HckrNews (First visit) All HN frontpage stories in chronological order Microsoft please get your tab to autocomplete shit together 146 247 6d +23m ivanca.github.io/programming/2025/11/26/microsoft-pls-get-your-tab-to-autocomplete-shit-together 1Comptime – C# meta-programming with compile-time code generation and evaluation 66 141 10d +4d github.com/sebastienros/comptime 2TOPS-10 in a Box (2011) 0 9 6d +50m filfre.net/2011/05/tops-10-in-a-box 3Research team digitizes more than 100 years of Canadian infectious disease data 6 158 11d +5d news.mcmaster.ca/mcmaster-research-team-digitizes-more-than-100-years-of-canadian-infectious-disease-data 4How I Left YouTube 318 211 6d +1h zhach.news/how-i-left-youtube 5Tell HN: Merry Christmas 424 1938 6d +14m 6Phoenix: A modern X server written from scratch in Zig 405 657 6d +8m git.dec05eba.com/phoenix/about 7Show HN: Just Fucking Use Cloudflare – A satirical guide to the CF stack 36 33 6d +25m justfuckingusecloudflare.com 8Confessions to a Data Lake 9 28 7d +1d confer.to/blog/2025/12/confessions-to-a-data-lake 9A Distant Salutation: The moment the South lost the civil war 0 4 6d +2h lessobvious.shorthandstories.com/jeb 10[dead] ? 16 6d +34m newrepublic.com 11Show HN: WebPtoPNG – I built a WebP to PNG tool, everything runs in the browser 19 20 6d +1h webptopng.cc 12Show HN: A local-first, reversible PII scrubber for AI workflows 13 37 6d +5h medium.com/@tj.ruesch/a-local-first-reversible-pii-scrubber-for-ai-workflows-using-onnx-and-regex-e9850a7531fc 13Groq and Nvidia Licensing Agreement 1 20 6d +36m groq.com/newsroom/groq-and-nvidia-enter-non-exclusive-inference-technology-licensing-agreement-to-accelerate-ai-inference-at-global-scale 14The IPv4 address swamp: The new normal 19 48 7d +1d blog.apnic.net/2025/12/23/the-ipv4-address-swamp-the-new-normal 15CSRF protection without tokens or hidden form fields 110 294 8d +2d blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/csrf-protection-without-tokens-or-hidden-form-fields 16How GNU Guile is 10x better (2021) 13 101 9d +3d draketo.de/software/guile-10x 17Why did we use leaded petrol for so long? (2017) 53 54 9d +3d bbc.com/news/business-40593353 18Pantograph: Building a preschool for robots 6 35 7d +1d pantograph.com/blog/building-a-preschool-for-robots.html 19Rack makes Pion SCTP 71% faster with 27% less latency 4 22 6d +3h pion.ly/blog/sctp-and-rack 20Jingle Bells (Batman Smells): An incomplete festive folk-rhyme taxonomy 58 119 9d +3d loreandordure.com/2025/12/16/jingle-bells 21The dawn of a world simulator 54 79 10d +4d odyssey.ml/the-dawn-of-a-world-simulator 22Steam Store is offline 20 69 6d +22m steamstat.us 23Build Your Own 100TB NAS in 2025: Complete TrueNAS Storage Guide 15 20 6d +1h techlife.blog/posts/build-your-own-100tb-nas-2025-complete-truenas-storage-guide 24Quake's Player Speed (2017) 31 84 7d +1d rome.ro/quakes-player-speed-1 25[dead] ? 40 6d +1h cato.org 26Litex: Formal math for everyone – set theory examples with Lean comparison 10 30 11d +5d litexlang.com/doc/How_Litex_Works/Litex_vs_Lean_Set_Theory_Examples 27Nvidia to buy assets from Groq for $20B cash 394 682 6d +11m cnbc.com/2025/12/24/nvidia-buying-ai-chip-startup-groq-for-about-20-billion-biggest-deal.html 28Spaced repetition for efficient learning (2019) 59 141 6d +19m gwern.net/spaced-repetition 29Keystone (YC S25) is hiring engineer #1 to automate coding 0 1 6d +23s ycombinator.com/companies/keystone/jobs/J3t9XeM-founding-engineer 30Qntm's Power Tower Toy 25 84 10d +4d qntm.org/files/knuth/knuth.html 31Beijing is enforcing tough rules to ensure chatbots don’t misbehave 80 83 6d +4m wsj.com/tech/ai/china-is-worried-ai-threatens-party-ruleand-is-trying-to-tame-it-bfdcda2d 32European Majority favours more social media regulation 145 89 6d +35m yougov.co.uk/technology/articles/53241-european-political-monthly-where-do-europeans-stand-on-social-media-regulation 33Show HN: Minimalist editor that lives in browser, stores everything in the URL 164 455 6d +7m github.com/antonmedv/textarea 34Looking for Decent Conversation? 13 101 6d +13m 35Spice: A 40-year old open-source success story (2011) 4 42 6d +2h edn.com/spice-a-40-year-old-open-source-success-story 36The lightest notes app implementation in 111 loc 1 6 6d +10h github.com/antonmedv/textarea 37Lessons from Building an Indie App for Artists 2 16 6d +20m shanehudson.net/articles/2025/indie-app-for-artists 38Fabrice Bellard: Biography (2009) [pdf] 126 350 6d +1h ipaidia.gr/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/117-2020-fabrice-bellard.pdf 39Fabrication Techniques Using Myco-Materials 4 22 9d +2d encyclopedia.pub/entry/27602 40Judge in Vizio Case Rules on Issue Irrelevant to Rights Under Copyleft 0 29 6d +1h sfconservancy.org/news/2025/dec/24/vizio-msa-irrelevant-ruling 41Researchers achieved 1,270 Wh/L in an anode-free lithium metal battery 56 112 6d +34m postech.ac.kr/eng/research/research_results.do?mode=view&articleNo=43617&title=Anode-Free+Battery+Doubles+Electric+Vehicle+Driving+Range 42Show HN: Vibium – Browser automation for AI and humans, by Selenium's creator 120 434 6d +40m github.com/VibiumDev/vibium 43A Father, a Son and Their $108B Push for Media Moguldom (Larry Ellison) 18 26 6d +33m nytimes.com/2025/12/24/business/media/larry-david-ellison-warner-bros-discovery-cbs.html 44A faster path to container images in Bazel 56 104 12d +5d tweag.io/blog/2025-12-18-rules_img 45Microsoft Agent Framework 27 57 6d +36m learn.microsoft.com/en-us/agent-framework/overview/agent-framework-overview 46Show HN: No more writing shitty regexes to police usernames 56 19 6d +1h username.dev 47My 2026 Open Social Web Predictions 118 112 6d +1h timothychambers.net/2025/12/23/my-open-social-web-predictions.html 48LVM Thin Provisioning (2016) 5 19 9d +2d storageapis.wordpress.com/2016/06/24/lvm-thin-provisioning 49I'm returning my Framework 16 579 310 6d +4h yorickpeterse.com/articles/im-returning-my-framework-16 50Mt. Gox CEO Karpelès Reveals Details of 2014 Collapse and Japanese Detention 35 85 6d +14m bitcoinmagazine.com/business/former-mt-gox-ceo-mark-karpeles-reveals-details-of-2014-collapse-and-japanese-detention 51Show HN: LazyPromise = Observable – Signals 6 34 12d +5d github.com/lazy-promise/lazy-promise 52Why We Abandoned Matrix (2024) 186 195 6d +28m forum.hackliberty.org/t/why-we-abandoned-matrix-the-dark-truth-about-user-security-and-safety/224 53Making a game on a custom bytecode VM in 7 days and 3kB 17 108 11d +5d laurent.le-brun.eu/blog/making-a-game-on-a-custom-bytecode-vm-in-7-days-and-3kb 54Games’ affordance of childlike wonder and reduced burnout risk in young adults 131 167 6d +1h games.jmir.org/2025/1/e84219 55AMD entered the CPU market with reverse-engineered Intel 8080 clone 50 years ago 96 194 6d +30m tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/amd-first-entered-the-cpu-market-with-reverse-engineered-intel-8080-clone-50-years-ago-the-am9080-cost-50-cents-apiece-to-make-but-sold-for-usd700 56New reactor produces clean energy and carbon nanotubes from natural gas 41 62 6d +3m phys.org/news/2025-12-reactor-energy-carbon-nanotubes-natural.html 57When compilers surprise you 103 240 6d +1h xania.org/202512/24-cunning-clang 58Show HN: Does Information Density Cause Time Dilation? 16 10 6d +51m 59Your inbox is a bandit problem 79 101 8d +2d parentheticallyspeaking.org/articles/bandit-inbox 60The EU's fine against X is not about speech or ‘censorship’ 97 52 6d +26m techpolicy.press/the-eus-fine-against-x-is-not-about-speech-or-censorship 61The port I couldn't ship 93 140 12d +5d ammil.industries/the-port-i-couldnt-ship 62The e-scooter isn't new – London was zooming around on Autopeds a century ago 137 182 6d +4h ianvisits.co.uk/articles/the-e-scooter-isnt-new-london-was-zooming-around-on-autopeds-a-century-ago-86263 63Avoid Mini-Frameworks 115 162 6d +32m laike9m.com/blog/avoid-mini-frameworks,171 64map::operator[] should be nodiscard 73 83 11d +4d quuxplusone.github.io/blog/2025/12/18/nodiscard-operator-bracket 65Scaling Go Testing with Contract and Scenario Mocks 26 44 12d +5d funnelstory.ai/blog/engineering/scaling-go-testing-with-contract-and-scenario-mocks 66Google's year in review: areas with research breakthroughs in 2025 166 235 6d +1h blog.google/technology/ai/2025-research-breakthroughs 67US sanctions EU government officials behind the DSA 146 125 6d +1h mastodon.social/@fj/115773761468906515 68The Ultimate Windows Utility (2022) 86 97 6d +15m christitus.com/windows-tool 69Former EU commissioner and activists barred from US 38 67 6d +46m theguardian.com/technology/2025/dec/24/us-state-department-visa-ban-former-eu-commissioner-europe 70Help my website is too small 14 105 6d +2h lukeplant.me.uk/blog/posts/help-my-website-is-too-small 71Permission Systems for Enterprise That Scale 33 98 6d +49m eliocapella.com/blog/permission-systems-for-enterprise 72Next JavaScript app is hacked, you just don't know it yet 8 10 6d +1h audits.blockhacks.io/audit/your-next-js-app-is-already-hacked 73I rebuilt FlashAttention in Triton to understand the performance archaeology 17 95 9d +2d aminediro.com/posts/flash_attn 74Show HN: Tonbo – an embedded database for serverless and edge runtimes 16 56 13d +6d github.com/tonbo-io/tonbo 75CEO killed at industrial site by worker operating forklift 62 56 6d +2h 12onyourside.com/2025/12/23/ceo-killed-industrial-site-by-worker-operating-forklift-while-talking-phone-osha-report-shows 76Life, Death and Mowing 11 16 11d +4d cam.ac.uk/stories/lawnmower-poetry 77Name That Part: 3D Part Segmentation and Naming 4 33 7d +4h name-that-part.github.io 78Custom Cross Compiler with Nix 2 41 6d +1h hobson.space/posts/nixcross 79Show HN: CodinIT, local open-source Lovable alternative (Electron desktop app) 6 24 10d +3d github.com/codinit-dev/codinit-dev 80Dutch rental fleet Mistergreen goes bankrupt after betting on Tesla self-driving 19 54 6d +1h guessingheadlights.com/dutch-tesla-fleet-goes-bust-after-betting-on-musks-self-driving-promises 81Time-Traveling to 1979: Advice for Designing 'C with Classes 23 16 14d +7d coderschmoder.com/i-time-traveled-1979-met-bjarne-stroustrup 82Don't Become the Machine 141 257 7d +1h armeet.bearblog.dev/becoming-the-machine 83Lessons from the PG&E outage 160 167 7d +2h waymo.com/blog/2025/12/autonomously-navigating-the-real-world 84Proving Bounds for the Randomized MaxCut Approximation Algorithm in Lean4 3 62 10d +3d abhamra.com/blog/randomized-maxcut 85Show HN: Turn raw HTML into production-ready images for free 80 150 7d +1h html2png.dev 86'Dracula's Chivito': Hubble reveals largest birthplace of planets ever observed 13 76 7d +1h phys.org/news/2025-12-chaotic-dracula-chivito-hubble-reveals.html 87Charts in Slides 0 34 13d +6d ia.net/topics/charts-in-slides 88Donald E. Knuth and Peter van Emde Boas on priority deques (1977) [pdf] 5 62 7d +36m staff.fnwi.uva.nl/p.vanemdeboas/knuthnote.pdf 89Could lockfiles just be SBOMs? 59 73 7d +43m nesbitt.io/2025/12/23/could-lockfiles-just-be-sboms.html 90Open source USB to GPIB converter (for Test and Measurement instruments) 43 91 7d +1h github.com/xyphro/UsbGpib 91Show HN: I hired AI to fix my memory, but made it 100% Offline for privacy 7 8 7d +1h namememory.netlify.app 92Nabokov's guide to foreigners learning Russian 470 221 7d +1h twitter.com/haravayin_hogh/status/2003299405907247502 93AI Can Write Your Code. It Can't Do Your Job 74 87 11d +4d terriblesoftware.org/2025/12/11/ai-can-write-your-code-it-cant-do-your-job 94Jimmy Wales trusts the process 57 32 13d +6d theverge.com/tech/846184/jimmy-wales-trusts-the-process 95Some Epstein file redactions are being undone 773 1008 7d +4h theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/23/epstein-unredacted-files-social-media 96Unifi Travel Router 422 465 7d +26m blog.ui.com/article/travel-in-style-unifi-style-unifi-travel-router 97US bars 5 Europeans it says pressured tech firms to censor American viewpoints 33 92 7d +1h apnews.com/article/state-department-trump-immigration-rubio-visas-87c8a4692f3184e4f83fdd8ed5093886 98Stronk.app – open-source gym lifts journal 29 63 7d +9m 99We Must Seize the Means of Compute 9 24 7d +56m thompson2026.com/blog/seize-the-means-of-compute 100Learn Lisp/Fennel Programming Against Neovim 10 70 13d +6d github.com/humorless/fennel-fp-neovim 101 More... 2025.12.23