top 10 hacker news stories for 2025-12-31

Stardew Valley developer made a $125k donation to the FOSS C# framework MonoGame

https://monogame.net/blog/2025-12-30-385-new-sponsor-announcement/

10 hours ago

507 upvotes – 223 comments

Warren Buffett steps down as Berkshire Hathaway CEO after six decades

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2025-12-31/warren-buffett-steps-down-as-berkshire-hathaway-ceo-after-six-decades

4 hours ago

354 upvotes – 213 comments

I canceled my book deal

https://austinhenley.com/blog/canceledbookdeal.html

8 hours ago

326 upvotes – 216 comments

Show HN: Use Claude Code to Query 600 GB Indexes over Hacker News, ArXiv, etc.

https://exopriors.com/scry

18 hours ago

299 upvotes – 112 comments

Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design (2011) [pdf]

https://www.ece.uvic.ca/~elec399/201409/Akin%27s%20Laws%20of%20Spacecraft%20Design.pdf

16 hours ago

264 upvotes – 79 comments

Efficient method to capture carbon dioxide from the atmosphere

https://www.helsinki.fi/en/news/innovations/efficient-method-capture-carbon-dioxide-atmosphere-developed-university-helsinki

12 hours ago

252 upvotes – 273 comments

Tell HN: Happy New Year

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46443744

13 hours ago

248 upvotes – 139 comments

LLVM AI tool policy: human in the loop

https://discourse.llvm.org/t/rfc-llvm-ai-tool-policy-human-in-the-loop/89159

a day ago

212 upvotes – 108 comments

The rise of industrial software

https://chrisloy.dev/post/2025/12/30/the-rise-of-industrial-software

17 hours ago

210 upvotes – 158 comments

Meta created 'playbook' to fend off pressure to crack down on scammers

https://www.reuters.com/investigations/meta-created-playbook-fend-off-pressure-crack-down-scammers-documents-show-2025-12-31/

8 hours ago

198 upvotes – 100 comments
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