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Browse 193 retained Hacker News discussion records from December 2025, with reading status and captured HN facts shown for every entry.

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  1. 2025: The Year in LLMs31 Dec 2025 · 940 points · 599 commentsPartial reading withheld
  2. Warren Buffett steps down as Berkshire Hathaway CEO after six decades31 Dec 2025 · 724 points · 588 commentsPartial reading withheld
  3. I canceled my book deal31 Dec 2025 · 614 points · 363 commentsPartial reading withheld
  4. Stardew Valley developer made a $125k donation to the FOSS C# framework MonoGame31 Dec 2025 · 587 points · 254 commentsPartial reading withheld
  5. Efficient method to capture carbon dioxide from the atmosphere31 Dec 2025 · 284 points · 333 commentsPartial reading withheld
  6. Show HN: 22 GB of Hacker News in SQLite30 Dec 2025 · 730 points · 221 commentsPartial reading withheld
  7. Times New American: A Tale of Two Fonts30 Dec 2025 · 289 points · 178 commentsPartial reading withheld
  8. Netflix Open Content30 Dec 2025 · 667 points · 135 commentsPartial reading withheld
  9. Google is dead. Where do we go now?29 Dec 2025 · 1,046 points · 838 commentsPartial reading withheld
  10. All Delisted Steam Games29 Dec 2025 · 275 points · 138 commentsPartial reading withheld
  11. Tesla’s 4680 battery supply chain collapses as partner writes down deal by 99%29 Dec 2025 · 672 points · 804 commentsPartial reading withheld
  12. Five Years of Tinygrad29 Dec 2025 · 278 points · 163 commentsPartial reading withheld
  13. GOG is getting acquired by its original co-founder29 Dec 2025 · 871 points · 559 commentsPartial reading withheld
  14. Show HN: Vibe coding a bookshelf with Claude Code29 Dec 2025 · 284 points · 210 commentsPartial reading withheld
  15. Kidnapped by Deutsche Bahn29 Dec 2025 · 1,187 points · 1,031 commentsPartial reading withheld
  16. You can make up HTML tags29 Dec 2025 · 584 points · 190 commentsPartial reading withheld
  17. What an unprocessed photo looks like28 Dec 2025 · 2,510 points · 409 commentsPartial reading withheld
  18. Unity's Mono problem: C# code runs slower than it should28 Dec 2025 · 279 points · 181 commentsPartial reading withheld
  19. Stepping down as Mockito maintainer after ten years28 Dec 2025 · 283 points · 214 commentsPartial reading withheld
  20. Building a macOS app to know when my Mac is thermal throttling28 Dec 2025 · 289 points · 118 commentsPartial reading withheld
  21. Growing up in “404 Not Found”: China's nuclear city in the Gobi Desert28 Dec 2025 · 810 points · 369 commentsPartial reading withheld
  22. Calendar28 Dec 2025 · 1,108 points · 133 commentsPartial reading withheld
  23. Replacing JavaScript with Just HTML28 Dec 2025 · 748 points · 285 commentsPartial reading withheld
  24. Say No to Palantir in the NHS27 Dec 2025 · 602 points · 226 commentsPartial reading withheld
  25. Story 4640518327 Dec 2025 · 271 pointsPartial reading withheld
  26. How we lost communication to entertainment27 Dec 2025 · 701 points · 397 commentsPartial reading withheld
  27. Rainbow Six Siege hacked as players get billions of credits and random bans27 Dec 2025 · 284 points · 150 commentsPartial reading withheld
  28. USD share as global reserve currency drops to lowest since 199427 Dec 2025 · 283 points · 301 commentsPartial reading withheld
  29. Employee commits suicide after MongoDB fired her during mental health leave27 Dec 2025 · 283 points · 96 commentsPartial reading withheld
  30. Floor79627 Dec 2025 · 1,066 points · 119 commentsPartial reading withheld
  31. QNX Self-Hosted Developer Desktop27 Dec 2025 · 276 points · 169 commentsPartial reading withheld
  32. How uv got so fast26 Dec 2025 · 1,290 points · 459 commentsPartial reading withheld
  33. Rob Pike goes nuclear over GenAI26 Dec 2025 · 1,550 points · 1,797 commentsPartial reading withheld
  34. LearnixOS26 Dec 2025 · 273 points · 109 commentsPartial reading withheld
  35. Package managers keep using Git as a database, it never works out26 Dec 2025 · 784 points · 465 commentsPartial reading withheld
  36. Maybe the default settings are too high25 Dec 2025 · 937 points · 321 commentsPartial reading withheld
  37. Ask HN: What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2026?25 Dec 2025 · 272 points · 416 commentsPartial reading withheld
  38. We invited a man into our home at Christmas and he stayed with us for 45 years25 Dec 2025 · 1,178 points · 282 commentsPartial reading withheld
  39. Ruby 4.0.025 Dec 2025 · 758 points · 191 commentsPartial reading withheld
  40. Tell HN: Merry Christmas24 Dec 2025 · 1,958 points · 429 commentsPartial reading withheld
  41. Phoenix: A modern X server written from scratch in Zig24 Dec 2025 · 674 points · 435 commentsPartial reading withheld
  42. Nvidia to buy assets from Groq for $20B cash24 Dec 2025 · 699 points · 404 commentsPartial reading withheld
  43. X-ray: a Python library for finding bad redactions in PDF documents23 Dec 2025 · 709 points · 122 commentsPartial reading withheld
  44. Some Epstein file redactions are being undone23 Dec 2025 · 1,029 points · 780 commentsPartial reading withheld
  45. Fabrice Bellard Releases MicroQuickJS23 Dec 2025 · 1,507 points · 569 commentsPartial reading withheld
  46. Meta is using the Linux scheduler designed for Valve's Steam Deck on its servers23 Dec 2025 · 701 points · 392 commentsPartial reading withheld
  47. Inside CECOT – 60 Minutes [video]23 Dec 2025 · 1,679 points · 549 commentsPartial reading withheld
  48. US blocks all offshore wind construction, says reason is classified22 Dec 2025 · 612 points · 520 commentsPartial reading withheld
  49. The Garbage Collection Handbook22 Dec 2025 · 284 points · 55 commentsPartial reading withheld
  50. Benn Jordan – This Flock Camera Leak Is Like Netflix for Stalkers [video]22 Dec 2025 · 270 points · 4 commentsPartial reading withheld
  51. Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. We Tracked Ourselves22 Dec 2025 · 827 points · 471 commentsPartial reading withheld
  52. One year of keeping a tada list22 Dec 2025 · 273 points · 84 commentsPartial reading withheld
  53. The biggest CRT ever made: Sony's PVM-430022 Dec 2025 · 281 points · 186 commentsPartial reading withheld
  54. Disney Imagineering Debuts Next-Generation Robotic Character, Olaf21 Dec 2025 · 280 points · 143 commentsPartial reading withheld
  55. A guide to local coding models21 Dec 2025 · 607 points · 351 commentsPartial reading withheld
  56. The Going Dark initiative or ProtectEU is a Chat Control 3.0 attempt21 Dec 2025 · 648 points · 283 commentsPartial reading withheld
  57. Logging sucks21 Dec 2025 · 585 points · 223 commentsPartial reading withheld
  58. Autoland saves King Air, everyone reported safe21 Dec 2025 · 283 points · 185 commentsPartial reading withheld
  59. Show HN: Books mentioned on Hacker News in 202521 Dec 2025 · 613 points · 212 commentsPartial reading withheld
  60. Flock and Cyble Inc. weaponize “cybercrime” takedowns to silence critics21 Dec 2025 · 604 points · 120 commentsPartial reading withheld
  61. Show HN: Jmail – Google Suite for Epstein files20 Dec 2025 · 1,557 points · 363 commentsPartial reading withheld
  62. Backing up Spotify20 Dec 2025 · 1,980 points · 701 commentsPartial reading withheld
  63. Big GPUs don't need big PCs20 Dec 2025 · 285 points · 123 commentsPartial reading withheld
  64. Go ahead, self-host Postgres20 Dec 2025 · 683 points · 396 commentsPartial reading withheld
  65. CSS Grid Lanes19 Dec 2025 · 754 points · 229 commentsPartial reading withheld
  66. Graphite is joining Cursor19 Dec 2025 · 276 points · 253 commentsPartial reading withheld
  67. Show HN: Exploring Mathematics with Python19 Dec 2025 · 268 points · 29 commentsPartial reading withheld
  68. Garage – An S3 object store so reliable you can run it outside datacenters19 Dec 2025 · 722 points · 182 commentsPartial reading withheld
  69. Hacker News front page now, but the titles are honest19 Dec 2025 · 1,384 points · 321 commentsPartial reading withheld
  70. GotaTun – Mullvad's WireGuard Implementation in Rust19 Dec 2025 · 632 points · 131 commentsPartial reading withheld
  71. Amazon will allow ePub and PDF downloads for DRM-free eBooks19 Dec 2025 · 634 points · 339 commentsPartial reading withheld
  72. History LLMs: Models trained exclusively on pre-1913 texts18 Dec 2025 · 897 points · 421 commentsPartial reading withheld
  73. 1.5 TB of VRAM on Mac Studio – RDMA over Thunderbolt 518 Dec 2025 · 617 points · 228 commentsPartial reading withheld
  74. We pwned X, Vercel, Cursor, and Discord through a supply-chain attack18 Dec 2025 · 1,167 points · 433 commentsPartial reading withheld
  75. Firefox will have an option to disable all AI features18 Dec 2025 · 586 points · 546 commentsPartial reading withheld
  76. GPT-5.2-Codex18 Dec 2025 · 589 points · 318 commentsPartial reading withheld
  77. Skills for organizations, partners, the ecosystem18 Dec 2025 · 289 points · 170 commentsPartial reading withheld
  78. Beginning January 2026, all ACM publications will be made open access18 Dec 2025 · 2,031 points · 239 commentsPartial reading withheld
  79. Mistral OCR 318 Dec 2025 · 694 points · 130 commentsPartial reading withheld
  80. Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work18 Dec 2025 · 859 points · 658 commentsPartial reading withheld
  81. Are Apple gift cards safe to redeem?18 Dec 2025 · 562 points · 467 commentsPartial reading withheld
  82. Please just try HTMX18 Dec 2025 · 616 points · 515 commentsPartial reading withheld
  83. Classical statues were not painted horribly18 Dec 2025 · 631 points · 332 commentsPartial reading withheld
  84. How getting richer made teenagers less free18 Dec 2025 · 272 points · 330 commentsPartial reading withheld
  85. I got hacked: My Hetzner server started mining Monero17 Dec 2025 · 606 points · 412 commentsPartial reading withheld
  86. AWS CEO says replacing junior devs with AI is 'one of the dumbest ideas'17 Dec 2025 · 1,073 points · 532 commentsPartial reading withheld
  87. Tell HN: HN was down17 Dec 2025 · 599 points · 327 commentsPartial reading withheld
  88. Gemini 3 Flash: Frontier intelligence built for speed17 Dec 2025 · 1,102 points · 580 commentsPartial reading withheld
  89. Coursera to combine with Udemy17 Dec 2025 · 588 points · 377 commentsPartial reading withheld
  90. Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself?17 Dec 2025 · 933 points · 821 commentsPartial reading withheld
  91. I ported JustHTML from Python to JavaScript with Codex CLI and GPT-5.2 in hours16 Dec 2025 · 278 points · 145 commentsPartial reading withheld
  92. No AI* Here – A Response to Mozilla's Next Chapter16 Dec 2025 · 564 points · 329 commentsPartial reading withheld
  93. MIT professor shot at his Massachusetts home dies16 Dec 2025 · 270 points · 216 commentsPartial reading withheld
  94. AI will make formal verification go mainstream16 Dec 2025 · 827 points · 434 commentsPartial reading withheld
  95. Texas is suing all of the big TV makers for spying on what you watch16 Dec 2025 · 1,268 points · 642 commentsPartial reading withheld
  96. Announcing the Beta release of ty16 Dec 2025 · 854 points · 179 commentsPartial reading withheld
  97. No Graphics API16 Dec 2025 · 845 points · 183 commentsPartial reading withheld
  98. Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions16 Dec 2025 · 802 points · 819 commentsPartial reading withheld
  99. alpr.watch16 Dec 2025 · 915 points · 443 commentsPartial reading withheld
  100. Mozilla appoints new CEO Anthony Enzor-Demeo16 Dec 2025 · 593 points · 932 commentsPartial reading withheld
  101. This is not the future16 Dec 2025 · 714 points · 409 commentsPartial reading withheld
  102. Sega Channel: VGHF Recovers over 100 Sega Channel ROMs (and More)16 Dec 2025 · 286 points · 45 commentsPartial reading withheld
  103. Japan to revise romanization rules for first time in 70 years16 Dec 2025 · 273 points · 230 commentsPartial reading withheld
  104. 8M users' AI conversations sold for profit by "privacy" extensions16 Dec 2025 · 832 points · 246 commentsPartial reading withheld
  105. Thin desires are eating life16 Dec 2025 · 855 points · 270 commentsPartial reading withheld
  106. Fix HDMI-CEC weirdness with a Raspberry Pi and a $7 cable15 Dec 2025 · 281 points · 144 commentsPartial reading withheld
  107. Secret Documents Show Pepsi and Walmart Colluded to Raise Food Prices15 Dec 2025 · 601 points · 161 commentsPartial reading withheld
  108. “Super secure” messaging app leaks everyone's phone number15 Dec 2025 · 623 points · 304 commentsPartial reading withheld
  109. I'm Kenyan. I don't write like ChatGPT, ChatGPT writes like me15 Dec 2025 · 800 points · 504 commentsPartial reading withheld
  110. Working quickly is more important than it seems (2015)15 Dec 2025 · 271 points · 130 commentsPartial reading withheld
  111. Roomba maker goes bankrupt, Chinese owner emerges15 Dec 2025 · 670 points · 809 commentsPartial reading withheld
  112. If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes?15 Dec 2025 · 588 points · 1,012 commentsPartial reading withheld
  113. Europeans' health data sold to US firm run by ex-Israeli spies14 Dec 2025 · 701 points · 418 commentsPartial reading withheld
  114. Why Twilio Segment moved from microservices back to a monolith13 Dec 2025 · 281 points · 252 commentsPartial reading withheld
  115. Purrtran – ᓚᘏᗢ – A Programming Language for Cat People13 Dec 2025 · 272 points · 37 commentsPartial reading withheld
  116. Computer animator and Amiga fanatic Dick van Dyke turns 10013 Dec 2025 · 281 points · 93 commentsPartial reading withheld
  117. Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help13 Dec 2025 · 1,750 points · 1,049 commentsPartial reading withheld
  118. Google removes Sci-Hub domains from U.S. search results due to dated court order13 Dec 2025 · 290 points · 65 commentsPartial reading withheld
  119. OpenAI are quietly adopting skills, now available in ChatGPT and Codex CLI12 Dec 2025 · 587 points · 324 commentsPartial reading withheld
  120. Home Depot GitHub token exposed for a year, granted access to internal systems12 Dec 2025 · 276 points · 162 commentsPartial reading withheld
  121. Sick of smart TVs? Here are your best options12 Dec 2025 · 636 points · 532 commentsPartial reading withheld
  122. The tiniest yet real telescope I've built12 Dec 2025 · 272 points · 72 commentsPartial reading withheld
  123. GPT-5.211 Dec 2025 · 1,195 points · 1,083 commentsPartial reading withheld
  124. iPhone Typos? It's Not Just You – The iOS Keyboard Is Broken [video]11 Dec 2025 · 709 points · 436 commentsPartial reading withheld
  125. The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI Partner on Sora11 Dec 2025 · 269 points · 501 commentsPartial reading withheld
  126. Patterns.dev11 Dec 2025 · 627 points · 153 commentsPartial reading withheld
  127. Getting a Gemini API key is an exercise in frustration10 Dec 2025 · 845 points · 349 commentsPartial reading withheld
  128. Auto-grading decade-old Hacker News discussions with hindsight10 Dec 2025 · 686 points · 270 commentsPartial reading withheld
  129. Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux10 Dec 2025 · 902 points · 486 commentsPartial reading withheld
  130. Size of Life10 Dec 2025 · 2,619 points · 277 commentsPartial reading withheld
  131. Revisiting "Let's Build a Compiler"10 Dec 2025 · 276 points · 51 commentsPartial reading withheld
  132. Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental10 Dec 2025 · 962 points · 800 commentsPartial reading withheld
  133. 10 Years of Let's Encrypt09 Dec 2025 · 817 points · 349 commentsPartial reading withheld
  134. Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban09 Dec 2025 · 960 points · 1,512 commentsPartial reading withheld
  135. If you're going to vibe code, why not do it in C?09 Dec 2025 · 632 points · 612 commentsPartial reading withheld
  136. PeerTube is recognized as a digital public good by Digital Public Goods Alliance09 Dec 2025 · 693 points · 160 commentsPartial reading withheld
  137. Donating the Model Context Protocol and establishing the Agentic AI Foundation09 Dec 2025 · 288 points · 145 commentsPartial reading withheld
  138. Bruno Simon – 3D Portfolio09 Dec 2025 · 777 points · 188 commentsPartial reading withheld
  139. Ask HN: Should "I asked $AI, and it said" replies be forbidden in HN guidelines?09 Dec 2025 · 980 points · 462 commentsPartial reading withheld
  140. Pebble Index 01 – External memory for your brain09 Dec 2025 · 593 points · 588 commentsPartial reading withheld
  141. Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now09 Dec 2025 · 3,346 points · 965 commentsPartial reading withheld
  142. Mistral releases Devstral2 and Mistral Vibe CLI09 Dec 2025 · 745 points · 349 commentsPartial reading withheld
  143. Using e-ink tablet as monitor for Linux09 Dec 2025 · 269 points · 101 commentsPartial reading withheld
  144. 30 Year Anniversary of WarCraft II: Tides of Darkness09 Dec 2025 · 270 points · 202 commentsPartial reading withheld
  145. Horses: AI progress is steady. Human equivalence is sudden09 Dec 2025 · 581 points · 629 commentsPartial reading withheld
  146. Kroger acknowledges that its bet on robotics went too far08 Dec 2025 · 276 points · 330 commentsPartial reading withheld
  147. The highest quality codebase08 Dec 2025 · 641 points · 393 commentsPartial reading withheld
  148. Icons in Menus Everywhere – Send Help08 Dec 2025 · 846 points · 333 commentsPartial reading withheld
  149. Hunting for North Korean Fiber Optic Cables08 Dec 2025 · 289 points · 124 commentsPartial reading withheld
  150. AMD GPU Debugger08 Dec 2025 · 279 points · 51 commentsPartial reading withheld
  151. The state of Schleswig-Holstein is consistently relying on open source07 Dec 2025 · 601 points · 286 commentsPartial reading withheld
  152. I wasted years of my life in crypto07 Dec 2025 · 691 points · 1,007 commentsPartial reading withheld
  153. The Anatomy of a macOS App07 Dec 2025 · 281 points · 95 commentsPartial reading withheld
  154. Google Titans architecture, helping AI have long-term memory07 Dec 2025 · 587 points · 186 commentsPartial reading withheld
  155. Using LLMs at Oxide07 Dec 2025 · 711 points · 271 commentsPartial reading withheld
  156. Kilauea erupts, destroying webcam [video]06 Dec 2025 · 589 points · 132 commentsPartial reading withheld
  157. 4 billion if statements (2023)06 Dec 2025 · 638 points · 176 commentsPartial reading withheld
  158. GrapheneOS is the only Android OS providing full security patches06 Dec 2025 · 793 points · 452 commentsPartial reading withheld
  159. When a video codec wins an Emmy05 Dec 2025 · 276 points · 93 commentsPartial reading withheld
  160. Gemini 3 Pro: the frontier of vision AI05 Dec 2025 · 566 points · 295 commentsPartial reading withheld
  161. Cloudflare outage on December 5, 202505 Dec 2025 · 782 points · 566 commentsPartial reading withheld
  162. Covid-19 mRNA Vaccination and 4-Year All-Cause Mortality05 Dec 2025 · 275 points · 330 commentsPartial reading withheld
  163. Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros05 Dec 2025 · 1,755 points · 1,358 commentsPartial reading withheld
  164. Cloudflare was down05 Dec 2025 · 832 points · 532 commentsPartial reading withheld
  165. Italy's longest-serving barista reflects on six decades behind the counter05 Dec 2025 · 288 points · 170 commentsPartial reading withheld
  166. Why are 38 percent of Stanford students saying they're disabled?04 Dec 2025 · 766 points · 1,021 commentsPartial reading withheld
  167. Booting Linux in QEMU and Writing PID 1 in Go to Illustrate Kernel as Program04 Dec 2025 · 271 points · 90 commentsPartial reading withheld
  168. Fighting the age-gated internet04 Dec 2025 · 284 points · 294 commentsPartial reading withheld
  169. PGlite – Embeddable Postgres04 Dec 2025 · 605 points · 115 commentsPartial reading withheld
  170. It’s time to free JavaScript (2024)04 Dec 2025 · 720 points · 367 commentsPartial reading withheld
  171. How elites could shape mass preferences as AI reduces persuasion costs04 Dec 2025 · 704 points · 661 commentsPartial reading withheld
  172. Everyone in Seattle hates AI03 Dec 2025 · 967 points · 1,065 commentsPartial reading withheld
  173. Ghostty is now non-profit03 Dec 2025 · 1,343 points · 289 commentsPartial reading withheld
  174. Micron Announces Exit from Crucial Consumer Business03 Dec 2025 · 763 points · 392 commentsPartial reading withheld
  175. Reverse engineering a $1B Legal AI tool exposed 100k+ confidential files03 Dec 2025 · 821 points · 288 commentsPartial reading withheld
  176. RCE Vulnerability in React and Next.js03 Dec 2025 · 628 points · 259 commentsPartial reading withheld
  177. “Captain Gains” on Capitol Hill03 Dec 2025 · 829 points · 584 commentsPartial reading withheld
  178. Helldivers 2 on-disk size 85% reduction03 Dec 2025 · 276 points · 311 commentsPartial reading withheld
  179. Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service03 Dec 2025 · 1,066 points · 614 commentsPartial reading withheld
  180. Accepting US car standards would risk European lives03 Dec 2025 · 860 points · 724 commentsPartial reading withheld
  181. Valve reveals it’s the architect behind a push to bring Windows games to Arm02 Dec 2025 · 978 points · 854 commentsPartial reading withheld
  182. Paged Out02 Dec 2025 · 599 points · 64 commentsPartial reading withheld
  183. IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending on AI data centers will pay off02 Dec 2025 · 857 points · 954 commentsPartial reading withheld
  184. Anthropic acquires Bun02 Dec 2025 · 2,192 points · 1,072 commentsPartial reading withheld
  185. Mistral 3 family of models released02 Dec 2025 · 826 points · 236 commentsPartial reading withheld
  186. OpenAI declares 'code red' as Google catches up in AI race02 Dec 2025 · 819 points · 930 commentsPartial reading withheld
  187. Addressing the adding situation02 Dec 2025 · 272 points · 99 commentsPartial reading withheld
  188. The healthcare market is taxing reproduction out of existence01 Dec 2025 · 290 points · 407 commentsPartial reading withheld
  189. DeepSeek-v3.2: Pushing the frontier of open large language models [pdf]01 Dec 2025 · 982 points · 465 commentsPartial reading withheld
  190. Why xor eax, eax?01 Dec 2025 · 576 points · 215 commentsPartial reading withheld
  191. India orders smartphone makers to preload state-owned cyber safety app01 Dec 2025 · 900 points · 733 commentsPartial reading withheld
  192. Search tool that only returns content created before ChatGPT's public release01 Dec 2025 · 888 points · 370 commentsPartial reading withheld
  193. Is America's jobs market nearing a cliff?01 Dec 2025 · 291 points · 659 commentsPartial reading withheld