top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-12-27

Floor796

https://floor796.com/

8 months ago

How we lost communication to entertainment

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

7 months ago

Say No to Palantir in the NHS

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

7 months ago

Nvidia's $20B antitrust loophole

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

8 months ago

Gpg.fail

https://gpg.fail

8 months ago

Show HN: Ez FFmpeg – Video editing in plain English

http://npmjs.com/package/ezff

8 months ago

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

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

8 months ago

What you need to know before touching a video file

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

8 months ago

Publishing your work increases your luck

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

8 months ago

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

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

8 months ago

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/

8 months ago

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/

8 months ago

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

8 months ago

QNX Self-Hosted Developer Desktop

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

8 months ago

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

8 months ago

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/

8 months ago

Pre-commit hooks are broken

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

8 months ago

Toll roads are spreading in America

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

8 months ago

OrangePi 6 Plus Review

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

8 months ago

Pokémon Team Optimization

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

8 months ago

Easel Turns One One year of building my own IDE in Clojure

https://blog.phronemophobic.com/easel-one-year.html

8 months ago

Ÿnsect, a French insect farming startup, has been been placed into liquidation

https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/26/how-reality-crushed-ynsect-the-french-startup-that-had-raised-over-600m-for-insect-farming/

8 months ago

Windows 2 for the Apricot PC/Xi

https://www.ninakalinina.com/notes/win2apri/

8 months ago

Richard Stallman at the First Hackers Conference in 1984 [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hf2pfzzWPYE

7 months ago

Liberating Bluetooth on the ESP32

https://exquisite.tube/w/mEzF442Q4hUXnhQ8HmfZuq

7 months ago

Inside the proton, the ‘most complicated thing you could possibly imagine’ (2022)

https://www.quantamagazine.org/inside-the-proton-the-most-complicated-thing-imaginable-20221019/

8 months ago

Flame Graphs vs Tree Maps vs Sunburst (2017)

https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2017-02-06/flamegraphs-vs-treemaps-vs-sunburst.html

8 months ago

Of Boot Vectors and Double Glitches: Bypassing RP2350's Secure Boot

https://streaming.media.ccc.de/39c3/relive/2149

8 months ago

CEO of health care software company sentenced for $1B fraud conspiracy

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/ceo-health-care-software-company-sentenced-1b-fraud-conspiracy

8 months ago

Public Domain Day 2026

https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2026/

7 months ago

Scientists edited genes in a living person and saved his life

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/health/a64815804/crispr-therapy/

8 months ago

Why is calling my asm function from Rust slower than calling it from C?

https://ohadravid.github.io/posts/2025-12-rav1d-faster-asm/

8 months ago

Pfizer ended up passing on my GLP-1 work back in the early '90s (2024)

https://www.statnews.com/2024/09/09/glp-1-history-pfizer-john-baxter-jeffrey-flier-calbio-metabio/

7 months ago

Contact the ISS

https://www.ariss.org/contact-the-iss.html

7 months ago

RoboCop – Breaking the Law. H0ffman Cracks RoboCop Arcade from DataEast

https://hoffman.home.blog/2025/12/26/robocop-breaking-the-law/

8 months ago

How we automated federal retirements

https://ndstudio.gov/posts/automating-federal-retirements

8 months ago

VSCode rebrands as "The open source AI code editor"

https://code.visualstudio.com

8 months ago

An ounce of silver is now worth more than a barrel of oil

https://www.wsj.com/finance/commodities-futures/an-ounce-of-silver-is-now-worth-more-than-a-barrel-of-oil-196e149e

7 months ago

Splice a Fibre

https://react-networks-lib.rackout.net/fibre

8 months ago

Only 5 Sears stores remain in the U.S.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/business/sears-seritage-edward-lampert.html

8 months ago

The Dangers of SSL Certificates

https://surfingcomplexity.blog/2025/12/27/the-dangers-of-ssl-certificates/

7 months ago

More dynamic cronjobs

https://george.mand.is/2025/09/more-dynamic-cronjobs/

8 months ago

So I started cloning the Wii U gamepad [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlbcKuDEBw8

8 months ago

CloudFlare is ruining the internet (for me) (2016)

https://www.slashgeek.net/2016/05/17/cloudflare-is-ruining-the-internet-for-me/

8 months ago

How We Found Out About COINTELPRO (2014)

https://monthlyreview.org/articles/how-we-found-out-about-cointelpro/

7 months ago

Concurrent Hash Table Designs

https://bluuewhale.github.io/posts/concurrent-hashmap-designs/

8 months ago

The battle to stop clever people betting

https://www.economist.com/christmas-specials/2025/12/18/the-battle-to-stop-clever-people-betting

8 months ago

More than 20% of videos shown to new YouTube users are 'AI slop', study finds

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/dec/27/more-than-20-of-videos-shown-to-new-youtube-users-are-ai-slop-study-finds

8 months ago