HckrNews (First visit) All HN frontpage stories in chronological order Spherical Cow 19 130 1d +24m lib.rs/crates/spherical-cow 1Why I Disappeared – My week with minimal internet in a remote island chain 162 110 1d +1h kenklippenstein.com/p/why-i-disappeared 2Slaughtering Competition Problems with Quantifier Elimination (2021) 3 74 1d +25m grossack.site/2021/12/22/qe-competition.html 3CEOs are hugely expensive. Why not automate them? (2021) 308 245 1d +8m newstatesman.com/business/companies/2023/05/ceos-salaries-expensive-automate-robots 4Researchers discover molecular difference in autistic brains 131 214 1d +59m medicine.yale.edu/news-article/molecular-difference-in-autistic-brains 562 years in the making: NYC's newest water tunnel nears the finish line 103 140 1d +13m ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2025/11/09/water--dep--tunnels- 6Time in C++: Inter-Clock Conversions, Epochs, and Durations 10 37 4d +2d sandordargo.com/blog/2025/12/24/clocks-part-5-conversions 7What an unprocessed photo looks like 395 2379 1d +31m maurycyz.com/misc/raw_photo 8The Detection of Wash Trading 2 15 1d +21m rajivsethi.substack.com/p/the-detection-of-wash-trading 9As AI gobbles up chips, prices for devices may rise 502 314 1d +11m npr.org/2025/12/28/nx-s1-5656190/ai-chips-memory-prices-ram 10Parsing IP addresses quickly (portably, without SIMD magic) 4 11 1d +19m lemire.me/blog/2025/12/27/parsing-ip-addresses-quickly-portably-without-simd-magic 11Unity's Mono problem: C# code runs slower than it should 174 275 1d +59m marekfiser.com/blog/mono-vs-dot-net-in-unity 12The Internet Is a Net Negative 16 19 1d +10m kennethreitz.org/essays/2025-12-28-the_internet_is_a_net_negative 13Show HN: LoongArch Userspace Emulator 9 26 6d +4d github.com/libriscv/libloong 14John Malone and the Invention of Liquid-Based Engines 5 24 6d +4d permalink.lanl.gov/object/tr?what=info:lanl-repo/lareport/LA-UR-93-1350-25 15Dolphin Progress Report: Release 2512 14 133 1d +12m dolphin-emu.org/blog/2025/12/22/dolphin-progress-report-release-2512 16Keep the Robots Out of the Gym 43 55 1d +10m danielmiessler.com/blog/keep-the-robots-out-of-the-gym 17Oral History of Richard Greenblatt (2005) [pdf] 0 17 5d +3d archive.computerhistory.org/resources/text/Oral_History/Greenblatt_Richard/greenblatt.oral_history_transcript.2005.102657935.pdf 18The Prison of Financial Mediocrity 30 44 1d +34m twitter.com/systematicls/status/2004900241745883205 19Show HN: Phantas – A browser-based binaural strobe engine (Web Audio API) 8 27 1d +1h phantas.io 20Software engineers should be a little bit cynical 203 292 1d +11m seangoedecke.com/a-little-bit-cynical 21MongoBleed Explained Simply 127 256 1d +30m bigdata.2minutestreaming.com/p/mongobleed-explained-simply 22Show HN: Pion SCTP with RACK is 70% faster with 30% less latency 5 61 2d +3h pion.ly/blog/sctp-and-rack 23PySDR: A Guide to SDR and DSP Using Python 13 225 1d +1h pysdr.org/content/intro.html 24Loss of moist broadleaf forest in Africa has turned a carbon sink into source 30 77 1d +8m nature.com/articles/s41598-025-27462-3 25Doublespeak: In-Context Representation Hijacking 8 76 8d +6d mentaleap.ai/doublespeak 26Stepping down as Mockito maintainer after ten years 204 277 1d +40m github.com/mockito/mockito/issues/3777 27No, it's not a battleship 246 177 2d +36m navalgazing.net/No-its-not 28Rust errors without dependencies 87 53 2d +16h vincents.dev/blog/rust-errors-without-dependencies 29Delete LinkedIn – you'll have zero fucking regrets (2021) 59 69 2d +53m thenextweb.com/news/delete-linkedin-youll-have-zero-regrets-syndication 30Vibration Isolation of Precision Objects (2005) [pdf] 4 31 8d +6d sandv.comhttp://www./downloads/0607rivi.pdf 31Remembering Lou Gerstner 45 92 2d +56m newsroom.ibm.com/2025-12-28-Remembering-Lou-Gerstner 32Tell HN: Google ignores English searches and forces localized results 87 80 2d +28m 332D Signed Distance Functions 18 122 5d +3d iquilezles.org/articles/distfunctions2d 34Global Memory Shortage Crisis: Market Analysis 101 92 2d +3h idc.com/resource-center/blog/global-memory-shortage-crisis-market-analysis-and-the-potential-impact-on-the-smartphone-and-pc-markets-in-2026 35Ask HN: Best Podcasts of 2025? 67 48 2d +3h 36Deathbed Advice/Regret 43 54 2d +52m hazn.com/deathbed-regret 37We "solved" C10K years ago yet we keep reinventing it (2003) 85 106 4d +2d kegel.com/c10k.html 38[dead] ? 14 2d +28m crates.io 39Learn computer graphics from scratch and for free 38 298 2d +6h scratchapixel.com 40Hacker News Made of Primes 23 50 2d +5m dosaygo-studio.github.io/prime-news/index.html 412 in 3 Americans think AI will cause major harm to humans in the next 20 years [pdf] (2024) 175 89 2d +23m pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2025/03/pi_2025.04.03_us-public-and-ai-experts_topline.pdf 42Shut Up About the Water 12 34 2d +1h prettygoodblog.com/p/shut-up-about-the-water 43tc-ematch(8) extended matches for use with "basic", "cgroup" or "flow" filters 3 24 2d +26m man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/tc-ematch.8.html 44Streaming Uploads with LiveView 1 28 8d +6d fly.io/phoenix-files/streaming-uploads-with-liveview 45Designing Predictable LLM-Verifier Systems for Formal Method Guarantee 12 58 2d +1h arxiv.org/abs/2512.02080 46[dead] ? 6 2d +20m newsletter.compasscalendar.com 47Scientists discover beer bottle in the Mariana Trench (2024) 50 41 2d +4m unilad.com/news/scientist-beer-bottle-deepest-point-ocean-mariana-trench-667878-20240213 48Never Use Pixelation to Hide Sensitive Text (2014) 37 117 9d +7d dheera.net/posts/20140725-why-you-should-never-use-pixelation 49Last Year on My Mac: Look Back in Disbelief 412 501 2d +5h eclecticlight.co/2025/12/28/last-year-on-my-mac-look-back-in-disbelief 50Building a macOS app to know when my Mac is thermal throttling 117 279 2d +2h stanislas.blog/2025/12/macos-thermal-throttling-app 51Hungry Fat Cells Could Someday Starve Cancer 51 163 2d +4h ucsf.edu/news/2025/01/429411/how-hungry-fat-cells-could-someday-starve-cancer-death 52Ask HN: Anti-AI Open Source License? 101 44 2d +6m 53'PromptQuest' is the worst game of 2025 (trying to make chatbots work) 26 40 2d +42m theregister.com/2025/12/26/ai_is_like_adventure_games 54Ubuntu 26.04 LTS – The Roadmap 36 53 2d +4h discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-26-04-lts-the-roadmap/72740 55Slate AX: Wi-Fi 6 Gigabit travel router 14 17 6d +4d gl-inet.com/products/gl-axt1800 56One year of keeping a tada list 82 271 8d +5d ducktyped.org/p/one-year-of-keeping-a-tada-list 57I stayed in a $40 capsule hotel (London) 61 31 8d +5d cnbc.com/2025/12/20/zedwell-capsule-hotel-i-stayed-in-a-40-dollar-capsule-hotel-in-london.html 58Langfuse (YC W23) Is Hiring in Berlin, Germany 0 1 2d +5s langfuse.com/careers 59Claude Code creator says Claude wrote all his code for the last month 57 40 2d +9m twitter.com/bcherny/status/2004897269674639461 60Salesforce pulls back from LLMs, pivots Agentforce to deterministic automation 25 52 2d +39m timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/tech-news/after-laying-off-4000-employees-and-automating-with-ai-agents-salesforce-executives-admit-we-were-more-confident-about-/articleshow/126121875.cms 61An experiment in separating identity, memory, and tools 25 32 3d +1d rcrdbl.comRCRDBL.com 62Growing up in “404 Not Found”: China's nuclear city in the Gobi Desert 366 800 2d +3h substack.com/inbox/post/182743659 63[dead] ? 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Federation will eat embeddings 2 6 2d +2h gnanaguru.com/p/federation-over-embeddings-let-ai 812025 was the year Xbox died 60 62 7d +4d engadget.com/gaming/xbox/2025-was-the-year-xbox-died-130000467.html 82Liberating Bluetooth on the ESP32 27 152 2d +4h exquisite.tube/w/mEzF442Q4hUXnhQ8HmfZuq 83Fathers’ choices may be packaged and passed down in sperm RNA 187 311 2d +29m quantamagazine.org/how-dads-fitness-may-be-packaged-and-passed-down-in-sperm-rna-20251222 84Show HN: Viral Potential Predictor 16 33 2d +1h hn-ph.vercel.app 85[dead] ? 35 2d +27m cookcountyil.gov 86Replacing JavaScript with Just HTML 275 735 2d +13m htmhell.dev/adventcalendar/2025/27 87Travel agents took 10 years to collapse. Developers are 3 years in 31 18 2d +5h martinalderson.com/posts/travel-agents-developers 88Functional programming and reliability: ADTs, safety, critical infrastructure 185 154 2d +1h blog.rastrian.dev/post/why-reliability-demands-functional-programming-adts-safety-and-critical-infrastructure 89Immer – A library of persistent and immutable data structures written in C++ 17 126 8d +6d github.com/arximboldi/immer 90Say No to Palantir in the NHS 221 596 2d +3h notopalantir.goodlawproject.org/email-to-target/stop-palantir-in-the-nhs 917- and 14-segment fonts "DSEG" 8 44 2d +1h keshikan.net/fonts.html 92 More... 2025.12.27