HckrNews (First visit) All HN frontpage stories in chronological order Christmas Tree Exec 2 21 9d +5d en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_Tree_EXEC 1Show HN: Gotui – a modern Go terminal dashboard library 13 44 4d +2h github.com/metaspartan/gotui 2Powder and stone, or, why medieval rulers loved castles 19 57 4d +1h 1517.substack.com/p/powder-and-stone-or-why-medieval 3RFC 6677 DNS Transport over TCP – Implementation Requirements (2016) 18 22 4d +1h ietf.org/rfc/rfc7766.txt 4You gotta push if you wanna pull 8 27 7d +3d morling.dev/blog/you-gotta-push-if-you-wanna-pull 523,746 Patients Died on Waitlists in Past Year 25 24 4d +34m secondstreet.org/2025/11/26/23746-patients-died-on-waitlists-in-past-year 6Two new RSC protocol vulnerabilities uncovered 1 31 4d +18m nextjs.org/blog/security-update-2025-12-11 7React2Shell and related RSC vulnerabilities threat brief 1 21 4d +19m blog.cloudflare.com/react2shell-rsc-vulnerabilities-exploitation-threat-brief 8Contact Sheet Prompting 2 23 7d +3d willienotwilly.com/contact-sheet-prompting 9UK House of Lords attempting to ban use of VPNs by anyone under 16 432 391 4d +1h alecmuffett.com/article/134925 10A 'Tatooine' Planet Directly Imaged 3 24 4d +1h centauri-dreams.org/2025/12/11/a-tatooine-planet-directly-imaged 11Almond (YC X25) Is Hiring SWEs and MechEs 0 1 4d +8s ycombinator.com/companies/almond-2/jobs 12Denial of service and source code exposure in React Server Components 221 340 4d +10m react.dev/blog/2025/12/11/denial-of-service-and-source-code-exposure-in-react-server-components 13The architecture of “not bad”: Decoding the Chinese source code of the void 145 122 4d +6h suggger.substack.com/p/the-architecture-of-not-bad-decoding 14Encountering Japanese ellipses in English translations (2013) 1 34 13d +8d legendsoflocalization.com/articles/japanese-ellipsis-usage 15My productivity app is a never-ending .txt file (2020) 183 290 4d +26m jeffhuang.com/productivity_text_file 16An SVG is all you need 145 336 4d +25m jon.recoil.org/blog/2025/12/an-svg-is-all-you-need.html 17Golang optimizations for high‑volume services 11 66 7d +3d packagemain.tech/p/golang-optimizations-for-highvolume 18Show HN: An endless scrolling word search game 16 25 4d +5h endless-wordsearch.com 19Last quarter I rolled out Microsoft Copilot to 4k employees 12 50 4d +13m twitter.com/gothburz/status/1999124665801880032 20Pop_OS 24.04 LTS with COSMIC desktop environment 94 148 4d +14m blog.system76.com/post/pop-os-letter-from-our-founder 21We built a resource hub to fight back against age verification 3 102 4d +15m eff.org/deeplinks/2025/12/age-verification-coming-internet-we-built-you-resource-hub-fight-back 22Going Through Snowden Documents, Part 1 184 239 4d +6m libroot.org/posts/going-through-snowden-documents-part-1 23Show HN: Sim – Apache-2.0 n8n alternative 60 235 4d +1h github.com/simstudioai/sim 24Prove It All Night: With no fame or fortune, what keeps a band onstage? (1999) 29 65 13d +8d chicagoreader.com/news/prove-it-all-night 25Programmers and software developers lost the plot on naming their tools 515 416 4d +24m larr.net/p/namings.html 26Rivian Unveils Custom Silicon, R2 Lidar Roadmap, and Universal Hands Free 622 391 4d +13m riviantrackr.com/news/rivian-unveils-custom-silicon-r2-lidar-roadmap-universal-hands-free-and-its-next-gen-autonomy-platform 27GPT-5.2 3 189 4d +6m openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-2 28GPT-5.2 1060 1174 4d +11m openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-2 29Litestream VFS 82 366 4d +16m fly.io/blog/litestream-vfs 30Giant of the Attic: On the Majesty of Alan Moore 6 21 17d +12d metropolitanreview.org/p/giant-of-the-attic 31Show HN: GPULlama3.java Llama Compilied to PTX/OpenCL Now Integrated in Quarkus 5 24 4d +1h 32Days since last GitHub incident 131 211 4d +15m github-incidents.pages.dev 33Things I want to say to my boss 221 241 4d +4m ithoughtaboutthatalot.com/2025/the-things-i-want-to-say-to-my-boss 34Kicking Robots 7 39 9d +4d harpers.org/archive/2025/12/kicking-robots-james-vincent-humanoids 35Pop Goes the Population Count? 15 60 4d +1h xania.org/202512/11-pop-goes-the-weasel-er-count 36Deprecate like you mean it 179 68 4d +24m entropicthoughts.com/deprecate-like-you-mean-it 37A Developer Accidentally Found CSAM in AI Data. Google Banned Him for It 92 119 4d +13m 404media.co/a-developer-accidentally-found-csam-in-ai-data-google-banned-him-for-it 38Crick and Watson Did Not Steal Franklin's Data 30 58 4d +5m nautil.us/crick-and-watson-did-not-steal-franklins-data-1252663 39iPhone Typos? It's Not Just You – The iOS Keyboard Is Broken [video] 430 694 4d +14m youtube.com/watch?v=hksVvXONrIo 40Launch HN: BrowserBook (YC F24) – IDE for deterministic browser automation 36 74 4d +18m 41The highest quality codebase 387 628 7d +2d gricha.dev/blog/the-highest-quality-codebase 42Did that Colorado station sign say gas for only $1.69? Yes, it did 69 26 4d +15m coloradosun.com/2025/12/11/colorado-gas-prices-falling-national-average 43An Orbital House of Cards: Frequent Megaconstellation Close Conjunctions 46 89 4d +12m arxiv.org/abs/2512.09643 44Craft software that makes people feel something 183 336 4d +1h rapha.land/craft-software-that-makes-people-feel-something 45The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI Partner on Sora 498 265 4d +36m openai.com/index/disney-sora-agreement 46Disney making $1B investment in OpenAI, will allow characters on Sora AI 2 325 4d +22m cnbc.com/2025/12/11/disney-openai-sora-characters-video.html 47Is GitHub Down? 7 16 4d +39m 48Oldest attestation of Austronesian language: Đông Yên Châu inscription 30 69 10d +5d en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%90%C3%B4ng_Y%C3%AAn_Ch%C3%A2u_inscription 49Why no fish wants a tongue-eating parasitic louse in its mouth 5 18 4d +26m animals.howstuffworks.com/marine-life/parasitic-tongue-eating-louse.htm 50French supermarket's Christmas advert is worldwide hit (without AI) [video] 288 488 4d +6m youtube.com/watch?v=Na9VmMNJvsA 51How can I read the standard output of an already-running process? 33 59 10d +5d devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20251204-00/?p=111841 52South Korea – A cautionary tale for the rest of humanity 177 67 4d +54m worksinprogress.co/issue/two-is-already-too-many 53Show HN: Local Privacy Firewall-blocks PII and secrets before ChatGPT sees them 54 110 6d +1d github.com/privacyshield-ai/privacy-firewall 54Show HN: oeis-tui – A TUI to search OEIS integer sequences in the terminal 2 31 16d +11d github.com/hako/oeis-tui 55Meta shuts down global accounts linked to abortion advice and queer content 345 365 4d +45m theguardian.com/global-development/2025/dec/11/meta-shuts-down-global-accounts-linked-to-abortion-advice-and-queer-content 56If You Quit Social Media, Will You Read More Books? 91 46 4d +1h newyorker.com/news/fault-lines/if-you-quit-social-media-will-you-read-more-books 57Helldivers 2 on-disk size 85% reduction 310 275 12d +8d store.steampowered.com/news/app/553850/view/491583942944621371 58McDonald's removes AI-generated ad after backlash 39 27 4d +15m theguardian.com/business/2025/dec/11/mcdonalds-removes-ai-generated-christmas-ad-advert-backlash 59A “frozen” dictionary for Python 166 191 4d +49m lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1047238/25c270b077849dc0 60Why Startups Die 60 78 7d +3d techfounderstack.com/p/why-startups-die 61Just 0.001% hold 3 times the wealth of poorest half of humanity, report finds 156 107 4d +11m theguardian.com/inequality/2025/dec/10/just-0001-hold-three-times-the-wealth-of-poorest-half-of-humanity-report-finds 62Go's escape analysis and why my function return worked 69 42 10d +5d bonniesimon.in/blog/go-escape-analysis 63[dead] ? 5 4d +5m theaustralian.com.au 64How the Brain Parses Language 84 148 7d +2d quantamagazine.org/the-polyglot-neuroscientist-resolving-how-the-brain-parses-language-20251205 65The Cost of a Closure in C 114 208 4d +38m thephd.dev/the-cost-of-a-closure-in-c-c2y 66Flow Where You Want – Guidance for Flow Models 3 40 9d +5d drscotthawley.github.io/blog/posts/FlowWhereYouWant.html 67Booting Linux in QEMU and Writing PID 1 in Go to Illustrate Kernel as Program 90 268 11d +6d serversfor.dev/linux-inside-out/the-linux-kernel-is-just-a-program 68Show HN: Wirebrowser – A JavaScript debugger with breakpoint-driven heap search 15 68 5d +15h github.com/fcavallarin/wirebrowser 69Python Workers redux: fast cold starts, packages, and a uv-first workflow 79 139 7d +2d blog.cloudflare.com/python-workers-advancements 70Incomplete list of mistakes in the design of CSS 128 193 4d +11m wiki.csswg.org/ideas/mistakes 713D-printed carotid artery-on-chips for personalized thrombosis investigation 2 27 12d +7d advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adma.202508890 72Vibe coding is mad depressing 155 257 4d +16m law.gmnz.xyz/vibe-coding-is-mad-depressing 73Fossils reveal anacondas have been giants for over 12 million years 43 76 13d +8d cam.ac.uk/stories/twelve-million-years-of-giant-anacondas 74Patterns.dev 150 618 4d +1h patterns.dev 75VCMI: An open-source engine for Heroes III 27 190 9d +4d vcmi.eu 76OpenRouter Broadcast 12 35 9d +4d openrouter.ai/docs/guides/features/broadcast/overview 77Sharding to Contain the Blast Radius of Data Breaches 9 22 7d +2d mimirsec.com/2025/12/05/sharding-to-contain-the-blast-radius-of-data-breaches 78[dead] ? 9 5d +8m elenacross7.medium.com 79 More... 2025.12.10