loans-in-rust.html

8 months ago

The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/12/02/upshot/trump-science-funding-cuts.html

8 months ago

I announced my divorce on Instagram and then AI impersonated me

https://eiratansey.com/2025/12/20/i-announced-my-divorce-on-instagram-and-then-ai-impersonated-me/

8 months ago

The ancient monuments saluting the winter solstice

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20251219-the-ancient-monuments-saluting-the-winter-solstice

8 months ago

Project Vend: Phase Two

https://www.anthropic.com/research/project-vend-2

8 months ago

A year of vibes

https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/12/22/a-year-of-vibes/

8 months ago

Text rendering hates you (2019)

https://faultlore.com/blah/text-hates-you/

8 months ago

US destroying its reputation as a scientific leader – European science diplomat

https://sciencebusiness.net/news/horizon-europe/us-demolishing-its-scientific-leadership-wrecking-ball-says-chief-eu-research

8 months ago

Build Android apps using Rust and Iced

https://github.com/ibaryshnikov/android-iced-example

8 months ago

Things I learnt about passkeys when building passkeybot

https://enzom.dev/b/passkeys/

8 months ago

One million (small web) screenshots

https://nry.me/posts/2025-10-09/small-web-screenshots/

8 months ago

Satellites reveal heat leaking from largest US cryptocurrency mining center

https://www.space.com/space-exploration/satellites/satellites-reveal-heat-leaking-from-largest-us-cryptocurrency-mining-center

8 months ago

Italian Competition Authority Fines Apple $115M for Abusing Dominant Position

https://en.agcm.it/en/media/press-releases/2025/12/A561

8 months ago

Vince Zampella, developer of Call of Duty and Battlefield has died

https://comicbook.com/gaming/news/vince-zampella-developer-of-call-of-duty-and-battlefield-dead-at-55/

8 months ago

Paperbacks and TikTok

https://calnewport.com/on-paperbacks-and-tiktok/

8 months ago

Mruby: Ruby for Embedded Systems

https://github.com/mruby/mruby

8 months ago

Ask HN: My mother was scammed out of all her savings. What should I do?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46353704

8 months ago

Archiving Git branches as tags

https://etc.octavore.com/2025/12/archiving-git-branches-as-tags/

8 months ago

Universal Reasoning Model (53.8% pass 1 ARC1 and 16.0% ARC 2)

https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.14693

8 months ago

State regulators vote to keep utility profits high angering customers across CA

https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2025-12-18/state-regulators-vote-to-keep-utility-profits-high-angering-customers

8 months ago

What happened to all the gold Spain got from the New World? (1985)

https://www.straightdope.com/21341789/what-happened-to-all-the-gold-spain-got-from-the-new-world

8 months ago

Cartoon Network channel errors (1995 – 2025)

https://cnas.fandom.com/wiki/Channel_Errors

8 months ago

Show HN: Backlog – a public repository of real work problems

https://www.worldsbacklog.com/

8 months ago

Your Supabase is public if you turn off RLS

https://skilldeliver.com/your-supabase-is-public

8 months ago

Joan Didion and Kurt Vonnegut had something to say. We have it on tape

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/books/james-baldwin-joan-didion-92ny-recordings.html

8 months ago

US bars approvals of new models of DJI, all other foreign drones

https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/us-adds-dji-other-foreign-drones-national-security-list-2025-12-22/

8 months ago

I know you didn't write this

https://ammil.industries/i-know-you-didnt-write-this/

8 months ago

Your inbox is a bandit problem

https://parentheticallyspeaking.org/articles/bandit-inbox/

8 months ago

Tachyon: High frequency statistical sampling profiler

https://docs.python.org/3.15/library/profiling.sampling.html

8 months ago

There Is No Future for Online Safety Without Privacy and Security

https://itsfoss.com/news/alexander-linton-interview/

8 months ago

The Program 2025 annual review: How much money does an audio drama podcast make?

https://programaudioseries.com/the-program-results-7/

8 months ago

ONNX Runtime and CoreML May Silently Convert Your Model to FP16

https://ym2132.github.io/ONNX_MLProgram_NN_exploration

8 months ago

AI Bathroom Monitors? Welcome to America's New Surveillance High Schools

https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2025/12/16/ai-bathroom-monitors-welcome-to-americas-new-surveillance-high-schools/

8 months ago

86Box v5.3

https://86box.net/2025/12/21/86box-v5-3.html

8 months ago

Danish postal service to stop delivering letters

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/21/denmark-postnord-postal-delivery-letters-society

8 months ago

Overlooked No More: Inge Lehmann, Who Discovered the Earth's Inner Core

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/obituaries/inge-lehmann-overlooked.html

8 months ago

BMW Patents Proprietary Screws That Only Dealerships Can Remove

https://carbuzz.com/bmw-roundel-logo-screw-patent/

8 months ago

Doublespeak: In-Context Representation Hijacking

https://mentaleap.ai/doublespeak/

8 months ago

Inverse Parentheses

https://kellett.im/a/inverse-parentheses

8 months ago

Hardware Touch, Stronger SSH

https://www.ubicloud.com/blog/hardware-touch-stronger-ssh

8 months ago

Well being in times of algorithms

https://www.ssp.sh/blog/well-being-algorithms/

8 months ago

US Administration halted largest Offshore Wind project in the U.S.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/22/trump-offshore-wind-cvow-dominion.html

8 months ago