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Getting a Gemini API key is an exercise in frustration

https://ankursethi.com/blog/gemini-api-key-frustration/

Published: December 10, 2025 20:29

Article URL: https://ankursethi.com/blog/gemini-api-key-frustration/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46223311 Points: 268 # Comments: 110

I got an Nvidia GH200 server for €7.5k on Reddit and converted it to a desktop

https://dnhkng.github.io/posts/hopper/

Published: December 10, 2025 19:19

Article URL: https://dnhkng.github.io/posts/hopper/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46222237 Points: 230 # Comments: 48

Auto-grading decade-old Hacker News discussions with hindsight

https://karpathy.bearblog.dev/auto-grade-hn/

Published: December 10, 2025 17:23

Related from yesterday: Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46205632 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46220540 Points: 213 # Comments: 115

Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Valve-HDMI-Forum-Continues-to-Block-HDMI-2-1-for-Linux-11107440.html

Published: December 10, 2025 17:20

Article URL: https://www.heise.de/en/news/Valve-HDMI-Forum-Continues-to-Block-HDMI-2-1-for-Linux-11107440.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46220488 Points: 411 # Comments: 230

DeepSeek uses banned Nvidia chips for AI model, report says

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/china-deepseek-uses-banned-nvidia-131207746.html

Published: December 10, 2025 16:34

(Original is https://www.theinformation.com/articles/deepseek-using-banne... but hardwalled) Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46219853 Points: 267 # Comments: 237

Size of Life

https://neal.fun/size-of-life/

Published: December 10, 2025 16:02

Article URL: https://neal.fun/size-of-life/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46219346 Points: 465 # Comments: 85

In New York City, congestion pricing leads to marked drop in pollution

https://e360.yale.edu/digest/new-york-congestion-pricing-pollution

Published: December 10, 2025 15:25

Article URL: https://e360.yale.edu/digest/new-york-congestion-pricing-pollution Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46218725 Points: 348 # Comments: 343

Revisiting "Let's Build a Compiler"

https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2025/revisiting-lets-build-a-compiler/

Published: December 10, 2025 06:22

Article URL: https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2025/revisiting-lets-build-a-compiler/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46214693 Points: 215 # Comments: 35

The end of the kernel Rust experiment

https://lwn.net/Articles/1049831/

Published: December 10, 2025 03:15

Article URL: https://lwn.net/Articles/1049831/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46213585 Points: 290 # Comments: 129

Django: what’s new in 6.0

https://adamj.eu/tech/2025/12/03/django-whats-new-6.0/

Published: December 9, 2025 20:33

Article URL: https://adamj.eu/tech/2025/12/03/django-whats-new-6.0/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46210240 Points: 228 # Comments: 53

10 Years of Let's Encrypt

https://letsencrypt.org/2025/12/09/10-years

Published: December 9, 2025 18:54

Article URL: https://letsencrypt.org/2025/12/09/10-years Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46208962 Points: 338 # Comments: 124

If you're going to vibe code, why not do it in C?

https://stephenramsay.net/posts/vibe-coding.html

Published: December 9, 2025 17:11

Article URL: https://stephenramsay.net/posts/vibe-coding.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46207505 Points: 226 # Comments: 265

PeerTube is recognized as a digital public good by Digital Public Goods Alliance

https://www.digitalpublicgoods.net/r/peertube

Published: December 9, 2025 17:08

Article URL: https://www.digitalpublicgoods.net/r/peertube Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46207464 Points: 304 # Comments: 43

Handsdown one of the coolest 3D websites

https://bruno-simon.com/

Published: December 9, 2025 16:06

Article URL: https://bruno-simon.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46206531 Points: 308 # Comments: 80

Ask HN: Should "I asked $AI, and it said" replies be forbidden in HN guidelines?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46206457

Published: December 9, 2025 16:02

As various LLMs become more and more popular, so does comments with "I asked Gemini, and Gemini said ....".While the guidelines were written (and iterated on) during a different time, it seems like it might be time to have a discussion about if those sort…

New Pebble Device

https://repebble.com/blog/meet-pebble-index-01-external-memory-for-your-brain

Published: December 9, 2025 15:03

Article URL: https://repebble.com/blog/meet-pebble-index-01-external-memory-for-your-brain Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46205661 Points: 203 # Comments: 213

Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 hallucinates the HN front page 10 years from now

https://dosaygo-studio.github.io/hn-front-page-2035/news

Published: December 9, 2025 15:00

Article URL: https://dosaygo-studio.github.io/hn-front-page-2035/news Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46205632 Points: 447 # Comments: 206

Mistral Releases Devstral 2 (72.2% SWE-Bench Verified) and Vibe CLI

https://mistral.ai/news/devstral-2-vibe-cli

Published: December 9, 2025 14:45

Article URL: https://mistral.ai/news/devstral-2-vibe-cli Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46205437 Points: 214 # Comments: 71

Horses: AI progress is steady. Human equivalence is sudden

https://andyljones.com/posts/horses.html

Published: December 9, 2025 00:26

Article URL: https://andyljones.com/posts/horses.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46199723 Points: 301 # Comments: 198

The universal weight subspace hypothesis

https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.05117

Published: December 9, 2025 00:16

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.05117 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46199623 Points: 221 # Comments: 81

Icons in Menus Everywhere – Send Help

https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/icons-in-menus/

Published: December 8, 2025 19:44

Article URL: https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/icons-in-menus/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46196688 Points: 266 # Comments: 106

Jepsen: NATS 2.12.1

https://jepsen.io/analyses/nats-2.12.1

Published: December 8, 2025 18:51

Article URL: https://jepsen.io/analyses/nats-2.12.1 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46196105 Points: 223 # Comments: 78

Deep dive on Nvidia circular funding

https://philippeoger.com/pages/deep-dive-into-nvidias-virtuous-cycle

Published: December 8, 2025 18:48

Article URL: https://philippeoger.com/pages/deep-dive-into-nvidias-virtuous-cycle Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46196076 Points: 239 # Comments: 134

Microsoft has a problem: nobody wants to buy or use its shoddy AI products

https://www.windowscentral.com/artificial-intelligence/microsoft-has-a-problem-nobody-wants-to-buy-or-use-its-shoddy-ai

Published: December 8, 2025 16:54

Article URL: https://www.windowscentral.com/artificial-intelligence/microsoft-has-a-problem-nobody-wants-to-buy-or-use-its-shoddy-ai Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46194615 Points: 243 # Comments: 191

IBM to Acquire Confluent

https://www.confluent.io/blog/ibm-to-acquire-confluent/

Published: December 8, 2025 13:43

Article URL: https://www.confluent.io/blog/ibm-to-acquire-confluent/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46192130 Points: 224 # Comments: 181

Twelve Days of Shell

https://12days.cmdchallenge.com

Published: December 8, 2025 10:13

Article URL: https://12days.cmdchallenge.com Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46190577 Points: 209 # Comments: 68

The fuck off contact page

https://www.nicchan.me/blog/the-f-off-contact-page/

Published: December 8, 2025 08:57

Article URL: https://www.nicchan.me/blog/the-f-off-contact-page/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46189994 Points: 212 # Comments: 82

Bag of words, have mercy on us

https://www.experimental-history.com/p/bag-of-words-have-mercy-on-us

Published: December 7, 2025 22:31

Article URL: https://www.experimental-history.com/p/bag-of-words-have-mercy-on-us Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46185957 Points: 203 # Comments: 211

How I block all online ads

https://troubled.engineer/posts/no-ads/

Published: December 7, 2025 22:18

Article URL: https://troubled.engineer/posts/no-ads/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46185816 Points: 228 # Comments: 198

Estimates are difficult for developers and product owners

https://thorsell.io/2025/12/07/estimates.html

Published: December 7, 2025 19:17

Article URL: https://thorsell.io/2025/12/07/estimates.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46184229 Points: 202 # Comments: 217

The C++ standard for the F-35 Fighter Jet [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gv4sDL9Ljww

Published: December 7, 2025 18:07

PDF: https://www.stroustrup.com/JSF-AV-rules.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46183657 Points: 226 # Comments: 224

I failed to recreate the 1996 Space Jam Website with Claude

https://j0nah.com/i-failed-to-recreate-the-1996-space-jam-website-with-claude/

Published: December 7, 2025 17:18

Article URL: https://j0nah.com/i-failed-to-recreate-the-1996-space-jam-website-with-claude/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46183294 Points: 263 # Comments: 228

Dollar-stores overcharge cash-strapped customers while promising low prices

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/03/customers-pay-more-rising-dollar-store-costs

Published: December 7, 2025 14:37

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/03/customers-pay-more-rising-dollar-store-costs Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46181962 Points: 214 # Comments: 332

Goodbye, Microsoft: Schleswig-Holstein Relies on Open Source and Saves Millions

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Goodbye-Microsoft-Schleswig-Holstein-relies-on-Open-Source-and-saves-millions-11105459.html

Published: December 7, 2025 13:21

Article URL: https://www.heise.de/en/news/Goodbye-Microsoft-Schleswig-Holstein-relies-on-Open-Source-and-saves-millions-11105459.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46181491 Points: 214 # Comments: 107

Z2 – Lithographically fabricated IC in a garage fab

https://sam.zeloof.xyz/second-ic/

Published: December 7, 2025 03:03

Article URL: https://sam.zeloof.xyz/second-ic/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46178789 Points: 212 # Comments: 44

Using LLMs at Oxide

https://rfd.shared.oxide.computer/rfd/0576

Published: December 7, 2025 01:17

Article URL: https://rfd.shared.oxide.computer/rfd/0576 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46178347 Points: 217 # Comments: 85

Kilauea erupts, destroying webcam [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TK2N99BDw7A

Published: December 6, 2025 23:39

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TK2N99BDw7A Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46177645 Points: 231 # Comments: 53

Screenshots from developers: 2002 vs. 2015 (2015)

https://anders.unix.se/2015/12/10/screenshots-from-developers--2002-vs.-2015/

Published: December 6, 2025 21:55

Article URL: https://anders.unix.se/2015/12/10/screenshots-from-developers--2002-vs.-2015/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46176905 Points: 215 # Comments: 84

Perl's decline was cultural

https://www.beatworm.co.uk/blog/computers/perls-decline-was-cultural-not-technical

Published: December 6, 2025 17:42

Article URL: https://www.beatworm.co.uk/blog/computers/perls-decline-was-cultural-not-technical Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46175112 Points: 205 # Comments: 258

HTML as an Accessible Format for Papers (2023)

https://info.arxiv.org/about/accessible_HTML.html

Published: December 6, 2025 14:59

Article URL: https://info.arxiv.org/about/accessible_HTML.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46173825 Points: 209 # Comments: 108

Tiny Core Linux: a 23 MB Linux distro with graphical desktop

http://www.tinycorelinux.net/

Published: December 6, 2025 14:18

Article URL: http://www.tinycorelinux.net/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46173547 Points: 200 # Comments: 101

How I discovered a hidden microphone on a Chinese NanoKVM

https://telefoncek.si/2025/02/2025-02-10-hidden-microphone-on-nanokvm/

Published: December 6, 2025 13:54

Article URL: https://telefoncek.si/2025/02/2025-02-10-hidden-microphone-on-nanokvm/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46173383 Points: 225 # Comments: 57

Schizophrenia sufferer mistakes smart fridge ad for psychotic episode

https://old.reddit.com/r/LegalAdviceUK/comments/1pc7999/my_schizophrenic_sister_hospitalised_herself/

Published: December 6, 2025 07:31

Article URL: https://old.reddit.com/r/LegalAdviceUK/comments/1pc7999/my_schizophrenic_sister_hospitalised_herself/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46171425 Points: 274 # Comments: 232

Have I been Flocked? – Check if your license plate is being watched

https://haveibeenflocked.com/

Published: December 6, 2025 03:16

Article URL: https://haveibeenflocked.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46170302 Points: 231 # Comments: 138

YouTube caught making AI-edits to videos and adding misleading AI summaries

https://www.ynetnews.com/tech-and-digital/article/bj1qbwcklg

Published: December 6, 2025 01:15

Article URL: https://www.ynetnews.com/tech-and-digital/article/bj1qbwcklg Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46169554 Points: 226 # Comments: 134

Sam Altman’s DRAM Deal

https://www.mooreslawisdead.com/post/sam-altman-s-dirty-dram-deal

Published: December 6, 2025 00:24

Article URL: https://www.mooreslawisdead.com/post/sam-altman-s-dirty-dram-deal Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46169224 Points: 240 # Comments: 191

A $20 drug in Europe requires a prescription and $800 in the U.S.

https://www.statnews.com/2025/10/31/why-miebo-costs-40-times-more-than-its-european-version/

Published: December 5, 2025 21:27

Article URL: https://www.statnews.com/2025/10/31/why-miebo-costs-40-times-more-than-its-european-version/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46167557 Points: 213 # Comments: 207

Patterns for Defensive Programming in Rust

https://corrode.dev/blog/defensive-programming/

Published: December 5, 2025 16:34

Article URL: https://corrode.dev/blog/defensive-programming/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46163609 Points: 231 # Comments: 44

Gemini 3 Pro: the frontier of vision AI

https://blog.google/technology/developers/gemini-3-pro-vision/

Published: December 5, 2025 16:15

Article URL: https://blog.google/technology/developers/gemini-3-pro-vision/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46163308 Points: 221 # Comments: 103

Framework Laptop 13 gets ARM processor with 12 cores via upgrade kit

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Framework-Laptop-13-gets-ARM-processor-with-12-cores-via-upgrade-kit.1177930.0.html

Published: December 5, 2025 15:49

Article URL: https://www.notebookcheck.net/Framework-Laptop-13-gets-ARM-processor-with-12-cores-via-upgrade-kit.1177930.0.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46162872 Points: 246 # Comments: 121

Cloudflare outage on December 5, 2025

https://blog.cloudflare.com/5-december-2025-outage/

Published: December 5, 2025 15:35

Article URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/5-december-2025-outage/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46162656 Points: 336 # Comments: 217

Covid-19 mRNA Vaccination and 4-Year All-Cause Mortality

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2842305

Published: December 5, 2025 15:07

Article URL: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2842305 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46162262 Points: 227 # Comments: 219

Most technical problems are people problems

https://blog.joeschrag.com/2023/11/most-technical-problems-are-really.html

Published: December 5, 2025 13:07

Article URL: https://blog.joeschrag.com/2023/11/most-technical-problems-are-really.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46160773 Points: 220 # Comments: 197

Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros

https://about.netflix.com/en/news/netflix-to-acquire-warner-bros

Published: December 5, 2025 12:21

Article URL: https://about.netflix.com/en/news/netflix-to-acquire-warner-bros Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46160315 Points: 678 # Comments: 540

The US polluters that are rewriting the EU's human rights and climate law

https://www.somo.nl/the-secretive-cabal-of-us-polluters-that-is-rewriting-the-eus-human-rights-and-climate-law/

Published: December 5, 2025 09:58

Article URL: https://www.somo.nl/the-secretive-cabal-of-us-polluters-that-is-rewriting-the-eus-human-rights-and-climate-law/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46159193 Points: 322 # Comments: 173

Cloudflare Down Again – and DownDetector Is Also Down

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46158200

Published: December 5, 2025 08:51

https://downdetector.tr/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46158200 Points: 298 # Comments: 155

Cloudflare is down

https://www.cloudflare.com/

Published: December 5, 2025 08:50

Article URL: https://www.cloudflare.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46158191 Points: 690 # Comments: 430

BMW PHEV: Safety fuse replacement is extremely expensive

https://evclinic.eu/2025/12/04/2021-phev-bmw-ibmucp-21f37e-post-crash-recovery-when-eu-engineering-becomes-a-synonym-for-unrepairable-generating-waste/

Published: December 5, 2025 01:05

Article URL: https://evclinic.eu/2025/12/04/2021-phev-bmw-ibmucp-21f37e-post-crash-recovery-when-eu-engineering-becomes-a-synonym-for-unrepairable-generating-waste/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46155619 Points: 268 # Comments: 230

AV1: A Modern, Open Codec

https://netflixtechblog.com/av1-now-powering-30-of-netflix-streaming-02f592242d80

Published: December 5, 2025 00:09

Article URL: https://netflixtechblog.com/av1-now-powering-30-of-netflix-streaming-02f592242d80 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46155135 Points: 246 # Comments: 112

We gave 5 LLMs $100K to trade stocks for 8 months

https://www.aitradearena.com/research/we-ran-llms-for-8-months

Published: December 4, 2025 23:08

Article URL: https://www.aitradearena.com/research/we-ran-llms-for-8-months Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46154491 Points: 202 # Comments: 173

Thoughts on Go vs. Rust vs. Zig

https://sinclairtarget.com/blog/2025/08/thoughts-on-go-vs.-rust-vs.-zig/

Published: December 4, 2025 21:40

Article URL: https://sinclairtarget.com/blog/2025/08/thoughts-on-go-vs.-rust-vs.-zig/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46153466 Points: 223 # Comments: 226

Django 6

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/6.0/releases/6.0/

Published: December 4, 2025 21:09

Article URL: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/6.0/releases/6.0/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46153116 Points: 227 # Comments: 112

A Cozy Mk IV light aircraft crashed after 3D-printed part was weakened by heat

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1w932vqye0o

Published: December 4, 2025 20:56

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1w932vqye0o Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46152941 Points: 222 # Comments: 173

The RAM shortage comes for us all

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/ram-shortage-comes-us-all

Published: December 4, 2025 19:16

Article URL: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/ram-shortage-comes-us-all Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46151578 Points: 279 # Comments: 317

Why are 38 percent of Stanford students saying they're disabled?

https://reason.com/2025/12/04/why-are-38-percent-of-stanford-students-saying-theyre-disabled/

Published: December 4, 2025 18:04

Article URL: https://reason.com/2025/12/04/why-are-38-percent-of-stanford-students-saying-theyre-disabled/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46150715 Points: 391 # Comments: 591

Microsoft drops AI sales targets in half after salespeople miss their quotas

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/12/microsoft-slashes-ai-sales-growth-targets-as-customers-resist-unproven-agents/

Published: December 4, 2025 15:31

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/12/microsoft-slashes-ai-sales-growth-targets-as-customers-resist-unproven-agents/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46148748 Points: 258 # Comments: 197

Transparent leadership beats servant leadership

https://entropicthoughts.com/transparent-leadership-beats-servant-leadership

Published: December 4, 2025 13:40

Article URL: https://entropicthoughts.com/transparent-leadership-beats-servant-leadership Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46147540 Points: 280 # Comments: 131

RAM is so expensive, Samsung won't even sell it to Samsung

https://www.pcworld.com/article/2998935/ram-is-so-expensive-samsung-wont-even-sell-it-to-samsung.html

Published: December 4, 2025 13:20

Article URL: https://www.pcworld.com/article/2998935/ram-is-so-expensive-samsung-wont-even-sell-it-to-samsung.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46147353 Points: 229 # Comments: 198

I ignore the spotlight as a staff engineer

https://lalitm.com/software-engineering-outside-the-spotlight/

Published: December 4, 2025 11:36

Article URL: https://lalitm.com/software-engineering-outside-the-spotlight/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46146451 Points: 260 # Comments: 106

PGlite – Embeddable Postgres

https://pglite.dev/

Published: December 4, 2025 10:52

Article URL: https://pglite.dev/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46146133 Points: 272 # Comments: 61

Unreal Tournament 2004 is back

https://old.reddit.com/r/unrealtournament/comments/1pdbe69/breaking_unreal_tournament_2004_is_back/

Published: December 4, 2025 10:06

Article URL: https://old.reddit.com/r/unrealtournament/comments/1pdbe69/breaking_unreal_tournament_2004_is_back/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46145834 Points: 231 # Comments: 84

It’s time to free JavaScript

https://javascript.tm/letter

Published: December 4, 2025 09:01

Article URL: https://javascript.tm/letter Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46145365 Points: 353 # Comments: 166

Elites could shape mass preferences as AI reduces persuasion costs

https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.04047

Published: December 4, 2025 08:38

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.04047 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46145180 Points: 227 # Comments: 229

Average DRAM price in USD over last 18 months

https://pcpartpicker.com/trends/price/memory/

Published: December 4, 2025 00:08

Article URL: https://pcpartpicker.com/trends/price/memory/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46142100 Points: 215 # Comments: 132

Show HN: I built a dashboard to compare mortgage rates across 120 credit unions

https://finfam.app/blog/credit-union-mortgages

Published: December 3, 2025 20:35

When I bought my home, the big bank I'd been using for years quoted me 7% APR. A local credit union was offering 5.5% for the exact same mortgage.I was surprised until I learned that mortgages are basically standardized products – the government buys…

Everyone in Seattle hates AI

https://jonready.com/blog/posts/everyone-in-seattle-hates-ai.html

Published: December 3, 2025 19:37

Article URL: https://jonready.com/blog/posts/everyone-in-seattle-hates-ai.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46138952 Points: 358 # Comments: 345

Ghostty is now non-profit

https://mitchellh.com/writing/ghostty-non-profit

Published: December 3, 2025 18:40

Article URL: https://mitchellh.com/writing/ghostty-non-profit Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46138238 Points: 208 # Comments: 29

Reverse engineering a $1B Legal AI tool exposed 100k+ confidential files

https://alexschapiro.com/security/vulnerability/2025/12/02/filevine-api-100k

Published: December 3, 2025 17:44

Article URL: https://alexschapiro.com/security/vulnerability/2025/12/02/filevine-api-100k Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46137514 Points: 228 # Comments: 63

Steam Deck lead reveals Valve is funding ARM compatibility of Windows games

https://frvr.com/blog/news/steam-deck-lead-reveals-valve-is-funding-arm-compatibility-of-windows-games-to-expand-pc-gaming-and-release-ultraportables-in-the-future/

Published: December 3, 2025 17:00

Article URL: https://frvr.com/blog/news/steam-deck-lead-reveals-valve-is-funding-arm-compatibility-of-windows-games-to-expand-pc-gaming-and-release-ultraportables-in-the-future/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46136901 Points: 285 #…

MinIO is now in maintenance-mode

https://github.com/minio/minio/commit/27742d469462e1561c776f88ca7a1f26816d69e2

Published: December 3, 2025 16:00

Article URL: https://github.com/minio/minio/commit/27742d469462e1561c776f88ca7a1f26816d69e2 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46136023 Points: 280 # Comments: 165

Congressional lawmakers 47% pts better at picking stocks

https://www.nber.org/papers/w34524

Published: December 3, 2025 13:50

Article URL: https://www.nber.org/papers/w34524 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46134443 Points: 255 # Comments: 183

The "Mad Men" in 4K on HBO Max Debacle

http://fxrant.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-mad-men-in-4k-on-hbo-max-debacle.html

Published: December 3, 2025 11:50

Article URL: http://fxrant.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-mad-men-in-4k-on-hbo-max-debacle.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46133422 Points: 212 # Comments: 86

Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service

https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/02/zig_quits_github_microsoft_ai_obsession/

Published: December 3, 2025 07:52

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/02/zig_quits_github_microsoft_ai_obsession/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46131406 Points: 254 # Comments: 109

Accepting US car standards would risk European lives

https://etsc.eu/accepting-us-car-standards-would-risk-european-lives-warn-cities-and-civil-society/

Published: December 3, 2025 07:41

Article URL: https://etsc.eu/accepting-us-car-standards-would-risk-european-lives-warn-cities-and-civil-society/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46131330 Points: 504 # Comments: 355

Japanese game devs face font dilemma as license increases from $380 to $20k

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/japanese-devs-face-font-licensing-dilemma-as-leading-provider-increases-annual-plan-price-from-380-to-20000

Published: December 3, 2025 04:03

Article URL: https://www.gamesindustry.biz/japanese-devs-face-font-licensing-dilemma-as-leading-provider-increases-annual-plan-price-from-380-to-20000 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46130187 Points: 244 # Comments: 121

Paged Out

https://pagedout.institute

Published: December 2, 2025 20:14

Article URL: https://pagedout.institute Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46126217 Points: 240 # Comments: 29

Claude 4.5 Opus’ Soul Document

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/vpNG99GhbBoLov9og/claude-4-5-opus-soul-document

Published: December 2, 2025 19:05

Simon Willison's commentary: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/2/claude-soul-document/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46125184 Points: 234 # Comments: 129

Anthropic acquires Bun

https://bun.com/blog/bun-joins-anthropic

Published: December 2, 2025 18:05

Article URL: https://bun.com/blog/bun-joins-anthropic Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46124267 Points: 963 # Comments: 465

Mistral 3 family of models released

https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-3

Published: December 2, 2025 15:01

Article URL: https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-3 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46121889 Points: 429 # Comments: 142

Addressing the adding situation

https://xania.org/202512/02-adding-integers

Published: December 2, 2025 11:30

Article URL: https://xania.org/202512/02-adding-integers Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46120181 Points: 226 # Comments: 68

Advent of Compiler Optimisations 2025

https://xania.org/202511/advent-of-compiler-optimisation

Published: December 2, 2025 09:51

Article URL: https://xania.org/202511/advent-of-compiler-optimisation Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46119500 Points: 276 # Comments: 44

Apple Releases Open Weights Video Model

https://starflow-v.github.io

Published: December 2, 2025 05:10

Article URL: https://starflow-v.github.io Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46117802 Points: 206 # Comments: 46

What will enter the public domain in 2026?

https://publicdomainreview.org/features/entering-the-public-domain/2026/

Published: December 2, 2025 03:23

Article URL: https://publicdomainreview.org/features/entering-the-public-domain/2026/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46117112 Points: 210 # Comments: 66

Last Week on My Mac: Losing confidence

https://eclecticlight.co/2025/11/30/last-week-on-my-mac-losing-confidence/

Published: December 1, 2025 22:56

Article URL: https://eclecticlight.co/2025/11/30/last-week-on-my-mac-losing-confidence/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46114599 Points: 216 # Comments: 74

The healthcare market is taxing reproduction out of existence

https://aaronstannard.com/40k-baby/

Published: December 1, 2025 21:44

Article URL: https://aaronstannard.com/40k-baby/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46113689 Points: 210 # Comments: 257

How to Attend Meetings – Internal guidelines from the New York Times

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1l7s1aAsNPlNhSye8OsMqmH6pMR32OYGGdLT6VKyFaQE/edit#slide=id.p

Published: December 1, 2025 20:40

Article URL: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1l7s1aAsNPlNhSye8OsMqmH6pMR32OYGGdLT6VKyFaQE/edit#slide=id.p Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46112906 Points: 248 # Comments: 105

High-income job losses are cooling housing demand

https://jbrec.com/insights/job-growth-housing-demand-metro-analysis-2026/

Published: December 1, 2025 18:21

Article URL: https://jbrec.com/insights/job-growth-housing-demand-metro-analysis-2026/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46110908 Points: 204 # Comments: 310

DeepSeek-v3.2: Pushing the frontier of open large language models [pdf]

https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3.2/resolve/main/assets/paper.pdf

Published: December 1, 2025 15:48

https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3.2https://api-docs.deepseek.com/news/news251201 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46108780 Points: 334 # Comments: 124

Cartographers Have Been Hiding Covert Illustrations Inside of Switzerland's Maps

https://eyeondesign.aiga.org/for-decades-cartographers-have-been-hiding-covert-illustrations-inside-of-switzerlands-official-maps/

Published: December 1, 2025 13:41

Article URL: https://eyeondesign.aiga.org/for-decades-cartographers-have-been-hiding-covert-illustrations-inside-of-switzerlands-official-maps/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46107282 Points: 211 # Comments: 43

Why xor eax, eax?

https://xania.org/202512/01-xor-eax-eax

Published: December 1, 2025 12:22

Article URL: https://xania.org/202512/01-xor-eax-eax Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46106556 Points: 228 # Comments: 79