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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)

12:22

12.9.25 | Icons in menus, AI progress steady, IBM...

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2025/12/09

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) -

11:55

12.8.25 | Google Titans architecture enhances AI...

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2025/12/08

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

11:54

12.7.25 | GrapheneOS offers complete security...

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2025/12/07

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

11:34

12.6.25 | Netflix acquires Warner Bros, Cloudflare...

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2025/12/06

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Dec 6, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:16) - Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros (01:18) - Cloudflare outage on December 5, 2025 (02:29) - Gemini 3 Pro: the frontier of vision AI (03:38) - Self-hosting my photos with Immich (04:48) - YouTube caught making AI-edits to videos and adding misleading AI summaries (05:55) - Patterns for Defensive Programming in

11:07

12.5.25 | Cloudflare outage, Stanford students'...

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2025/12/05

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Dec 5, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro(00:18) - Cloudflare is down (01:23) - Why are 38 percent of Stanford students saying they're disabled? (02:44) - How elites could shape mass preferences as AI reduces persuasion costs (03:59) - I ignore the spotlight as a staff engineer (05:14) - Transparent leadership beats servant leadership (06:24) - Thoughts on Go vs

11:40

12.4.25 | Ghostty becomes non-profit, Seattle's...

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2025/12/04

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Dec 4, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro(00:18) - Ghostty is now non-profit (01:24) - Everyone in Seattle hates AI (02:43) - Valve reveals it’s the architect behind a push to bring Windows games to Arm (03:56) - Reverse engineering a $1B Legal AI tool exposed 100k+ confidential files (05:13) - Micron Announces Exit from Crucial Consumer Business (06:24) - RCE

12:07

12.3.25 | Anthropic acquires Bun, OpenAI issues 'code...

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2025/12/03

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Dec 3, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro(00:23) - Anthropic acquires Bun (01:33) - OpenAI declares 'code red' as Google catches up in AI race (02:42) - IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending on AI data centers will pay off (04:02) - I designed and printed a custom nose guard to help my dog with DLE (05:08) - Accepting US car standards would risk European

10:48

12.2.25 | DeepSeek-v3.2 advances open language...

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2025/12/02

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Dec 2, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro(00:21) - DeepSeek-v3.2: Pushing the frontier of open large language models [pdf] (01:42) - India orders smartphone makers to preload state-owned cyber safety app (02:48) - Ghostty compiled to WASM with xterm.js API compatibility (03:47) - Google unkills JPEG XL? (05:03) - What will enter the public domain in 2026? (06:10)

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