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11:30

12.29.25 | Unprocessed photo example, China's nuclear...

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2025/12/29

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Dec 29, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:17) - What an unprocessed photo looks like (01:31) - Growing up in “404 Not Found”: China's nuclear city in the Gobi Desert (02:39) - You can make up HTML tags (03:33) - Software engineers should be a little bit cynical (04:42) - Unity's Mono problem: Why your C# code runs slower than it should (05:57) - MongoBleed

10:38

12.28.25 | Floor796, Nvidia's $20B loophole, lost...

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2025/12/28

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Dec 28, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro(00:17) - Floor796 (01:09) - Nvidia's $20B antitrust loophole (02:19) - How we lost communication to entertainment (03:25) - Replacing JavaScript with Just HTML (04:35) - Calendar (05:21) - Show HN: Ez FFmpeg – Video editing in plain English (06:26) - Gpg.fail (07:28) - Say No to Palantir in the NHS (08:32) - Janet Jackson

9:45

12.27.25 | uv's speed, Git's issues in package...

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2025/12/27

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Dec 27, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:20) - How uv got so fast (01:36) - Package managers keep using Git as a database, it never works out (02:43) - Toys with the highest play-time and lowest clean-up-time (03:43) - Show HN: Witr – Explain why a process is running on your Linux system (04:48) - The best things and stuff of 2025 (05:53) - LearnixOS (06:52)

11:39

12.26.25 | Fabrice Bellard's MicroQuickJS released,...

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2025/12/26

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Dec 26, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro(00:18) - Fabrice Bellard Releases MicroQuickJS (01:28) - We invited a man into our home at Christmas and he stayed with us for 45 years (02:35) - Maybe the default settings are too high (03:50) - I sell onions on the Internet (2019) (04:54) - The entire New Yorker archive is now digitized (05:54) - Python 3.15’s

11:12

12.25.25 | Merry Christmas, Nvidia acquires Groq for...

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2025/12/25

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Dec 25, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro(00:19) - Tell HN: Merry Christmas (01:14) - Nvidia buying AI chip startup Groq for about $20B in cash (02:25) - Phoenix: A modern X server written from scratch in Zig (03:40) - Show HN: Minimalist editor that lives in browser, stores everything in the URL (04:43) - Show HN: Vibium – Browser automation for AI and humans,

11:49

12.24.25 | Fabrice Bellard's MicroQuickJS released,...

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2025/12/24

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Dec 24, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro(00:17) - Fabrice Bellard Releases MicroQuickJS (01:19) - Some Epstein file redactions are being undone with hacks (02:22) - X-ray: a Python library for finding bad redactions in PDF documents (03:28) - We replaced H.264 streaming with JPEG screenshots (and it worked better) (04:49) - What makes you senior (06:02) - Lua

12:15

12.23.25 | Flock's AI cameras exposed online, Claude...

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2025/12/23

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Dec 23, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:17) - Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. We Tracked Ourselves (01:32) - Claude Code gets native LSP support (02:37) - The Illustrated Transformer (03:55) - GLM-4.7: Advancing the Coding Capability (05:03) - It's Always TCP_NODELAY (06:19) - NIST was 5 μs off UTC after last week's power cut (07:31) -

11:16

12.22.25 | ProtectEU's Chat Control 3.0, Hacker News...

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2025/12/22

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Dec 22, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:17) - The Going Dark initiative or ProtectEU is a Chat Control 3.0 attempt (01:23) - Show HN: Books mentioned on Hacker News in 2025 (02:25) - A guide to local coding models (03:30) - Show HN: WalletWallet – create Apple passes from anything (04:27) - I'm just having fun (05:31) - CO2 batteries that store grid energy

11:28

12.21.25 | Backing up Spotify, Jmail for Epstein...

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2025/12/21

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Dec 21, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro(00:15) - Backing up Spotify (01:23) - Show HN: Jmail – Google Suite for Epstein files (02:19) - Go ahead, self-host Postgres (03:31) - Flock and Cyble Inc. weaponize "cybercrime" takedowns to silence critics (04:31) - Log level 'error' should mean that something needs to be fixed (05:46) - Pure Silicon Demo Coding: No

10:26

12.20.25 | Garage offers reliable S3 object storage...

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2025/12/20

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

12:18

12.19.25 | ACM publications to be open access in...

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2025/12/19

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) -

11:54

12.18.25 | Gemini 3 Flash focuses on speed, AWS CEO...

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2025/12/18

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

12:05

12.17.25 | alpr.watch, GitHub Actions pricing...

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2025/12/17

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

11:46

12.16.25 | Kenyan writer contrasts style with...

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2025/12/16

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)

11:13

12.15.25 | Hashcards is a spaced repetition system,...

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2025/12/15

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

11:48

12.14.25 | Stranger kindness, VPN location...

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2025/12/14

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

11:34

12.13.25 | Apple ID locked, macOS 26.2 fast AI...

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2025/12/13

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

11:45

12.12.25 | GPT-5.2 release, highest quality codebase,...

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2025/12/12

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

11:32

12.11.25 | Life's dimensions, Australia enforces teen...

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2025/12/11

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

11:54

12.10.25 | Gemini Pro 3 imagines future HN front...

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2025/12/10

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)

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