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Daily Hacker News for 2025-12-24

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 24, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• What makes you senior
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• Lua 5.5
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• iOS 26.3 brings AirPods-like pairing to third-party devices in EU under DMA
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• 10 years bootstrapped: €6.5M revenue with a team of 13
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• We replaced H.264 streaming with JPEG screenshots (and it worked better)
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• Some Epstein file redactions are being undone
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• X-ray: a Python library for finding bad redactions in PDF documents
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• Texas app store age verification law blocked by federal judge
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• Unifi Travel Router
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• Nvidia buying AI chip startup Groq for about $20B in cash
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-12-23

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 23, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Adobe Photoshop 1.0 Source Code (1990)
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• Claude Code gets native LSP support
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• Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. We Tracked Ourselves
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• GLM-4.7: Advancing the Coding Capability
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• The Illustrated Transformer
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• It's Always TCP_NODELAY
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• Inside CECOT – 60 Minutes [video]
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• Instant database clones with PostgreSQL 18
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• Meta is using the Linux scheduler designed for Valve's Steam Deck on its servers
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• Fabrice Bellard Releases MicroQuickJS
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-12-22

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 22, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• I'm just having fun
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• Deliberate Internet Shutdowns
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• CO2 batteries that store grid energy take off globally
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• Show HN: WalletWallet – create Apple passes from anything
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• You’re not burnt out, you’re existentially starving
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• I can't upgrade to Windows 11, now leave me alone
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• A guide to local coding models
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• If you don't design your career, someone else will (2014)
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• Jimmy Lai Is a Martyr for Freedom
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• US blocks all offshore wind construction, says reason is classified
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-12-21

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 21, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Gemini 3 Pro vs. 2.5 Pro in Pokemon Crystal
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• Log level 'error' should mean that something needs to be fixed
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• Pure Silicon Demo Coding: No CPU, No Memory, Just 4k Gates
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• Ireland’s Diarmuid Early wins world Microsoft Excel title
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• Show HN: Jmail – Google Suite for Epstein files
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• Flock and Cyble Inc. weaponize “cybercrime” takedowns to silence critics
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• Ruby website redesigned
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• Show HN: Books mentioned on Hacker News in 2025
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• Logging Sucks
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• The Going Dark initiative or ProtectEU is a Chat Control 3.0 attempt
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-12-20

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 20, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Mistral OCR 3
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• Garage – An S3 object store so reliable you can run it outside datacenters
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• TP-Link Tapo C200: Hardcoded Keys, Buffer Overflows and Privacy
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• LLM Year in Review
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• CSS Grid Lanes
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• Privacy doesn't mean anything anymore, anonymity does
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• NTP at NIST Boulder Has Lost Power
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• Airbus to migrate critical apps to a sovereign Euro cloud
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• Go ahead, self-host Postgres
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• Backing Up Spotify
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-12-19

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 19, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Texas is suing all of the big TV makers for spying on what you watch
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• GPT-5.2-Codex
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• Firefox will have an option to disable all AI features
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• How China built its ‘Manhattan Project’ to rival the West in AI chips
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• 1.5 TB of VRAM on Mac Studio – RDMA over Thunderbolt 5
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• History LLMs: Models trained exclusively on pre-1913 texts
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• Noclip.website – A digital museum of video game levels
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• Amazon will allow ePub and PDF downloads for DRM-free eBooks
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• GotaTun – Mullvad's WireGuard Implementation in Rust
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• Hacker News front page now, but the titles are honest
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-12-18

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 18, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Coursera to combine with Udemy
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• Tell HN: HN was down
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• I got hacked: My Hetzner server started mining Monero
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• Gut bacteria from amphibians and reptiles achieve tumor elimination in mice
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• Classical statues were not painted horribly
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• Please just try HTMX
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• Are Apple gift cards safe to redeem?
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• Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work
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• Beginning January 2026, all ACM publications will be made open access
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• We pwned X, Vercel, Cursor, and Discord through a supply-chain attack
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-12-17

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 17, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Thin desires are eating life
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• Mozilla appoints new CEO Anthony Enzor-Demeo
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• GPT Image 1.5
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• No Graphics API
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• Announcing the Beta release of ty
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• AI will make formal verification go mainstream
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• No AI* Here – A Response to Mozilla's Next Chapter
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• Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself?
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• Gemini 3 Flash: Frontier intelligence built for speed
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• AWS CEO says replacing junior devs with AI is 'one of the dumbest ideas'
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-12-16

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 16, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• “Are you the one?” is free money
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• Secret Documents Show Pepsi and Walmart Colluded to Raise Food Prices
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• Quill OS: An open-source OS for Kobo's eReaders
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• 8M users' AI conversations sold for profit by \"privacy\" extensions
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• SHARP, an approach to photorealistic view synthesis from a single image
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• Children with cancer scammed out of millions fundraised for their treatment
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• This is not the future
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• alpr.watch
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• Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions
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• GitHub will begin charging for self-hosted action runners on March 2026
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-12-15

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 15, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)
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• Hashcards: A plain-text spaced repetition system
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• Adafruit: Arduino’s Rules Are ‘Incompatible With Open Source’
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• If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes?
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• Roomba maker goes bankrupt, Chinese owner emerges
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• I'm Kenyan. I don't write like ChatGPT, ChatGPT writes like me
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• Carrier Landing in Top Gun for the NES
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• Thousands of U.S. farmers have Parkinson's. They blame a deadly pesticide
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• Pro-democracy HK tycoon Jimmy Lai convicted in national security trial
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• “Super secure” messaging app leaks everyone's phone number
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-12-14

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 14, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Using e-ink tablet as monitor for Linux
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• Useful patterns for building HTML tools
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• Ask HN: How can I get better at using AI for programming?
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• I tried Gleam for Advent of Code
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• VPN location claims don't match real traffic exits
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• I fed 24 years of my blog posts to a Markov model
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• Why Twilio Segment moved from microservices back to a monolith
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• Recovering Anthony Bourdain's Li.st's
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• Linux Sandboxes and Fil-C
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• Europeans' health data sold to US firm run by ex-Israeli spies
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-12-13

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 13, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Show HN: I made a spreadsheet where formulas also update backwards
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• What is the nicest thing a stranger has ever done for you?
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• Koralm Railway
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• Sick of smart TVs? Here are your best options
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• SQLite JSON at full index speed using generated columns
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• Rats Play DOOM
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• macOS 26.2 enables fast AI clusters with RDMA over Thunderbolt
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• GNU Unifont
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• OpenAI are quietly adopting skills, now available in ChatGPT and Codex CLI
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• Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-12-12

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 12, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• 4 billion if statements (2023)
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• EFF launches Age Verification Hub
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• French supermarket's Christmas advert is worldwide hit (without AI) [video]
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• Litestream VFS
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• Programmers and software developers lost the plot on naming their tools
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• Rivian Unveils Custom Silicon, R2 Lidar Roadmap, and Universal Hands Free
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• UK House of Lords attempting to ban use of VPNs by anyone under 16
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• Nokia N900 Necromancy
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• Google de-indexed Bear Blog and I don't know why
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• Epic celebrates \"the end of the Apple Tax\" after court win in iOS payments case
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-12-11

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 11, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• The highest quality codebase
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• How Google Maps allocates survival across London's restaurants
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• Rubio stages font coup: Times New Roman ousts Calibri
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• Qwen3-Omni-Flash-2025-12-01：a next-generation native multimodal large model
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• Auto-grading decade-old Hacker News discussions with hindsight
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• Getting a Gemini API key is an exercise in frustration
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• Patterns.dev
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• Disney making $1B investment in OpenAI, will allow characters on Sora AI
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• iPhone Typos? It's Not Just You – The iOS Keyboard Is Broken [video]
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• GPT-5.2
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-12-10

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 10, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Pebble Index 01 – External memory for your brain
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• Bruno Simon – 3D Portfolio
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• PeerTube is recognized as a digital public good by Digital Public Goods Alliance
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• If you're going to vibe code, why not do it in C?
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• Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban
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• Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental
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• Israel used Palantir technologies in pager attack in Lebanon
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• In New York City, congestion pricing leads to marked drop in pollution
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• Size of Life
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• Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-12-09

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 09, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• LLM from scratch, part 28 – training a base model from scratch on an RTX 3090
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• Microsoft increases Office 365 and Microsoft 365 license prices
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• Jepsen: NATS 2.12.1
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• Has the cost of building software dropped 90%?
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• Icons in Menus Everywhere – Send Help
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• Horses: AI progress is steady. Human equivalence is sudden
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• Mistral Releases Devstral 2 (72.2% SWE-Bench Verified) and Vibe CLI
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• Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 hallucinates the HN front page 10 years from now
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• Ask HN: Should \"I asked $AI, and it said\" replies be forbidden in HN guidelines?
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• 10 Years of Let's Encrypt
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-12-08

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 08, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Turtletoy
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• I wasted years of my life in crypto
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• Dollar-stores overcharge customers while promising low prices
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• I failed to recreate the 1996 Space Jam website with Claude
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• The C++ standard for the F-35 Fighter Jet [video]
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• Bag of words, have mercy on us
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• GitHub Actions has a package manager, and it might be the worst
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• The fuck off contact page
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• IBM to acquire Confluent
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• Microsoft has a problem: lack of demand for its AI products
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-12-07

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 07, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Z-Image: Powerful and highly efficient image generation model with 6B parameters
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• Perl's decline was cultural
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• The past was not that cute
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• Screenshots from developers: 2002 vs. 2015 (2015)
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• Kilauea erupts, destroying webcam [video]
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• Using LLMs at Oxide
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• Z2 – Lithographically fabricated IC in a garage fab
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• Google Titans architecture, helping AI have long-term memory
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• Over fifty new hallucinations in ICLR 2026 submissions
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• The state of Schleswig-Holstein is consistently relying on open source
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-12-06

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 06, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Self-hosting my photos with Immich
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• UniFi 5G
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• Most technical problems are people problems
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• Gemini 3 Pro: the frontier of vision AI
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• Leaving Intel
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• YouTube caught making AI-edits to videos and adding misleading AI summaries
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• Schizophrenia sufferer mistakes smart fridge ad for psychotic episode
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• How I discovered a hidden microphone on a Chinese NanoKVM
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• GrapheneOS is the only Android OS providing full security patches
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• Tiny Core Linux: a 23 MB Linux distro with graphical desktop
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-12-05

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 05, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• I ignore the spotlight as a staff engineer
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• Transparent leadership beats servant leadership
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• Microsoft drops AI sales targets in half after salespeople miss their quotas
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• Thoughts on Go vs. Rust vs. Zig
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• Netflix’s AV1 Journey: From Android to TVs and Beyond
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• BMW PHEV: Safety fuse replacement is extremely expensive
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• Cloudflare is down
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• The US polluters that are rewriting the EU's human rights and climate law
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• Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros
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• Cloudflare outage on December 5, 2025
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-12-04

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 04, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Valve reveals it’s the architect behind a push to bring Windows games to Arm
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• RCE Vulnerability in React and Next.js
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• 1D Conway's Life glider found, 3.7B cells long
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• Micron Announces Exit from Crucial Consumer Business
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• Average DRAM price in USD over last 18 months
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• How elites could shape mass preferences as AI reduces persuasion costs
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• It’s time to free JavaScript (2024)
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• Unreal Tournament 2004 is back
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• PGlite – Embeddable Postgres
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• Why are 38 percent of Stanford students saying they're disabled?
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-12-03

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 03, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Advent of Compiler Optimisations 2025
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• IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending on AI data centers will pay off
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• Paged Out
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• Accepting US car standards would risk European lives
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• Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service
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• “Captain Gains” on Capitol Hill
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• MinIO is now in maintenance-mode
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• Reverse engineering a $1B Legal AI tool exposed 100k+ confidential files
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• Ghostty is now non-profit
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• Everyone in Seattle hates AI
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-12-02

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 02, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Learning music with Strudel
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• I designed and printed a custom nose guard to help my dog with DLE
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• Google unkills JPEG XL?
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• Ghostty compiled to WASM with xterm.js API compatibility
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• Last Week on My Mac: Losing confidence
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• What will enter the public domain in 2026?
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• Apple Releases Open Weights Video Model
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• OpenAI declares 'code red' as Google catches up in AI race
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• Mistral 3 family of models released
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• Anthropic acquires Bun
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-12-01

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 01, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Migrating Dillo from GitHub
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• Writing a good Claude.md
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• A Love Letter to FreeBSD
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• Algorithms for Optimization [pdf]
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• Search tool that only returns content created before ChatGPT's public release
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• Google Antigravity just deleted the contents of whole drive
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• It’s been a very hard year
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• India orders smartphone makers to preload state-owned cyber safety app
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• Why xor eax, eax?
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• DeepSeek-v3.2: Pushing the frontier of open large language models [pdf]
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-11-30

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on November 30, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Datacenters in space aren't going to work
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• Be Like Clippy
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• All it takes is for one to work out
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• Bazzite: The next generation of Linux gaming
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• Americans no longer see four-year college degrees as worth the cost
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• Show HN: Boing
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• Zigbook Is Plagiarizing the Zigtools Playground
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• Advent of Code 2025
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• Windows drive letters are not limited to A-Z
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• Don't push AI down our throats
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