top 20 hacker news stories for 2025-12-26

Rob Pike goes nuclear over GenAI

https://skyview.social/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbsky.app%2Fprofile%2Frobpike.io%2Fpost%2F3matwg6w3ic2s&viewtype=tree

2 months ago

1550 upvotes – 1800 comments

How uv got so fast

https://nesbitt.io/2025/12/26/how-uv-got-so-fast.html

2 months ago

1290 upvotes – 459 comments

Package managers keep using Git as a database, it never works out

https://nesbitt.io/2025/12/24/package-managers-keep-using-git-as-a-database.html

2 months ago

784 upvotes – 465 comments

FFmpeg has issued a DMCA takedown on GitHub

https://twitter.com/FFmpeg/status/2004599109559496984

2 months ago

555 upvotes – 187 comments

Karpathy on Programming: “I've never felt this much behind”

https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/2004607146781278521

2 months ago

549 upvotes – 603 comments

Show HN: Witr – Explain why a process is running on your Linux system

https://github.com/pranshuparmar/witr

2 months ago

526 upvotes – 105 comments

My insulin pump controller uses the Linux kernel. It also violates the GPL

https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1puojsr/the_device_that_controls_my_insulin_pump_uses_the/

2 months ago

504 upvotes – 262 comments

Experts explore new mushroom which causes fairytale-like hallucinations

https://nhmu.utah.edu/articles/experts-explore-new-mushroom-which-causes-fairytale-hallucinations

2 months ago

494 upvotes – 320 comments

Toys with the highest play-time and lowest clean-up-time

https://joannabregan.substack.com/p/toys-with-the-highest-play-time-and

2 months ago

477 upvotes – 274 comments

Rob Pike Goes Nuclear over GenAI

https://imgur.com/nUJCI3o

2 months ago

464 upvotes – 18 comments

Exe.dev

https://exe.dev/

2 months ago

457 upvotes – 297 comments

Seven diabetes patients die due to undisclosed bug in Abbott's glucose monitors

https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2025/dec/23/seven-abbott-freestyle-libre-cgm-patients-dead/

2 months ago

446 upvotes – 155 comments

Always bet on text (2014)

https://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/193447.html

2 months ago

347 upvotes – 181 comments

Ask HN: What did you read in 2025?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46391572

2 months ago

340 upvotes – 448 comments

Rob Pike got spammed with an AI slop "act of kindness"

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/26/slop-acts-of-kindness/

2 months ago

312 upvotes – 249 comments

Animated AI

https://animatedai.github.io/

2 months ago

302 upvotes – 28 comments

I'm a laptop weirdo and that's why I like my new Framework 13

https://blog.matthewbrunelle.com/im-a-laptop-weirdo-and-thats-why-i-like-my-new-framework-13/

2 months ago

292 upvotes – 301 comments

LearnixOS

https://www.learnix-os.com

2 months ago

273 upvotes – 109 comments

TurboDiffusion: 100–200× Acceleration for Video Diffusion Models

https://github.com/thu-ml/TurboDiffusion

2 months ago

248 upvotes – 46 comments

ChatGPT conversations still lack timestamps after years of requests

https://community.openai.com/t/timestamps-for-chats-in-chatgpt/440107?page=3

2 months ago

239 upvotes – 160 comments
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