top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-12-29

Kidnapped by Deutsche Bahn

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

7 months ago

Google is dead. Where do we go now?

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

7 months ago

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/

7 months ago

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/

7 months ago

You can make up HTML tags

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

7 months ago

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

https://github.com/HarryR/z80ai

7 months ago

Stranger Things creator says turn off “garbage” settings

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

7 months ago

List of domains censored by German ISPs

https://cuiiliste.de/domains

7 months ago

The future of software development is software developers

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

7 months ago

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

7 months ago

Loss32: Let's Build a Win32/Linux

https://loss32.org/

7 months ago

ManusAI Joins Meta

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

7 months ago

Rich Hickey: Thanks AI

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

7 months ago

AI is forcing us to write good code

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

7 months ago

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

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

7 months ago

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

https://linuxdaw.org/

7 months ago

Show HN: Vibe coding a bookshelf with Claude Code

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

7 months ago

Five Years of Tinygrad

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

7 months ago

All Delisted Steam Games

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

7 months ago

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/

7 months ago

Staying ahead of censors in 2025

https://forum.torproject.org/t/staying-ahead-of-censors-in-2025-what-weve-learned-from-fighting-censorship-in-iran-and-russia/20898

7 months ago

Libgodc: Write Go Programs for Sega Dreamcast

https://github.com/drpaneas/libgodc

7 months ago

Nvidia takes $5B stake in Intel under September agreement

https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/nvidia-takes-5-billion-stake-intel-under-september-agreement-2025-12-29/

7 months ago

Demystifying DVDs

https://hiddenpalace.org/News/One_Bad_Ass_Hedgehog_-_Shadow_the_Hedgehog#Demystifying_DVDs

7 months ago

Static Allocation with Zig

https://nickmonad.blog/2025/static-allocation-with-zig-kv/

7 months ago

LLMs Are Not Fun

https://orib.dev/nofun.html

7 months ago

Huge Binaries

https://fzakaria.com/2025/12/28/huge-binaries

7 months ago

Feynman's Hughes Lectures: 950 pages of notes

https://thehugheslectures.info/the-lectures/

7 months ago

Show HN: Stop Claude Code from forgetting everything

https://github.com/mutable-state-inc/ensue-skill

7 months ago

The year of the 3D printed miniature and other lies we tell ourselves

https://matduggan.com/the-year-of-the-3d-printed-miniature-and-other-lies-we-tell-ourselves/

7 months ago

Show HN: My not-for-profit search engine with no ads, no AI, & all DDG bangs

https://nilch.org

7 months ago

UK accounting body to halt remote exams amid AI cheating

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/dec/29/uk-accounting-remote-exams-ai-cheating-acca

7 months ago

When someone says they hate your product

https://www.getflack.com/p/responding-to-negative-feedback

7 months ago

Panoramas of Star Trek Sets

https://mijofr.github.io/st-panorama/

7 months ago

My First Meshtastic Network

https://rickcarlino.com/notes/electronics/my-first-meshtastic-network.html

7 months ago

EU to build no-fee payments service like Visa/Mastercard and Apple/Google Pay

https://www.independent.ie/business/digital-euro-what-it-is-and-how-we-will-use-the-new-form-of-cash/a165973061.html

7 months ago

A production bug that made me care about undefined behavior

https://gaultier.github.io/blog/the_production_bug_that_made_me_care_about_undefined_behavior.html

7 months ago

GDI Effects from the PC cracking scene

https://gdimayhem.temari.fr/index.php?p=all

7 months ago

Meta's ads tools started switching out top-performing ads with AI-generated ones

https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-ai-generating-bizarre-ads-advantage-plus-2025-10

7 months ago

Show HN: See what readers who loved your favorite book/author also loved to read

https://shepherd.com/bboy/2025

7 months ago

Asking Gemini 3 to generate Brainfuck code results in an infinite loop

https://teodordyakov.github.io/brainfuck-agi/

7 months ago

My app just won best iOS Japanese learning tool of 2025 award (blog)

https://skerritt.blog/best-japanese-learning-tools-2025-award-show/

7 months ago

CIA Star Gate Project: An Overview (1993) [pdf]

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP96-00789R002800180001-2.pdf

7 months ago

AI employees don't pay taxes

https://alec.is/posts/ai-employees-dont-pay-taxes/

7 months ago

Parsing Advances

https://matklad.github.io/2025/12/28/parsing-advances.html

7 months ago

Binance's Trust Wallet extension hacked; users lose $7M

https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=trust-wallet-hack

7 months ago

Self-hosting is being enshittified

https://troubled.engineer/posts/selfhosting-in-2025/

7 months ago

Fast GPU Interconnect over Radio

https://spectrum.ieee.org/rf-over-fiber

7 months ago

What to Do When the Trisector Comes (1983) [pdf]

https://www.ufv.ca/media/faculty/gregschlitt/information/WhatToDoWhenTrisectorComes.pdf

7 months ago

Private equity is killing private ownership: first it was housing, now it's PCs

https://old.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/1px9xwx/private_equity_is_killing_private_ownership_first/

7 months ago

John Simpson: 'I've reported on 40 wars but I've never seen a year like 2025'

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj4qp17e1lqo

7 months ago

Kubernetes egress control with squid proxy

https://interlaye.red/kubernetes_002degress_002dsquid.html

7 months ago

Mitsubishi Diatone D-160 (1985)

https://audio-database.com/MITSUBISHI-DIATONE/diatonesp/d-160-e.html

7 months ago