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• 12.16.25 | Kenyan writer contrasts style with ChatGPT, 8M users' AI chats exploited by extensions, Pepsi and Walmart colluded on food prices

  This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Dec 16, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:14) - I'm Kenyan. I don't write like ChatGPT, ChatGPT writes like me (01:26) - 8M users' AI conversations sold for profit by "privacy" extensions (02:40) - Secret Documents Show Pepsi and Walmart Colluded to Raise Food Prices (03:51) - Ford kills the All-Electric F-150 (05:04) - “Are you the one?” is free money (06:18) - SHARP, an approach to photorealistic view synthesis from a single image (07:25) - Quill OS: An open-source OS for Kobo's eReaders (08:32) - JetBlue flight averts mid-air collision with US Air Force jet (09:31) - Children with cancer scammed out of millions fundraised for their treatment (10:38) - Umbrel – Personal Cloud (11:40) - Outro I'm Kenyan. I don't write like ChatGPT, ChatGPT writes like mehttps://marcusolang.substack.com/p/im-kenyan-i-dont-write-like-chatgpthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=462734668M users' AI conversations sold for profit by "privacy" extensionshttps://www.koi.ai/blog/urban-vpn-browser-extension-ai-conversations-data-collectionhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46284266Secret Documents Show Pepsi and Walmart Colluded to Raise Food Priceshttps://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/secret-documents-show-pepsi-and-walmarthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46280887Ford kills the All-Electric F-150https://www.wired.com/story/ford-kills-electric-f-150-lightning-for-hybrid/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46281182“Are you the one?” is free moneyhttps://blog.owenlacey.dev/posts/are-you-the-one-is-free-money/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46241500SHARP, an approach to photorealistic view synthesis from a single imagehttps://apple.github.io/ml-sharp/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46284658Quill OS: An open-source OS for Kobo's eReadershttps://quill-os.org/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46283016JetBlue flight averts mid-air collision with US Air Force jethttps://www.reuters.com/world/americas/jetblue-flight-averts-mid-air-collision-with-us-air-force-jet-2025-12-15/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46281944Children with cancer scammed out of millions fundraised for their treatmenthttps://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgz318y8elohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46285376Umbrel – Personal Cloudhttps://umbrel.comhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46279187

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• 12.15.25 | Hashcards is a spaced repetition system, elevated errors in models, Ask HN about December 2025 projects

  This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Dec 15, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:18) - Hashcards: A plain-text spaced repetition system (01:24) - Elevated errors across many models (02:20) - Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025) (03:15) - Shai-Hulud compromised a dev machine and raided GitHub org access: a post-mortem (04:30) - Adafruit: Arduino’s Rules Are ‘Incompatible With Open Source’ (05:35) - Microsoft Copilot AI Comes to LG TVs, and Can't Be Deleted (06:38) - Roomba maker goes bankrupt, Chinese owner emerges (07:41) - JSDoc is TypeScript (08:47) - Rio de Janeiro's talipot palm trees bloom for the first and only time (09:51) - In the Beginning was the Command Line (1999) (11:02) - Outro Hashcards: A plain-text spaced repetition systemhttps://borretti.me/article/hashcards-plain-text-spaced-repetitionhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46264492Elevated errors across many modelshttps://status.claude.com/incidents/9g6qpr72ttbrhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46267385Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46264491Shai-Hulud compromised a dev machine and raided GitHub org access: a post-mortemhttps://trigger.dev/blog/shai-hulud-postmortemhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46262021Adafruit: Arduino’s Rules Are ‘Incompatible With Open Source’https://thenewstack.io/adafruit-arduinos-rules-are-incompatible-with-open-source/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46265362Microsoft Copilot AI Comes to LG TVs, and Can't Be Deletedhttps://www.techpowerup.com/344075/microsoft-copilot-ai-comes-to-lg-tvs-and-cant-be-deletedhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46268844Roomba maker goes bankrupt, Chinese owner emergeshttps://news.bloomberglaw.com/bankruptcy-law/robot-vacuum-roomba-maker-files-for-bankruptcy-after-35-yearshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46268854JSDoc is TypeScripthttps://culi.bearblog.dev/jsdoc-is-typescript/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46266102Rio de Janeiro's talipot palm trees bloom for the first and only timehttps://apnews.com/article/brazil-rio-talipot-palm-flamengo-park-dcfb1ce237af7a10ab72205fc9bbdc02https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46178966In the Beginning was the Command Line (1999)https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs81n/command.txthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46189905

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• 12.14.25 | Stranger kindness, VPN location discrepancies, improving AI programming skills

  This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Dec 14, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:17) - What is the nicest thing a stranger has ever done for you? (01:21) - VPN location claims don't match real traffic exits (02:37) - Ask HN: How can I get better at using AI for programming? (03:47) - I tried Gleam for Advent of Code (04:57) - Useful patterns for building HTML tools (06:00) - Why Twilio Segment moved from microservices back to a monolith (07:14) - Linux Sandboxes and Fil-C (08:21) - Recovering Anthony Bourdain's Li.st's (09:26) - Go Proposal: Secret Mode (10:35) - I fed 24 years of my blog posts to a Markov model (11:43) - Outro What is the nicest thing a stranger has ever done for you?https://louplummer.lol/nice-stranger/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46236001VPN location claims don't match real traffic exitshttps://ipinfo.io/blog/vpn-location-mismatch-reporthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46257339Ask HN: How can I get better at using AI for programming?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46255285I tried Gleam for Advent of Codehttps://blog.tymscar.com/posts/gleamaoc2025/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46255991Useful patterns for building HTML toolshttps://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/10/html-tools/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46223882Why Twilio Segment moved from microservices back to a monolithhttps://www.twilio.com/en-us/blog/developers/best-practices/goodbye-microserviceshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46257714Linux Sandboxes and Fil-Chttps://fil-c.org/seccomphttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46259064Recovering Anthony Bourdain's Li.st'shttps://sandyuraz.com/blogs/bourdain/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46258163Go Proposal: Secret Modehttps://antonz.org/accepted/runtime-secret/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46210705I fed 24 years of my blog posts to a Markov modelhttps://susam.net/fed-24-years-of-posts-to-markov-model.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46257607

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• 12.13.25 | Apple ID locked, macOS 26.2 fast AI clusters, OpenAI adopts skills in ChatGPT and Codex CLI

  This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Dec 13, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:20) - Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help (01:24) - macOS 26.2 enables fast AI clusters with RDMA over Thunderbolt (02:37) - OpenAI are quietly adopting skills, now available in ChatGPT and Codex CLI (03:42) - Koralm Railway (04:41) - Sick of smart TVs? Here are your best options (05:53) - Rats Play DOOM (06:47) - GNU Unifont (08:00) - String theory inspires a brilliant, baffling new math proof (09:11) - Show HN: I made a spreadsheet where formulas also update backwards (10:25) - Show HN: Tiny VM sandbox in C with apps in Rust, C and Zig (11:29) - Outro Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for helphttps://hey.paris/posts/appleid/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46252114macOS 26.2 enables fast AI clusters with RDMA over Thunderbolthttps://developer.apple.com/documentation/macos-release-notes/macos-26_2-release-notes#RDMA-over-Thunderbolthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46248644OpenAI are quietly adopting skills, now available in ChatGPT and Codex CLIhttps://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/12/openai-skills/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46250332Koralm Railwayhttps://infrastruktur.oebb.at/en/projects-for-austria/railway-lines/southern-line-vienna-villach/koralm-railwayhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46242871Sick of smart TVs? Here are your best optionshttps://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/12/the-ars-technica-guide-to-dumb-tvs/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46243655Rats Play DOOMhttps://ratsplaydoom.com/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46248323GNU Unifonthttps://unifoundry.com/unifont/index.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46248859String theory inspires a brilliant, baffling new math proofhttps://www.quantamagazine.org/string-theory-inspires-a-brilliant-baffling-new-math-proof-20251212/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46245622Show HN: I made a spreadsheet where formulas also update backwardshttps://victorpoughon.github.io/bidicalc/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46234734Show HN: Tiny VM sandbox in C with apps in Rust, C and Zighttps://github.com/ringtailsoftware/uvm32https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46249538

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• 12.12.25 | GPT-5.2 release, highest quality codebase, French supermarket's successful Christmas advert

  This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Dec 12, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:16) - GPT-5.2 (01:23) - The highest quality codebase (02:34) - French supermarket's Christmas advert is worldwide hit (without AI) [video] (03:27) - EFF launches Age Verification Hub (04:42) - Rivian Unveils Custom Silicon, R2 Lidar Roadmap, and Universal Hands Free (05:54) - Nokia N900 Necromancy (07:06) - Litestream VFS (08:16) - Craft software that makes people feel something (09:26) - Programmers and software developers lost the plot on naming their tools (10:37) - Denial of service and source code exposure in React Server Components (11:40) - Outro GPT-5.2https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-2/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46234788The highest quality codebasehttps://gricha.dev/blog/the-highest-quality-codebasehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46197930French supermarket's Christmas advert is worldwide hit (without AI) [video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Na9VmMNJvsAhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46231187EFF launches Age Verification Hubhttps://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-launches-age-verification-hub-resource-against-misguided-lawshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46223389Rivian Unveils Custom Silicon, R2 Lidar Roadmap, and Universal Hands Freehttps://riviantrackr.com/news/rivian-unveils-custom-silicon-r2-lidar-roadmap-universal-hands-free-and-its-next-gen-autonomy-platform/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46234920Nokia N900 Necromancyhttps://yaky.dev/2025-12-11-nokia-n900-necromancy/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46239177Litestream VFShttps://fly.io/blog/litestream-vfs/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46234710Craft software that makes people feel somethinghttps://rapha.land/craft-software-that-makes-people-feel-something/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46231274Programmers and software developers lost the plot on naming their toolshttps://larr.net/p/namings.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46234806Denial of service and source code exposure in React Server Componentshttps://react.dev/blog/2025/12/11/denial-of-service-and-source-code-exposure-in-react-server-componentshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46236924

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