top 50% hacker news stories for 2025-12-30

Show HN: 22 GB of Hacker News in SQLite

https://hackerbook.dosaygo.com

7 months ago

Netflix Open Content

https://opencontent.netflix.com/

7 months ago

A faster heart for F-Droid

https://f-droid.org/2025/12/30/a-faster-heart-for-f-droid.html

7 months ago

OpenAI's cash burn will be one of the big bubble questions of 2026

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2025/12/30/openais-cash-burn-will-be-one-of-the-big-bubble-questions-of-2026

7 months ago

Non-Zero-Sum Games

https://nonzerosum.games/

7 months ago

Nicolas Guillou, French ICC judge sanctioned by the US and “debanked”

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2025/11/19/nicolas-guillou-french-icc-judge-sanctioned-by-the-us-you-are-effectively-blacklisted-by-much-of-the-world-s-banking-system_6747628_4.html

7 months ago

Go away Python

https://lorentz.app/blog-item.html?id=go-shebang

7 months ago

FediMeteo: A €4 FreeBSD VPS Became a Global Weather Service

https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/02/26/fedimeteo-how-a-tiny-freebsd-vps-became-a-global-weather-service-for-thousands/

7 months ago

Honey's Dieselgate: Detecting and tricking testers

https://vptdigital.com/blog/honey-detecting-testers/

7 months ago

A Vulnerability in Libsodium

https://00f.net/2025/12/30/libsodium-vulnerability/

7 months ago

Times New American: A Tale of Two Fonts

https://hsu.cy/2025/12/times-new-american/

7 months ago

No strcpy either

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/12/29/no-strcpy-either/

7 months ago

HSBC blocks its app due to F-Droid-installed Bitwarden

https://mastodon.neilzone.co.uk/@neil/115807834298031971

7 months ago

NYC Mayoral Inauguration bans Raspberry Pi and Flipper Zero alongside explosives

https://blog.adafruit.com/2025/12/30/nyc-mayoral-inauguration-bans-raspberry-pi-and-flipper-zero-alongside-explosives/

7 months ago

Public Sans – A strong, neutral typeface

https://public-sans.digital.gov/

7 months ago

The British empire's resilient subsea telegraph network

https://subseacables.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-british-empires-resilient-subsea.html

7 months ago

Everything as code: How we manage our company in one monorepo

https://www.kasava.dev/blog/everything-as-code-monorepo

7 months ago

Project ideas to appreciate the art of programming

https://codecrafters.io/blog/programming-project-ideas

7 months ago

Hacking Washing Machines [video]

https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-hacking-washing-machines

7 months ago

Professional software developers don't vibe, they control

https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.14012

7 months ago

Zpdf: PDF text extraction in Zig

https://github.com/Lulzx/zpdf

7 months ago

Quickemu: Quickly create and run optimised Windows, macOS and Linux VMs

https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu

7 months ago

Sabotaging Bitcoin

https://blog.dshr.org/2025/12/sabotaging-bitcoin.html

7 months ago

Electrolysis can solve one of our biggest contamination problems

https://ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2025/11/electrolysis-can-solve-one-of-our-biggest-contamination-problems.html

7 months ago

Approachable Swift Concurrency

https://fuckingapproachableswiftconcurrency.com/en/

7 months ago

Bison return to Illinois' Kane County after 200 years

https://phys.org/news/2025-12-bison-illinois-kane-county-years.html

7 months ago

Win32 is the stable Linux ABI

https://loss32.org/

7 months ago

Humans May Be Able to Grow New Teeth Within Just 4 Years

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/health/a69878870/human-new-tooth-regrowth-trials-japan-timeline/

7 months ago

Charm Ruby – Glamorous Terminal Libraries for Ruby

https://charm-ruby.dev/

7 months ago

Attention Is Bayesian Inference

https://medium.com/@vishalmisra/attention-is-bayesian-inference-578c25db4501

7 months ago

Toro: Deploy Applications as Unikernels

https://github.com/torokernel/torokernel

7 months ago

What Happened to Abit Motherboards

https://dfarq.homeip.net/what-happened-to-abit-motherboards/

7 months ago

Escaping containment: A security analysis of FreeBSD jails [video]

https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-escaping-containment-a-security-analysis-of-freebsd-jails

7 months ago

From silicon to Darude – Sandstorm: breaking famous synthesizer DSPs [video]

https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-from-silicon-to-darude-sand-storm-breaking-famous-synthesizer-dsps

7 months ago

Now That He Has No Power, Mitt Romney Says "Tax the Rich"

https://jacobin.com/2025/12/romney-tax-rich-op-ed-nyt/

7 months ago

Outside, Dungeon, Town: Integrating the Three Places in Videogames (2024)

https://keithburgun.net/outside-dungeon-town-integrating-the-three-places-in-videogames/

7 months ago

Igniting the GPU: From Kernel Plumbing to 3D Rendering on RISC-V

https://mwilczynski.dev/posts/riscv-gpu-zink/

7 months ago

MongoDB Server Security Update, December 2025

https://www.mongodb.com/company/blog/news/mongodb-server-security-update-december-2025

7 months ago

Experiments with Ableton-MCP

https://jhurliman.org/post/804323197731373056/experiments-with-ableton-mcp-dec-2025

7 months ago

Foreign tech workers are avoiding travel to the US

https://www.computerworld.com/article/4110681/foreign-tech-workers-are-avoiding-travel-to-the-us.html

7 months ago

The 70% AI productivity myth: why most companies aren't seeing the gains

https://sderosiaux.substack.com/p/the-70-ai-productivity-myth-why-most

7 months ago

Slop Is Slop

https://daringfireball.net/2025/12/slop_is_slop

7 months ago

Singapore study links heavy infant screen time to teen anxiety

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-30/singapore-study-links-heavy-infant-screen-time-to-teen-anxiety

7 months ago

Ask HN: Any example of successful vibe-coded product?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46434821

7 months ago

Groq investor sounds alarm on data centers

https://www.axios.com/2025/12/29/groq-alex-davis-data-center-concerns

7 months ago

Show HN: Replacing my OS process scheduler with an LLM

https://github.com/mprajyothreddy/brainkernel

7 months ago

U.S. cybersecurity experts plead guilty for ransomware attacks

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/u-s-cybersecurity-experts-plead-guilty-for-ransomware-attacks-face-20-years-in-prison-each-group-demanded-up-to-usd10-million-from-each-victim

7 months ago

Iran Protests Enter Third Straight Day as Students Join In

https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/iran-protests-enter-third-straight-day-as-students-join-in-585e7bff

7 months ago

Psilocybin triggers activity-dependent rewiring of large-scale cortical networks

https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(25)01305-4

7 months ago

Tell HN: I write and ship code ~20–50x faster than I did 5 years ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46436872

7 months ago

India has surpassed Japan to become the fourth-largest economy

https://www.dw.com/en/india-overtakes-japan-as-4th-largest-economy-report-says/a-75341063

7 months ago

Elegance is Bullshit

https://hichvg.substack.com/p/elegance-is-bullshit

7 months ago