940
599
2025: The Year in LLMs
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/31/the-year-in-llms/
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724
588
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
614
363
I canceled my book deal
https://austinhenley.com/blog/canceledbookdeal.html
587
254
Stardew Valley developer made a $125k donation to the FOSS C# framework MonoGame
https://monogame.net/blog/2025-12-30-385-new-sponsor-announcement/
444
206
Tell HN: Happy New Year
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46443744
397
142
Show HN: Use Claude Code to Query 600 GB Indexes over Hacker News, ArXiv, etc.
https://exopriors.com/scry
395
470
Web Browsers have stopped blocking pop-ups
https://www.smokingonabike.com/2025/12/31/web-browsers-have-stopped-blocking-pop-ups/
345
109
Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design (2011) [pdf]
https://www.ece.uvic.ca/~elec399/201409/Akin%27s%20Laws%20of%20Spacecraft%20Design.pdf
284
333
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
260
191
The rise of industrial software
https://chrisloy.dev/post/2025/12/30/the-rise-of-industrial-software
120
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/
250
78
Stewart Cheifet, creator of The Computer Chronicles, has died
https://obits.goldsteinsfuneral.com/stewart-cheifet
246
318
2025 was a disaster for Windows 11
https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/2025-has-been-an-awful-year-for-windows-11-with-infuriating-bugs-and-constant-unwanted-features
237
373
France targets Australia-style social media ban for children next year
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/31/france-plans-social-media-ban-for-under-15s-from-september-2026
235
354
Resistance training load does not determine hypertrophy
https://physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1113/JP289684
230
52
Scientists unlock brain's natural clean-up system for new treatments for stroke
https://www.monash.edu/pharm/about/news/news-listing/latest/scientists-unlock-brains-natural-clean-up-system-to-develop-new-treatments-for-stroke-and-other-neurological-diseases
215
544
Iron Beam: Israel's first operational anti drone laser system
https://mod.gov.il/en/press-releases/press-room/israel-mod-and-rafael-deliver-first-operational-high-power-laser-system-iron-beam-to-the-idf
113
LLVM AI tool policy: human in the loop
https://discourse.llvm.org/t/rfc-llvm-ai-tool-policy-human-in-the-loop/89159
204
146
The compiler is your best friend
https://blog.daniel-beskin.com/2025-12-22-the-compiler-is-your-best-friend-stop-lying-to-it
183
122
Google Opal
https://opal.google/landing/
182
171
Linear Address Spaces: Unsafe at any speed (2022)
https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3534854
181
126
On privacy and control
https://toidiu.com/blog/2025-12-25-privacy-and-control/
176
151
The most famous transcendental numbers
https://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/pickover/trans.html
167
258
How AI labs are solving the power problem
https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/how-ai-labs-are-solving-the-power
152
19
Readings in Database Systems (5th Edition) (2015)
http://www.redbook.io/
51
Baffling purple honey found only in North Carolina
https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20250417-the-baffling-purple-honey-found-only-in-north-carolina
150
87
UK company sends factory with 1,000C furnace into space
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c62vx0pgyrgo
33
Scaffolding to Superhuman: How Curriculum Learning Solved 2048 and Tetris
https://kywch.github.io/blog/2025/12/curriculum-learning-2048-tetris/
149
139
Quality of drinking water varies significantly by airline
https://foodmedcenter.org/2026-center-for-food-as-medicine-longevity-airline-water-study/
148
42
A Beginner's Two-Component Crystal-Style Wi-Fi Detector
https://siliconjunction.wordpress.com/2025/12/12/a-beginners-two-component-crystal-style-wi-fi-detector/
63
When square pixels aren't square
https://alexwlchan.net/2025/square-pixels/
135
Court report detailing ChatGPT's involvement with a recent murder suicide [pdf]
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.461878/gov.uscourts.cand.461878.1.0.pdf
144
17
Sirius DB
https://www.sirius-db.com/
137
130
Drugmakers raise US prices on 350 medicines despite pressure
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/drugmakers-raise-us-prices-350-medicines-despite-pressure-trump-2025-12-31/
Show HN: Circuit Artist – Circuit simulator with propagation animation, rewind
https://github.com/lets-all-be-stupid-forever/circuit-artist
124
44
Love your customers
https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2025/12/31/love-your-customers/
7
Exploring Dithering on Spectra 6-color E-Ink Displays
https://myembeddedstuff.com/e-ink-spectra-6-color
112
185
2026: The Year of Java in the Terminal?
https://xam.dk/blog/lets-make-2026-the-year-of-java-in-the-terminal/
100
OpenAI is paying employees more than any major tech startup in history
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-is-paying-employees-more-than-any-major-tech-startup-in-history-23472527
97
28
One Formula That Demystifies 3D Graphics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjWkNZ0SXfo
94
85
Who invented the transistor?
https://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/who-invented-the-transistor.html
92
34
Cadova: Swift DSL for parametric 3D modeling
https://github.com/tomasf/Cadova
91
Claude wrote a functional NES emulator using my engine's API
https://carimbo.games/games/nintendo/
86
10
Nvidia GB10's Memory Subsystem, from the CPU Side
https://chipsandcheese.com/p/inside-nvidia-gb10s-memory-subsystem
81
All-optical synthesis chip for large-scale intelligent semantic vision
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adv7434
80
Using AI generated images to get refunds
https://www.wired.com/story/scammers-in-china-are-using-ai-generated-images-to-get-refunds/
79
PyPI in 2025: A Year in Review
https://blog.pypi.org/posts/2025-12-31-pypi-2025-in-review/
76
69
Odoo: Open-Source ERP
https://github.com/odoo/odoo
66
64
The Cost of a Closure in C: The Rest
https://thephd.dev/the-cost-of-a-closure-in-c-c2y-followup
57
Why C++ programmers keep growing fast despite competition, safety, and AI
https://herbsutter.com/2025/12/30/software-taketh-away-faster-than-hardware-giveth-why-c-programmers-keep-growing-fast-despite-competition-safety-and-ai/
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