top 20 hacker news stories for 2025-12-29

Kidnapped by Deutsche Bahn

https://www.theocharis.dev/blog/kidnapped-by-deutsche-bahn/

2 months ago

1187 upvotes – 1031 comments

Google is dead. Where do we go now?

https://www.circusscientist.com/2025/12/29/google-is-dead-where-do-we-go-now/

2 months ago

1046 upvotes – 838 comments

GOG is getting acquired by its original co-founder

https://www.gog.com/blog/gog-is-getting-acquired-by-its-original-co-founder-what-it-means-for-you/

2 months ago

871 upvotes – 558 comments

Tesla’s 4680 battery supply chain collapses as partner writes down deal by 99%

https://electrek.co/2025/12/29/tesla-4680-battery-supply-chain-collapses-partner-writes-down-dea/

2 months ago

672 upvotes – 804 comments

You can make up HTML tags

https://maurycyz.com/misc/make-up-tags/

2 months ago

584 upvotes – 190 comments

Show HN: Z80-μLM, a 'Conversational AI' That Fits in 40KB

https://github.com/HarryR/z80ai

2 months ago

514 upvotes – 122 comments

Stranger Things creator says turn off “garbage” settings

https://screenrant.com/stranger-things-creator-turn-off-settings-premiere/

2 months ago

440 upvotes – 820 comments

List of domains censored by German ISPs

https://cuiiliste.de/domains

2 months ago

439 upvotes – 177 comments

The future of software development is software developers

https://codemanship.wordpress.com/2025/11/25/the-future-of-software-development-is-software-developers/

2 months ago

421 upvotes – 566 comments

I migrated to an almost all-EU stack and saved 500€ per year

https://www.zeitgeistofbytes.com/p/bye-bye-big-tech-how-i-migrated-to

2 months ago

374 upvotes – 261 comments

Loss32: Let's Build a Win32/Linux

https://loss32.org/

2 months ago

367 upvotes – 476 comments

ManusAI Joins Meta

https://manus.im/blog/manus-joins-meta-for-next-era-of-innovation

2 months ago

319 upvotes – 206 comments

Rich Hickey: Thanks AI

https://gist.github.com/richhickey/ea94e3741ff0a4e3af55b9fe6287887f

2 months ago

308 upvotes – 80 comments

AI is forcing us to write good code

https://bits.logic.inc/p/ai-is-forcing-us-to-write-good-code

2 months ago

302 upvotes – 216 comments

You can't design software you don't work on

https://www.seangoedecke.com/you-cant-design-software-you-dont-work-on/

2 months ago

296 upvotes – 114 comments

Linux DAW: Help Linux musicians to quickly and easily find the tools they need

https://linuxdaw.org/

2 months ago

293 upvotes – 122 comments

Show HN: Vibe coding a bookshelf with Claude Code

https://balajmarius.com/writings/vibe-coding-a-bookshelf-with-claude-code/

2 months ago

284 upvotes – 210 comments

Five Years of Tinygrad

https://geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll/update/2025/12/29/five-years-of-tinygrad.html

2 months ago

278 upvotes – 163 comments

All Delisted Steam Games

https://delistedgames.com/all-delisted-steam-games/

2 months ago

275 upvotes – 138 comments

Swapping SIM cards used to be easy, and then came eSIM

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/12/i-switched-to-esim-in-2025-and-i-am-full-of-regret/

2 months ago

252 upvotes – 282 comments
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