top 50% 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

8 months ago

How uv got so fast

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

8 months ago

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

8 months ago

FFmpeg has issued a DMCA takedown on GitHub

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

8 months ago

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

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

8 months ago

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

https://github.com/pranshuparmar/witr

8 months ago

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/

8 months ago

Experts explore new mushroom which causes fairytale-like hallucinations

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

8 months ago

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

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

8 months ago

Rob Pike Goes Nuclear over GenAI

https://imgur.com/nUJCI3o

8 months ago

Exe.dev

https://exe.dev/

8 months ago

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/

8 months ago

Always bet on text (2014)

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

8 months ago

Ask HN: What did you read in 2025?

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

8 months ago

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

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

8 months ago

Animated AI

https://animatedai.github.io/

8 months ago

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/

8 months ago

LearnixOS

https://www.learnix-os.com

8 months ago

TurboDiffusion: 100–200× Acceleration for Video Diffusion Models

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

8 months ago

ChatGPT conversations still lack timestamps after years of requests

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

8 months ago

MiniMax M2.1: Built for Real-World Complex Tasks, Multi-Language Programming

https://www.minimaxi.com/news/minimax-m21

8 months ago

Tixl: Open-source realtime motion graphics

https://github.com/tixl3d/tixl

8 months ago

How Lewis Carroll computed determinants (2023)

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2023/07/10/lewis-carroll-determinants/

8 months ago

T-Ruby is Ruby with syntax for types

https://type-ruby.github.io/

8 months ago

My role as a founder-CTO: year 8

https://miguelcarranza.es/cto-year-8

8 months ago

Show HN: Xcc700: Self-hosting mini C compiler for ESP32 (Xtensa) in 700 lines

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/xcc700

8 months ago

Developing a Beautiful and Performant Block Editor in Qt C++ and QML

https://rubymamistvalove.com/block-editor

8 months ago

Show HN: AutoLISP interpreter in Rust/WASM – a CAD workflow invented 33 yrs ago

https://acadlisp.de/noscript.html

8 months ago

Odin: Moving Towards a New "core:OS"

https://odin-lang.org/news/moving-towards-a-new-core-os/

8 months ago

Microtonal Spiral Piano

https://shih1.github.io/spiral/

8 months ago

Unix "find" expressions compiled to bytecode

https://nullprogram.com/blog/2025/12/23/

8 months ago

MongoBleed

https://github.com/joe-desimone/mongobleed/blob/main/mongobleed.py

8 months ago

Drawing with zero-width characters

https://zw.swerdlow.dev

8 months ago

A Proclamation Regarding the Restoration of the Dash

https://blog.nawaz.org/posts/2025/Dec/a-proclamation-regarding-the-restoration-of-the-dash/

8 months ago

High school student discovers 1.5M potential new astronomical objects

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/high-school-student-discovers-1-5-million-potential-new-astronomical-objects-by-developing-an-ai-algorithm-180986429/

8 months ago

Grok and the Naked King: The Ultimate Argument Against AI Alignment

https://ibrahimcesar.cloud/blog/grok-and-the-naked-king/

8 months ago

Matz 2/2: The trajectory of Ruby's growth, Open-Source Software today etc.

https://en.kaigaiiju.ch/episodes/matz2

8 months ago

Building an AI agent inside a 7-year-old Rails monolith

https://catalinionescu.dev/ai-agent/building-ai-agent-part-1/

8 months ago

ICE's interest in high-tech gear raises new questions: 'What is it for?'

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/26/ice-high-tech-surveillance-lower-privacy-guardrails-00705401

8 months ago

Codex vs. Claude Code (today)

https://build.ms/2025/12/22/codex-vs-claude-code-today/

8 months ago

Governments in the West Are Turning Their Sights on VPNs

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/12/in-their-total-war-on-online-privacy-the-liberal-democracies-of-the-collective-west-are-now-turning-their-sights-on-vpns.html

8 months ago

Ultimate-Linux: Userspace for Linux in Pure JavaScript

https://github.com/popovicu/ultimate-linux

8 months ago

C-events, yet another event loop, simpler, smaller, faster, safer

https://zelang-dev.github.io/c-events/

8 months ago

How I think about Kubernetes

https://garnaudov.com/writings/how-i-think-about-kubernetes/

8 months ago

ZJIT is now available in Ruby 4.0

https://railsatscale.com/2025-12-24-launch-zjit/

8 months ago