HckrNews (First visit) All HN frontpage stories in chronological order How Exchanges Turn Order Books into Distributed Logs 5 12 4d +4d quant.engineering/exchange-order-book-distributed-logs.html 1YouTube's CEO limits his kids' social media use – other tech bosses do the same 16 26 1h +20m cnbc.com/2025/12/13/youtubes-ceo-is-latest-tech-boss-limiting-his-kids-social-media-use.html 2Optical context compression is just (bad) autoencoding 0 10 4d +4d arxiv.org/abs/2512.03643 3Bookmark for CAD/2d/3D Useful links 4 22 2h +15m github.com/yogananda-muthaiah/SAP-CPQ/tree/main/Integrations/CAD-2d-3d 4Obscuring P2P Nodes with Dandelion 1 42 4d +4d johndcook.com/blog/2025/12/08/dandelion 5A 'toaster with a lens': The story behind the first handheld digital camera 9 32 5d +4d bbc.com/future/article/20251205-how-the-handheld-digital-camera-was-born 6Computer Animator and Amiga fanatic Dick Van Dyke turns 100 14 68 5h +1h 7Photographer built a medium-format rangefinder, and so can you 6 63 6d +6d petapixel.com/2025/12/06/this-photographer-built-an-awesome-medium-format-rangefinder-and-so-can-you 8Easel Now Has Stencils 3 13 4d +4d easel.games/blog/2025-dec-update 9Beautiful Abelian Sandpiles 11 65 3d +3d eavan.blog/posts/beautiful-sandpiles.html 10Gild Just One Lily 5 24 4d +4d smashingmagazine.com/2025/04/gild-just-one-lily 11Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help 362 697 8h +36m hey.paris/posts/appleid 12Show HN: A real-time 4D fractal explorer in the browser using WebGPU 5 9 1d +1d bryanjj.github.io/nebula 13Doxers posing as cops are tricking big tech firms into sharing people's data 25 94 8h +10m wired.com/story/doxers-posing-as-cops-are-tricking-big-tech-firms-into-sharing-peoples-private-data 14How the Bell Labs Holmdel Complex Inspired 'Severance' 3 14 11h +3h atlasobscura.com/articles/podcast-bell-labs-holmdel-complex 15Poor Johnny still won't encrypt 54 47 9h +30m bfswa.substack.com/p/poor-johnny-still-wont-encrypt 16[dead] ? 22 9h +39m github.com 17Slax: Live Pocket Linux 4 36 5d +4d slax.org 18The Coming Need for Formal Specification 31 40 10h +1h benjamincongdon.me/blog/2025/12/12/The-Coming-Need-for-Formal-Specification 191300 Still Images from the Animated Films of Hayao Miyazaki's Studio Ghibli (2023) 58 178 10h +1h ghibli.jp/info/013772 20Oliver sacks put himself into his case studies. What was the cost? 18 65 10h +1h newyorker.com/magazine/2025/12/15/oliver-sacks-put-himself-into-his-case-studies-what-was-the-cost 21Google removes Sci-Hub domains from U.S. search results due to dated court order 29 170 10h +44m torrentfreak.com/google-removes-sci-hub-domains-from-u-s-search-results-due-to-dated-court-order 22Formula One Handovers and Handovers From Surgery to Intensive Care (2008) [pdf] 25 71 6d +6d gwern.net/doc/technology/2008-sower.pdf 23So What Should We Call This – A Grue Jay? 26 59 5d +5d cns.utexas.edu/news/research/so-what-should-we-call-grue-jay 24The Checkerboard 23 60 12h +1h 99percentinvisible.org/episode/650-the-checkerboard 25How we built context management for tab completion 3 7 4d +4d docs.getpochi.com/developer-updates/context-management-in-your-editor 26Go is portable, until it isn't 88 106 6d +5d simpleobservability.com/blog/go-portable-until-isnt 27OpenAI are quietly adopting skills, now available in ChatGPT and Codex CLI 255 454 13h +25m simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/12/openai-skills 2850 years of proof assistants 15 99 13h +28m lawrencecpaulson.github.io//2025/12/05/History_of_Proof_Assistants.html 29C64 Maze Chomp.BAS 4 31 6d +5d basic-code.bearblog.dev/c64-maze-chompbas 30Freeing a Xiaomi humidifier from the cloud 48 109 1d +17h 0l.de/blog/2025/11/xiaomi-humidifier 31Capsudo: Rethinking sudo with object capabilities 39 72 15h +1h ariadne.space/2025/12/12/rethinking-sudo-with-object-capabilities.html 32I couldn't find a logging library that worked for my library, so I made one 7 13 21h +7h hackers.pub/@hongminhee/2025/logtape-fedify-case-study 33Show HN: I made a spreadsheet where formulas also update backwards 80 163 1d +1d victorpoughon.github.io/bidicalc 34Building small Docker images faster 15 58 1d +12h sgt.hootr.club/blog/docker-protips 35Can I use HTTPS RRs? 7 18 14h +38m netmeister.org/blog/https-caniuse.html 36Wine 11.0 RC2 – Run Windows Applications on Linux, BSD, Solaris and macOS 0 56 15h +35m gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/releases/wine-11.0-rc2 37Fast Median Filter over arbitrary datatypes 2 31 6d +6d martianlantern.github.io/2025/09/median-filter-over-arbitrary-datatypes 38Show HN: Tiny VM sandbox in C with apps in Rust, C and Zig 11 153 15h +20m github.com/ringtailsoftware/uvm32 39Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence 200 153 1d +22h whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/12/eliminating-state-law-obstruction-of-national-artificial-intelligence-policy 40Funerary figurines found in royal tomb identifies Pharoah 4 11 5d +4d sciencealert.com/trove-of-225-exceptional-egyptian-figurines-solves-long-standing-mystery 41macOS 26.2 enables fast AI clusters with RDMA over Thunderbolt 231 444 16h +43m developer.apple.com/documentation/macos-release-notes/macos-26_2-release-notes#RDMA-over-Thunderbolt 42The Average Founder Ages 6 Months Each Year 20 37 17h +1h tomtunguz.com/founder-age-median-trend 43Rats Play DOOM 116 322 17h +53m ratsplaydoom.com 44Motion (YC W20) Is Hiring Senior Staff Front End Engineers 0 1 16h +31s jobs.ashbyhq.com/motion/715d9646-27d4-44f6-9229-61eb0380ae39 45GNU Unifont 64 274 16h +30s unifoundry.com/unifont/index.html 46Pg_ClickHouse: A Postgres extension for querying ClickHouse 35 102 2d +2d clickhouse.com/blog/introducing-pg_clickhouse 47Security issues with electronic invoices 50 87 16h +5m invoice.secvuln.info 48Good conversations have lots of doorknobs (2022) 15 77 5d +4d experimental-history.com/p/good-conversations-have-lots-of-doorknobs 49iOS 26.2 Release Notes 6 17 17h +11m developer.apple.com/documentation/ios-ipados-release-notes/ios-ipados-26_2-release-notes 50New Kindle feature uses AI to answer questions about books 120 77 17h +7m reactormag.com/new-kindle-feature-ai-answer-questions-books-authors 51The true story of the Windows 3.1 'Hot Dog Stand' color scheme 54 133 18h +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 52Open sourcing the Remix Store 3 33 4d +3d remix.run/blog/oss-remix-store 53Nuclear energy key to decarbonising Europe, says EESC 166 119 19h +1h eesc.europa.eu/en/news-media/news/nuclear-energy-key-decarbonising-europe-says-eesc 54Benn Jordan’s flock camera jammer will send you to jail in Florida now [video] 155 165 18h +13m youtube.com/watch?v=qEllWdK4l_A 55Home Depot GitHub token exposed for a year, granted access to internal systems 142 242 19h +31m techcrunch.com/2025/12/12/home-depot-exposed-access-to-internal-systems-for-a-year-says-researcher 56Bit flips: How cosmic rays grounded a fleet of aircraft 73 74 5d +4d bbc.com/future/article/20251201-how-cosmic-rays-grounded-thousands-of-aircraft 57Id Software devs form "wall-to-wall" union 322 293 19h +10m rockpapershotgun.com/id-software-devs-form-wall-to-wall-union-with-165-workers-at-doom-studio-the-latest-to-vote-in-favour 58Google releases its new Google Sans Flex font as open source 105 218 19h +7m omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/11/google-sans-flex-font-ubuntu 59String theory inspires a brilliant, baffling new math proof 150 157 21h +1h quantamagazine.org/string-theory-inspires-a-brilliant-baffling-new-math-proof-20251212 60Using secondary school maths to demystify AI 230 116 20h +1h raspberrypi.org/blog/secondary-school-maths-showing-that-ai-systems-dont-think 61How to Articulate Yourself Intelligently 13 11 5d +4d letters.thedankoe.com/p/how-to-articulate-yourself-intelligently 62Japan law opening phone app stores to go into effect 30 160 20h +27m .nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20251210_B1 63Async DNS 39 117 20h +31m flak.tedunangst.com/post/async-dns 64Show HN: tomcp.org – Turn any URL into an MCP server 15 34 20h +13m github.com/Ami3466/tomcp 65[dead] ? 6 20h +2m clipnotebook.com 66Oracle made a $300B bet on OpenAI. It's paying the price 118 132 20h +20m finance.yahoo.com/news/oracle-made-a-300-billion-bet-on-openai-its-paying-the-price-205441863.html 67Why more American seniors are getting high 35 21 20h +10m economist.com/graphic-detail/2025/12/11/why-more-american-seniors-are-getting-high 68CM0 – A new Raspberry Pi you can't buy 52 198 22h +1h jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/cm0-new-raspberry-pi-you-cant-buy 69America's betting craze has spread to its news networks 88 68 20h +11m newyorker.com/news/the-lede/americas-betting-craze-has-spread-to-its-news-networks 70Senator endorses discredited book that claims chemical treats autism, cancer 61 83 20h +17m propublica.org/article/ron-johnson-wisconsin-chlorine-dioxide-pierre-kory-endorsement 71Epic celebrates "the end of the Apple Tax" after court win in iOS payments case 301 404 21h +27m arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/12/epic-celebrates-the-end-of-the-apple-tax-after-appeals-court-win-in-ios-payments-case 72Microservices should form a polytree 110 131 5d +4d bytesauna.com/post/microservices 73Framework Raises DDR5 Memory Prices by 50% for DIY Laptops 200 223 21h +25m phoronix.com/news/Framework-50p-DDR5-Memory 74Berlin Approves New Expansion of Police Surveillance Powers 106 151 21h +22m reclaimthenet.org/berlin-approves-new-expansion-of-police-surveillance-powers 75The Resonant Computing Manifesto 1 9 22h +9m resonantcomputing.org 76BpfJailer: eBPF Mandatory Access Control [pdf] 4 57 23h +32m lpc.events/event/19/contributions/2159/attachments/1833/3929/BpfJailer%20LPC%202025.pdf 77Why isn't online age verification just like showing your ID in person? 114 80 1d +1h eff.org/deeplinks/2025/12/why-isnt-online-age-verification-just-showing-your-id-person 78Use Python for Scripting 41 38 5d +4d hypirion.com/musings/use-python-for-scripting 79[dead] ? 7 23h +28m yaschamounk.substack.com 80SQLite JSON at full index speed using generated columns 105 350 1d +19m dbpro.app/blog/sqlite-json-virtual-columns-indexing 81Fedora: Open-source repository for long-term digital preservation 50 113 1d +11m fedorarepository.org 82Show HN: Epstein's emails reconstructed in a message-style UI (OCR and LLMs) 8 44 1d +41m github.com/Toon-nooT/epsteins-phone-reconstructed 83BehindTheMedspeak: A Spinal Tap 11 15 5d +4d bookofjoe2.blogspot.com/2025/10/behindthemedspeak-this-is-spinal-tap.html 84Show HN: Autofix Bot – Hybrid static analysis and AI code review agent 13 35 1d +15h 85Sick of smart TVs? Here are your best options 334 382 1d +23m arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/12/the-ars-technica-guide-to-dumb-tvs 86Show HN: Tripwire: A new anti evil maid defense 47 78 2d +1d github.com/fr33-sh/Tripwire 87Training LLMs for Honesty via Confessions 57 63 1d +2h arxiv.org/abs/2512.08093 88Censorship in Western Academia and the War in Ukraine 2 17 1d +1m newglobalpolitics.org/censorship-in-western-academia-and-the-war-in-ukraine 89The Tor Project is switching to Rust 245 336 1d +4m itsfoss.com/news/tor-rust-rewrite-progress 90What folk can do 16 43 5d +4d folk.computer/guides/what-folk-can-do 91From text to token: How tokenization pipelines work 19 122 1d +21h paradedb.com/blog/when-tokenization-becomes-token 92Koralm Railway 189 309 1d +1h infrastruktur.oebb.at/en/projects-for-austria/railway-lines/southern-line-vienna-villach/koralm-railway 93Native ads coming soon to Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange 48 26 1d +42m meta.stackexchange.com/questions/415259/native-ads-coming-soon-to-stack-overflow-and-stack-exchange 94Octo: A Chip8 IDE 10 87 7d +6d github.com/JohnEarnest/Octo 95How does a "you interview for US company, we do the work" scam work? 33 29 1d +25m 96You are dating an ecosystem 24 26 1d +1h razor.blog/2025/12/you-will-never-be-in-two-person.html 974 billion if statements (2023) 171 616 6d +5d andreasjhkarlsson.github.io//jekyll/update/2023/12/27/4-billion-if-statements.html 98Show HN: Jottings; Anti-social microblog for your thoughts 14 24 1d +1h jottings.me 99Spirograph style Lego drawing machine 7 39 5d +3d jkbrickworks.com/simple-drawing-machine 100Smartphone without a battery (2022) 32 88 1d +1h yaky.dev/2022-09-06-smartphone-without-battery 101Young journalists expose Russian-linked vessels off the Dutch and German coast 123 146 1d +19m digitaldigging.org/p/they-droned-back 102Guarding My Git Forge Against AI Scrapers 113 162 1d +45m vulpinecitrus.info/blog/guarding-git-forge-ai-scrapers 103[dead] ? 7 1d +2h deadstack.net 104The tiniest yet real telescope I've built 68 257 1d +2m lucassifoni.info/blog/miniscope-tiny-telescope 105The Boot Order of the Raspberry Pi Is Unusual 17 36 1d +5h patrickmccanna.net/the-raspberry-pi-boot-order-is-unusual 106Dependent Names with a Little Encouragement 0 9 6d +5d consteval.ca/2025/09/27/dependent-names 107He set out to walk around the world. After 27 years, his quest is nearly over 248 241 5d +4d washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2025/12/05/karl-bushby-walk-around-world 108[dead] ? 26 1d +4h danieleteti.it 109Google de-indexed Bear Blog and I don't know why 176 413 1d +3h journal.james-zhan.com/google-de-indexed-my-entire-bear-blog-and-i-dont-know-why 110One Last Trip: Traveling with my brother's remains (2022) 1 3 6d +5d thecut.com/2022/03/traveling-brothers-remains.html 111Tile IR Specification 3 19 8d +7d docs.nvidia.com/cuda/tile-ir 112Cadmium Zinc Telluride: The wonder material powering a medical 'revolution' 24 65 1d +1h bbc.com/news/articles/c24l223d9n7o 113CRISPR fungus: Protein-packed, sustainable, and tastes like meat 225 301 1d +2h isaaa.org/kc/cropbiotechupdate/article/default.asp?ID=21607 114The Invisible Cost: From Creator to Consumer 3 13 9d +8d edwardnoaland.substack.com/p/the-invisible-cost-from-creator-to 115Notes on Gamma 6 24 1d +1h poniesandlight.co.uk/reflect/gamma 116Stoolap: High-performance embedded SQL database in pure Rust 37 106 1d +1h github.com/stoolap/stoolap 117My Father's Instant Mashed Potatoes 53 65 7d +6d astralcodexten.com/p/your-review-my-fathers-instant-mashed 118Laying out the 404 Media zine 14 83 1d +1h tedium.co/2025/12/10/404-media-zine-linux-affinity/? 119Pdsink: USB Power Delivery Sink library for embedded devices 23 56 6d +4d github.com/pdsink/pdsink 120Nokia N900 Necromancy 184 467 1d +31m yaky.dev/2025-12-11-nokia-n900-necromancy 121 More... 2025.12.11