top 20 hacker news stories for 2025-12-27

Floor796

https://floor796.com/

2 months ago

1066 upvotes – 119 comments

How we lost communication to entertainment

https://ploum.net/2025-12-15-communication-entertainment.html

2 months ago

701 upvotes – 397 comments

Say No to Palantir in the NHS

https://notopalantir.goodlawproject.org/email-to-target/stop-palantir-in-the-nhs/

2 months ago

602 upvotes – 226 comments

Nvidia's $20B antitrust loophole

https://ossa-ma.github.io/blog/groq

2 months ago

549 upvotes – 175 comments

Gpg.fail

https://gpg.fail

2 months ago

450 upvotes – 357 comments

Show HN: Ez FFmpeg – Video editing in plain English

http://npmjs.com/package/ezff

2 months ago

420 upvotes – 198 comments

Apple releases open-source model that instantly turns 2D photos into 3D views

https://github.com/apple/ml-sharp

2 months ago

400 upvotes – 202 comments

What you need to know before touching a video file

https://gist.github.com/arch1t3cht/b5b9552633567fa7658deee5aec60453/

2 months ago

376 upvotes – 245 comments

Publishing your work increases your luck

https://github.com/readme/guides/publishing-your-work

2 months ago

331 upvotes – 125 comments

Janet Jackson had the power to crash laptop computers (2022)

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20220816-00/?p=106994

2 months ago

310 upvotes – 124 comments

Rainbow Six Siege hacked as players get billions of credits and random bans

https://www.shanethegamer.com/esports-news/rainbow-six-siege-hacked-global-server-outage/

2 months ago

284 upvotes – 150 comments

Employee commits suicide after MongoDB fired her during mental health leave

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/gsurman_our-beloved-irreplaceable-daughter-annie-activity-7407842359826120704-kFaq

2 months ago

283 upvotes – 96 comments

USD share as global reserve currency drops to lowest since 1994

https://wolfstreet.com/2025/12/26/status-of-the-us-dollar-as-global-reserve-currency-usd-share-drops-to-lowest-since-1994/

2 months ago

283 upvotes – 301 comments

QNX Self-Hosted Developer Desktop

https://devblog.qnx.com/qnx-self-hosted-developer-desktop-initial-release/

2 months ago

276 upvotes – 169 comments

Nvidia just paid $20B for a company that missed its revenue target by 75%

https://blog.drjoshcsimmons.com/p/nvidia-just-paid-20-billion-for-a

2 months ago

220 upvotes – 189 comments

James Moylan, engineer behind arrow signaling which side to refuel a car, dies

https://fordauthority.com/2025/12/ford-engineer-that-designed-gas-tank-indicator-passes-away/

2 months ago

217 upvotes – 219 comments

Pre-commit hooks are broken

https://jyn.dev/pre-commit-hooks-are-fundamentally-broken/

2 months ago

212 upvotes – 171 comments

Toll roads are spreading in America

https://www.economist.com/united-states/2025/12/18/toll-roads-are-spreading-in-america

2 months ago

208 upvotes – 690 comments

OrangePi 6 Plus Review

https://boilingsteam.com/orange-pi-6-plus-review/

2 months ago

204 upvotes – 180 comments

Pokémon Team Optimization

https://nchagnet.pages.dev/blog/pokemon-team-optimization/

2 months ago

193 upvotes – 67 comments
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