Hacker News on Wednesday, 3 December 2025

Ghostty is now non-profit(mitchellh.com)

1246 points by vrnvu 10 months ago | 265 comments

Mitchell Hashimoto announces that the Ghostty terminal emulator is now fiscally sponsored by Hack Club, a 501(c)(3) non-profit.

Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service(theregister.com)

924 points by Brajeshwar 10 months ago | 542 comments

The Register article reporting that the Zig Software Foundation is moving from GitHub to Codeberg, citing GitHub's decline under Microsoft's AI focus and an unaddressed Actions bug.

Everyone in Seattle hates AI(jonready.com)

808 points by mips_avatar 10 months ago | 818 comments

A blog post titled "Everyone in Seattle Hates AI" contrasting attitudes toward AI in Seattle and San Francisco tech communities.

“Captain Gains” on Capitol Hill(nber.org)

779 points by mhb 10 months ago | 504 comments

NBER working paper finding that US lawmakers who ascend to congressional leadership outperform matched peers in stock trades by 47 percentage points annually.

Reverse engineering a $1B Legal AI tool exposed 100k+ confidential files(alexschapiro.com)

752 points by bearsyankees 10 months ago | 258 comments

A blog post describing how the author found an unauthenticated API flaw in Filevine's legal AI tool exposing 100k+ confidential files, with a disclosure timeline.

Accepting US car standards would risk European lives(etsc.eu)

729 points by saubeidl 10 months ago | 543 comments

European Transport Safety Council article warning, with cities and civil society, that accepting US vehicle standards in the EU would endanger European road users.

Micron Announces Exit from Crucial Consumer Business(investors.micron.com)

691 points by simlevesque 10 months ago | 343 comments

Micron investor relations press release announcing the company's exit from its Crucial-branded consumer memory and storage business.

RCE Vulnerability in React and Next.js(github.com)

559 points by rayhaanj 10 months ago | 214 comments

GitHub security advisory GHSA-9qr9-h5gf-34mp for a critical (CVSS 10.0) remote code execution vulnerability in React Server Components affecting Next.js, with patched versions listed.

1D Conway's Life glider found, 3.7B cells long(conwaylife.com)

502 points by nooks 10 months ago | 191 comments

ConwayLife.com forum post announcing the discovery of a glider in Conway's Life that starts from a one-cell-thick pattern about 3.7 billion cells long.

MinIO is now in maintenance-mode(github.com)

454 points by hajtom 10 months ago | 274 comments

A GitHub commit to the MinIO repository updating the README to announce that the project is now in maintenance mode.

Helldivers 2 devs slash install size from 154GB to 23GB(tomshardware.com)

355 points by doener 10 months ago | 237 comments

Tom's Hardware article on Helldivers 2 cutting its PC install size from 154GB to 23GB by removing duplicated game data originally meant to help mechanical hard drives.

Show HN: I built a dashboard to compare mortgage rates across 120 credit unions(finfam.app)

354 points by mhashemi 10 months ago | 119 comments

FinFam blog post and dashboard comparing daily-updated mortgage rates from over 120 US credit unions against the national FRED benchmark.

Anthropic taps IPO lawyers as it races OpenAI to go public(ft.com)

346 points by GeorgeWoff25 10 months ago | 275 comments

News report that Anthropic has hired IPO lawyers and is preparing for a potential 2026 public listing as it competes with OpenAI.

The "Mad Men" in 4K on HBO Max Debacle(fxrant.blogspot.com)

331 points by tosh 10 months ago | 144 comments

Blog post by VFX artist Todd Vaziri on FXRant about problems with the 4K version of "Mad Men" released on HBO Max.

Turtletoy(turtletoy.net)

297 points by ustad 10 months ago | 52 comments

Steam Deck lead reveals Valve is funding ARM compatibility of Windows games(frvr.com)

284 points by OsrsNeedsf2P 10 months ago | 161 comments

Japanese game devs face font dilemma as license increases from $380 to $20k(gamesindustry.biz)

273 points by zdw 10 months ago | 139 comments

Interview with RollerCoaster Tycoon's Creator, Chris Sawyer (2024)(medium.com)

266 points by areoform 10 months ago | 50 comments

You can't fool the optimizer(xania.org)

256 points by HeliumHydride 10 months ago | 157 comments

Helldivers 2 on-disk size 85% reduction(store.steampowered.com)

239 points by SergeAx 10 months ago | 251 comments

A compact camera built using an optical mouse(petapixel.com)

227 points by PaulHoule 10 months ago | 45 comments

Why are my headphones buzzing whenever I run my game?(alexene.dev)

197 points by pacificat0r 10 months ago | 131 comments

Are we repeating the telecoms crash with AI datacenters?(martinalderson.com)

196 points by davedx 10 months ago | 155 comments

Kohler Can Access Pictures from "End-to-End Encrypted" Toilet Camera(varlogsimon.leaflet.pub)

191 points by TimDotC 10 months ago | 168 comments

Show HN: HCB Mobile – financial app built by 17 y/o, processing $6M/month(hackclub.com)

159 points by mohamad08 10 months ago | 58 comments

India scraps order to pre-install state-run cyber safety app on smartphones(bbc.com)

155 points by wolpoli 10 months ago | 33 comments

Lie groups are crucial to some of the most fundamental theories in physics(quantamagazine.org)

146 points by ibobev 10 months ago | 49 comments

Show HN: Fresh – A new terminal editor built in Rust(sinelaw.github.io)

137 points by _sinelaw_ 10 months ago | 85 comments

8086 Microcode Browser(nand2mario.github.io)

129 points by zdw 10 months ago | 1 comments

Acme, a brief history of one of the protocols which has changed the Internet(blog.brocas.org)

126 points by coffee-- 10 months ago | 68 comments

Mapping the US healthcare system’s financial flows(healthisotherpeople.substack.com)

121 points by brandonb 10 months ago | 121 comments

Launch HN: Phind 3 (YC S22) – Every answer is a mini-app

119 points by rushingcreek 10 months ago | 87 comments

No ARIA is better than bad ARIA(w3.org)

116 points by robin_reala 10 months ago | 75 comments

Transformers know more than they can tell: Learning the Collatz sequence(arxiv.org)

113 points by Xcelerate 10 months ago | 42 comments

Critical RCE Vulnerabilities in React and Next.js(wiz.io)

113 points by gonepivoting 10 months ago | 50 comments

Kea DHCP: Modern, open source DHCPv4 and DHCPv6 server(isc.org)

112 points by doener 10 months ago | 36 comments

GSWT: Gaussian Splatting Wang Tiles(yunfan.zone)

104 points by klaussilveira 10 months ago | 22 comments

Jujutsu worktrees are convenient (2024)(shaddy.dev)

103 points by nvader 10 months ago | 70 comments

Building a Toast Component(emilkowal.ski)

103 points by FragrantRiver 10 months ago | 36 comments

Putting email in its place with Emacs and Mu4e(eamonnsullivan.co.uk)

95 points by eamonnsullivan 10 months ago | 33 comments

Researchers Find Microbe Capable of Producing Oxygen from Martian Soil(scienceclock.com)

89 points by ashishgupta2209 10 months ago | 33 comments

Quad9 DOH HTTP/1.1 Retirement, December 15, 2025(quad9.net)

87 points by pickledoyster 10 months ago | 37 comments

Understanding ECDSA(avidthinker.github.io)

84 points by avidthinker 10 months ago | 20 comments

OSHW: Small tablet based on RK3568 and AMOLED screen(oshwhub.com)

83 points by thenthenthen 10 months ago | 35 comments

Microsoft lowers AI software growth targets(finance.yahoo.com)

83 points by ramoz 10 months ago | 61 comments

Checked-size array parameters in C(lwn.net)

82 points by chmaynard 10 months ago | 32 comments

VA staff flag dangerous errors in Oracle-built electronic health record(washingtonpost.com)

76 points by ksenzee 10 months ago | 16 comments

AI Is Breaking the Moral Foundation of Modern Society(eyeofthesquid.com)

70 points by TinyBig 10 months ago | 59 comments

Prompt Injection via Poetry(wired.com)

70 points by bumbailiff 10 months ago | 31 comments

Greeting Vocalizations in Domestic Cats Are More Frequent with Male Caregivers(onlinelibrary.wiley.com)

66 points by JumpCrisscross 10 months ago | 53 comments

Sending DMARC reports is somewhat hazardous(utcc.utoronto.ca)

59 points by zdw 10 months ago | 22 comments

Agentic Development Environment by JetBrains(air.dev)

56 points by NumerousProcess 10 months ago | 37 comments

What Is Generative UI?(tambo.co)

50 points by grouchy 10 months ago | 39 comments

Codeberg Is Down(status.codeberg.org)

47 points by x3ro 10 months ago | 32 comments

Satellite captures the first detailed look at a giant tsunami(earth.com)

44 points by stevenjgarner 10 months ago | 2 comments

Formally verifying Advent of Code using Dijkstra's program construction(haripm.com)

41 points by seafoamteal 10 months ago | 5 comments

Stop Talking(gurkan.in)

39 points by npstr 10 months ago | 35 comments

Show HN: VoxCSS – A DOM based voxel engine(github.com)

35 points by rofko 10 months ago | 5 comments

Chips for the Rest of Us(engineering.nyu.edu)

34 points by hasheddan 10 months ago | 12 comments

Why doesn't Apple make a standalone Touch ID?(jeffgeerling.com)

33 points by thomasjb 10 months ago | 30 comments