Hacker News Highlights

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Dec 20, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:20) - Garage – An S3 object store so reliable you can run it outside datacenters (01:21) - Mistral OCR 3 (02:31) - CSS Grid Lanes (03:34) - TP-Link Tapo C200: Hardcoded Keys, Buffer Overflows and Privacy (04:45) - 8-bit Boléro (05:47) - Graphite is joining Cursor (06:46) - LLM Year in Review (08:06) - Show HN: TinyPDF – 3kb pdf library (70x smaller than jsPDF) (09:18) - Rust's Block Pattern (10:21) - Outro Garage – An S3 object store so reliable you can run it outside datacentershttps://garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46326984Mistral OCR 3https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-ocr-3https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46313390CSS Grid Laneshttps://webkit.org/blog/17660/introducing-css-grid-lanes/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46331586TP-Link Tapo C200: Hardcoded Keys, Buffer Overflows and Privacyhttps://www.evilsocket.net/2025/12/18/TP-Link-Tapo-C200-Hardcoded-Keys-Buffer-Overflows-and-Privacy-in-the-Era-of-AI-Assisted-Reverse-Engineering/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=463290388-bit Bolérohttps://linusakesson.net/music/bolero/index.phphttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46324702Graphite is joining Cursorhttps://cursor.com/blog/graphitehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46327206LLM Year in Reviewhttps://karpathy.bearblog.dev/year-in-review-2025/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46330726Show HN: TinyPDF – 3kb pdf library (70x smaller than jsPDF)https://github.com/Lulzx/tinypdfhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46316968Rust's Block Patternhttps://notgull.net/block-pattern/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46322391

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Dec 19, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:19) - Beginning January 2026, all ACM publications will be made open access (01:30) - We pwned X, Vercel, Cursor, and Discord through a supply-chain attack (02:49) - Texas is suing all of the big TV makers for spying on what you watch (04:06) - History LLMs: Models trained exclusively on pre-1913 texts (05:21) - GPT-5.2-Codex (06:26) - Firefox will have an option to disable all AI features (07:28) - 1.5 TB of VRAM on Mac Studio – RDMA over Thunderbolt 5 (08:43) - How China built its ‘Manhattan Project’ to rival the West in AI chips (09:58) - Show HN: Picknplace.js, an alternative to drag-and-drop (11:07) - Skills for organizations, partners, the ecosystem (12:12) - Outro Beginning January 2026, all ACM publications will be made open accesshttps://dl.acm.org/openaccesshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46313991We pwned X, Vercel, Cursor, and Discord through a supply-chain attackhttps://gist.github.com/hackermondev/5e2cdc32849405fff6b46957747a2d28https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46317098Texas is suing all of the big TV makers for spying on what you watchhttps://www.theverge.com/news/845400/texas-tv-makers-lawsuit-samsung-sony-lg-hisense-tcl-spyinghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46294456History LLMs: Models trained exclusively on pre-1913 textshttps://github.com/DGoettlich/history-llmshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46319826GPT-5.2-Codexhttps://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-2-codex/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46316367Firefox will have an option to disable all AI featureshttps://mastodon.social/@firefoxwebdevs/115740500373677782https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=463164091.5 TB of VRAM on Mac Studio – RDMA over Thunderbolt 5https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/15-tb-vram-on-mac-studio-rdma-over-thunderbolt-5https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46319657How China built its ‘Manhattan Project’ to rival the West in AI chipshttps://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/12/18/tech/china-west-ai-chips/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46316907Show HN: Picknplace.js, an alternative to drag-and-drophttps://jgthms.com/picknplace.js/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46290349Skills for organizations, partners, the ecosystemhttps://claude.com/blog/organization-skills-and-directoryhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46315414

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Dec 18, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:17) - Gemini 3 Flash: Frontier intelligence built for speed (01:21) - AWS CEO says replacing junior devs with AI is 'one of the dumbest ideas' (02:40) - Tell HN: HN was down (03:47) - Coursera to combine with Udemy (04:51) - Gut bacteria from amphibians and reptiles achieve tumor elimination in mice (06:10) - I got hacked: My Hetzner server started mining Monero (07:19) - A Safer Container Ecosystem with Docker: Free Docker Hardened Images (08:31) - How SQLite is tested (09:42) - OBS Studio Gets a New Renderer (10:48) - Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell (11:48) - Outro Gemini 3 Flash: Frontier intelligence built for speedhttps://blog.google/products/gemini/gemini-3-flash/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46301851AWS CEO says replacing junior devs with AI is 'one of the dumbest ideas'https://www.finalroundai.com/blog/aws-ceo-ai-cannot-replace-junior-developershttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46302267Tell HN: HN was downhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46301921Coursera to combine with Udemyhttps://investor.coursera.com/news/news-details/2025/Coursera-to-Combine-with-Udemy-to-Empower-the-Global-Workforce-with-Skills-for-the-AI-Era/default.aspxhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46301346Gut bacteria from amphibians and reptiles achieve tumor elimination in micehttps://www.jaist.ac.jp/english/whatsnew/press/2025/12/17-1.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46306894I got hacked: My Hetzner server started mining Monerohttps://blog.jakesaunders.dev/my-server-started-mining-monero-this-morning/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46305585A Safer Container Ecosystem with Docker: Free Docker Hardened Imageshttps://www.docker.com/blog/docker-hardened-images-for-every-developer/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46302337How SQLite is testedhttps://sqlite.org/testing.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46303277OBS Studio Gets a New Rendererhttps://obsproject.com/blog/obs-studio-gets-a-new-rendererhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46305428Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tellhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46307973

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Dec 17, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:17) - alpr.watch (01:32) - Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions (02:44) - No Graphics API (03:52) - AI will make formal verification go mainstream (05:13) - Announcing the Beta release of ty (06:16) - Thin desires are eating life (07:22) - Mozilla appoints new CEO Anthony Enzor-Demeo (08:24) - 40 percent of fMRI signals do not correspond to actual brain activity (09:39) - GPT Image 1.5 (10:47) - No AI* Here – A Response to Mozilla's Next Chapter (11:59) - Outro alpr.watchhttps://alpr.watch/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46290916Pricing Changes for GitHub Actionshttps://resources.github.com/actions/2026-pricing-changes-for-github-actions/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46291156No Graphics APIhttps://www.sebastianaaltonen.com/blog/no-graphics-apihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46293062AI will make formal verification go mainstreamhttps://martin.kleppmann.com/2025/12/08/ai-formal-verification.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46294574Announcing the Beta release of tyhttps://astral.sh/blog/tyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46294289Thin desires are eating lifehttps://www.joanwestenberg.com/thin-desires-are-eating-your-life/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46283276Mozilla appoints new CEO Anthony Enzor-Demeohttps://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/leadership/mozillas-next-chapter-anthony-enzor-demeo-new-ceo/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4628849140 percent of fMRI signals do not correspond to actual brain activityhttps://www.tum.de/en/news-and-events/all-news/press-releases/details/40-percent-of-mri-signals-do-not-correspond-to-actual-brain-activityhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46288415GPT Image 1.5https://openai.com/index/new-chatgpt-images-is-here/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46291941No AI* Here – A Response to Mozilla's Next Chapterhttps://www.waterfox.com/blog/no-ai-here-response-to-mozilla/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46295268

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