HckrNews (First visit) All HN frontpage stories in chronological order Beautiful Abelian Sandpiles 4 6 3d +3d eavan.blog/posts/beautiful-sandpiles.html 1Gild Just One Lily 0 10 4d +4d smashingmagazine.com/2025/04/gild-just-one-lily 2Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help 108 258 2h +36m hey.paris/posts/appleid 3Show HN: A real-time 4D fractal explorer in the browser using WebGPU 3 5 1d +1d bryanjj.github.io/nebula 4Doxers Posing as Cops Are Tricking Big Tech Firms into Sharing People's Data 8 32 2h +10m wired.com/story/doxers-posing-as-cops-are-tricking-big-tech-firms-into-sharing-peoples-private-data 5How the Bell Labs Holmdel Complex Inspired 'Severance' 1 6 5h +3h atlasobscura.com/articles/podcast-bell-labs-holmdel-complex 6Poor Johnny still won't encrypt 34 33 2h +30m bfswa.substack.com/p/poor-johnny-still-wont-encrypt 7[dead] ? 22 3h +39m github.com 8Slax: Live Pocket Linux 3 17 4d +4d slax.org 9The Coming Need for Formal Specification 13 14 4h +1h benjamincongdon.me/blog/2025/12/12/The-Coming-Need-for-Formal-Specification 101300 Still Images from the Animated Films of Hayao Miyazaki's Studio Ghibli (2023) 11 57 4h +1h ghibli.jp/info/013772 11Oliver sacks put himself into his case studies. What was the cost? 12 52 4h +1h newyorker.com/magazine/2025/12/15/oliver-sacks-put-himself-into-his-case-studies-what-was-the-cost 12Google Removes Sci-Hub Domains from U.S. Search Results Due to Dated Court Order 18 70 3h +44m torrentfreak.com/google-removes-sci-hub-domains-from-u-s-search-results-due-to-dated-court-order 13Ferrari's Formula 1 Handovers: Handovers from Surgery to Intensive Care 2008;pdf 10 35 6d +6d gwern.net/doc/technology/2008-sower.pdf 14So What Should We Call This – A Grue Jay? 15 44 5d +5d cns.utexas.edu/news/research/so-what-should-we-call-grue-jay 15The Checkerboard 6 39 6h +1h 99percentinvisible.org/episode/650-the-checkerboard 16How we built context management for tab completion 3 7 4d +4d docs.getpochi.com/developer-updates/context-management-in-your-editor 17Go is portable, until it isn't 49 54 5d +5d simpleobservability.com/blog/go-portable-until-isnt 18OpenAI are quietly adopting skills, now available in ChatGPT and Codex CLI 165 288 7h +25m simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/12/openai-skills 1950 years of proof assistants 11 74 7h +28m lawrencecpaulson.github.io//2025/12/05/History_of_Proof_Assistants.html 20C64 Maze Chomp.BAS 3 26 5d +5d basic-code.bearblog.dev/c64-maze-chompbas 21Freeing a Xiaomi humidifier from the cloud 35 63 1d +17h 0l.de/blog/2025/11/xiaomi-humidifier 22Capsudo: Rethinking Sudo with Object Capabilities 33 58 9h +1h ariadne.space/2025/12/12/rethinking-sudo-with-object-capabilities.html 23I couldn't find a logging library that worked for my library, so I made one 6 11 15h +7h hackers.pub/@hongminhee/2025/logtape-fedify-case-study 24Show HN: I made a spreadsheet where formulas also update backwards 57 105 1d +1d victorpoughon.github.io/bidicalc 25Building small Docker images faster 12 48 20h +12h sgt.hootr.club/blog/docker-protips 26Can I use HTTPS RRs? 7 18 8h +38m netmeister.org/blog/https-caniuse.html 27Wine 11.0 RC2 – Run Windows Applications on Linux, BSD, Solaris and macOS 0 52 9h +35m gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/releases/wine-11.0-rc2 28Fast Median Filter over arbitrary datatypes 2 27 6d +6d martianlantern.github.io/2025/09/median-filter-over-arbitrary-datatypes 29Show HN: Tiny VM sandbox in C with apps in Rust, C and Zig 6 111 9h +20m github.com/ringtailsoftware/uvm32 30Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence 161 103 1d +22h whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/12/eliminating-state-law-obstruction-of-national-artificial-intelligence-policy 31Funerary figurines found in royal tomb identifies Pharoah 4 9 5d +4d sciencealert.com/trove-of-225-exceptional-egyptian-figurines-solves-long-standing-mystery 32macOS 26.2 enables fast AI clusters with RDMA over Thunderbolt 194 356 10h +43m developer.apple.com/documentation/macos-release-notes/macos-26_2-release-notes#RDMA-over-Thunderbolt 33The Average Founder Ages 6 Months Each Year 19 37 11h +1h tomtunguz.com/founder-age-median-trend 34Rats Play DOOM 92 249 11h +53m ratsplaydoom.com 35Motion (YC W20) Is Hiring Senior Staff Front End Engineers 0 1 10h +31s jobs.ashbyhq.com/motion/715d9646-27d4-44f6-9229-61eb0380ae39 36GNU Unifont 53 190 10h +30s unifoundry.com/unifont/index.html 37Pg_ClickHouse: A Postgres extension for querying ClickHouse 32 86 2d +2d clickhouse.com/blog/introducing-pg_clickhouse 38Security issues with electronic invoices 49 81 10h +5m invoice.secvuln.info 39Good conversations have lots of doorknobs (2022) 13 72 4d +4d experimental-history.com/p/good-conversations-have-lots-of-doorknobs 40iOS 26.2 Release Notes 6 17 11h +11m developer.apple.com/documentation/ios-ipados-release-notes/ios-ipados-26_2-release-notes 41New Kindle feature uses AI to answer questions about books 119 75 10h +7m reactormag.com/new-kindle-feature-ai-answer-questions-books-authors 42The true story of the Windows 3.1 'Hot Dog Stand' color scheme 49 128 12h +38m pcgamer.com/software/windows/windows-3-1-included-a-red-and-yellow-hot-dog-stand-color-scheme-so-garish-it-was-long-assumed-to-be-a-joke-so-i-tracked-down-the-original-designer-to-get-the-true-story 43Open sourcing the Remix Store 3 31 4d +3d remix.run/blog/oss-remix-store 44Nuclear energy key to decarbonising Europe, says EESC 146 110 13h +1h eesc.europa.eu/en/news-media/news/nuclear-energy-key-decarbonising-europe-says-eesc 45Benn Jordan’s flock camera jammer will send you to jail in Florida now [video] 151 161 12h +13m youtube.com/watch?v=qEllWdK4l_A 46Home Depot GitHub token exposed for a year, granted access to internal systems 133 226 12h +31m techcrunch.com/2025/12/12/home-depot-exposed-access-to-internal-systems-for-a-year-says-researcher 47Bit flips: How cosmic rays grounded a fleet of aircraft 65 67 4d +4d bbc.com/future/article/20251201-how-cosmic-rays-grounded-thousands-of-aircraft 48Id Software devs form "wall-to-wall" union 312 290 13h +10m rockpapershotgun.com/id-software-devs-form-wall-to-wall-union-with-165-workers-at-doom-studio-the-latest-to-vote-in-favour 49Google releases its new Google Sans Flex font as open source 98 204 13h +7m omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/11/google-sans-flex-font-ubuntu 50String theory inspires a brilliant, baffling new math proof 134 131 14h +1h quantamagazine.org/string-theory-inspires-a-brilliant-baffling-new-math-proof-20251212 51Using secondary school maths to demystify AI 218 111 14h +1h raspberrypi.org/blog/secondary-school-maths-showing-that-ai-systems-dont-think 52How to Articulate Yourself Intelligently 13 11 4d +4d letters.thedankoe.com/p/how-to-articulate-yourself-intelligently 53Japan law opening phone app stores to go into effect 29 150 14h +27m .nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20251210_B1 54Async DNS 38 111 14h +31m flak.tedunangst.com/post/async-dns 55Show HN: tomcp.org – Turn any URL into an MCP server 14 34 14h +13m github.com/Ami3466/tomcp 56[dead] ? 6 14h +2m clipnotebook.com 57Oracle made a $300B bet on OpenAI. It's paying the price 115 128 14h +20m finance.yahoo.com/news/oracle-made-a-300-billion-bet-on-openai-its-paying-the-price-205441863.html 58Why more American seniors are getting high 35 21 14h +10m economist.com/graphic-detail/2025/12/11/why-more-american-seniors-are-getting-high 59CM0 – A new Raspberry Pi you can't buy 48 181 16h +1h jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/cm0-new-raspberry-pi-you-cant-buy 60America's betting craze has spread to its news networks 84 68 14h +11m newyorker.com/news/the-lede/americas-betting-craze-has-spread-to-its-news-networks 61Senator endorses discredited book that claims chemical treats autism, cancer 60 83 14h +17m propublica.org/article/ron-johnson-wisconsin-chlorine-dioxide-pierre-kory-endorsement 62Epic celebrates "the end of the Apple Tax" after court win in iOS payments case 289 391 15h +27m arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/12/epic-celebrates-the-end-of-the-apple-tax-after-appeals-court-win-in-ios-payments-case 63Microservices should form a polytree 107 118 4d +4d bytesauna.com/post/microservices 64Framework Raises DDR5 Memory Prices by 50% for DIY Laptops 189 208 15h +25m phoronix.com/news/Framework-50p-DDR5-Memory 65Berlin Approves New Expansion of Police Surveillance Powers 99 148 15h +22m reclaimthenet.org/berlin-approves-new-expansion-of-police-surveillance-powers 66The Resonant Computing Manifesto 1 9 16h +9m resonantcomputing.org 67BpfJailer: eBPF Mandatory Access Control [pdf] 4 54 17h +32m lpc.events/event/19/contributions/2159/attachments/1833/3929/BpfJailer%20LPC%202025.pdf 68Why isn't online age verification just like showing your ID in person? 110 79 18h +1h eff.org/deeplinks/2025/12/why-isnt-online-age-verification-just-showing-your-id-person 69Use Python for Scripting 40 38 4d +4d hypirion.com/musings/use-python-for-scripting 70[dead] ? 7 17h +28m yaschamounk.substack.com 71SQLite JSON at full index speed using generated columns 103 337 17h +19m dbpro.app/blog/sqlite-json-virtual-columns-indexing 72Fedora: Open-source repository for long-term digital preservation 50 109 17h +11m fedorarepository.org 73Show HN: Epstein's emails reconstructed in a message-style UI (OCR and LLMs) 8 43 18h +41m github.com/Toon-nooT/epsteins-phone-reconstructed 74BehindTheMedspeak: A Spinal Tap 11 15 5d +4d bookofjoe2.blogspot.com/2025/10/behindthemedspeak-this-is-spinal-tap.html 75Show HN: Autofix Bot – Hybrid static analysis and AI code review agent 13 34 1d +15h 76Sick of smart TVs? Here are your best options 239 229 18h +23m arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/12/the-ars-technica-guide-to-dumb-tvs 77Show HN: Tripwire: A new anti evil maid defense 45 76 1d +1d github.com/fr33-sh/Tripwire 78Training LLMs for Honesty via Confessions 57 63 20h +2h arxiv.org/abs/2512.08093 79Censorship in Western Academia and the War in Ukraine 2 17 18h +1m newglobalpolitics.org/censorship-in-western-academia-and-the-war-in-ukraine 80The Tor Project is switching to Rust 239 325 18h +4m itsfoss.com/news/tor-rust-rewrite-progress 81What folk can do 16 42 5d +4d folk.computer/guides/what-folk-can-do 82From text to token: How tokenization pipelines work 19 117 1d +21h paradedb.com/blog/when-tokenization-becomes-token 83Koralm Railway 173 295 20h +1h infrastruktur.oebb.at/en/projects-for-austria/railway-lines/southern-line-vienna-villach/koralm-railway 84Native ads coming soon to Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange 47 26 20h +42m meta.stackexchange.com/questions/415259/native-ads-coming-soon-to-stack-overflow-and-stack-exchange 85Octo: A Chip8 IDE 10 82 6d +6d github.com/JohnEarnest/Octo 86How does a "you interview for US company, we do the work" scam work? 32 28 20h +25m 87You are dating an ecosystem 24 26 21h +1h razor.blog/2025/12/you-will-never-be-in-two-person.html 884 billion if statements (2023) 170 602 6d +5d andreasjhkarlsson.github.io//jekyll/update/2023/12/27/4-billion-if-statements.html 89Show HN: Jottings; Anti-social microblog for your thoughts 13 24 22h +1h jottings.me 90Spirograph style Lego drawing machine 7 39 4d +3d jkbrickworks.com/simple-drawing-machine 91Smartphone without a battery (2022) 32 86 23h +1h yaky.dev/2022-09-06-smartphone-without-battery 92Young journalists expose Russian-linked vessels off the Dutch and German coast 120 145 22h +19m digitaldigging.org/p/they-droned-back 93Guarding My Git Forge Against AI Scrapers 113 157 23h +45m vulpinecitrus.info/blog/guarding-git-forge-ai-scrapers 94[dead] ? 7 1d +2h deadstack.net 95The tiniest yet real telescope I've built 66 254 23h +2m lucassifoni.info/blog/miniscope-tiny-telescope 96The Boot Order of the Raspberry Pi Is Unusual 17 36 1d +5h patrickmccanna.net/the-raspberry-pi-boot-order-is-unusual 97Dependent Names with a Little Encouragement 0 9 6d +5d consteval.ca/2025/09/27/dependent-names 98He set out to walk around the world. After 27 years, his quest is nearly over 240 235 5d +4d washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2025/12/05/karl-bushby-walk-around-world 99[dead] ? 26 1d +4h danieleteti.it 100Google de-indexed Bear Blog and I don't know why 173 406 1d +3h journal.james-zhan.com/google-de-indexed-my-entire-bear-blog-and-i-dont-know-why 101One Last Trip: Traveling with my brother's remains (2022) 1 3 6d +5d thecut.com/2022/03/traveling-brothers-remains.html 102Tile IR Specification 3 19 8d +7d docs.nvidia.com/cuda/tile-ir 103Cadmium Zinc Telluride: The wonder material powering a medical 'revolution' 24 63 1d +1h bbc.com/news/articles/c24l223d9n7o 104CRISPR fungus: Protein-packed, sustainable, and tastes like meat 222 295 1d +2h isaaa.org/kc/cropbiotechupdate/article/default.asp?ID=21607 105The Invisible Cost: From Creator to Consumer 3 13 9d +8d edwardnoaland.substack.com/p/the-invisible-cost-from-creator-to 106Notes on Gamma 6 24 1d +1h poniesandlight.co.uk/reflect/gamma 107Stoolap: High-performance embedded SQL database in pure Rust 36 103 1d +1h github.com/stoolap/stoolap 108My Father's Instant Mashed Potatoes 53 65 7d +6d astralcodexten.com/p/your-review-my-fathers-instant-mashed 109Laying out the 404 Media zine 14 82 1d +1h tedium.co/2025/12/10/404-media-zine-linux-affinity/? 110Pdsink: USB Power Delivery Sink library for embedded devices 23 56 6d +4d github.com/pdsink/pdsink 111Nokia N900 Necromancy 181 463 1d +31m yaky.dev/2025-12-11-nokia-n900-necromancy 112 More... 2025.12.11