Hacker News Highlights

• 12.11.25 | Life's dimensions, Australia enforces teen social media ban, Valve reports HDMI Forum blocks HDMI 2.1 for Linux

  This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Dec 11, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:17) - Size of Life (01:17) - Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban (02:24) - Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux (03:34) - Getting a Gemini API key is an exercise in frustration (04:42) - Auto-grading decade-old Hacker News discussions with hindsight (05:53) - Rubio stages font coup: Times New Roman ousts Calibri (07:07) - Patterns.dev (07:59) - Qwen3-Omni-Flash-2025-12-01：a next-generation native multimodal large model (09:11) - How Google Maps allocates survival across London's restaurants (10:17) - Is it a bubble? (11:26) - Outro Size of Lifehttps://neal.fun/size-of-life/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46219346Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media banhttps://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/australia-social-media-ban-takes-effect-world-first-2025-12-09/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46208348Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linuxhttps://www.heise.de/en/news/Valve-HDMI-Forum-Continues-to-Block-HDMI-2-1-for-Linux-11107440.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46220488Getting a Gemini API key is an exercise in frustrationhttps://ankursethi.com/blog/gemini-api-key-frustration/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46223311Auto-grading decade-old Hacker News discussions with hindsighthttps://karpathy.bearblog.dev/auto-grade-hn/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46220540Rubio stages font coup: Times New Roman ousts Calibrihttps://www.reuters.com/world/us/rubio-stages-font-coup-times-new-roman-ousts-calibri-2025-12-09/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46212438Patterns.devhttps://www.patterns.dev/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46226483Qwen3-Omni-Flash-2025-12-01：a next-generation native multimodal large modelhttps://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3-omni-flash-20251201https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46219538How Google Maps allocates survival across London's restaurantshttps://laurenleek.substack.com/p/how-google-maps-quietly-allocateshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46203343Is it a bubble?https://www.oaktreecapital.com/insights/memo/is-it-a-bubblehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46220640

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• 12.10.25 | Gemini Pro 3 imagines future HN front page, Let's Encrypt celebrates 10 years, Mistral launches Devstral2 and Vibe CLI

  This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Dec 10, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:20) - Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 hallucinates the HN front page 10 years from now (01:25) - 10 Years of Let's Encrypt (02:45) - Mistral releases Devstral2 and Mistral Vibe CLI (04:01) - Handsdown one of the coolest 3D websites (05:06) - PeerTube is recognized as a digital public good by Digital Public Goods Alliance (06:12) - Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental (07:16) - Pebble Index 01 – External memory for your brain (08:23) - If you're going to vibe code, why not do it in C? (09:39) - Django: what’s new in 6.0 (10:44) - Donating the Model Context Protocol and establishing the Agentic AI Foundation (11:48) - Outro Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 hallucinates the HN front page 10 years from nowhttps://dosaygo-studio.github.io/hn-front-page-2035/newshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4620563210 Years of Let's Encrypthttps://letsencrypt.org/2025/12/09/10-yearshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46208962Mistral releases Devstral2 and Mistral Vibe CLIhttps://mistral.ai/news/devstral-2-vibe-clihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46205437Handsdown one of the coolest 3D websiteshttps://bruno-simon.com/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46206531PeerTube is recognized as a digital public good by Digital Public Goods Alliancehttps://www.digitalpublicgoods.net/r/peertubehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46207464Rust in the kernel is no longer experimentalhttps://lwn.net/Articles/1049831/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46213585Pebble Index 01 – External memory for your brainhttps://repebble.com/blog/meet-pebble-index-01-external-memory-for-your-brainhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46205661If you're going to vibe code, why not do it in C?https://stephenramsay.net/posts/vibe-coding.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46207505Django: what’s new in 6.0https://adamj.eu/tech/2025/12/03/django-whats-new-6.0/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46210240Donating the Model Context Protocol and establishing the Agentic AI Foundationhttps://www.anthropic.com/news/donating-the-model-context-protocol-and-establishing-of-the-agentic-ai-foundationhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46207425

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• 12.9.25 | Icons in menus, AI progress steady, IBM acquires Confluent

  This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Dec 9, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:20) - Icons in Menus Everywhere – Send Help (01:28) - Horses: AI progress is steady. Human equivalence is sudden (02:44) - IBM to acquire Confluent (03:54) - Microsoft increases Office 365 and Microsoft 365 license prices (05:12) - Jepsen: NATS 2.12.1 (06:20) - Paramount launches hostile bid for Warner Bros (07:33) - Strong earthquake hits northern Japan, tsunami warning issued (08:34) - Let's put Tailscale on a jailbroken Kindle (09:41) - The universal weight subspace hypothesis (10:56) - Has the cost of building software dropped 90%? (12:16) - Outro Icons in Menus Everywhere – Send Helphttps://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/icons-in-menus/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46196688Horses: AI progress is steady. Human equivalence is suddenhttps://andyljones.com/posts/horses.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46199723IBM to acquire Confluenthttps://www.confluent.io/blog/ibm-to-acquire-confluent/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46192130Microsoft increases Office 365 and Microsoft 365 license priceshttps://office365itpros.com/2025/12/08/microsoft-365-pricing-increase/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46192186Jepsen: NATS 2.12.1https://jepsen.io/analyses/nats-2.12.1https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46196105Paramount launches hostile bid for Warner Broshttps://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/08/paramount-skydance-hostile-bid-wbd-netflix.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46192459Strong earthquake hits northern Japan, tsunami warning issuedhttps://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20251209_02/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46192846Let's put Tailscale on a jailbroken Kindlehttps://tailscale.com/blog/tailscale-jailbroken-kindlehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46194337The universal weight subspace hypothesishttps://arxiv.org/abs/2512.05117https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46199623Has the cost of building software dropped 90%?https://martinalderson.com/posts/has-the-cost-of-software-just-dropped-90-percent/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46196228

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• 12.8.25 | Google Titans architecture enhances AI memory, failed attempt to recreate 1996 Space Jam website, dollar-stores overcharge despite low price promises

  This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Dec 8, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:21) - Google Titans architecture, helping AI have long-term memory (01:33) - I failed to recreate the 1996 Space Jam website with Claude (02:46) - Dollar-stores overcharge customers while promising low prices (04:01) - The C++ standard for the F-35 Fighter Jet [video] (05:10) - I wasted years of my life in crypto (06:15) - The Anatomy of a macOS App (07:27) - Scala 3 slowed us down? (08:35) - How I block all online ads (09:42) - An Interactive Guide to the Fourier Transform (10:49) - Turtletoy (11:44) - Outro Google Titans architecture, helping AI have long-term memoryhttps://research.google/blog/titans-miras-helping-ai-have-long-term-memory/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46181231I failed to recreate the 1996 Space Jam website with Claudehttps://j0nah.com/i-failed-to-recreate-the-1996-space-jam-website-with-claude/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46183294Dollar-stores overcharge customers while promising low priceshttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/03/customers-pay-more-rising-dollar-store-costshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46181962The C++ standard for the F-35 Fighter Jet [video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gv4sDL9Ljwwhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46183657I wasted years of my life in cryptohttps://twitter.com/kenchangh/status/1994854381267947640https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46181371The Anatomy of a macOS Apphttps://eclecticlight.co/2025/12/04/the-anatomy-of-a-macos-app/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46181268Scala 3 slowed us down?https://kmaliszewski9.github.io/scala/2025/12/07/scala3-slowdown.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46182202How I block all online adshttps://troubled.engineer/posts/no-ads/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46185816An Interactive Guide to the Fourier Transformhttps://betterexplained.com/articles/an-interactive-guide-to-the-fourier-transform/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46118358Turtletoyhttps://turtletoy.net/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46138459

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• 12.7.25 | GrapheneOS offers complete security patches, Tiny Core Linux is a 23 MB graphical distro, LLMs utilized at Oxide

  This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Dec 7, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:16) - GrapheneOS is the only Android OS providing full security patches (01:29) - Tiny Core Linux: a 23 MB Linux distro with graphical desktop (02:38) - Using LLMs at Oxide (03:57) - Kilauea erupts, destroying webcam [video] (04:53) - Z-Image: Powerful and highly efficient image generation model with 6B parameters (05:54) - Screenshots from developers: 2002 vs. 2015 (2015) (07:06) - Autism's confusing cousins (08:19) - Perl's decline was cultural (09:31) - HTML as an Accessible Format for Papers (2023) (10:41) - The unexpected effectiveness of one-shot decompilation with Claude (11:48) - Outro GrapheneOS is the only Android OS providing full security patcheshttps://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/115647408229616018https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46173407Tiny Core Linux: a 23 MB Linux distro with graphical desktophttp://www.tinycorelinux.net/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46173547Using LLMs at Oxidehttps://rfd.shared.oxide.computer/rfd/0576https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46178347Kilauea erupts, destroying webcam [video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TK2N99BDw7Ahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46177645Z-Image: Powerful and highly efficient image generation model with 6B parametershttps://github.com/Tongyi-MAI/Z-Imagehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46095817Screenshots from developers: 2002 vs. 2015 (2015)https://anders.unix.se/2015/12/10/screenshots-from-developers--2002-vs.-2015/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46176905Autism's confusing cousinshttps://www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/autisms-confusing-cousinshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46172443Perl's decline was culturalhttps://www.beatworm.co.uk/blog/computers/perls-decline-was-cultural-not-technicalhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46175112HTML as an Accessible Format for Papers (2023)https://info.arxiv.org/about/accessible_HTML.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46173825The unexpected effectiveness of one-shot decompilation with Claudehttps://blog.chrislewis.au/the-unexpected-effectiveness-of-one-shot-decompilation-with-claude/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46080498

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