Hacker News Weekly

Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2025-12-27

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending December 27, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• Go ahead, self-host Postgres
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• Backing up Spotify
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• Show HN: Jmail – Google Suite for Epstein files
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• The Going Dark initiative or ProtectEU is a Chat Control 3.0 attempt
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• A guide to local coding models
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• Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. We Tracked Ourselves
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• Inside CECOT – 60 Minutes [video]
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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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• 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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• Nvidia to buy assets from Groq for $20B cash
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• Phoenix: A modern X server written from scratch in Zig
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• Tell HN: Merry Christmas
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• Ruby 4.0.0
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• We invited a man into our home at Christmas and he stayed with us for 45 years
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• Maybe the default settings are too high
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• Package managers keep using Git as a database, it never works out
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• Rob Pike goes nuclear over GenAI
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• How uv got so fast
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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2025-12-20

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending December 20, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• I'm Kenyan. I don't write like ChatGPT, ChatGPT writes like me
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• Thin desires are eating life
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• 8M users' AI conversations sold for profit by \"privacy\" extensions
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• alpr.watch
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• Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions
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• No Graphics API
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• Announcing the Beta release of ty
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• Texas is suing all of the big TV makers for spying on what you watch
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• AI will make formal verification go mainstream
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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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• Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work
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• Mistral OCR 3
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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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• History LLMs: Models trained exclusively on pre-1913 texts
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• Hacker News front page now, but the titles are honest
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• Garage – An S3 object store so reliable you can run it outside datacenters
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• CSS Grid Lanes
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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2025-12-13

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending December 13, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• GrapheneOS is the only Android OS providing full security patches
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• 4 billion if statements (2023)
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• Using LLMs at Oxide
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• I wasted years of my life in crypto
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• Icons in Menus Everywhere – Send Help
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• The highest quality codebase
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• Mistral releases Devstral2 and Mistral Vibe CLI
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• Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines 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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• 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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• Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban
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• 10 Years of Let's Encrypt
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• Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental
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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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• 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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• GPT-5.2
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• Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help
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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2025-12-06

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending December 06, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out
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• All it takes is for one to work out
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• Advent of Code 2025
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• Search tool that only returns content created before ChatGPT's public release
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• India orders smartphone makers to preload state-owned cyber safety app
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• DeepSeek-v3.2: Pushing the frontier of open large language models [pdf]
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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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• IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending on AI data centers will pay off
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• Valve reveals it’s the architect behind a push to bring Windows games to Arm
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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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• 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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• Cloudflare is down
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• Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros
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• Cloudflare outage on December 5, 2025
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